Download or read book Jake Does America written by Jake Sansing and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travelogue about a homeless veteran who traveled all over North America on foot for various charities and self-healing. Experience all of the challenges from his point of view. You'll never look at a homeless person the same again.

Download or read book Jake Does America written by Jake Sansing and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I became homeless after I got out of the Army and decided to use that time to walk across America. After a few months of living on the road, I realized that I needed some kind of motivation to keep me going. I then began raising money for different charities, as well as being an advocate for showing the positive effects that being outdoors can have on PTSD. As time went on, I became obsessed with making a positive difference through hiking. Three years later, I had inadvertently crossed the entire country three times. Although it may sound like an altruistic stroll through the park, each day presented itself with new and unforeseen challenges. Besides battling hunger, dangerous wildlife, harsh weather conditions, and loneliness, I also had to deal with the fact that most people were unaware of my good intentions. So, not only do you get to follow along on an epic adventure with all its daily struggles, but my journey also unveils what it was like to be homeless in America without any special treatment. Jake Does America: 10,000 Mile Trek was originally published on July 3, 2017. The book has since been rewritten, and the manuscript was updated on December 9, 2019. 6x9 Paperback with cream pages 317 pages

Download or read book Jake s America written by Glen Daniels and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Jake, a disgruntled Vietnam vet who isn't happy with the course the nation is taking, so he decides to give up his lavish lifestyle and escape to a simpler life. The question is, can he do it? Then, there is Lydia, a widowed mother of two who is running from a life of pain and remorse toward a life she doesn't even know exists. The two collide in remote Montana. Differences aside, are they good for each other?

Download or read book America written by Stephen Coonts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sams County 08-31-2001 $25.95.

Download or read book Jake Chooses America written by Wilton Watch and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Jake Chooses America," he embarks on a heartwarming journey of the mind as a young and curious adventurer, exploring the world and ultimately learning to appreciate the special place he calls home - The United States of America. "Jake Chooses America" immerses young readers in some of other countries' diverse cultures, landscapes, and natural wonders, allowing your children to understand the beauty and uniqueness in every corner of our planet. Amidst all the awe and discovery, Jake eventually realizes the extraordinary beauty of the country he was fortunate to be born in. "Jake Chooses America" encourages meaningful conversations with your child about the greatness of our country, providing the opportunity to instill in them a sense of patriotism and pride. It opens the door to discussing how fortunate we are to live in a country where people worldwide dream of becoming citizens. The book provides the opportunity to discuss that no country is perfect and also impart the crucial message that our collective responsibility is to strive to improve it daily. Reading "Jake Chooses America" with your children strengthens the connection between you and your little ones, fostering an appreciation for family, community, and the great nation we call home. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to share the joy of reading and meaningful conversations with your children as they embark on Jake's adventure of discovery.

Download or read book American Fiction Between the Wars written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America in the 1920s and '30s saw the emergence of some of the best known writers of the modern generation: John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner.

Download or read book Til Faith Do Us Part written by Naomi Schaefer Riley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, 45% of all marriages in the U.S. were between people of different faiths. The rapidly growing number of mixed-faith families has become a source of hope, encouraging openness and tolerance among religious communities that historically have been insular and suspicious of other faiths. Yet as Naomi Schaefer Riley demonstrates in 'Til Faith Do Us Part, what is good for society as a whole often proves difficult for individual families: interfaith couples, Riley shows, are less happy than others and certain combinations of religions are more likely to lead to divorce. Drawing on in-depth interviews with married and once-married couples, clergy, counselors, sociologists, and others, Riley shows that many people enter into interfaith marriages without much consideration of the fundamental spiritual, doctrinal, and practical issues that divide them. Couples tend to marry in their twenties and thirties, a time when religion diminishes in importance, only to return to faith as they grow older and raise children, suffer the loss of a parent, or experience other major life challenges. Riley suggests that a devotion to diversity as well as to a romantic ideal blinds many interfaith couples to potential future problems. Even when they recognize deeply held differences, couples believe that love conquers all. As a result, they fail to ask the necessary questions about how they will reconcile their divergent worldviews-about raising children, celebrating holidays, interacting with extended families, and more. An obsession with tolerance at all costs, Riley argues, has made discussing the problems of interfaith marriage taboo. 'Til Faith Do Us Part is a fascinating exploration of the promise and peril of interfaith marriage today. It will be required reading not only for interfaith couples or anyone considering interfaith marriage, but for all those interested in learning more about this significant, yet understudied phenomenon and the impact it is having on America.

Download or read book Reengineering America written by Dick Formichella and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A driven entrepreneur who made millions in the software industry, John Payton strongly believes that the American system of government is outdated. In fact, he's on a mission to convince the American people that they need a new 'tech-savvy" Constitution. According to John's calculations, such a version would be more effective, save billions of dollars in taxes, and could even establish a form of government closer to pure democracy. With the secret help of an ambitious senator and his brilliant chief of staff, Payton starts a movement called 'Reengineering America." The group is dedicated to pressuring Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment mandating that a second Constitutional Convention rewrite the document. But Payton's unlikely crusade captures the attention of sinister and powerful forces both in and outside the government. Some want to stop him at any cost-while others want to ensure he succeeds for their own nefarious purposes. Unable to distinguish friend from foe, John Payton must ultimately put his fortune- and his life-at risk trying to convince a dubious nation it's time to modernize a 200 year old system of government.

