Download or read book Speak written by De'Asia Scott and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Amaya's first month at a new school in a new state, and she's too scared to speak. Amaya has a stutter. At her old school she got bullied for how she talked, but she had finally just started making friends. And then her mom got a new job and moved them to DC, where she had to start all over again! Now Amaya is mad at her mom and scared at school. The only friend she shares her feelings with is her dog, Journey, who can talk back! If Amaya doesn't start speaking soon, she'll keep getting in trouble and will never make friends. Can Journey and her classmates help Amaya find her voice? The authors of this story are part of an innovative program run by Reach Incorporated. Reach develops grade-level readers and capable leaders by preparing teens to serve as tutors and role models for younger students, resulting in improved literacy outcomes for both. Learn more at reachincorporated.org. Books were created in collaboration with Shout Mouse Press. Shout Mouse is a nonprofit writing program and publishing house for unheard voices. Through writing workshops designed for all levels of literacy, Shout Mouse empowers writers from marginalized backgrounds to tell their own stories in their own voices and, as published authors, to act as agents of change. Learn more at shoutmousepress.org

Download or read book God Made Me Perfect Amayahs s Amazing Birthdmark written by Candace McLaughlin and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-03-08 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amayah is a ten-year-old girl who has a port-wine-stain birthmark on her face. She puts on makeup every day in fear that her classmates will bully her. One day, a new student with a unique birthmark of his own enrolls in her class and teaches her the power of self-love and self-confidence. 2

Download or read book Nobody s Girl written by Barbara Amaya and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1972, Barbara Amaya was 16 years old, leading a life far from a typical teenager and why she was Nobody's Girl. She had been sent to three detention centers, lived on the streets of, first, Washington DC and then New York City. Amaya was forced to work as a prostitute and was hooked on heroin. The ten years she spent as a victim in the world of human trafficking is just the beginning of her story.

Download or read book Electronic Resistance written by Nicolas Ballet and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A curated selection of art by Nigel Ayers from 1980 - 1992. Includes foreword by Nigel Ayers and essay 'Bleeding Images' by Nicolas Ballet.

Download or read book Citizenship Excess written by Hector Amaya and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Drawing on the Athenian tradition of ‘wielding citizenship as a weapon to defend a contingently defined polis,’ Hector Amaya has crafted an elegant and sophisticated analysis of the contemporary policies designed to contain and criminalize Latina/os. Citizenship Excess demonstrates that he is one of the leading Latina/o Media Scholars today.” —Angharad N. Valdivia, General Editor of the International Encyclopedia of Media Studies and author of Latina/os Drawing on contemporary conflicts between Latino/as and anti-immigrant forces, Citizenship Excess illustrates the limitations of liberalism as expressed through U.S. media channels. Inspired by Latin American critical scholarship on the “coloniality of power,” Amaya demonstrates that nativists use the privileges associated with citizenship to accumulate power. That power is deployed to aggressively shape politics, culture, and the law, effectively undermining Latino/as who are marked by the ethno-racial and linguistic difference that nativists love to hate. Yet these social characteristics present crucial challenges to the political, legal, and cultural practices that define citizenship. Amaya examines the role of ethnicity and language in shaping the mediated public sphere through cases ranging from the participation of Latino/as in the Iraqi war and pro-immigration reform marches to labor laws restricting Latino/a participation in English-language media and news coverage of undocumented immigrant detention centers. Citizenship Excess demonstrates that the evolution of the idea of citizenship in the United States and the political and cultural practices that define it are intricately intertwined with nativism.

Download or read book God Made Me Perfect Amayah s Amazing Birthmark written by Candace McLaughlin and published by Candace McLaughlin. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amayah is a ten-year-old girl that has a port-wine stain birthmark. She puts on makeup everyday in fear that her classmates will bully her. One day, a new student with a unique birthmark of his own, enrolls in her class and teaches her the power of self-love and self-confidence.

Download or read book Caught Up written by Patricia Lewis Mills and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lives have been changed--- Gerard Michaels, the perfect catch... the suave, the successful...the handsome and ideal man. Is there really such a thing? All that changes when his past catches up with him from a time when he got caught up. Oh, it´s just too much drama in his and Nicole´s household now. Amayah Love. All set to marry Commonwealth University Head coach, JaBari Jackson, after her divorce from Xavier. Now she´s wondering if she has jumped out of the frying pan and landed in the middle of a bonfire. Is it true that all is fair in love and war? And what about the sizzling hot... (ouch!) Jamaican, Milan Charles that she met on the cruise? Has she gotten totally caught up or what? Even old Ms. Alameeta Irene Jones has some familiarity with what happens when life gets in the way and one gets caught up. New characters have moved on the scene, and it seems like every one of them is caught up in something or the other. Things concealed are revealed. That which is in plain sight isn’t necesarily what it seems. Forgotten experiences have resurfaced. Yep, the city offers an abundance of temptations and transgressions. It’s easy to get caught up in a web . . . but is it possible to get loose?

Download or read book Pop Art and After written by Mario Amaya and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1966 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aiko s Star written by Amaya Rayne Hadnagy and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aiko is an energetic, lovable, and curious little girl who is fascinated by nature. When her curiosity brings her too far from home, the kindness from Hoshi, Hotaru, and Aku guide her back to safety. Aiko's story will teach you about friendship, kindness, and compassion. Join Aiko and her twinkling friends on this whimsical adventure through the forest of life!

