Download or read book Beyond the Burning Bus written by J. Phillips Noble and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anniston, Alabama, is a small industrial city between Birmingham and Atlanta. In 1961, the city’s potential for race-related violence was graphically revealed when the Ku Klux Klan firebombed a Freedom Riders bus. In response to that incident, a few black and white leaders in Anniston took a progressive view that desegregation was inevitable and that it was better to unite the community than to divide it. To that end, the city created a biracial Human Relations Council which set about to quietly dismantle Jim Crow segregation laws and customs. This was such a novel notion in George Wallace’s Alabama that President Kennedy phoned with congratulations. The Council did not prevent all disorder in Anniston—there was one death and the usual threats, crossburnings, and a widely publicized beating of two black ministers—yet Anniston was spared much of the civil rights bitterness that raged in other places in the turbulent mid-sixties. Author Phil Noble’s account is carefully researched but told from a personal viewpoint. It shows once again that the civil rights movement was not monolithic either for those who were in it or those who were opposed to it.
Download or read book The Short Bus written by Jonathan Mooney and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labeled "dyslexic and profoundly learning disabled with attention and behavior problems," Jonathan Mooney was a short bus rider--a derogatory term used for kids in special education and a distinction that told the world he wasn't "normal." Along with other kids with special challenges, he grew up hearing himself denigrated daily. Ultimately, Mooney surprised skeptics by graduating with honors from Brown University. But he could never escape his past, so he hit the road. To free himself and to learn how others had moved beyond labels, he bought his own short bus and set out cross-country, looking for kids who had dreamed up magical, beautiful ways to overcome the obstacles that separated them from the so-called normal world.--From publisher description.
Download or read book Beyond Yamashita and Percival written by Shaari Isa and published by Malaysian Institute of Translation & Books. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is set against the background of the Malay Peninsula and Singapore during the Second World years of 1941 to 1945. As implied from the title, is is not merely a story about two generals, Yamashita and Percival, but also the effect of their decisions upon the lives of people who were caught in the war the British residents and the locals of diverse cultures. The novel focuses on the theme of love and war. It discusses the frailties of human emotion that led to both. It portrays the lives of the various societies there at the time before, during and after the outbreak of the war: first the British, the elite society during the colonial years with their comfortable life, quite ignorant of Japanese clandestine activities, which were to have such a profound effect on their lives soon after. Amidst all these the novel also portrays the love, illicit and otherwise that inevitably grew out the events related to the war. In addition, the novel also looks at other parts of the social environment, at the effects of the war on the local population: the Malays who saw the war as an opportunity to prepare themselves towards self-government and independence; the Chinese who looked upon the Japanese as their bitter enemies for invading their homeland, China, and who must opposed at all costs; the Indians who were indifferent to all events around them; their main concern being to earn just enough for themselves and for their families back home in India. This is a novel dominated by historical facts related to the war period interlaced with fictional events related to the life and the loves of the fictional characters during the war. It carries a message about the meaninglessness of war; that pride of the victor is just temporary and trivial but the human suffering caused by the war is unfathomable and simply unforgivable. Shaari Isa has equal love for academic and creative writings. He began his career as a teacher and subsequently became a professional accountant and a university lecturer. His writings reflects his deep concern for social order, clear thinking and human happiness. He lives in Kuala Lumpur.
Download or read book My City Was Gone written by Dennis Love and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful and important, My City Was Gone is the cautionary tale of how a hardworking small town was destroyed by the very forces that created it. Anniston, Alabama, was once a thriving industrial hub, home to a Monsanto chemical plant as well as a federal depot for chemical weapons. Now its notoriety comes from its exceptionally high cancer rate—some 25 percent above the state norm—and the town's determined citizens who joined together and struck back at the corporation. As provocative and timely as Erin Brockovich or A Civil Action, My City Was Gone is a magnificently told true story of ordinary citizens in a small Southern town who led a legendary fight against corporate pollution and wrongdoing.
Download or read book Baptized in PCBs written by Ellen Griffith Spears and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town
Download or read book Buses Are a Comin written by Charles Person and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward—written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female activists—including future Congressman John Lewis, Congress of Racial Equality Director James Farmer, Reverend Benjamin Elton Cox, journalist and pacifist James Peck, and CORE field secretary Genevieve Hughes—set out to discover whether America would abide by a Supreme Court decision that ruled segregation unconstitutional in bus depots, waiting areas, restaurants, and restrooms nationwide. Two buses proceeded through Virginia, North and South Carolina, to Georgia where they were greeted by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and finally to Alabama. There, the Freedom Riders found their answer: No. Southern states would continue to disregard federal law and use violence to enforce racial segregation. One bus was burned to a shell, its riders narrowly escaping; the second, which Charles rode, was set upon by a mob that beat several riders nearly to death. Buses Are a Comin’ provides a front-row view of the struggle to belong in America, as Charles Person accompanies his colleagues off the bus, into the station, into the mob, and into history to help defeat segregation’s violent grip on African American lives. It is also a challenge from a teenager of a previous era to the young people of today: become agents of transformation. Stand firm. Create a more just and moral country where students have a voice, youth can make a difference, and everyone belongs.
