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Book Rogue Elephants  A Novel of the Peace Corps

Download or read book Rogue Elephants A Novel of the Peace Corps written by Dan Grossman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rogue Elephants

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dan Grossman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010-04-12
  • ISBN : 9780557416776
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Rogue Elephants written by Dan Grossman and published by . This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel opens with journalist Terry Lawson investigating the apparent death of the volunteer Adam Goldstein. Villagers tell Lawson that the volunteer's death was caused by jinn, or bush spirits. But the real cause of death seems to be suicide and this is what he writes above his byline. In the end, however, Lawson is surprised to discover that he might be mistaken about Goldstein's death. In fact, it appears to him that the volunteer might not even be dead.This novel is a surreal romp through some of the more lurid aspects of Peace Corps life, where the village experience is punctuated by parties as wild and insane as you could possibly imagine.

Book Peace Corps and Citizen Diplomacy

Download or read book Peace Corps and Citizen Diplomacy written by Stephen M. Magu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 50 years, more than 225,000 Peace Corps volunteers have been placed in over 140 countries around the world, with the goals of helping the recipient countries need for trained men and women, to promote a better understanding of Americans for the foreign nationals, and to promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans. The Peace Corps program, proposed during a 2 a.m. campaign stop on October 14, 1960 by America's Camelot, was part idealism, part belief that the United States could help Global South countries becoming independent. At the height of the Cold War, the US and USSR were racing each other to the moon, missiles in Turkey and in Cuba and walls in Berlin consumed the archrivals; sending American graduates to remote villages seemed ill-informed. Kennedy's Kiddie Korps was derided as ineffectual, the volunteers accused of being CIA spies, and often, their work made no sense to locals. The program would fall victim to the vagaries of global geopolitics: in Peru, Yawar Malku (Blood of the Condor), depicting American activities in the country, led to volunteers being bundled out unceremoniously; in Tanzania, they were excluded over Tanzania’s objection to the Vietnam War. Despite these challenges, the Peace Corps program shaped newly independent countries in significant ways: in Ethiopia they constituted half the secondary school teachers in 1961, in Tanzania they helped survey and build roads, in Ghana and Nigeria they were integral in the education systems, alongside other programs. Even in the Philippines, formerly a U.S. colony, Peace Corps volunteers were welcomed. Aside from these outcomes, the program had a foreign policy component, advancing U.S. interests in the recipient countries. Data shows that countries receiving volunteers demonstrated congruence in foreign policy preferences with the U.S., shown by voting behavior at the United Nations, a forum where countries’ actions and preferences and signaling is evident. Volunteer-recipient countries particularly voted with the U.S. on Key Votes. Thus, Peace Corps volunteers who function as citizen diplomats, helped countries shape their foreign policy towards the U.S., demonstrating the viability of soft power in international relations.

Book The Indianapolis Anthology

Download or read book The Indianapolis Anthology written by Norman Minnick and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of essays & poetry offering a reconsideration of one of America’s most misunderstood cities. Is Indianapolis just another midwestern city to fly over on the way to bigger and better destinations? Or is it, as locals know, a place where different peoples and ideals converge to create a rich cultural center? The Indianapolis Anthology showcases Naptown’s vibrancy and diversity with pieces from journalists, poets, historians, established community voices, and first-time writers. The Circle City is more than the home of the Indianapolis 500, John Dillinger, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Kurt Vonnegut, Prozac, and Wonder Bread. In these pages, you’ll find: · lawn chairs in the beds of pick-ups · Punk rock in Naptown · suffragists and entrepreneurs · cement pietàs · dog bakeries and yoga studios · red brick bungalows and war memorials · steakburgers and Mexican seafood; pho and sauerbraten · and more In other words, you'll find images from a city that is truly a cross section of today’s America. Edited by Norman “Buzz” Minnick and with contributions from Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes, Michael Martone, and Karen Kovacik. An insiders’ look that will make you see a great midwestern city in a brand-new light.

Book Soft Corps

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dan Grossman
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2010-05-29
  • ISBN : 0557423090
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Soft Corps written by Dan Grossman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-29 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of poems centered around my experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, West Africa. These poems deal with the volunteer experience, the experience of day-to-day village life, and the clash between the two. They are by turns, bawdy, sad, and as surreal as the Peace Corps experience itself. A number of these poems have been published in the following journals; pLopLop, INPOSSE, Five Fingers Review, Flying Island, Bathtub Gin. Others were published in Kilhohertz Country, a chapbook of poems published by GeekSpeak Unique Press--Dan Grossman

Book A Circle of Elephants

Download or read book A Circle of Elephants written by Eric Dinerstein and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of What Elephants Know, a 2017 ALA Notable Children's Book and winner of the 2017 South Asia Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, comes this stunning companion novel about the complex relationship between people and nature coexisting in the Borderlands of 1970s Nepal. Thirteen-year-old Nandu lives in the newly established Royal Elephant Breeding Center on the edge of the jungle. Here, the King's elephants are to be raised under the protective watch of the stable. Nandu-along with his adoptive father Subba-sahib, his mentors, friends, and the rest of the elephant drivers-is tested by man and nature as earthquakes, drought, wild herds, and rumors of poachers threaten the Center. When Nandu's world is thrown into turmoil, so, too, is the world of Hira Prasad, the Center's powerful bull elephant. An unbreakable bond of brotherhood drives Nandu and Hira Prasad together as they struggle to maintain the delicate natural order of life in the Borderlands. Dinerstein's poetic prose and scientific expertise come together in this breathtaking tale that transports the reader to the center of dangerous conflicts and heartbreaking friendships.

Book The Rogue Elephant

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  • Author : Elliott Whitney
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-01-16
  • ISBN : 9781507574676
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book The Rogue Elephant written by Elliott Whitney and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic text by Elliott Whitney is an an exciting animal adventure about an awesome pachyderm.

Book The Rogue Elephant

Download or read book The Rogue Elephant written by Elliott Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rogue Elephant

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  • Author : Pamela Rushby
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Rogue Elephant written by Pamela Rushby and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • Author : Pamela Rushby
  • Publisher : Story Surfers
  • Release : 2004-02-20
  • ISBN : 9780740612060
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Rogue Elephant written by Pamela Rushby and published by Story Surfers. This book was released on 2004-02-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Single book in an 18-title series of paired fiction and nonfiction books and computer activities designed to motivate reluctant readers.

Book Through Enemy Eyes

Download or read book Through Enemy Eyes written by Edward P. O'Connell and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rataplan  a Rogue Elephant and Other Stories

Download or read book Rataplan a Rogue Elephant and Other Stories written by Ellen Velvin and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rogue Elephant

Download or read book The Rogue Elephant written by Elliott Whitney and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1913. The Rogue Elephant is from the 13 volume Boys' Big Game Series. The story begins: You are so crazy as a loon! Boys? Boys to such a drip dake? Nein! Von Hofe excitedly pounded the table until the attendants at the Explorers' Club stared. Then he leaned back determinedly and lighted his meerschaum. The lean, bronzed man who sat opposite pushed away his maps with a smile. You misunderstand, von Hofe. I know both these boys personally and vouch for them. You have agreed that this is to be no milk-and-water trip, with hundred of porters bearing bath tubs and toilet water, but that we shall live off the land as we go. That right? See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Book Library Journal

Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Issued also separately.

Book Rogue Elephant

Download or read book Rogue Elephant written by Dwight Arthur Delafield and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Humanities Index

Download or read book Humanities Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book RATAPLAN  A ROGUE ELEPHANT

Download or read book RATAPLAN A ROGUE ELEPHANT written by ELLEN VELVIN, F.Z.S. and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: