Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream write by Candace O’Connor. This book was released on 2021-11-30. Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nothing about Homer G. Phillips Hospital came easily. Built to serve St. Louis’s rapidly expanding African-American population, the grand new hospital opened its doors in 1937, toward the end of the Great Depression. “Homer G.,” as many called it, joined a burgeoning group of black hospitals amid a national period of institutional segregation and strong racial prejudice nationwide. When the beautiful, up-to-date hospital opened, it attracted more black residents than any other such program in the United States. Patients also flocked to the hospital, as did nursing students who found there excellent training, ready employment, and a boost into the middle class. For decades, the hospital thrived; by the 1950s, three-quarters of African-American babies in St. Louis were born at Homer G. But the 1960s and 1970s brought less need for all-black hospitals, as faculty, residents, and patients were increasingly welcome in the many newly integrated institutions. Ever-tightening city budgets meant less money for the hospital, and in 1979, despite protests from the African-American community, HGPH closed. Years later, the venerated, long-vacant building came to life again as the Homer G. Phillips Senior Living Community. Candace O’Connor draws upon contemporary newspaper articles, institutional records, and dozens of interviews with former staff members to create the first, full history of the Homer G. Phillips Hospital. She also brings new facts and insights into the life and mysterious murder (still an unsolved case) of the hospital’s namesake, a pioneering Black attorney and civil rights activist who led the effort to build the sorely needed medical facility in the Ville neighborhood.
Climbing Jacob's Ladder
Climbing Jacob's Ladder - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Climbing Jacob's Ladder write by Alan Morinis. This book was released on 2007-05-08. Climbing Jacob's Ladder available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A compelling portrait of the relationship between a student and a teacher,” this spiritual memoir “raises important questions about the meaning of Judaism and the search for spirituality in this world” (Los Angeles Times) Jewish by birth, though from a secular family, Alan Morinis explored Hinduism and Buddhism as a young man. But in 1997, in the face of personal crisis, he turned to his Jewish heritage for guidance. In his reading he happened upon a Jewish spiritual tradition called Mussar. Gradually he realized that he had stumbled upon an insightful discipline for self-development, complete with meditative, contemplative, and other well-developed transformative practices designed to penetrate the deepest roots of the inner life. Eventually reaching the limits of what he could learn on his own, he decided to seek out a Mussar teacher. This was not an easy task, since almost the entire world of the Mussar tradition had been wiped out in the Holocaust. In time, he found an accomplished master who stood in an unbroken line of transmission of the Mussar tradition, and who lived in the center of a community of Orthodox Jews on Long Island. This book tells the story of Morinis’s journey to meet his teacher and what he learned from him, revealing the central teachings and practices that are the spiritual treasury and legacy of Mussar.
Climbing the Ladder in Stilettos
Climbing the Ladder in Stilettos - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Climbing the Ladder in Stilettos write by Lynette Lewis. This book was released on 2008-05-20. Climbing the Ladder in Stilettos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is your work deeply satisfying? Do you look forward to Monday morning and the start of each new day? If you could do anything in the world without fear of failing, what would you do? Whether you're stuck in a dead-end job or are living the career of your dreams, Climbing the Ladder in Stilettos is your go-to-guide for life as a woman in the working world. You'll hear the stories of incredible women who made that precarious climb up the ladder while keeping their fashionable stilettos and heart intact. Drawing from their stories and her own, Lynette Lewis shares the secrets to purposeful work, including how to: create a purpose statement for your life and work follow the "four principles of promotion" establish a "personal board of directors" keep enduring when unrecognized, unrewarded, and underpaid discover gifts in surprising places, and more! Climbing the Ladder in Stilettos will help you discover new joy, meaning, success, and satisfaction in your life's work. Why spend your time on anything less?
Climbing a Broken Ladder
Climbing a Broken Ladder - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Climbing a Broken Ladder write by Nathanael J. Okpych. This book was released on 2021-01-15. Climbing a Broken Ladder available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although foster youth have college aspirations similar to their peers, fewer than one in ten ultimately complete a two-year or four-year college degree. What are the major factors that influence their chances of succeeding? Climbing a Broken Ladder advances our knowledge of what can be done to improve college outcomes for a student group that has largely remained invisible in higher education. Drawing on data from one of the most extensive studies of young people in foster care, Nathanael J. Okpych examines a wide range of factors that contribute to the chances that foster youth enroll in college, persist in college, and ultimately complete a degree. Okpych also investigates how early trauma affects later college outcomes, as well as the impact of a significant child welfare policy that extends the age limit of foster care. The book concludes with data-driven and concrete recommendations for policy and practice to get more foster youth into and through college.
Climbing the Ladder Less Traveled
Climbing the Ladder Less Traveled - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Climbing the Ladder Less Traveled write by Joe Bill. This book was released on 2002. Climbing the Ladder Less Traveled available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents the life experiences and insights of eighteen people staffing national forest fire towers throughout Arizona.
