Download or read book Dead on the Rio Grande written by Eric Mettenbrink and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead on the Rio Grande is a surreal story of crime and corruption on the Rio Grande. A small group of undocumented immigrants are victims of a horrific act when attempting to cross the Rio Grande and a law firm has assigned Martin Dye for pro bono representation of an under aged victim. Although Martin's motivations are somewhat disingenuous, his life is soon thrust into despair as he navigates through a perilous route involving corruption, kidnapping, narcotics, murder and mysterious figures pushing him to juxtaposed ethical positions. The story follows Martin Dye as his mission changes from helping an unfortunate victim to his own survival. The border cities and towns of Texas are friendly, familial and move at a different pace than the rest of the country. However, there has always been a dark underlying element that has become exasperated in recent years. We tend to be bombarded with commentary of a pending wall and trafficking, but the characteristics of the Rio Grande are far more complex than we are led to believe.
Download or read book The Rio Grande Blues Death and Mexico written by Earl Rymkus and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death Makes the News written by Jessica M Fishman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Media Ecology Association's Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction Winner of the Eastern Communication Association's Everett Lee Hunt Award A behind-the-scenes account of how death is presented in the media Death is considered one of the most newsworthy events, but words do not tell the whole story. Pictures are also at the epicenter of journalism, and when photographers and editors illustrate fatalities, it often raises questions about how they distinguish between a “fit” and “unfit” image of death. Death Makes the News is the story of this controversial news practice: picturing the dead. Jessica Fishman uncovers the surprising editorial and political forces that structure how the news and media cover death. The patterns are striking, overturning long-held assumptions about which deaths are newsworthy and raising fundamental questions about the role that news images play in our society. In a look behind the curtain of newsrooms, Fishman observes editors and photojournalists from different types of organizations as they deliberate over which images of death make the cut, and why. She also investigates over 30 years of photojournalism in the tabloid and patrician press to establish when the dead are shown and whose dead body is most newsworthy, illustrating her findings with high-profile news events, including recent plane crashes, earthquakes, hurricanes, homicides, political unrest, and war-time attacks. Death Makes the News reveals that much of what we think we know about the news is wrong: while the patrician press claims that they do not show dead bodies, they are actually more likely than the tabloid press to show them—even though the tabloids actually claim to have no qualms showing these bodies. Dead foreigners are more likely to be shown than American bodies. At the same time, there are other unexpected but vivid patterns that offer insight into persistent editorial forces that routinely structure news coverage of death. An original view on the depiction of dead bodies in the media, Death Makes the News opens up new ways of thinking about how death is portrayed.
Download or read book Rio Grande Ecosystems written by Deborah M. Finch and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings are an outcome of a symposium and workshop held June 2-5, 1998 in Albuquerque, NM. Hosted by the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bosque Improvement Group, in collaboration with numerous partners from a variety of sectors, the symposium was designed to report on current research and development activities in the Middle Rio Grande Basin. The purpose of the meeting was to share information and develop ideas for sustaining and conserving Middle Rio Grande Basin ecosystems, especially those from Cochiti Dam to Elephant Butte Reservoir. Experts were invited to contribute oral presentations, posters, and papers that addressed five Basin themes. Theme one's session was designed to identify methods and opportunities to enhance communication and collaboration among researchers, managers, and communities. A second theme explored ideas and approaches for conserving water and riparian resources in relation to human needs and population growth. Theme three discussed how watershed processes form linkages and influence management of upland and river resources. A fourth session identified methods and strategies for restoring and monitoring basin ecosystems and discussed project successes and failures. Theme five reported on status of endangered and sensitive species, biological diversity, and opportunities for restoring and managing habitats to recover species. Management and understanding of the Middle Rio Grande Basin's natural resources and ecosystems require communication and cooperation of partners across cultural, landowner, and organizational boundaries. To produce a shared understanding of the current state and desired future state of the Middle Rio Grande Basin and to outline the steps needed to move toward the desired future, a facilitated workshop was held the last day of the conference. The results of this workshop are reported in the concluding section of this proceedings. The technical coordinators of the symposium and proceedings wish to acknowledge all the partners who have contributed to the research, restoration, technology development, educational outreach, and special events and activities designed to improve human and ecosystem conditions in the Basin. We hope this volume captures at least some of the excitement, ideas, and productivity generated by Basin projects over the past several years.
Download or read book Rio Grande Death Ride written by Terrell L. Bowers and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death Rides the Rio Grande written by Bradford Scott and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rio Grande s Last Race and Other Verses written by A. B. Paterson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses is the second collection of poems by the famous Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in 1902, and features the poems "Rio Grande's Last Race", "Mulga Bill's Bicycle", "Saltbush Bill's Game Cock" and "Saltbush Bill's Second Fight". Paterson is famed for writing poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales, where he spent much of his childhood.
Download or read book Rio Grande Fall written by Rudolfo Anaya and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Mexico PI tries to stop a cult leader’s murderous rampage in “a fascinating hybrid of detective story, adventure yarn, and shamanistic magic.” —Kirkus Reviews The world-famous International Balloon Fiesta of Albuquerque is one of the city’s most eagerly anticipated annual events and its biggest moneymaker. But when a woman plunges to her death from one of the balloons—foreshadowed by Sonny Baca’s vision of a body plummeting from the sky—Sonny’s sure it’s murder. The dead woman was the chief witness to testify against the cult implicated in the murder-for-hire of Sonny’s cousin Gloria, whose death still haunts him. In addition to motive, Sonny finds means and opportunity: a homeless family who saw someone push Veronica Worthy out of the hot-air balloon. Worthy was one of the four wives of Raven, leader of the sun cult, and a dangerous, shamanlike criminal who’s supposed to be dead. But the four black feathers found on the corpse are his calling card—clues to let Sonny know he’s alive and kicking. And his murder spree isn’t over. Now, led by his spirit guides, Sonny must race to stop a vengeful madman and save the woman he loves. From the American Book Award–winning author, this is “a completely entertaining mystery novel [that] offers two parallel lands of enchantment” (Booklist).
Download or read book Floaters Poems written by Martín Espada and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry From the winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize come masterfully crafted narratives of protest, grief and love. Martín Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness," says Richard Blanco. Floaters offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love from one of the essential voices in American poetry. Floaters takes its title from a term used by certain Border Patrol agents to describe migrants who drown trying to cross over. The title poem responds to the viral photograph of Óscar and Valeria, a Salvadoran father and daughter who drowned in the Río Grande, and allegations posted in the "I’m 10-15" Border Patrol Facebook group that the photo was faked. Espada bears eloquent witness to confrontations with anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago, and now sings the praises of Central American adolescents kicking soccer balls over a barbed wire fence in an internment camp founded on that same bigotry. He also knows that times of hate call for poems of love—even in the voice of a cantankerous Galápagos tortoise. The collection ranges from historical epic to achingly personal lyrics about growing up, the baseball that drops from the sky and smacks Espada in the eye as he contemplates a girl’s gently racist question. Whether celebrating the visionaries—the fallen dreamers, rebels and poets—or condemning the outrageous governmental neglect of his father’s Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane María, Espada invokes ferocious, incandescent spirits.
Download or read book Storm On The Rio Grande written by Jan Atencio and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-01-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artist Anne Devon Hunter's life is changed in one, tragic day, with the murder of her husband, world renowned Author, Jack Hunter. She is suddenly thrown into a world of terror, as whoever is behind his murder seems to be looking for something from Jack's past. A past that Anne has little knowledge of. Detective Rick Velarde is assigned to the Hunter case, and as he delves deeper into the murder of Jack Hunter, he comes face-to-face with ghosts from his past, as well. A past he has long avoided. Both Anne and Rick travel a perilous road as they try to uncover the sinister plot behind Jack's death. Through this journey, they discover themselves and find true healing. Set in Albuquerque and parts of Northern New Mexico, some of the distinctive culture, food and traditions of the Land of Enchantment are brought to life. Enjoy the inter-twining of los colores de Nuevo Mexico (the colors of New Mexico) set against a backdrop of mystery and intrigue.
