Download or read book Unwritten Truce written by Troy E. Mosley and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Armed Forces and American Social Change written by Troy Mosley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UnwrittenTruce is a powerful depiction of Black Americans’ struggle for equality told through the lens of uniformed military service. Mosley uses superb story-telling, personal vignettes, and historical examples to show how millions of Americans have lifted themselves from oppression through opportunities gleaned from military service. Collectively these efforts exerted positive outward pressure on American society and by in large has resisted all forms of social change. One of the unique aspects of combat is that rarely are Americans more equal than when thrust into harms way. It has been said there are no atheists in combat; similarly, racism, sexism, and homophobia quickly go by the wayside when under enemy fire.Yet in the 19th century and well into the 21st century, America’s military policies regarding the use of manpower could best be described as an awkward attempt to balance the requirement to win the nation’s wars while supporting a socio-political caste system. President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948 in response to police violence perpetrated against Black veterans. His actions broke this trend and set the military on the path to true meritocracy. Today, retired general Lloyd Austin is the first black American Secretary of Defense in part due to the barriers broken down by men and women who served before him. The armed services fiercely resisted integration, gender equality, and LGBTQ equality but over time have grown to value America’s well spring of diversity as a strategic and operational advantage. Under the Trump administration many of the military’s policies supporting transgender inclusion were reversed, making the U.S. military one of many institutions caught in the ideological tug of war regarding social change, which is at the heart of the present day American polarization. For as far as America has come, we still have work to do for Truman’s vision of equality of opportunity to become a reality for all Americans. Join this thought-provoking narrative that celebrates the brave American military pioneers and challenges us all to continue the push for a better expression of America.

Download or read book Case and Comment written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace written by Brendan McConville and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Robert Brown's contemporary musical is honest and intimate, with an exuberantly romantic score. It takes a bold look at one young couple's hope that love can endure the test of time.

Download or read book NexLord Grim Realities written by Philip Blood and published by Philip Blood. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NexLord series is a traditional fantasy in the sense that it deals with strong good and evil. The focus of this epic fantasy story are four young people caught up in a deadly struggle started long ago. It explores the good and evil power of all emotions.The magic system is based on emotion and deals with the power of group beliefs and self fulfilling prophecy. The setting of the story is a unique planet where all normal human emotional tendencies are magnified. Humans are not alone there, and four other intelligent races inhabit the lands as well. Prejudice runs rampant and wars based on racial hatred have plagued the lands for hundreds of years.The emotions of hate and fear have coalesced into one place and continuously inhabit the body of a human, known as the Dreadmaster. This being continuously gathers and wields these evil powers. The ever growing power exists independently of the human vessel it inhabits, and when the body is destroyed it is only a matter of time until the power inhabits a new vessel.To combat the Dreadmaster's power all free humans gathered at one time and created a power fueled by their common belief and emotional need, a power that can be given to a NexLord. Using a check an balance system to keep this power from being abused a test was created. Those who pass this test become Knights of the Realm, known as NexLords. The NexLords and their Bondsmen are the one counter to the Dreadmaster's power.But with the ending of the Final War the last of the NexLords disappeared into the east, warning that the Dreadmaster's power was still out there, but no one listened or believed. For three hundred years now there has not been a new Dreadmaster and no one in the Human Realm has followed the difficult path to become a NexLord. However, there is a Prophecy spreading across the land, a prophecy that tells of the coming of a new NexLord who will bring a golden age. But what it predicts is about to go terribly wrong... for there is another prophecy, a Dark Prophecy, and the world is about to change to that path.Dark Prophecies is the first novel of a three book Fantasy Epic series. A mysterious old woman named Mara comes to teach four children who have been foretold in two dire prophecies. The kids have wild adventures while forming strong bonds. Mara teaches them to fight, and much more, for the mysterious old woman knows what the future holds for these children, and their coming will shake the world.

