Download or read book The Shoeshine Boy written by Harrison O. Akingbade and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Akin Quicksilver's struggle to acquire education, which every Nigerian knows to be the surest means of ascending from poverty. With the death of his benefactor and a mediocre performance at the West African School Certificate Examinations, he knows that the only way to advance himself academically must be through his own exertion and determination. The inability to fulfill his educational ambition in Nigeria sets him out on adventure, which eventually takes him to Liberia where he has to eke out an existence by shining shoes. Through his dedication to his shoeshine business, he gets a lucky break. An Episcopal Mission in the country employs him as a utility man. In spite of suffering a series of setbacks, he obtains a scholarship to an American university and eventually wends his way to America. His strongest motivation for success is his love for Jumoke Phoenix, which is seriously threatened by his poor performance in the West African School Certificate Examinations. Jumoke is in grade one and Akin in three, with little or no chance for further advancement. The problem is further complicated by the appearance of a rival who seems to be gaining an upper hand in the competition for Jumoke's affection. Akin is determined not to give Jumoke the satisfaction of saying in future: "I m glad I left him at the time I did."
Download or read book The Shoeshine Boy written by Melvin Sterne and published by Lamar University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many lives have been altered by "spiritual experiences." Pablo, the shoeshine boy, has such an experience, one he assures the reader that they will not believe. And why should we? It's a story so outlandish that Pablo scarce believes it himself. The Shoeshine Boy is a story of individual redemption. Can Pablo, a five-year-old, illiterate orphan, survive on the streets of a hostile world? But even more, it is a novel of human redemption, contrasting the power of belief with the power of delusion, of truth with the lies we tell ourselves every day. This is a novel about faith. More broadly, it is a tale of choices. We live in a world of dwindling resources, exploding population, and technological revolution that is threatening our existence. The question becomes not whether Pablo will survive, but whether you and I will survive--and if so, how? The values we affirm and the choices we make based on our values can seal our fate as a species. Kurt Vonnegut once said that he wanted to stay as close to the edge as he could without going over. "Out on the edge," he said, "you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." His words describe The Shoeshine Boy perfectly. It will take you to the edge.
Download or read book The Barefoot Shoeshine Boy written by Al Rivera and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a the true story of Al Rivera, who was not the only boy who suffered from parental abuse and extreme poverty, but what makes his story unique was his daily determination to find food and shoeshine customers and to be positive with his life. He didn't whine, cry, complain, or daydream. He cheerfully went about surviving in a real world.
Download or read book Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy written by Doug Stumpf and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazilian-born Gil is trying to find the American Dream. In the meantime, he polishes the shoes of the superrich and powerful on Wall Street—high-rolling traders as uninhibited as they are ruthless. Gil sees things as few other people do—from the ground up—and his perspective on the day-to-day insanity of the trading floor is priceless. But this fly on the wall overhears one or two things that maybe he shouldn't. And when a Glossy magazine journalist, desperate for a big break, persuades him to be an undercover source for what may be the biggest insider trading scam in Wall Street history, Gil is catapulted into a danger zone darker than anything he or the journalist could have imagined.
Download or read book The Shoeshine Boy written by Walter Reinhard and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ShoeShine Boy written by Charles Belim and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outraged written by Robert J. Hoshowsky and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Murder That Changed a City The tragic story of Shoeshine Boy Emanuel Jaques has been the basis of novels, short stories, a documentary, a play, songs, a children's book on the dangers of abduction, and dozens of essays, but never a True Crime book...until now. The torture and killing of Emanuel over a 12-hour period above a seedy Toronto body rub parlour outraged citizens who demanded change to Toronto's Yonge Street strip, which by 1977 resembled New York's grimy 42nd Street with its many X-rated movie theatres, massage parlours, pornographic bookstores, and prostitutes. Through a series of original interviews, archival research, and previously unpublished documents, author Robert J. Hoshowsky recreates in detail Emanuel's brutal death, the hunt for the boy's killers, the shocking trial and press coverage, the controversial Yonge Street clean-up, and what remains one of the most sensational True Crime cases in Canadian history.
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1976-08 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Download or read book Here I Am written by Johnny Emler and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by real events, Here I Am is a spirit-led story of true, unconditional love and faith. In the late '50s, when his parents abruptly went to prison, young Joey goes to live with his loving grandparents in Middle Tennessee. Motivated to earn his keep, Joey is eager to get to work and not afraid to get his hands dirty, like his Papa. Upon entering a new school, he meets the girl of his dreams and a circle of friends he bonds with over football, vowing to be friends forever. But as the Bible says, there is a season for everything. Life's obstacles, war, hardship, and a turn of events lead to contention and hard feelings, but God works in unusual ways. What the devil tears down, God builds back up in miraculous ways. Through faith and love, beauty can come from pain. This heartwarming journey through life will bring a roller coaster of laughter, tears, joy, and praise for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I truly hope this story is as much of a blessing for you to read as it was for me to write. --Johnny
Download or read book Treat Me Like Dirt written by Liz Worth and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compendium of interviews with key players in the Toronto punk scene is “easily one of the best rock biographies you’ll read this year.” (Montreal Mirror) Treat Me Like Dirt captures the personalities that drove the original Toronto punk scene. This is the first book to document the histories of the Diodes, Viletones, and Teenage Head, along with other bands such as the B-Girls, Curse, Demics, Dishes, Forgotten Rebels, Johnny & the G-Rays, the Mods, the Poles, Simply Saucer, the Ugly and more. Also included are interviews from fans that brought the punk scene to life in Toronto. This book is a punk rock road map, full of chaos, betrayal, pain, disappointments, failure, success, and the pure rock ’n’ roll energy that frames this layered history of punk in Toronto and beyond. Treat Me Like Dirt is a story assembled from individual personal stories that go beyond the usual “we played here, this famous person saw us there” and into sex, drugs, murder, conspiracy, booze, criminals, biker gangs, violence, art (yes, art) and includes one of the last interviews with the late Frankie Venom, the singer of Teenage Head. Including a wealth of previously unpublished photographs, Treat Me Like Dirt is the uncensored oral history of the 1977 Toronto punk explosion. Exclusive to this edition is a selected discography of all key Toronto punk releases referenced in the book, contributed by Frank Manley, author of Smash The State, the acclaimed and pioneering discography of Canadian punk, and subsequent vinyl compilations, that activated the current international interest in Canadian punk from the ‘70s and early ‘80s.
Download or read book Las Aventuras de Ren Corado el Lustrador written by Rene Corado and published by . This book was released on 1916-07-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated motivational children's book, full color and bilingual.
Download or read book Eros Plus Massacre written by David Desser and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1988-05-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decade of the 1960s encompassed a "New Wave" of films whose makers were rebels, challenging cinematic traditions and the culture at large. The films of the New Wave in Japan have, until now, been largely overlooked. Eros plus Massacre (taking its title from a 1969 Yoshida Yoshishige film) is the first major study devoted to the examination and explanation of Japanese New Wave film. Desser organizes his volume around the defining motifs of the New Wave. Chapters examine in depth such themes as youth, identity, sexuality, and women, as they are revealed in the Japanese film of the sixties. Desser's research in Japanese film archives, his interviews with major figures of the movement, and his keen insight into Japanese culture combine to offer a solid and balanced analysis of films by Oshima, Shinoda, Imamura, Yoshida, Suzuki, and others.
Download or read book Shad written by Erman Sands and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...'At the top of another small mountain Shad looked down a vertical bluff into a large pool of water. Closer examination revealed no possible way off the bluff in either direction. Shad backtracked himself to a large oak tree and climbed it. He inched down a huge limb and leaped into another tree which reached the edge of the bluff. Praying for deep water, Shad leaped into the air over the pool.' Given an illegal education by a widowed Swedish immigrant in a savage land Shad, a slave boy, rises to be virtual master of a huge Plantation, until everything he knows and loves is sucked into the maelstrom of the Civil War. Chased by brutal slave catchers across a war torn and hostile South, Shad struggles to survive. Dreaming of returning to the beautiful Bekah and the ones he loves, Shad must face and conquer many challenges.
Download or read book Memory and Identity written by Linda Pillière and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which ghosts haunt and shape cultural identities and memory, considering the manner in which the fluctuations of such identities sometimes imply the rethinking or rewriting of the past. Drawing on case studies in historical, political, literary and linguistic studies, it explores the narratives that produce imagined communities and identities and the places in which cultural identities are constructed through memory, asking how far these identities and memories disinherit or exclude otherness, and how far ghosts disturb orderly narratives, inviting multiple readings of the past. Thematically organized to consider the persistence of ghosts within present memory and identity, the creation of new identities through intertwining narratives of the past, and the reclamation of identities in postcolonial contexts, Memory and Identity: Ghosts of the past in the English-speaking world offers a multi-disciplinary examination of the concept of haunting. Memory and Identity will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and history with interests in memory and identity.
Download or read book With William Burroughs written by Victor Bockris and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trove of intimate conversations between Burroughs and Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, David Bowie, and more icons of ’70s New York and beyond. During the 1970s, William Burroughs, author of Junky and Naked Lunch, lived in a loft on the Bowery in New York City’s Lower East Side. Christened “The Bunker,” his apartment became a modern-day literary salon with people like Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Susan Sontag, and fellow beat poet Allen Ginsberg passing through for a drink or a joint and the promise of stimulating conversation with the ingenious and eccentric Burroughs. Among Burroughs’s entourage was author Victor Bockris, whose tape recorder was always running to capture meandering dinner party conversations and electric late-night sessions in the Bunker. In these moments, Bockris captures Burroughs’s desires, anxieties, and thoughts on writing, photography, punk rock, and more. The recordings and recollections in With William Burroughs create an unprecedentedly multidimensional portrait of a man who is often overshadowed by his reputation.
Download or read book The Horse written by Alvin Miller Sr. D. Min. and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alvin Miller Sr. dodged the bullet of destruction with the help of a seventh-grade teacher named Mrs. Rita M. Johnson. From age six to thirteen, the author engaged in a disturbing pattern of criminal behavior. As a young lad growing up in poverty, he worked as a migrant worker and once saw his aunt shoot a man. Despite the author’s shortcomings, Mrs. Johnson believed he had a bright future. She thought “the horse” could run for all the right reasons—instead of the wrong reasons that had been pushing him on. Like a good physician, Mrs. Johnson knew the horse was broken, but she strived to put him back together for the running of the roses. Without his knowledge, she began working to make him better. Find out how a compassionate teacher helped a student turn away from a life of crime so he could focus on his abilities as an athlete and academic and race to college instead of prison.
Download or read book An Introduction to Stochastic Processes written by Edward P.C. Kao and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This incorporation of computer use into teaching and learning stochastic processes takes an applications- and computer-oriented approach rather than a mathematically rigorous approach. Solutions Manual available to instructors upon request. 1997 edition.