Download or read book War and Peace on the Rio Grande Frontier 1830 1880 written by Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical record of the Rio Grande valley through much of the nineteenth century reveals well-documented violence fueled by racial hatred, national rivalries, lack of governmental authority, competition for resources, and an international border that offered refuge to lawless men. Less noted is the region’s other everyday reality, one based on coexistence and cooperation among Mexicans, Anglo-Americans, and the Native Americans, African Americans, and Europeans who also inhabited the borderlands. War and Peace on the Rio Grande Frontier, 1830–1880 is a history of these parallel worlds focusing on a border that gave rise not only to violent conflict but also cooperation and economic and social advancement. Meeting here are the Anglo-Americans who came to the border region to trade, spread Christianity, and settle; Mexicans seeking opportunity in el norte; Native Americans who raided American and Mexican settlements alike for plunder and captives; and Europeans who crisscrossed the borderlands seeking new futures in a fluid frontier space. Historian Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga draws on national archives, letters, consular records, periodicals, and a host of other sources to give voice to borderlanders’ perspectives as he weaves their many, varied stories into one sweeping narrative. The tale he tells is one of economic connections and territorial disputes, of refugees and bounty hunters, speculation and stakeholding, smuggling and theft and other activities in which economic considerations often carried more weight than racial prejudice. Spanning the Anglo settlement of Texas in the 1830s, the Texas Revolution, the Republic of Texas , the US-Mexican War, various Indian wars, the US Civil War, the French intervention into Mexico, and the final subjugation of borderlands Indians by the combined forces of the US and Mexican armies, this is a magisterial work that forever alters, complicates, and enriches borderlands history. Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas
Download or read book Death Trailer Or The Bravo of the Rio Grande written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rio Grande written by Tim McNeese and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the river's facts and history as well as the people and communities that need the river for survival.
Download or read book For Life and Love written by Richard Henry Savage and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from For Life and Love: A Story of the Rio Grande, and Leavenworth Lay Dying, With His Head Upon My an Only a Tress of Rose, a Rose, Dead Many a Was Upon the Sandy Banks of the Rio Grande, Where We Lay Few of the recent American novelists have attained the success of Richard Henry Savage, whose dashing and romantic stories are to-day published in Germany and England as well as America. His experiences are as varied as the scenes of his works, and, save India and Australia, he is familiar with the entire route of the wayfarer in life. Student, traveller, soldier, author, and scientist, his forty-seven years have been marked by mental toil, physical hardship, and stirring adventure. The author of "My Official Wife" was born in Utica, New York, and as a lad, arriving in California in 1852, attended the first public school in San Francisco, being the youngest scholar in the first class of the High School. Taken to the wilds of Nevada County, where his father was a leading merchant, the youth saw, in its prime, the wild life of Bret Harte's heroes. Later, in San Francisco, he witnessed the Vigilance Committees sway of 1856, and the final crystallization of California society. His law studies with Edward Stanley and Sidney V. Smith, of San Francisco, were interrupted by the war. A commission in the California Volunteers was reluctantly declined by reason of his minority, and in 1864 he was entered at West Point, representing the San Francisco district. Already a fearless rider and a daring hunter, he soon excelled in physical exercises, taking a distinguished rank in his class, and was graduated in 1868 as Lieutenant of Engineers, the highest corps. He was a leading cadet officer and led his class in law, literature, ethics, and several branches of science. From 1868 to '71, Lieutenant Savage served as Engineer officer and personal Aide-de-Camp of the heroic Gen. Geo. H. Thomas, who was attracted to the spirited young officer who had executed dangerous and difficult duties on the Western frontiers. From 1861 Mr. Savage had been writing now-forgotten poetry for the Golden Era, essays and newspaper work, and desirous of travel, he resigned from the army and visited Europe for two years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Rio Grande and Low Flow Conveyance Channel Modifications Socorro and Sierra Counties written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Army on the Rio Grande written by Thomas Bangs Thorpe and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Borders of Belonging written by Heide Castañeda and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America—the impact of immigration policies and practices not only on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status. Heide Castañeda reveals the trauma, distress, and inequalities that occur daily, alongside the stratification of particular family members' access to resources like education, employment, and health care. She also paints a vivid picture of the resilience, resistance, creative responses, and solidarity between parents and children, siblings, and other kin. Castañeda's innovative ethnography combines fieldwork with individuals and family groups to paint a full picture of the experiences of mixed-status families as they navigate the emotional, social, political, and medical difficulties that inevitably arise when at least one family member lacks legal status. Exposing the extreme conditions in the heavily-regulated U.S./Mexico borderlands, this book presents a portentous vision of how the further encroachment of immigration enforcement would affect millions of mixed-status families throughout the country.
