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...My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lovely poems that may be unfamiliar. Most of the poems in this collection are short enough for children to memorize....

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...a program for population control. It began with allowing every couple two children. If they chose to have other children the parents, not the state, ... ...state, were responsible for paying the education bills for the additional children. The state laid down an additional detriment to additional childr... ...n additional detriment to additional children. If the parents had a third child, the state would not lend them money for a home. These rules kept mo... ... tier of the economic echelons. Sociologists tell us that it takes 2.2 children per family to keep the population stable. By limiting families to... ...er family to keep the population stable. By limiting families to only two children a society might insure itself of a declining population. In Singa... ... a number of years that the educated classes of most societies have fewer children. It seems that for a many people the joys and challenges of busin... ...nthood hides within most of our breasts, the economic advantages of having children have disappeared and the realities of the true costs of a child p... ...ll intelligent parents. Before I became a solar-naut the cost of having a child for a middle class couple in my country was more than $100,000 to ge... ...for a middle class couple in my country was more than $100,000 to get the child to college age. When considering the costs of food and lodging, clo...

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...un. Like the other hunters, TripStone had read modern Yata since she was a child. My name is Ulik. My village is Basc, in the valley of Basc-Crossr... ...ils venting placidly. 7 Elissa Malcohn Deviations: Covenant The rages of children spent themselves quickly, like embers. Their fury was of a diff... ...ts quavered in adolescent throats. Pudgy legs lengthened and sprawled. The children visited the Soala as witnesses, then, standing off to the side ... ...er smallest cuts quickly became infected and her infections spread. Masari children who refused Yata meat were sedated and nursed back to health wh... ...when Abri held it out of reach. Zai passed a handful of guts to the smaller child to quiet him down, smiling at his fascination as mucus dripped bet... ...hat one. Just an innocent boy asking an innocent question. Zai stroked her children's tiny heads, nestling her palm against their fuzzy scalps. "Be... ... weak. We became their gods on earth. How could she explain the Covenant to children so young? Without it, killing would be indiscriminate—the Masar... ... up for in location. The hunters had to walk past the villagers, past their children. Be strong, the parents would say. Without you, these creatures... ...ad they watched her, maintaining their distance, exuding an air of respect. Children whispered and pointed, asking questions and receiving hushed an...

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... court-- Which rare it is to do--most praised, most loved, A sample to the youngest, to the more mature A glass that feated them, and to the graver A child that guided dotards; to his mistress....

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...e youngest, to the more mature A glass that feated them, and to the graver A child that guided dotards; to his mistress, Cymbeline Act I, scene i 4 ... ... I honor him Even out of your report. But, pray you, tell me, Is she sole child to the king? First Gentleman: His on... ... child to the king? First Gentleman: His only child. He had two sons: if this be worth your hearing, Mark it: the elde... ...ago? First Gentleman: Some twenty years. Second Gentleman: That a king’s children should be so convey’d, So slackly guarded, and the search so slo... ...nstrument to pick that bolt, Then, free for ever! Is’t enough I am sorry? So children temporal fathers do appease; Gods are more full of mercy. Must I... ... soul, Till the tree die! CYMBELINE: How now, my flesh, my child! What, makest thou me a dullard in this act? Wilt thou not speak to... ...ness knows. Their nurse, Euriphile, Whom for the theft I wedded, stole these children Upon my banishment: I moved her to’t, Having received the punis... ...ce that you three have done is more Unlike than this thou tell’st. I lost my children: If these be they, I know not how to wish A pair of worthier son...

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...This story surrounds a child waif, a young woman, a young gentleman doctor, and an elderly lady. This tale unfolds the story of a bond that brings these unlikely friends together and merges their separate paths of life into one common path. The bon...

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...This comical children's tale about the funny adventures of a funny pig written by an unknown author. The publisher has hired authors to write children's tales, and gave them house names. The name of the author who wrote this tale is Richa...

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Adventure, Animals, Children, Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Teen/Young adult

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...Spring and Fall to a young child   Márgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Áh! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by,...

