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Make Their Days

Activities for Residents in Long-Term Care

by Enid J. Portnoy

Published 199999 pagesISBN 978-0-3980-6943-8

"Assembles a broad range of views on the mental health of young black Americans and the possible causes and cures of some of their problems. Includes the opinions, biases, prejudices, and proposed solutions of blacks and non-blacks, academics, reporters, writers, and politicians. Affirmative action, black anti-semitism, genetic and racial classification, crime, preferential treatment and integration, family and education, and the role of government are among the concerns."--Barnes and Noble.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Mental Health, Nonfiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Mental Health · Nonfiction

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Dark tone · Urgent pace

Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

Who it may suit

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LuminousDark

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Make Their DaysEnid J. Portnoy
Powerful4.9/5

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Before you choose

A quick reading snapshot

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Reading lengthA shorter read99 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 1999
Primary categoryMental HealthAlso cataloged under Nonfiction
ISBN-13
978-0-3980-6943-8
Language
English
Edition record
OL9658692M
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A more thoughtful way into this book

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Good to know

Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

Begin with its place in Mental Health, then notice where the book resists that label.

Try this reading approach

Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. Which ideas feel usable in your actual circumstances—not only persuasive on the page?
  2. Where does the author distinguish evidence, experience, and opinion?
  3. What would a small, humane experiment with one idea look like?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.