Download or read book My Antonia written by Willa Cather and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Antonia is a novel by an American writer Willa Cather. It is the final book of the "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants. They are both became pioneers and settled in Nebraska in the end of the 19th century. The first year in the very new place leaves strong impressions in both children, affecting them lifelong. The narrator and the main character of the novel My Antonia, Jim grows up in Black Hawk, Nebraska from age 10 Eventually, he becomes a successful lawyer and moves to New York City.

Download or read book The Moon Lady written by Amy Tan and published by . This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nai-nai tells her granddaughters the story of her outing, as a seven-year-old girl in China, to see the Moon Lady and be granted a secret wish. Suggested level: primary.

Download or read book Women Filmmakers written by Jacqueline Levitin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book World s Greatest Classics in One Volume written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-02 with total page 28593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'World's Greatest Classics in One Volume' encompasses an unparalleled assembly of literary geniuses, spanning from ancient to modern times. This anthology curates a mosaic of narratives, philosophies, and poetic expressions that have shaped and reflected societies through centuries. The collection boasts a tapestry of literary styles, from the tragic to the comedic, the epic to the intimate, enveloping the reader in a journey through the human condition as seen by the likes of Shakespeare, Austen, Dostoyevsky, and Whitman, among others. It highlights the diversity and significance of these works, threading together the universal themes of love, conflict, ambition, and identity across different cultures and epochs, offering a kaleidoscope of human experience. The contributors to this volume are not only titans in the literary world but also pivotal figures who have contributed significantly to various intellectual movements, from the Enlightenment to Romanticism, and Modernism to the Harlem Renaissance. Their backgrounds are as diverse as their writing, spanning continents and centuries, reflecting a rich tapestry of global history and thought. The anthology serves as a confluence where the East meets the West, tradition confronts modernity, and narrative innovation interlaces with timeless truths, providing a pluralistic platform that celebrates the breadth of human creativity. 'Readers are invited to delve into the 'World's Greatest Classics in One Volume' not just as a means of literary exploration but as an enriching journey through the annals of human thought and expression. This collection is perfect for those seeking to immerse themselves in the cornerstone texts of global literature, offering a unique opportunity to engage with the minds that have perennially inspired, disturbed, and transformed the world. For students, educators, and lifelong learners, this anthology promises a comprehensive and insightful compendium that fosters appreciation, critical reflection, and an enduring dialogue between the past and present.

Download or read book Worlds Of Ink And Shadow written by Lena Coakley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bronte siblings—Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne—find escape from their constrained lives via their rich imaginations. The glittering world of Verdopolis and the romantic and melancholy world of Gondal literally come to life under their pens, offering the sort of romance and intrigue missing from their isolated parsonage home. But at what price? As Branwell begins to descend into madness and the sisters feel their real lives slipping away, they must weigh the cost of their powerful imaginations, even as the characters they have created—the brooding Rogue and dashing Duke of Zamorna—refuse to let them go. Gorgeously written and based on the Brontes’ juvenilia, Worlds of Ink and Shadow brings to life one of history’s most celebrated literary families in a thrilling, suspenseful fantasy.

Download or read book See Me Naked written by Tara T. Green and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pleasure refers to the freedom to pursue a desire, deliberately sought in order to satisfy the self. Putting pleasure first is liberating. During their extraordinary lives, Lena Horne, Moms Mabley, Yolande DuBois, and Memphis Minnie enjoyed pleasure as they gave pleasure to both those in their lives and to the public at large. They were Black women who, despite their public profiles, whether through Black society or through the world of entertainment, discovered ways to enjoy pleasure.They left home, undertook careers they loved, and did what they wanted, despite perhaps not meeting the standards for respectability in the interwar era. See Me Naked looks at these women as representative of other Black women of the time, who were watched, criticized, and judged by their families, peers, and, in some cases, the government, yet still managed to enjoy themselves. Among the voyeurs of Black women was Langston Hughes, whose novel Not Without Laughter was clearly a work of fiction inspired by women he observed in public and knew personally, including Black clubwomen, blues performers, and his mother. How did these complicated women wrest loose from the voyeurs to define their own sense of themselves? At very young ages, they found and celebrated aspects of themselves. Using examples from these women’s lives, Green explores their challenges and achievements.

