Download or read book Oscar and Willie written by Manus A Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oscar and Willie written by Lisa Hetherington and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar and Willie: Silly Oscar's Days of the Week is an educational and funny book that teaches your child the days of the week, repetition, and more.
Download or read book Oscar Charleston written by Jeremy Beer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of Oscar Charleston, a Negro Leagues legend and one of baseball’s greatest and most unjustifiably overlooked players.
Download or read book Oscar Grove and Little Willie Weasel written by Charlie Small and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I believe that this book would be a cute story for children ages 3 and up or for parents to read to thier child!
Download or read book Oscar and Willie written by Manus Anthony Edwaqrds and published by Manus Anthony Productions. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar & Willie is fictional in part and non-stereotypical in the traditional sense of how wild-wild western novels and screen scripts were written and or produced back in the day. The author, Manus Anthony Edwards Sr. is a retired Cable Construction Manager from AT&T in Chicago Illinois. This masterpiece of a novel and possible screen-play is dedicated to Eddie Edwards, Manus Edwards, Sr.'s father. This novel is an attempt to correct and or place a more favorable spin on the level and degree of involvement, people of color had in developing the Wild, Wild West. Those, who comprise Manus Anthony Productions, are making a bold attempt to place all motion picture producers and writers, who portrayed people of color as being entirely subservient to all whites, in check. This type of novel was always referred to as a shoot-em-up, by African American, senior males in particular. This novel reveals the true relationships between the Native people, referred to as Indians/Savages, freed and not yet freed descendants of slaves, African Mexicans, African Chinese and African Caucasians and how they coexisted on the western frontier. Oscar & Willie is intended, in many ways, to bridge the infamous gap caused by missing and misinformation relative to the false picture painted by the motion picture industry about the West. It also speaks to the core issue of why people of color have compassion for the Caucasian, (colorless off-spring). "Oscar & Willie" has a likeness to the movies, Silverado, Tombstone, Posse and D'Jango Unchained and could be a sequel to them, as well. These movies were favorites of Eddie Edwards (now deceased), who insisted that Manus Sr. view most of these movies with him, over and over. Immediately afterwards, they would spend hours talking about each character and circumstance. He passed away March of 2001, leaving Manus with the memories of exchanging dialogue with him, relative to the old and the new shoot-em-ups, that Manus began to entertain the idea of writing a western novel. Manus Sr. was always quietly annoyed by the obvious absence and or degrading manner in which all people of color were treated in the movies. It was Manus' opinion that the Motion Picture Industry was never obligated to produce a true characterization of people of color or interpret their cultures and interpersonal relationships accurately, so they didn't. However, he vowed that his western novel would be a piece of ingenious work and everything he felt should be written in it would tell the true story of his most inner feelings about westerns. Manus named the novel in memory of twin boys he came to know at Saint Elizabeth grammar school. Other than those well-known persons to whom references are made, that are coincidental to the plot, and characters in this piece of work are creations of Manus Sr. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Where the names of the actual persons or places are mentioned, the situations, occurrences, and descriptions relating to them, and any statements and dialogues that may be attributed to them, are completely fictional and are not to be construed as defaming, real or factual. This is a must and easy read, which is the most mind boggling, dramatic, compassionate and entertaining, novel, you have ever read. If you're presently sitting on the fence of life, not really knowing where you are in the world today as a person or waiting for someone to tell you; you might just end your frustrations after reading this novel.
Download or read book Oscar Or The Boy who Had His Own Way written by Walter Aimwell and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by Matthew Sturgis and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life. "Simply the best modern biography of Wilde." —Evening Standard Drawing on material that has come to light in the past thirty years, including newly discovered letters, documents, first draft notebooks, and the full transcript of the libel trial, Matthew Sturgis meticulously portrays the key events and influences that shaped Oscar Wilde's life, returning the man "to his times, and to the facts," giving us Wilde's own experience as he experienced it. Here, fully and richly portrayed, is Wilde's Irish childhood; a dreamy, aloof boy; a stellar classicist at boarding school; a born entertainer with a talent for comedy and a need for an audience; his years at Oxford, a brilliant undergraduate punctuated by his reckless disregard for authority . . . his arrival in London, in 1878, "already noticeable everywhere" . . . his ten-year marriage to Constance Lloyd, the father of two boys; Constance unwittingly welcoming young men into the household who became Oscar's lovers, and dying in exile at the age of thirty-nine . . . Wilde's development as a playwright. . . becoming the high priest of the aesthetic movement; his successes . . . his celebrity. . . and in later years, his irresistible pull toward another—double—life, in flagrant defiance and disregard of England's strict sodomy laws ("the blackmailer's charter"); the tragic story of his fall that sent him to prison for two years at hard labor, destroying his life and shattering his soul.
Download or read book Grampa Paul s Adventure Stories of Charlie Crow and His Friends written by P. Zimmerschied and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out on the eastern plains of Colorado, where fields of wheat sway gently in the summer breeze and cattle graze on pastures of grass, there are colonies of prairie dogs that live in prairie dog towns.
