Download or read book The Shoeshine Boy written by Melvin Sterne and published by Lamar University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many lives have been altered by "spiritual experiences." Pablo, the shoeshine boy, has such an experience, one he assures the reader that they will not believe. And why should we? It's a story so outlandish that Pablo scarce believes it himself. The Shoeshine Boy is a story of individual redemption. Can Pablo, a five-year-old, illiterate orphan, survive on the streets of a hostile world? But even more, it is a novel of human redemption, contrasting the power of belief with the power of delusion, of truth with the lies we tell ourselves every day. This is a novel about faith. More broadly, it is a tale of choices. We live in a world of dwindling resources, exploding population, and technological revolution that is threatening our existence. The question becomes not whether Pablo will survive, but whether you and I will survive--and if so, how? The values we affirm and the choices we make based on our values can seal our fate as a species. Kurt Vonnegut once said that he wanted to stay as close to the edge as he could without going over. "Out on the edge," he said, "you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." His words describe The Shoeshine Boy perfectly. It will take you to the edge.
Download or read book Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy written by Doug Stumpf and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazilian-born Gil is trying to find the American Dream. In the meantime, he polishes the shoes of the superrich and powerful on Wall Street—high-rolling traders as uninhibited as they are ruthless. Gil sees things as few other people do—from the ground up—and his perspective on the day-to-day insanity of the trading floor is priceless. But this fly on the wall overhears one or two things that maybe he shouldn't. And when a Glossy magazine journalist, desperate for a big break, persuades him to be an undercover source for what may be the biggest insider trading scam in Wall Street history, Gil is catapulted into a danger zone darker than anything he or the journalist could have imagined.
Download or read book Outraged written by Robert J. Hoshowsky and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Murder That Changed a City The tragic story of Shoeshine Boy Emanuel Jaques has been the basis of novels, short stories, a documentary, a play, songs, a children's book on the dangers of abduction, and dozens of essays, but never a True Crime book...until now. The torture and killing of Emanuel over a 12-hour period above a seedy Toronto body rub parlour outraged citizens who demanded change to Toronto's Yonge Street strip, which by 1977 resembled New York's grimy 42nd Street with its many X-rated movie theatres, massage parlours, pornographic bookstores, and prostitutes. Through a series of original interviews, archival research, and previously unpublished documents, author Robert J. Hoshowsky recreates in detail Emanuel's brutal death, the hunt for the boy's killers, the shocking trial and press coverage, the controversial Yonge Street clean-up, and what remains one of the most sensational True Crime cases in Canadian history.
Download or read book The Shoe Shine Boy written by Wallace Brazzeal and published by . This book was released on 2006-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one brief summer a thirteen-year-old became a Texas Shoeshine Boy, creating a story to add to the family history...a springboard to link the threads together. The Houston Ice Houses played cowboy songs to lonesome folks whose shoes needed a good shine. It was a place sandwiched between a boy growing up and a country expanding beyond its borders. It was as simple as two people discovering each other and as uncharted as the heavens above. But these thoughts could only be understood later, when growing older seasons memories and makes sense from a perspective far in the future. A place where all such stories are weaved and knitted into a tapestry that can only be seen and read after a life well-lived, where tear-drops are not lost in rain, but merge with all sorrows into the oceans of humanity.
Download or read book ShoeShine Boy written by Charles Belim and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shoeshine Boy written by Harrison O. Akingbade and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Akin Quicksilver's struggle to acquire education, which every Nigerian knows to be the surest means of ascending from poverty. With the death of his benefactor and a mediocre performance at the West African School Certificate Examinations, he knows that the only way to advance himself academically must be through his own exertion and determination. The inability to fulfill his educational ambition in Nigeria sets him out on adventure, which eventually takes him to Liberia where he has to eke out an existence by shining shoes. Through his dedication to his shoeshine business, he gets a lucky break. An Episcopal Mission in the country employs him as a utility man. In spite of suffering a series of setbacks, he obtains a scholarship to an American university and eventually wends his way to America. His strongest motivation for success is his love for Jumoke Phoenix, which is seriously threatened by his poor performance in the West African School Certificate Examinations. Jumoke is in grade one and Akin in three, with little or no chance for further advancement. The problem is further complicated by the appearance of a rival who seems to be gaining an upper hand in the competition for Jumoke's affection. Akin is determined not to give Jumoke the satisfaction of saying in future: "I m glad I left him at the time I did."
