Regis Schilken
Regis' novels reflect his search for meaning in a very human but frightening way. He has produced five novels, three of which have been published: THE ISLAND OFF STONY POINT, and YOU KNOW WHEN. A fourth novel, DEMONS OF JUSTICE is scheduled to publish in March of 2011.
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Review: The Night Swimmer by Matt BondurantA young couple courageously attempts to start a pub on Ireland's southwest corner but immediately finds trouble amidst locals who have no heart for newcomers.
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The Emptiness of ExistenceScience attempts to address where the universe came from but WHAT keeps it here?
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Review: The Philosopher's Kiss by Peter PrangeDuring the 18th century, a young woman helps philosopher Diderot compile and edit an Encyclopedia of all knowledge even though the Roman church condemned it. -
Book Review: A Foolish Plucking by Dee Wilbur - Reviewed by Regis SchilkenA man is convicted of killing his wife even though her body is never found -
State of the Union: Book Review by Regis SchilkenAfter a sexual digression while her doctor husband is away, a young high school teacher is forced to drive him into Canada. Years later, the digression could ruin her life. -
Being NormalEvery creature is normal if created by God! -
High School BoysOfte boys think a muscular physique is great, but it is not the end-all of existence. -
Skinny BoyLife quickly passes from boy to old man! -
Smiling FlowerA tiny crocus can welcome spring! -
The Vanishing of the Mona Lisa by Martin Caparros Reviewed by Regis SchilkenIn 1911, the famed Mona Lisa disappears from the walls of the Louvre. A stunned world finds this crime unimaginable. -
Hell's AshesWar leaves only ashes behind. -
Our DestinyThere is a crossing over between philosophy and science--a noble blend of existence. -
God's PlanThe end of life must be, whatever God has planned. -
Orchid SoulA statue carved in stone can outlast the ravages of time. -
Book Review: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael BeahA young boy attempting to escape rebel atrocities in Sierra Leone, is caught and conscripted into a National army where he learns the horrors of war. -
What Will Happen to Me by Howard Zehr and Lorraine Stutzman AmstutzWhat must the feelings be for children whose parents are incarcerated. How can we help them and insure their rights? -
WORDSFrom time immemorial, weapons have been used in national disputes. However, words are more effective and have lasting results.
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Combat BrothersCombat soldiers the world over fought the Germans to drive Hitler into Hell.
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The Brilliant FlashEvil in war time is a slap in the face of a creating God.
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Scott and Donna KrebsMy nephew Scott and his wife donna wanted to adopt. Little did they know they'd open their hearts to a family of three inseparable children!
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God and the Big BangThere is a second force to be dealt with when accepting the Big Bang theory. It is the force that keeps all existence from reverting back to the nothingness from whence it came!
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Now You See Her by Joy Fielding - a ReviewA woman traveling in Cork, Ireland sees her daughter who died two years ago in a drowning incident.
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The UmbrellaI met my love under an umbrella!
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Review: The Birdhouse by Kelly SimmonsA birdhouse can reveal much about time, people, and place!
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Vietnam II - the Right Thing to DoLike Vietnam, Afghanistan will end in a stalemate so why not bring our soldiers home, NOW?
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The Holding CellIt is important to know what happens after death for a satisfactory existence
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"Gampa's" DelightIt's a pity that Grandpa's might not live to see a granddaughter grown--leaves a deep worry in my heart!
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RhymesPerverse Rhyme
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Book Review: Red Wolf by Liza MarklundA former newspaper journalist works as an independent investigative reporter. She focuses on terrorism.
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The Year 2000I wish I could borrow some time from the lives of the many students I taught years ago.
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Invisible BeingsVirtue is an invisible being; does it, can it exist?
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Turnpike CharlieA chipmunk runs through a drainpipe while humans run through the house trying to beat his exit; no such luck!
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The Haitian Man - Heguel HOPE MesidorHeguel, a student from Haiti who lives with us, attends Duquesne University. His HOPE is to improve his thinking to help resurrect Haiti in any way he can.
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Haven and Mr. MooseMy granddaughter with the beautiful name of Haven, has a very special relationship with her grandpa, me!
