Download or read book Tears of My Motherland written by Ranabir Sen and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 1945. The Japanese onslaught on Vietnam and Philippines came to an end. Netaji Subhash Bose's sudden death was a big blow for the Indian diaspora in South East Asia, who were backing him for their motherland's freedom. Many of them remained in South East Asian countries instead of moving back to India. Two of these countries were Vietnam and the Philippines. The book is a tearful story about the Indian migrants who are still risking everything in their pursuit for a better life. Crossing boundaries and breaking barriers with every generation, their fates are tied to their adopted country's economic and political merry go around. After 75 years, they still ask, where do we belong? You may find an answer in this book.
Download or read book Tears of Motherland written by Theophilus O Ogunkunle and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the root of a tree is weak, the branches suffer. Our yesterday may be painful to forget, but it should not consume today's freshness. Moving beyond the past is using the present strength to create a better today and greater tomorrow. Life is a continuous journey where the baton of functionalism can be transferred amongst generations. However, the occurrence of unwanted events during the journey should not be the determinant of how far we can go. My action today is part of the sum of our collective tomorrow. The 'Global Village' is a beautiful place for YOU and I, if only we can do our parts cognitively.
Download or read book Tears of My Motherland written by Ranabir Sen and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 1945. The Japanese onslaught on Vietnam and Philippines came to an end. Netaji Subhash Bose's sudden death was a big blow for the Indian diaspora in South East Asia, who were backing him for their motherland's freedom. Many of them remained in South East Asian countries instead of moving back to India. Two of these countries were Vietnam and the Philippines. The book is a tearful story about the Indian migrants who are still risking everything in their pursuit for a better life. Crossing boundaries and breaking barriers with every generation, their fates are tied to their adopted country’s economic and political merry go around. After 75 years, they still ask, where do we belong? You may find an answer in this book.
Download or read book Tales from My Motherland written by Moses Vincent Okai-Gyau and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After so many years of waiting, will the prophesy of a popular faith healer and an elder of a charismatic church, Papa Kwamena for Akosua Mansa and Agya Mensa from the village of Akim- Manso in Ghana be fulfi lled? Tales from my motherland will take the reader to the people of Ghanato their traditional settings, their cultural heritage and beliefs, to the unifying force and the communal spirit of the people in Akim-Manso. The story describes how Akosua Mansa moved to Agya Mensa`s home after their wedding ceremony and their success in farming and commercial activities as cocoa farmers and as local food restaurant operators. It fi nally concludes with how their marriage was blessed with a baby boy who grew up to become a great scholar, after many years of waiting. The story tries to expose the totality of the culture and tradition as well as everyday beliefs of the people in that village of Akim-Manso in Ghana touching on their traditional farming activities,weddings, festivals, the practices of a fetish priestess and a medicine-man, funeral celebrations etc.
Download or read book In the Embrace of My Motherland written by Tŏk-sin Chʻoe and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghana My Motherland written by Reverend Georgina Mensah-Brown and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old things are old. Why should I be bothered with old news when I am moving forward?. History belongs to those who lived it. We are also making ours. This is what some young adults would say, but from where community have reached, some might not be able to tell as to how to focus on the future. Do you know that people have been walking to school daily covering three or more miles to school and back in many places?. Can you think a child going to school barefooted as compared to our modern world?. When did the market become dry with the sale of no fish except one type of fish whether people liked it or not?. What happens when governments are overthrown only to continue facing hardships. Have you come across empty shops with essential goods being hoarded and sold in private? When there was no fashion of today, what sort of dresses were the fashion of yesterday. If you were to be in any underdeveloped country or certain parts of Africa or elsewhere, would you be able to compare where you live and why others dont have what you have. Ghana my mother is a simple conversation to tell the younger generation in a simple conversation form, how far the country has come from the old to the new with one more step along the world to go.
Download or read book Tears for My Motherland written by Johnson Muthama and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To My Country written by Ben Lawson and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Lawson was preparing for another Christmas away from home when the Black Summer bushfires began to burn their way across Australia's eastern coast. As the bushfires continued to rage into the new year on an unprecedented scale, Ben, feeling angry, helpless and broken-hearted as he watched the devastation from across the ocean, sat down and put his feelings into words. To My Country is an ode to the endurance of the Australian spirit and the shared love of our country. In the true Aussie spirit, Ben and Allen & Unwin will be donating proceeds of To My Country to The Koala Hospital. 'A delightful love letter to a homeland: the kind only an Australian could write. Full of humour, charm and deeply felt belonging. And to think of all the orphaned koalas who will benefit from you buying and enjoying this wonderful little book ...' -Stephen Fry- 'An impassioned cry from the big, kind heart of a big, kind man.' -Tim Minchin- 'Ben Lawson's love of his homeland inspires us all to think of our own roots . . . and the need to protect them.' -Dolly Parton- 'Ben Lawson's book is a heartfelt reminder of how desperately we need to think about our future as a country. His sincerity is moving. I dare you not to cry.' -Julia Stone- 'Ben Lawson writes in the tradition of his namesake Henry Lawson; an eloquent bush ballad that mourns the tragic fate of one billion bushfire victims.' -Barry Humphries-
Download or read book Japanese War Orphans written by Jiaxin Zhong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Japan's defeat in August 1945, some Japanese children were abandoned in China and raised by Chinese foster parents. They were unable to return to Japan even during the mass repatriation carried out by the Japanese government in the 1950s. Most of them returned to Japan in the 1980s. They are called Japanese war orphans. They are victims of the Sino-Japanese War and have been exploited and abandoned by the Japanese government. They are also "border people" who have lived in the interstices between two nations, China and Japan, and are migrants who have exploited the gap in economic development between Japan and China to seek individual happiness. Modern East Asia underwent drastic social change. These drastic social changes affected the lives of the Japanese war orphans and their families in a variety of ways. Over the years, Zhong has interviewed Japanese war orphans, their Chinese foster parents, and Japanese volunteers. The title is an interview-based sociological study of the issue of Japanese war orphans. The first half of the Japanese war orphans' lives were spent in China, and the latter half in Japan. It brings to the fore the dramatic personal histories of the Japanese war orphans surviving in the interstices between two nation-states. Through analyzing the issue of Japanese war orphans, the research on the subject makes the following three points: (1) the powerlessness of civilians caught up in modern warfare and the long-lasting effects of modern warfare on the life histories of individuals and their families; (2) the nature of the modern nation-state, which exploits and abandons its citizens as though they were expendable; and (3) immigration as a product of modernization gaps. Scholars pursuing studies in Japanese society and historians of the Sino-Japanese war would find this an ideal read.
Download or read book Reflections of a Poet written by B.O. Durodola and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures the essence of my journey to growth and maturity as a humble man who loves and obeys OUR FATHERs WORD, as I prove HIS perfect WILL and walk in accordance to HIS WAYS; it reflects my faith and articulates my love for the living GOD and challenges anyone to question the void within them to love any other. It personifies the complexity of my state of mind as I wonder the face of this Earth seeking to please GOD and I have found myself asking questions about my moments in time that quintessentially embeds choice, strengths, weaknesses, order and faith into the essence of my being.
Download or read book Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals written by Patricia Lockwood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed second collection of poetry by Patricia Lockwood, Booker Prize finalist author of the novel No One Is Talking About This and the memoir Priestdaddy SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times * The Boston Globe * Powell’s * The Strand * Barnes & Noble * BuzzFeed * Flavorwire “A formidably gifted writer who can do pretty much anything she pleases.” – The New York Times Book Review Colloquial and incantatory, the poems in Patricia Lockwood’s second collection address the most urgent questions of our time, like: Is America going down on Canada? What happens when Niagara Falls gets drunk at a wedding? Is it legal to marry a stuffed owl exhibit? Why isn’t anyone named Gary anymore? Did the Hatfield and McCoy babies ever fall in love? The steep tilt of Lockwood’s lines sends the reader snowballing downhill, accumulating pieces of the scenery with every turn. The poems’ subject is the natural world, but their images would never occur in nature. This book is serious and funny at the same time, like a big grave with a clown lying in it.
Download or read book Motherland written by Elissa Altman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’m reading this book right now and loving it!”—Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild How can a mother and daughter who love (but don’t always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy? “Vibrating with emotion, this deeply honest account strikes a chord.”—People “A wry and moving meditation on aging and the different kinds of love between women.”—O: The Oprah Magazine After surviving a traumatic childhood in nineteen-seventies New York and young adulthood living in the shadow of her flamboyant mother, Rita, a makeup-addicted former television singer, Elissa Altman has managed to build a very different life, settling in Connecticut with her wife of nearly twenty years. After much time, therapy, and wine, Elissa is at last in a healthy place, still orbiting around her mother but keeping far enough away to preserve the stable, independent world she has built as a writer and editor. Then Elissa is confronted with the unthinkable: Rita, whose days are spent as a flâneur, traversing Manhattan from the Clinique counters at Bergdorf to Bloomingdale’s and back again, suffers an incapacitating fall, leaving her completely dependent upon her daughter. Now Elissa is forced to finally confront their profound differences, Rita’s yearning for beauty and glamour, her view of the world through her days in the spotlight, and the money that has mysteriously disappeared in the name of preserving youth. To sustain their fragile mother-daughter bond, Elissa must navigate the turbulent waters of their shared lives, the practical challenges of caregiving for someone who refuses to accept it, the tentacles of narcissism, and the mutual, frenetic obsession that has defined their relationship. Motherland is a story that touches every home and every life, mapping the ferocity of maternal love, moral obligation, the choices women make about motherhood, and the possibility of healing. Filled with tenderness, wry irreverence, and unforgettable characters, it is an exploration of what it means to escape from the shackles of the past only to have to face them all over again. Praise for Motherland “Rarely has a mother-daughter relationship been excavated with such honesty. Elissa Altman is a beautiful, big-hearted writer who mines her most central subject: her gorgeous, tempestuous, difficult mother, and the terrain of their shared life. The result is a testament to the power of love and family.”—Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance
Download or read book Return to the Motherland written by Ken Kookjoo Choi and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Fallen Citadel and Other Poems written by Imali J. Abala and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fallen Citadel and Other Poems is a powerful collection of over forty prose poems. The poems cover an array of issues ranging from the crisis that ensued after the 2007-2008 elections in Kenya to other social issues: loss of identity, poverty, hopelessness, and AIDs. These poems are powerful, vivid, full of imagery, and delightful. Some begin tragically, but end with hope; they begin with an everyday event, but end with a philosophical question about the meaning of life; and others are not only disturbing, but also thought provoking. Abala's poetic maneuvers in this collection are bound to delight and fascinate any reader.
Download or read book Children of the Motherland written by Annie Besant and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Song of my country written by Samuel Onyeche and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About The Book Song of my Country is a detailed poetry anthology that mirrors the political, social cum economic state of the Nigeria nation and the Niger Delta region. It exposes the anomalies in the country— the degree of impoverishment, hunger, exploitation, pollution, joblessness, inflation and untimely death ravishing the poor masses, who can no longer afford the basic needs of life. This anthology is a revolutionary book birthed by pain and patriotism. It begins with a poem titled "Wolves as Shepherds" with regards to the corrupt politicians, cabals and electoral officers who loot the country's treasure, impoverish the people and incessantly deny them their choice of leaders through various forms of electoral malpractices About The Author SAMUEL ONYECHE is an African writer, from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, who has won quite a number of awards such as: "Most Creative" 2020 NYSC Theatre Troupe Sokoto State Nigeria, Second runner-up Prof. Kontein Trinya Poetry Prize 2016, Poet of the Day Award from Global Poetic Pen, Certificate of Excellence from the department of English and Literary Studies Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. amongst others. Onyeche is one of the emerging voices in contemporary Africa poetry, and has featured in several international anthologies. He is the author of Ijikrika; Canticles From Africa, On the Wings of a Butterfly, A Casserole of Kisses (co-authored), Parasites in Paradise, Echoes of Kettledrums ( co-authored), The Letter; an epistolary poetry, The Muse of Love ( co-authored) and many others .He holds a Bachelor of Education Degree (B.ED) in English and Literary Studies and a Masters of Arts Degree (M.A) in literature.
Download or read book A Cup of Water Under My Bed written by Daisy Hernández and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The PEN Literary Award–winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street). In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about envidia and men who seduce you with pastries, while one tía bemoans that her niece is turning out to be “una india” instead of an American. Another auntie instructs that when two people are close, they are bound to become like uña y mugre, fingernails and dirt, and that no, Daisy’s father is not godless. He’s simply praying to a candy dish that can be traced back to Africa. These lessons—rooted in women’s experiences of migration, colonization, y cariño—define in evocative detail what it means to grow up female in an immigrant home. In one story, Daisy sets out to defy the dictates of race and class that preoccupy her mother and tías, but dating women and transmen, and coming to identify as bisexual, leads her to unexpected questions. In another piece, NAFTA shuts local factories in her hometown on the outskirts of New York City, and she begins translating unemployment forms for her parents, moving between English and Spanish, as well as private and collective fears. In prose that is both memoir and commentary, Daisy reflects on reporting for the New York Times as the paper is rocked by the biggest plagiarism scandal in its history and plunged into debates about the role of race in the newsroom. A heartfelt exploration of family, identity, and language, A Cup of Water Under My Bed is ultimately a daughter’s story of finding herself and her community, and of creating a new, queer life.
