Handling Critical Moments with Grace

Handling Critical Moments with Grace PDF

Author: Toni Lynn Chinoy

Publisher: Catapult Press Incorporated

Published: 2006-12

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1929910126

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"Toni Lynn Chinoy offers a compelling rationale for learning to identify and practice Grace on those every day annoyances which derail appropriate responses. First, by helping the audience to understand that their emotional reactions to specific kinds of situations are clues to larger issues, she creates an argument for attacking those responses as critical to the individual's and the organzation's mission and vision. She then builds an understanding of the componets of graceful responses to those emotional distractions, along with a five step decision making process which is executed with, or without, the knowing control of the individual. Her contention is that the individual and the organization benefits by making that process conscious as opposed to simply reacting." [from http://www.harlanevans.com].

Moment of Grace

Moment of Grace PDF

Author: Michael Johns

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0520243307

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"An exceptionally wide-ranging and balanced examination of American culture in the 1950s. Johns spans the cultural horizon from food and clothing to music, literature, art, architecture and politics. In highly readable prose, he transmits his enthusiasm for the subject and conveys the sights, sounds, and smells of ordinary everyday life in America a generation ago. His book will be important to anyone seriously studying this crucial and largely misunderstood period in American life."—Alan Ehrenhalt, author of The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of Community in America."

Counting on Grace

Counting on Grace PDF

Author: Elizabeth Winthrop

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 2008-12-18

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0307518221

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1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she’s left handed and doffing is a right-handed job. Grace’s every mistake costs her mother, and the family. She only feels capable on Sundays, when she and Arthur receive special lessons from their teacher. Together they write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in Pownal. A few weeks later a man with a camera shows up. It is the famous reformer Lewis Hine, undercover, collecting evidence for the Child Labor Board. Grace’s brief acquaintance with Hine and the photos he takes of her are a gift that changes her sense of herself, her future, and her family’s future.