Download or read book Overcoming the Odds written by Travis Davidson, Jr and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a journey of incredible transformation as you navigate life's toughest challenges with this inspiring and motivational book. Discover renewed faith in yourself and in God as you overcome obstacles and unlock your true potential. - Channel anger into determination for a brighter future - Embrace the power of forgiveness for ultimate freedom - Rediscover your purpose and find meaning in adversity - Cultivate strength and resilience through faith and perseverance - Learn the true essence of success and how to attain it Bullet Points: - Achieve inner peace by conquering anger - Experience the liberating force of forgiveness and release the past - Uncover your life's purpose and live with fulfillment - Build unwavering faith and pursue your dreams relentlessly - Transform challenges into opportunities for growth What's Included: - Author's personal stories and insights for a relatable experience - Practical strategies and tips for overcoming obstacles - Inspirational quotes and verses to uplift and motivate - Thought-provoking reflection questions for personal application - Bonus resources for ongoing support and development Unlock the secrets to conquering adversity and living a life of fulfillment. Don't miss out on this life-changing book available at a special price. Purchase now and embark on a journey of empowerment and transformation.

Download or read book Overcoming the Odds written by Emmy E. Werner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overcoming the Odds looks closely at the lives of an ethnically diverse group of 505 men and women who were born in 1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai and who have been monitored from the prenatal period through early adulthood by psychologists, pediatricians, public health professionals, and social workers. Werner and Smith trace the impact of a variety of biological and psycho-social risk factors and stressful events on the development of these individuals, most of whose parents did not graduate from high school and worked as semiskilled or unskilled laborers. Incorporating vivid case study accounts with statistical analysis, the authors focus on both the vulnerability and the resilience of those who overcame great odds to grow into competent and caring adults. They trace the recovery process through which most of the troubled adolescents in the cohort—those with histories of delinquency, teenage pregnancy, and mental health problems—emerged with improved prospects in their twenties and early thirties. Identifying both the self-righting tendencies that enable high risk children later to adapt successfully to work, marriage, and parenthood, and the conditions under which professional and volunteer care is most beneficial, Werner and Smith offer concrete suggestions for effective intervention policies.

Download or read book Succeeding Overcoming the Odds written by Prestwick House, Incorporated and published by Prestwick House Inc. This book was released on 2005-12-12 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of 33 short, easy-to-read inspirational stories about people overcoming economic, social, or physical handicaps in order to succeed will motivate students to set goals and work towards them. Each of the moving biographical stories in this book s

Download or read book Overcoming the Odds written by Freeman A. Hrabowski III and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males appeared in 1998, it was hailed as "a crucial book" (Baltimore Sun) and "undoubtedly one of the most important tools the African American parent can possess" (Kweisi Mfume, President NAACP). Now, in response to enormous demand, the authors turn their attention to African American young women. Statistics indicate that African American females, as a group, fare poorly in the United States. Many live in single-parent households-either as the single-parent mother or as the daughter. Many face severe economic hurdles. Yet despite these obstacles, some are performing at exceptional levels academically. Based on interviews with many of these successful young women and their families, Overcoming the Odds provides a wealth of information about how and why they have succeeded--what motivates them, how their backgrounds and family relationships have shaped them, even how it feels to be a high academic achiever. They also discuss the challenges of moving into African American womanhood, from maintaining self-esteem to making the right choices about their professional and personal lives. Most important, the book offers specific and inspiring examples of the practices, attitudes, and parenting strategies that have enabled these women to persevere and triumph. For parents, educators, policy makers, and indeed all those concerned about the education of young African American women, Overcoming the Odds is an invaluable guidebook on creating the conditions that lead to academic-and lifelong-success.

Download or read book Overcoming the Odds written by Victoria Ozidu and published by Friends of Thomas. This book was released on with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overcoming the Odds is a book that aims to bridge the gap between the green and grey generations. The teenage years are a period of mystery and confusion even to the teenager themselves. This book attempts to demystify this potentially turbulent time by encouraging productive conversations between parents and their teenagers.

Download or read book Turning the Tide written by Robert Weeks and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are facing seemingly insurmountable challenges and seeking a beacon of hope, "Turning the Tide: Overcoming Adversity and Embracing Optimism Against All Odds" is your guiding light. This transformative book takes you on a journey of resilience, offering practical strategies and inspiring stories to help you navigate life's toughest storms with courage and grace. From overcoming setbacks to embracing a mindset of optimism, this book empowers you to rise above adversity and thrive against all odds. Robert K. Weeks, the author of "Turning the Tide," is a seasoned expert in resilience and personal development. With years of experience in coaching and mentoring individuals through their toughest challenges, Weeks brings a wealth of knowledge and insights to this book. His compassionate approach and practical advice make "Turning the Tide" a must-read for anyone seeking to overcome obstacles and create a life filled with purpose and joy.

Download or read book Overcoming The Odds written by Deborah Ivey and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-26 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life has a way of making you stronger than you think you are. Children are innocent. At least that is how they start out. They have a unique way of looking at the world as one big rainbow. This book tells the story of one woman whose life changed abruptly as a child. It left her with a trauma marker that she would have to overcome to make her mark on the world. In this book, part memoir and part journal, Deborah Ivey is a small-town country girl who is loved by all. When her parents decide to move away from the south for a better life, she finds herself having unwanted experiences. As an adult, she decides to join the military in search for a better life. Borderline depressed, getting pregnant, living in poverty, Deborah decides to lean on the one thing that was a constant in her life, God. She finds out through a series of events, the better life she searched for was always in her. Read the story of the lessons she learned in life that brought her back from the brink of giving up. Overcoming The Odds is the tale of how the challenges of life are not meant to break you, but help you make your mark. Overcoming The Odds reveals the inner thoughts, feelings and experiences of many women. It will empower you to face your challenges and take responsibility of the outcome.

Download or read book Unfavorable Odds written by Kim Hamilton Anthony and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Kim Hamilton rose to fame, she was anything but a typical world-class gymnast. She wasn't white, she didn't come from a middle-class family, and she was tall for a gymnast. But facing those obstacles was nothing compared To The challenges she faced at home. There, she tumbled in a secret world filled with drugs, violence, and financial strain. She met Unfavorable Odds but found hope by persevering through the pain. Here, Kim shares the techniques she learned to catapult herself from the past into the purpose God intended for her life.

Download or read book Believe It written by Nick Foles and published by Tyndale House Publishers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the man who was on the verge of retiring just two seasons earlier stay optimistic and rally the Philadelphia Eagles to an astounding Super Bowl win? Here Foles discusses the obstacles that threatened to hold him back, his rediscovery of his love for the game, and the faith that grounded him through it all.

Download or read book Democracy and Nigeria s Fourth Republic written by Wale Adebanwi and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Nigeria's challenges with consolidating democracy and the crisis of governance arising from structural errors of the state and the fundamental contradictions of the society in Nigeria's Fourth Republic reflect a wider crisis of democracy globally. 'Today we are taking a decisive step on the path of democracy, ' the newly sworn-in President Olusegun Obasanjo told Nigerians on 27 May 1999. 'We will leave no stone unturned to ensure sustenance of democracy, because it is good for us, it is good for Africa, and it is good for the world.' Nigeria's Fourth Republic has survived longer than any of the previous three Republics, the most durable Republic in Nigeria's more than six decades of independence. At the same time, however, the country has witnessed sustained periods of violence, including violent clashes over the imposition of Sharia'h laws, insurgency in the Niger Delta, inter-ethnic clashes, and the Boko Haram insurgency. Despite these tensions of, and anxieties about, democratic viability and stability in Nigeria, has democratic rule come to stay in Africa's most populous country? Are the overall conditions of Nigerian politics, economy and socio-cultural dynamics now permanently amenable to uninterrupted democratic rule? Have all the social forces which, in the past, pressed Nigeria towards military intervention and autocratic rule resolved themselves in favour of unbroken representative government? If so, what are the factors and forces that produced this compromise and how can Nigeria's shallow democracy be sustained, deepened and strengthened? This book attempts to address these questions by exploring the various dimensions of Nigeria's Fourth Republic in a bid to understand the tensions and stresses of democratic rule in a deeply divided major African state. The contributors engage in comparative analysis of the political, economic, social challenges that Nigeria has faced in the more than two decades of the Fourth Republic and the ways in which these were resolved - or left unresolved - in a bid to ensure the survival of democratic rule. This key book that examines both the quality of Nigeria's democratic state and its international relations, and issues such as human rights and the peace infrastructure, will be invaluable in increasing our understanding of contemporary democratic experiences in the neo-liberal era in Africa.

