Download or read book African Americans of Alexandria Virginia written by Char McCargo Bah and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sitting just south of the nation's capital, Alexandria has a long and storied history." "Still, little is known of Alexandria's twentieth-century African American community. Experience the harrowing narratives of trials and triumph as Alexandria's African Americans helped to shape not only their hometown but also the world around them. Rutherford Adkins became one of the first black fighter pilots as a Tuskegee Airman. Samuel Tucker, a twenty-six-year-old lawyer, organized and fought for Alexandria to share its wealth of knowledge with the African American community by opening its libraries to all colors and creeds. Discover a vibrant past that, through this record, will be remembered forever as Alexandria's beacon of hope and light.
Download or read book Art History for Filmmakers written by Gillian McIver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to describe visual things. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its relationship with the visual arts – mainly painting, the oldest of the art forms. Art History for Filmmakers is an inspiring guide to how images from art can be used by filmmakers to establish period detail, and to teach composition, color theory and lighting. The book looks at the key moments in the development of the Western painting, and how these became part of the Western visual culture from which cinema emerges, before exploring how paintings can be representative of different genres, such as horror, sex, violence, realism and fantasy, and how the images in these paintings connect with cinema. Insightful case studies explore the links between art and cinema through the work of seven high-profile filmmakers, including Peter Greenaway, Peter Webber, Jack Cardiff, Martin Scorsese, Guillermo del Toro, Quentin Tarantino and Stan Douglas. A range of practical exercises are included in the text, which can be carried out singly or in small teams. Featuring stunning full-color images, Art History for Filmmakers provides budding filmmakers with a practical guide to how images from art can help to develop their understanding of the visual language of film.
Download or read book 1771 1785 written by George Washington and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No One Sleeps in Alexandria written by Ibrāhīm ʻAbd al-Majīd and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping novel depicts the intertwined lives of an assortment of Egyptians--Muslims and Copts, northerners and southerners, men and women--as they begin to settle in Egypt's great second city, and explores how the Second World War, starting in supposedly faraway Europe, comes crashing down on them, affecting their lives in fateful ways. Central to the novel is the story of a striking friendship between Sheikh Magd al-Din, a devout Muslim with peasant roots in northern Egypt, and Dimyan, a Copt with roots in southern Egypt, in their journey of survival and self-discovery. Woven around this narrative are the stories of other characters, in the city, in the villages, or in the faraway desert, closer to the fields of combat. And then there is the story of Alexandria itself, as written by history, as experienced by its denizens, and as touched by the war. Throughout, the author captures the cadences of everyday life in the Alexandria of the early 1940s, and boldly explores the often delicate question of religious differences in depth and on more than one level. No One Sleeps in Alexandria adds an authentically Egyptian vision of Alexandria to the many literary--but mainly Western--Alexandrias we know already: it may be the same space in which Cavafy, Forster, and Durrell move but it is certainly not the same world.
Download or read book The Scribes from Alexandria written by Caroline Lawrence and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A desperate quest begins in the port of Alexandria: site of the great lighthouse, the famous Library, and the tomb of Alexander the Great. Codes, riddles, anagrams and hieroglyphics lead the young detectives down the river Nile to pyramids and sphinxes, temples and tombs, crocodiles and hippos. But what lies at the end of the journey? Treasure? Or death?
Download or read book Walk and Bike the Alexandria Heritage Trail written by Pamela J. Cressey and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first bicycling and walking guide to Alexandria, Virginia's rich cultural and shipping heritage and important place in American history.
