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This book documents the transition of a 20-year-old farm boy who had never been far from home to a world traveler who was comfortable in any situation in Latin America. It follows him through training in Puerto Rico, where he had difficulty leaning to speak Spanish. He learned enough Spanish to be sworn in as a Peace Corps Volunteer and an airline ticket to El Salvador. After a brief orientation in San Salvador, he was sent to Sonsonate where ...

Wer in der Zukunft lesen will, muss in der Vergangenheit blättern." Der berühmte Satz André Malraux? ist hier ganz wörtlich zu verstehen als eine Aufforderung, in Büchern der Vergangenheit zu blättern, um in der Zukunft zu lesen. In diesem Band stellen über hundert Autorinnen und Autoren herausragende Bücher vor, die auf unterschiedliche Weise Perspektiven für morgen eröffnen: indem sie eine dunkle Zukunft ausmalen wie George Orwell in 1984, i...

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Living in Nicaragua tells two stories. The first is my work as an agricultural missionary managing a small farm on the outskirts of Managua. The second tells the stories of several short-term assignments with the U.S. government in Eastern Europe, Africa, South America and Central America. I had already served in the Peace Corps in El Salvador and spoke Spanish fluently. We were in the second year of a drought, therefore, there was not mu...

Die Heißsporne Rebellen in einer guten Sache! Die Heißsporne sind einige der berüchtigtsten Abenteurer der Region der Inneren See, auch wenn zu ihnen in gleichem Maß Angeber wie Rebellen gehören! Dieses Buch wirft einen detaillierten Blick auf die verschiedenen Mitglieder einer Organisation, die Ungerechtigkeit bekämpft und dabei auch noch gut aussieht. Es enthält Informationen darüber, wie man sich den Heißspornen anschließt, Details über wic...

Living in Nicaragua tells two stories. The first is my work as an agricultural missionary managing a small farm on the outskirts of Managua. The second tells the stories of several short-term assignments with the U.S. government in Eastern Europe, Africa, South America and Central America. I had already served in the Peace Corps in El Salvador and spoke Spanish fluently. We were in the second year of a drought, therefore, there was not mu...

I was raised on a farm in Nebraska, joined the Peace Corps twice (El Salvador, Brazil) and attended five state universities to earn degrees in Agronomy, Adult Education and Economics. I did volunteer work in Nicaragua as a farm manager for a church. I lived 10 years in Brazil and 3 years in Central America. I worked in the US as a farm manager, grain sales, market research and taught statistics in Southern Illinois University Edwardsville for ...

On a grassy hilled college campus, Henry was born to two loving parents who taught him to believe in the Great Goose. Henry was always a special goose, who was brought into this world with a special purpose, but no one knew what it was to be. Henry suffered an accident that launched him into the world alone, only following what he believed to be the Great Goose's wished. He had doubts, but he continued along unknown paths with an unknown desti...

This book documents all the segments in the transition from dryland farming to irrigated farming with gated pipe. It starts with a dirt ditch with cuts made in the side of the ditch to wooden lathe nailed together to form a tunnel from the ditch to the field. It also documents the use of siphon tubes and irrigation ditches laid out on a gradient. Land leveling was introduced to the fields and to the irrigation ditches. Later, gated pipe replac...

Living Thirteen Years in Latin America is a synopsis of three books: Living in El Salvador, Living in Nicaragua, and Living in Brazil. As a twenty-year-old, I joined the Peace Corps and was sent to El Salvador. Before going to El Salvador, I spent three months on a mountain top in aPuerto Rican rain forest learning Spanish-a language for which I had had no previous exposure.Living in El Salvador documents my struggles with learning Spanish and...

I was raised on a farm in Nebraska, joined the Peace Corps twice (El Salvador, Brazil) and attended five state universities to earn degrees in Agronomy, Adult Education and Economics. I did volunteer work in Nicaragua as a farm manager for a church. I lived 10 years in Brazil and 3 years in Central America. I worked in the US as a farm manager, grain sales, market research and taught statistics in Southern Illinois University Edwardsville for ...

H. Lynn Beck had no clue what to do after finishing his master, s degree in Vermont, so he applied to join the Peace Corps. Eventually, he was invited to work in Brazil, and he agreed to work in education in the state of Mato Hrosso. He began counting down the days to the start of training. While his Portuguese consisted of ninety-five percent Spanish and five percent Portuguese, he managed to communicate. Working in the geographic center ...

H. Lynn Beck had no clue what to do after two years of agricultural study at the university. He felt he was not learning anything and he was bored with the time he spent on his family's Nebraska crop farm. On a Whim, he joined the Peace Corps-that was a decision that would affect the rest of his life. He was sent to Puerto Rico for training. After three weeks of Spanish training he was sent to rural Puerto Rico alone for survival training. T...

On a grassy hilled college campus, Henry was born to two loving parents who taught him to believe in the Great Goose. Henry was always a special goose, who was brought into this world with a special purpose, but no one knew what it was to be. Henry suffered an accident that launched him into the world alone, only following what he believed to be the Great Goose's wished. He had doubts, but he continued along unknown paths with an unknown desti...

H. Lynn Beck had no clue what to do after two years of agricultural study at the university. He felt he was not learning anything and he was bored with the time he spent on his family's Nebraska crop farm. On a Whim, he joined the Peace Corps-that was a decision that would affect the rest of his life. He was sent to Puerto Rico for training. After three weeks of Spanish training he was sent to rural Puerto Rico alone for survival training. The...

H. Lynn Beck had no clue what to do after finishing his master, s degree in Vermont, so he applied to join the Peace Corps. Eventually, he was invited to work in Brazil, and he agreed to work in education in the state of Mato Hrosso. He began counting down the days to the start of training. While his Portuguese consisted of ninety-five percent Spanish and five percent Portuguese, he managed to communicate. Working in the geographic center ...

H. Lynn Beck had no clue what to do after finishing his master, s degreein Vermont, so he applied to join the Peace Corps.Eventually, he was invited to work in Brazil, and he agreed to workin education in the state of Mato Hrosso. He began counting downthe days to the start of training.While his Portuguese consisted of ninety-five percent Spanish andfive percent Portuguese, he managed to communicate. Working in thegeographic center of South Am...

The Evolutionary Imperative provides a unifying perspective on the evolution of the universe in all its physical and biological detail, with a call to action for redirecting the evolutionary trajectory of human society. The book's thesis is that change is inevitable, driven by resolution of energy gradients through the Principle of Least Action and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This energy dissipation model of the evolutionary imperative a...

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On a grassy-hilled college campus, Henry was born to two loving parents who taught him to believe in the Great Goose. Henry was always a special goose, who was brought into this world with a special purpose, but no one knew what it was to be. Henry suffered an accident that launched him into the world alone, only following what he believed to be the Great Goose's wished. He had doubts, but he continued along unknown paths with an unknown desti...