Download or read book Overcoming the Odds written by Heinemann-Raintree and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women on the Verge of Home written by Bilinda Straight and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2005-03-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores the idea of "home." Using feminist scholarship and ethnographically grounded readings of historical, literary, and cultural texts, contributors interrogate the comfortable and stable contours of home and ask what it means to women in different social, class, sexual, ethnic, and racial contexts in different times and places. Giving voice to diverse women's understandings of home, the book includes stories of elite white U.S. and Canadian women, rural poor and peasant white women in the United States and France, a British Caribbean freed slave woman, and others."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book Overcoming the Odds written by Jennie E. Brand and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, millions of high school students consider whether to continue their schooling and attend and complete college. Despite evidence showing that a college degree yields far-reaching benefits, critics of higher education increasingly argue that college “does not pay off” and some students - namely, disadvantaged prospective college goers - would be better served by forgoing higher education. But debates about the value of college often fail to carefully consider what is required to speak knowledgeably about the benefits –what a person’s life might look like had they not completed college, or their college counterfactual. In Overcoming the Odds sociologist Jennie E. Brand reveals the benefits of completing college by comparing life outcomes of college graduates with their college counterfactuals. Drawing on two cohorts of nationally representative data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics National Longitudinal Surveys program, Brand uses matching and machine learning methods to estimate the effects of college completion across students with varying likelihoods of completing four-year degrees. To illustrate her findings, Brand describes outcomes using matched vignettes of college and non-college graduates. Brand shows that four-year college completion enables graduates to increase wages and household income, while also circumventing unemployment, low-wage work, job instability, poverty, and social assistance. Completing college also increases civic engagement. Most of these benefits are larger for disadvantaged than for more advantaged students, rendering arguments that college has limited benefits for unlikely graduates as flawed. Brand concludes that greater long-term earnings, and less job instability and unemployment, and thus more tax revenue, less reliance on public assistance, and high levels of volunteering indicate that public investment in higher education for students from disadvantaged backgrounds yields far-reaching collective benefits. She asserts that it is better for our society when more people complete college. Overcoming the Odds is an innovative and enlightening exploration of how college can transform lives.

Download or read book Against All Odds written by Shannon Kerr and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reflections Through an Hourglass written by E.M. Souza and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human mind, body and spirit is in constant need of an oasis to which it can constantly resort. In a world that is traveling faster than a rollercoaster, we will always find ourselves in a valley of decision The search for enlightenment, motivation and inspiration is the fuel that drives us and keeps us on the path we need to go. It allows us to go forward and not keep on going through the same revolving door in life. Words that inspire us and allows us to gain insight and question ourselves, will require answers to how we look at life and what we might have to do to change our perception about many different things. Sometimes words suddenly make us surprise ourselves, in realizing somewhere along lifes roll call, we have been missing a beat. We shock ourselves into admitting we were wrong or right about some things, but totally out of touch about other things, and like it or not we have to change our outlook Such is progress, but it also tells us something about ourselves, and how essential change is in all our lives in order to move forward in the march of time. When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you, understanding will keep you. Proverbs 2:verse 10 & 11 Reflections through an Hourglass takes you on a tour of your heart and mind to your inner being so you might look into and question the meaning of your purpose in this life Every life is a Storybook. from the Introduction

Download or read book Against the Odds written by Joe Layden and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1998 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the lives of eight NBA players, including Reggie Miller and Jayson Williams, who have overcome great obstacles in their climb to the top.

Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1973-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.