The pleasant town of Kernersville, North Carolina, decided to take a peek at its teenage drug problem. Nestled in the heart of three large cities, this community was certain that its problem was not nearly as bad as the rest of the nation. Many adults believed that 10% of the high school students abused drugs. However, when the hometown newspaper—the Kernersville News—surveyed 1,706 local teenagers, it was shocked to report that 92% of the respondents believed that “most of the students in my school use drugs.” Stunned, the townspeople decided to stop waiting for the Government to do something and to tackle the problem for themselves. First, they took the teens out of the back seat and put them in the driver’s seat—airing their uncensored voices on the front pages of the newspaper. Then, the Kernersville Police Department joined forces with the News and the Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools. Together, they broke down walls from here to Washington, to give their students the leadership and life skills that transformed their community. What resulted was the grassroots non-profit Kernersville Cares for Kids and 20 student leaders that turned the town right-side up. This book invites readers to become cub reporters and shadow the investigative journalist as she uncovers life-altering truths that changed a community. FIND OUT: How to convert negative peer pressure into positive peer influence What kids really want from adults What it's like to work as an investigative reporter How to create dynamic YOUTH driven organizations Why 80% of students in Kernersville enroll in the It’s My Call drug testing program Simple things YOU can do to make a difference with kids in your town ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Award-winning journalist, Patty Jo Sawvel, is pictured above with "her kids". She completed the Wake Forest University Addiction Studies Program for Journalists, author/edited the book, Issues That Concern You: Student Drug Testing, and contributed chapters to Drugs and Controlled Substances: Information for Students (published by Thomson Gale). Sawvel served as a founding member of Kernersville Cares for Kids. In Short, Sawvel cares. Chapter titles for UNDER THE INFLUENCE: 1. An Unexpected Opportunity 2. Getting Started 3. Survey 4. Getting Results 5. Community Response 6. Gathering the Facts 7. Publicity 8. Voluntary Drug Testing 9. Community Meeting 10. Meetings at Glenn and East 11. Losing Momentum 12. The Press Conference 13. Four Teens From Two Families 14. School Board Policy Change 15. Police Accept the Challenge 16. Kicking Off the Project 17. Victory 18. We Can't Do It 19. Finding a Better Way 20. A REAL Community Organization 21. Kernersville Kids Lead the U.S. 22. Three Drug Addicts 23. Middle Schools Come Aboard 24. Thirty Days of Madness 25. KCK Gets a New President 26. Letting Go 27. Getting a Better Grip 28. New Voices 29. A Study of the Test 30. Retreat 31. 10th Anniversary 32. Selling the tickets 33. Community Hug 34. The Final Lesson 35. A Mountain Top Experience 36. Grand Central Station 37. Passing the Baton 38. The Handoff is Complete Epilogue APPENDIX I: The Power of One Committed Person 348 Whether you are child or an adult—if you are alive—there is something simple and meaningful that you can do to help. APPENDIX II: Understanding Today’s Student 359 Times have changed and so have students. Knowing the truth gives you the power to help and not to hurt an already fragile situation. APPENDIX III: Parent’s Handbook 367 Harmful parenting myths and misguided wisdom has been handed down for generations. Scientific studies in this section disarm myths and reveal the truth so parents can be more effective.

Under the Influence: The Town That Listened to Its Kids

Education & Teaching

Sawvel, Patty Jo

Schools & Teaching

Bailey Press

The Ebook version was awarded 2014 Global Ebook Gold Medal Winner for Non-Fiction Current Affairs. The Completely Revised 2nd Edition tells the true success story about how teens and adults join forces to tackle the student drug problem. It also contains five powerful mini-books. Driven by raw first person accounts, readers experience the full 360-view of issues challenging today's youth. Solutions, promoted by teens have been changing lives for over 15 years. FULLY EMBEDDED LINKS TO WEB RESOURCES. Chapter 13 answers the question: Why do two teens from the same family make opposite choices about substance abuse? Discover the relationships of COPE, CONNECT, CONTROL in assessing risk factor for self-destructive decisions in children as young as two years old or for helping adults to turn towards recovery. The book includes five mini books: A CALL FOR COMPASSION--10 Tips to Drug Proof Kids (Understand how to help ALL young people.)PARENT HANDBOOK (Scientific studies, including 12 family rules that work. Web links and resources) TEEN HANDBOOK (Top 10 Stressors of Youth supplemented with real life stories. Loaded with web links, toll free hotlines. Issues including; family stress, suicide, bullying, anger, dating, depression, gossip, peer pressure, and more.) LESSONS LEARNED--THREE RECOVERED ADDICTS (First person accounts of teen addiction, recovery, and outreach.) EVERYONE CAN HELP (Real life account of building a stronger village connecting young people with the work world, colleges, civic clubs, and greater community.) ONLINE RESOURCES (Web sites, toll-free hotlines for parents or teens to talk with live mentors.)This book is being used in 32 middle and high schools to teach healthy choices. Original stories awarded FIRST PLACE by North Carolina Press Association. A must read for all interested in understanding and addressing the teen drug problem. Visit www.UnderTheInfluence.Org for current student stories.

Patty Jo Sawvel

Born high in Peru’s Andes Mountains, far from modern civilization and close to poverty—Fermin learns what really matters in life. Coming to the United States with just $3.00 in his pocket—and no knowledge of the language—Fermin manages to rocket to the top of his chosen career when he is named General Manager of a division of Flow Motors, earns a bachelor’s degree, starts his own successful business, raises a loving family, and founds a church and several charities to help the needy. His secret: The same Inca ways that helped him survive poverty in Peru, launched him into success in the United States. These Inca ways are impressed into the DNA of his character by his “eyes are everywhere” village, the unforgiving Andes Mountains, and his unrelenting and God-fearing Mama. In a few words—the greatest Inca skill is relationships—rock-solid, diverse connections with people who share a common interest. By uniting people of differing races, cultures, languages, and religions—long before science proved this is optimal—Fermin builds bridges that accomplished the seemingly impossible. Between the covers of this book lay the secrets, the lessons, and the blueprints for building relationships to make a difference where it matters most—the Inca way.