Download or read book The Shoeshine Boy written by Walter Reinhard and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shoeshine Boy written by David A Mucci and published by Manor Books. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shoeshine Girl written by Clyde Robert Bulla and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who ever heard of a shoeshine girl? The last thing Sarah Ida wants to do is spend the summer with her Aunt Claudia. But when her parents send her away because of problems at home, that is exactly what she has to do. With no allowance and no fun to be had, Sarah Ida decides to look for a job. But who will hire a ten year old? Al, the shoeshine man, will! Sarah loves her job, even if it means getting knee-deep in shoe polish everyday. Then something terrible happens and it looks like the shoeshine stand will have to close forever. If Sarah Ida wants to keep it open, she'll have to learn a few lessons about growing up along the way ...
Download or read book Cambridge Learner s Dictionary written by Cambridge University Press and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for PET and FCE preparation The Cambridge Learne's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for intermediate learners and for FCE preparation. This new edition contains many features to make learning English even easier.
Download or read book The International Man written by Douglas R. Casey and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kicking the Sky written by Anthony De Sa and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was 1977 when a shoeshine boy, Emanuel Jaques, was brutally murdered in Toronto. In the aftermath of the crime, twelve-year-old Antonio Rebelo explores his neighborhood’s dark garages and labyrinthine back alleys along with his rapscallion friends. As the media unravels the truth behind the Shoeshine Boy murder, Antonio sees his immigrant family--and his Portuguese neighborhood--with new eyes, becoming aware of the frightening reality that no one is really taking care of him. So intent are his parents and his neighbors on keeping the old traditions alive that they act as if they still live in a small village, not in a big city that puts their kids in the kind of danger they would not dare imagine. Antonio learns about bravery and cowardice, life and death, and the heart’s capacity for love--and for cruelty--in this stunning novel.
Download or read book The Shoeshine Boys written by George Panetta and published by . This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his father loses his job to automation, Tony decides to help support the family by becoming a shoeshine boy.
Download or read book Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy written by Harry Stone and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Banksy Completed written by Carol Diehl and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's more to Banksy than the painting on the wall: the first in-depth investigation into the mysteries of the world's most famous living artist. Banksy is the world's most famous living artist, yet no one knows who he is. For more than twenty years, his wryly political and darkly humorous spray paintings have appeared mysteriously on urban walls around the globe, generating headlines and controversy. Art critics disdain him, but the public (and the art market) love him. With this generously illustrated book, artist and critic Carol Diehl is the first author to probe the depths of the Banksy mystery. Through her exploration of his paintings, installations, writings, and Academy Award-nominated film, Exit through the Gift Shop, Diehl proves unequivocally that there's more to Banksy than the painting on the wall. Seeing Banksy as the ultimate provocateur, Diehl investigates the dramas that unfold after his works are discovered, with all of their social, economic, and political implications. She reveals how this trickster rattles the system, whether during his month-long 2013 self-styled New York "residency" or his notorious Dismaland of 2015, a full-scale dystopian "family theme park unsuitable for children" dedicated to the failure of capitalism. Banksy's work, Diehl shows, is a synthesis of conceptual art, social commentary, and political protest, played out not in museums but where it can have the most effect--on the street, in the real world. The questions Banksy raises about the uses of public and private property, the role of the global corporatocracy, the never-ending wars, and the gap between artworks as luxury goods and as vehicles of social expression, have never been more relevant.
Download or read book Shining Shoes with Dignity written by Jerry Boyd Jones and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twelve Red Herrings written by Jeffrey Archer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
