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OCLC. 47352453. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos, [1] the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California.
The use of Facebook can have negative psychological and physiological effects [8] that include feelings of sexual jealousy, [9] [10] stress, [11] [12] lack of attention, [13] and social media addiction that in some cases is comparable to drug addiction. [14] [15] Facebook's operations have also received coverage.
A Bad Case of Stripes is a children's book written and illustrated by David Shannon published in 1998 by Blue Sky Press, a division of Scholastic Press. A Bad Case of Stripes highlights the theme of being true to oneself, and is commonly used by educators to teach young students important values. Amongst some negative responses, this children ...
ISBN. 0-689-30072-7. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a 1972 ALA Notable Children's Book written by Judith Viorst and illustrated by Ray Cruz. [1] [2] It has also won a George G. Stone Center Recognition of Merit, a Georgia Children's Book Award, and is a Reading Rainbow book.
The Boys in the Boat is a true story based on the struggles and sacrifices made by the University of Washington rowing team to compete at rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's eight. [1] Joseph Sutton-Holcomb from The Seattle Times writes that Brown got the idea to write this book when his neighbor Judy Willman said that her father, Joe ...
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer . The book's narrator is a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell. In the story, Oskar discovers a key in a vase that belonged to his father, a year after he is killed in the September 11 attacks. The discovery inspires Oskar to search all around New York for information ...
Language. English. Budget. $25 million [1] Box office. $96 million [2] Falling Down is a 1993 American psychological thriller film [3] [4] directed by Joel Schumacher, written by Ebbe Roe Smith and released by Warner Bros. in the United States on February 26, 1993. [5] The film stars Michael Douglas as William Foster, a divorced and unemployed ...
Go the Fuck to Sleep is a satirical book written by American author Adam Mansbach and illustrated by Ricardo Cortés.Described as a "children's book for adults", it reached No. 1 on Amazon.com's bestseller list a month before its release, thanks to an unintended viral marketing campaign during which booksellers forwarded PDF copies of the book by e-mail.