Download or read book Just Like Everyone Else written by Sarah Hagger-Holt and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commercial coming-of-age story for tweens exploring identity, family and self-acceptance, from award-winning author Sarah Hagger-Holt. Thirteen-year-old Aidan can't breathe in his crowded family home. Running is his only respite from four loud sisters and involved, touchy-feely parents. Then his mum makes an announcement: she's having another baby. Only, this time it's not for her; she will be a surrogate for gay couple Justin and Atif. Aidan is incensed. As if his family wasn't embarrassing - or big - enough already. But he's also scared. Aidan thinks he might be gay, and he's really struggling to accept this possibility. He's definitely not ready to come out, but what if being around Justin and Atif exposes him as gay? If only he was just like everyone else. Praise for Sarah Hagger-Holt: Winner of the Little Rebels Award Twice-nominated for the Carnegie Medal "Gentle and compassionate" The Times Literary Supplement "A fantastic book - I absolutely loved it!" L.D. Lapinski, author of The Strangeworlds Travel Agency "Warm, funny and believable" The Guardian
Download or read book Just Like Everyone Else written by Karla Kuskin and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Just Like Everyone Else written by Eve Bunting and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an Irish girl comes to spend the summer with his family, a sixteen-year-old boy learns the value of being an individual.
Download or read book South Asians on the U S Screen written by Bhoomi K. Thakore and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the media influence society? How do media representations of South Asians, as racial and ethnic minorities, perpetuate stereotypes about this group? How do advancements in visual media, from creative storytelling to streaming technology, inform changing dynamics of all non-white media representations in the 21st century? Analyzing audience perceptions of South Asian characters from The Simpsons, Slumdog Millionaire, Harold and Kumar, The Office, Parks and Recreation, The Big Bang Theory, Outsourced, and many others, Bhoomi K. Thakore argues for the importance of understanding these representations as they influence the positioning of South Asians into the 21st century U.S. racial hierarchy. On one hand, increased acceptance of this group into the entertainment fold has informed audience perceptions of these characters as “just like everyone else.” However, these images remain secondary on the U.S. Screen, and are limited in their ability to break out of traditional stereotypes. As a result, a normative and assimilated white American identity is privileged both on the Screen, and in our increasingly multicultural society.
Download or read book You Are All Unique Just Like Everybody Else I couldn t make this stuff up written by Suretta Williams and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suretta enjoyed experiencing the unique perspectives her children shared about the world around them, and often shared her stories with others. She was encouraged to record them for friends and family. Almost 10 years later, countless others have delighted in hearing similar stories, so she has decided to re-release the original version. This is a book that will make you smile. It will also show how the world is seen in the eyes of child(ren) of any age. You may contact Suretta at www.lulu.com/slwriter1120 or [email protected].
Download or read book I m Not Like Everybody Else written by Jeffrey T. Nealon and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the presence of the Flaming Lips in a commercial for a copier and Iggy Pop’s music in luxury cruise advertisements, Jeffrey T. Nealon argues that popular music has not exactly been co-opted in the American capitalist present. Contemporary neoliberal capitalism has, in fact, found a central organizing use for the values of twentieth-century popular music: being authentic, being your own person, and being free. In short, not being like everybody else. Through a consideration of the shift in dominant modes of power in the American twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from what Michel Foucault calls a dominant “disciplinary” mode of power to a “biopolitical” mode, Nealon argues that the modes of musical “resistance” need to be completely rethought and that a commitment to musical authenticity or meaning—saying “no” to the mainstream—is no longer primarily where we might look for music to function against the grain. Rather, it is in the technological revolutions that allow biopolitical subjects to deploy music within an everyday set of practices (MP3 listening on smartphones and iPods, streaming and downloading on the internet, the background music that plays nearly everywhere) that one might find a kind of ambient or ubiquitous answer to the “attention capitalism” that has come to organize neoliberalism in the American present. In short, Nealon stages the final confrontation between “keepin’ it real” and “sellin’ out.”
Download or read book Just like Jace written by Lauren Steinhaus and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Like Jace is an autobiographical memoir written by a young mom about her journey through the traumatic loss of a child as it takes her through anger and bitterness, grief and apathy, and ultimately, her encounter with God as she realizes the evidence of God's powerful and redemptive love in her life. This is a story of how God can work in powerful ways even through despair and brokenness. We follow the journey of a woman, broken and despairing, who comes to the realization, years later, that God had been carrying her all along, that despite her own imperfections and her own flaws, she was loved by her Savior in ways similar to the ways she loved her own children. This is truly a powerful story of how God can change hearts and lives even through pain and suffering.
Download or read book Just Like Any Other Day In the Life of Me written by Heather Chiconella and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-01-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of this is based on, the day I got hit by a car. The things I’d personally, witnessed as, each one. Literally, fell into play around me. All that’d both, before and after it’d taken place. Which, I will explain rather distinctly as , chapter one progresses itself. Such as, the many things I’d witnessed falling into play as, it took place around me. Things like, trying to figure out what every event meant. How I managed to live and deal with them. My observations towards the attitudes it’d aroused around me while moving forwards non-stop. I’ve tried to bring my words as close as, I can. Towards recreating and developing what I’d witnessed. Not to mention what I both, felt and experienced along the way. Heck, until now. No ones ever been willing. To personally, voice their own opinions. Towards what something like, this. Is, really like to live through. Just that alone, makes my doing so. Almost like, a first time thing. Yea, I’ve always been kind of, person. That’d seemed to, have all the little kid habits down pat. The only difference is, that this one. Would completely change my life from that, point on!
Download or read book Resettled Iraqi Refugees in the United States written by Jared Keyel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023-02-10 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American war against Iraq has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and displaced millions of people. Between 20 March 2003 and 30 September 2017, more than 172,000 Iraqis resettled in the United States. This book explores the experiences of fifteen Iraqis who resettled in the US after 2003. It examines the long war against Iraq that began in 1991 and the decisions some Iraqis made to leave their homes and seek refuge in the United States. The book also delves into the possibilities for belonging and cultural exchange for this cohort of Iraqis and their political engagement with non-profit organizations, advocacy, and activism against the 2017 Travel Ban.
Download or read book How Starbucks Saved My Life written by Michael Gates Gill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-09-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it all—and was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-old boss, at Starbucks. In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a mansion in the suburbs, a wife and loving children, a six-figure salary, and an Ivy League education. But in a few short years, he lost his job, got divorced, and was diagnosed with a brain tumor. With no money or health insurance, he was forced to get a job at Starbucks. Having gone from power lunches to scrubbing toilets, from being served to serving, Michael was a true fish out of water. But fate brings an unexpected teacher into his life who opens his eyes to what living well really looks like. The two seem to have nothing in common: She is a young African American, the daughter of a drug addict; he is used to being the boss but reports to her now. For the first time in his life he experiences being a member of a minority trying hard to survive in a challenging new job. He learns the value of hard work and humility, as well as what it truly means to respect another person. Behind the scenes at one of America’s most intriguing businesses, an inspiring friendship is born, a family begins to heal, and, thanks to his unlikely mentor, Michael Gill at last experiences a sense of self-worth and happiness he has never known before. Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book.
Download or read book Penalty for Public Service written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Just Like You written by Nick Hornby and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ”[A] charming, funny, touching, and relevant comedy.” —The Boston Globe “A provocative yet sweet romantic comedy.” —People, Best of Fall 2020 From the beloved author of Dickens and Prince, About A Boy, and High Fidelity, this warm, wise, highly entertaining twenty-first century love story is about what happens when the person who makes you happiest is someone you never expected Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she’d been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she’s a nearly divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn’t exactly looking for love—she’s more in the market for a babysitter. Joseph is twenty-two, living at home with his mother, and working several jobs, including the butcher counter where he and Lucy meet. It’s not a match anyone one could have predicted. He’s of a different class, a different culture, and a different generation. But sometimes it turns out that the person who can make you happiest is the one you least expect, though it can take some maneuvering to see it through. Just Like You is a brilliantly observed, tender, but also brutally funny new novel that gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person—someone you didn’t see coming.
Download or read book I m Everywhere and Nowhere and I Own Nothing and Everything written by Yann Girard and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past seven years I've lived in more places than I can remember. I lived and worked in Shanghai, New York, Berlin, Bangkok, Munich and a few more places, not including the dozens of places I've stayed at for just a few days or weeks.While writing these lines I'm in a small town in Malaysia.I've basically lived out of a backpack for the past seven years. And the longer I'm doing this, the less stuff I need. Right now I carry less than 10 items around with me in a carry on backpack that weighs less than 10kg. I go wherever I want to go. I currently spend less than $800 a month. Including everything. My most precious possession is a $300 Acer laptop.I've started a clothing company in China, for the Chinese market, which failed miserably. I've launched more than 10 websites, some of them made some money, some of them didn't. I shut down all of them. I've written seven books (this is my eighth). None of them was a bestseller. I write a blog where I published more than 500 articles so far. I've more than 100,000 monthly readers spread across multiple platforms.I'm by no means successful. Or rich. But I have more than enough, by all means. I have access to everything I need. And I can buy and afford everything I need.I'm not a minimalist. Or a digital nomad. Or an entrepreneur. Or a blogger. Or an author.I'm mostly trying to just be myself. I'm trying to be myself in a world where it gets harder and harder every single day to just be yourself.It's not always been easy. As a matter of fact it's probably been hard more often than it's been easy. But every day of struggle and doubt has been worth it. Being yourself and creating your own life instead of just living a life is always worth the struggle.This right here is my story. This is what I've learned about life, myself and the world around me.I'm everywhere and nowhere. And I own nothing and everything...
Download or read book Why Everyone Else Is a Hypocrite written by Robert Kurzban and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolutionary psychology behind human inconsistency We're all hypocrites. Why? Hypocrisy is the natural state of the human mind. Robert Kurzban shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral inconsistencies lies in understanding the mind's design. The human mind consists of many specialized units designed by the process of evolution by natural selection. While these modules sometimes work together seamlessly, they don't always, resulting in impossibly contradictory beliefs, vacillations between patience and impulsiveness, violations of our supposed moral principles, and overinflated views of ourselves. This modular, evolutionary psychological view of the mind undermines deeply held intuitions about ourselves, as well as a range of scientific theories that require a "self" with consistent beliefs and preferences. Modularity suggests that there is no "I." Instead, each of us is a contentious "we"--a collection of discrete but interacting systems whose constant conflicts shape our interactions with one another and our experience of the world. In clear language, full of wit and rich in examples, Kurzban explains the roots and implications of our inconsistent minds, and why it is perfectly natural to believe that everyone else is a hypocrite.
Download or read book Just like In the Movies written by Rahul Saini, and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2010 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rahul Saini is a high spirited young man started as an architect. Passionate about movies, TV series and reading. He wrote his first novel ‘Those Small Lil Things’ in 2008 to national acclaim. He conducts interactive fiction writing workshops for students. He has a keen interest in fine arts and filmmaking. He loves to spend time with his family and friends, and wishes that the whole world could live the life of F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
Download or read book Don T Call Me Disabled Im Just Like You written by J.A.C. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Charlie bunker goes to school he thinks he is just your average kid until one day something happens . what will happen to Charlie? Will everything be ok? Together we can make a difference .
Download or read book Just Like Us written by Rosie Guss and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