Download or read book Beyond Burning Sands written by P R Adams and published by Promethean Tales. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deadliest hunter is human. Reggie Lee has survived the nightmarish, genetically engineered horrors of Cro-Magnons and sharpteeth that ruled the ruins of Las Vegas. Now he must face the greatest threat of all: another human. Snake is a former rival from the world before the cataclysm, and he has declared war on all other humans. To survive, Reggie must find more answers, because fighting Snake will require a strength Reggie might not have. But if he can't stop Snake, humanity truly is doomed. Read book three of this horrifying post-apocalyptic series and see if you can go Beyond Burning Sands.
Download or read book Backpacking Beyond Boundaries written by Tim Ramsden and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backpacking Beyond Boundaries is the story of a young man who puts his career on hold in search of adventure and the discovery of his inner being. He leaves South Africa in 1990 while Nelson Mandela is still in prison and South Africa ruled by a white minority government. His travels take him through 35 countries and cultures as far afield as South East Asia where he spends one year; exotic islands of Thailand, hitchhiking through Malaysia, charming beauty of Sri Lanka, overland through India into Nepal and finally back to Thailand. He also buses through Morocco and into the Sahara Desert. In Turkey he joins a group of 11 fellow backpackers and travels across the country. Behind the Iron Curtain he visits East Germany and the Berlin Wall, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary seeing communism at work. In 1996 he returns to a free South Africa, one now with equal rights and called the Rainbow Nation, before choosing a new life in Canada. In 2003 he travels to Namibia and reconnects with his army past. And in 2005 he makes a special journey to Mozambique with two army friends to see the prison where one of them was held captive.
Download or read book Writing Lives Second Edition written by Staunton, Irene and published by Weaver Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Lives is the seventh of Weaver's anthologies of short stories following Writing Still, Writing Now, Laughing Now, Women Writing Zimbabwe, Mazambuko and Writing Free. As with the other anthologies, this vibrant collection reflects the lives and experiences of Zimbabweans as filtered through the lens of each author's perceptions. Writing Lives gives us stories that will make us laugh and bring tears to our eyes as it provides a focus on the past, the present and even the future.
Download or read book Lost in a Journey written by Daniel P’Lopez and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its the end of the summer in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and an eager group of high school teenagers pack into a bus for a well-planned week at a summer camp. What could possibly go wrong? Everything does! After a devastating accident, the surviving students find themselves all alone against the untamed wilderness, pitted against each other, with no idea how to get home and no means of survival. Will this group of friends endure the hardships of the Forest Mountains? Will they be able to work together in order to survive? Or will they destroy each other before the darkest elements of nature beat them to it.
Download or read book Faith Hope and Love written by Sarojini and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portion of the book proceeds will be used towards the Clean India Mission (Swachh Bharat Abhiyan/Village Upliftment). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A sculptor sees the beautiful statue: the image of a Jesus, a Buddha, a Rama, a Krishna, or a Sai hidden in a boulder. All his effort is essentially to remove the obscuring rock and release the image that was all along within. The Lord himself is the Divine Sculptor. The world is the Sculptors studio; life and the experiences it affords are the tools used by the Divine Sculptor to chisel out the excess rock and release the divine image trapped in the human boulder. This is a story of such transformation from unhewn self to radiant Self. Sarojini and Shyam Kanagala are seekers of the higher wisdom. They participate actively in nonprofit organizations dedicated to serving under privileged communities in different parts of the world including - the U.S.A, Nepal, and India. This little book contains all the gems of the universal teachings of all the ancient masters of spiritual cultures past and present; that of love, inner peace, and brotherhood...a birthright of all who manifest on this tiny planet. Isaac Burton Tigrett, founder of The Hard Rock Cafe and The House of Blues This book is a delightful two-part ride into deep spacespiritual spacein a cosmic chariot drawn by two quite different yet matching steeds. Part I, The Journey Begins, consists of Sarojinis true life stories that help clear up why were all here. Part II, Home Coming, is husband Shyams learned probe into what here really means and lays out the map for getting to it. Jack Hawley, author of The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners
Download or read book Bellydancing And Beyond Boxset written by Kerrie Noor and published by Kerrie noor. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three books, three comedies with all your favorite characters from the Belly Dancing and Beyond series- laugh-out-loud stories about a group of women who have at one time or another danced with the great Nefertiti. Indulge in the laughter, love, and drama as these three captivating stories unfold against the backdrop of the Belly Dancing. Each book is a stand-alone adventure, but together they weave a tapestry of friendship, sisterhood, and the enduring power of dance. Whether you're a fan of sequins, romance, or simply enjoy a good belly laugh, this series has it all. Book 1- Sheryl's Last Stand "A poignant romantic comedy." ★★★★★ “The voice is Scottish urban girl snark." ★★★★★ "Good read, funny, fast-paced, zany characters." ★★★★★ Book 2-The Downfall Of A Bellydancer "Funny, witty, and rapid-paced." ★★★★★ "Funny, Poignant, and charming!" ★★★★★ "Laugh out loud funny." ★★★★★ Book 3-Four Takeaways And A Funeral< "A fun and captivating comedy." ★★★★★ "Great British rom-com." ★★★★★ An adorable comedy about sibling rivalry and Indian food." ★★★★★
Download or read book Beyond Burning Bras written by Laura L. Finley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a practical guide to the everyday actions and decisions that anyone can take to promote gender equality and social justice in their own life and the world around them. Beyond Burning Bras: Feminist Activism for Everyone is an antidote to the poison of shock jocks who caricature the women's movement as a radical fringe of man-haters and paint activists as spoiled hooligans. Two real-life feminist activists, Laura Finley and Emily Stringer focus on the mainstream of everyday feminism, explaining what feminism is really all about and fanning out a spectrum of simple, imaginative, user-friendly ways in which ordinary readers can promote gender equality and social equity in their own lives and in the world around them. Beyond Burning Bras taps the life stories and first-person accounts of 50 ordinary individuals of every age, sex, sexuality, class, nationality, race, ethnicity, and learning style. All of them tell how they found within themselves the courage to take a stand on the front lines of feminist activism, whether in subtle private ways or in life-changing public ways. After a survey of the history of feminism in the United States, the authors and contributors show in successive chapters how feminism today meshes with other forms of activism relating to the workplace, sexual violence, the environment, politics, human bodies, the arts, youth, empowerment, and mothering.
Download or read book Silly Beyond All Get Out written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Baghdad and Beyond written by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'To Baghdad and Beyond' is the story of a young evangelical couple who followed the conviction of their faith into a war zone and discovered an alternative to the violence of empires and the complicity of quietism in the "third way" of Jesus's beloved community. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove writes of his journey from a rural Southern Baptist church to Iraq in a time of war to a Christian community of hospitality in an urban neighborhood. Excited by ways that Christian hope is taking concrete form, Wilson-Hartgrove describes a new monastic movement that is witnessing to a world at war that another way is possible.
Download or read book Reluctant Warrior written by Winston Lavallee and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Never fear, the Army is on its way!” Jim Dudley, a cocky youngster and newly minted ROTC Lieutenant, finds that the tank corps is not for him. As luck would have it, he qualifies by college training as a Medical Service Corps entomologist and serves on active duty as an instructor and sanitary specialist. Serving among scores of Army stalwarts and rouges, he soon learns to discern armed forces reality from illusion. All the while, war in Southeast Asia, increasing civil rights conflicts and racial prejudice in the U. S. weigh heavily on Jim and his young family as they experience the ins and outs of Army life. After war games in Carolina, he is unexpectedly assigned to duty in Viet Nam where he is wounded. Relieved from active duty, he leaves the Army for college teaching, but encouraged by his wife, Laurie and a college buddy, he volunteers to help returning veterans reconstruct their lives in the face of an ungrateful public, a challenge equal to anything the Army threw at him. Jim and Laurie persevere, but find that military and social conflict often lies waiting within the human conscious, affecting for every generation including their own children. Counting on a little bit of luck, they hope damage control will again carry the day.
Download or read book Rooms of Life and the Beyond Inside written by Viktoria B. Knots and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For author Viktoria B. Knots, the different parts of her life feel like individual rooms. In Rooms of Life – and the BEYOND inside, she examines her life as a series of ‘rooms,’ beginning with her early years and continuing through to the present day. In her family Viktoria was known as the sensitive and serious child, always in search of finding answers about the meaning and purpose of life. Life’s experiences reinforced these tendencies and heaved her onto the track of spirituality, where she feels at home. In 2007, an epiphany happened on a spiritual journey in Egypt, and two years later another one in Peru, during a Shamanic ceremony, with the so-called vine of the soul, Ayahuasca, that opened a new understanding about life for her. She was then ‘sent’ on many a journey, sometimes with a mission. Overtoning and sound healing began to fascinate her, and she immersed in it. Through visiting mediumistic and trance courses at the Arthur Findley College in England, new fields opened, communicating the message: There is a vast field out there to be explored in the BEYOND inside. We just have to dare go there for visits to help us in widening our consciousness.
