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The common view today is that state schools are not good enough, and that something must be done to make them better. Setting academic standards is one way to raise the educational achievment of students. John F Jennings gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at how congress and the Executive Branch have wrestled with this issue, and reviews the major debates about whether or not there should be testable national standards for all American sch...

A study of the relationship between Japan's role in the drug trade and Japanese imperialism in Asia.

Excerpt from Widow Magoogin "Widow Magoogin" began to free her mind on topics of the day to her neighbor, Mrs. McGlaggerty, as far back as 1882. She continued her conversations, first in the St. Louis Critic, and later in the New York Sunday Mercury, both weekly publications, until 1894, when the character of the latter periodical changed, and "Widow Magoogin" returned to private life. She was not the first of her family to acquire popularit...

Excerpt from The Philadelphian, Vol. 2 of 3 The door opened, but instead of the man whom both father and daughter had been expecting, there entered Patrick Daly. A solitary candle did not light the room very brilliantly, but it served to reveal to Daly that he was face to face for the first time with Mrs. Martin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.co...

Excerpt from Theatrical and Circus Life: Or, Secrets of the Stage, Green-Room and Sawdust ArenaEverywhere, in the walls, the ¿oor, the ceiling, and even in space, and as the vasty deep and the rest of the surroundings give up their dwellers, the ia truder receives fresh jolts and thrusts, and possibly additional donations of profanity. This, of course, applies only to the male apparitions that overwhelm the strange visitor to the new world beh...

Excerpt from Eighty Years of Republican Government in the United States Tion, to review the changes which have been made in it in subsequent times, and to describe its present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct ...

Excerpt from On Preaching ChristI. To preach Christ, therefore, is our charge, our business, and our glory. But, who is sufficient for these things? Give me leave, then, my dear brethren and friends, to remind myself and you, what regard a minister should have to our Redeemer in his preaching.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduct...

The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel - a rough, violent, one-dimensional drifter, or the stage cowboy variety found in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show. Wister's novel was to transform, almost overnight, this image of the cowboy. Soon after its publica...

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The Search continues.... Black Kirby is a collaborative "entity" that is the creative doppelganger of artists/designers John Jennings and Stacey "Blackstar" Robinson. The manifestation of this avatar is an exhibition and catalog of primarily visual artworks-on-paper that celebrate the groundbreaking work of legendary comic creator Jack Kirby regarding his contributions to the pop culture landscape and his development of some of the conventions...

Pitch Black Rainbow is the latest collection of illustrations and process art work from graphic artist, John Jennings. It collects the best of Jennings' catalogue from the last five years. His work celebrates the importance of black images in the speculative genres of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror and how the very presence of those images radicalizes the notions of the black subject. What's at the end of the rainbow? The freedom and unfettered p...

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