Download or read book Mi Vida Loca written by Johnny Tapia and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is only one winner in boxing. Fighting against your opponent and fighting against your own inner demons become one in the same. Those who survive both in and out of the ring are beloved worldwide. Those who do not spiral downward into drugs, prison, and even murder. "[My] life's been pretty tragic," remarks Johnny. "But in the ring, it's been a blessing." Mi Vida Loca is not just a nickname for Johnny, but a legendary tale of a life lived over the edge and back.

Download or read book Mi Vida Loca written by Michael de la Peña and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-17 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Memoir

Download or read book Mi Vida Loca written by Reynaldo Berrios and published by . This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reformist magazine tagged to gang culture reprints letters and art from imprisoned gang members in this startling depiction of life in the hispanic ghetto. Original.

Download or read book Always Running written by Luis J. Rodríguez and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning memoir of life in an LA street gang from the acclaimed Chicano author and former Los Angeles Poet Laureate: “Fierce, and fearless” (The New York Times). Luis J. Rodríguez joined his first gang at age eleven. As a teenager, he witnessed the rise of some of the most notorious cliques in Southern California. He grew up knowing only a life of violence—one that revolved around drugs, gang wars, and police brutality. But unlike most of those around him, Rodríguez found a way out when art, writing, and political activism gave him a new path—and an escape from self-destruction. Always Running spares no detail in its vivid, brutally honest portrayal of street life and violence, and it stands as a powerful and unforgettable testimonial of gang life by one of the most acclaimed Chicano writers of his generation. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Luis J. Rodríguez including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

Download or read book Too Happy to Be Sad Girl written by Angel Aviles and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TOO HAPPY TO BE SAD GIRL: A Self-Help Memoir Written by an Iconic Brown Girl Boss!Are you looking for the courage to finally start living your truth? Are you ready to find happiness in yourself, stop struggling with self-worth, and finally kick anxiety to the curb? Now's the time! Too Happy to Be Sad Girl is an inspiring guide that will make you laugh, cry, think, and finally stand up for yourself!If you've spent years feeling like you've put everyone else's needs ahead of your own, struggling with self-esteem, or just felt like you were not living up to your potential, you're not alone. Every one of us has a unique journey, often filled with pain, hardship, and a hefty dose of dark times. Every one of us must find the strength and courage to live with and on purpose. Angel Aviles is one of those people who made a living making movies. In fact, in 1993, she appeared as the Sad Girl in the cult classic filmMi Vida Loca. She had a beautiful life in Los Angeles but at some point, her battle with anxiety and panic took her from heaven through hell. She fought for years to gain her self-confidence and learned so much in the process. In 2011 Angel began a side hustle as a life coach. Today, she's helped countless women find worthiness and happiness in themselves. With her book, you can begin the process of becoming "too happy," too!This book special because:It's an autobiography that reveals how Angel learned to use her anxiety and change her life.It's a straight-up guide to helping you understand who you are, what you want and find joy getting there.It's a riveting story. As you read, you will feel less alone and inspired to pursue your dreams.It's fun, it's adventurous, it's daring, it's sad, it's dark, it's everything in between. Angel is not your typical life coaching guru. In fact, she likes to think of herself as a comadre, a trusted friend, full of love and genuine advice.

Download or read book Mi Vida Loca written by Allison Anders and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vida Loca written by Fabio Borquez and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Buones Aires geboren, studierte Fabio Borquez Kunst und Architektur. Stipendien führten ihn nach Indien, Kolumbien und seit einigen Jahren lebt er in Deutschland. Er arbeitete als Architekt, bevor er sich ganz der Fotografie zuwandte. Regelmäßig reist er nach Südamerika, um Fotostrecken für den argentinischen Playboy und andere Magazine zu schießen. "Borquez-Akte wirken immer ehrlich, authentisch und direkt... Es lodert, wenn diese Frauen die Kleider ablegen und für ihn Sex-Appeal zeigen. Es brennt, wenn sie auf dem Sofa liegen und uns entgegenblicken. Wissend um diesen voyeuristischen Moment voll sinnlicher Anspannung. Fabio Borquez läßt die Frauen Vamp sein oder Mäuschen. Die meisten zeigen in diesem Augenblick mehr die Marlene, die Femme fatale, als den Unschuldsengel. Die Fotografie ist für ihn ein Spiel mit der Kamera, dessen Regeln der Augenblick schreibt. Und ständig ändert." Manfred Zollner, Stellv. Chefredakteur Fotomagazin

