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What traits of character and intellect enable a boy to succeed in high school? James D. Keeney was bright from an early age but ordinary by most measures until he entered the sixth grade. Then, a combination of luck, experience and personal characteristics enabled him to begin pulling ahead of his peers. Ultimately, he became one of the first young men from Colorado to win admission and scholarships to Harvard. This book describes how it happened. You draw your own conclusions. xxx

Sometime in the late 1950s, an African-American man known only by the nickname "Fetchit" was forced by Bubba Smith, a white man, to eat a raw hog eyeball at work while Bubba Smith held a razor-sharp knife to his throat. H.S. Camp & Sons, Inc. employed both men. Smith, who was Fetchit's foreman, was not disciplined. In fact, H.S. Camp & Sons, Inc. encouraged its foremen to act much like old South overseers with its black employees to "keep the niggers in line." Twenty years later the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued H.S. Camp in federal court, alleging in its class...

Parables provide insights and lessons that are timeless. When they are employed in preaching the hearer receives images which are easy to remember. Preaching the parables provides a means of communicating the teachings of Jesus for modern Christians.