Nikkah contacted over five thousand schools across the country looking for the voices of America's boys. What are their goals, their fears, their hopes, their dreams? What are their lives really like as they stand on the verge of manhood? Our Boys Speak takes the best of hundreds of entries from boys aged twelve to eighteen from varied racial, economic, religious, and regional backgrounds. The essays, poems, diary entries, and stories cover topics ranging from sex and dating, sports, religion, depression, and violence to video games, family, and just about everything in between. Providing perspective and commentary on these writings is John Nikkah, a clinician, therapist, and young man who comes to new understandings about his own teenage years through the raw statements he encounters. This is a book for parents, for teens, for educators, and for the heart.
Our Boys Speak is the voices of our sons, our brothers, our friends, our neighbors, our families, ourselves. Sometimes painful, sometimes joyful, Our Boys Speak is most of all candid and real.
Acknowledgments.....................................................ix Introduction: At War with Ourselves.................................xi Part I: Our Inner Circle 1. In You We Trust..............................................8 2. Sharing a Room..............................................30 3. To Friendship...............................................39 4. First Love..................................................70 Part II: Our World 5. School Ties.................................................87 6. Toy Soldiers................................................97 7. Free to Be.................................................111 8. Escaping into Oblivion.....................................125 9. Outside Looking In.........................................143 Part III: Our Selves 10. Playing to Win............................................167 11. Gone Too Soon.............................................187 12. Song of Sorrow............................................195 13. Between Worlds............................................205 Epilogue............................... ... read full excerpt from Our Boys Speak ebook
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You'll need a Palm OS or PocketPC/Windows CE Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or a Windows or Macintosh desktop (or laptop) PC.
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The Palm Reader can read doc files. A doc file is a type of PDA file that ends in either .pdb or .prc. These text files have been specifically packaged for use on a PDA. Doc format is pretty much a standard for PDA documents, and the latest version of the Palm Reader can view them.
Yes, the Palm Reader is compatible with the following PocketPCs: Hewlett-Packard Jornada420, 430, 430se, 540, 545, 547, 548, 680, 690, 720, and 820 CompaqiPAQ H3600 series, iPAQ H3100 series and Aero 1500 series CasioCassiopeia E115, E-125 and EM-500 series.
Yes, the Palm Reader is compatible with the following PocketPCs:
