Author: Steve Swanbeck
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738510125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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The Seeing Eye traces its origin to the trenches and battlefields of World War I, where legions of soldiers were blinded during years of brutal engagements. After the war, Germany trained dogs to guide its blinded veterans. In the late 1920s, a small group of innovators took it upon themselves to teach blind and visually impaired people in North America to use dog guides. The Seeing Eye has since helped thousands to achieve greater independence, dignity, and self-confidence, using specially trained Seeing Eye dogs as their companions.Using rare photographs and documents, The Seeing Eye details this remarkable organization and its pioneers, including German shepherd breeder and Seeing Eye founder Dorothy Harrison Eustis; Morris Frank, the first visually impaired American to learn to use a Seeing Eye dog; and Frank's own dog, Buddy. The story follows the first students as they navigate the busy streets of Nashville, Tennessee, in 1929, and Morris County, New Jersey, where the fledgling organization moved in 1931 and where it continues to operate today. The Seeing Eye documents the campuses and the students, as well as the faithful dogs, their care, and their training. The reader will meet the dedicated employees and volunteers who have made the organization possible, as well as the graduates who have gone on to lead successful and fulfilling lives.
Author: Becky Hall
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807552860
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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2008 Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College Morris Frank lost his sight in 1924, when he was only sixteen. One day, Morris's dad read him an article about an American dog trainer living in Switzerland. This is the story of his relationship with Buddy, his own seeing eye dog.
Author: James Edward Duncan Adams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Bob The Seeing Eye Frog is a funny, rhyming picture book about some animals becoming good friends by getting along well together and by genuinely helping each other to live in the Understory of the forest. Ned the Dog can't see well. Before his good friend Bob the seeing eye Frog came along, Ned the Dog kept swatting at Flies inside his eyeglasses. Then they would fall off of his face, and he would tumble. His life was actually kind of hard. No one could help him. Then, along came Bob. Now you know that any Frog could find plenty of Flies to eat without riding on a Dog's head. So why would he want to help a Dog?...Maybe because he wanted a friend? To have friends you must be a friend. Life is exactly like that isn't it? Think of your best friends. You enjoy doing the same things, so naturally you frequently do them together...and that is how you meet other good friends. Much more than just sharing common interests...a true friend wants you to enjoy your life, and they will try to do things to help make that happen. Be a friend...help someone today...even if they look different than you. Everybody needs friends. Somewhere, someone needs you.
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345328663
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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C.S. Lewis presents an eloquent and colorful defense of Christianity for both devotees and critics . . . in a collection of essays composed over the last twenty years of his life. * On Christianity and culture * On religion -- is it reality or substitute? * On ethics * On the Psalms * On the language of religion * On petitionary prayer * And more! "An excellent introduction to the thought and personality of this engaging Christian writer." -- Christianity Today
Author: Eva Moore
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590265850
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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True account of the training and early work experiences of the German shepherd which became the first seeing eye dog in America.
Author: Miriam Ascarelli
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1557535639
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Mention the words ?Seeing Eye,” and most people will associate them with guide dogs for the blind and partially sighted. Mention the name ?Dorothy Harrison Eustis,” and most people will not recognize it, even though she is the woman responsible for founding The Seeing Eye, the first guide dog school in the United States. Since its inception eighty years ago, The Seeing Eye has trained thousands of people who are visually impaired to use guide dogs. The success of the program has spawned guide dog schools across the country and around the world, and the concept has been further expanded to include service dogs for people with other kinds of disabilities. Drawing on correspondence, private papers, and newspaper accounts of the day, Miriam Ascarelli chronicles the life of Dorothy Harrison Eustis revealing both a driven woman and a very private person who shunned media coverage of herself but actively courted it for her organization.
Author: Will V. Ford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781874514077
Category : Spiritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Author: Rob Thurman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451652232
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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A suspenseful supernatural thriller following a man with psychic abilities from the New York Times bestselling author of the Cal Leandros novels. Jackson Lee’s life was forever changed when he discovered his sister’s small pink shoe in the grass and instantly realized his sister was dead. Her tragic death triggered an even more horrific family massacre that threw Jack’s life into a tailspin. The years quickly take him from state homes to the streets to grifting in a seedy carnival, until he finally becomes a cynical psychic. At last, Jackson has left his troubled past behind him and found a semblance of peace. That is, until the government blackmails him. Helping the military contain the aftermath of a bizarre experiment gone violently wrong, everything Jackson knows about himself will change just as suddenly as it did with his little sister’s shoe. And while change is constant...it’s never for the better.
Author: Walter L. Brenneman
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Establishing a link between phenomenology and hermeneutics as seen by philosophers (notably Heidegger and Husserl) and as applied by students of religion (notably Eliade and van der Leeuw) is the pioneering aim of this book. No existing book ties together the cross-disciplinary strands in a way that is useful for religious studies. A phenomenological and therefore hermeneutical approach to religion "prides itself on being aware of its own presuppositions and those of others that are brought to bear on data to be interpreted." Thus it "seeks to gain an access to the religious worlds of other peoples in as pure a form as possible." Phenomenological hermeneutics differs from the traditional comparative study of religion in an important way: the new method attempts an empathic understanding of religious experiences before making any comparisons or drawing any inferences. Part I shows how the phenomenological approach must arise from a "crisis of doubt within the prevailing tradition." It goes on to compare this approach to the mystics' understanding of the "scope and limitations of rational consciousness," contrasting it with the nominalists' dichotomy between faith and reason. Part II starts with Eliade's "creative hermeneutics," which holds that an object or an act becomes real only insofar as it imitates or repeats an archetype, particularly the archetype of the sacred. It goes on to develop Cassirer's point that "myth is a particular way of seeing." Part Ill starts by showing how art, like religion, is an "imitation of an archetype." It goes on to apply hermeneutical phenomenology to the interpretation of ritual. "Ritual gesture," Chapter 6 argues, "thematizes the world," establishing a mystical symbolic relationship between body and world, the seen and the unseen. Part Ill continues with a critique of the writings of Carlos Castaneda, arguing that these contain "the symbolic elements of both archaic shamanism and classical mysticism." The final chapter treats the "three-tiered cosmos" that is universal in folklore: the tier of family-home-land-artifacts, the tier of clan-tribe-nation, and the tier of weather-seasons-natural forces, Each tier has its loric power, and these powers are united by shamans and mystics in one sacred "kingdom of power."
Author: Spenser, Robert Keith
Publisher: Hawthorne, Cal. : Christian Book club of America
ISBN:
Category : Eye
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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