Download or read book The Shattered Middle Class Dreams written by Jatender Pal Singh and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s my story, it’s your story, and it’s the story of every middle-class family who has struggled in different phases of their life to live the dream they all see together. We sacrifice our present for a better tomorrow but what if there is no tomorrow. How helpless will you feel when you know that the biggest strength of your life is slowly going away and you can’t do anything? It’s not only about how you lived, but also how you died matters a lot.
Download or read book Dreams of a Middle Class written by Kate Drinan and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Middle Class Dreams written by Stanley B. Greenberg and published by Random House Value Pub. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Middle Class Dreams written by Stanley B. Greenberg and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pollster and senior advisor to Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992, Stanly Greenberg now offers a provocative assessment of the middle class's disillutionment with politics and the two major parties. Greenberg outlines the daunting challenges facing both parties, analyzes the 1994 election upheavals, and offers bold opinions about the upcoming presidential election.
Download or read book Destiny of Shattered Dreams written by Nilesh Rathod and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2016 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When danger comes to a large forest filled with big, brave animals, only a tiny bird can save everyone. The forest stands still as the black clouds begin to roll in again. Every year, the Monsoon Army's rain comes down harder, destroying trees and plants, nests and burrows. And the rain brings with it gushing, flooded rivers. This year, all the animals know the army will not stop till it has washed away their homes. Should they flee? Should they fight? Or will they trust the unlikeliest hero among them to save their lives? Find out what happens when even the littlest one decides to be brave, in this story of extraordinary courage, told by one of India's best children's writers.
Download or read book The Shattered Dream of Death written by Marjorie Townsend and published by Marjorie Townsend. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone is killing people at ATMs. It's up to Detectives Phillips and Marshall to find and catch the killer. Unbeknownst to them, the killer is writing a script, and has a chapter for each murder. The killer leaves very little evidence behind, and when the detectives finally do have a suspect, it becomes a game of hide and seek as they attempt to gain the upper hand before he strikes again.
Download or read book The City of Shattered Dreams written by Shailesh J. Khatri and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the wishes of his father, a simple village man migrates to Mumbai to earn a living. The City of Shattered Dreams traces his experiences, which ultimately culminate in his leaving, filled with disgust and despair. Having no idea what is in store for him in the big city, this honest and tenacious man's patience is tested to the hilt. He is devoted to his father and wants to keep his word and stay in a place he doesn't want to be, and so he fights the good fight. After all his attempts to overcome the failures he faces in Mumbai, the last straw comes when he is jilted in love. This honest and heartfelt novel tells only one of the bitter stories taking place in The City of Shattered Dreams.
Download or read book Shattered Dreams written by Ellie James and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trinity has never known who she really is. Strange dreams haunt her nights, and she has always been able to sense things that others can't. When Jessica, the most popular girl at school, disappears, Trinity realises she will have to draw on her secret abilities to help find her. Soon, Trinity is subject to visions that terrify her and make the police sceptical. As her dreams grow darker and the visions more frightening, Trinity realises she must risk her reputation and her sanity to save a girl who hates her.
Download or read book The Global Bourgeoisie written by Christof Dejung and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay collection presents a global history of the middle class and its rise around the world during the age of empire. It compares middle-class formation in various regions, highlighting differences and similarities, and assesses the extent to which bourgeois growth was tied to the increasing exchange of ideas and goods and was a result of international connections and entanglements. Grouped by theme, the book shows how bourgeois values can shape the liberal world order.
Download or read book A Middle Class Dream written by Anand Krishna and published by Naye Pallav. This book was released on with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I always believe that we should never stop dreaming because it is the first step to achieve something big in life. When we dream for something sincerely, we start taking small steps towards that direction. Each small step takes us nearer to our dream provided we maintain our patience and perseverance. When we sow a seed, we have to water it, nurture it until it becomes a tree. We can’t expect a seed to become a tree overnight.” - From this book
Download or read book Shattered Dream written by Salam Azad and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel based on partition of India.
Download or read book The Shattered Dream written by Alexander Szurek and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs—how they have altered our very being—and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.
