Study Guide for Let Nobody Turn Us Around

Informationen zum Autor Karen Williams was born in London in 1958 to a Russian mother and English father. She was a misfit from the very beginning, worrying about the state of the world whilst her classmates played with dolls and kicked footballs around. Lost, and unable to find meaning in the society around her, she studied psychology at University, and then at the age of 26 took her mystic, misfit self off to live in Andalusia, southern Spain in search of greater meaning and color in her life.She worked as an English teacher whilst in Spain, and then after 10 years mysterious forces of fate seemed to enter Karen's life, prompting her to throw herself into a search for her soul. What she didn't know at the beginning of that search was that she would engage in the classic Hero's Journey described by the famous mythologist Joseph Campbell, and would also end up living out in real life Paulo Coelho's famous fable The Alchemist.The places in southern Spain and Africa which appeared in The Alchemist, and also the patterns within the fable began to happen to Karen in real life, and in so doing Karen not only continued her search for her soul, but also began to unravel the true meaning of The Alchemist. This journey lasted 24 years as Karen dedicated herself, body and soul, to a mystical path. As part of her journey she returned to England, and worked as a janitor, a healthcare worker, a cog on a production line in a factory, a clerk, and also as a care assistant with the elderly. However, nothing was accidental, but ended up being an integral part of her odyssey. Her spiritual journey finally ended in 2019, after she had spent more than nine years writing about it in various versions of her first book TREASURE.TREASURE: A Hero's Journey is Karen's final version of her extraordinary spiritual adventure. She also summarized her discoveries in a short fable called ANWAR'S STORY: The Other Hero, which she published in 2019 on Amazon.com. Karen is currently living back in Andalusia with her elderly mother, putting into practice everything she learned about what it means to approach one's life from a spiritual perspective - beyond the norms of any kind of organized religion. She no longer works due to having developed Chronic Fatigue over her 24 yearmarathon quest, but she is deeply passionate about political justice, Near-Death-Experiences, child welfare and the environment. Klappentext The Study Guide for Let Nobody Turn Us Around, Second Edition offers key points, comprehension and thought questions, essay questions, suggested research topics, classroom exercises, and media and Internet resources as well as additional selected readings for each section of the book as well as the preface and introduction. Appendices provide guidelines on citation styles and style manuals (MLA, CMS, CBE, APA, and APSA), directions for citing Internet and other electronic sources, suggested Internet resources in four social sciences (anthropology, history, political science, and sociology), a checklist on quoting and paraphrasing, and the table of contents of the second edition of Let Nobody Turn Us Around. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Introduction: Key Points, Essay Questions, Classroom Exercises Part 2 Section One. Foundations: Slavery and Abolitionism, 1789-1861 Chapter 3 Key Points; Comprehension and Thought Questions; Essay Questions; Suggested Research Topics; Classroom Exercises; Media and Internet Part 4 Section Two. Reconstruction and Reaction: The Aftermath of Slavery and the Dawn of Segregation, 1861-1915 Chapter 5 Key Points; Comprehension and Thought Questions; Essay Questions; Suggested Research Topics; Classroom Exercises; Media and Internet Resources Part 6 Section Three. From Plantation to Ghetto: The Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, and World War, 1915-1954 Chapter 7 Key Points; Comprehension and Thought Questions; Essay Questions; Suggested Research Topics; Classroom Exercises; Media and Internet Resourc...

List of contents

Part 1 Introduction: Key Points, Essay Questions, Classroom Exercises
Part 2 Section One. Foundations: Slavery and Abolitionism, 1789-1861
Chapter 3 Key Points; Comprehension and Thought Questions; Essay Questions; Suggested Research Topics; Classroom Exercises; Media and Internet
Part 4 Section Two. Reconstruction and Reaction: The Aftermath of Slavery and the Dawn of Segregation, 1861-1915
Chapter 5 Key Points; Comprehension and Thought Questions; Essay Questions; Suggested Research Topics; Classroom Exercises; Media and Internet Resources
Part 6 Section Three. From Plantation to Ghetto: The Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, and World War, 1915-1954
Chapter 7 Key Points; Comprehension and Thought Questions; Essay Questions; Suggested Research Topics; Classroom Exercises; Media and Internet Resources
Part 8 Section Four. We Shall Overcome: The Second Reconstruction, 1954-1975
Chapter 9 Key Points; Comprehension an Thought Questions; Essay Questions; Suggested Research Topics; Classroom Exercises; Media and Internet Resources
Part 10 Section Five. The Future in the Present: Contemporary African-American Thought, 1975-Present
Chapter 11 Key Points; Comprehension and Thought Questions; Essay Questions; Suggested Research Topics; Classroom Exercises; Media and Internet Resources
Part 12 Appendixes: Additional Resources for Research and Writing

About the author

Karen Williams was born in London in 1958 to a Russian mother and English father. She was a misfit from the very beginning, worrying about the state of the world whilst her classmates played with dolls and kicked footballs around. Lost, and unable to find meaning in the society around her, she studied psychology at University, and then at the age of 26 took her mystic, misfit self off to live in Andalusia, southern Spain in search of greater meaning and color in her life.She worked as an English teacher whilst in Spain, and then after 10 years mysterious forces of fate seemed to enter Karen's life, prompting her to throw herself into a search for her soul. What she didn't know at the beginning of that search was that she would engage in the classic Hero's Journey described by the famous mythologist Joseph Campbell, and would also end up living out in real life Paulo Coelho's famous fable The Alchemist.The places in southern Spain and Africa which appeared in The Alchemist, and also the patterns within the fable began to happen to Karen in real life, and in so doing Karen not only continued her search for her soul, but also began to unravel the true meaning of The Alchemist. This journey lasted 24 years as Karen dedicated herself, body and soul, to a mystical path. As part of her journey she returned to England, and worked as a janitor, a healthcare worker, a cog on a production line in a factory, a clerk, and also as a care assistant with the elderly. However, nothing was accidental, but ended up being an integral part of her odyssey. Her spiritual journey finally ended in 2019, after she had spent more than nine years writing about it in various versions of her first book TREASURE.TREASURE: A Hero's Journey is Karen's final version of her extraordinary spiritual adventure. She also summarized her discoveries in a short fable called ANWAR'S STORY: The Other Hero, which she published in 2019 on Amazon.com. Karen is currently living back in Andalusia with her elderly mother, putting into practice everything she learned about what it means to approach one's life from a spiritual perspective - beyond the norms of any kind of organized religion. She no longer works due to having developed Chronic Fatigue over her 24 yearmarathon quest, but she is deeply passionate about political justice, Near-Death-Experiences, child welfare and the environment.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Queeley, Queeley Andrea, Karen Williams, Karen G. Williams, Karen Queeley Williams, Karen/ Queeley Williams
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.09.2009
• EAN: 9781442200135
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-0013-5
• No. of pages: 150
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; STUDY AIDS / Study Guides, Educational: Study & Revision Guides, African American History