Download or read book Times are Changing and the Struggle Continues written by Cloyd Ovid Trouth Sr. and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Cloyd Ovid Trouth's book, Times are Changing and the Struggle Continues, provides a unique perspective on his life. In addition, it gives a balanced viewpoint of some of the cultural and societal issues that have occurred and continue to plague the United States and the world. Among other issues, Dr. Trouth describes and analyzes, through his memoir, racial inequality, poverty, the long-lasting effects of slavery, and man's inhumanity to man. He writes engagingly and with sharp wit about the problems that, for example, African-Americans in the United States still face. Everyone can learn something through Dr. Trouth's story of his own life, which gives a complex historical viewpoint on the United States as well.

Download or read book Times Are Changing and the Struggle Continues written by Cloyd Ovid Trouth Sr and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Cloyd Ovid Trouth's book, Times are Changing and the Struggle Continues, provides a unique perspective on his life. In addition, it gives a balanced viewpoint of some of the cultural and societal issues that have occurred and continue to plague the United States and the world. Among other issues, Dr. Trouth describes and analyzes, through his memoir, racial inequality, poverty, the long-lasting effects of slavery, and man's inhumanity to man. He writes engagingly and with sharp wit about the problems that, for example, African-Americans in the United States still face. Everyone can learn something through Dr. Trouth's story of his own life, which gives a complex historical viewpoint on the United States as well.

Download or read book Reason in a Dark Time written by Dale Jamieson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do. Centered in philosophy, the volume also treats the scientific, historical, economic, and political dimensions of climate change. Our failure to prevent or even to respond significantly to climate change, Jamieson argues, reflects the impoverishment of our systems of practical reason, the paralysis of our politics, and the limits of our cognitive and affective capacities. The climate change that is underway is remaking the world in such a way that familiar comforts, places, and ways of life will disappear in years or decades rather than centuries. Climate change also threatens our sense of meaning, since it is difficult to believe that our individual actions matter. The challenges that climate change presents go beyond the resources of common sense morality -- it can be hard to view such everyday acts as driving and flying as presenting moral problems. Yet there is much that we can do to slow climate change, to adapt to it and restore a sense of agency while living meaningful lives in a changing world.

Download or read book The Struggle Continues written by Christopher Thomson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a cast of international characters, this compelling story traces a Palestinian refugee family through a decade of violence and conflict in and around Lebanon in the 1970’s, against a backdrop of upheaval in the Middle East, contentious debate at the United Nations, and challenging peacekeeping operations. The Struggle Continues follows Ali and Salim, two young men determined to defend their families and people. While Ali’s family suffers greatly, and he is reluctantly drawn into the conflict, Salim becomes a diplomat seeking to draw international attention to the plight of the displaced and landless refugees. With a gripping plot and dynamic characters, The Struggle Continues transports readers into the heart of the Lebanese-Palestinian conflict of the period. It reminds people of the pain of personal loss and displacement, and the ultimate cost of warfare.

Download or read book The People Who Changed the World written by Sashakt and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book portrays the world history in an entirely new landscape which highlights the pace of development of all the major civilizations of the world since the dawn of human history. Man's rational behavior compelled him to search and innovate new things in order to emerge victorious in his struggle for existence, and in the process, he elevated human civilization. But different civilizations developed on different lines. Some were fast initially but later turned static, and some were static initially but later gained momentum to become world leaders, while some were in between. The author has broadly categorizes all the world civilizations into seven segments and demonstrated their behavior of development graphically. Indian civilization has been evaluated as initially glorious and highly developed, but later it turned static due to several inherent factors. Anglo-Saxon civilization has been adjudged as initially primitive and after AD 1000 it began to move slowly and later gained pace to become world leader. It has been suggested in the book that Indians should learn from the Anglo-Saxons and should follow their road to development, which has been heavily propitiated with scientific and technological innovations and rational thinking since AD 1000.

Download or read book Some People Watch Clocks to Tell What Time It Is I Watch People to Know What Time It Is written by Carl O. Snowden and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opinion columns that were written by civil-rights activist Carl Snowden are both poignant and powerful. These columns address issues involving race, immigration, politics, guns, violence and history. Snowden’s analysis of contemporary issues are based on a lifetime of community activism. His analysis of politics is based on his experience as a former elected official. His penetrating discussion on race issues is from the perspective of a black man that not only lived during the American segregation era, but also as a person who helped his city divest from the racist Republic of South Africa in the 1990s during the height of apartheid. Snowden’s columns on personalities ranging from Oprah Winfrey to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X are always coupled with the unique perspective of that of an activist. His views on the contemporary issues of our day makes for a good read. A Luta Continua This book is dedicated to my late loving mother - Mrs. Ora Snowden, my sons, and my soulmate.

Download or read book Expanding Horizons Through Creative Expressions written by Obiora Embry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people have a defining moment, others have a defining trait or work. I have nothing of the sort but just a dream that one day something that I say or do will make a positive difference in the mind or heart of someone else. This is a transformative book and it is meant to make you laugh, cry, think, smile, become angry, and go through a variety of emotions as the words on the page unravel before your eyes. This book, like the butterfly on the front cover represents a transformation.

Download or read book A Cultural History of Climate Change written by Tom Bristow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities, this book examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics. Climate change compels us to rethink many of our traditional means of historical understanding, and demands new ways of relating human knowledge, action and representations to the dimensions of geological and evolutionary time. To address these challenges, this book positions our present moment of climatic knowledge within much longer histories of climatic experience. Only in light of these histories, it argues, can we properly understand what climate means today across an array of discursive domains, from politics, literature and law to neighbourly conversation. Its chapters identify turning-points and experiments in the construction of climates and of atmospheres of sensation. They examine how contemporary ecological thought has repoliticised the representation of nature and detail vital aspects of the history and prehistory of our climatic modernity. This ground-breaking text will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduate students in environmental history, environmental governance, history of ideas and science, literature and eco-criticism, political theory, cultural theory, as well as all general readers interested in climate change.

Download or read book Doing Without written by Jane Henrici and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The welfare reform legislation enacted in 1996 was applauded by many for the successes it had in dramatically reducing the number of people receiving public assistance, most of whom were women with children. Today, however, more than a decade later, these successes seem far less spectacular. Although the total number of welfare recipients has dropped by more than fifty percent nationwide, evidence shows that poverty has actually deepened. Many hardworking women are no better off for having returned to the workplace. In Doing Without, Jane Henrici brings together nine contributions to tell the story of welfare reform from inside the lives of the women who live with it. Cases from Chicago and Boston are combined with a focus on San Antonio from one of the largest multi-city investigations on welfare reform ever undertaken. The contributors argue that the employment opportunities available to poorer women, particularly single mothers and ethnic minorities, are insufficient to lift their families out of poverty. Typically marked by variable hours, inadequate wages, and short-term assignments, both employment and training programs fail to provide stability or the kinds of benefits—such as health insurance, sick days, and childcare options—that are necessary to sustain both work and family life. The chapters also examine the challenges that the women who seek assistance, and those who work in public and private agencies to provide it, together must face as they navigate ever-changing requirements and regulations, decipher alterations in Medicaid, and apply for training and education. Contributors urge that the nation should repair the social safety net for women in transition and offer genuine access to jobs with wages that actually meet the cost of living.

Download or read book Middle East Contemporary Survey Volume Xii 1988 written by Ami Ayalon and published by The Moshe Dayan Center. This book was released on 1990-09-25 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eighteenth volume in a series that provides a continuing up-to-date reference work recording the rapidly changing events in an exceptionally complex part of the world. The volume includes for the first time separate country surveys of the North African states of Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.

Download or read book The Black Diamond written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How Schools Change written by Tony Wagner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-12-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of How Schools Change chronicled the efforts of three very different high schools to improve teaching and learning in the early 1990's. Now, in a new second edition, Wagner concisely summarizes the decade-long history of education reform efforts and revisits the three communities at the beginning of a new century.

Download or read book Embodying Hope written by Sonia Connolly and published by Sundown Healing Arts. This book was released on 2021-03-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As trauma survivors living in times of political disarray and pandemic, we embody hope when we keep moving forward, one stubborn step after another, like walking through steady rain. We also embody hope when we take shelter for protection and rest. How does the force of hope feel inside you right now? With the help of this book, name the truth of your past and present. Explore your body and emotions. Celebrate endurance. Relate with kindness. Give and receive support. Beyond surviving, take action toward a more equitable world.

Download or read book Buying Time and Getting By written by Mary Grigsby and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buying Time and Getting By provides a detailed account of the voluntary simplicity movement, which took off in the United States in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The concept of voluntary simplicity encompasses both self-change aimed at bringing personal practice into alignment with ecological values and cultural change that rejects consumerist values and careerism. While simple livers struggle with self-change, they work toward the broader goals of a sustainable global environment, sustainable communities, increased equality in access to resources, and economies aimed at human quality of life rather than profit. Author Mary Grigsby looks inside the movement at the daily lives of participants and includes their own accounts of their efforts. She also uses reflexive empirical analysis to explore race, class, and gender in relation to the movement. The influence of the dominant culture and institutionalized power in shaping the movement are balanced with the importance of participants' dynamic identity work.

Download or read book The Soviet Military written by E.S. Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Once Upon a Time in the West written by Lorna Siggins and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'All I want is to stay where I am . . . My heart and soul are in this place.' (Willie Corduff, one of The Rossport Five) In a remote, beautiful part of the west of Ireland, a David and Goliath struggle rages between multinational oil company, Shell, and some of the local community of Rossport, County Mayo. In 1996, Enterprise Oil, subsequently bought by Shell, found a major source of valuable gas offshore in the Corrib gas field. In the attempt to build an onshore pipeline and refinery the oil giant has come into conflict with a small group of locals who, anxious about the safety of their families, the environmental impact of the project and the future of their community, are resisting Shell's plans. The eyes of the nation fell on this tiny community when, in 2005, five of the residents were jailed for refusing to allow Shell onto their land, in contempt of court orders. These men have become known as The Rossport Five. Irish Times correspondent Lorna Siggins has been covering the controversy from the beginning. No one is better placed to unravel the twists and turns of this fascinating human drama and its political, cultural and environmental shockwaves. In a new Ireland where economic logic goes largely unchallenged, the Corrib Gas pipeline controversy raises uncomfortable questions about the ways in which Ireland has changed.

Download or read book Time Is an Illusion written by David J Conway and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This month has been an experience, which began with ten uniforms, eight surrounding me with guns, a sick, dying chicken, and I ask myself the question, how do you soar like an eagle? I was then informed by police to “step away from the chicken!” I spent the next thirty-two days locked up, drugged many times, room was raided four times, was strangled once, and experienced an inland tsunami! During this experience, I was physically beaten, emotionally constipated, spiritually raped, and mentally flipped inside out. But I managed to write down everything on Facebook every few days to my family and friends at home, and that's how this story was written! Keep fighting the good fight, people!