Download or read book Cholo Style written by Reynaldo Berrios and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicano style from and beyond the pages of Mi Vida Loca magazine....

Download or read book Since I Laid My Burden Down written by Brontez Purnell and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An uninhibited portrait of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama: exploring art and sex with “more layered insight than the page count should allow” (Hanif Abdurraqib, MTV News). DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he’s called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncle’s funeral, he’s hit by flashbacks of handsome, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood, DeShawn ponders family, church, and the men in his life, prompting the question: Who deserves love? A modern American classic, Since I Laid My Burden Down is a raw and searing look into the intersections of memory, Blackness, and queerness. “Performance artist Purnell beautifully captures a personality through introspection and memory in this slim novel . . . a compelling portrait of a particular disaffected kind of gay youth caught between religion, culture, and desire.” —Publishers Weekly “It’s a true novel, chaptered, and bound, that not only holds its own as queer literature, with its unapologetically misanthropic narrative, but also expands upon it.” —San Francisco Chronicle “An antidote to the rigamarole of gay lit.” —Mask Magazine “Slim yet potently realized, with a lot to ponder.” —The Bay Area Reporter “Since I Laid My Burden Down has a fearless (sometimes reckless) humor as Brontez Purnell interrogates what it means to be black, male, queer; a son, an uncle, a lover; Southern, punk, and human. An emotional tightrope walk of a book and an important American story rarely, if ever, told.” —Michelle Tea, author of Castle on the River Vistula

Download or read book My Vida Loca written by Jacqueline Jules and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sofia's adventures and disasters continue in this compilation of three previously published books.

Download or read book Mi Vida Loca written by Bernie Bernwall and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have ever wondered if there truly is a God, a supreme being that will go out of His way to touch your life, you can stop wondering. This true story Mi Vida Loca, translated from Spanish to mean, "My Crazy Life," is a story about fear, hate, emotional pain, and finally, redemption. This is Bernie Bernwall's story. "As I now look back, I can see God leading Bernie on an Elijah like journey to writing this book. I cannot overstate the miraculous work of God in his life that has lead to this book. We could all learn his faithfulness in the Mount Carmel to the Brook Cherith times." Earl E. Rife Retired United States Army By the time Bernie was fifteen years of age, it had been determined by psychologists that he would never succeed in life, even his LA County Probation Officer even told him that he would most likely spend the rest of his life in prison. The odds against Bernie were stacked high: he was brutally sexually molested at the age of four, was an adjudicated delinquent that had been in several fosters homes, boys' homes, juvenile hall, and even serving time in a juvenile prison at the age of thirteen. But--regardless of the odds being against Bernie, God had a plan. Get ready to find out what the plan was as it unfolds from chapter to chapter. This is Bernie's crazy life.

Download or read book Mi Familia Y Mi Vida Loca My Inspiration written by Siete16 Guevara and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the Pages of Mi Familia Y Mi Vida Loca = My Inspiration is the poet's personal take, outlook and aspect of Life, and whatever else he wishes his poetry to reveal and enlighten others about his life from 1990s to 2001. The Author may Speak with the Hispanic/Latino Voice, but his poems are for everyone to enjoy, and for some to possibly relate to the poem and its subject matter inside. NOTE: There are a few poems that speaks of personal relationships-sex, but nothing too vulgar or obscene of sexual relations between man-woman.

