Download or read book Trials and Tribulations A Young Boy s Coming of Age written by Veersen Bhoolai and published by Veersen Bhoolai. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bird's eye view of life, love and bacchanal in the Caribbean - the likes you have never read before. Sunil "Sunny" Darsan seems to have been born into the idyllic family but all he wants to do is escape. His family's legacy is impressive: a grandfather who is a rags to riches icon and owner of the largest plantation in Trinidad and his parents who are the first Trinidadian couple to graduate as lawyers. This is a family that seems to have it all - wealth, power and a renowned family name. However, like all families, this one has its secrets. When Sunny's parents divorce and his grandfather dies, his father, Vijay, is left the plantation. Vijay's natural instincts come out as he shirks his paternal duties and pursues his major interests: womanizing and gambling. Sunny's mother struggles to keep him and his sister, Leila, clothed and fed while their father gambles and parties. Unfortunately, she can only protect them from so much and when Sunny and Leila visit their father at the plantation for a holiday, it's the end of their innocence. Sunny finds himself on a path of discovery of a painful secret that will affect him and his sister for the rest of their lives. Amidst the challenges of his childhood and emerging manhood, Sunny tries to survive, desperately searching for an avenue of escape from the dysfunction that is his life. Trials and Tribulations offers a window into life on the tropical island of Trinidad from the suburbs of Port of Spain to the cocoa plantations of the countryside, in addition to murder, deceit, adultery as well as racial tensions, all from the perspective an Indo-Trinidadian youth during the mid to late twentieth century.
Download or read book Beyond Bollywood written by Jigna Desai and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Download or read book Transnational Cinema written by Elizabeth Ezra and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics include: from national to transnational cinema; global cinema in the digital age; motion pictures: film, migration and diaspora; tourists and terrorists.
Download or read book Dick Grayson Boy Wonder written by Kristen L. Geaman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick Grayson--alter-ego of the original Robin of Batman comics--has gone through various changes in his 75 years as a superhero but has remained the optimistic, humorous character readers first embraced in 1940. Predating Green Lantern and Wonder Woman, he is one of DC Comics' oldest heroes and retains a large and loyal fanbase. The first scholarly work to focus exclusively on the Boy Wonder, this collection of new essays features critical analysis, as well as interviews with some of the biggest names to study Dick Grayson, including Chuck Dixon, Devin Grayson and Marv Wolfman. The contributors discuss his vital place in the Batman saga, his growth and development into an independent hero, Nightwing, and the many storyline connections which put him at the center of the DC Universe. His character is explored in the contexts of feminism, trauma, friendship, and masculinity.
Download or read book The New Heroines in Film and Television written by Helena Bassil-Morozow and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking volume offers an overview of contemporary representations of prominent female characters as they appear in an array of moving-image narratives from a Jungian and post-Jungian perspective. Applying a theoretical frame that is richly informed by the Jungian and post-Jungian concepts of persona, individuation, and archetypes, works including Fleabag (2016-2019), Ladybird (2017), and The Queen’s Gambit (2020) as well as Disney productions such as Brave (2012), Moana (2016), and Frozen (2013), are contextualized and discussed alongside their non-screen precedents and contemporaries, including myths, fairy tales, and works of literature, to closely examine new patterns of the female journey. This book identifies how young female characters rebel against the female persona of previous eras through the trickster, the shadow, and other archetypes, comparing the contemporary female protagonist with her predecessors to assess the new paths, roles, and milestones available to her. Examining the construction of the female persona across time periods and mediums in an accessibly written yet academic style, this book is the first of its kind. With a fulsome account of the progressive developments in entertainment media and Jungian thought, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of film, as well as anyone with an interest in analytical psychology and wider feminist issues in contemporary culture.
