Word: self-help
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...they had read more carefully, it might also have taught them to think for themselves. For this is not a self-help or self-hate book; it is a plea for common survival. It posed Rodney King's plea more subtly but no less potently: Can we all get along...
...fact, Carpenter, a Social Studies concentrator, is writing his thesis on Kenya-specially, the development of the self-help movement in Kenya from the grassroots level. Carpenter rapidly flips through photographs of his trip to Kenya, tellig me the names of people he met, chuckling at intervals in front memory. The more we talk, it becomes pretty clear that Carpenter has a natural affinity for people; he is definitely a people-person...
...most perverse part of his speech was his claim that African-Americans needed an honest assessment of their capabilities from white Americans. It was baffling to hear an advocate of self-help doctrine offer a paternalistic relationship with whites as a crucial variable in development. Moreover, how can whites who are plagued by latent guilt break that cycle and offer African-Americans and honest assessment of their capabilities? Furthermore, the history of race relations in American society demonstrates how whites, when given the chance to assess the collective capabilities of this group, have rarely provided "an honest account." The most...
...problem for some of his adherents, who hear in his speeches black self-love and self-help and who see the Nation of Islam as a force against crime and drugs, bringing order and discipline to neighborhoods with almost none -- yet who know that many of their associates hear only hatred in his preachments...
...Coop: No romance department here. But to cash in on the upcoming holiday, a special Valentine's table has been set up by the door. A variety of rather interesting titles vaguely relating to love adorn the display. Perhaps more appropriate for the self-help section, one book entitled How to Attract Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere advocates that singles should flirt using the "repeat, rephrase, reflect" method of conversation to attract maximum partners...