Download or read book From Tian anmen to Times Square written by Gina Marchetti and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Tian'anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989-1997 explores the important interconnections involving questions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality on world screens by examining a range of films, videos, and digital works associated with global Chinese culture. The ways in which the world has imagined China and the images the Chinese have used to depict themselves have changed dramatically since 1989. The media spotlight placed on Beijing during the spring of 1989 created repercussions that continue to affect how China is seen globally, how it sees itself, and how the Chinese outside the People's Republic see themselves. The films and other texts included in this book represent a range of work by media artists working within China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and on transnational co-productions involving those places. The book also features media from other positions within the Chinese diaspora (including Chinese America) and work produced on China by non-Chinese. Highlighting questions of the circulation of images, people, and commodities, the book explores the important interconnections involving questions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality on global screens. Beginning and ending with Tian'anmen and world image culture, a portrait emerges of momentous change and persistent challenges facing media artists and filmmakers working within "Greater China."

Download or read book New Money for an Old America written by Frieda Dowler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope and deliverance come from unexpected places when five friends living in future post-Christian America win historys largest lottery. Plans have been made to retire on NASAs fabricated planet, intended for Christians. Solutions for a nation in peril lie in relocating this large segment of population to The New World. Wilma and Ray Smiths windfall changes not only their direction but the course of an entire nation. The Smiths alter plans shortly after winning. Circumstances surrounding their adult adopted sons take them to Navajo Nation, a historic relocation project, where the inequity of past and future is brought to light. Fraternal twins, John and Jake, have taken diverse paths; one guards his secret past with a successful career, living extravagantly, the other descends into the world of alcoholism, living recklessly. Decisions are delayed as they all listen to Gods leading through circumstances, a guardian angel, and a series of dreams. Will they escape and leave a despairing world behind or will they stay and make a difference? Can new money save an old America? Find out how change is launched when lives are transformed.

Download or read book The Sun Also Rises written by Connie Hunter-Gillepsie and published by Research & Education Assoc.. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REA's MAXnotes for Ernest Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each section of the work is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.

Download or read book America written by Jake Zellweger and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is the story of a boy named Bailey. In his time, people are free to spend their lives as they please because a machine provides all necessities and frivolities. Everything about Bailey's life is simple and beautiful until his formal education begins. As he learns the history of the world, Bailey becomes filled with horror and struggles to find his way back to the peaceful calm of his childhood.

Download or read book CliffsNotes on Hemingway s The Sun Also Rises written by Gary K Carey and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the book that chronicled the lives and times of "the Lost Generation," American expatriates that filled Europe between the world wars. Hemingway's expatriates are there for two different reasons: one is there solely for entertainment, the other, to heal from the horrors of war and create something worth living for. Wounded Jake Barnes narrates a great, difficult love story.

Download or read book America s Lost Plays Vol VIII The Great Diamond Robbery and Other Recent Melodramas written by Edward M. Alfriend and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series collects the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-century American playwrights. Volume 8 features "The Great Diamond Robbery," by Edward M Alfriend and A C Wheeler; "A Royal Slave," by Clarence Bennett; "From Rags to Riches," by Charles A Taylor; "No Mother to Guide Her," by Lillian Mortimer; and "Billy the Kid," by Walter Woods.

Download or read book Resistance of a New America written by James P Clay III and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the near future, the deep state forcefully impeached a President chosen by the people. Which had invited the democrats to shut down the government. Then opening back up as a one world government, and now they established a new constitution and rid the old. Find out what happens to a family man named John Welding as he documents his experience through the horrifying event. Since it has become a war between liberals and conservatives. While the new established government lured the American people and the world into achieving their agenda of new world order. See what happens when RFID chips becomes a new world currency, Forced sterilization from the FEMA concentration camps becomes mandatory and a World war three happening all at once. Witness what happens to John Welding. When the very same thing could end up happening, to any of you. What will you do to survive?

Download or read book Jake s Alley written by Jake Jacobson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.

Download or read book American History through Hollywood Film written by Melvyn Stokes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American History through Hollywood Film offers a new perspective on major issues in American history from the 1770s to the end of the twentieth century and explores how they have been represented in film. Melvyn Stokes examines how and why representation has changed over time, looking at the origins, underlying assumptions, production, and reception of an important cross-section of historical films. Chapters deal with key events in American history including the American Revolution, the Civil War and its legacy, the Great Depression, and the anti-communism of the Cold War era. Major themes such as ethnicity, slavery, Native Americans and Jewish immigrants are covered and a final chapter looks at the way the 1960s and 70s have been dealt with by Hollywood. This book is essential reading for anyone studying American history and the relationship between history and film.