Slaves made up half of the workforce that built the U.S. Capitol. The most famous of these was Philip Reid, who supervised... More > the bronze casting of the Statue of Freedom atop the Capitol’s dome..

The story of Philip Reid begins with his African heritage, steeped in the Yoruba culture of sculpture and metal casting. Philip’s life as a slave in America is covered in his birth and rearing in Charleston, and his purchase by Clark Mills, the Washington foundry owner who had the contract to cast the Statue of Freedom. This is the story of how Philip, a slave, came to supervise the bronze casting of The Statue of Freedom while enduring the disappointments of American slavery.

Philip Reid’s enslavement is ended by the Washington, D.C. Emancipation Proclamation. He becomes a respected member of Washington’s Free Black society, establishes his own business and marries an educated Free Black on the very same day that the Statue of Freedom was raised to the Capitol dome. < Less

Slaves made up half of the workforce that built the U.S. Capitol. The most famous of these was Philip Reid, who supervised... More > the bronze casting of the Statue of Freedom atop the Capitol’s dome..

The story of Philip Reid begins with his African heritage, steeped in the Yoruba culture of sculpture and metal casting. Philip’s life as a slave in America is covered in his birth and rearing in Charleston, and his purchase by Clark Mills, the Washington foundry owner who had the contract to cast the Statue of Freedom. This is the story of how Philip, a slave, came to supervise the bronze casting of The Statue of Freedom while enduring the disappointments of American slavery.

Philip Reid’s enslavement is ended by the Washington, D.C. Emancipation Proclamation. He becomes a respected member of Washington’s Free Black society, establishes his own business and marries an educated Free Black on the very same day that the Statue of Freedom was raised to the Capitol dome. < Less

The view here is that the role model phenomen can be a two-edged sword capable of both positive and negative outcomes. the... More > objective here is tohelp you make sure that your influences on you child selfimage are positive. < Less

The basic thesis here is that for most of us the trouble” we encounter with success is mostly related to how we view... More > “success” and “failure” in our lives. So we say that the first step toward creating our desired career is to change and correct how you view the concepts of “success” (and “failure,” too, for that matter.)

So we first cover Success and Failure as we now know them and experience them. We then focus on how you should correctly view both Success and Failure as these two are redefined: “Success as Success-By-Degrees,” and “Failure—There Is No “Failure.””

How you use the new concept of Success-By-Degrees in day by day planning and programming of educational, work and financial careers is the major focus of this publication. That advice is packaged in the last chapter: “Six Tools For Climbing Success Mountains.”
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Though it is called the “Parent’s Guide” this is really the guide to “The Joint Project for Parents and Students.”... More > It is designed to help parents give students the same learning experience achieved by groups of students and others in the “Programming Your Own Self Image Workshop. This Guide tells the parent all that he or she should know to conduct this “Workshop For One” from “Select an appropriate time and place for the Project meetings” to “Close the Project on a positive note” and gives step-by -step directions for pulling it off.

The guide is intended to be used with the Programming Your Own self Image Video covering “How Your Self Image Is Developed” (Session 1) and “Programming Your Own Self Image.” All teaching/learning materials required for the sessions are provided, including Self Teaching Tests, “Agree or Disagree” Discussion Topics.
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This comprehensive Lesson Plan is intended to be used with the “Programming Your Own Self Image” Video to conduct the... More > Workshop by the same name. The video is divided into two 12 minute presentations: (“How Your Self Image Is Programmed” (Session One and “How YOU Program Your Own Self Image” (Session Two).

This Lesson Plan provides step-by-step guidance for leading a class or group through the procedures discussed in the video that will teach them how to program their own self images. It contains all the reproducible materials needed to conduct the Workshop, including Self Teaching Tests, “Agree” or “Disagree” Discussion Topics, and Self Image Affirmations.
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