Download or read book Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School written by Anne Haas Dyson and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dyson supports efforts to make literacy curricula accessible to our schools’ socioculturally diverse population. This two-year ethnographic study of K–3 children focuses on six students who would normally be deemed “at-risk” and who do not tell stories in the written language format valued by most early literacy educators. Their literacy learning, particularly their writing development, is portrayed as a social process in a complex social world. Dyson’s key theme is the link between composing a text and composing a place in this social world. “Dyson reconceptualizes classrooms as places for dynamic combinations of critical thinking, humor, growth, and understanding for children and their teachers.” —Harvard Educational Review

Download or read book The Colors of Us written by Karen Katz and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A positive and affirming look at skin color, from an artist's perspective. Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her skin. But when she and her mother take a walk through the neighborhood, Lena learns that brown comes in many different shades. Through the eyes of a little girl who begins to see her familiar world in a new way, this book celebrates the differences and similarities that connect all people. Karen Katz created The Colors of Us for her daughter, Lena, whom she and her husband adopted from Guatemala six years ago.

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Download or read book My Soul Is A Witness written by Carol Henderson and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special collection assembles some of the most pre-eminent scholars in the field in African, African American, and American Studies to explore the ways writers reclaim the Black female body in African American literature using the theoretical, social, cultural, and religious frameworks of spirituality and religion. Central to these discussions is Black women’s agency within these realms—their uncanny ability to invent and reinvent themselves within individual and communal spaces that frame them as both outsider and insider, unworthy and worthy, deviant and sacred, excess and minimal. Scholars have sought to discuss these tensions, acknowledged and affirmed in prose, poetry, music, essays, speeches, written plays, or short stories. Forgiveness, healing, redemption, and reclamation provide entry into these vibrant explorations of self-discovery, passion, and self-creation that interrogate traditional views of what is spiritual and what is religious. Discussed writers include Toni Morrison, Phillis Wheatley, James Baldwin, Tina McElroy Ansa, Toni Cade Bambara, and Thomas Dorsey.

Download or read book We Have Always Been Here written by Lena Nguyen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The behavioral psychologist onboard a survey ship headed to a planet ripe for colonization, Dr. Grace Park must determine the origin of a strange phenomenon that is causing the crew to suffer mental breaks without losing her own mind in the process.

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Download or read book She Let God Write Her Story written by Yelena Borichevska and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a young girl who moved from Ukraine to the United States shortly after 9/11. The story of how a girl's desire to please God and choose his will for her life put her through trials and challenges of life. Yelena was born and raised in Rivne, Ukraine, and moved to America's Vancouver when she was almost seventeen. Yelena has always considered herself blessed beyond limits because of being raised by her God-loving and God-fearing parents. She considers her parents, siblings, friends, and every individual that touched her life as the greatest gifts from the most generous God. She has always been passionate about doing everything for God's glory and choosing his will for her life. Lena strongly believes that believing in God's perfect salvation plan through Jesus and having a personal close relationship with God can get anyone through any challenges and trials in life. Plus the believing offers the greatest hope for an amazing eternity. She also believes that trials are an integral part of anyone's life allowed by God for us to grow and exercise trust and dependence on him as he desires to be our greatest resource, helper, and advocate, which he achieves through the Holy Spirit. If we let him. Yelena has been married to her husband, Vitaliy, since 2008. She loves being a mom to her daughter Ashley. She has two brothers, five sisters, thirteen nephews, and six nieces. For over a decade, Yelena worked in the local health care, where she poured her love and skills into patients and coworkers. She runs a successful real estate business, which rewards her with happy clients and finances she can generously share with those in need (as she always dreamed) and is working on reaching other dreams and goals that God has carved in her heart. Yelena loves spending time with her family, travelling, being in nature, rollerblading, reading, and impacting others in a positive way. Even if it is just giving them her smile.

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