Download or read book Melancholia s Dog written by Alice A. Kuzniar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book The Six written by Frank Alessandra and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Six: A Story about Boys, Laughter, and a Lifelong Friendship is a feel-good memoir about an unforgettable group of high school buddies and their antic-filled coming of age in the 1980s. Frank Alessandra's hilarious stories of youth and camaraderie accurately speak to the less expressive bonds and support structure of male friendship. But even though male friends may not be comfortable openly sharing troubles the way women do, hidden beneath the surface of these fun-filled tales is a heartwarming connection between six boys, as they rely on one another to get through the trials and tribulations of growing into young men. Along this journey, they confront real problems: shattered dreams, deep regrets, heartbreak, and racism. Whenever life presented such a challenge, The Six rallied, and over time, they realize that what they share is about more than just the laughs. In the end, the grown men understand why it is they hang on to each other and the priceless support their thirty-year friendship still provides. "Good male friendships started in childhood can last a lifetime and sustain a man in his later years." - Dr. Geoffrey Greif, University of Maryland School of Social Work "Male friendship can provide support, strengthen identity, and offer meaningful companionship. It's certainly something worth the effort for men to develop and maintain in their lives." - Peter M. Nardi, Ph.D., Sociology, Pitzer College. For more than 20 years, Frank Alessandra has relied on an annual get-together with five childhood buddies to soothe the stresses of adult life. Together, the men reminisce about hilarious events from their younger days. A sentimental desire to share these stories of youth and innocence inspired Alessandra to uncover a passion for storytelling through writing. A financial analyst by trade, he graduated with honors from Moravian College and received an MBA with honors from Lehigh University. He lives in Flemington, New Jersey, and has two teenaged daughters, Alyssa and Jennifer.
Download or read book PRETTY LITTLE BASTARD CHILD written by DANI and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ’60s was a time of change in America, both good and not so good. The Vietnam war was culminating, and a peace movement was in full bloom, “Thanks to Dr Martin Luther King Jr.” His relentless quest for nonviolent change was starting to resonate, as well as the Civil rights uprisings. Up in Harlem, New York, a child was born. A female child, whom would soon become an incest survivor, drug addict, and last but surely not least, a lesbian. Yes, lesbian. The dirty little word that good little Christian folk couldn’t stomach, and still can’t even today. Here is my memoir of the Darkness that turned on GODS light. Review: Pretty Little Bastard Child, is a thoroughly, thought-provoking nail biter of a read. The freshness of the author’s writing is something to behold. In reading line for line, it never felt formal. She painted a picture and made me feel like I was in each scene of her life. What I thought would take weeks to read seemed like a fresh few hours of riveting page turning. I couldn’t wait to get to “the next part”. This (memoir) is a story of her internal struggle—to believe her own version of her life and to have the strength to break away from her past. It gives a glimpse into a way of life that most of us will never know, and it’s an inspiring story of one woman’s ability to change her future. Read this book now! -Elisabeth Withers-Mendes Grammy / Tony Nominated Actress, Singer & Musician
Download or read book World War II in Literature for Youth written by Patricia Hachten Wee and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume provides a wealth of information with annotated listings of more than 3,500 titles--a broad sampling of books on the war years 1939-1945. Includes both fiction and nonfiction works about all aspects of the war. Professional resources for educators aligned to the educational standards for social studies; technical references; periodicals and electronic resources; a directory of WWII museums, memorials, and other institutions; and topics for exploration complement this excellent library and classroom resource.
Download or read book Trials Tribulations of Life written by Al Wynn and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book (A Pimp and a Hustler) is a direct picture of the life I have lived thus far. It shows all of my good, bad, and hard times. It began in West Point Georgia and journeyed to Chicago where, at eight years old, I began to see a whole new view of the world. In this book, I included my experience of having sex at an early age of twelve. I witnessed drug users, pimps, hustlers, and con artist; and through it all, I learned life for what it is, "What is life?" "Life is a school of good and bad breaks, where lessons hard learned reaches the human soul and leaves an imprint, and that imprint is an experience!" I have rubbed shoulders with alderman, congressmen, judges, and the topnotch gangsters of Chicago. Most of them were head gang lords in the late sixties, I have lived through several narrow excapes with my life.
