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They came in peace...or so they said. Here are 18 examples of how they lied. This is an exciting collection of first contact science fiction stories, all completely different! Take a risk - venture into the unknown with us. Who is out there? What will they want from us? Come join us in our adventure to find out how first contact pans out. It will be a great adventure!

The Community Organizing Handbook is based on many years of direct community organizing experience and teaching college level courses. This guide has been developed to empower ordinary people, volunteers, organizers and activists. This draws on some common experiences, ideas and enables people to be better equipped to organize. This guide focuses on three issues: the organization, the people, and the sources of their power. The organizations develop from street committee to mass movement, sustainable nonprofit, and can grow to corporate standards. In the process the leadership and the ...

According to Merriam and Simpson, case study as a scientific research method is a recent phenomenon. Yet, stories have been around for as long as people sat around a camp-fire. This book analyzes all the various forms of story and makes a case for case study as an essential research methodology. Stories, folk lore, myth, fables, legends, tools of leadership, and cultural communications are all expressed through simple story telling. Stories become histories. Story-telling developed into qualitative research methodology.

White consciousness forms the basis of racism, while indigenous consciousness provides the solution. This first volume addresses the two forms of consciousness and provides some basic concepts and definitions to apply to the strategies that combat racism.

This introduction covers the information any world wide web user needs to know in a simple easy to follow format. It was designed for parents to share with their children in order that they may overcome the major concerns and avoid pitfalls. It includes personal insights of a history of the world-wide-web. The material was used in teaching web courses over a 10 year period so it also contains many of the historic developments of the web. Topics covered include servers, HTML, JAVA, netiquette, FTPsecurity, and virus protection.

Ethics describes the exercise of ethical values and social morals. Social morals are the rules of society that controls social interaction. Morality applies to a society or a group of people. Morals are the norms of expected behavior while ethical values are the personal values of individual human beings. A moral could be to ‘treat others as you would have others treat you’ while an example of an ethical value would be kindness.’ Only an individual has Kindness but a Kind community is a group of individuals who exercise their Kindness Values toward others.

The parallel histories of South Africa and the United States are informative of world events over the last centuries. While many countries rewrite their histories to conform to social and political trends, analyzing and comparing different countries and perspectives does shine a light on one’s own.

Racism Consciousness is a view of the world imposed by colonialism, Christianity, and European colonists. It is an Empire consciousness imposed on the European colonial world for centuries through every aspect of society based on White racism with a humanity separated by the arbitrary traits imposed on White governments, philosophers, scientists, politicians, experts, and pundits.

Bullying persists in spite of the best efforts of adults. Most parents actively try to discourage violence. Principals, teachers, social workers, and psychologists have addressed these issues for decades, yet bullying persists. All these professional perspectives must have a clear view of bullying and proposals for addressing the issue, yet bullying persists. Bullies are experienced by most individuals when they are in school. Most people are in the cycle of bullying as a bully or a victim or as a professional who has to deal with bullying. A few instances of bully reached the ultimate fear...

In 1903, the eminent African American civil rights leader and Harvard-trained philosopher, W. E. B. Du Bois, wrote, "The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." Multiculturalism and Non-Racialism are two ways to address racism. They are both systems developed to address the same issue, but with different historical roots and consequently different perspectives. This is an analysis of the two approaches comparing and contrasting them as they address racism. Multiculturalism is the approach developed through United States academic research while Non-Racialism was ...

Every time there is a blatantly racist public incident, the first response is denial. Once denial does not take root and before an admission is provided, the conversation about racism is raised as a delaying tactic and later an obfuscation. Ultimately the call for conversation stops and any conversations that may have started fades out of public view until the next blatantly racist incident occurs. The solution is to have a definition which is sorely lacking. My course on racism starts off with definition but conversations, discussions, and workshops start off with scenarios that have been ...

While every South African has a story to tell, this is one story that represents the millions that created and maintained the legend of Madiba. While the western mind is amazed at Madiba, the indigenous mind simply shrugs and says, he did as we did, what any human being would do under the circumstances.