Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.
As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust--only to be met by uncomprehending looks. So she and her students, using the treasured books Anne Frank: The Diary of a...
Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.
This book is a fascinating and revealing biography of Slobodan Milosevic. It is an up to date account of his life, career and downfall. It sheds much-needed new light on the man that is known as ""Belgrade's tyrant"" and the successor to Tito, who was known as the ""Butcher of the Balkans."" Stevanovic looks at all of Milosevic's wrong-doings, tells stories from the victims and provides a shocking portrait of his psychology. More than just the biography of a dictator, the book looks at the influences that shaped him, and the people had an effect on his life. It paints an appalling picture of...
This book is a fascinating and revealing biography of Slobodan Milosevic. It is an up to date account of his life, career and downfall. It sheds much-...