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... Shall I Do for the Land That Bred Me" "The Times Are Nightfall Look Their Light Grows Less" "Denis Whose Motionable Alert Most Vaulting Wit" "The Child Is Father to the Man" To His Watch "Strike Churl Hurl Cheerless Wind Then Heltering Hail" "To Him Who Ever Thought with Love of Me" A FEW EARLY POEMS The Alchemist in the City "Let Me Be to Thee As the Circling Bi...

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...Maihuna was the father and Malaiakalani was the mother of Kawelo, who was born in Hanamaulu,1 Kauai. There were five children in the family. The first was Kawelomahamahaia; the second was Kaweloleikoo. These two were males; after these two came Kaenakuokalani, a female; next to her was Kawelo leimakua and the last child was Kamalama. Kaw...

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... and the undivided attention of a teacher of exceptional gifts, an average child might with a peculiar sort of thumby thoroughness learn in the course... ...” said Redwood. “You might get at Winkles and give him powders to give the child—” 22 The Food of the Gods “That’s about what I shall have to do,” sa... ...ce was at the window as usual, and saw the hen that had caught the unhappy child, in violent flight up the street with its victim, closely pursued by ... ...nstant was fatal. The second pullet ran in neatly, got pos- session of the child by a well-directed peck, and went over the wall into the vicarage gar... ...he rest of those Gargantuan birds pursued the pullet, in possession of the child across the vicarage lawn. “Good heavens!” cried the Curate, or (as so... ...said Redwood, “just at present it happens—she’s terribly worried about the child. You know, he keeps on.” “Growing?” “Y es. Put on forty-one ounces in... ...” “I tried it.” “Didn’t it work?” “Howls. In the ordinary way the cry of a child is loud and distressing; it is for the good of the species that this ... ... displayed. “Practically the thing must come out. People will hear of this child, connect it up with our hens and things, and the whole thing will com... ...significant saying, “Why solitary?” “Meaning that one might bring up other children—?” “Meaning nothing beyond my inquiry.” Redwood began to walk abou...

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...indifference on the day for what the morrow will bring forth, lives like a child, whatever may be his age. He grumbles at everything, consoles himself... ...ciple, outruns his strength, yokes his wife to some machine, wears out his child, and ties him to the wheel. The manufacturer—or I know not what secon... ...s, but it steals to-morrow’s bread, the week’s soup, the wife’s dress, the child’s wretched rags. Men, born doubt- less to be beautiful—for all creatu... ...eautiful—for all creatures have a relative beauty— are enrolled from their childhood beneath the yoke of force, beneath the rule of the hammer, the ch... ...ive way. Yes, hail to that being, composed of saltpetre and gas, who makes children for France during his laborious nights, and in the day multiplies ... ...nds, from his wife and his business, the one derives—as from so many farms—children, some thousands of francs, and the most laborious happiness that h... ... happiness that has ever diverted the heart of man. This fortune and these children, or the children who sum up everything for him, become the prey of... ... of securities, holds all Paris in its hand, watches over the fantasies of children, spies out the caprices and the 9 Balzac vices of mature age, suc... ... drive in a hired carriage—a country excursion dur- ing which his wife and children glut themselves merrily with dust or bask in the sun; his dissipat...

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...rly heard the guttural voices of disputing men, and sounds of women’ s and children’ s voices rising from near the fountain below . This Hadji Mura... ... a soldier of my own free will, in- stead of my brother,” he said. “He has children. They were five in family and I had only just married. Mother bega... ...s upper lip, on which a little soft down was just appearing, pouted like a child’ s, now contracting and now expand- ing, as though he were sipping so... ...i Murad gave him smile for smile, and that smile struck Poltoratsky by its childlike kindliness. Poltoratsky had never expected to see the terrible mo... ...egantly dressed and smil- ing, and her little son, a handsome curly-headed child of six, met Hadji Murad in the drawing room. The lat- ter placed his ... ...a cuckoo. It is true that it was right— as the old man understood it—for a childless man to go in place of a family man. Akin had four children and Pe... ...k had taken down ex- actly , word for word: “One thing more, my darling child, my sweet dove, my own Peterkin! I have wept my eyes out lamenting fo... ...n action. She had come to ask for a pension, or for free education for her children. There was a ruined Georgian prince in a magnificent Georgian cost... ...bound and cannot serve him. Shamil would kill my wife and my mother and my children if I went openly against him. Let the prince first exchange my fam...

