Soft Hearts and Hard Times

Soft Hearts and Hard Times
Author: Thomas Mcloughlin
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2002-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0595211801

Soft Hearts and Hard Times is the true story of a little boy who's age of awareness coincided with beginning of the Great Depression. It tells the story of how he and his family endured; and how the dismal events of the day affected them. It demonstrates how, even in the worst of times, there is still time for a boyish pleasure or two.

Hardness of Heart

Hardness of Heart
Author: Andrew Wommack
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1680314033

The Crisis: People who are in rebellion are not the only ones with hard hearts. The dictionary defines hard when it applies to matters of the heart as being "cold; insensitive; callous; unfeeling; unyielding." This malady has stricken every Christian in some area of their life. This is what keeps us from hearing the voice of the Lord and being led by Him in our everyday lives. The Cause: The condition of our heart is determined by what we focus our attention on. It doesn't matter what we know, it's what we think on that controls whether our hearts is hard or soft (Proverbs 23:7). Once this is understood, this same law that will sensitize us towards God can be used to harden us towards the devil. The Cure: The Cure for a hardened heart is a total commitment to keep our minds stayed on the Lord. This teaching will give you one of the clearest understandings of the relationship between faith and unbelief that you have ever had.

Hard Times

Hard Times
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 461
Release: 1996-03-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1770483969

Despite the title, Dickens’s portrayal of early industrial society here is less relentlessly grim than that in novels by contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell or Charles Kingsley. Hard Times weaves the tale of Thomas Gradgrind, a hard-headed politician who raises his children Louisa and Tom without love, of Sissy the circus girl with love to spare who is deserted and adopted into their family, and of the honest mill worker Stephen Blackpool and the bombastic mill owner Josiah Bounderby. The key contrasts created are finally less those between wealth and poverty, or capitalists and workers, than those between the head and the heart, between “Fact”—the cold, rationalistic approach to life that Dickens associates with utilitarianism—and “Fancy”—a warmth of the imagination and of the feelings, which values individuals above ideas. Concentrated and compressed in its narrative form, Hard Times is at once a fable, a novel of ideas, and a social novel that seeks to engage directly and analytically with political issues. The central conflicts raised in the text, between government’s duty not to intervene to guarantee the liberty of the subject, and between quantitative and qualitative assessments of progress, remain unresolved today in the late or post industrial stages of liberal democracies.

The Great Depression in Literature for Youth

The Great Depression in Literature for Youth
Author: Rebecca L. Berg
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780810850934

No area of the United States was untouched by the Great Depression, but the severity in which people experienced those significant years depended in large part on where in the nation they lived. While dust choked the life out of Americans in the plains, apples grew in abundance in the Northwest. Unemployment-driven poverty robbed urban dwellers of hearth and home, while Upper-plains farm women traded eggs and chickens like money. This bibliography describes the youth literature and relevant resources written about the Great Depression, all categorized by geographical location. Students, educators, historians, and writers can use this book to find literature specific to their state or region, gaining a greater understanding of what the Great Depression was like in their locale. The Great Depression was a pivotal period in our nation's history. This annotated bibliography guides readers to biographies; oral histories, memoirs, and recollections; photograph collections; fiction and nonfiction books; picture books; international resources; and other reference sources. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) state guides are included, as well as literature about the federal theater, arts, and music projects. A comprehensive listing of museums and state historical societies complement this reference. For readers interested in learning about the Great Depression, this is a must-have resource.

Hard Heads, Soft Hearts

Hard Heads, Soft Hearts
Author: Alan S Blinder
Publisher: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1987-01-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Readers of Alan Blinder's regular Business Week column appreciate his concise, thought-provoking opinions and his eloquent prose. In Hard Heads, Soft Hearts he brings to life the inner workings of America's economy and in so doing explains what's wrong and how to fix it.

Hard Times (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

Hard Times (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2016-08-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 039328817X

“An excellent collection of critical and social commentary that will help to make Dickens’ image of Victorian England meaningful to all students.” —John Howard Wilson, Dakota Wesleyan University This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Sylvere Monod’s superbly edited text, based on the 1854 edition and accompanied by Fred Kaplan’s expanded annotations. - Fourteen illustrations from 1854 to circa 1890. - Contextual pieces by social critics and theorists of Dickens’ time that give readers outstanding examples of views on industrialism, education, and utilitarianism in the nineteenth century. - Eight new critical essays by Paulette Kidder, David M. Levy, Christopher Barnes, Theodore Dalrymple, Christina Lupton, Efraim Sicher, Nils Clausson, and Kent Greenfield and John E. Nilsson. - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

Soft Hearts

Soft Hearts
Author: Eric Lodin
Publisher: Eric Lodin
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2021-05-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781736576403

A mystery novel starring amateur sleuth Rett Swinson, who investigates the stabbing death of her neighbor, Wanda Hightower, on Halloween.

Soft Skills for Hard Times

Soft Skills for Hard Times
Author: Ivory Dorsey
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2004-07-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1462800033

Soft Skills for Hard Times is a hand book for the over achiever. It is written for people who understand that when competence is present, it is only the ticket to the game; it does not make one a player. It is a book for those who would invest resources in getting good and no time in getting chosen. It is a book for the potential high performer who constantly wonders why since they are so smartwhy is it that the seemingly average performer keeps getting ahead. These are hard timeswe need skills to navigate the course.

Hard times

Hard times
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1911
Genre: English literature
ISBN:

NIrV, Adventure Bible for Early Readers

NIrV, Adventure Bible for Early Readers
Author: Lawrence O. Richards
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Total Pages: 3401
Release: 2012-10-23
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0310729122

Ready for Adventure? Embark on a fun, exciting journey through God’s Word with the NIrV Adventure Bible for Early Readers. Along the way you’ll meet all types of people, see all sorts of places, and learn all kinds of things about the Bible. Features include: “Life in Bible Times” Articles and illustrations describe what life was like in ancient days; “People in Bible Times” offer close-up looks at amazing people of the Bible; “Did You Know?” provides interesting facts that help you better understand God’s Word; “Let’s Live It!” include hands-on activities to help you apply biblical truths to your life; “Words to Treasure” highlight great verses to memorize; a dictionary/concordance for those tricky words; book introductions for basic facts about each book of the Bible (who wrote it, where it took place, and why it was written); 20 color pages with games, a scavenger hunt, and other Bible fun, with a jungle safari theme; and 8 pages of color maps.