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Full of essential advice for spotlight lovers and wallflowers alike, this book will teach you how to bring any crowd to its feet. Your day is full of moments when you must persuade, inform, and motivate others. Each of those moments requires you to play a role, to heighten the impact of your words, and to manage your emotions and nerves--if you want to steal the show, that is. Every interaction is a performance, whether you're speaking up in a meeting,...
3) Slavery by another name: the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. From the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II, under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these "debts, " prisoners were sold...
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In this memoir, Ilguans describes the journey he went on repaying his student loan debt of $32,000 after graduating from the University of Buffalo with a self-described "useless" liberal arts degree. He then went to graduate school at Duke University and, determined not to borrow against his future again, bought an Econline van to live out of as his new dorm.
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