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...Katharine E. Dopp was well-known as a teacher and writer of children's textbooks at the turn of the 20th Century. She was among the first educators to encourage the incorporation of physical and practical activity into the elementary school curriculum at a time when such activities we...

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... 185 to reioyce in yours. 186 Cel. You know my Father hath no childe, but I, nor 187 none is like to haue; and truely when he dies, ... ...ut is all this for your Father? 470 Ros. No, some of it is for my childes Father: Oh 471 how full of briers is this working day world. ... ... shrunke shanke, and his bigge manly voice, 1141 Turning againe toward childish trebble pipes, 1142 And whistles in his sound. Last Scene of a... ...ll, 1143 That ends this strange euentfull historie, 1144 Is second childishnesse, and meere obliuion, 1145 Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans tas... ...nnot be vnderstood, nor 1624 a mans good wit seconded with the forward childe, vn-derstanding: 1625 it strikes a man more dead then a great re... ...ething browner then Iudasses: 1719 Marrie his kisses are Iudasses owne children. 1720 Ros. I’faith his haire is of a good colour. 1721 ... ...hakespeare: First Folio 1826 That makes the world full of ill- fauourd children: 1827 ’Tis not her glasse, but you that flatters her, 1828 ... ... make her fault her husbands occasion, let her neuer nurse 2083 her childe her selfe, for she will breed it like a foole. 2084 Orl. For...

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... for himself, and is summoned by—the parish. His goods are distrained, his children are crying with cold and hunger, and the very bed on which his sic... ...hand, and a small cane for use in his right. How pompously he marshals the children into their places! and how demurely the little urchins look at him... ... warmest in their professions, grew strangely cold and indifferent. He had children whom he loved, and a wife on whom he doted. The former turned thei... ...lf-past twelve o’clock one winter’s night, to half-baptise a washerwoman’s child in a slop- basin, and the gratitude of the parishioners knew no bound... ...f a pound of tea to a poor woman who had been brought to bed of four small children, all at once—the parish were charmed. He got up a subscription for... ...s a regular fixed day for a periodical tea-drinking with her, to which the child looks forward as the greatest treat of its existence. She seldom visi... ...fers to back himself for any amount to sing the psalms better than all the children put together, male and female; and, in short, conducts himself in ... ...t for the propa- gation of the human species. ‘Bung for Beadle. Five small children!’—’Hopkins for Beadle. Seven small chil- dren!!’—‘Timkins for Bead... ...kins for Beadle. Seven small chil- dren!!’—‘Timkins for Beadle. Nine small children!!!’ Such were the placards in large black letters on a white groun...

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... for himself, and is summoned by—the parish. His goods are distrained, his children are crying with cold and hunger, and the very bed on which his sic... ...hand, and a small cane for use in his right. How pompously he marshals the children into their places! and how demurely the little urchins look at him... ... warmest in their professions, grew strangely cold and indifferent. He had children whom he loved, and a wife on whom he doted. The former turned thei... ...lf-past twelve o’clock one winter’s night, to half-baptise a washerwoman’s child in a slop- basin, and the gratitude of the parishioners knew no bound... ...f a pound of tea to a poor woman who had been brought to bed of four small children, all at once—the parish were charmed. He got up a subscription for... ...s a regular fixed day for a periodical tea-drinking with her, to which the child looks forward as the greatest treat of its existence. She seldom visi... ...fers to back himself for any amount to sing the psalms better than all the children put together, male and female; and, in short, conducts himself in ... ...t for the propa- gation of the human species. ‘Bung for Beadle. Five small children!’—’Hopkins for Beadle. Seven small chil- dren!!’—‘Timkins for Bead... ...kins for Beadle. Seven small chil- dren!!’—‘Timkins for Beadle. Nine small children!!!’ Such were the placards in large black letters on a white groun...