Download or read book Blue Dreams written by Nancy ABELMANN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one will soon forget the image, blazed across the airwaves, of armed Korean Americans taking to the rooftops as their businesses went up in flames during the Los Angeles riots. Why Korean Americans? What stoked the wrath the riots unleashed against them? Blue Dreams is the first book to make sense of these questions, to show how Korean Americans, variously depicted as immigrant seekers after the American dream or as racist merchants exploiting African Americans, emerged at the crossroads of conflicting social reflections in the aftermath of the 1992 riots. The situation of Los Angeles's Korean Americans touches on some of the most vexing issues facing American society today: ethnic conflict, urban poverty, immigration, multiculturalism, and ideological polarization. Combining interviews and deft socio-historical analysis, Blue Dreams gives these problems a human face and at the same time clarifies the historical, political, and economic factors that render them so complex. In the lives and voices of Korean Americans, the authors locate a profound challenge to cherished assumptions about the United States and its minorities. Why did Koreans come to the United States? Why did they set up shop in poor inner-city neighborhoods? Are they in conflict with African Americans? These are among the many difficult questions the authors answer as they probe the transnational roots and diversity of Los Angeles's Korean Americans. Their work finally shows us in sharp relief and moving detail a community that, despite the blinding media focus brought to bear during the riots, has nonetheless remained largely silent and effectively invisible. An important corrective to the formulaic accounts that have pitted Korean Americans against African Americans, Blue Dreams places the Korean American story squarely at the center of national debates over race, class, culture, and community. Table of Contents: Preface The Los Angeles Riots, the Korean American Story Reckoning via the Riots Diaspora Formation: Modernity and Mobility Mapping the Korean Diaspora in Los Angeles Korean American Entrepreneurship American Ideologies on Trial Conclusion Notes References Index Reviews of this book: Blue Dreams--a poetic allusion to the clear blue sky that Koreans see as a symbol of freedom--is a welcome exploration by outsiders into the vexing and largely invisible Korean-American predicament in Los Angeles and the nation. [Abelmann and Lie 's] colorful interview subjects offer sharp observations. --K.W. Lee, Los Angeles Times Reviews of this book: An informed and thoughtful examination of Korean immigration to the United States since 1970...[Abelmann and Lie] show that even in a period as short as twenty-five years, there have been successive waves of differently motivated, differently resourced Korean immigrants, and their experiences and reactions have differed accordingly. --Michael Tonry, Times Literary Supplement Reviews of this book: [The authors'] transnational perspective is particularly effective for explicating Korean immigrants' behaviors, activities, and feelings...Interesting and readable. --Pyong Gap Min, American Journal of Sociology Reviews of this book: Beginning with a poetic book title, the authors recount in depth as to how the 'Blue Dreams' of the Korean-American merchants in East Los Angeles had shattered in the midst of [the] 1992 riot that turned out to be 'elusive dreams' in America...The book not only portrays the L.A. riot surrounding the Korean merchants, but also characterizes diaspora of the Koreans in America. The authors have also examined with scholarly insights the more complex socioeconomic and political underplay the Koreans encountered in their 'Promised New Land'. --Eugene C. Kim, International Migration Review
Download or read book The Shattered Dream written by Margaret Sloan and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Sloan's dream of the perfect union of man and wife is threatened when her marriage turns sour.
Download or read book Solidarity Blues written by Richard Iton and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of arguments have been made to explain the relative weakness of the American Left. A preference for individualism, the effects of prosperity, and the miscalculations of different components of the Left, including the labor movement, have been cited, among other factors, as possible explanations for this puzzling aspect of American exceptionalism. But these arguments, says Richard Iton, overlook a crucial factor--the powerful influence of race upon American life. Iton argues that the failure of the American Left lies in its inability to come to grips with the centrality of race in the American experience. Placing the history of the American Left in an illuminating comparative context, he also broadens our definition of the Left to include not just political parties and labor unions but also public policy and popular culture--an important source for the kind of cultural consensus needed to sustain broad social and collectivist efforts, Iton says. In short, by exposing the impact of race on the development of the American Left, Iton offers a provocative new way of understanding the unique orientation of American politics.
Download or read book Dream Builders Dream Killers written by Berteau Joisil and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All immigrants to America have a story with the American Dream, a story sometimes intimately intertwined with personal dreams. My story might be a surprising, if not maybe an unexpected one diverging from the usual account of pitiful existence in Haiti's slums or that of struggle for adaptation to America's way of life by one of Haiti's "boat people" who landed on South Florida's coast. It is a story that starts from the lower plains of the Artibonite Valley in Haiti with a dream from my great grandfather, Joizil Estimé, and continues in the United States, ultimately in Powell, Ohio. It is the story of a Haitian immigrant born in the small coastal town of Saint-Marc, Haiti. It evolves with my experiences growing up in my native country where my formative years were influenced by a connection to a diverse sociocultural environment. It progresses with my interaction with other societal enclaves in foreign lands like Germany and ultimately in the United States. It is an account of dreams fulfilled or unfulfilled, due not only to factors such as the convergence of different motivational agents (dreambuilders), the winds blowing on corporate America, whether in Haiti or the United States, but also to different conditions such as country of origin, globalization, social class, and Afro-ethnicity in America (dreamkillers). It is the story of coping with life changes, of integration into the American mainstream, of successes and disappointments of an immigrant from Haiti. But it is more than the story of an immigrant; it also reflects in a way the struggle of all immigrants coping with the pursuit of the American Dream and the quest for adaptation and continuous learning. It relates to all those who have wrestled with their dreams, those who have learned to make the best out of life's circumstances and keep a positive outlook in the era we live in. Dreambuilders, dreamkillers are in all walks of life.
Download or read book Dreams of Flight written by Fran Martin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the other, strong neotraditionalist state, social, and familial pressures of the post-Mao era push them back toward marriage and family by age thirty. Martin examines these women’s motivations for studying in Australia and traces their embodied and emotional experiences of urban life, social media worlds, work in low-skilled and professional jobs, romantic relationships, religion, Chinese patriotism, and changed self-understanding after study abroad. Martin illustrates how emerging forms of gender, class, and mobility fundamentally transform the basis of identity for a whole generation of Chinese women.
