Download or read book A Dream Denied a Promise Kept written by Roberta Colli Perle and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dream Denied, a Promise Kept will appeal to women of all ages because it gives pointers on how to travel alone. How to be accepted as an equal of men around the world. It tells of the wonderful love stories that are unforgettable and exciting as the author travels the globe. It is adventure at its most exciting and daring and takes place at a time when very few women traveled alone. It shows women's forays into unknown and uncharted territory and has a dynamic all its own as the stories unfold with compassion and humor. It will take the reader to a harem in Yemen, The Steppes of Mongolia, to visit a Bedouin camp, walk the oldest street in the world, visit the bazaars and cities of medinas and villages. Stay at five star hotels with the amenities and accoutrements of the glorious 20th Century; then sleep in pup tents and lodges. Experience the migrations of millions of animals, cross the Great Rift Valley, ride camels in the Gobi Desert and elephants in Nepal as you search for white tigers. Climb to the top of Tibet's Potala Palace, join the Maharaja and Maharani at their palace. Climb the Kyber Pass into Afghanistan. Break bread with the mighty and those less fortunate. Taste the cuisines of over 210 countries. Fly into Saudi Arabia and be swept away by the glory of the desert. Learn how to pack for a trip and how to escape jet lag. A Dream Denied, a Promise Kept shows women as they are in settings that display their greatest accomplishments and most courageous hearts. Traits and experiences that can rival of any man.
Download or read book A Dream Denied written by Michaela Soyer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young minority men are often portrayed in popular media as victims of poverty and discrimination. A Dream Denied delves deeper, investigating the social and cultural implications of the “American dream” narrative for young minority men in the juvenile justice systems in Boston and Chicago. This book connects young male offenders’ cycles of desistance and recidivism with normative assumptions about success and failure in American society, exposing a tragic disconnect between structural reality and juvenile justice policy. This book challenges us to reconsider how American society relates to its most vulnerable members, how it responds to their personal failures, and how it promises them a better future.
Download or read book Letter from a Birmingham Jail written by Dr Martin Luther King and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 2025-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Promises Kept written by Mike Gould and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ordinary man living an ordinarily dysfunctional life, stumbling through every day events, is confronted with a near-death event and a resulting miracle wish which is granted by God. That wish came with a promise though and a chance to help others through his heavenly gift. How this story comes about, evolves into success in love and in life, and all of the humorous adventures in between are something you'll remember and treasure for years to come. The best part... it's all true! The majority of this story takes place in the beautiful foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina. It quickly transports the reader through 36 years of a less than normal life then settles in for the next 12 years, which become increasingly fantastic through a chain of events, all due to keeping the promise, and God's blessings for doing so. The author is an avid outdoorsman, photographer and explorer, which brings a lot of greenery to the book and describes many of the little known natural wonders located in upstate SC. It evolves into something so much more though when all of the elements culminate into a very unexpected climax. This is a funny, smart, thought-provoking book that answers many questions that begin with; What would you do if? It is probably unlike anything you've ever read, but is definitely a book that you'll read over and over again, and will want to share with friends and family.
Download or read book A Dream Denied written by Michaela Soyer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -'A Dream Denied' shows how the narrative of American Dream shapes the offending trajectories of twenty-three young Latino and African American men in Boston and Chicago. Believing in the American Dream helps the teenagers to cope with the pains of incarceration. However, without the ability to experience themselves as creative actors, reproducing the rhetoric of American meritocracy leaves the teenagers unprepared to negotiate the complex and frustrating process of desistance and reentry.
Download or read book A Promise Kept written by D. C. Renee and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I broke my promise the minute I saw her. Not in the way you probably think, though. It wasn't a promise to take care of her because it was love at first sight. It was a promise to let her know, to let her know just what happened ... Yes, she was beautiful, perfect really, but what I saw made her ugly. So, I broke my promise because she didn't deserve to know. And then I took her because she deserved to suffer the way I had-emotionally. Alone even when surrounded by people. Lonesome for eternity. She'd be my wife so she could live beside me, never finding love but only the indifference and hate I bestowed upon her. Who would want that kind of life by choice? Who would want to shackle themselves to a scarred man-both physically and mentally? I didn't give her a choice. I gave her an ultimatum, and she couldn't refuse. And I vowed she'd live a lonely life with a husband right beside her. That's the thing about vows ... Sometimes, they are broken. And promises? Sometimes, you manage to keep them even when you don't want to.
