... (1884), is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and getting married in Southern California, suffering racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in the Christian Union on a weekly basis, the novel became immensely popular. Overall, it has had more than 300 printings, been made into four film versions, and has been per...

...into the hard facts of life. Her school nativity play turns out to be a pretty ugly affair. It opens up the cracks in the social divides, religious discrimination and dark family secrets. Told with wry humour and compassion for the pain of children, unseen by adults, a complex web of history unfolds underneath the rivalries and small disasters of Nyla's school play in w...

.... A consolation prize, appearing in only one scene. Why? The answer was a lot more complex than I knew. In fact I had fallen afoul of religious discrimination. It was a late aftertaste of the persecution that had made my ancestors walk all the way across Europe in search of a sanctuary. And although I was only nine years old, my life was inextricably entangled in his...

... aunt had insisted he shorten his name so as not to be discriminated against. Discrimination was something Michael didn't understand; but as he secr...

...Mr. Norris, for example, never figured to himself a great wave of critical discrimination sweeping through the ranks of the various provision trades a... ...nd driven men glorify “push” and impatience, and despise fin- ish and fine discriminations as weak and demoralising things. These three, the Serf, the...

...rather rude. “Exactly,” said Sir James. “But you seem to have the power of discrimination.” “On the contrary, I am often unable to decide. But that is... ...with Lindley Murray and Mangnall’s Questions was something like a draper’s discrimination of calico trademarks, or a courier’s acquaintance with forei... ... apart on their stations up the moun- tain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below. And Dorothea was not at ... ...ed to the full the clergyman’s privilege of dis- regarding the Middlemarch discrimination of ranks, and al- ways told his mother that Mrs. Garth was m... ... was something distinct from his own rectitude of con- duct: it enforced a discrimination of God’s enemies, who were to be used merely as instruments,...

...rather rude. “Exactly,” said Sir James. “But you seem to have the power of discrimination.” “On the contrary, I am often unable to decide. But that is... ...with Lindley Murray and Mangnall’s Questions was something like a draper’s discrimination of calico trademarks, or a courier’s acquaintance with forei... ...ed apart on their stations up the mountain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below. And Dorothea was not at ... ...ed to the full the clergyman’s privilege of disregarding the Mid dlemarch discrimination of ranks, and always told his mother that Mrs. Garth was mor... ...se was something distinct from his own rectitude of conduct: it enforced a discrimination of God’s enemies, who were to be used merely as instruments,...

...ng Techniques .............................................................................................. 86 1—Show your children how to overcome discrimination. .............................. 86 2—Set a culture of thriftiness-by-example. ..................................................... 87 3—Define education as their primary goal. ..................................