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Book Achieving the Impossible Dream

Download or read book Achieving the Impossible Dream written by Mitchell Takeshi Maki and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Redress Movement refers to efforts to obtain the restitution of civil rights, an apology, and/or monetary compensation from the U.S. government during the six decades that followed the World War II mass removal and confinement of Japanese Americans. Early campaigns emphasized the violation of constitutional rights, lost property, and the repeal of anti-Japanese legislation. 1960s activists linked the wartime detention camps to contemporary racist and colonial policies. In the late 1970s three organizations pursued redress in court and in Congress, culminating in the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing a national apology and individual payments of $20,000 to surviving detainees.

Book An Impossible Dream

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  • Author : Guillaume Serina
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-08
  • ISBN : 9781785905278
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book An Impossible Dream written by Guillaume Serina and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing untold story behind the meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik to stop the nuclear arms race. When Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev sat down in Reykjavik in 1986, George Shultz, the U.S. Secretary of State, said that it was `the poker game with the highest stakes ever played.' It was the last time the world had a chance to do away entirely with nuclear weapons. This is the behind-the-scenes story of this remarkable summit conference in the remote Icelandic capital. An Impossible Dream is the first exploration of recently-available archives from both sides -- top-secret Kremlin files and the personal papers of Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as the archives of Ronald Reagan. These chronicles, personal diaries, and previously classified memoranda are deeply enriched by the personal reminiscences of many of the key players of this era. Serina lays out this pivotal moment in history clearly and dramatically in this landmark work, as the world stands poised on the edge of a potential new arms race.

Book The Impossible Dream

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  • Author : Anthony Reynolds
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011-06
  • ISBN : 9783283011994
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Impossible Dream written by Anthony Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2011-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Antonino s Impossible Dream

Download or read book Antonino s Impossible Dream written by Tim McGlen and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless tale about the wish for a friend. Antonino is a young artist who dreams of painting a masterpiece, an impossible dream he calls Friend. When he gets stuck, inspiration comes from an unexpected place. A dreamlike fable about the power of friendship and imagination, Antonino's Impossible Dream is a children's story told in timeless style by author Tim McGlen, with captivating illustrations by Sophia Touliatou.

Book The Impossible Dream

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-03-21
  • ISBN : 9780990980414
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Impossible Dream written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Impossible Dream

Download or read book Impossible Dream written by Gemma Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dublin, 1898: Hoping to amass a fortune, Captain Charles Whitmore is preparing to set off on a long sea voyage, deliberately leaving his wife Georgina almost penniless to fend for herself and the servants. Georgina, who has been desperate to break free from a life of violent marital abuse, is relieved that he will be gone for some years, but nevertheless the future is frightening. Then help comes from an unexpected quarter: an organisation that helps women escape lives of abuse or genteel poverty makes Georgina an offer. They propose that her house should become a school designed to train women to seek employment in the American Southwest. The very idea is at once shocking and appealing. Can Georgina step into the unknown and lead the women under her care into the future?

Book The Awakened Woman

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  • Author : Tererai Trent
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-10-03
  • ISBN : 1501145681
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Awakened Woman written by Tererai Trent and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, this moving manifesto “empowers women to access a fearlessness that will enable community progress” (Essence). Through one incredible woman’s journey from a small Zimbabwe village to becoming one of the world’s most recognizable voices in women’s empowerment and education, this book “can help any woman achieve her full potential” (Kirkus Reviews). Before Tererai Trent landed on Oprah’s stage as her “favorite guest of all time,” she was a woman with a forgotten dream. As a young girl in a cattle-herding village in Zimbabwe, she dreamed of receiving an education but instead was married young and by eighteen, without a high school graduation, she was already a mother of three. Tererai encountered a visiting American woman who assured her that anything was possible, reawakening her sacred dream. Tererai planted her dreams deep in the earth and prayed they would grow. They did, and now not only has she earned her PhD but she has also built schools for girls in Zimbabwe, with funding from Oprah. The Awakened Woman: A Guide for Remembering & Igniting Your Sacred Dreams is her accessible, intimate, and evocative guide that teaches nine essential lessons to encourage all women to reexamine their dreams and uncover the power hidden within them—power that can recreate our world for the better. Tererai points out that there is a massive, untapped, global resource in women who have, for one reason or another, set aside their wisdom, their skills, and their dreams in order to take care of the personal business of their lives. Not only is this a type of invisible suffering experienced by countless women, this rich resource is a secret weapon for improving our world. Women have the capacity to inspire, to create, to transform—and Tererai’s call to action “shines as a beacon of hope to women everywhere” (Danica McKellar, actress and New York Times bestselling author).

Book The Impossible Dream

Download or read book The Impossible Dream written by Ronald L. Soble and published by Scarborough, Ont. : New american Library of Canada. This book was released on 1975 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Zen Pencils Volume Two

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  • Author : Gavin Aung Than
  • Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • Release : 2015-10-13
  • ISBN : 1449475132
  • Pages : 175 pages

Download or read book Zen Pencils Volume Two written by Gavin Aung Than and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of Zen Pencils comics takes more of your favorite inspirational quotes and poetry and transforms them into heartwarming cartoon stories. Featuring quotes of revered minds including Isaac Asimov, Maya Angelou, Kahlil Gibran, Robert F. Kennedy, and William Shakespeare plus celebrities such as Amy Poehler, Jim Henson, and Kevin Smith, wise words are given a new lease on life through the medium of comics. This collection also includes a pull-out poster and an all-new 16-page story from creator Gavin Aung Than.

