Why Do Only White People Get Abducted By Aliens

Download or read book Why Do Only White People Get Abducted by Aliens? written by Ilana Garon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Ilana Garon, popular books and movies are inundated with the myth of the “hero teacher”—the one who charges headfirst into dysfunctional inner city schools like a firefighter into an inferno, bringing the student victims to safety through a combination of charisma and innate righteousness. The students are then “saved” by the teacher’s idealism, empathy, and willingness to put faith in kids who have been given up on by society as a whole.“Why Do Only White People Get Abducted by Aliens?” is not that type of book. In this book, Garon reveals the sometimes humorous, oftentimes frustrating, and occasionally horrifying truths that accompany the experience of teaching at a public high school in the Bronx today. The overcrowded classrooms, lack of textbooks, and abundance of mice, cockroaches, and drugs weren’t the only challenges Garon faced during her first four years as a teacher. Every day, she’d interact with students such as Kayron, Carlos, Felicia, Jonah, Elizabeth, and Tonya—students dealing with real-life addictions, miscarriages, stints in “juvie,” abusive relationships, turf wars, and gang violence. These students also brought with them big dreams and uncommon insight—and challenged everything Garon thought she knew about education. In response, Garon—a naive, suburban girl with a curly ponytail, freckles, and Harry Potter glasses—opened her eyes, rolled up her sleeves, and learned to distinguish between mitigated failure and qualified success. In this book, Garon explains how she learned that being a new teacher was about trial by fire, making mistakes, learning from the very students she was teaching, and occasionally admitting that she may not have answers to their thought-provoking (and amusing) questions.

Download or read book The Otherworld and Beyond written by J.R. Freeman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has been taught a systematic self-perpetuating form of thinking. People have become slaves to their minds, which control how they act and think within society. This mind control is more a result of tyranny than self-righteousness. Sadly, the educational system has forced this deceit upon everyone since birth. Societys main goal is controlling thoughts by dividing and conquering the mind, driving people more toward hate than love. This tyranny has been the separation of our identity. Love is within all DNA, but this systematic thinking has been destroying love in our consciousness. You can ask one simple question using the systematic self-perpetuating form of thinking, and the entire world will know the answer. No matter the language barrier, people are socially confined to their minds. We are all taught to socially accept certain people and not others. We tend to debate whether or not it is worthwhile to help someone, but we act quickly without thinking to help defenseless animals. It is possible to illuminate the idea within the program and destroy the evil lying within the recesses of the mind. It is a dark paradox of bitterness, jealousy, envy, lust, hatred, and loathing. You likely have heard this before many times but never thought it was inside of you. It is there, and it has been there forever, controlling you. It must be destroyed by our true identity. This book provokes the innermost truth in all people as one collective thought. Our current one-sided thought will never evolve into a higher consciousness. It is the destroyer rather than the maker of thoughts. It opposes the law of righteousness within the abstract of color. This opposition of color has risen within the walls of its own kind since 1681. It is the idea within the separation of the colors black and white. It still exists, whether anyone believes it or not. It thrives among conversations, gestures, and facial expressions. It is here.

Download or read book Abducted written by Susan A. Clancy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are tiny. They are tall. They are gray. They are green. They survey our world with enormous glowing eyes. To conduct their shocking experiments, they creep in at night to carry humans off to their spaceships. Yet there is no evidence that they exist at all. So how could anyone believe he or she was abducted by aliens? Or want to believe it? To answer these questions, psychologist Susan Clancy interviewed and evaluated "abductees"--old and young, male and female, religious and agnostic. She listened closely to their stories--how they struggled to explain something strange in their remembered experience, how abduction seemed plausible, and how, having suspected abduction, they began to recollect it, aided by suggestion and hypnosis. Clancy argues that abductees are sane and intelligent people who have unwittingly created vivid false memories from a toxic mix of nightmares, culturally available texts (abduction reports began only after stories of extraterrestrials appeared in films and on TV), and a powerful drive for meaning that science is unable to satisfy. For them, otherworldly terror can become a transforming, even inspiring experience. "Being abducted," writes Clancy, "may be a baptism in the new religion of this millennium." This book is not only a subtle exploration of the workings of memory, but a sensitive inquiry into the nature of belief.

Download or read book Why Do Only White People Get Abducted by Aliens? written by Ilana Garon and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers new approaches to some of the biggest persistent challenges in the study of esotericism and beyond. Commonly understood as a particularly "Western" undertaking consisting of religious, philosophical, and ritual traditions that go back to Mediterranean antiquity, this book argues for a global approach that significantly expands the scope of esotericism and highlights its relevance for broader theoretical and methodological debates in the humanities and social sciences. The contributors offer critical interventions on aspects related to colonialism, race, gender and sexuality, economy, and marginality. Equipped with a substantial introduction and conclusion, the book offers textbook-style discussions of the state of research and makes concrete proposals for how esotericism can be rethought through broader engagement with neighboring fields.

Download or read book The Lure of the Edge written by Brenda Denzler and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Fact Sheet A guided tour through the complex world of the UFO/abduction movement.

Download or read book Witness written by Susan Hiller and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pocket atlas of Suffolk, giving comprehensive and detailed coverage of the region. The mapping is produced by the Ordnance Survey to Philip's specification and gives the user complete coverage of all urban and rural areas. The mapping is at a standard scale of 2.5 inches to one mile and is complete with postcode boundaries.