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My Dissolving FriendA friend who used to be brilliant is disappearing.
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Lovely RoseLove sometimes has its thorns, but like a rose, they can be removed
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Dust BunniesAre dust bunnies really people coming or going under the bed?
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Empty HeadScience claims that matter is made up of infinitesimal particles. If this is so, what we think of as matter is mostly empty space. If that is the case, wherein lies the mind?
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The SkepticDavid Hume doubted that we could ever see the effect of a cause because the mind is incapable of seeing the link. It just assumes it is there
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The AlbumThe voices from the albums of past people echo around us. Their words of wisdom influence us until, we too, become a voice of long long ago.
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Substance of MusicThere are many definitions of music. My definition: "Any sound that pleases a being."
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Can We Know?Has man created God to give life meaning?
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Descartes' LunchDescartes finally finds a solution to connect his mind to his body!
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The Roofing TileAs one ages, it seems that time moves more quickly.
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MalaiseWinter blues can be chased away with a single thought!
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Palestine Verses IsraelThe ongoing battle between Palestine and Israel is truly a religious war!
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CertaintyRegardless of science's achievements, soul searching might be the best approach to understanding existence.
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Review: The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson by Jerome CharynJerome Charyn has penned a compelling book for a most remarkable reason. He writes his tale from within the actual mind of Dickinson herself. He paints out a realistic canvas of her character as if she were writing her own autobiography.
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Review: Original Sinners by John R. CoatesMany interpretations of the Bible, particularly Exodus, can be found in bookstores. Author John Coates explains Exodus in terms of metaphors and similes.
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Review: A Special Relationship by Douglas KennedyAfter childbirth, a woman suffers severe depression. She becomes whole again, only to learn that her "faithful" spouse has taken their son and run off with another woman.
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Wasting TimeA writer sits down at his keyboard and cannot remember why!
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A Hard ManIt is important for a man's ego to seek help for erectile dysfunction
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Love Thru TimeLove will last through death.
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The DitchI feel shamed by scenes of holocaust killings.
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Review: Soul Trapper by F.J. LennonA spirit investigator attempts to find peace between two restless spirits killed in an automobile accident and their former earthly living space.
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Soulful NessieKids believe in Santa; adults believe in Nessie!
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Emulating MasonryFree masonry is oft thought of as a secret occult group when in fact, it has a strict code of ethics.
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Fateful Love'Tis a shame lovers cannot escape their final end.
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Will the Isetta Make a Come-back?The tiny Isetta, an egg-shaped automobile with a small engine, is due to make a comeback due to fuel availability and cost.
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Review: THOSE WHO SAVE US by Jenna BlumBut what about German women who were caught up in Hitler's madness, Hitler's crazed desire for a super Aryan race, but did not believe in him or the Third Reich?
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Review: THE TARGET by Bill BowenIn Chicago's Union Station, the shock wave from a huge bomb blast slams over a young wife. Initially, her husband reaches out to her but a concussion damages her brain. The youthful woman dies.
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The Athena Project Pits the Prowess of 4 Women Against a World of Terror!Four top-notch American counter terrorists from Delta Force are called upon to locate and capture the man responsible for killing more than twenty Americans in the Italian city of Rome. Four women are chosen!
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Trolley Layout in a Glass Coffee Table-2The entire layout, only 30 inches wide and 60 inches long, I divided into four separate seasonal territories; the glass top sits only 16 inches from floor.
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Trolley Layout in a Glass Coffee Table-1While this imaginative O-gauge layout might be very small indeed, its trolley run takes it through all four seasons of one colorful year.
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The Crosley: A Truly Miniature AutomobileThe Crosley looked almost like a toy. Several husky men could pick it up and carry it.
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Book Review: Distant Hours by Kate MortonA young woman revisits Milderhurst Castle where her mother stayed during the Battle of Britain to uncover shocking events from 50 years ago.
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Is the Smart Car for You?The Smart Car has many attractive features for city driving and tests show it is relatively safe.
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Werewolves Aren't Real, Are They?It appeared that werewolves simply liked to mutilate and kill, merely for the taste of warm blood.
