Madison First
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Madison First
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There are no coincidences. We come face to face with life lessons every day and can grow from them if only we choose to. Ann Marie Zakos reminds us of this in her fantastic work of fiction, "First Class Ticket." Philosophy should be this fun and enlightening for all of us!
Madison is upset when she learns that she has to squeeze a philosophy class into her busy college schedule. What's worse is that it ends up being an early morning class and she doesn't know anyone else who is taking it. The teacher is somewhat mysterious and on the first day he gives an assignment to learn nine truths within a week. These truths are printed on cards in an envelope, but are written in a way that is not truly understandable until a guide helps them to figure it out. The trick is that the students can't seek out their guides; the guides must come to them. The kids are grouped into experience partners and as luck would have it (no such thing...) Madison is grouped with two partners instead of one. Brian is a lighthearted happy young man, while Diana is somewhat his opposite. Together the three must uncover what these truths could possibly mean to them. Along the way, a remarkable thing occurs - friendship of the deepest kind.
The truths will affect these three friends in life changing ways and the process of discovering them is somewhat miraculous from their point of view. Strangers come up to them and engage in philosophical conversations, guiding them toward understanding. What's more is that you as the reader will come to these understandings too. Like Madison, you might learn to draw energy and give it back to those around you, change your perspective from negative to positive, and develop your inner strength through thought and meditation. Like Diana, you might learn to trust your instincts. And like Brian, you might learn that you are already on the right path.
This story is much like a fable, where characters learn a lesson and teach it to us as well. But it is some much more as a delightful work of fiction and is rich with many messages of growth. The cast is lovable and endearing, making you wish you could be at that campus and taking that class. The writing is tight and well executed. The descriptive imagery is nicely done and evokes the feel of the campus quad, freshly cut grass, sandy beach, and an energetic college baseball game. This book is for readers of all ages, from high school to grandparents, for we all could do to learn a thing or two and reading for enjoyment knows no age. I highly recommend "First Class Ticket," for, "adventure lights the path to spiritual development."
First Class Ticket
by Ann Marie Zakos
ISBN-10: 0976452332
Review by Heather Froeschl
Heather Froeschl is an author, award winning editor, and book reviewer, at http://www.Quilldipper.com and http://www.Bookideas.com.
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Madison $15.33 Madison has a rich photographic history, much of it in the form of postcards. This volume presents more than 200 historical postcard images from the private collection of Madison resident John Powell, who has been collecting and trading postcards for more than 20 years. The images here reflect Madison's businesses, public institutions, civic life, and civic pride in the first decades of the 20th century. With author David Sakrison's engaging text, these images offer a unique window into the city as it was, and as it saw itself, 75 to 100 years ago. |
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First Unitarian Society of Madison $81.25 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles First Unitarian Society of Madison (FUS) is a Unitarian Universalist congregation in Shorewood Hills, a suburb of Madison, Wisconsin. Its meeting house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built by Marshall Erdman, and it is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. With over 1600 book signed members and many more affiliates and friends, it is one of the largest Unitarian Universalist congregations in the United States. Since 2008 the congregation has shared its meetinghouse with a Jewish congregation, Shaarei Shamayim (Madison, Wisconsin). Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 108 Publication Date: 2010/12/08 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.26 inches |
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Dolley Madison: America's First Lady $16.35 Dolley Madison defined the role of American first lady. She was the country's most prominent hostess while her husband, James Madison, served in Congress, as secretary of state, and as president. In an age of fierce partisanship, she used her skills at entertaining to bring together political opponents. |
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James Madison $20.85 A bestselling historian examines the life of a Founding Father. Renowned historian and social commentator Garry Wills takes a fresh look at the life of James Madison, from his rise to prominence in the colonies through his role in the creation of the Articles of Confederation and the first Constitutional Congress. Madison oversaw the first foreign war under the constitution, and was forced to adjust some expectations he had formed while drafting that document. Not temperamentally suited to be a wartime President, Madison nonetheless confronted issues such as public morale, internal security, relations with Congress, and the independence of the military. Wills traces Madison's later life during which, like many recent Presidents, he enjoyed greater popularity than while in office. |
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Madison County $16.01 This fertile and beautiful land, with its small rivers and valleys and surrounding mountains, was designated Madison County in 1792. The county was named for the family of James Madison, fourth president of the United States and the father of the Constitution. His family ran a mill on the Rapidan River, which is now located in the southern section of Madison County. Early in the 18th century, descendants of English and French colonials settled the southern sections of the county, and Quakers and German Lutherans settled the northern sections. Madison County's first church, Hebron Lutheran, was built in 1740, and its public church school was opened in 1748. Archaeologists have gathered evidence that Native Americans hunted and gathered in the region thousands of years earlier. |
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Madison, Connecticut $71.7 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Madison is a town in the southeastern corner of New Haven County, Connecticut, and it occupies a central location on the Connecticut Shoreline area. The population was 18,812 at the 2000 census. Madison was first settled in 1641. Throughout the 18th century, Madison was known as East Guilford until it was incorporated as a town in 1826. Since then, Madison and Guilford have shared many cultural and economic similarities despite an unofficial high school rivalry. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 88 Publication Date: 2010/12/04 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.21 inches |
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Dolley Madison: First Lady $23.52 The New Nation Biographies series explores the lives of major figures at the time when our nation was young, from poets and social reformers, to inventors and American Indian leaders. Using historical photos and illustrations, authentic documents, and factual, yet engaging, text, the books invite readers to plunge into the struggle of a new nation and understand how it shaped the present. This series explores and supports standards under "Era 4: Expansion and Reform: 1801-1861," as required by the National Center for History in the Schools; and "Time, Continuity, and Change," "People, Places, and Environment," "Individual Development and Identity," "Individuals, Groups, and Institutions," "Power, Authority, and Governance," "Production, Distribution, and Consumpton," "Global Connections," and "Civic Ideals and Practices," as required by the National Council for the Social Studies. |
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Madison and Jefferson $30.25 A WATERSHED ACCOUNT OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL FRIENDSHIP IN AMERICAN HISTORY In Madison and Jefferson, esteemed historians Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg join forces to reveal the crucial partnership of two extraordinary founders, creating a superb dual biography that is a thrilling and unprecedented account of early America. The third and fourth presidents have long been considered proper and noble gentlemen, with Thomas Jefferson's genius overshadowing James Madison's judgment and common sense. But in this revelatory book, both leaders are seen as men of their times, ruthless and hardboiled operatives in a gritty world of primal politics where they struggled for supremacy for more than fifty years. In most histories, the elder figure, Jefferson, looms larger. Yet Madison is privileged in this book's title because, as Burstein and Isenberg reveal, he was the senior partner at key moments in the formation of the two-party system. It was Madison who did the most to initiate George Washington's presidency while Jefferson was in France in the role of diplomat. So often described as shy, the Madison of this account is quite assertive. Yet he regularly escapes bad press, while Jefferson's daring pen earns him a nearly constant barrage of partisan attacks. In Madison and Jefferson we see the two as privileged young men in a land marked by tribal identities rather than a united national personality. They were raised to always ask first: "How will this play in Virginia?" Burstein and Isenberg powerfully capture Madison's secret canny role--he acted in effect as a campaign manager--in Jefferson's career. In riveting detail, the authors chart the courses of two very different presidencies: Jefferson's driven by force of personality, Madison's sustained by a militancy that history has been reluctant to ascribe to him. The aggressive expansionism of the presidents has long been underplayed, but it's noteworthy that even after the Louisiana Purchase more than doubled U.S. territory, the pair contrived to purchase Cuba and, for years, looked for ways to conquer Canada. In these and other issues, what they said in private and wrote anonymously was often more influential than what they signed their names to. Supported by a wealth of original sources--newspapers, letters, diaries, pamphlets--Madison and Jefferson is a stunning new look at a remarkable duo who arguably did more than all the others in their generation to set the course of American political development. It untangles a rich legacy, explaining how history made Jefferson into a national icon, leaving Madison a relative unknown. It tells nasty truths about the conduct of politics when America was young and reintroduces us to colorful personalities, once famous and now obscure, who influenced and were influenced by the two revolutionary actors around whom this story turns. As an intense narrative of high-stakes competition, Madison and Jefferson exposes the beating |
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Madison's Avenue $17.32 First, she gets the frightening phone call from her father. Hours later, the police tell her he's committed suicide. But Madison McKean suspects murder because her father, CEO of a large Manhattan ad agency, has repeatedly refused a takeover bid by a ruthless agency conglomerate. With her father's death, Madison inherits his agency and his enemies. When she and her new friend, Kevin, zero in on the executive behind her father's death, they discover that an ex-CIA hit man is zeroing in on them. Madison's Avenue takes you inside the boardrooms of today's ruthless, billion-dollar corporations, to the white sand beaches of the Caribbean, to the high hopes and low cleavage of the Cannes Advertising Festival--a world where some people take the phrase "bury the competition" literally. |
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Madison Hotel $73.1 Madison Hotel is located in Dusseldorf, close to Wilhelm Marx House, City Hall, and Rhine Tower. Nearby points of interest also include Museum Kunst Palast and Der Neue Zollhoff. Hotel Features. Recreational amenities include an indoor pool and a sauna. Wireless Internet access is available in public areas. Guest parking is limited, and available on a limited first come, first served basis (surcharge). Additional property amenities include laundry facilities. Guestrooms. 100 guestrooms at Madison Hotel feature minibars and safes. Bathrooms feature handheld showerheads, slippers, and hair dryers. Dial up Internet access (surcharge) is available. In addition to desks, guestrooms offer direct dial phones. Satellite television is provided. Guests may request irons/ironing boards, hypo allergenic bedding, and wake up calls. |
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Billy Madison - $34.99 Master of infantilism Adam Sandler stars as the title character, an overgrown rich kid who wiles away his days poolside, swilling kegs of beer and appreciating fine nudie magazines such as "Drunk Chicks" -- that is, until his father (Darren McGavin) decides to test his mettle as future head of the family business by posing a challenge: retake and pass grades K-12 in 24 weeks or watch control of the business pass to the requisite conniving underling (Bradley Whitford). Forced into action, Billy vows to change his drunken ways. He enrolls in kindergarten, makes new friends, pelts pint-sized kids with playground balls and develops a love interest in a pretty teacher (Bridgitte Wilson). The action culminates in an academic showdown between Billy and the purportedly Harvard-educated underling for the future of the family enterprise -- no small feat for a man fresh out of the first grade. There's gross, moronic, off-color low humor galore in Billy Madison, particularly in one subplot involving a romantically forward elementary school principal (Josh Mostel, son of theater great Zero Mostel) and his secret former life as a professional wrestler; another scene includes the hypertense school bus driver (Chris Farley, in a typical over-the-top cameo) lying in the meadow with a hallucinatory penguin. As one might suspect, Billy Madison is not for every taste; Sandler fans will laugh from start to finish; others beware. ~ Jeremy Beday, Rovi |
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Madison's Nightmare $18 The George W. Bush administration’s ambitious—even breathtaking—claims of unilateral executive authority raised deep concerns among constitutional scholars, civil libertarians, and ordinary citizens alike. But Bush’s attempts to assert his power are only the culmination of a near-thirty-year assault on the basic checks and balances of the U.S. government—a battle waged by presidents of both parties, and one that, as Peter M. Shane warns in Madison’s Nightmare , threatens to utterly subvert the founders’ vision of representative government. Tracing this tendency back to the first Reagan administration, Shane shows how this era of "aggressive presidentialism" has seen presidents exerting ever more control over nearly every arena of policy, from military affairs and national security to domestic programs. Driven by political ambition and a growing culture of entitlement in the executive branch—and abetted by a complaisant Congress, riven by partisanship—this presidential aggrandizement has too often undermined wise policy making and led to shallow, ideological, and sometimes outright lawless decisions. The solution, Shane argues, will require a multipronged program of reform, including both specific changes in government practice and broader institutional changes aimed at supporting a renewed culture of government accountability. From the war on science to the mismanaged war on terror, Madison’s Nightmare outlines the disastrous consequences of the unchecked executive—and issues a stern wake-up call to all who care about the fate of our long democratic experiment. |
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American Experience: Dolley Madison - $19.99 A profile of Dolley Madison (1768-1849), the spouse of fourth U.S. president James Madison, who transformed the role of president's wife and became America's "first" first lady. The biography includes remarks from Cokie Roberts (Founding Mothers), historian Catherine Allgor (A Perfect Union), presidential historian Richard Norton Smith, and first lady biographer Carl Sferrazza Anthony. ~ Jeff Gemmill, Rovi |
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Madison Square Illuminated by Electric Light for the First Time, New York City, 1880s $39.99 Madison Square Illuminated by Electric Light for the First Time, New York City, 1880s - Giclee Print |
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Teacher Created Materials 12504 Dolley Madison First Lady of the United States $23.4 Dolley Madison was married to James Madison the fourth President of the United States. Dolley was known for her kind heart and gracious hospitality. She was an intelligent woman who helped not only her husband but also President Thomas Jefferson. Dolley was a woman with great courage. Her strong will and unique personality helped her become one of the most honored First Ladies in history. Publisher: Teacher Created Materials Inc. Date: July 20 2011. |
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