Download or read book The Only Game in Town written by Fay Vincent and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful book that every baseball fan will cherish, ten outstanding ballplayers remember the heyday of the game in the 1930s and 1940s. It was the era of Gehrig and DiMaggio; of Foxx, Greenberg, and Williams; of Grove and Feller. Elden Auker, Tommy Henrich, Dom DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Bob Feller recall some great rivalries: Auker pitched to Ruth and Gehrig, then faced Dizzy Dean in an unforgettable World Series; Henrich was a clutch player for the Yankees who alertly turned a passed-ball third strike into a World Series victory; Dom DiMaggio was a superb center fielder who batted .298 lifetime and nearly ended his brother Joe's hitting streak; Pesky, a Red Sox mainstay, was blamed for Enos Slaughter's dash home that was the most memorable play of the 1946 Red Sox-Cardinals World Series; and Feller was a teenager when he faced -- among others -- Foxx, Greenberg, and Joe DiMaggio. But this was also the era of great Negro Leagues stars who never had the opportunity to play in the major leagues. Buck O'Neil remembers the outstanding players of his day who never got their chance or whose turn came too late -- Oscar Charleston, Cool Papa Bell, Josh Gibson, and Satchel Paige among them. Two great events happened in the 1940s, and one of them would change the game forever. World War II took some of these great players off the diamond and put them into a different kind of uniform. Warren Spahn pitched his first game in 1942 and didn't pitch again until the war ended, getting his first victory in 1946 (nonetheless he won more games than any other left-hander in history). As he recalls here, he served his country memorably in the war. Then in 1947 Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, followed only a few months later by Larry Doby, the first African-American in the American League, who vividly describes what it felt like to be the only black ballplayer in the clubhouse -- and the league. The game began to change after integration, and home run king Ralph Kiner remembers how some clubs were quick to sign African-American players and thrive. Meanwhile, some Negro Leagues stars, such as Monte Irvin, itched for the opportunity to face the major leaguers and prove that, like Robinson and Doby, they could compete with the best. All of these ballplayers recall their favorite memories: the games that mattered most, the players they all admired, the childhood experiences that shaped their lives, and the deep affection for the game that has always remained with them. Illustrated throughout, The Only Game in Town is a fascinating trip through two decades when baseball changed profoundly. Like The Glory of Their Times, it is a book that will find a permanent place on every fan's bookshelf.
Download or read book Shaftesbury Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Willie Me written by Dan Gutman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 1.5 million books sold, the Baseball Card Adventures series brings the greatest players in history to life. Featuring black-and-white photographs and stats throughout, plus back matter separating fact from fiction, Willie & Me is the perfect mix of history and action for every young baseball fan. Stosh thought he was finished traveling back in time. But then Ralph Branca shows up in his room one night, begging for Stosh's help. In 1951, Branca pitched a ball to Bobby Thomson that would become the "Shot Heard Round the World," a home run that won the National League pennant for the New York Giants and changed the lives of Branca and Thomson forever. Branca says the Giants were cheating, and he needs Stosh to use his power with baseball cards to go back in time and set things right. Stosh is determined to help, but he quickly learns that you can't change just one little thing in history. If he erases the "Shot Heard Round the World," he may forever alter the life of a young rookie named Willie Mays. With wisdom from all the players he has helped before—plus the surprise return of some familiar faces—Stosh uses his power to travel in time using baseball cards one last time in a fabulous finale to the adventure of a lifetime. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in the English Language Arts
Download or read book The Duty to Obey the Law written by William Atkins Edmundson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question, 'Why should I obey the law?' introduces a contemporary puzzle that is as old as philosophy itself. The puzzle is especially troublesome if we think of cases in which breaking the law is not otherwise wrongful, and in which the chances of getting caught are negligible. Philosophers from Socrates to H.L.A. Hart have struggled to give reasoned support to the idea that we do have a general moral duty to obey the law but, more recently, the greater number of learned voices has expressed doubt that there is any such duty, at least as traditionally conceived. The thought that there is no such duty poses a challenge to our ordinary understanding of political authority and its legitimacy. In what sense can political officials have a right to rule us if there is no duty to obey the laws they lay down? Some thinkers, concluding that a general duty to obey the law cannot be defended, have gone so far as to embrace philosophical anarchism, the view that the state is necessarily illegitimate. Others argue that the duty to obey the law can be grounded on the idea of consent, or on fairness, or on other ideas, such as community.
Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new installment in the engaging mystery series Booklist called “pitch-perfect” and “enthralling”—currently in development as a BBC television series—the incomparable playwright, novelist, raconteur, and now ex-convict Oscar Wilde faces his most fiendishly puzzling case yet. Oscar Wilde has fled to France after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. Oscar has endured the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, his astonishing detective powers remain undiminished—and when first a brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who else should the governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol’s most celebrated inmate?
Download or read book Oscar Or The Boy Who Had His Own Way written by Walter Aimwell and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oscar; Or, The Boy Who Had His Own Way" by Walter Aimwell. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Hammersteins written by Oscar Andrew Hammerstein and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Pub. This book was released on 2010 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a portrait of the Hammerstein family, describing their personal and professional lives in the American musical theater.
Download or read book DETECTIVE STORIES written by EDITORIAL BOARD and published by V&S Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "e;Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it,"e; said C.S. Lewis, one of the greatest English writers of the medieval period. This book is a part of a set of ten books of the Greatest Classic Series containing thrilling and fascinating stories with an amazing suspense and mystery surrounding each one of them that will arouse your curiosity and compel you to go through all the stories written by world acclaimed authors, like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Ernest William Hornung, etc. Actually, the entire classic series has been aimed to enrich the young minds with the wonderful assets of English language and literature and to develop their interest in understanding the language, inculcating in them the reading habits, particularly among the school- going children in the age group of 12 to 18 years studying in higher classes from standard seven to twelve. This book contains an introductory page exclusively about the author, his brief life sketch, notable works and achievements along with word meanings of difficult words on each page marked and highlighted in the text for the students' convenience and easy understanding of the story. There is also an Exercise part after each story titled as 'An Understanding' containing four or five Questions which the reader/student has to answer making the book all the more interesting and reader-friendly. Therefore, these books are a must read for all the students, irrespective of their age, education and social background. Even the teachers may find it interesting and can recommend the books for the senior classes as supplementary reading.
