Download or read book Marie Marvingt Fiancee of Danger written by Rosalie Maggio and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Marvingt (1875-1963) set the world's first women's aviation records, won the only gold medal for outstanding performance in all sports, invented the airplane ambulance, was the first female bomber pilot in history, fought in World War I disguised as a man, took part in the Resistance of World War II, was the first to survive crossing the English Channel in a balloon, worked all her life as a journalist, spent years in North Africa and invented metal skis. Her life story was so unusually rich in exploits and accomplishments that some dismissed it as a hoax. This biography explores the life of "the most incredible woman since Joan of Arc" and investigates the reasons she has been forgotten. Known as the "fiancee of danger," she was the model for the silent film series The Perils of Pauline.
Download or read book Marie Marvingt Fiancee of Danger written by Rosalie Maggio and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Marvingt (1875-1963) set the world's first women's aviation records, won the only gold medal for outstanding performance in all sports, invented the airplane ambulance, was the first female bomber pilot in history, fought in World War I disguised as a man, took part in the Resistance of World War II, was the first to survive crossing the English Channel in a balloon, worked all her life as a journalist, spent years in North Africa and invented metal skis. Her life story was so unusually rich in exploits and accomplishments that some dismissed it as a hoax. This biography explores the life of "the most incredible woman since Joan of Arc" and investigates the reasons she has been forgotten. Known as the "fiancee of danger," she was the model for the silent film series The Perils of Pauline.
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Download or read book Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives written by Anna Rocca and published by Cambridge Scholars Pub. This book was released on 2013 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives explores the nature and effects of risk in self-narrative representations of live events. ... The collection focuses on risk-taking as one of women's articulations of authorial agency displayed in literary, testimonial, photographic, travel and film documentary forms of autobiographical expression.
Download or read book How to Say it written by Rosalie Maggio and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains advice on writing effective business and social letters in forty subject areas, with lists of words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs relevant to each topic, and sample letters that may be reproduced and modified for individualized use.
Download or read book Women Aviators written by Bernard Marck and published by Flammarion. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aviation History.
Download or read book Great Letters for Every Occasion written by Rosalie Maggio and published by Prentice Hall Trade. This book was released on 1999 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares model letters for a variety of situations, including advice, apology, appreciation, complaints, fund raising, get well wishes, invitations, love letters, reports, proposals, resumes, letters of condolence, and thank you notes.
Download or read book Talking About People written by Rosalie Maggio and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1997-10-09 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who works with words and people will want to keep this indispensable guide close at hand. The author offers thousands of alternatives for outdated, stereotypical, and damaging language. This substantially updated and expanded version, also covers numerous words and phrases that were not even part of our language five years ago. This handy reference guide merits a place next to the dictionary and thesaurus of all who are sensitive to the use of fair and accurate language. It will help them make an informed judgment when choosing words to describe people in terms of their age, sex, employment, economic status, religion, lifestyle, ethnic background, or disability.
Download or read book Biography Index written by Bea Joseph and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.
Download or read book Exploring Language written by Gary Goshgarian and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This language reader features thought-provoking readings that explore the various interconnections between language and American society. The text challenges the reader to critically examine how language affects and constructs culture and how culture constructs and affects language. Gender and language Hate speech Language of war Censorship MARKET: General Interest
Download or read book The Culture and Sport of Skiing written by E. John B. Allen and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of skiing from its earliest origins to the outbreak of World War II, this book traces the transformation of what for centuries remained an exclusively utilitarian practice into the exhilarating modern sport we know today. E. John B. Allen places particular emphasis on the impact of culture on the development of skiing, from the influence of Norwegian nationalism to the role of the military in countries as far removed as Austria, India, and Japan. Although the focus is on Europe, Allen's analysis ranges all over the snow-covered world, from Algeria to China to Zakopane. He also discusses the participation of women and children in what for much of its history remained a male-dominated sport. Of all the individuals who contributed to the modernization of skiing before World War II, Allen identifies three who were especially influential: Fridtjof Nansen of Norway, whose explorations on skis paradoxically inspired the idea of skiing as sport; Arnold Lunn of England, whose invention of downhill skiing and the slalom were foundations of the sport's globalization; and Hannes Schneider, whose teachings introduced both speed and safety into the sport. Underscoring the extent to which ancient ways persisted despite modernization, the book ends with the Russo-Finnish War, a conflict in which the Finns, using equipment that would have been familiar a thousand years before, were able to maneuver in snow that had brought the mechanized Soviet army to a halt. More than fifty images not only illustrate this rich history but provide further opportunity for analysis of its cultural significance.
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Download or read book Rendezvous At The Altar written by Thuan Le Elston and published by Rand-Smith Books. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the tales of four grandmothers - Thuan Le Elston's and her husband's - Rendezvous at the Altar: From Vietnam to Virginia traces Anne's Southern upbringing to her Mad Men-like married life; Kim's family as they survive French colonialism and the Vietnam War; Mary's transformations through the Great Depression and two marriages; and Ty's migration from Hanoi businesswoman to Arizona matriarch. Through a mother's journal to her children and the four grandmothers' narrations that bridge punk band names to the Temple of Literature, Elston compares gender roles, parenting, aging, and dying in a multicultural family.
Download or read book Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War written by Alison S. Fell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legacies service in the First World War had on women's lives and the privileges it afforded some of them.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women in Aviation and Space written by Rosanne Welch and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles some 250 entries on individuals, events, institutions, and organizations related to women in aviation and space. Includes many biographical entries on women aviators throughout the world, numerous bandw photographs chronicling the history of women and their flying machines, coverage of the first black female aviators, and discussions of contemporary problems of women pilots from sexual harrassment to denial of earned promotions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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