Download or read book Blind Watchers of the Sky written by Edward W. Kolb and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we know that the earth travels around the sun, the universe is billions of years old, and stars are trillions of miles away? Rocky Kolb tells the fascinating story of the people and ideas that have brought us such knowledge of our planet and the universe, giving realistic portraits of astronomers like Tycho, Kepler, Galileo, Herschel and Hubble. Beginning in 1572 with Tycho's discovery that the heavens can change and ending with the Big Bang of the 20th Century, this is a hugely entertaining and witty account of the quest to discover the universe.

Download or read book A Game Called Revenge written by Rick Hart and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the thrilling true story, Turk’s quest for answers and retribution continues in Sin City Retribution: A Game Called Revenge. The Noblemen Motorcycle Club is not for the weak-hearted. Turk may be a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and always up for a fight, but he still has a lot to learn if he wants to stay in the club. Prospecting pushes him to his limits as tempers inside and outside of the Noblemen cohort flare. Turk wants nothing more than to become a full-fledged member of the brotherhood… except to find the bastard who stole his first Harley. Struggling to reconcile his journey through the ranks of the Noblemen with his own search for vigilante justice, Turk will have to face the ultimate dilemma when his search for answers comes to a head. His quest for retribution might just mean sacrificing the only family he’s ever known and turning his back on everything he’s built in the process.

Download or read book WE WERE REOs written by Richard ?Barney? Bigwood and Andrew Bi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred and fifty million dollars is a lot of money to giveaway. It is an estimate of how much was paid out in foreign aidlast year. When it helps the sick, the starving, the homeless, the deprived, we feel the money is well spent. But who knows how much is pocketed by greedy gangsters and government officials, in corruption or theft? The origins cannot be traced of eighty percent of hospital drugs in one large country. If you get sick you pay a lot of money for treatment with such drugs, but how they got there, no one seems to know. Those who own the hospitals just get rich. From the south of France to Italy, London to the Russian Far East, Marcus Black searches for someone who knows too much. He finds passion and power, deceit and death. Whether it is Italian omertà or English discretion, so much is kept quiet. And who can be trusted when big money is at stake.

Download or read book The Bonus Army written by Paul Dickson and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research, this highly praised history recounts the 1932 march on Washington by 15,000 World War I veterans and the protest's role in the transformation of American society. "Recommended." — Library Journal.

Download or read book Secrets of Time written by Don Goodman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-08-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When their youngest child is savagely killed in Russia in the early 1900's, Julius and Frieda Goodkin seek a new life in America. In Toledo, Ohio, they find the road not paved in gold but instead in a conflict of cultures and ideology that severs the relationship with Julius' brother, Jacob. Hoping life would be easier in sunny California, Julius and Frieda with their four young children, Herman, Manuel, Ada and Paul, leave family and friends to encounter even greater obstacles in Los Angeles. When Julius takes a new wife, Ada discovers a horrible truth and seeks to escape. After years of a loveless existence, she runs away. Found the first time, she flees again and is lost forever at age twenty-two--until now. Ada vanishes to San Francisco where she ultimately finds love, but it is accompanied by an evil with tentacles all over the world. There she is involved with the handsome Daryl, the beautiful Helen, a black trunk and a brutal murder. Generations later, Lesley Goodkin, receives a mysterious letter from a man she has never met. This letter from the past plunges Lesley into Secrets of Time leading her to a sibylline detective, an elderly woman, an enigmatic attorney and a conflict of moral and ethical issues that will shape her family forever. Join the many generations of Goodkins as they discover intimate secrets that unravel the family's greatest mystery.

Download or read book Finding Satan written by Andrew Neiderman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Devil's Advocate and Deficiency, a novel about the battle between good and evil and a Biblical revelation that changes the course of history. ONLY THE GIFTED CAN SEE IT. In upstate New York, Christopher Drew is leading a remarkable team of psychics in a groundbreaking union of science and psychokinesis. It's the ability to track manifestations of pure evil -- black clouds of doom that they have chased across an ever-darkening American landscape. As the storm clouds grow, so does Drew's fear that this gathering evil is powered by something far darker than human nature. And it knows it's being watched. ONLY THEY KNOW THE END IS NEAR. In the Arizona desert a theologian searches for proof of the divine. A mass of cultists prepares for the coming of the Antichrist. A spy is dispatched from the Vatican to unravel the truth of the psychics' visions. And as a startling Biblical revelation comes to light, as an apocalyptic battle between good and evil unfolds, Christopher Drew and his team must brave the fires of a hell on earth to carry out their manifest goal to the terrifying end...

