Download or read book The Kite Dancing in the Hurricane written by Rahul Saraf and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘Kite Dancing in the Hurricane’ is a dedication to those who become part of our ordinary lives and make it worth living. Irrespective of them becoming a part of our future or remaining as our longings, they become our beloved and stay in our hearts forever. The book deals with subtle matters of the heart which are etched within memory and span over the entire timeline of our existence. It even speaks volumes about unrequited love, its beauty and its ordeal as seen from the eyes of a poet.
Download or read book Words Through A Kaleidoscope written by Rajanish Sharma and published by The Suman Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words Through A Kaleidoscope is a collection of poems that take a deep dive into all what a human mind can think of and representing all the different moods of a human psyche, just like the colors in a kaleidoscope when turned or moved showing different pattern each time. Words that you may read in this book are simple combinations and represent what went on in my mind in the different situations that one faced. Some of these poems are memories that I chose to preserve.
Download or read book How To Speak With Confidence in Public written by Edie Lush and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People buy people, which means that managing our presence and profile is critical. We are constantly meeting and speaking to people who are short of both time and attention. By exploring the concepts of energy (to increase presence) and story structure (to bring content alive and make it concise, accessible and memorable), Edie Lush and Charlotte McDougall offer a practical guide for beating nerves and building the foundation for real self-awareness and confidence. How To Speak With Confidence in Public will help you build your presence and profile and explore techniques to help you present yourself, your personality and your messages in a confident, personable and compelling way - wherever you are and whoever you are talking to. What you'll learn - A heightened awareness of what effective and engaging communication looks and sounds like. - Practical techniques to immediately help you come across with more confidence and authority. - A practical methodology to help you prepare and structure your content and bring it to life. - Nerves: how they can affect us, and what to do about it!
Download or read book Growing Up American A Novel written by Rafael Polo and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1959, the Cold War was getting warmer. Cuba was the revolutionary fuel that made it hot. When Fidel Castro took power, he promised free elections, but instead, he became the country's new dictator, and a communist one at that. Marco's family did not support the Castro regime and was subjected to insults and mockery from former "friends." As the country dug deeper and deeper into Marxism, Marco's parents decided it was time to talk to their nine-year-old boy. They proposed a tough decision-either go live in the United States with his aunt, or stay with them in Cuba. He chose to go. He knew that was what his parents wanted. Marco lived with his aunt and uncle for a short and difficult time. About eight months later, his family was reunited. Like all immigrants before them, they struggled to make a living, but with hard work, discipline, and belief in God, they managed to thrive in a relative short time. What follows is a story much like any story from millions of immigrants willing to work, assimilate, and become another ingredient in the great melting pot that is the United States of America.
Download or read book Out of the Shadows written by Neill Lochery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the Shadows is a full account of post-authoritarian democratic Portugal (1974 to Present) following the Carnation Revolution which began on April 25th 1974 and based on documentary sources, personal accounts and unpublished documents from the National Archive in Kew. 'Lisbon and Portugal's best days are behind them' is a common theme put forward by writers who focus their attention on the golden era of Portuguese discoveries, the Empire and the role of Lisbon as a major Atlantic power. Neill Lochery's book demonstrates that Portugal is not suffering from such inevitable decline. In 1974 a dramatic overnight coup led to the fall of the 'Estado Novo' dictatorship in Portugal - in Lisbon the events became known as the Carnation Revolution. As the colonies collapsed, the United States helped airlift 13,000 refugees from Angola back to Portugal as US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger maneuvered to advance the moderate side of the government in Lisbon over the radicals and thus guarantee US interests. As Neill Lochery argues, one of the major misunderstandings of the post-revolution era in Portugal has been the concentration on domestic over international factors in helping to shape its story. Having emerged from its twentieth century financial crisis and bail out and thus 'out of the shadows', he argues that Portugal is a country of huge relevance to the present day and of great future significance to the European continent. Indeed, the strengthening of bonds between Portugal and its European neighbours can be seen to be more important than ever, given the heightened tensions in European politics, the refugee crisis and the prospect of a changing European Union.
Download or read book The Age of Glass written by Stephen Eskilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glass has long transformed the architectural landscape. From the Crystal Palace through to the towering glass spires of today's cities, few architectural materials have held such immense symbolic resonance in the modern era. The Age of Glass explores the cultural and technological ascension of glass in modern and contemporary architecture. Showing how the use of glass is driven as much by changing cultural concerns as it is by developments in technology and style, it traces the richly interwoven material, symbolic, and ideological histories of glass to show how it has produced and dispersed meaning in architecture over the past two centuries. The book's chapters focus on key moments within the modern history of architecture, moments when glass came to the forefront of architectural thought, and which illustrate how glass has been used at different times to project different cultural ideas. A wide range of topics are explored – from the tension between expressionism and functionalism, to the persistent theme of glass and social class, to how glass has reflected political ideas from Nazism through to today's global consumer capitalism. The book also grapples with current arguments about sustainability, while, taking into account the advent of digital LED screens and 'smart glass', offering new cultural perspectives on the future and asking what glass architecture will signify in the digital age. Combining close readings of buildings with insights drawn from research, plus good storytelling and strong contemporary relevance, The Age of Glass offers a fascinating new perspective on modern architecture and culture.
