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Behind the Masks: Everyone Has a Story
Behind the Masks: Everyone Has a Story
Behind the Masks: Everyone Has a Story
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In these hybrid tales, a fusion of facts and fiction, everyone has a hidden story. Part 1 chronicles the journey of nine first year teachers (Baby Boomers) from their initial hiring during the tumultuous onset of school busing and integration in 1970 to their retirement four decades later. Behaviors, attitudes, and social interactions observed during their careers are emphasized. Their personal stories demonstrate how lingering intrapersonal conflicts affect day-to-day relations.

People are complex, and many factors influence conduct. Depending on the wants, needs, desires, motives, checked but unclaimed emotional baggage, they can be masters of deception. Like actors in plays, most wear masks and perform according to well-rehearsed scripts. To discern the content of a person’s character, one must look behind the masks.

In part 2, using the setting and timeline of the teachers’ journey in part 1, a retired educator summarizes decade by decade the social, political, educational, and economic changes in the community to prepare her granddaughters (Millennials) for the challenges they will face in the era of Black Lives Matter.

She concludes by reemphasizing the unfortunate but necessary talk African American parents give their teenagers about the perils of life as they embark upon meandering journeys in pursuit of their dreams.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateMay 11, 2019
ISBN9781728309521
Behind the Masks: Everyone Has a Story
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Mary Alice Beasley

Mary Alice Beasley, a native of Miami, Florida, received her diploma from Northwestern High School; an undergraduate degree in Speech Pathology from Florida A & M University; and a graduate degree in Exceptional Student Education from Saint Thomas University. She served the students of Miami-Dade and Broward County schools for forty years as a Speech and Language Pathologist, ESE Support Facilitator, Reading Interventionist and Substitute Teacher. An astute entrepreneur, she became the proprietor of two businesses: Speak Easy Tutors, an academic tutoring facility and educational consulting referral agency; and Beasley's Insurance Group and Financial Services. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., The National Council of Negro Women, Inc., and various women's organizations that uplift the lives of young people. She is the author of "Shattered Lens- A Tale of Domestic Violence and Redemption through Love." She conducts workshops on understanding the causes of abuse; how to recognize victims and perpetrators; and ways to prevent the proliferation of this cyclical social abnormality.

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