![]() ![]() There was a widespread fear of juvenile delinquency, focusing around claims that the post-World War 2 generation was lazy,spoilt, reckless, lacking in discipline, disrespectful of authority and violent.Teenagers of the time were condemned for their poor work and study ethos, and their spendthrift ways. ![]() ![]() Released in 1955, the film highlights an obsession of 1950s America - and other western countries too. However, the movie remains a significant film for other reasons. Today The Blackboard Jungle's main claim to fame is that its soundtrack incorporated Bill Haley and the Comet's Rock Around the Clock, the first time a rock 'n' roll sing was used in a movie, and a major factor in ensuring success for the song and achieving publicity about the new type of music. However, we believe that public awareness is a first step towards a remedy for any problem." We are especially concerned when this delinquency boils over into our schools.The scenes and incidents depicted here are fictional. Today we are concerned with juvenile delinquency - its causes - and its effects. Before the credits roll in The Blackboard Jungle a scrolling introduction appears on screen. ![]()
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Awesomelicious - it's happy & sad as good vs bad ![]() ![]() ![]() OL16528671W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.48 Pages 378 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1451638264 A Beautiful Friendship Book 1 of Star Kingdom (Weber) By David Weber Published by Baen Distributed by Simon & Schuster Trade Paperback LIST PRICE 9. Urn:lcp:beautifulfriends00webe:epub:f9a9f523-9941-460f-b73e-00924f5b7296 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier beautifulfriends00webe Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9575dm05 Invoice 1213 Isbn 9781451637472ġ451637470 Lccn 2011015815 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Olsearch delete Openlibrary OL25220278M Openlibrary_edition The Hard Way Home(Worlds of HonorAnthology, 1999) Available as part of this anthology. Isfdb: Worlds of Honor(Baen, 1999) Also available on a freely distributable CD. Also available on a freely distributable CD. Urn:lcp:beautifulfriends00webe:lcpdf:67202747-6464-4e88-b58b-8c5dbfcceefb A Beautiful Friendship(More Than HonorAnthology, 1998) Available as part of this anthology. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:05:31.207173 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1144616 City Riverdale, NY Donor ![]() ![]() ![]() I enjoyed this story very much, but had some trouble when the author switched back and forth in time. ![]() ![]() Is she the one who could lead Hook back to the real world? Or will he not be able to overcome his childish behaviors? She hears someone calling her and tumbles into the dreamworld. Wishing he could end his eternal torture, never quite dying when fighting Pan, yet having to endure all of the pain, he is given one last chance to redeem himself.ĭestined to help Hook, Stella finds her way into Neverland even after being refused by Pan for being a grownup. Hook is sexy and smart, but still needs to learn to grow up. Jensen does a great job bringing you to love a character that we once grew up to hate. Changing the view of the story, we begin to understand the truth about Hook and how he came to be in what he considers his hell for eternity. Alias Hook by Lisa Jensen is a fun twist on the classic story of Peter Pan. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s Zack’s chance, at last, to play the hero. And his skills-as well as those of millions of gamers across the world-are going to be needed to save the earth from what’s about to befall it. As impossible as it seems, what he’s seeing is all too real. He knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger issues don’t get chosen to save the universe.Įven stranger, the alien ship he’s staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every night, a hugely popular online flight simulator called Armada-in which gamers just happen to be protecting the earth from alien invaders. ![]() Dreaming that one day, some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure.īut hey, there’s nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he’s spent his life consuming. 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A brilliantly quirky, surreally funny story. ![]() An exuberant dark comedy about love, grief, sex, guilt, and one woman's harebrained scheme to tranquilize her voraciously amorous girlfriend for a few days so that she might pay off her drug dealer, make soup, and finally get some peace and quiet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just last night came word to Randy that yet another old friend had drunk himself out of existence. Some didn't survive the AIDS crisis, and countless others didn't survive the angst of knowing they wouldn't die, that HIV was a chronic, manageable illness, and so they dove deep into the darkness of crystal meth, alcohol, and the like, dancing their way into the arms of death. I remember all those beautiful masculine faces that grace the walls of my memory. Next year I will cross the half-century mark, and my mind wanders back through all those winding corridors of years in San Francisco, New Orleans, Key West, and New York. ![]() ![]() Good friends, work that I love and am passionate about, and-not the least-I am alive. As the noon sun is peaking just overhead now, my heart is full of gratitude, for I've been so lucky in life. I'm sitting on the patio in front of the weather-worn, shingle-clad cottage that my good friend, Randy, has rented for the summer in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where every summer evening he gives an entertainingly realistic performance as Cher to eager sun-drenched and alcohol-infused crowds. It's now late August and another summer is quickly slipping away. ![]() ![]() A masterwork of sheer momentum that rockets seamlessly toward its climax.Harris is quite simply the best suspense novelist working today." -The Washington Post, "A virtual textbook on the craft of suspense. 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