Download or read book The Sarah Anointing written by Michelle McClain-Walters and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHOR MICHELLE MCCLAIN-WALTERS When your faith fails, God prevails. This book will teach you how to live out your nature as an active participant in God’s vision. Sarah was a loyal wife who followed her husband, Abraham, when God spoke to him. Even when Abraham made mistakes, she still called him “lord.” She is an example of a woman with a submitted spirit who responded biblically to her husband without losing her identity. Sarah was an active participant in God’s vision—perhaps too active, as she ran ahead of God and tried to fulfill His covenant in her own timing. She also laughed at the possibility of a miracle. But when God changed Sarah’s name, He changed her nature. The name change linked her to Abraham in co-rulership, including her in God’s covenant promise, which was fulfilled by the couple’s working together. Sarah’s example shows us that God has included women in His purposes and plans throughout history and will include them in the next great awakening. Her life is a positive lesson in faith that breaks personal limitations. Also Available in Spanish ISBN: 978-1-62999-767-4 OTHER BOOKS BY MICHELLE MCCLAIN-WALTERS: Chosen (2019) ISBN: 978-1629996530 The Hannah Anointing (2019) ISBN: 978-1629995670 The Ruth Anointing (2018) ISBN: 978-1629994635 The Anna Anointing (2017) ISBN: 978-1629989471 The Deborah Anointing (2015) ISBN: 978-1629986067 The Esther Anointing (2014) ISBN: 978-1621365877
Download or read book The Vale of Shernai written by Kanadi Aramak and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pegasus Saga that journeys through whimsey, adventure, dreams and spirituality to the most beautiful place in creation. Meant to be read aloud to children of all ages, 8-99. A very poetic and magical style and enchantment.
Download or read book When I Return in Spring written by Delbert D. Lambson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When I Return in Spring" is the true-to-life story of a very troubled time in our nation's history when families were torn apart by the call to arms, and our American way of life was threatened by the enemies of freedom. It is written in a novel format in order to make it more reader friendly. This historic account of World War II is as a firm reminder that our freedom cannot be taken for granted, but that it has been purchased with a price and must be earned anew by each generation. It is one soldier's personal account of the bitter air war over Germany where more that fifty percent of those sent into combat failed to return. It brings to light a little known death march of five thousand American prisoners of war, forced to walk for over five hundred miles across Germany in the dead of winter on a starvation diet, where over two thousand of them died of exposure, disease and starvation. Because war does not present a pretty picture, the author has seen fit to dull the graphic scenes of violence to avoid offense to tender minds. The story line and language, devoid of vulgarity, crudeness and profanity, have been adapted for the family audience and can be enjoyed by young and old alike, and is often read as a family project. Delbert D. Lambson
Download or read book Bernie Madoff and the Crisis written by Colleen P Eren and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sociological deconstruction of the public response to Bernie Madoff and his crimes. Bernie Madoff’s arrest could not have come at a more darkly poetic moment. Economic upheaval had plunged America into a horrid recession. Then, on December 11, 2008, Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme came to light. A father turned in by his sons; a son who took his own life; another son dying and estranged from his father; a woman at the center of a storm—Madoff’s story was a media magnet, voraciously consumed by a justice-seeking public. Bernie Madoff and the Crisis goes beyond purely investigative accounts to examine how and why Madoff became the epicenter of public fury and titillation. Rooting her argument in critical sociology, Colleen P. Eren analyzes media coverage of this landmark case alongside original interviews with dozens of journalists and editors involved in the reportage, the SEC Director of Public Affairs, and Bernie Madoff himself. Turning the mirror back onto society, Eren locates Madoff within a broader reckoning about free market capitalism. She argues that our ideological and cultural tendencies to attribute blame to individuals—be they regulators, victims, or “monsters” like Madoff—distracts us from more systemic critiques. Bernie Madoff and the Crisis offers fresh insight into the 2008 crisis, whether we have come to terms with it, and what we have yet to gain from the case of the century. Praise for Bernie Madoff and the Crisis “Eren crafts a narrative of Bernie Madoff’s crimes as a sweeping comment on our society at large, which created and upheld the kill-or-be-killed finance ethos, and thereby produced the twenty-first century version of a Wall Street serial killer.” —Erin Arvedlund, author of Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff “There is important primary data here and a creative analysis. Eren makes a notable contribution to the literature on financial crime, as well as our understanding of the role that the Madoff case played during an unfolding financial crisis.” —Kitty Calavita, University of California, Irvine, author of Big Money Crime “Eren uses massive amounts of media commentary and interviews—with journalists and Madoff himself—to reveal salient points about the contemporary economy, society, and its demonology. An easy read, and an informative one as we continue to sift through the ashes of the financial crisis and our societal stance on white collar crime.” —Michael Levi, Cardiff University and author of The Phantom Capitalists and Regulating Fraud
Download or read book Remarks of the President to a Joint Session of the Congress written by Lyndon Baines Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gus Van Sant Touch written by Justin Vicari and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved, controversial, influential, the creator of such fascinating and award-winning films as My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, Elephant, and Milk, Gus Van Sant stands among the great international directors, equally at home in Hollywood and the avant-garde. Examining his films thematically, this book finds consistency of vision in Van Sant's unique approach to cinema, which deploys postmodernist techniques such as appropriation, nonlinear narrative, and queering--not in the service of the chic but to apply an all-inclusive viewpoint to ageless tales of life, love and death. Van Sant's films are viewed through a multi-genre prism, including the work of Bruce Weber and Derek Jarman, the westerns of Sam Peckinpah, the music of the Velvet Underground and Nirvana, the fiction of Sam D'Allesandro, and especially the "cut-up"/collage practice of intertextual authorship pioneered by William Burroughs.
Download or read book The Year of Indecision 1946 written by Kenneth Weisbrode and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2016 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Year of Indecision: 1946 overturns the image of U.S. president Harry Truman as a can-do leader and shows instead his presidency as troubled. In 1946 Relations broke down with the Soviet Union, and nearly did with the British. The U.S. suffered shortages and strikes of a magnitude it had not seen in years. In November 1946, the Democrats lost both houses of Congress. The tension between fear and optimism expressed itself too in popular culture. Through a vivid portrait of Truman anda single year, Ken Weisbride offers an alternative perspective on history.
Download or read book The Promise of a Pencil written by Adam Braun and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This the story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life. The author began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful Wall Street career. But while traveling he met a young boy begging on the streets of India, who after being asked what he wanted most in the world, simply answered, "A pencil." This small request led to a staggering series of events that took the author backpacking through dozens of countries before eventually leaving one of the world's most prestigious jobs at Bain & Company to found Pencils of Promise, the organization he started with just $25 that has since built more than 200 schools around the world. This book chronicles the author's journey to find his calling, as each chapter explains one clear step that every person can take to turn your biggest ambitions into reality, even if you start with as little as $25. His story takes readers behind the scenes with business moguls and village chiefs, world-famous celebrities and hometown heroes. It is filled with compelling stories and shareable insights. All proceeds from this book support Pencils of Promise.
Download or read book Working on a Dream written by David Masciotra and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working On a Dream is a powerful and engaging study of this songwriter and performer's art. Springsteen has consistently summoned his creative power and artistic vision to indict political developments and demand the cultivation of a more compassionate and progressive society.
Download or read book Between the World and Me written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by One World. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Download or read book Livin Lovin and Laughin written by Bill Allen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Allen is a Texan by birth, a Christian by re-birth, and an Arkansan by choice. Born November 4, 1929, in Bonham, Texas, Bill spent most of his growing-up time in Sulphur Springs, Texas. He now resides in El Dorado, Arkansas, and is a consultant for Bill Allen Auction & Realty, Inc. A member of the greatest generation, Bill recounts poignant and hilarious stories about growing up during the 30s and 40s, raising a family, preaching, hunting and fishing, auctioneering, and throughout his life laughing.
