Download or read book Our End of the Block written by P.J. Julius and published by P.J. Julius. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Anyway, I feel like the longer we sit here the worse our odds get. Let’s just do it and see what happens.” No one would ever be able to have a summer like this again, although they didn’t know that at the time. It’s the middle of the 1980s, and the internet, cell phones, cable TV, all of it was about to change the world, but it hadn’t just yet. They’re saying goodbye to more than just their childhood and taking one last run through the neighborhood in this story about growing up, told by a kid who was there at just the right age. If you’re old enough to remember you might find some familiar territory. If you’re too young to have been there, this is the stuff your parents don’t want to tell you about. Up until now, summers has been pretty carefree for Pete and his friends. This one was not. He has an uncool nickname, his best friend Ricky lives next door with a stepmom who has serious anger issues, and they both have a problem with a former friend and current neighborhood juvenile delinquent, James Barlow. When James starts focusing his aggression on them, it sets off a chain of events that winds through baseball games, the longest and possibly strangest Fourth of July ever, an epic game of Kick the Can, trespassing everywhere, and generally causing minor chaos across the neighborhood. At the same time, Pete is learning that the adult world that he and his friends (and enemies) are moving towards isn't as simple as what he knows. Soon they’re going to be starting high school, and that’s not the only thing that’s going to be changing for them, and everyone else. But before it does, they have a one last chance to fully enjoy the way things were until they have to leave it all behind forever. The first of three parts.
Download or read book On My Own written by Lavez Robinson Sr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a once lost black man, giving compelling details of the trials, tribulations, and the ever changing circumstances surrounding him. Cursed from birth with unusual attributes; early on, he was faced with ridicule and constant criticism from not only peers, but also his parents. Desperate to be a part of something in a city plagued with hate, he was determined to escape the detrimental society that had withered away at the lives of so many. Therefore, he enlisted in the armed services after completing high school in hopes of finding his purpose in life.
Download or read book The One Who s Gonna See You Through written by John Steven Welch and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GJ's family is an anomaly. Samuel, his uneducated strongman father, respected for his brawn and violent aggression, acts as a conscientious, nurturing single parent, rearing his infant son in the 1950s when men were not their children's primary caregivers. Despite his father's typical Black masculinity, he intuitively understands his son's emerging gay nature as innate. GJ's mother, a child of Black middle-class privilege from the neighboring suburbs, is an absent parent, primarily engaged with living the rooming life, consisting of drink and abandon. GJ's young life progresses, and he is thrust forth into circumstances both familiar and violently surreal, from typical bullying to standing as the principal witness in a murder trial to defend his father. Colorful characters like wild Uncle NapPo, the seemingly unflappable Miss Carrie, and his father's employer, the curious Mr. Blu, inform him of life's complexity. The wide-eyed boy grows into his teens and twenties and is altogether victimized, loved, and enlightened, leading him to experience the full range of gay life. GJ learns the culture and codes of Washington’s insular Black gay bar scene as the teen partner of a man in his thirties. As GJ starts to relish his gay existence, becoming more confident with his gay identity and his family's unconventionality, he continues to question himself, fighting self-doubt and consternation about fitting into Black respectability norms or the mainstream world. GJ's adult existence and early professional life extend into the integrated world of Dupont Circle gay bars and Georgetown professional offices, where he finds the love of his life and soulmate. The One Who Gonna See You Through is a work that bridges the commercial/literary divide. The gay interracial theme here is seldom explored, and the absent mother/loving father configuration brings a different lens to this work. The approach to story in The One Who Gonna See You Through sets the more familiar trope of the angry, Black, homophobic father aside and abandons the more well-trodden storyline of steadfast single Black motherhood. By story's end, GJ recognizes that his father's early and invaluable acceptance of difference laid the foundations for the happiness and realization he has experienced as a gay man throughout life. He resolves within himself that he must finally accept his legitimacy as both a Black man and an upper-middle-class one.
Download or read book Koho Series written by Amzi B. Burt Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-08-23 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The KOHO Series is built using the scientific techniques and design features of modern-day football. It is simple and sophisticated in its design features and enables users to take absolute advantage of any defensive scheme that confront them. Many skilled kids who previously sat on the bench in the early years will find that they can play as a first-stringer on this very special unit early in their careers. This morale builder will benefit the team unity in the long run and cut down on injuries, etc. Coaches who take the time to install this simple explosive concept into their packages will reap many assorted benefits! Amzi B. Burt Jr.
