Download or read book A Tobacco Farmer s Daughter written by Linda Hamlett Childress and published by . This book was released on 2002-07-29 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Tobacco Farmer s Daughter written by Linda Hamlett Childress and published by . This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Chalice of Mystery" records the deeds of heroes and legends of Donothor. The chronicle occurs three hundred years after the fall of the sorcerer of the Lachinor Morlecainen and his daughter Chalar and seven centuries before the Deathquest to Parallan. The Aivendar family has wisely and justly ruled Donothor, but fantastic creatures roam the land and large areas of Donothor remained unexplored. The Light Sorceress Knarra keeps an uneasy eye toward the Iron Mountains, the imposing eastern border to the growing civilization, and the Lachinor, the great swamp to the south. Attacks by an unlikely alliance of creatures from the Iron Mountains shatter the fragile peace and terrorize Donothor. Knarra enlists the mysterious Dark Sorcerer Roscoe, the dwarves of Hillesdale, a red-haired elf, a legendary dwarfish fighter, and the Rangers of Lyndyn to battle the alliance of red giants, ice giants, ogres, two-headed Ettins, troglodytes, dragons, and stranger ilk. A relic of evil rests in the Iron Mountains. What role does the artifact play in the future of Donothor? What evil unites the denizens of the Iron Mountains?
Download or read book A Tenant Farmer s Daughter written by Leone Rowland and published by Advocate House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tobacco -- today's villain, yesterday's prize.From the days of Sir Walter Raleigh until the Surgeon General's message that smoking may be harmful to your health, tobacco was a greatly prized commodity, wrung from the land with great labor and care. But how many of today's smokers and ex-smokers (or those who want smoking banned) have any idea how this commodity was grown, cured, and taken to market?For those who would like to know, A Tenant Farmer's Daughter is a must-read. In this chronicle of rural life in the early 20th century, Leone Rowland describes in painstaking detail each step of the process and what it was like to be the people who created this luxury product in a bygone era.Ms. Rowland shares with readers the daily rituals, joys and hardships of growing up in a large poor family in North Carolina, where tobacco and cotton were king and everyone worked, often from before sun up to long after sun down.Though there were many hardships in the lives of tenant farmers and their families, many aspects of that life held more authenticity than life does today. In this memoir we learn how food was grown before the widespread use of machinery and technology; how hogs were butchered; butter churned; and tobacco grown and cured. We share the innocent entertainments of making one's own music, church socials and dances, barn raisings, and just plain fishing.This charming first person account of rural life is a wonderful reminder of the creative, enterprising spirit that made America strong. It is told be a woman who, even as a young child, had a keen mind of her own and some strong opinions on such issues as health and women's rights.Anyone interested in history -- particularly the historyof the south -- cannot fail to be intrigued by the rich details offered here. And anyone looking for background information on the Raleigh area in the early 20th century will want this gem of a book, which paints delicious pictures of life fully lived.BOOK REVIEWFor Immediate ReleaseContact: Jodi GrantPhone: 941-351-2050Fax: 941-351-4735A Tenant Farmer's DaughterLeone RowlandAdvocate House, an imprint ofA Cappela Publishing, Inc.PO Box 3691, Sarasota, FL 34230ISBN: 09724979-5-1Format: paperbackToday the great debate over tobacco focuses on its use, but did you ever wonder about its cultivation? If so, you'll want to read A Tenant Farmer's Daughter, Leone Rowland's memoir about growing up in the early part of the 20th century. Ms. Rowland shares with readers the daily rituals, joys and hardships of growing up in a large poor family in North Carolina, where tobacco and cotton were king and everyone worked, often from before sun up to long after sun down.Though there were many hardships in the lives of tenant farmers and their families, many aspects of that life held more authenticity than life does today. In this memoir we learn how food was grown before the widespread use of machinery and technology; how hogs were butchered; butter churned; and tobacco grown and cured. We share the innocent entertainments of making one's own music, church socials and dances, barn raisings, and just plain fishing.This charming first person account of rural life is a wonderful reminder of the creative, enterprising spirit that made America strong. It is told be a woman who, even as a young child, had a keen mind of her own and some strong opinions on such issues as health and women's rights.Anyoneinterested in history -- particularly the history of the south -- cannot fail to be intrigued by the rich details offered here. And anyone looking for background information on the Raleigh area in the early 20th century will want this gem of a book, which paints delicious pictures of life fully lived.
