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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Letters to My Grandchildren about Laramie, High, School with the genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Memoirs?
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conversations.value: Ryan the author was born May 2, 1943 in Chadron, Nebraska. In 1944, his family moved to Casper, Wyoming, where he grew up. In 1961, he graduated from Natrona County High School in Casper. He earned an associate of arts degree from Casper College in 1963; a bachelor of arts from the University of Wyoming, Laramie, in 1966; and a master of arts from UW in 1969. He was a psychology and U.S. history teacher at Laramie High School from 1966-69, where he was selected Teacher of the Year in 1968 and 1969 by the student body. He served as a school counselor for the next 37 years (1969-2006). During his time as a counselor, he also served as the Student Government Advisor for 15 years, Sophomore Class Advisor, Department Head, Site Council Representative and as an instructor for Love and Logic, a parenting class for adults. I have so many good memories working with countless students over my years at Laramie High School. Kids from all backgrounds, many with the normal pangs of adolescence and growth, some with major issues. According to the author, however, one of his most rewarding roles in his time at Laramie High School was holding the front door open each morning his last 6 years and welcoming the students as they arrived. I tried to learn everybodys name who came through the front door and start their day with a smile, he said. After retiring in 2006, he became a snow bird, wintering in Sahuarita, Arizona and summering in Laramie and northern Colorado. Ryan and his wife, JoAnn, have been married 26 years. They have a blended family of six children: Trent (deceased), Treva, Trisha, Andrea, Judd (deceased), and Nick (JoAnns son adopted by Ryan in 1996), and 15 grandchildren.
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conversations.value: What is the first four paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Letters to My Grandchildren
  It was because we were an island that the Royal Navy was necessary to protect us from invasion, and it was the strength of our industry that made it possible for us to build the ships and the guns and the goods which we sold to our imperial subjects, often made from raw materials acquired from their lands.
  The arrogance of what we now call racism, which claimed that which those with brown, black and yellow skins were in some way inferior to us culturally, educationally and psychologically, was bred from this apparently natural order of things.
  The wars we fought in the past 250 years were mainly imperial wars to protect our interests and to extend our empire wherever the opportunity occurred. We were told this would be of benefit to those countries we absorbed within our dominions.
  Queen Victoria was given the title of Empress of India, suggested by Disraeli, and her son Edward VII was crowned in Delhi at a Durbar, a ceremony we invented, at which all the rajahs and maharajahs of India swore allegiance to him as King Emperor.
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conversations.value: What is five more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: It was indirectly as a result of that trip that I met your grandmother, who was from Ohio, and I became part of a wider American family. I have never shared the traditional left's hostility to the Americans who, under Bush and the neoconservatives, have themselves suffered because of reactionary policies.
  The United States has a very rich radical history. In a speech to Congress in 1861 Lincoln said that 'Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much higher consideration.'
  In the 1930s America, under Roosevelt and his New Deal, was the only capitalist country in the world which moved to the left rather than the right. Roosevelt said, in 1936:
  I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud, I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agonies of mothers and wives. I hate war.
  Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about exhausted.
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conversations.value: It was indirectly as a result of that trip that I met your grandmother, who was from Ohio, and I became part of a wider American family. I have never shared the traditional left's hostility to the Americans who, under Bush and the neoconservatives, have themselves suffered because of reactionary policies. 
  The United States has a very rich radical history. In a speech to Congress in 1861 Lincoln said that 'Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much higher consideration. '
  In the 1930s America, under Roosevelt and his New Deal, was the only capitalist country in the world which moved to the left rather than the right. Roosevelt said, in 1936:
  I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud, I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line – the survivors of a regiment of a thousand that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agonies of mothers and wives. I hate war. 
  Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
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conversations.value: What is the last five paragraphs?
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conversations.value: So that was it, and they marched out of the shop. The gruff man said, 'Where's the New Daddy because if you're taking the Old Daddy then I want him back!'
  Charlie said, 'He's on holiday for Christmas, and if he turns up again, we'll tell him to come straight back here.'
  They rushed out of the shop before the gruff man could say anything and raced home for a super Christmas tea with cake and jellies.
  They had a lovely Christmas together and they sat and talked about it and what had gone wrong. Daddy said, 'I think I'm going to take a new job with normal working hours, and I'm not going to go on doing all those meetings.'
  PS. Charlie switched the television on at that moment and they saw a prime minister leaving the door of 10 Downing Street and people cheering another man going in and waving to them.