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Good Grief, Why Do We Die?Like a house built of cards, when a body cell collapses an organ may die which starts a chain reaction until death results.
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Women, Work and the Art of Savoir FaireA woman who has reached the pinnacle of her business career as CEO shares her ladder-of-success secrets.
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Model Railroading: Backing Beetle Animation WiringA color coded wiring diagram to follow "Model Railroad: Backing Automobile Animation" on this same site.
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Model Railroading: Backing Automobile AnimationIn this animated layout scene, a VW Beetle slowly backs out of a garage and down a driveway, then reverses itself.
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Ford's True Hardtop Convertible -- a No SellFord engineers created a mechanical marvel, a hard top convertible that automatically put the roof into the trunk; it didn't sell!
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Model Railroading: Adding a Motor and Passengers to a Plastic Trolley CarPowering up a plastic trolley car turned into more than just one project. Eventually, I built an entire coffee table to enclose its tracks.
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Frankenstein: A Monster Driven to MurderOn Halloween, there are always a variety of children wearing scary costumes: wolf man, skeletons, werewolves, Dracula and a host of others.
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1934 Desoto Airflow: What Doomed It?The 1934 Desoto Airflow was a bit too futuristic for its time, yet it had many modern automotive concepts
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"Sting" and the Circles of the Mind Dilemma"Sting" describes well the circles the mind revolves in trying to figure itself out.
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American Assassin by Vince Flynn - Brutal Retribution Against Murderous TerroristsAn American Assassin enraged by the loss of his loved one when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland enforces revenge against terrorists.
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Model Railroading: A What-On-Earth-Is-It Locomotive!Buying an old motorized Lionel unit in a hobby store sparked the building of one of a very strange locomotive.
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In TEARS of DECEIT the Media Witnesses Alleged Supernatural OccurancesAre the few tears which drop from an ancient hanging life-sized crucifix a deceit, or a demonic opportunity to make money over true Divine Intervention?
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The Mystique of Connie Donaldson's Healing TherapyIn a suburb of Pittsburgh, Connie Donaldson's unique approach to counseling and therapy has helped many people begin to heal.
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Model Railroading: Doubling a BuildingMany large prepackaged buildings can be cut in half and used as backdrops or along narrow streets.
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Rage Can Drive Demons of Justice to Exact Their Own Justice when Punishment Doesn't Fit a CrimeThe woman sheriff of a mountain town is drawn into a chilling web of deceit hunting four persons who have vanished leaving not a single trace.
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What Lurks Inside the Island Off Stony PointJesus becomes a hostage when extortionists kidnap his tabernacle and three monks during a murderous monastery melee. Will Rome pay millions in ransom?
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John Lennon, Brotherhood Without ReligionBrotherhood can come about when God is placed beyond organized religion.
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Battered Women: Do YOU KNOW when by Author Regis SchilkenWho or what is the ghostlike presence that "eliminates" the abusive spouses of several battered women?
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Thomas Aquinas, David Hume, and Pittsburgh's Transit TrainThomas Aquinas used causality to prove the existence of a Supreme Being. David Hume had a difficult time using causality to prove anything at all. Both of these philosophers still influence philosophic thought!
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Model Railroading: Computer Generated Tintype Passenger CarsMaking computerized tintype passenger cars from cardboard, wood, paper and glue, can be a rewarding project.
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Book Review: To Fetch a Thief: A Chet and Bernie Mystery by Spencer QuinnA dog and mean team barely survive with their lives, tracking the thieves of a circus elephant.
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Model Railroading: Computer Generated Passenger CarsBuilding passenger cars from computer images is not difficult. Here are step-by-step instructions.
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Fear by Stefan Zweig: Book ReviewIn Fear, a woman becomes so overwhelmed with guilt that she thinks suicide is her only option.
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Vermilion Drift by William Kent KruegerWhile solving a missing person case, a former sheriff uncovers 5 long dead skeletons and 1 recently murdered woman!
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Model Railroading: How to Make O-Gauge Ore Cars with a Camera and ComputerUsing a digital camera, a computer, and a printer, you can mass produce any number of ore cars.
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The Learning Tree by Stanley Greenspan, M.D. and Nancy Thorndike GreenspanFrom the moment of birth, it is critical that caregivers respond in a meaningful way to their newborn to provide her/him the best chance of normal development.
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Thieves of Darkness by Richard DoetschA priest and a murderous business man hunt for material and mystical treasure deep within the Himalayan Mountains.
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Dangerous Solution: A Way to Stop Suicide BombingsIn Dangerous Solution, Author Don Ruch dares to expose his solution to stop suicide bombers before they act.
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Help Slow Readers Learn Basic Vocabulary and Concepts: Activity 20 - This is the Last ActivityBANGO is really a game teachers can play with their entire class at any level. It is played like Bingo except that every student has the same BANGO card.
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Help Slow Readers Learn Basic Vocabulary and Concepts: Activity 18 - 19Both parent and teacher can create these activity sheets to help students develop good sentences from given vocabulary words.
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Help Slow Readers Learn Basic Vocabulary and Concepts: Activity 17Both parent and teacher can make the worksheet for this activity to encourage students to find the false vocabulary word and replace it with a true word.
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Philosophy: Our Brain's Unexplainable Hidden PowerSchopenhauer believed that all knowledge comes through the senses. Yet, an unexplainable power within our heads transforms sense data into such things as courage, virtue, love and compassion.
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Philosophy: Matter, Motion, is that It?The philosophy of Thomas Hobbes would seem to lead to a more perfect world. But how does one stop chaos if nations disagree on fundamental philosophical principles?
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Teachers, Exercise with Your Second Graders in ClassLike ALL other students, second graders in self-contained classrooms last just so long before they need some form of exercise to expend pent-up energy.
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Yet Another Search for the Ark of the CovenantIn 2006, A candle stolen by a Nazi in 1943 is recovered. It contains a copper map showing the location of the Ark of the Covenant. A costly expedition sets out to find it.
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How to Use Gaming to Teach Vocabulary and ConceptsStudents often tire of reading textbooks then completing suggested activities. Here are some game-like activities to help teach both vocabulary and concepts by simply using their language skills.
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Help Slow Readers Learn Basic Vocabulary and Concepts: Activity 16Both parent and/or teacher can make this fill in activity so students can find the correct logical vocabulary word to fill in the blank.
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Philosophy, Big Bang and Benedict SpinozaCan Spinoza's philosophy include the Big Bang Theory?
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Help Slow Readers Learn Basic Vocabulary and Concepts: Activity 15Both parent and teacher can create this match-up activity so students can match two parts of a sentence that contains both vocabulary words and new concepts.
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Helping Slow Readers Learn Vocabulary and Concepts: Activity 14Both parents and/or teachers can use this activity to teach how to recognize a meaningful concept by finding the beginning and ending of a sentence.
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Helping Slow Readers Learn Vocabulary and Concepts: Activity 13Parents and teachers can use this activity to teach children how locate answer words by comparing two sentences and then inferring the answer to a third sentence.
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Help Slow Readers Learn Vocabulary and Concepts: Activity 12This activity will help a child put broken word parts together to form words that make a sentence.
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Help Slow Readers Learn Vocabulary and Concepts: Activity 11This reading activity will encourage a child to look at a line of letters and pick out known words that form a sentence from their story.
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How to Build and Wire a Two Light Signal Through a RelayThis 2-light signal which turns from red to green is much like the real thing.
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Why Are We Here and Where Are We Going?Born-Again Deism is a book for everyone. It will make you think. It will make you question the dogma of your current religion. It will make you whole again by reuniting your faith with a Loving Creator.
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Help Slow Readers Learn Vocabulary and Concepts: Activity 10This activity will help a child find an unreasonable word within a sentence after reading a story from her/his book, or a tale the teacher or parent created.
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Why is President Obama a Christian?By choosing to be a Christian, Obama has chosen an organized religion that believes in God killing.
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How to Make a Special Track to Connect a Working Signal to Your Present LayoutHere is a simple way to connect train signals or other operating equipment to your layout without removing any track.