Download or read book The Blasket Islandman written by Gerald Hayes and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tomás Ó Criomhthain (1856–1937) is one of the giants of Irish-language literature. His best-known books, Allagar na hInise and An tOileánach, are acknowledged classics. But he was a highly unlikely author. He lived his entire life on the isolated and now-abandoned Great Blasket, in a house he built with his own hands using stones he found on the island. Likewise, he crafted a valuable literary heritage out of island life. With indefatigable persistence, he steadily built on his modest formal education, learning to read and write in Irish during middle age while simultaneously expanding his knowledge of literature and history. Scholarly visitors were impressed with Tomás's observations of his tiny community. They encouraged him to commit his stories and memories to paper. He wrote three first-person accounts of his experiences, bequeathing to us a captivating saga of a folk culture doomed by difficult circumstances. His works are among the first examples of Ireland's transition from oral to written folk storytelling. The Blasket Islandman tells, for the first time, the full story of Tomás's life, with its many triumphs and travails. This absorbing account also describes the forces that influenced his work and details his impressive legacy. Tomás was determined that his community be remembered. In the process, he achieved a level of immortality for himself. More than eighty years after his passing, he remains the famed 'Blasket Islandman' and, to paraphrase the man himself, the like of him will never be again.
Download or read book Latino Literature in America written by Bridget Kevane and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing awareness of the tremendous impact Latino writers have had on the recent literary scene, yet not all readers have the background to fully appreciate the merits and meanings of works like House on Mango Street, Line of the Sun, Bless Me Ultima, and In the Time of Butterflies. Offering analysis of their most important, popular, and frequently assigned fictional works, this book surveys the contributions of eight notable Latino writers: Julia Alvarez, Rodolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Junot Díaz, Christina Garía, Oscar Hijuelos, Ortiz Cofer, and Ernesto Quiñonez. Each chapter gives biographical background on the author and clear literary analysis of the selected works, including a concise plot synopsis. Delving into the question of cultural identity, each work is carefully examined not only in terms of its literary components, but also with regard to the cultural background and historical context. This book illuminates such themes as acculturation, generational differences, immigration, assimilation, and exile. Language, religion, and gender issues are explored against the cultural backdrop, along with the social impact of such historical events as Operation Bootstrap in Puerto Rico, the early days of Castro's Cuba, and the Trujillo Dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. Students and teachers will find their reading experiences of U.S. Latino works enriched with the literary and cultural perspectives offered here. A list of additional suggested reading is included.
Download or read book TLA Video DVD Guide 2005 written by David Bleiler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2005 edition of the annual critical guide that focuses on independent and international films as well as the best in the mainstream contains reviews for more than 10,000 films, more than 300 photos, a comprehensive selection of cinema from more than 50 countries, and much more.
Download or read book TLA Film Video and DVD Guide 2002 2003 written by David Bleiler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-11-03 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A film, video, and DVD guide for the true lover of the cinema, this volume focuses on independent and international films as well as the best of the mainstream. 450 photos throughout.
Download or read book Dynamics of Gender Borders written by Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resting on the multifaceted and multicultural voices of women – secular and religious, old-timers and newcomers, at the center or on the periphery of their communities – it brings into sharper focus rarely raised issues related to gender borders and to the private and public spheres. Beyond the specific society they treat, these essays contribute to our understanding of the social mechanisms that (re)produce gender inequality in modernity, in its socialist, capitalist, or postindustrial versions. They also provide additional evidence for the limits of any attempt to achieve gender equality by focusing on the transformation of women, without challenging hegemonic masculinities.
Download or read book TLA Video DVD Guide 2004 written by David Bleiler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-10-24 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the absolutely indispensable guide to worthwhile cinema. It includes over 10,000 entries on the best of film and video that a real film lover might actually want to see.
Download or read book Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health written by Susan Bailey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for practitioners and policymakers, this book will help professionals across health, education, social care and juvenile justice services to understand the needs of young offenders and adolescents at risk of entering the criminal justice system. Developmental in approach, the textbook provides a comprehensive overview of forensic child and adolescent mental health, using cases to help clinicians link theoretical principles to practice and understand how mental health and neurodevelopmental impairment can relate to offending behaviour. With an emphasis on preventive initiatives, early intervention and the building of psycho-social resilience through the delivery of values based practice, this book highlights the need for comprehensive assessment for young people across multiple domains of their lives. This book is of interest to all clinicians working within mental health teams, practitioners working with children and adolescents, professionals involved with youth justice and medico-legal issues, and politicians responsible for establishing health and social policy.