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poland Since 1956 written by Tadeusz N. Cieplak and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mx3 written by Art Wiederhold and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mx3 is a story within a story within a story. It is a fantasy, historical romance, and an autobiography with touches of the paranormal activities added for good measure. Mx3 takes the reader from early seventeenth century Japan to the Vietnam War and the present time. When a young samurai meets and marries a pretty young woman en route to seeking employment with one of the major daimyo, it sets in motion a series of events that span six centuries and interweaves the lives of several people in ways they never imagined. This is a tale of high adventure, loves lost and regained, comedy and tragedy, and bizarre coincidences and haunting. Most of all, its about that never-ending soap opera we call life.

Download or read book If You Must Fall Bush written by Mala, Nsah and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2016-01-31 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “… an unambiguous cautionary statement on the multitudinous and multifaceted hot-button politico-socio-economic issues confronting and degrading the African continent.” Ekpe Inyang Environmentalist, Playwright & Poet “The poems in this eclectic collection resonate with the same verve and imagistic intensity and stylistic experimentation characteristic of Nsah Mala’s poetic oeuvre.” Gilbert Ndi Shang, PhD University of Bayreuth “Nsah’s verses evoke a society adrift: prey to the ravages of the selfish and irresponsible actions of modern man or, better still, postmodern man. Escape does not seem to be possible, not even in foreign climes. The destruction heralded is predictably taking eschatological proportions! Is salvation envisageable?” Yvonne Iden NGWA, PhD, Lecturer, ENS Yaoundé

Download or read book As I Saw It written by Carl Sorensen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early sixties American networks started looking for cameramen to cover the military events in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic. CBS News hired Carl Sorensen. He tells how, with Correspondent Dan Rather, he survived an attack by a Vietnamese’s fighter plane and how a Vietnamese helicopter dropped Morley Safer and Sorensen into a combat zone leaving them covered to their necks in a swamp with muddy waters. In Cambodia, two Khmer Rouge cadres surprised Correspondent Bert Quint, Sorensen and Soundman Patrick Forest, wounding Forest. The author describes vividly how the Mexican Army in 1968 attacked the Plaza of the Three Cultures killing defenseless students and onlookers, and how a colonel smashed Sorensen’s camera lens and threatened to kill the CBS team. During the Cyprus conflict Turkish jets attacked the Nicosia Hilton Hotel wounding the author with a rocket fragment. In Iran, Sorensen was arrested by the Islamic Committee guards and put in prison accused of being an American spy. He also covered Pope John Paul II traveling in search of love and peace receiving enough papal blessings to last a lifetime.

Download or read book Rendezvous and Dark Passage written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two complete novels in one low-priced ebook edition from beloved Western author Richard S. Wheeler: Rendezvous and Dark Passage Rendezvous Barnaby Skye, a seaman in the Royal Navy, jumps ship at Fort Vancouver in 1826 with little more than the clothes on his back. Fighting for life, he heads inland toward an unknown fate. Skye falls in with legendary mountain men, and finds another unexpected turn in his life when he meets the Crow maiden, Many Quill Woman, who will become his wife. Dark Passage In 1831 Skye accompanies his wife to her village, where she falls in with Jim Beckwourth and accompanies him on a raid among the Blackfeet. When she's abducted by the Bloods, the deadliest band of Blackfeet, Skye trails her into Canada, where he's still wanted for deserting his ship four years ago. Then Sky himself is taken prisoner, and Victoria must escape her captors to free the man she loves. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.