Download or read book Tobacco s Hidden Children written by Margaret Wurth and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methodology -- I. Tobacco farming in the United States -- II. Child tobacco workers in the United States -- III. Health and safety -- IV. Hours, wages, and education -- V. International legal standards -- VI. Obligations of the US government to protect child farmworkers -- VII. Responsibilities of businesses purchasing tobacco in the United States -- VIII. Recommendations -- Acknowledgments.
Download or read book Rural Route 2 written by Linda Hamlett Childress and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teens of the Tobacco Fields written by Margaret Wurth and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each year, children work on tobacco farms in the United States, where they are exposed to nicotine, toxic pesticides, and other dangers. The US government has failed to protect children from hazardous work in tobacco farming. Since 2014, some tobacco companies have prohibited the employment of children under 16 on farms from which they purchase tobacco. These policies are an important step forward, but they exclude 16 and 17-year-old children. This report is based on interviews with 26 children ages 16 and 17, as well as parents, health experts, and tobacco growers. It documents the dangers of tobacco farming for 16 and 17 year olds. Most teenage children interviewed suffered symptoms consistent with acute nicotine poisoning. Many also reported working in or near fields that were being sprayed with pesticides and becoming ill. Several tobacco companies prohibit children under 18 from many hazardous tobacco farming tasks, but none have policies sufficient to protect all children from danger. Teenage children are particularly vulnerable to the harmful effects of the work because their brains are still developing. Nicotine exposure during adolescence has been associated with mood disorders, and problems with memory, attention, impulse control, and cognition later in life. Human Rights Watch calls on tobacco companies and the US government and Congress to take urgent action to ban all children under 18 from hazardous work on tobacco farms"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Tobacco Control and Tobacco Farming written by Wardie Leppan and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bulk of the world’s tobacco is produced in low- and middle-income countries. In order to dissuade these countries from implementing policies aimed at curbing tobacco consumption (such as increased taxes, health warnings, advertising bans and smoke-free environments), the tobacco industry claims that tobacco farmers will be negatively affected and that no viable, sustainable alternatives exist. This book, based on original research from three continents, exposes the myths behind these claims.
Download or read book GodPretty in the Tobacco Field written by Kim Michele Richardson and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rural Kentucky teenager comes of age in the summer of 1969 in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community where jobs are few and poverty is a simple fact—just like the hot Appalachian breeze or the pests that can destroy a tobacco field. RubyLyn Bishop is luckier than some. Her God-fearing uncle, Gunnar, has a short fuse and high expectations, but he’s given her a good home ever since she was orphaned at the age of five. Yet now a month shy of her sixteenth birthday, RubyLyn itches for more. Maybe it’s something to do with the paper fortunetellers RubyLyn has been making for townsfolk, each covered with beautifully wrought, prophetic drawings. Or perhaps it’s because of Rainey Ford, her black neighbor who works alongside her in the tobacco field and with whom she has a kinship—despite the disapproval of others. RubyLyn’s predictions are just wishful thinking, not magic at all, but through them she’s imagining life as it could be, away from the prejudice and hardship that ripple through Nameless… “A voice rich and authentic, steeped in the somber beauty that defines life in the South.”—David Joy, author of When These Mountains Burn “Richardson’s brilliant writing made me feel as though I were transported back in time…and actually there witnessing this poignant heartfelt story.”—Charles Belfoure, New York Times–bestselling author of The Fallen Architect “A reader always recognizes when the author has poured her soul into a body of work. [This] is a tender, beautifully written second novel.”—Ann Hite, author of the Black Mountain series
Download or read book The Harvest in My Blood written by Human Rights Watch and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks written by Rebecca Skloot and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS • WINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NONFICTION NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Entertainment Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • NPR • Financial Times • New York • Independent (U.K.) • Times (U.K.) • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • Globe and Mail Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah. Deborah was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Had they killed her to harvest her cells? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance? Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.
