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View Rights PortalIt is a coming-of-age story for Generation Z. How to grow up or even live in a world where no steady jobs are available, you can’t pay your rent and can’t afford medical or living expenses. Moreover, it touches on how to be a socially engaged artist in such a world, and more so, a woman in a post-me too world? Dijana, a daughter of working-class immigrants, tells the story of her difficult childhood and adolescence, how should became a journalist and later a writer in a society full of prejudices, glass ceilings and obstacles. How she gradually became a stereotypical ‘success story’, even though she still struggles with writing, because she can’t afford a ‘room of her own’. Dijana is a daughter of working-class immigrants, who came to Slovenia in the eighties in search of a better future. The family is building a house but is made redundant from the local factory when Yugoslavia is in the midst of an economic crisis. When her parents get divorced, Dijana, her older sister and mother struggle with basic needs. She is ashamed of their poverty, her classmates bully her because of her immigrant status, but mostly because of her being ‘white trash’. In the local school she meets teachers with prejudices against immigrants, but is helped by a librarian who spots her talent. When Dijana goes to secondary school, she moves in with her older sister who lives in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Her sister is into rave culture and Dijana starts to explore experimenting with drugs, music and dance. At the secondary school, she is again considered ‘the weird kid’, as she isn’t enough of a foreigner for other immigrant kids because she is from the country, yet she isn’t Slovenian enough for other native kids. She falls even deeper into drug addiction, fails the first year of school and has to move back to live with her mother. She takes on odd jobs to make ends meet. Whilst working as a waitress she encounters sexism and sexual violence from customers and abuse from the boss. She finishes night school and graduates. She meets many ‘lost’ people of her generation along the way, who tell her their stories about precarious, minimum wage jobs, lack of opportunities, expensive rent, etc. Dijana writes for numerous newspapers but loses or quits her job, because she isn’t allowed to write the stories she wants or because of the bad working conditions or the blatant sexual harassment. Due to the high rent in the capital, Dijana has to move to the countryside to live with her mother. She feels lonely there, struggles with anxiety and cannot write a second book, because she is constantly under pressure to make a living. She realises that she must persevere regardless of the obstacles, she must follow her inner truth and by writing about it, try to create a community of like-minded people, a community of people who support each other – all literature/art is social.
This series is based on the spirit of the "Opinions of the Ministry of Education on Cultivating and Practicing the Socialist Core Values and Further Strengthening Moral Education in Primary and Secondary Schools", and the requirement for the Ministry of Education of "continuously strengthening and improving moral education in universities, middle and primary schools" stipulated in the "2017 Work Points of the Ministry of Education", and prepared under the guidance of "Hunan Campus Reading Project". This series advocates spiritually moral education; trying to stand on the people-centered position, it selects 12 themes, to take care of the students' spiritual growth from different aspects. Its content covers both socialist core values and traditional values such as "Benevolence, Righteousness, Courtesy and Wisdom: in traditional culture; it is a set of extracurricular readings for comprehensive counseling for teenagers' spiritual growth.
The major temperate forage legumes are of global importance in the sustainable productivity of ruminant feed in the developed world. This book brings together in one volume all aspects of their basic biology and associated production practices. Emphasis is placed on the importance of understanding plant characteristics and their consequences in terms of forage output, quality and utilization by livestock. Recent research advances are reviewed and put into context and several recently commercialised species are also covered. The introduction considers the history, current extent, benefits and limits of temperate forage legume usage. Subsequent chapters are dedicated to a comprehensive examination of each forage species in turn, dealing with their origin, morphology, physiology, ecology, nitrogen-fixing capability, cultivars, seed production, nutritive value and productivity. The key factors for optimal management are identified and the prospects for the future outlined, including the potential arising from the use of biotechnology. This book is essential reading for degree and postgraduate students of plant science, agronomy and animal production. Additionally, students and researchers in ecology and environmental science will also find it a valuable resource. The management sections will be of particular value to grassland advisers, consultants and progressive land users.
Lines Written with the Green Pen is a poem for children written by the famous children's literature writer Mei Zihan. It is about a boy trying to write poems with his green pen. At first, he doubts whether he can write poems. Then he takes a walk and starts creating his own lines—he says hello to the sky; he wonders about the leaves, birds’ chirping, the gone clouds, the old lady and the yellow dress… He, the “little ant poet”, writes, “Those who are dreaming are awake. Hence, the night and the day meet on the pillow.” In the end, he drops down his green pen and decides to fly and be the child as he is.
“Cao Wenxuan Teaches You How to Write” is a new work by Cao Wenxuan, winner of the "International Andersen Award", a young reader's promoter, and an editor of Chinese textbooks. The book is divided into three parts, systematically showing his attitude towards literature, writing, and reading. Through lectures in schools, Cao Wenxuan vividly explained how to write a good composition, and how to explode the accumulated knowledge of reading and flow in the nib. His own insistence on writing is also due to the endless love for children , the responsibility to children, and the endless expectations of children.
This book pays attention to scientific tracing and refuses to repeatedly drill mechanically. Starting from brushstroke exercises, it gradually transitions to the writing of numbers, letters and simple Chinese characters, emphasizing the cultivation of correct pen holding and writing postures. Printed with rewritable materials, environmentally friendly and fun. It is recommended to use this book: After learning a knowledge point, complete the matching exercises, and then enter the next knowledge point. For the first time, mom and dad will teach the children. After the exercises are completed, the children will be the primary teachers and tell them this knowledge point. Be sure not to ignore this link. This is the best way to test your children's learning achievements.
