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Book Growing Up American in Papa s World

Download or read book Growing Up American in Papa s World written by Marie P. Fujii and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this family memoir, Marie Park Fujii recounts the story or her Korean immigrant family as they overcome seemingly insurmountable difficulties by drawing on their close family ties, strong work ethic, optimism and unfailing good humor. Papa came alone from Korea to America in 1904, eventually saving enough to have his family join him. Mama?s unexpected death after the birth of their last child shook his world. Suddenly, Papa was fed with the daunting task of raising seven children, ages two to fourteen, by himself, in a foreign land. America was now his home. As a farmer during the Depression years in Oregon and then Idaho, he struggled to keep his family together. These tales of Papa and his children are sometimes poignant, but more often humorous and a testament to a family that thrived in spite of the lash between Papa?s old world values and the Americanization of his children.

Book An American Family

Download or read book An American Family written by Reid Buckley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of his children, this book offers an unprecedented insider's view of oilman Will Buckley and his wife, and chronicles how the Buckley family have become the mainstays of American conservatism in politics and culture. b&w photos.

Book Shush  Growing Up Jewish under Stalin

Download or read book Shush Growing Up Jewish under Stalin written by Emil Draitser and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many years after making his way to America from Odessa in Soviet Ukraine, Emil Draitser made a startling discovery: every time he uttered the word "Jewish"—even in casual conversation—he lowered his voice. This behavior was a natural by-product, he realized, of growing up in the anti-Semitic, post-Holocaust Soviet Union, when "Shush!" was the most frequent word he heard: "Don't use your Jewish name in public. Don't speak a word of Yiddish. And don't cry over your murdered relatives." This compelling memoir conveys the reader back to Draitser's childhood and provides a unique account of midtwentieth-century life in Russia as the young Draitser struggles to reconcile the harsh values of Soviet society with the values of his working-class Jewish family. Lively, evocative, and rich with humor, this unforgettable story ends with the death of Stalin and, through life stories of the author's ancestors, presents a sweeping panorama of two centuries of Jewish history in Russia.

Book A Child s Garden of Verses

Download or read book A Child s Garden of Verses written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics "Foreign Children," "The Lamplighter," "The Land of Counterpane," "Bed in Summer," "My Shadow" and "The Swing." The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley Glover published a translation of the poems into Latin in 1922 under the title Carmina non prius audita de ludis et hortis virginibus puerisque.

Book Growing Up Protestant

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Lamberts Bendroth
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780813530147
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Growing Up Protestant written by Margaret Lamberts Bendroth and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home and family are key, yet relatively unexplored, dimensions of religion in the contemporary United States. American cultural lore is replete with images of saintly nineteenth-century American mothers and their children. During the twentieth century, however, the form and function of the American family have changed radically, and religious beliefs have evolved under the challenges of modernity. As these transformations took place, how did religion manage to "fit" into modern family life? In this book, Margaret Lamberts Bendroth examines the lives and beliefs of white, middle-class mainline Protestants (principally northern Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and Congregationalists) who are theologically moderate or liberal. Mainliners have pursued family issues for most of the twentieth century, churning out hundreds of works on Christian childrearing. Bendroth's book explores the role of family within a religious tradition that sees itself as America's cultural center. In this balanced analysis, the author traces the evolution of mainliners' roles in middle-class American culture and sharpens our awareness of the ways in which the mainline Protestant experience has actually shaped and reflected the American sense of self.

Book Elsie At the World s Fair

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martha Finley
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2020-07-17
  • ISBN : 3752308281
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book Elsie At the World s Fair written by Martha Finley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Elsie At the World's Fair by Martha Finley

Book No Safe Spaces

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dennis Prager
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2019-09-03
  • ISBN : 1621579824
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book No Safe Spaces written by Dennis Prager and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO TO REMAIN SILENT Terrifying violence on college campuses across America. Students lashing out at any speaker brave enough to say something they disagree with. Precious snow flakes demanding “Safe Spaces” to protect them from any idea they haven’t heard from their liberal professors. In this book and the accompanying movie, Dennis Prager, Mark Joseph, and Adam Carolla expose the attack on free speech and free thought. It began in the universities, but—fair warning—it’s coming to your neighborhood and your workplace. “No Safe Spaces is a film every American should see. I could barely move when it was over. Powerful, emotional, and a call to action for anyone worried about the intellectual fascism happening in this country. A brave, timely, and important film.” —MEGYN KELLY, former FOX News anchor and host of Megyn Kelly Today “There is no free speech in America for free thinkers! You can have free speech in America but only if you say what everybody else agrees with. It’s not enough to ‘live and let live’ now. The psycho-elite believe ‘silence is violence’ and you must actively promote what THEY want no matter how vile or reprehensible it is to you. George Orwell lives! They should’ve called Orwell ‘Nostradamus’ because his most frightening prophecies have come to pass, as you will witness in No Safe Spaces!” —MANCOW MULLER, radio phenomenon “An excellent film, the best I’ve seen on the subject of free speech. I especially like Dennis’s line, ‘They have to believe we are evil; otherwise they’d have to debate us.’ Perfect!” —CAL THOMAS, America’s #1 syndicated columnist

Book Billy Love s Wolfpack

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean Wolf
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2017-11-30
  • ISBN : 1387300318
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Billy Love s Wolfpack written by Jean Wolf and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1928 in Oklahoma, and Billy Love Wolf is on the cusp of womanhood. Cousin Katerina Wolf and Aunt Elisabetha Wolf Braun reside in Germany. These three women are the voices of the Wolf clan, their complex relationships exquisitely intertwined. The pre-war years reveal an America seemingly uninterested in what is happening during Hitler's rise to power-yet there are exceptions, with the three women working against the dark regime. What are their secrets?

