Download or read book YaYa written by Claudia Barker and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Aspirations/Young Artists (YA/YA), Inc., is the phenomenal New Orleans nonprofit arts organization started by the painter Jana Napoli in 1988. It is part school, part community center, part gallery, part working studio. But it is the commercial-art students - primarily African Americans - from nearby L. E. Rabouin Career Magnet High School in the city's central business district who breathe life into that entity. They are the YA/YAs. The YA/YAs came to the attention of the outside world through their painted chairs. Napoli first had them depict their dreams and fears on secondhand furniture and then arranged an exhibit at Lincoln Center in New York. It was a success that launched the young artists into an upward spiral of fame. In YA/YA! - a combination history, collective memoir, and guidebook - former YA/YA director Claudia Barker conveys with infectious enthusiasm the hip, happening creativity that thrives at YA/YA. She follows the trajectory of eight original YA/YAs from their early doubts and trials to their triumphal status as senior Guild members and mentors to succeeding YA/YA "generations". The group's spirit is mirrored in the book's free-form design: comments from staff and students, including deeply felt statements about their ideas and work, and scores of color photographs approximating the visual impact of the YA/YAs' art combine with Barker's own reflective narrative. By reviewing the path that YA/YA has traveled in raising funds, getting publicity, defining its purpose, and striving for harmony, she outlines a model for similar programs in other communities.

Download or read book Yaya s Story written by Paul Stoller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yaya’s Story is a book about Yaya Harouna, a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America. It is also a book about Paul Stoller—its author—an American anthropologist who found his own path to Africa. Separated by ethnicity, language, profession, and culture, these two men’s lives couldn’t be more different. But when they were both threatened by a grave illness—cancer—those differences evaporated, and the two were brought to profound existential convergence, a deep camaraderie in the face of the most harrowing of circumstances. Yaya’s Story is that story. Harouna and Stoller would meet in Harlem, at a bustling African market where Harouna built a life as an African art trader and Stoller was conducting research. Moving from Belayara in Niger to Silver Spring, Maryland, and from the Peace Corps to fieldwork to New York, Stoller recounts their separate lives and how the threat posed by cancer brought them a new, profound, and shared sense of meaning. Combining memoir, ethnography, and philosophy through a series of interconnected narratives, he tells a story of remarkable friendship and the quest for well-being. It’s a story of difference and unity, of illness and health, a lyrical reflection on human resiliency and the shoulders we lean on.

Download or read book I Give You Half the Road written by Carol Spindel and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ivory Coast, the farewell “I give you half the road” is an expression of hospitality, urging a departing guest to come back again. After their first stay in a welcoming rural community in 1981, Carol Spindel and her husband did just that. Over the course of decades, they built a house and returned frequently, deepening their relationships with neighbors. Once considered the most stable country in West Africa, Ivory Coast was split by an armed rebellion in 2002 and endured a decade of instability and a violent conflict. Spindel provides an intimate glimpse into this turbulent period by weaving together the daily lives and paths of five neighbors. Their stories reveal Ivorians determined to reunite a divided country through reliance on mutual respect and obligation even while power-hungry politicians pursued xenophobic and anti-immigrant platforms for personal gain. Illuminating democracy as a fragile enterprise that must be continually invented and reinvented, I Give You Half the Road emphasizes the importance of connection, generosity, and forgiveness.

Download or read book The Number One Princess written by Robert Davis and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her mother, while loving and caring to her children, was the ruthless and cunning, Hayee Hellcat, Queen Ramala. Queen Ramala, with the help of her Butchers, took over of tribal lands, forming her own kingdom, called the House of Ra. Her father, the Butcher Dan the Destroyer, was the womanizing Heathen King of Ra. The King won battles for his Queen, while always finding time for his own personal adventures. Named after her mother, the Ra, Ramala was the first born girl to the King and Queen of Ra. She, along with her sibling, were taught and trained by her mother in survival techniques, as well as Ruling protocol. This was done to insure their survival, in a time of tribal warfare, when most everyone would do whatever it took to become the next Ruling clan. Little Ramala loved the way her mother ordered people around and wanted to do the same. Having to live with some of the most unruly sibling, in the history of siblings, Little Ramala used ruling protocol to help her deal with them. After getting positive results, she quickly used ruling protocol on maids, servants and anyone else she could. Little Ramala was a daddy's girl and was spoiled by her father. Every little girl is a princess in her father's eyes. Living and growing up in a warring society, where she witnessed treachery, deceit, murder and mayhem, young Ramala quickly learned the ways of the world. Using the motley crew of her siblings, along with everything she learned from her mother, young Ramala decided to let everyone know that, after what they did for their Queen, they were expected to do what she wanted, after that. Everyone quickly learned, until she became Queen, she was the Number One Princess.

