Download or read book I Am Jamaica written by Dr Sue and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am Jamaica is a collection of poems written in the rhythm of the Jamaican vernacular and speaks primarily to its culture and heritage. The pieces are humorous yet educational, and so Dr. Sue has coined the term edutainment to describe the pieces.

Download or read book Jamaica s Find written by Juanita Havill and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1986 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little girl finds a stuffed dog in the park and decides to take it home.

Download or read book Fear of Black Consciousness written by Lewis R. Gordon and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Important . . . powerful . . . . an explanation of why Black protest is such a dangerous prospect to the white power structure' Kehinde Andrews, Guardian Where is the path to racial justice? In this ground-breaking book, philosopher Lewis R. Gordon ranges over history, art and pop culture - from ancient African languages to the film Get Out - to show why the answer lies not just in freeing Black bodies from the fraud of white supremacy, but in freeing all of our minds. Building on the influential work of Frantz Fanon and W. E. B. Du Bois, Fear of Black Consciousness is a vital contribution to our conversations on racial politics, identity and culture. 'Expansive . . . reminds us that the ultimate aim of Black freedom quests is, indeed, universal liberation' Angela Y. Davis

Download or read book I Am Alive written by Sheldon Artwell and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I AM ALIVE is one of my beloved biographies. The content on each page is authentic. It covers much of my early life; the struggles that I encountered because of homelessness and the consequences I suffered from living on the streets of Jamaica. This book reveals the horrors of my past. From being raped multiple times, trafficked, threatened, ambushed by gunmen, and overcame by schizoaffective disorder, haunted by hallucinations, working on my personal design to defining my destiny in the moments of my decisions. This book has stories of how a black man overcame his challenges. A simple Jamaican becomes victorious over many tribulations. The Atlantic wasn’t crossed overnight, but it happened. I am Sheldon Artwell. I did not give in and I did not give up; I persevered. I faced my struggles and I am alive. Facing up to the numerous mountains in my life was not an easy task; from falling in love with multiple partners, getting engaged, walking away from several relationships to resigning from my job in early 2018 to keep my life. Travelling from city to city, sleeping on rocks, in bushes and abused by almost everyone I came in contact with was the norm. My daily reality was deeply painful. Hunger and thirst stretched my stomach to the point where I had to turn to the garbage bin for survival, tis the reason to say that I was challenged in every way, but I overcame my challenges. And I am alive.

Download or read book I am the Way Walk in Me written by Delrose Treasure and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Restoration Ministry of Jamaica, Inc. (RMOJ) was founded by Delrose Treasure as a church-based organization to help uplift the community by overcoming barriers, to turn individuals into more productive members of society while simultaneously bringing them closer to God. I am the Way, Walk in Me chronicles what it took to create the RMOJ, and the author’s life experiences that brought about its inception. An ardent born again Christian, Treasure intersperses chronicles events in her life with Biblical passages, displaying the significance that faith and belief hold even in everyday occurrences, for God's hand can be seen in all things. She shares tales of her upbringing by loving and God-fearing parents, how she accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior at a young age, the blessings of motherhood in the form of three beautiful children, and the privilege of migrating to America where, after many odd jobs, she became a certified nursing assistant. The unseen yet undeniable influence of the Holy Spirit would guide Treasure to return once more to her homeland, Jamaica, to help the needy. There, she provided food, clothes and toys for the children while spreading the Good News, in accordance with God's purpose for her life. Treasure shares the lengths she took to carry out her task, alternating work and travel, and utilizing her vacation days to serve her community. This would culminate in the eventual formation of the Restoration Ministry of Jamaica, Inc.

Download or read book Caribbean Stories written by Fabian Comrie and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Islands of the Caribbean are comprised of many different cultures, the people of the Islands respect each other’s differences and embrace their similarities. Caribbean Stories celebrates the wide diversity of the Islands, combining historical background and fiction for a fascinating read that will both educate and entertain. The book begins in 1692 with James and Hazel, who have survived a devastating earthquake and must work together to run a sugar plantation. They will face opposition from the British Empire and surmount personal tragedy, hardship—even encounters with pirates—to keep their dreams alive. From the Bahamas to Trinidad and Belize to Barbados and Cuba to Jamaica, this sweeping family saga is as captivating as the Caribbean itself.

Download or read book Mastering All That I Am written by Len Gaffney and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new and exciting book, you'll intimately come to know my journey from four years old to present time and my ascension to the level of master teacher, Reiki master, author, and co-owner of the Healing Environment Center in Smyrna, Georgia. You'll get acquainted with the challenges and supernatural events I encountered along the way that shaped and molded me into the ever-evolving person that I am today. Growing up in a time when there were very few Black men who outwardly showed empathic and energetic gifts made it challenging to accept the divine masculine and the divine feminine empathic gifts that I was born with, so I was forced to go at it alone on many occasions to lean on every lesson and challenge that I faced to ultimately learn and grow. The limited beliefs that I acquired in my younger years enabled me to hide my true self and my many psychic gifts in order to be accepted. I ultimately found truth in the acceptance and love for who I am, as we are all part of the Creator. This book describes the divine path that was carved out for me well before I was born in this life and how I intricately chose my parents for lessons that I needed to learn and picked every major person in my life who helped me grow and evolve consciously. My intention is that this book will provide hope and motivation for all that read it and have comfort in knowing that they are going through similar lessons in their own lives and journeys.