Download or read book In the Making written by Tianamonet Tobie and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to help adults, but mainly the youth in surviving while learning from the everyday trails & tribulations. Nothing is too hard to perform; any and everything can be achieved with FAITH and prayer to the Awesome LORD above! If everyone remember that GOD will NEVER put too much on us that we cant handle; everything will always be alright. As long as each individual can stand proud and believe in themselves; they should overcome all fears and become successful. Nothing in life is just giving to us without a little FAITH, help, guidance, money, love, patience and tolerance! LIFE IS ALL ABOUOT LIVING IT UP, TAKEN CHANCES, LEARNING FROM MANY MISTAKES AND EXPERIENCES AND LAUGHING WHILE LIVING. IN THE END; WE ALL ONLY HAVE ONE LIFE TO LIVE! I want to first off thank God for all he does and will continue to do for me and my family. I want to secondly thank my mother for all of her unconditional love, support, guidance and help. I want to thirdly thank my son and daughter for helping me stay focus and be the best mother I know how to be; for it is their love, beauty and health that keep me alive and happy! I Also want to thank my five brothers for always having my back, giving me positive lectures and unconditional love. Lastly I want to thank all my friends, fans and everyone else who appreciate me and my doings and also support me. I have revised the ending to this book three times because life can be mysterious and unexpectedly surprising. Im only able to write this book and give such G.A.M.E. and knowledge to the readers in the world because I have courage and past experience mixed with present experience. I hope this book can bring LIFE & JOY to everyone who read this book. It has a lot of teachings inside each chapter and can help anyone learn and be more open-minded to productive things and success! May you read this book with an open mind and stay focus. Also remember to stay open-minded and read my other book: inner impression/outer expression. Thank you and May God Bless you and your family!
Download or read book American Lumberman written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alexandria written by E. M. Forster and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-11 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alexandria" by E. M. Forster. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Campaign Contributions Political Activities and Lobbying Hearing Before 84 2 Pursuant to S Res 219 of the 84th Cong and S Res 47 of the 85th Cong October 8 10 November 26 27 December 11 12 13 1956 January 22 February 28 and March 14 1957 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Poliltical Activities, Lobbying, and Campaign Contributions and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt C 300 B C to A D 700 written by Judith McKenzie and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterful history of the monumental architecture of Alexandria, as well as of the rest of Egypt, encompasses an entire millennium—from the city’s founding by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. to the years just after the Islamic conquest of A.D. 642. Long considered lost beyond recall, the architecture of ancient Alexandria has until now remained mysterious. But here Judith McKenzie shows that it is indeed possible to reconstruct the city and many of its buildings by means of meticulous exploration of archaeological remains, written sources, and an array of other fragmentary evidence. The book approaches its subject at the macro- and the micro-level: from city-planning, building types, and designs to architectural style. It addresses the interaction between the imported Greek and native Egyptian traditions; the relations between the architecture of Alexandria and the other cities and towns of Egypt as well as the wider Mediterranean world; and Alexandria’s previously unrecognized role as a major source of architectural innovation and artistic influence. Lavishly illustrated with new plans of the city in the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine periods; reconstruction drawings; and photographs, the book brings to life the ancient city and uncovers the true extent of its architectural legacy in the Mediterranean world.
Download or read book Jasmine and Fire written by Salma Abdelnour and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Beirut exploded with the bombs and violence of a ruthless civil war in the ’80s, a nine-year-old Salma Abdelnour and her family fled Lebanon to start a new life in the States. Ever since then—even as she built a thriving career as a food and travel writer in New York City—Salma has had a hunch that Beirut was still her home. She kept dreaming of moving back—and finally decided to do it. But could she resume her life in Beirut, so many years after her family moved away? Could she, or anyone for that matter, ever really go home again? Jasmine and Fire is Salma’s poignant and humorous journey of trying to resettle in Beirut and fumbling through the new realities of life in one of the world’s most complex, legendary, ever-vibrant, ever-troubled cities. What’s more, in a year of roiling changes around the Middle East and the rise of the Arab Spring, Salma found herself in the midst of the turmoil. As she comes to grips with all the changes in her life—a love left behind in New York and new relationships blossoming in Beirut—Salma takes comfort in some of Lebanon’s enduring traditions, particularly its extraordinary food culture. Through the sights, sounds, and flavors of a city full of beauty, tragedy, despair, and hope, Salma slowly begins to reconnect with the place she’s longed for her entire life.
Download or read book Hearing s Before the written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
