Essays on By Heart

Bradbury is considered to be a science fiction writer that draws the future in his works. It's amazing how up-to-date is Bradbury’s distant future today. Involuntarily we think of plasma screens, stupid talk shows and soap operas, loud music in headphones, fast pace of life, high-speed vehicles, drunk teenagers, pills to fall asleep and so on. It is modern New-York, Los-Angeles, Moscow, almost the entire planet lives in this tempo. In the preface to the novel, Ray Bradbury wrote about the history of the creation of his masterpiece. In the 30s of the last century a writer was ...

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This Learning Resource has been designed for Educators in Catholic Schools in Australia that will be working with both Primary and Secondary Students. It aims to give an overview of the different aspects that have been influencing the teaching of the Catholic faith along the years, especially the last centuries previous 1980s, in particular the influence pre and pro Second Vatican Council. Religious Education teachers should find this learning resource useful to identify where they are in time, in the Church, in the world, and in particular in Australia within the Catholic Church. They will be able to understand ...

In Chapter 11 of his book Educational Administration: Leading with Heart and Mind, as the title suggests, Robert Palestini discusses the concept of “Leading With Heart.” Palestini uses a case study approach to apply this concept to merely show his readers how workplace relationships are approached by a leader. Critics may argue that Palestini does not provide details how leading with heart would work in situations laden with conflicts than an administrator typically faces, but he does manage to show us a leader’s sensitive side. Perhaps, Palestini does not sufficiently deliver the promise in this chapter’s title, but he does ...