The Man from Peru: Uniting People the Inca Way

Bocanegra, Fermin

Biographies & Memoirs

Lynched by the Law: Putting Good Men Behind Bars

Parker, Anthony L

Professionals & Academics

My Philosophy - And Other Essays on the Moral and Political Problems of Our Time: With an Essay from Benedetto Croce - An Introduction to his Philosophy By Raffaello Piccoli

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

CROCE, BENEDETTO

MY PHILOSOPHY AND OTHER ESSAYS ON THE MORAL AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS OF OUR TIME by BENEDETTO CROCE. Contents include: Translators Note page 5 Discourses on Philosophy I. My Philosophy n a. The Moral Problem of Our Time 21 3. Why We Cannot Help Calling Ourselves Christian 37 Philosophy of Politics 4. Unpolitical Man 51 5. The State as Friend and as Enemy 55 6. An Essay in Communist Philosophy 64 7. Note on the History of Communism as Practical Politics 68 8. The Idea of Classes as Real Entities 79 9. Aristocracy and the Masses 84 10. Political Truth and Popular Myths 88 n. Liberalism and Democracy 93 12. Justice and Liberty 97 13. Liberty and Revolution 109 14. The - Theory of Liberty Once More in 15. Justice as a Legal Conception 115 16. Peace and War 117 17. The Idealisation of War 120 18. Patriotism a Disused Word 125 19. Denationalisation of History 127 Problems of Ethics and Aesthetics 20. The Intellectual Life Morals and Aesthetics 131 21. Art as the Form of Pure Knowledge 137 22. The Two Profane Sciences Aesthetics and Economics 140 23. The Conflict of Duties 153 24. Manual Work and Work of the Mind 158 Philosophy of History 25. Providence or the Cunning of the Idea 167 26. The History of Ends and the History of Means 172 27. The History of Events and Judgments of Value 176 28. In Praise of Individuality 180 29. Proust An Example of Decadent Historical Method 208 Various Thoughts 30. Sexuality and Spirituality 217 31. Our Debt to Thought 219 32. The Eternal Problems 221 33. Eternal Truth 222 34. The Final Philosophy 224 35. Eternal Life 225 36. The Identity of Philosophy and the Moral Life 226 37. Soliloquy of an Old Philosopher 233. DISCOURSES ON PHILOSOPHY. MY PHILOSOPHY: I HAVE ALWAYS DECLINED the request to expound my philosophy shortly in a popular way, partly because philosophy, like any other work of man, can only be really understood by those who are of the trade, and partly because this possessive my has a bad sound. Any craftsman who takes up the job which a fellow-worker or pre decessor has dropped, and carries it on towards perfection does not call it his but our work. But I have now reached the age when, as Giovanni Prati wrote, there rises in the heart the sadness of the days that are no more. It was his fortune to know sadness but not, as we do, to despair in the encircling gloom of slaughter and destruction of all that we held dear or sacred. I have reached the age when a mans life seems a past that he can survey at a single glance, and when he himself takes his place in history, or to put it more plainly, he looks at himself as if he were dead. That is why I am now willing to comply briefly, so far as is modest and reasonable, with the request. Consistently with my simile of a craft as always a matter of colla boration, we must get rid of the pretence or illusion that a philo sophers work or system is a self-completed revelation of the so-called mystery of reality...

High Adventure - A Narrative Of Air Fighting In France

Hall, James Norman

The Life And Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe

Foe, Daniel De

History

This antiquarian text comprises a comprehensive guide to identifying fur-bearing animals. It was initially intended to aid persons engaged in trade to recognise readily, and to have a closer knowledge of, the animals with which they are to some extent already familiar. Yet the work will also be of interest to the general public, due to the author's small sketches of the habits of the animals described. This text will be of much value to those with an interest in the fur trade, and constitutes a worthy addition to collections of such literature. The chapters of this book include: 'East African Monkey', 'Common Monkey', 'Mona Monkey', 'Green Monkey', 'Grivet Monkey', 'Patas Monkey', 'Vervet', 'Red Monkey', 'Pluto Monkey', 'Red-Fronted Lemur', 'Black Lemur', 'Lion', 'Puma', 'Tiger', 'Bengal Tiger', 'Jaguar', 'Ocelot', 'Eyra Cat', etcetera. This text was first published in 1892.

Fur-Bearing Animals In Nature And In Commerce

Literature & Fiction

Poland, Henry

Literary

Charles Hanson Towne was considered by many to be the very epitome of the successful, urbane New Yorker. A prolific author of simple and direct poetry, he also contributed to and eventually became editor of numerous high profile magazines and periodicals. This is a delightful collection of thoughts and observations jotted down on walks around the counties of England.

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Towne, Charles Hanson

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Under the Influence: The Town That Listened to Its Kids

Under the Influence: The Town That Listened to Its Kids

The Man from Peru: Uniting People the Inca Way

Lynched by the Law: Putting Good Men Behind Bars

My Philosophy - And Other Essays on the Moral and Political Problems of Our Time: With an Essay from Benedetto Croce - An Introduction to his Philosophy By Raffaello Piccoli

My Philosophy - And Other Essays on the Moral and Political Problems of Our Time: With an Essay from Benedetto Croce - An Introduction to his Philosophy By Raffaello Piccoli

High Adventure - A Narrative Of Air Fighting In France

The Life And Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe

Fur-Bearing Animals In Nature And In Commerce

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