Download or read book The Cultural Politics of U S Immigration written by Leah Perry and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the immigration policies and popular culture of the 1980's fused to shape modern views on democracy In the 1980s, amid increasing immigration from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, the circle of who was considered American seemed to broaden, reflecting the democratic gains made by racial minorities and women. Although this expanded circle was increasingly visible in the daily lives of Americans through TV shows, films, and popular news media, these gains were circumscribed by the discourse that certain immigrants, for instance single and working mothers, were feared, censured, or welcomed exclusively as laborers. In The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration, Leah Perry argues that 1980s immigration discourse in law and popular media was a crucial ingredient in the cohesion of the neoliberal idea of democracy. Blending critical legal analysis with a feminist media studies methodology over a range of sources, including legal documents, congressional debates, and popular media, such as Golden Girls, Who’s the Boss?, Scarface, and Mi Vida Loca, Perry shows how even while “multicultural” immigrants were embraced, they were at the same time disciplined through gendered discourses of respectability. Examining the relationship between law and culture, this book weaves questions of legal status and gender into existing discussions about race and ethnicity to revise our understanding of both neoliberalism and immigration.

Download or read book Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas written by Susan Dever and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores issues of representation and rebellion in Mexican and Mexican American cinema.

Download or read book Engaging Film written by Tim Cresswell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging Film is a creative, interdisciplinary volume that explores the engagements among film, space, and identity and features a section on the use of films in the classroom as a critical pedagogical tool. Focusing on anti-essentialist themes in films and film production, this book examines how social and spatial identities are produced (or dissolved) in films and how mobility is used to create different experiences of time and space. From popular movies such as "Pulp Fiction," "Bulworth," "Terminator 2," and "The Crying Game" to home movies and avant-garde films, the analyses and teaching methods in this collection will engage students and researchers in film and media studies, cultural geography, social theory, and cultural studies.

Download or read book Love Or Death written by Lynnett Fox and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. The nightmares kept creeping in. I was in a big old house wearing this long white dress; I was having lemonade out on the porch when he appeared with a knife. He began to stab me over and over again. He was hitting me with relentless force. He wouldn't stop. Would I live through this? I cried out for him to stop. Christina "Weda" Thomas thought she had met the perfect man when she met Marcos, little did she know that her knight would take her on a dark twisted road of domestic violence, sexual and drug abuse.Sit back as we take a journey through Weda's crazy life. Lynnett Fox delivers a gritty honest look into a world of abuse, drugs, and denial. Once you're between the crust of this book, you'll finish the toast with a very interesting ending.What do you fear more the addiction or the abuse? that's the question this gritty story asks. Lynnett leads us on the dark journey through this hispanic ghetto we learn to love an addict who only needs a chance.

Download or read book The Ghost of Johnny Tapia written by Paul Zanon and published by Hamilcar Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If I wake up, I know I'm a success. The day I don't wake up, I know I'll be home. I have one foot on this earth and one foot has crossed over. I didn’t just die, I lived.”—Johnny Tapia ...the ghost of Johnny Tapia lives on. “Mi Vida Loca” (My Crazy Life) was Johnny Tapia’s nickname and his reason for being. Haunted by the brutal murder of his beloved mother when he was a child, fighting and drugs gave him the escape he craved—and he did both with gusto. In The Ghost Of Johnny Tapia, Paul Zanon, with the help of Tapia’s widow Teresa, tells the harrowing and unforgettable story of a boxing genius who couldn’t, in the end, defeat his demons. The Ghost of Johnny Tapia is the second in the Hamilcar Noir series. Hamilcar Noir is "Hard-Hitting True Crime" that blends boxing and true crime, featuring riveting stories captured in high-quality prose, with cover art inspired by classic pulp novels. From the Foreword: "Johnny had incredible heart, was such a sweet man, but was also tormented. He had two sides to him. The sweetest, nicest guy, but then the other side which could probably kill you. He was tortured with his addictions, but Johnny was always pure emotion in that ring."—Sammy ‘The Red Rocker’ Hagar, Musician