Download or read book Flourishing in Babylon written by Joe Aldred and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black theology has long been about oppression and liberation. But is there a different story to tell? Can the black story be one about a quest for flourishing through agency and self-determination and not only an existence of nihilistic struggle? Drawing on a fresh reading of Jeremiah’s letter to Jewish exiles, and his own Pentecostal tradition, Joe Aldred offers a fresh understanding of the Black British experience which draws on a realised eschatology rooted in identity, empowerment and an agenda. In a contested diasporan context in the shadow of empire there exists opportunity to fully flourish without apology – or as Jeremiah puts it to those in exile, to ‘settle, build and grow'.

Download or read book The New Immigrants and American Schools written by Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This six-volume set focuses on Latin American, Caribbean, and Asian immigration, which accounts for nearly 80 percent of all new immigration to the United States. The volumes contain the essential scholarship of the last decade and present key contributions reflecting the major theoretical, empirical, and policy debates about the new immigration. The material addresses vital issues of race, gender, and socioeconomic status as they intersect with the contemporary immigration experience. Organized by theme, each volume stands as an independent contribution to immigration studies, with seminal journal articles and book chapters from hard-to-find sources, comprising the most important literature on the subject. The individual volumes include a brief preface presenting the major themes that emerge in the materials, and a bibliography of further recommended readings. In its coverage of the most influential scholarship on the social, economic, educational, and civil rights issues revolving around new immigration, this collection provides an invaluable resource for students and researchers in a wide range of fields, including contemporary American history, public policy, education, sociology, political science, demographics, immigration law, ESL, linguistics, and more.

Download or read book Kingman 1971 written by Gary Reeves and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingman Ranch is the third book of the Kingman-1971 series. Brent Kingman has returned home wounded, very ill and plagued by nightmares that nearly drive him crazy at times. As lightening rips through the sky on his wedding night he reacts as if still in combat and Jamaica safety is, once more, threatened.

Download or read book All That We See and Do written by Nordia A. Dixon and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each one of us is special and was appointed to be at the place and time we are in the history of the world. Each living person was brought into this world purposefully by our Creator. There truly are no "accidents." We are here because our Creator orders us to be here in this world right now, right where we are. I have come to realize that there is more to our Creator than any of us can comprehend. He is wider than the widest ocean, taller than the tallest mountain, deeper than the deepest sea. He is bigger than the earth. The earth is His footstool (Isaiah 66:1). Our Creator loves variety. That is why there are so many shades and types of people, flowers, stars, animals, birds, experiences, colors, days, numbers, fish, creatures of the sea, planets, and so on and on. Yes, our Creator loves variety, which is why He creates the world as a flower garden of people, each one different, each one with a unique purpose to serve in the garden. Each flower has a special purpose in a little garden to provide beauty, fullness, order, scent, and so on. My encounter with our Creator inspires amazement and awe. ...the changing seasons...the beauty of a sunny day, snowy, rainy, and cloudy day...the fact the sun never sets though we see night. On a return flight from Kenya in 2007, I was seated where I could see through the windows on either side of the plane. I marveled at how outside one window I could see night falling while outside the other window the sun was shining brightly. How awesome to be in a position to see the sun setting on one side of the globe and rising on the other. What an amazing experience!

Download or read book Women in Jamaican Music written by Heather Augustyn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the ubiquitous Jamaican musician Bob Marley once famously sang, "half the story has never been told." This rings particularly true for the little-known women in Jamaican music who comprise significantly less than half of the Caribbean nation's musical landscape. This book covers the female contribution to Jamaican music and its subgenres through dozens of interviews with vocalists, instrumentalists, bandleaders, producers, deejays and supporters of the arts. Relegated to marginalized spaces, these pioneering women fought for their claim to the spotlight amid oppressive conditions to help create and shape Jamaica's musical heritage.