Book The Impossible Dream

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  • Author : Allyson Baldwin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-12
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Impossible Dream written by Allyson Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I don't see how it can be done. This is an impossible dream." These words from a respected colleague didn't stop Calvin and Carol Conkey. God had given them the huge vision of reaching over two hundred mega-people groups with a culturally relevant gospel presentation-a task that should take three lifetimes. The Conkeys brought their impossible dream to God and trusted Him to accomplish what they could not. They gave their faith and the cameras in their hands to God, and He accomplished the impossible. In the last thirty years, their films have reached millions of unreached people. This book is for those willing to dream big with God. Story after story will encourage you to believe that nothing is too big for God. When He plants a dream in your heart, He will make it possible.

Book Simple Steps to Impossible Dreams

Download or read book Simple Steps to Impossible Dreams written by Steven K. Scott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-04-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps readers define their most important goals, pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses, and use their newly acquired insights to make the" impossible" real.

Book She Fulfilled the Impossible Dream

Download or read book She Fulfilled the Impossible Dream written by DeWitt S. Williams and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 1985 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Another Nun   s Story

Download or read book Another Nun s Story written by Beth Warren and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1947, author Beth Warren, entered the convent because she believed God called her to a special life of service for His people. She had a passionate love for nuns who combined their religious lives with outgoing compassion for others. Warren wanted to be just like them. She dreamed that answering her Call to religious life would help make the world a better place. During the sixties, Pope John XXIII asked nuns to look outside their convent walls to see where they were most needed. Warren was drawn to working with disadvantaged people, but she was told she was a teacher, not a social worker. She realized that to serve God’s deprived people and live among them, she would need to leave her religious Community. In Another Nun’s Story, Warren chronicles her joys and difficulties during her religious life from the 1940s to the 1980s. She discusses how being a rebel nun led her to break her vows and left her with unraveled feelings and some guilt. But she came to understand she was saying goodbye to an impossible dream so she could pursue one that was possible for her.

Book The Impossible Dream

Download or read book The Impossible Dream written by Barry J Whyte and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2006, a previously unknown Irish technology company by the name of Steorn created headlines globally when it took out a full-page ad in The Economist, in which it claimed to have made the scientific breakthrough of this – or any other – century: perpetual motion, nothing less than a complete and immediate solution to the global energy crisis. The investment money poured in, with some of Ireland's most respected entrepreneurs and institutions getting on board, but the demonstration of their perpetual-motion machine was a spectacular failure. So how did so many well-meaning and otherwise sensible people get things so desperately, absurdly wrong? The story begins with a malfunctioning CCTV system and ends with an exploding battery, and it drives home Ireland's frenzied state of mind during the Celtic Tiger years.

Book Mouton s Impossible Dream

Download or read book Mouton s Impossible Dream written by Anik McGrory and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mouton the sheep is fascinated by the thought of flying and she gets her wish, when she is sent up in the Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon in 1783.

Book An Impossible Dream Story

Download or read book An Impossible Dream Story written by J. V. Petretta and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vinny tells his roller-coaster story with passion and humor, inviting all of us to join his bicycle ride through the many winding paths of his life. Coming out, growing up, serving his country and fighting for others against all odds: This journey gives hope to anyone on the front line of our equality struggle." Lt. Dan Choi West Point Graduate, Iraq War Veteran and Infantry Officer, honorably discharged for telling the truth and starting a group of West Point LGBT Graduates. An accomplished, aging man is preparing for yet another dream-to conduct the first known bicycle-book tour (which will require peddling both miles and books.) Who will believe 2,500 miles is possible for a man with gravely serious medical issues-at age sixty-five? Witnessing the lifetime spiritual journey of Vinny Pirelli, starting at age six with his very first bicycle, you track his development of being the only boy among many siblings, through growing pains of adolescence and teen years. He struggles with, and represses homosexual tendencies, putting his emotions into bicycling and writing songs. As a young adult, Vinny proves successful at whatever he attempts-even in building a family with the first girl he had sexual feelings for. As a ten-year Army leader, he learns hard lessons of losing friendships, love and trust, with the ultimate betrayal of his own father. J.V. Petretta is a graduate of U. of Maryland, European Division. He is a ten-year U.S. Army Veteran with three overseas tours, including Vietnam. After his honorable discharge, he received a Meritorious Service Medal for distinguished service as 1st Armored Division's Nuclear Control Chief. In addition to earning numerous business accolades, he organized and conducted a 5,000 mile bicycle tour in 1995, bringing critical awareness and funding for AIDS. Author's proceeds from the sale of this book will be divided among selected cycling and LGBT advocate groups, and his own future work in Africa. Contact: [email protected]

Book Freddie s Impossible Dream

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  • Author : Nigel Lungenmuss-Ward
  • Publisher : Miss Wright Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2020-12-18
  • ISBN : 9781838020583
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Freddie s Impossible Dream written by Nigel Lungenmuss-Ward and published by Miss Wright Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freddie has always dreamt of being in a band, but a terrible event from his childhood is holding him back. Will Freddie let the past shape his future? Or will he be brave enough to achieve his impossible dream? Open the book to share and support Freddie on his incredible journey. This picture book was written and illustrated by a father and a son who want to show the world that anything is possible, no matter how old you are! Join them on their journey!