Download or read book Remembering Tobacco Gathering Time and Early Years in Rural South Georgia written by Lona Faye Frith and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Growing Up on a Farm became the Vanishing Life."This Book is a window into the early years of hard working farmers in the late 1950's in Rural South Georgia. You will find humor, sadness, and love experienced by a farmer's daughter. Compare the 1950's to life in 2014 in the Rural South. This Book is dedicated to all hard working farmers.
Download or read book Tobacco and Slaves written by Allan Kulikoff and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tobacco and Slaves is a major reinterpretation of the economic and political transformation of Chesapeake society from 1680 to 1800. Building upon massive archival research in Maryland and Virginia, Allan Kulikoff provides the most comprehensive study to date of changing social relations--among both blacks and whites--in the eighteenth-century South. He links his arguments about class, gender, and race to the later social history of the South and to larger patterns of American development. Allan Kulikoff is professor of history at Northern Illinois University and author of The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism.
Download or read book Growing Up Tobacco Free written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tobacco use kills more people than any other addiction and we know that addiction starts in childhood and youth. We all agree that youths should not smoke, but how can this be accomplished? What prevention messages will they find compelling? What effect does tobacco advertisingâ€"more than $10 million worth every dayâ€"have on youths? Can we responsibly and effectively restrict their access to tobacco products? These questions and more are addressed in Growing Up Tobacco Free, prepared by the Institute of Medicine to help everyone understand the troubling issues surrounding youths and tobacco use. Growing Up Tobacco Free provides a readable explanation of nicotine's effects and the process of addiction, and documents the search for an effective approach to preventing the use of cigarettes, chewing and spitting tobacco, and snuff by children and youths. It covers the results of recent initiatives to limit young people's access to tobacco and discusses approaches to controls or bans on tobacco sales, price sensitivity among adolescents, and arguments for and against taxation as a prevention strategy for tobacco use. The controversial area of tobacco advertising is thoroughly examined. With clear guidelines for public action, everyone can benefit by reading and acting on the messages in this comprehensive and compelling book.
Download or read book Remembering Tobacco Gathering Time Early Years in Rural South Georgia written by Lona Faye Frith and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-18 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book is a window into the early years of hard working farmers in the late 1950's in Rural South Georgia. You will find humor, sadness, and love experienced by a farmer's daughter. Compare the 1950's to life in 2014 in the Rural South. This Book is dedicated to all hard working farmers.
Download or read book Remembering Tobacco Gathering Time and Early Years in Rural South Georgia written by Lona Faye Frith and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Growing Up on a Farm became the Vanishing Life." This Book is a window into the early years of hard working farmers in the late 1950's in Rural South Georgia. You will find humor, sadness, and love experienced by a farmer's daughter. Compare the 1950's to life in 2014 in the Rural South. This Book is dedicated to all hard working farmers.
Download or read book Tobacco in Colonial Virginia The Sovereign Remedy written by G. Melvin Herndon and published by Tredition Classics. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
Download or read book Tallgrass written by Sandra Dallas and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential American novel from Sandra Dallas, an unparalleled writer of our history, and our deepest emotions... During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers. This is Tallgrass as Rennie Stroud has never seen it before. She has just turned thirteen and, until this time, life has pretty much been what her father told her it should be: predictable and fair. But now the winds of change are coming and, with them, a shift in her perspective. And Rennie will discover secrets that can destroy even the most sacred things. Part thriller, part historical novel, Tallgrass is a riveting exploration of the darkest--and best--parts of the human heart.