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Download or read book Young Blood Omnibus Volume One written by Jorge V. Aruta and published by Inquirer Books. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1994, the ground-breaking Young Blood column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Opinion section, giving voice to the love and loss, the highs and lows, the victories and disappointments of Filipino twentysomethings and younger. It has become required reading for the youth and a rite of passage for the aspiring young writer. Since then, the best of the Young Blood essays has been collected in anthologies; the Young Blood books are now in its 7th incarnation. Now, the out-of-print first three volumes of that series, 1998’s The Best of Youngblood, 2000’s Youngblood 2.0 and 2006’s Youngblood3 have been collected exclusively in a single electronic volume with more than 800 pages. The essays in Young Blood Omnibus Volume One gather the experiences of young people in the Philippines but are also universal for young people anywhere in just how authentic, personal and well-written they are.

Download or read book Diary Of A Single Mothe written by Mairo Mudi and published by Exceller Books. This book was released on with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Diary Of A Single Mother’ is a story of a submissive wife who woke up to be greeted with a divorce that cannot be reversed. He sent her away with their three kids. With no work or skill, she is left to struggle it out as she lost her parents, and all her relatives turn their backs against her - as an act of revenge for disconnecting with them according to the instructions of her husband. She has only Aisha as a friend who tries to pull her out of this misery she finds herself in.

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Classical New r written by Hans Jørgensen and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1995 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Nepali Language Dictionary

Download or read book The Deep Blue Between written by Ayesha Harruna Attah and published by Lerner + ORM. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twin sisters Hassana and Husseina have always shared their lives. But after a raid on their village in 1892, the twins are torn apart. Taken in different directions, far from their home in rural West Africa, each sister finds freedom and a new start. Hassana settles in in the city of Accra, where she throws herself into working for political and social change. Husseina travels to Salvador, Brazil, where she becomes immersed in faith, worshipping spirits that bridge the motherland and the new world. Separated by an ocean, they forge new families, ward off dangers, and begin to truly know themselves. As the twins pursue their separate paths, they remain connected through their shared dreams. But will they ever manage to find each other again? “Uplifting . . . sizzles with sister-love and magic. What an incredible storyteller!”—Yaba Badoe, author of A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars

Download or read book The Legend Of Zip written by G A Zubia and published by Sierra Estrella Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enchanted land of the Sierra Estrella holds many secrets. The legend has passed from father to son and young Zip is mesmerized by them. When Achak, his father, disappears, the legend is set aside and the young boy leaves home in search of answers. He finds himself in the middle of the legend as he realizes a truth kept hidden from him by Achak and his mother, Marguerite. The Dark One knows the truth and works in earnest to keep Zip from his true purpose. He meets Ronnie and Maria, along with a shaman with a habit of disappearing when under attack, and, with their help, gains the courage to face his inner demons and the dark forces of the world before the moon covers the sun. The enchanted land of the Sierra Estrella holds many secrets. As the legends pass from generation to generation young Zip finds himself in the middle of the legend as he realizes a truth kept hidden from him by his late father. Through his journeys across the desert, Zip gains the courage to face his inner demons leading him to find his true purpose. True purpose lies within. Hidden in plain sight. It is meant to be found by looking into the light. The story of a young boy in search of his father. His journey takes him through the enchanted Bosque Mesquite to the summit of the Sierra Estrella. On the way he meets those who give him the strength to find his true purpose. A story that parallels the journey through life and the search one’s true purpose.

