Making Life Worth While


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Reproduction of the original: Making Life Worth While by Douglas Fairbanks




Know Your Worth : MAKING LIFE WORTH WHILE BY DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS


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Know Your Worth: MAKING LIFE WORTHWHILE BY DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS Making Life Worth While is a self-help book written by Douglas Fairbanks, an American actor, and producer, known as The First King of Hollywood. His formula for happiness is simple: humbleness, healthy humor, and physical culture, while his basic message echoes throughout the book: energy and optimism. Nearly everything has to do with such a subject and that is what the book contains—everything in general—and nothing in particular—just such things as came to mind that seemed worthwhile. Know Your Worth: MAKING LIFE WORTHWHILE BY DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS The secret behind the success of most people is not what they do, but how they do it! This book discusses the life-changing concepts through storytelling. You would find yourself closely connected to these stories. They will encourage you to explore your own potential to inspire you, and to achieve your real worth. This book will also help you to understand the traits that keep you from achieving your dreams. The book lays down a process to help you emerge from the clutches of negativity and develop a positive approach towards life. By investing time in yourself, acknowledging your potential, setting a worthy goal, avoiding common traps, surviving bad days, and harvesting the power of thoughts, you can be successful. Read this interesting book to Know Your Worth.




A Life Worthwhile


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The slant-roofed chicken coop only had three sides, but it would work until her father was home long enough to build a real house. Even though it had a dirt floor, it was definitely an upgrade from sleeping in the car. A Life Worthwhile--No Life is Ordinary is a true story that chronicles the life of a young, East Texas girl as she cares for a sick and dying mother. Homelessness was fairly common during the Great Depression, but assuming the responsibilities as head of the household at age nine was not. The life of Joy Jenkins, an ordinary farm girl, was extraordinary. Joy met the love of her life in the third grade when a little redheaded, freckle-faced boy smiled at her. Their lives were so intertwined that her story includes his. After his death, Joy's solitary existence was altered by a dementia diagnosis. The book includes details of her children's journey as they struggled through the devastation of each stage of this disease and made decisions on her behalf. It is a must read for families who have loved ones facing Alzheimer's, dementia, or any other debilitating mental disease. It will make you smile, laugh, and cry.




The Thread of Life


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The author provides an account of what it means to live the life of a human being, drawing extensively from a psychoanalytic perspective.




Worthwhile


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This book is for anyone who is interested in the intricacies of daily life. Daily life consists of various contexts in which we, as explorers, discover and develop our treasures. Our journeys are not without challenges. We learn to lead and follow through which we find our treasures that we need to strengthen: this makes life worthwhile. On our journeys in daily life we shape our value, values, and learn how to value ourselves and others. This is the process of making ourselves authentic and putting our colours on display. Organisations, economies and countries go through the same processes and make themselves of value too. Our personal accomplishments culminate in a legacy, which is a spin-off of our explorations. Dr. Ir. Carin Vijfhuizen is a rural development sociologist and an international expert in capacity and institutional strengthening, leadership and gender.




What Makes Life Worth Living


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In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Valéry wrote of a ‘crisis of spirit’, brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit. Recent events demonstrate all too clearly that that the stock of mind, or spirit, continues to fall. The economy is toxically organized around the pursuit of short-term gain, supported by an infantilizing, dumbed-down media. Advertising technologies make relentless demands on our attention, reducing us to idiotic beasts, no longer capable of living. Spiralling rates of mental illness show that the fragile life of the mind is at breaking point. Underlying these multiple symptoms is consumer capitalism, which systematically immiserates those whom it purports to liberate. Returning to Marx’s theory, Stiegler argues that consumerism marks a new stage in the history of proletarianization. It is no longer just labour that is exploited, pushed below the limits of subsistence, but the desire that is characteristic of human spirit. The cure to this malaise is to be found in what Stiegler calls a ‘pharmacology of the spirit’. Here, pharmacology has nothing to do with the chemical supplements developed by the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmakon, defined as both cure and poison, refers to the technical objects through which we open ourselves to new futures, and thereby create the spirit that makes us human. By reference to a range of figures, from Socrates, Simondon and Derrida to the child psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, Stiegler shows that technics are both the cause of our suffering and also what makes life worth living.




Divine Teaching and the Way of the World


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Samuel Fleischacker offers a defense of 'revealed religion' - religions that regard a certain text or teaching as wholly authoritative over one's life. By reconciling it with secular cognitive and moral practices that allow people to work together regardless of religious difference, he shows how these two worldviews can be brought together.




Vocational Education


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Vocational education and training (VET) have a key role to play in raising skill levels and improving a society’s productivity. In this important new book, a team of international experts argue that too often national VET policy has been formulated in ignorance of historical and political developments in other countries and without proper consideration of the social objectives that it might help achieve. Examining a wide range of contrasting international approaches and development strategies, this book demonstrates the central role of the state in implementing an effective system of VET and assesses the extent to which different VET policies can promote equality in the labour market and social justice. Key themes include: the broader educational and social aims of VET the nature of learning in vocational contexts the historical development of VET in the UK, US, Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere. Including a full range of case-studies and practical examples, this book is essential reading for all students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in vocational education and training, industrial and labour relations or social policy.




Making Life a Masterpiece


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Philosophy and Educational Policy


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This book is designed to provide an up-to-date introduction to the Philosophy of Education. It addresses many of the traditional topics in the field, as well as more modern policy issues in education.