Book James

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Barnett
  • Publisher : BFM Books
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 0976486806
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book James written by James Barnett and published by BFM Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States

Download or read book A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States written by Gary Totten and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on the multiethnic literature of the United States A Companion to the Multiethnic Literature of the United States is the first in-depth reference work dedicated to the histories, genres, themes, cultural contexts, and new directions of American literature by authors of varied ethnic backgrounds. Engaging multiethnic literature as a distinct field of study, this unprecedented volume brings together a wide range of critical and theoretical approaches to offer analyses of African American, Latinx, Native American, Asian American, Jewish American, and Arab American literatures, among others. Chapters written by a diverse panel of leading contributors explore how multi-ethnic texts represent racial, ethnic, and other identities, center the lives and work of the marginalized and oppressed, facilitate empathy with the experiences of others, challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, and other hateful rhetoric, and much more. Informed by recent and leading-edge methodologies within the field, the Companion examines how theoretical approaches to multiethnic literature such as cultural studies, queer studies, ecocriticism, diaspora studies, and posthumanism inform literary scholarship, pedagogy, and curricula in the US and around the world. Explores the national, international, and transnational contexts of US ethnic literature Addresses how technology and digital access to archival materials are impacting the study, reception, and writing of multiethnic literature Discusses how recent developments in critical theory impact the reading and interpretation of multiethnic US literature Highlights significant themes and major critical trends in genres including science fiction, drama and performance, literary nonfiction, and poetry Includes coverage of multiethnic film, history, and culture as well as newer art forms such as graphic narrative and hip-hop Considers various contexts in multiethnic literature such as politics and activism, immigration and migration, and gender and sexuality A Companion to the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States is an invaluable resource for scholars, researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers studying all aspects of the subject

Book The Christian Advocate

Download or read book The Christian Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Christian Work and the Evangelist

Download or read book The Christian Work and the Evangelist written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1060 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book The Life Experiences of a World War II  Korea  and Vietnam Black American Army Veteran

Download or read book The Life Experiences of a World War II Korea and Vietnam Black American Army Veteran written by Q. Jarone Batson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I gave considerable thought as to what the title of my autobiography should be. There was never any question that a portion of the title would read, “The Life Experiences of a World War II, Korea, and Vietnam ______? American Army Veteran”, but how would I be described in view of the many “race” descriptions the U.S. Census has used for the black citizens since the first census in 1790? Should I be described as a Colored, Black, Mulatto, Quadroon, Octoroon, African American, or Negro American Army Veterans? I chose BLACK as being the most descriptive term and, as James Brown said, I’m black and I’m proud! My life experiences include a few race-related incidents that occurred before, during and after my military service. Each incident could have greatly influenced my overall attitude towards life, in general, and in an adverse manner, but fortunately did not. Q. Jarone Batson

Book Growing Up in England

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Fletcher
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2010-04-13
  • ISBN : 0300168209
  • Pages : 612 pages

Download or read book Growing Up in England written by Anthony Fletcher and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an entirely fresh view of the upbringing of English children in upper and professional class families over three centuries. Drawing on direct testimony from contemporary diaries and letters, the book revises previous understandings of parenting and what it was like to grow up in the period between 1600 and 1914.Using advice literature which set out developing ideologies of childhood, gender and parenting, the book explores the separate but complementary roles of mothers and fathers in raising their children. Male upbringing is discussed in terms of schooling, female through the moral and social context of a domestic schoolroom dominated by a governess. Boys were trained for the world, girls for society and marriage. Rare teenage diaries surviving from the Georgian and Victorian periods show teenagers speaking for themselves about education; relationships with parents, siblings and friends; and their social, class and gender identity.

Book Growing up and Getting Old Behind the Wheel

Download or read book Growing up and Getting Old Behind the Wheel written by William Schiff and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty and softly sardonic, William Schiffs autobiographical romp describes his lifelong travels from early childhood to the Golden Years. Growing Up and Getting Old Behind the Wheel: An American Auto Biography is framed in a web of Americana, including cars he has ridden in, driven, modified, and even stolen. The span of his story is peppered with allusions to the locales, books, films, music, and social politics of the times he has experienced. He describes his youthful descent with friends into light criminalityhis incarceration, and his ultimate salvation and redemption through America's universities, rather than through its Churches. He sketches his menial jobs as a youth, as well as his later roles as student, university professor, parent, behavioral scientist, and retiree. If youve lived in America between 1940 and today, youll want to come along on the engrossing scenic drive through his vivid memories.

Book Encore American   Worldwide News

Download or read book Encore American Worldwide News written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: