Nine Years Under


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A dazzling and darkly comic memoir about coming of age in a black funeral home in Baltimore Sheri Booker was only fifteen when she started working at Wylie Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no idea her summer job would become nine years of immersion into a hidden world. Reeling from the death of her beloved great aunt, Sheri found comfort in the funeral home and soon had the run of the place. With AIDS and gang violence threatening to wipe out a generation of black men, Wylie was never short on business. As families came together to bury one of their own, Booker was privy to their most intimate moments of grief and despair. But along with the sadness, Booker encountered moments of dark humor: brawls between mistresses and widows, and car crashes at McDonald’s with dead bodies in tow. While she never got over her terror of the embalming room, Booker learned to expect the unexpected and to never, ever cry. Nine Years Under offers readers an unbelievable glimpse into an industry in the backdrop of all our lives.










Nine Years Old


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In 1972, Dr Margaret Pollak published her book Today's Three-Year Oids in London. This was a sensitive study of family life and the social environment of a large number of London children, together with an account of their developmental assessment by various test methods. She showed that variations of developmental performances were more closely related to the quality of family life than to social and economic factors. Dr Pollak has now re-investigated the same children at nine years of age and this book is a record of her findings. The differences in development which were noted at three years of age remain in the older children. Those children who, at three years of age, were underachievers, particularly in verbal and adaptive abilities, are the children who, at nine years, can still be identified by lower achieve ment at school. These results must be of important relevance to educationalists, and all concerned with the psychologists as well as to paediatricians welfare of children. We must all be disturbed by the failure of any children in our urban city centres to benefit from education and our anxieties must be heightened if, amongst the underachievers, there are particular groups who can be identified by their ethnic identities. In Britain, education in school occupies a relatively small part of a child's life. Dr Pollak has identified some of the factors in a child's wider experience and, especially, in the total home environment which are associated with the persistence of inferior performance.




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Your Nine Year Old


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What happened to that sunny outgoing child of eight? As parents of nine-year-olds often discover, nine is a tricky age. Children are more distant from Mother and Father; they're more independant and rely on friends for companionship, or they have a tendency to spend time alone. Some nines are boisterous and wild, others thoughtful and withdrawn. Helping parents learn how to cope with the unpredictable nine-year-old is the aim of this practical guide from the Gesell Institute. Nine-year-olds are hovering on the brink of adolescence, and this in part contributes to their up-and-down nature. Dr. Louis Bates Ames and Carol Chase Haber paint a vivid picture of the child at this age and offer useful advice to make life easier for parents and children alike.




Nine Years in America


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The Management Opened Junior High School During The Nine Years Compulsory Programe


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This research applies qualitative research approach with the design of multy-sites research and applies the technique of data. Assembly through deep interview, observation and document. To coincide with the research goal, the research focus is as follow: (a) The school plan in running open Junior High School during the nine years compulsory education programme. (b) The organizing of executing open Junior High School during the nine years compulsory education programme. (c) The development of the executor source in running of open Junior High School during the nine years compulsory education programme. (d) The management audit system of open Junior High School during the nine years compulsory education programme. Result of the research is as follows: First, the staff management plan should have done as the design management school. It is necessary to support the system of development and placement for the good and exact teachers and tutors. Second, The available organization basically has run well and has functioned yet as it is required, yet the ordering better system and working procedure are still needed so the coordination between the principal and the teacher/tutor internally and externally can be improved. The principal has to arrange the form/executing operational standard of each school to eliminate fragmentation. Third, The development of the available source needs better planning usage and improvement to support the execution more effective and efficient management. Fourth, Management audit system Improvement of the teacher/tutor competence and quality in every school. In his case, every principal has to improve the message quality that is addressed to the teacher/tutor through the comprehension of "what, why, when, where and how" about the management on the teacher/tutor competence improment so it will be more obvious.







Nine Years in Nipon


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A Scottish doctor and fingerprinting pioneer's 1885 account of his time in Japan working as a surgeon and missionary.