Derek Peterson

A common misconception about vaping is that it's just water vapor. Go ahead and try it. There's nothing to worry about. But there's much more to the vaping scene, and most kids and adults don't fully understand the harmful effect vaping has on the body. In Think You're Cuul?, authors associated with Soter Technologies examine the research and discuss what a vape and e-cigarettes are. This book offers a collection of short stories about kids who don't think vaping is harmful. It talks about a variety of people and the reasons individuals may choose to start vaping, why they continue to vape and the effects of their decisions. Each story gives a new perspective about what it's really like to face the perils of vaping. From popcorn lung to fourth graders JUULing, these examples expose the dangers of this practice. Through stories and discussion questions, Think You're Cuul? demonstrates what vaping is doing to your body, your relationships, and your future. It shows you have a choice, and you have a voice.

The Full-Spectrum Approach to What Kids Need The full-spectrum approach will help you see yourself in full color instead of just black and white, good or bad, or any other isolating labels that are too commonly used in schools and communities.There are seven colors in the visible light spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. In our full-spectrum approach, we use these colors to represent the elements needed to ensure that you have and grow a rich developmental ecology. Your developmental ecology is dynamic and is what will launch you into your adult life's happiness and success. Each color's focus has been validated by the best youth-development research being done in the world today.With this handbook, you'll be able to get what you need to thrive and go for your dreams. The web of support that you create for yourself offers a full-spectrum view of you and the world around you.

The essays collected in African Print Cultures claim African newspapers as subjects of historical and literary study. Newspapers were not only vehicles for anticolonial nationalism. They were also incubators of literary experimentation and networks by which new solidarities came into being. By focusing on the creative work that African editors and contributors did, this volume brings an infrastructure of African public culture into view. The first of four thematic sections, “African Newspaper Networks,” considers the work that newspaper editors did to relate events within their locality to happenings in far-off places. This work of correlation and juxtaposition made it possible for distant people to see themselves as fellow travellers. “Experiments with Genre” explores how newspapers nurtured the development of new literary genres, such as poetry, realist fiction, photoplays, and travel writing in African languages and in English. “Newspapers and Their Publics” looks at the ways in which African newspapers fostered the creation of new kinds of communities and served as networks for public interaction, political and otherwise. The final section, “Afterlives, ” is about the longue durée of history that newspapers helped to structure, and how, throughout the twentieth century, print allowed contributors to view their writing as material meant for posterity.

The essays collected in African Print Cultures claim African newspapers as subjects of historical and literary study. Newspapers were not only vehicles for anticolonial nationalism. They were also incubators of literary experimentation and networks by which new solidarities came into being. By focusing on the creative work that African editors and contributors did, this volume brings an infrastructure of African public culture into view. The first of four thematic sections, “African Newspaper Networks,” considers the work that newspaper editors did to relate events within their locality to happenings in far-off places. This work of correlation and juxtaposition made it possible for distant people to see themselves as fellow travellers. “Experiments with Genre” explores how newspapers nurtured the development of new literary genres, such as poetry, realist fiction, photoplays, and travel writing in African languages and in English. “Newspapers and Their Publics” looks at the ways in which African newspapers fostered the creation of new kinds of communities and served as networks for public interaction, political and otherwise. The final section, “Afterlives, ” is about the longue durée of history that newspapers helped to structure, and how, throughout the twentieth century, print allowed contributors to view their writing as material meant for posterity.

Based on the Gikuyu-language pamphlet literature of the 1940s, the family history of the writer Henry Muoria, and a daughter's memory, this book illuminates the political challenges faced by Kenya's first nationalists and the domestic sacrifices that politics demanded