Xlibris aug 2006 (6 Ergebnisse)
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Just A Little Country Boy is a story of the trials in the life of a young black boy born during the late Depression years in Arkansas. In 1940, when segregation was at its worst in the South, his father moved the family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in search of a better life. An industrial revolution was… taking place throughout the North at the time, offering better employment opportunities for the black man. Therefore the Black Migration began with black families leaving the servile attitudes of the South with the dreams of a better life. LeRoy Allen was blessed with good, hard-working parents who taught him to take pride in himself, to work hard, use good manners, and to respect all people. As a teenager, he took an interest in, and competed in almost all sports, but his big interest was boxing. He became Wisconsin's State Golden Gloves champion for 3 different years. Later, he spent a few years as a professional boxer, meeting and sparring with many well-known boxers of that era. As a young adult, he became more aware of the prejudices and inequities surrounding the black man. Most of his adult years were spent moving from job to job, trying to improve his circumstances, while searching for decent employment to support his growing family. After experiencing nearly 50 different jobs, he succeeded in being hired into a position for which he was trained and well qualified. He was well into middle age before the job market began to hire women or blacks into responsible positions. Mr. Allen records many of the changes in the attitudes towards blacks in Milwaukee, and across the nation, as they occured during the last half of the 20th century. It is a story of faith, determination, and fortitude and a real insight into our nation's awakening to the talents of our black citizens and our growing respect for their contributions to our society.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A creative life is not just for those fictional few who are 'touched by the hand of God.' We are all touched by the hand of God and all infinitely creative. The universe is one of continual creation and therefore we too are continually creating. The form of our creativity is not as important as the…loving essence within a given form, because that love is the foundation of our creative expression itself, eternal and indestructible.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Crank's was a restaurant in Copenhagen in the 1980s, which catered to a clientele seeking a different sort of meal, amiable contact, and infusions of unnamed herbs. Those entering the door under the 'Crank's' sign received a dynamic that offered but did not impose eccentricity.The pieces in Crank we…re written over a 30-year period, and call on the experiences of 40. The 'fiction' and 'non-fiction' in its mix retain no more purity than they do, say, in Mann or Conrad or the U.S. News.Crank takes up the case of those who violated the trust of the Generation of 1968, and offers gratitude for the ones who lived and thought otherwise, the eccentrics and unwitting monks who could assist society by differing from it. The society needed the latter, and does still. The fools who would have destroyed us never managed to do so.Chronicling the 1970s, 80s, 90s.the narrative follows the wear and tear of travel, the classroom, the concert hall, the embassy, and a dusty neighborhood in Brazzaville, Congo. 'Reality' is story. It all happened but the story and its telling were what mattered. The point was not to photograph the incidents, but carry them into the heart where they could be preserved, and address the randomness of strong sensations.The settings - Copenhagen, St. Petersburg, Conakry, Brookline, Port-au-Prince among others - gave the props, not the essence of the experiences. Like strophic patterns of the French chanson, they stood the logic upright and sustained the narrative, never diving for the observer's heart but gaining it by inadvertence. The foreign postings brought wonderment, fresh news, conspiracy, javelins into the unsuspecting heart, then succeeded one another like lovers decamping before dawn.Daniel Whitman holds a PhD in French, from Brown University. He taught at Thayer Academy in Braintree, Massachusetts, and was a Fulbright lecturer at Marien Ngouabi University in Brazzaville. With the State Department he has worked with media and cultural exchange, and lived in Denmark, Spain, South Africa, Haiti, and Cameroon. In Washington he has served in the African and European Bureaus, and with the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. In 2005 he assisted in the creation of the Society for the Development of Media in Africa, in Douala, Cameroon.His forty articles range in topic from current affairs, African Studies, travel profiles of Europe, and cultural leaders on three continents. They have appeared in Musicus, Parabola, The New York Times, The Foreign Service Journal, Ba Shiru, The Strad, and Research in African Literatures, among other publications.His books are Kaidara, a presentation and study of a 1000-year-old African folk epic; Madrid Inside Out, a guide to residence for foreigners in Spain; One Step Up, a manual for buyers of stringed instruments; and A Haiti Chronicle, the Undoing of a Latent Democracy 1999-2001.Whitman plays viola in amateur music groups in Washington, DC.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Our Relatives -The Persecuted,' addresses some factors which encouraged the German migration toRussia in the early nineteenth century. However, it primary focuses on some historical background of twentieth century Russia and the tyranny that existed during that era. Compelling revelations are made…of the egregious injustice inflicted by the travesty of a corrupt judicial system. The names of 4700 Ethnic Germans who were arrested in the Odessa jurisdiction and individual arrest records for many of the authors relatives who had the misfortunate of living in Russia during the 1930s and 1940s are included in the book. The documentation for the book was retrieved from authenticated KGB records of the Odessa region Department which currently are retained in the archives of the Ukrainian Security Service Administration for the Odessa region (USBU).