Download or read book The Prophecies of a Father written by H.E. Ambassador Eddie M. Turay and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prophecies of A Father is a remarkable piece of literary work. The writer, His Excellency Ambassador Eddie M. Turay is very sincere and passionate in the presentation of his facts. The facts relate to the culture, traditions, customs and party politics of his country. The writers sincerity and passion revolves around the traditional beliefs and faith of his benevolent father in his ancestral spirits, late Paramount Chief Kande Turay of Sanda Chiefdom. He reveals that the late man was an animist who despite neither believed nor practiced Christianity and Islam, yet he gave him the freedom and support to become a practicing Christian. His father was not only liberal towards the two mainstream religions (Christianity and Islam) but he was a great admirer of the Whitemans education. That was why he gave him his blessings and support to pursue education for which he will ever remain grateful. Paramount Chieftaincy is one of the oldest and respectable political institutions in this part of the African Continent. The writer has thrown enlightening lights on the way it works in the Sanda Chiefdom, Northern Sierra Leone. One more amazing revelation of the book is the prophecies of the writers father. As the title of the book, it is befitting because all that his father prophesied have come to pass. His father did prophesise that the writer will dine and drink with Royalties, Prime Ministers and Presidents at home and abroad, which has come to pass. In terms of his countrys national politics, he paints the picture of the political culture that existed at the time. It bordered on dysfunctional tendencies, which was disturbing to him as an espouser of democracy and social justice. Thus, educated and trained in the ethics of social justice and fairness, the Ambassador was determined to challenge these vices. Ironically, it was his zealousness to challenge them that made him steal the heart of late President Siaka P. Stevens. The President was impressed, so he convinced him to drop his legal practice and become a politician where he would have the opportunity to fully inculcate and defend the values of fair play and social justice as espoused by democratic ethos, particularly at the grassroots levels of the nations politics. The writer skilfully draws the contrasts between the Old and New APC, and above all, the successful leadership of President Ernest Bai Koroma (Leader of the APC). He registers his unwavering support for the New APC Party of which he is a profound member and her admirable leadership. This book is an eye-catching read as well as educative for its sincerity, passion, fun, simple and quality language and buttressed by ideal concepts. HE Ambassador Eddie M. Turays colleagues in the Diplomatic Service, Foreign Office as well as politicians and educational institutions at home and abroad will find this book a handy resource material on Sierra Leone politics.

Download or read book Jamaica Vibes written by Lisa Lovatt-Smith and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surely the most stylish and cool island in the Caribbean, Jamaica is not only the cradle of reggae but also a favorite destination for James Bond. While there is no shortage of luxury villas and white-sand beaches, Jamaica offers something that other destinations lack: a vibrant culture, wholly its own. Overflowing with character, Jamaica has a strong sense of self, which was shaped over the centuries during its fight for freedom and independence. This national pride is reflected in the music, dance, cuisine and literature that originated in Jamaica but has since influenced people across the globe. The legacy of Bob Marley is intricately linked with the image of Jamaica, leaving an indelible mark on the country and the world. For novelist Ian Fleming, Jamaica was his creative incubator. At his home, GoldenEye, Fleming crafted one of the most well-known characters in the world, James Bond. Travelers can now walk in the footsteps of these titans of creative expression by touring 56 Hope Road in Kingston, Bob Marley’s former home, or by staying at GoldenEye. Whether you’re born and raised on the island, or just on a vacation, Jamaica’s influence is undeniable. Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records, contributes a foreword to Jamaica Vibes, presenting an intimate, insider portrait of this vibrant island nation and its mesmerizing power.

Download or read book Jamaica s Reign written by Jacqueline D. Wilson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J amaica is a young girl who encounters motherhood early on but manages to turn her life around and take the rode of fate that she believes has lead her to the success shes obtained. With a vow of celibacy she hopes this will land her to the one true love. Lifes reality however suggested other wise throwing fiery darts and falsehood, but with wisdom navigating and morals as her guide they combat the core of unveiling the ever so fashionable glitz and glam of temptations.

Download or read book I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foundational, classic anthology that revived interest in the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God—"one of the greatest writers of our time"—and made her work widely available for a new generation of readers (Toni Morrison). During her lifetime, Zora Neale Hurston was praised for her writing but condemned for her independence and audacity. Her work fell into obscurity until the 1970s, when Alice Walker rediscovered Hurston's unmarked grave and anthologized her writing in this groundbreaking collection for the Feminist Press. I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive established Hurston as an intellectual leader for future generations of black writers. A testament to the power and breadth of Hurston's oeuvre, this edition—newly reissued for the Feminist Press's fiftieth anniversary—features a new preface by Walker. "Through Hurston, the soul of the black South gained one of its most articulate interpreters." —The New York Times

Download or read book Tangle Creek written by Della May Olson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Eli Soren Cooper is accused of murdering his wife Caroline Kuchen Cooper the whole Cooper family gathers to support their brother and son. The family that helped to change the name of their rugged wilderness ranch from Tangle Creek Ranch to Bloody Basin during an all out war with sheep men invaders, have to face their own lusts, greed, and avarice. Across the Verde River the Mazatzal Mountains form a haven for rustlers and outlaws. Can the peaceful paradise dreamed of by Rayne and Jamaica Cooper on their hazardous journey from Wyoming to Arizona survive?