Download or read book United States of America V Eversole written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Squirrely Husband written by Lizlee Payant and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gang Member written by Twenty-Five and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gang Member tells the story of a man who discovered that the American system of government worked against black men by design. Having been disabled while serving as a machine gunner during the Vietnam era, he finds his benefits denied because the United States Veterans Administration misrepresented his time spent in service, the reason for his disability, and the time the disability occurred. Later, he found himself accused of fathering a child that he knew was not his. The accuser worked for the police department, and he was jailed without the benefit of a DNA test. Feeling that the system was unjust, it was easy to become involved in illegal activities. The book gives a true account of gang activity, an unfair legal system, and a mans battle with himself to discover that it does not matter what happens to you in life, its how you handle it (Grand Master Hee IL Cho). The book shows that we all face challenges in life. It is every mans decision whether he wants to be a good man or not.
Download or read book Diamonds In The Rough written by Al Ferber and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-02-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Diamonds In The Rough” is the story of Anthony, a boy and manchild whose twisted emotions led to a half century of pain and bad decisions fueled by alcoholism. The misreading of all in front of him accumulated emotional wreckage that got him to concentrate only on the dark of the evening sky and ignore the moon and stars. This is also the story of a reclamation project that enabled him to dig through the apparent rubble of his life to rediscover and appreciate the diamonds he had brushed aside. Gus
Download or read book The Fourth Turning written by William Strauss and published by Crown. This book was released on 1997-12-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play—now with a new preface by Neil Howe. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.
Download or read book ADAMHA Programs Reauthorization written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing to Save a Life written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wideman "traces the life of the father of iconic civil rights martyr Emmett Till--a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett's murder--presenting an ... exploration of individual and collective memory in America by one of the most formidable black intellectuals of our time"--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Coach Athlete written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defensive Football Strategies written by American Football Coaches Association and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winning strategies from 90 top football coaches in the nation comprise this collection of knowledge and insights from many of the best defensive minds of the game. Illustrations.
Download or read book Financial Cryptography and Data Security written by Ittay Eyal and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes revised selected papers from the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2022, which was held in Grenada during May 2022. The 32 full papers and 4 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed andselected from 159 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: tokenomics; MPC (mostly); privacy; ZKP; old-school consensus; mostly payment networks; incentives; not proof of work; performance; measurements.
Download or read book Blockchain for Cyberphysical Systems written by Ali Dorri and published by Artech House. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting book will explore how Blockchain (BC) technology has the potential to overcome challenges in the current cyber-physical system (CPS) environment. BC is a timestamp ledger of blocks that is used for storing and sharing data in a distributed manner. BC has attracted attention from practitioners and academics in different disciplines, including law, finance, and computer science, due to its use of distributed structure, immutability and security and privacy. However, applying blockchain in a cyber-physical system (CPS) is not straightforward and involves challenges, including lack of scalability, resource consumption, and delay. This book will provide a comprehensive study on blockchain for CPS. CPS and the existing solutions in CPS and will outline the limitations are presented. The key features of blockchain and its salient features which makes it an attractive solution for CPS are discussed. The fundamental challenges in adopting blockchain for CPS including scalability, delay, and resource consumption are presented and described. Blockchain applications in smart grids, smart vehicles, supply chain; and IoT Data marketplaces are explored. The future research directions to further improve blockchain performance in CPS is also provided.
Download or read book Time To Go Back written by Jean Hill and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reality of working class contemporary life as it is truly lived and in its raw form, written in the voice of Jean – a woman, wife, daughter, mother, grandmother. There is laughter and sadness, life and death, good neighbours and bad neighbours, hopes and fears. Heartfelt and always kind, Jean triumphs. “If we can’t go out into our garden, then I’ll bring the garden inside.”
Download or read book Misplaced Growing Up Twisted In A Straight World written by Misplaced Master and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-11 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a lot more than just a bunch of kids playing doctor. It may be the most sexually explicit and offensive (to some) book you have ever read. If that is the case, I apologize and assure you that my intent was not to write that kind of a narrative or to offend anyone. I simply wanted to chronicle some things that have happened in my life which, I believe, have happened in the lives of others. I want this book to be a learning experience for the reader; a clarification of sexual experimentation among young people.