Download or read book Screening Cuba written by Hector Amaya and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hector Amaya advances into new territory in Latin American and U.S. cinema studies in this innovative analysis of the differing critical receptions of Cuban film in Cuba and the United States during the Cold War. Synthesizing film reviews, magazine articles, and other primary documents, Screening Cuba compares Cuban and U.S. reactions to four Cuban films: Memories of Underdevelopment, Lucia, One Way or Another, and Portrait of Teresa. In examining cultural production through the lens of the Cold War, Amaya reveals how contrasting interpretations of Cuban and U.S. critics are the result of the political cultures in which they operated. While Cuban critics viewed the films as powerful symbols of the social promises of the Cuban revolution, liberal and leftist American critics found meaning in the films as representations of anti-establishment progressive values and Cold War discourses. By contrasting the hermeneutics of Cuban and U.S. culture, criticism, and citizenship, Amaya argues that critical receptions of political films constitute a kind of civic public behavior.

Download or read book GLOBAL ISSUES ON RURAL AND URBAN CONFLICT VIOLENCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY written by Dada, Adebusola Olorunfemi and Victor Lukpata and published by Science and Education Development Institute, Nigeria. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Seven Bridges written by Jolene Polyack and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaginative story about a being who we first meet in Atlantis. As he progresses through each of his seven lives, he experiences new circumstances and situations each designed to provide a new ribbon of knowledge and perspective. During his procession he has the opportunity to interact in a variety of relationships with other beings, some that he has known previously. At the end of each life he finds himself in a place of pure whiteness, the bridge, where there is no body, only thoughts and a guide helping him to reflect upon what he has learned—and determine whether it is time to make use of his understanding in another, mysterious way. “I absolutely loved Seven Bridges! It drew me in from the first chapter and as I finished each one I couldn’t wait to get to the next to see where it would go. I was intrigued by the way each chapter was unique to itself, yet followed his journey in a surprising and unexpected way. I loved the different settings and time periods and I felt like I was there with him. The book was quick to read, with enough details to understand what was going on and who he was interacting with, but not so much that I got bogged down in details. I didn’t want the story to end, I hope there’s another Seven Bridges that he has to cross!”

Download or read book The Switching Hour written by Damaris Young and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never stay out after the Switching Hour... never let the outside in... Amaya lives in a land where the doors must be locked after the Switching Hour, to keep out Badoko, a creature that snatches people away to eat their dreams. When her small brother Kaleb is taken by Badoko, Amaya must journey into the terrifying forest to rescue him.

Download or read book Francisco de Vitoria and the Evolution of International Law written by Amaya Amell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francisco de Vitoria and the Evolution of International Law: Justifying Injustice is a reconstruction of the philosophical and legal theories of Fray Francisco de Vitoria, hailed by many as one of the primary founders of international law, and how these served to introduce the theory of an international community in which all nations take part, regardless of religious beliefs. The impact of the conquest of the Americas resulted in a transformation or re-articulation of the Old World’s preconceived notions of human nature and the rights of people and nations. Due to the need for a more universal principle, the theory of international law began to expand. In order to present a perspective on international law and human rights beyond the scope of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, Vitoria’s thoughts are compared to those of Hugo Grotius and John Locke, to show how the issues of natural, human, and divine law evolved through time. Their questioning of the right to invade other countries and subdue their inhabitants brought to light the conflictive relationship between colonial expansion and the law of nations and was an essential part of debates among intellectuals, jurists, and theologians in an attempt to find a way to reconcile these two often-contradictory notions.

Download or read book Love and Empire written by Felicity Amaya Schaeffer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spread of the Internet is remaking marriage markets, altering the process of courtship and the geographic trajectory of intimacy in the 21st century. For some Latin American women and U.S. men, the advent of the cybermarriage industry offers new opportunities for re-making themselves and their futures, overthrowing the common narrative of trafficking and exploitation. In this engaging, stimulating virtual ethnography, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer follows couples’ romantic interludes at “Vacation Romance Tours,” in chat rooms, and interviews married couples in the United States in order to understand the commercialization of intimacy. While attending to the interplay between the everyday and the virtual, Love and Empire contextualizes personal desires within the changing global economic and political shifts across the Americas. By examining current immigration policies and the use of Mexican and Colombian women as erotic icons of the nation in the global marketplace, she forges new relations between intimate imaginaries and state policy in the making of new markets, finding that women’s erotic self-fashioning is the form through which women become ideal citizens, of both their home countries and in the United States. Through these little-explored, highly mediated romantic exchanges, Love and Empire unveils a fresh perspective on the continually evolving relationship between the U.S. and Latin America.

Download or read book Book One Moon The Dragon Prince 1 written by Aaron Ehasz and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their world on the brink of war, three young heroes from opposite sides of the conflict embark on a dangerous quest that could change everything. This beautiful book expands on the events of Season 1 of the hit Netflix show The Dragon Prince. WAR IS COMING . . . Four full moons past, humans crossed into the magical lands of Xadia and committed an unspeakable crime: They destroyed the only egg of the Dragon King and Queen. Now a young Moonshadow elf assassin has been sent on her first mission; she will make the humans pay for their heinous act. But before she can complete her task, she and two human princes make an astonishing discovery . . . a discovery that could change everything. And so the three reluctant allies set off in a desperate attempt to stop the coming war. Their journey won't be easy, but the trio soon learns that the most serious threat to their quest can't be fought with magic or physical strength. Can these young heroes overcome the longstanding hatred between humans and elves, and restore peace to their world?Written by Aaron Ehasz (co-creator of The Dragon Prince and head writer of Avatar: The Last Airbender) and Melanie McGanney Ehasz, this first canon novel based on the Netflix original series finally gives fans the full story.

Download or read book The Precious Metals of West Arabia and Their Role in Forging the Economic Dynamic of the Early Islamic State written by Gene W. Heck and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: