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Book The Mother Who Was Once Denied

Download or read book The Mother Who Was Once Denied written by Mary Bottom-Tinsley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MOTHER WHO WAS ONCE DENIED This play is based on (fiction and truth) a happily married Southern couple who are God-fearing people who encountered some happy times and some crucial times in life. Tom, the husband, became a nave and self-centered man who felt he could not deal with the tragic that caused the facial impairment of his wife. Minnie, the mother, suffered many heartaches when she was faced with the responsibility of taking care of two children and herself alone. The father, who had imposed domestic responsibility, as well as financial problems, upon her, decided to leave with the youngest child and moved to New York. Minnie wanted to work, but no one would hire her because of her face. She learned how to be patient and wait on the Lord, with a great determination to rise above all difficulties surrounding her during these difficult times. Fifteen years later, her child returns to visit her, with friends from New York. She admitted that she was ashamed of her mothers face and denied her.

Book White Like Her

Download or read book White Like Her written by Gail Lukasik and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik’s mother’s “passing,” Gail’s struggle with the shame of her mother’s choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother’s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother’s fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother’s racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how she looks at race and heritage. With a foreword written by Kenyatta Berry, host of PBS's Genealogy Roadshow, this unique and fascinating story of coming to terms with oneself breaks down barriers.

Book The Turnaway Study

Download or read book The Turnaway Study written by Diana Greene Foster and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Now with a new afterword by the author"--Back cover.

Book Vanderbilt

Download or read book Vanderbilt written by Anderson Cooper and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts. One of the Washington Post's Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2021 When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Though his son Billy doubled the money left by “the Commodore,” subsequent generations competed to find new and ever more extraordinary ways of spending it. By 2018, when the last Vanderbilt was forced out of The Breakers—the seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Cornelius’s grandson and namesake had built—the family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all. Now, the Commodore’s great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the family’s empire, basked in the Commodore’s wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became synonymous with unfettered American capitalism and high society. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of old Manhattan to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the way to modern-day New York, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other. Written with a unique insider’s viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.

Book Anna Murray Douglass

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rosetta Douglass Sprague
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2020-08-29
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 26 pages

Download or read book Anna Murray Douglass written by Rosetta Douglass Sprague and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-08-29 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this short pamphlet, Rosetta Douglass Sprague, daughter of Frederick Douglass, remembers her mother's life.

Book The Mother s Magazine

Download or read book The Mother s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Raised to Rage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael A. Milburn
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2016-08-08
  • ISBN : 0262338521
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Raised to Rage written by Michael A. Milburn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that voter anger and authoritarian political attitudes can be traced to the displacement of anger, fear, and helplessness. Politicians routinely amplify and misdirect voters' anger and resentment to win their support. Opportunistic candidates encourage supporters to direct their anger toward Mexicans, Muslims, women, protestors, and others, rather than the true socioeconomic causes of their discontent. This book offers a compelling and novel explanation for political anger and the roots of authoritarian political attitudes. In Raised to Rage, Michael Milburn and Sheree Conrad connect vociferous opposition to immigrants, welfare, and abortion to the displacement of anger, fear, and helplessness. These emotions may be triggered by real economic and social instability, but Milburn and Conrad's research shows that the original source is in childhood brutalization or some other emotional trauma. Their research also shows that frequent experiences of physical punishment in childhood increase support in adulthood for punitive public policies, distorting the political process. Originally published in 1996, reprinted now with a new introduction by the authors that updates the empirical evidence and connects it to the current political situation, this book offers a timely consideration of a paradox in American politics: why voters are convinced by campaign rhetoric, exaggeration, and scapegoating to vote against their own interests.

Book Denial

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jessica Stern
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2011-06-07
  • ISBN : 006162666X
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Denial written by Jessica Stern and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by critics and readers alike, Jessica Stern's riveting memoir examines the horrors of trauma and denial as she investigates her own unsolved adolescent sexual assault at the hands of a serial rapist. Alone in an unlocked house, in a safe suburban Massachusetts town, two good, obedient girls, Jessica Stern, fifteen, and her sister, fourteen, were raped on the night of October 1, 1973. The rapist was never caught. For over thirty years, Stern denied the pain and the trauma of the assault. Following the example of her family, Stern—who lost her mother at the age of three, and whose father was a Holocaust survivor—focused on her work instead of her terror. She became a world-class expert on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder who interviewed extremists around the globe. But while her career took off, her success hinged on her symptoms. After her ordeal, she no longer felt fear in normally frightening situations. Stern believed she'd disassociated from the trauma altogether, until a dedicated police lieutenant reopened the case. With the help of the lieutenant, Stern began her own investigation to uncover the truth about the town of Concord, her own family, and her own mind. The result is Denial, a candid, courageous, and ultimately hopeful look at a trauma and its aftermath.

Book The Digest of Ontario Case Law

Download or read book The Digest of Ontario Case Law written by James Frederick Smith and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Whole Journey

Download or read book The Whole Journey written by C. L. Barber and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

Book Will I Ever be Good Enough

Download or read book Will I Ever be Good Enough written by Karyl McBride and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resource for daughters of mothers with narcissistic personality disorder explains how to manage feelings of inadequacy and abandonment in the face of inappropriate maternal expectations and conditional love, in a step-by-step guide that shares recommendations for creating a personalized program for self-protection and recovery. 50,000 first printing.

Book Harper s New Monthly Magazine

Download or read book Harper s New Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harper s New Monthly Magazine

Download or read book Harper s New Monthly Magazine written by Henry Mills Alden and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.

Book The Woman Patriot

    Book Details:
  • Author : Minnie Bronson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book The Woman Patriot written by Minnie Bronson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk

Download or read book From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk written by Michelle Mouton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-08 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Weimar and Nazi family policy to highlight the disparity between national policy design and its implementation at the local level.

Book My Mother s House and Sido

Download or read book My Mother s House and Sido written by Colette and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In My Mother's House and Sido, Colette plays fictional variations on the themes of childhood, family, and, above all, her mother. Vividly alive, fond of cities, music, theater, and books, Sido devoted herself to her village, Saint-Saveur; to her garden, with its inhabitants and its animals; and, especially, to her children, particularly her youngest, whom she called Minet-Chéri. Unlike Gigi and Chéri, which focus largely on sexual love and its repercussions, My Mother's House and Sido center on the compelling figure of a powerful, nurturing woman in late-nineteenth-century rural France, conveying the impact she had on her community and on her daughter—who grew up to be a great writer.

Book The Politics of Motherhood

Download or read book The Politics of Motherhood written by Toni Bowers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the eighteenth-century social and cultural struggle to develop new ideas for virtuous motherhood.