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...ACY AND----WESTERN STYLE TEENAGERS-DRUGS, CLOTHES, SEX ........ 22 OUR ONE CHILD POLICY ................................................................ ... Earth but it halved its yearly population increase. Here in Kino the „one child‟ policy has been continued and modified. Kino now requires licenses... ...panding population. The nuns continually reminded us of „the poor starving children of China.‟ I also knew that 20 years before I had left on my voya... ...voyage that the country had begun a plan to limit every family to only one child. Deng Xiaoping was in charge in 1980 when the one child policy was... ...s as French perfume, designer clothes, and high tech computers. The young children of prosperous Chinese have been spoiled by the unlimited supply o... ... love input begins with choosing parents who are able to love. We continue children‘s nurturing in schools by following your American pattern of tea... ...dren‘s nurturing in schools by following your American pattern of teaching children to take turns. They must realize that each person is important a... ... And mainly how to be loving parents. We think that is the major key—loving children and educating them. We believe that if children feel good about ... ... educating them. We believe that if children feel good about themselves as children and youth they won‘t have the need to escape their reality. Then...

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.......................................... 8 THE NOT SO GOOD LIFE FOR TOO MANY CHILDREN.................................................................... ...are many questions about your strong advocacy for licensing parents to have children as the only hope for humanity.” —“When I left my beloved count... ...se of panic. And the irreverently intelligent cried for the future of their children. “The overpopulation of the earth with its attendant pro... ...n follow the lead of those few countries that have licensed parents to have children. It seems that it is a major hope to bring the world back into ... ...ope to bring the world back into ecological balance and guarantee that each child born will have every possibility to develop physically, mentally a... ...sent to another country for the surgery. THE NOT SO GOOD LIFE FOR TOO MANY CHILDREN “But the major problems I see relate to a large part of t... ...N “But the major problems I see relate to a large part of the world’s children. Perhaps I am a romantic, but when I hear of infants being rape... ...he world. By 2020 AIDS had killed over 40 million Africans. The number of children orphaned by HIV is an international tragedy. “And what... ...IV is an international tragedy. “And what of the many thousands of children, both boys and girls, who are the unwilling participants in the...

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...y. But what hope is there for these illiterate adults, what hope for their children? Do they care as much as we do whether tomorrow dawns. And will t... ...yable work, I understand that in India there are a number of people, even children, doing slave labor. Is that also true here?‖ —―If it exists... ...jobs. She got a floor to sleep on, some food and $2.25 a month.‖ —―Child slavery exists even when there are laws against it. Parents are eage... ...xists even when there are laws against it. Parents are eager to get their children into employment because it is one less mouth to feed at home and ... ...ent because it is one less mouth to feed at home and it is hoped that the child will have a better life. But selling young girls or boys into the se... ...and minor town provides a home for the sex traders. ―Cruelty to children is a universal in every land and every social class. Religious, an... ...nd poor, educated and ignorant—all succumb too often to mistreating their children. Poor or non-existent health care, child marriages, lack of effect... ...pond to antibiotics. Deaths of new-borns account for over one-third of all child mortality across the world. Infections during pregnancy, and after b... ...elieve the atrocious conditions in most of our ramshackled hospitals, for children and adults. ―The effects of social deprivation in India an...

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...lly makes them happy.‖ 15 ―The research shows that generally children make us less happy. So does losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happie... ...e played together in high school. Playing with my daughter when she was a child. Watching a Grecian or Hawaiian sunset. Watching Aida in the Roman s... ... society based values, to reduce population and to increase the odds that children will have parents capable of loving them and helping them be the b... ...s regarding socialism or free enterprise, appropriate dress, how to raise children, or what type of god to believe in. But I‘ll defend to the death ... ...s rushing to the hospital to be by his wife‘s side for the birth of their child that would be ethical for most people because his intention was nobl... ...nd what is best for my society or the world society. ―When I was a child we believed in God. God gave us the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on ... ...e one of the highest abortion rates in the world at 51 per 1,000 women of child bearing age. Why are they saying one thing while doing something dif... ...ve in a heaven, why do we cling so hard to life? Why save the AIDS doomed child for a life of poverty in rural Africa when the child would be immedi... ...ign that allows man-made pollutants to threaten human life? Does allowing children to be born to parents who will soon die, leaving them orphans in a...