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The Commission on Growth and Development was established in April 2006, partly in response to two observations.We felt that the benefits of growth were not fully appreciated, but we also recognized that the causes of growth were not fully understood.Growth is often overlooked and underrated as an instrument for tackling the worlds most pressing problems, such as poverty, illiteracy, income inequality, unemployment, and pollution.

The story focus on how Luther and Nora Krank try to avoid the frenzy traditionally experienced during the Christmas holiday. On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, the two bring their daughter Blair to the airport, where she departs for a year-long assignment in a remote area of Peru with the Peace Corps. Nora bemoans the fact the upcoming Christmas will be their first time they are separated as a family, prompting her husband to calculate how much they spent celebrating the holidays the prior year. When he realizes they have little to show for the $6,100 they invested in decorations, gifts, and entertaining, he decides to skip all the hubbub at home and surprise Nora by booking a ten-day Caribbean Cruise aboard the Island Princess

Jackie Robinson takes on many obstacles including poverty and racism in his journey to become a professional baseball player. "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." This quote by Jackie Robinson provides a summary of his life. He had to face and overcome so many obstacles in order to stand on the field and play baseball with men who had little knoweldge of what he had been through, just what color his skin was. My favorite part of the book is at the beginning when his early life is being described. He is forced to stay in the sandbox so that his mother can work and his sister can attend school. The teacher is not so crazy about the idea at first, but gives in when Ms. Robinson explains her situation to him. It reminds me that there are often more to situations that we see at first glance.

The history of black education in America. From Colonial times to the grund-breaking case of Brown v. the Board of Education and up to the present, Jim Haskins describes the shocking history of black education. He asserts that the future will determine how to deal with America

It is about Jasper Jhonatan Pierce,a pilgrim boy. All material are in real biography.

In 1871 Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss

In this latest addition to the Dear America series, Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author Joyce Hansen presents the inspiring story of Patsy, a freed girl who becomes a great teacher.

Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.

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