Download or read book Media and the Cold War in the 1980s written by Henrik G. Bastiansen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people—and for government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies’ ability to control the domestic public sphere. This collection examines how this struggle played out on screen, radio, and in print from the late 1970s through the early 1990s, a time when breaking news stories such as Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” program and Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost captured the world’s attention. Ranging from the United States to the Soviet Union and China, these essays cover photojournalism on both sides of the Iron Curtain, Polish punk, Norwegian film, Soviet magazines, and more, concluding with a contribution from Stuart Franklin, one of the creators of the iconic “Tank Man” image during the Tiananmen Square protests. By investigating an array of media actors and networks, as well as narrative and visual frames on a local and transnational level, this volume lays the groundwork for writing media into the history of the late Cold War.
Download or read book Splash written by George Thomas and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to my poetic realm! Within the pages of this collection, I invite you to navigate the poignant corridors of emotion, where each verse serves as a heartfelt echo of sadness, love, loss, and Glee. May each line linger as a comforting embrace and a gentle reminder that, even in the shadows, poetry has the power to illuminate the path toward healing.
Download or read book Flying a Kite at Night During a Storm written by Thomas Long and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-01-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When was the last time you took a chance? For the small group of friends in Flying A Kite At Night During A Storm, taking a chance means many things: letting go, learning to love, allowing yourself feel again after a staggering personal loss. In turn amusing and poignant, this is a story about the foundations of friendship and overcoming fear: the fear of loneliness, the fear of the unknown, the fear of life and ultimately, the fear of not having lived to your full extent. From the first page of this extraordinary work, you are asked: in an age where your life can change in a single instant-with a single act-how much would you be willing to risk? Are you ready to take a chance?
Download or read book The Quiet Storm written by RaeAnne Thayne and published by Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Intim. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quiet Storm by RaeAnne Thayne released on Mar 25, 2003 is available now for purchase.
Download or read book The Primary Factor written by Michael Stone and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primary Factor is a science fiction novel about an android, sent across space to seek out a planet were the dominant life form is killing the planet. His mission is to save the planet from destruction by eradicating the threat. When he crashes on a primitive Earth the question arises, can he survive until these people advance enough to enable him to leave? The discoveries he makes during his early time on Earth will change him forever, but will they be strong enough to prevent him from carrying out his mission? when, thousands of years later, these people become a major threat to the planet. Will he leave in peace, or is his core programming so strong that the human race is doomed? Or can a young computer hacker discover the secret and prevent our extinction?
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Download or read book Writing Rumba written by Miguel Arnedo-Gómez and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arising in the heyday of the music recently made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s that tried to convey a national and racial identity. Through poetry, this movement was the first serious attempt on the part of mostly white Cuban intellectuals to produce a national literature that incorporated elements from the Afro-Cuban traditions of lower-class urban blacks. One of its main objectives was to project an image of Cuban identity as a harmonious process of fusion between black and white people and cultures. The notion of a unified nation without racial conflicts and the idea of a mulatto Cuban culture and identity continue to play a prominent role in the Cuban imagination. The first book-length treatment of the poetry of this movement, Writing Rumba: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry questions the assumption that the poetry did manage to symbolize racial reconciliation and unification. At the same time it reveals a process of literary transculturation by which the dominant literature of European origins was radically transformed through the incorporation of formal principles from Afro-Cuban dance and music forms. To make his case, Miguel Arnedo-G mez establishes the nature of the movement s connections to Cuban blacks during this time, analyzes the poetry's links with the represented cultures on the basis of anthropological and ethnographic research, and explores the thought of leading figures of the movement, tying their discourse to specific sociocultural factors in Cuba at the time. Relating the poetry to music and dance, he further illuminates the interplay of power and culture in a social context. Essential for understanding Cuban nationalism and race relations today, Writing Rumba will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience not only in regional, cultural, and anthropological fields but also in the fields of music, dance, and literature.
Download or read book Hurricane Dancers written by Margarita Engle and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado-half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the worlds and words between his mother's Taíno Indian language and his father's Spanish. But when a hurricane sinks the ship and most of its crew, it is Quebrado who escapes to safety. He learns how to live on land again, among people who treat him well. And it is he who must decide the fate of his former captors. Latino interest.
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