Major changes have recently taken place in the value attached to components of milk. Although approximately half the energy in milk is contained in fat, fat is rapidly decreasing in value relative to protein. This has come about because of the increased availability of competitively-priced, plant-derived edible oils and because of the perceived health problems associated with animal fat in the human diet. Such changes have major implications for the dairy sector, particularly in developed countries. Against this background, this book presents a timely review of developments in milk production and consumption, of changes in milk component values, and of the opportunities that biotechnology provides to alter the composition of and add value to milk on the farm. The subject coverage is very broad, ranging from nutritional aspects of pastures and forages, to rumen microbiology, genetics and reproductive technologies, milk biochemistry and environmental implications. It is based on a conference held in Wellington, New Zealand, in February 1996 and sponsored by the OECD and AgResearch. Contributors include leading research workers from North America, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. It provides an invaluable overview of the subject, suitable as a reference book for advanced students, researchers and advisers in dairy science as well as related disciplines such as grassland, nutritional and food sciences.
This book object, composed of 30 cards, invites the reader to stop in the poetry that surrounds us.
■ How many omega-3 fatty acids does salmon contain? ■ Which dairy product contains the most calcium? ■ How iron-rich is spinach, really? Whether calories, vitamins or amino acids – whether in field beans, bananas, eggs, chicken, parmesan cheese or onion – it is all here. The compact edition of the time-tested „large SFK [Souci/Fachmann/Kraut]“ offers tested data on over 70 ingredients in more than 360 foods, systematically structured according to food groups. This edition with thousands of values has been completely revised and updated by the Leibniz Institute of Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich. Extra: 32 summary tables cover more than 300 other, less common foods and allow for targeted, clear comparisons. 16 orientation tables provide information about foods with particularly high or low amounts of ingredients. Nutritional values, energy content, main components and ingredients displayed in uniform systematics and a practical format – just look it up!
"Reading Masterpieces, Learning Writing" series, this series selects the extracurricular reading books specified by the new curriculum standard, through the guidance of famous teachers to guide the intensive reading, understand the outline of the masterpiece, select the fragments of the masterpiece that students are interested in, train the writing skills in the masterpiece study, and learn the masterpiece in Conception, material selection, writing, expression skills and language style, etc. will help students improve their writing skills. After each chapter of this series, it is planned to have a live webcast of high-quality lecturers with a QR code attached to the book, so that the vivid classroom will be presented to the readers in the form of audio and video. This book selects five extracurricular books, one extracurricular book is a chapter, and each chapter is divided into five parts: "Guide to Masterpieces", "Wonderful Appreciation", "As a Ring" and "Excerpt Appreciation". Through reading and deconstruction of classics, students can gain a lot of language accumulation and the magic weapon of writing.
Haroldo, a minho, who as he relates to other animals in the garden brings to light issues such as friendship and respect, mixing a harmonic field with an inside-out view of the garden of a house inhabited by some strange animals, among them the (human) balance-beast.
"Reading Masterpieces, Learning Writing" series, this series selects the extracurricular reading books specified by the new curriculum standard, through the guidance of famous teachers to guide the intensive reading, understand the outline of the masterpiece, select the fragments of the masterpiece that students are interested in, train the writing skills in the masterpiece study, and learn the masterpiece in Conception, material selection, writing, expression skills and language style, etc. will help students improve their writing skills. After each chapter of this series, it is planned to have a live webcast of high-quality lecturers with a QR code attached to the book, so that the vivid classroom will be presented to the readers in the form of audio and video.This book selects five extracurricular books, one extracurricular book is a chapter, and each chapter is divided into five parts: "Guide to Masterpieces", "Wonderful Appreciation", "As a Ring" and "Excerpt Appreciation". Through reading and deconstruction of classics, students can gain a lot of language accumulation and the magic weapon of writing.
The book is a story that combines childhood living in the 1960s deserts, before current forms of technology and virtualization. In this narrative text, it was not a matter of resurrecting a moment in a fleeting life in a non-stop chronology, but of shaping it into concepts that reconstruct it in an abstract way. The text does not present an individual story, but rather redraws the boundaries of an entire generation’s experience, a generation that saw the light after Morocco’s independence, with all of its subsequent achievements, failures, victories, and tragedies. The narrator in the text does not present ready-made theories; instead, he captures life in its events and facts and elevates it to an abstract level pending contemplation. The event in the text is an excuse for restoring life in the form of a “human experience,” and that is the outlet for returning academic knowledge to its role as an incubator for people’s concerns as depicted by their narratives, stories, and beliefs. What people experience by instinct; the story turns into another story constructed in the abstract. We do not simply live, we also contemplate our own living, and this is the sublime function of narration.
The Reading Journey is a journal for your literary adventures. Join a group of furry and feathered friends for an exploration of the extraordinary world of words, stories, reading and writing. Designed by library designers, linguists and childhood experts, you can now plot your course through the Map of Memories. Join us for a ride on the Book Boat, the Poetry Plane and the Story Sled, Visit the Mountains of Meaning, the Gorge of Gorgeous Words, the Forest of Feelings, and the Desert of Dreams. The Reading Journey is an interactive journal that encourages joyous curiosity about the literary realm, using the written word as a medium to expand children’s horizons, to promote self knowledge, and to cultivate a love for reading.