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How to Build Super-Sized Signals for Your LayoutOn a large layout where there are hidden tracks, large oversized signals can prevent collisions; they add a definite railroad mystique to viewers and lots of fun for the railroad operator.
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Help Slow Readers Learn Vocabulary and Concepts: Activity 9This activity will seem like more of a game or puzzle to students.
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The Whisperers by John Connolly: A ReviewA private eye seeks the reason why so many returning GIs from the same unit eventually commit suicide.
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Gays Must Ignore Their Bibles!The Bible is valid and truthful but is it reasonable toward Gay men?
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How to Become a Normal GayYou become a normal gay by getting up each morning and going about your day as any other person would.
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Help Slow Readers Learn Basic Vocabulary and Concepts: Activities 7 and 8These activities will reinforce a child's vocabulary while they will also give a caregiver or teacher the chance to build basic key concepts.
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Rege's Model Trains and Ideas: How to Power-Up Old Lionel 027 TurnoutsMany times when I am in a hobby store, I see prices for vintage Lionel model train equipment at a very cheap price. I purchased the right and left turnouts for this article for under $30.
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Help Slow Readers Learn Basic Vocabulary and Concepts: Activity 6This activity, readily created on any word processor by a teacher or parent, will help a child distinguish her/his vocabulary words from a nonsense line of words, while reinforcing meaning.
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Rege's Model Trains and Layout Ideas : How to Suspend a LayoutI have always liked to play with model trains. In my basement gameroom, trains run all the way around the perimeter of the room about 8.5 inches from the ceiling.
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Help Slow Readers Learn Vocabulary and Concepts: Activity 2This activity can easily be created on a word processor. It will force a student to examine each letter group of a new vocabulary word carefully, to distinguish it from the next word.
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Help Slow Readers Learn Basic Vocabulary and Concepts: Activity -- 5This activity will not only reinforce a child's vocabulary, it will also help build basic key concepts.
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Help Slow Readers Learn Basic Vocabulary and Concepts: Activity 4This activity will help students differentiate their newest vocabulary words from other words they already know.
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Help Slow Readers Learn Basic Vocabulary and Concepts: Activity 3This activity will unconsciously make students learn new vocabulary words by writing them out, one letter at a time, but each time adding an additional letter.
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The Year was 1953: A Black Man Shoots and Kills a White Man in Jim Crow SouthRacial prejudice in Mississippi helped create one of the largest manhunts in American history after Eddie Noel shot and killed a bar owner.
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Could You or I Have Survived the Bataan Death March?A quarter of the men who began the Bataan Death March died in agony along the way. Those who survived faced grisly daily terrors in their prison camps. Of those who tried to escape, only a few ever made it home.
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Help Slow Readers Learn Vocabulary and Concepts: Activity 1While this activity appears very simple, it forces any student to look carefully at each letter of a new vocabulary word, and at the word as a whole unit.
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Christmas Trains: Boys to MenFor many men, a train under a Christmas tree seems like a necessary "male thing" for a Christmas village. Is this pure nostalgia from boyhood?
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The Brilliant Mind of Leta Hollingworth - the Nature of the Gifted ChildGifted students sometimes develop poor attitudes toward those unable to supply them with satisfying answers to deep philosophical issues.
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The Brilliant Mind of Leta Hollingworth- the Nature of the Gifted ChildGifted children have philosophical thoughts at an early age.
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The Brilliant Mind of Leta Hollingworth - the Nature of the Gifted ChildHighly gifted children often appear unsociable to normal children who cannot keep up with their fast mental pace.
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The Brilliant Mind of Leta Hollingworth - the Nature of the Gifted ChildGifted students are bored in regular school programs
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The Brilliant Mind of Leta Hollingworth - the Nature of the Gifted ChildAlthough given little credit, Leta Hollingworth is the true founder of education for the Gifted.
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Leta Hollingworth - The Nature of the Gifted Child, The Myths of Gifted GirlsLeta exploded many of the misconceptions of gifted girls and girls in general.
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The BIG Hill!A small boy wants to get rid of a hill in his yard.