Download or read book The di Granth Or written by Ernst Trumpp and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Apollo s Lights written by Heather H. Baer and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The faces were all in shadow, the voices getting more strident with each word. My heart pounded in my chest. 'This has gone far enough,' a calm voice spoke. 'It stops here.' Shifting dark figures oozed away from the wall. 'I don't think so, my friend,' another man's cold voice retorted. I shivered. The shadows crept toward him. 'You'll never get away with this!' The man's slow, agonized moans pierced the night. Someone screamed... The scream was mine.' I never thought my eighteenth birthday would change my life so drastically. When Blair transferred to Enterprise for his senior year, I thought nothing of it. When I started having headaches all the time, I just assumed it was due to the nightmares I'd been having. My life was just normal. There was nothing special or unusual, or so I thought. What I've discovered is that I have a gift: I can hear others' thoughts, and what's more, I can feel them their pain and their joy. I can make them feel what I feel. I can see into the future. Blair is also clairvoyant; he's my guide. He tells me I, as well as all clairvoyants, have an obligation to use my gift for good. My father was gifted too. But there are those out there who want to use our gifts for evil purposes. They murdered my father, and I have an obligation to my father: I will find who killed him and stop them. This is the most difficult thing I've ever done. But I won't be alone. Blair and I are in this together forever.

Download or read book The White Man of God written by Kenjo wan Jumbam and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel of wisdom and charm tells the story of Tansa, a boy growing up in a Cameroonian village which has been split down the middle by the arrival of a missionary - the white man of God.

Download or read book Sri Guru Granth Sahib written by God and published by Sukan Publishing Universe. This book was released on with total page 2247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of the Sikh Religion Holy Scriptures The Guru Granth Sahib , or Adi Granth, is the religious Scriptures of Sikhism. It is a voluminous text of 1430 pages, compiled and composed during the period of Sikh Gurus, from 1469 AD to 1708 AD. Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708), the Tenth and final living Guru, affirmed the sacred text Adi Granth as his successor, elevating it to Guru Granth Sahib. The text remains the holy scripture of the Sikhs, regarded as the teachings of the Ten Gurus. The Adi Granth was first compiled by the Fifth Sikh Guru, Guru Arjan Dev (1563–1606), from Hymns of the first five Sikh Gurus and other Saints of that era, including those of the Hindu and Muslim faith.

Download or read book Amazing Trace A Sister s Journal written by Karen West and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 97-3 The Eagle (WGH-FM) Midday Personality Karen West takes the reader on an intimate journey of her sister Ginni, a vibrant young woman battling breast cancer. Ginni taught her by example how to live with a positive attitude and learn from life's experiences. Karen reveals the early life tragedy that motivated Ginni to fight to live, even though her prognosis was terminal. Learn how Karen and Ginni found miracles and answers to prayer in the midst of tragedies. "Amazing Trace - A Sister's Journal" is a perfect gift for those who love someone with breast cancer. Proceeds from the sales of this book benefit the Tidewater Virginia Affiliate of the Komen Foundation. Hear Karen's show live at www.eagle97.com.

Download or read book The Red Winter written by Henry H. Neff and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inventive and action-packed mix of fantasy, science fiction, and mythology, all in a realistic contemporary setting. Rowan has won a battle, but not the war. With proper allies, Rowan’s armies could storm the demon stronghold, capture its ruler, and end the reign of demonkind. But while nations clash, a greater struggle lies elsewhere. In his desperate pursuit of Astaroth, Elias Bram scours the world for clues to the fiend’s true origins, identity, and purpose. His horrifying discoveries hint that not only is humanity at risk, but the earth itself. Its fate may depend upon three children. With their unmatchable skills, it’s up to Max McDaniels, David Menlo, and little Mina to tip the balance! In the Tapestry’s final volume, Henry H. Neff concludes an unforgettable series in which magic can live, gods can die, and the highest stakes require the greatest sacrifice.

Download or read book How Beautiful We Were written by Imbolo Mbue and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fearless young woman from a small African village starts a revolution against an American oil company in this sweeping, inspiring novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, The Christian Science Monitor, Marie Claire, Ms. magazine, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews “Mbue reaches for the moon and, by the novel’s end, has it firmly held in her hand.”—NPR We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made—and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. Their struggle will last for decades and come at a steep price. Told from the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community’s determination to hold on to its ancestral land and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people’s freedom.