Tag: Educated

The Educated Listener A New Approach to Music Appreciation


Free Download Jaren Hinckley, "The Educated Listener: A New Approach to Music Appreciation"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1793513570, 1793528918 | PDF | pages: 353 | 70.5 mb
The Educated Listener: A New Approach to Music Appreciation helps students develop the skills they need to creatively and intelligently discuss and listen to classical music. Readers will learn about the musical genres, forms, and techniques used by composers of classical music, which will help them become educated listeners.

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Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable Chilean Exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973-2010 (Studies in Immigration and Culture


Free Download Francis Peddie, "Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable: Chilean Exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973-2010 (Studies in Immigration and Culture"
English | ISBN: 0887557716 | 2014 | 208 pages | EPUB | 708 KB
Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’état. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to find ways of coping with an abrupt and violent separation from their homeland that had deep material and emotional repercussions. In Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable, Francis Peddie documents the experiences of twenty-one Chileans as they navigate their newfound identity as exiles. Peddie also considers how the admission of people from the wrong side of the Cold War ideological divide had an effect on Canadian immigration and refugee policy, establishing a precedent for the admission of political exiles over the decades that followed.

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Young, Educated & Broke An Introduction to America’s New Poor


Free Download Jamie Borromeo, "Young, Educated & Broke: An Introduction to America’s New Poor"
English | ISBN: 1630470910 | 2015 | 190 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Young, Educated & Broke is a unique blend of memoir and social commentary that highlights the author’s Millennial experience in America as a microcosm of the geopolitical and domestic affairs in American history during the 2008 economic collapse and the years that followed. Borromeo drafts a "Millennial Blueprint" for what she believes can spark a conversation between young people and current leadership to address the youth high unemployment rates and leadership issues in this country. In such uncertain times, Borromeo’s analysis leaves you inspired and hopeful as she writes a plan-and provides tangible proof-that her generation will be a formidable force in the next chapter of America’s history.

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