Download or read book Village Life in the Forties written by Arcadius and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When author Shelton A. Gunaratne was born in January of 1940 in Pathegama, Sri Lanka, life was simple for the poor people in this sparsely populated village. But it was this village that raised him. Through twenty-six biographical sketches of some of the villages most colorful characters, Gunaratne paints a portrait of what life was like in this rural setting. This collection of sketches, first published in the Ceylon Daily NewsMyna, the new village head-man; Vel Vidane, an unctuous official and the irrigation headman; cowards Wala Semba and Naamba; Singappuru Basunnehe, the goldsmith; Kankanama, the cinnamon peeler; Kalu Appu, the fierce burglar; Redi Nenda, the humble washerwoman; Menike Nenda, a village beauty; and Kunu Nachchile, the witchlike animal lover. Demonstrating the Buddhist/Daoist principle that unity and diversity are inextricably interconnected, Village Life in the Forties provides not only a social history, but also a greater global under-standing of the life and times of rural Ceylonese during and around World War II.
Download or read book From Village Boy to Global Citizen Volume 1 The Life Journey of a Journalist written by SHELTON A. GUNARATNE and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Village Boy to Global Citizen (Volume 1): The Journey of a Journalist is the first of an autobiographical trilogy that tells the story of a rustic lad born and raised in the southern tip of the British colony of Ceylon (now independent Sri Lanka) but left his country at the age of 26 on a geographical “conquest” of the world that turned him metaphorically into a global citizen. Starting his professional career as a journalist for the Daily News, Ceylon’s premier English-language daily, he became a journalism teacher at the age of 32, when he received a doctorate in mass communication. However, he continued practicing journalism as a free-lancer throughout his teaching career in Malaysia, Australia and the United States. Volume 1 unfolds the transition of the author’s life from a village kid to a global journalist and educator. It dramatizes the obstacles he had to overcome, as well as the support he received from his benefactors, in the transition.
Download or read book Christmas Around the Village Green written by Dot May Dunn and published by Orion. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dot May Dunn grew up in Derbyshire, the daughter of a miner, during the wartime years. In 1951 she joined the NHS as an early recruit and went on to train as a nurse. Dot's books are full of wonderful anecdotal insight into the life that she has experienced, written with warmth, humour and vivid accounts of her surroundings - from deprivation, health problems and poverty, to personal determination, the surprises faced by midwives and the social history of the pre- and post-war years. Dot draws upon her wealth of experience and shares her life with her readers, provoking both laughter and tears along the way. Centred on Christmas during war-time, this book will focus on community spirit and the sense of coming together and suporting each other, which Dunn captures so well.
Download or read book Village Life in the Forties written by Arcadius (Shelton A. Gunaratne) and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When author Shelton A. Gunaratne was born in January of 1940 in Pathegama, Sri Lanka, life was simple for the poor people in this sparsely populated village. But it was this village that raised him. Through twenty-six biographical sketches of some of the village's most colorful characters, Gunaratne paints a portrait of what life was like in this rural setting. This collection of sketches, first published in the Ceylon Daily News from June of 1966 to April of 1967, narrates the real-life stories of the people who made Pathegama what it was in the mid-twentieth century. It includes sketches of Myna, the new village head-man; Vel Vidane, an unctuous official and the irrigation headman; cowards Wala Semba and Naamba; Singappuru Basunnehe, the goldsmith; Kankanama, the cinnamon peeler; Kalu Appu, the fierce burglar; Redi Nenda, the humble washerwoman; Menike Nenda, a village beauty; and Kunu Nachchile, the witchlike animal lover. Demonstrating the Buddhist/Daoist principle that unity and diversity are inextricably interconnected, Village Life in the Forties provides not only a social history, but also a greater global understanding of the life and times of rural Ceylonese during and around World War II."--Jacket page 2.
Download or read book Old Village Life written by Peter Hampson Ditchfield and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Revolt from the Village 1915 1930 written by Anthony Channell Hilfer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This incisive book traces the attack on American provincialism that ended the myth of the Happy Village. Replacing the idyllic life as a theme, American writers in revolt turned to a more realistic interpretation of the town, stressing its repressiveness, dullness, and conformity. This book analyzes the literary technique employed by these writers and explores their sensibilities to evaluate both their artistic accomplishments and their contributions to American thought and feeling. Originally published 1969. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Download or read book The Journal of the Society of Estate Clerks of Works written by Society of Estate Clerks of Works, London and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boyhood Memories of Village Life and Its People in Nineteen Forties Great Stukeley written by John Lovell and published by Bright Pen. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Lovell shows a rare insight into everyday life when growing up in a Cambridgeshire village during and immediately after World War II Village life has changed somewhat since the time of these memories. In those days everyone knew everyone in the village and probably all their business as well, but there were no locked doors and help was always at hand.
Download or read book A Decade in the Village written by Mahinda Jayaweera and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical fiction on decade of youth spent by the author as a school teacher in Parakgama Village, Sri Lanka.
Download or read book Our Lincolnshire Exploring public engagement with heritage written by Carenza Lewis and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the aims, methods and outcomes of an innovative wide-ranging exploration of public attitudes to heritage, conducted in 2015-16 across Lincolnshire, England’s second-largest county. As policy and practice evolve, this research will remain valuable as a snapshot in time of public engagement with heritage.
Download or read book Rural Life written by Charles Josiah Galpin and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to instigate observation of local conditions, study of the community, and confident, self-reliant action among and for country people. Rural life has changed markedly, and will continue to do so. On farms and in farming towns, human forces are striving for expression, and human society needs active, energetic participation to change successfully. Country dwellers are no longer isolated from their urban fellows, and as such can contribute much to solving the current problems of rural life.
Download or read book The American Stationer written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories from the Village written by Harold P. Kurtz and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the Village stories from Harold P. Kurtz are compiled in one volume (along with four brand new stories, never before published), showing the full breadth and scope of Kurtz's Village life. Set in the Late 1940s-1950s, Stories from the Village is the delightful recounting of small-town life for a pastor's kid and his family. The stories are heartful, wonderful pictures of village life in America after World War II. Reminiscent of Hartzell Spence through Garrison Keillor, readers will truly enjoy their journey to the Village, from the Christmas adventures of Hardly a Silent Night, through the next year in Ring the Bell and Count the People, as well as the last adventures in The Missing Library Books. Kurtz's storytelling goes quickly, yet invites the reader to a lengthy stay.
Download or read book A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales written by Jonathan Nield and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vertiginous Life written by Daniel M. Knight and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-09-11 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vertiginous Life provides a theory of the intense temporal disorientation brought about by life in crisis. In the whirlpool of unforeseen social change, people experience confusion as to where and when they belong on timelines of previously unquestioned pasts and futures. Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday affects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal promises of accumulation, defeated futures, and the existential dilemmas of life held captive in the uncanny elsewhen.
Download or read book Growing Up in the 40s written by Jerry Twedt and published by . This book was released on with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Village Song Culture written by Michael Pickering and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1982. The songs on which this study is based were once vibrant in the throats and ears and minds of living people. This book examines the songs and their meanings in relation to the lives of those people, and relates them to the cultural tradition and practice of which they were an integral part. The art of village song represents a sense of cohesiveness and mutual identity around local patterns of kinship, social groupings, territorial orientations and cultural relationships. The actual ways in which songs were part of village life is of course highly problematic, but this book endeavours, most of all, to present an understanding of the place of song in the social life of villagers.
