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Author : Michigan International Year of the Family Council
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Celebrate the Families of Michigan written by Michigan International Year of the Family Council and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colby Cedar Smith
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1524873977
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Call Me Athena written by Colby Cedar Smith and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enchanting novel in verse captures one young woman’s struggle for independence, equality, and identity as the daughter of Greek and French immigrants in tumultuous 1930s Detroit. Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith’s paternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as the American-born daughter of Greek and French immigrants living in Detroit in the 1930s, creating a historically accurate portrayal of life as an immigrant during the Great Depression, hunger strikes, and violent riots. Mary lives in a tiny apartment with her immigrant parents, her brothers, and her twin sister, and she questions why her parents ever came to America. She yearns for true love, to own her own business, and to be an independent, modern American woman—much to the chagrin of her parents, who want her to be a “good Greek girl.” Mary’s story is peppered with flashbacks to her parents’ childhoods in Greece and northern France; their stories connect with Mary as they address issues of arranged marriage, learning about independence, and yearning to grow beyond one’s own culture. Though Call Me Athena is written from the perspective of three profoundly different narrators, it has a wide-reaching message: It takes courage to fight for tradition and heritage, as well as freedom, love, and equality.
Author : Dwight Lang
Publisher : Michigan Publishing Services
ISBN 13 : 9781607854333
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (543 download)
Download or read book Social Class Voices written by Dwight Lang and published by Michigan Publishing Services. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Social Class Voices, forty-five University of Michigan undergraduate students and recent alumni explore the significance of social class in early 21st century America. They openly and honestly show how social class has shaped their lives, their changing identities, and conditions in their home communities. These writers - born to the working poor, working, middle, upper-middle, and upper classes - examine the effects of social class on their families, their kindergarten through high school experiences, as well as their undergraduate years at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Using "sociological creative non-fiction" essays, they invite readers to engage, interpret, and imagine the power of social class in a society where economic differences are often overlooked. In exploring their pasts and personal experiences, they write powerful accounts of American college student life. We hear about the insecurities and challenges of growing up in poverty, increasing tensions of being born to the working and middle classes, and comforting certainties of upper-middle and upper class lives. In their stories we see connections between the personal and the social - a key sociological insight. These writers explore social class heritages at a time when more and more Americans are recognizing economic inequality as a core structural problem facing millions, independent of individual effort and talent. They shed light on what is too often denied both on and off college campuses: social class. By their very nature these types of explorations are political. In America, where economic differences frequently go unnoticed when discussing inequality, openly writing about one's personal class experiences can be controversial. These University of Michigan students and alumni have the courage to make public how social class structures American life.
Author : Michigan State Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Genealogy and American Local History in the Michigan State Library written by Michigan State Library and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Semion
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 076275804X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Fun with the Family Michigan written by Bill Semion and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's the inside scoop on all the family-friendly fun to be had in the Wolverine State—places, events, and treats as varied as the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Munising, the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in Novi, Mackinac Island's world-famous fudge, and a 600-ton steam locomotive at the Henry Ford Museum.
Author : John U. Bacon
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062886967
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Overtime written by John U. Bacon and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the “poet laureate of Michigan football," a riveting inside chronicle of the Jim Harbaugh era, and "an unprecedented look at the inner workings" (Sporting News) of a big-time college football program John U. Bacon received rare access to Head Coach Jim Harbaugh’s University of Michigan football team: coaches, players, and staffers, in closed-door meetings, locker rooms, meals, and classes. Overtime captures this storied program at the crossroads, as the sport’s winningest team battles to reclaim its former glory. But what if the price of success today comes at the cost of your soul? Do you pay it, or compete without compromising? In the spirit of HBO’s Hardknocks, Overtime delivers a deeply reported human portrait that follows the Wolverine coaches, players, and staffers. Above all, thisis a human story. In Overtime we not only discover what these public figures are like behind the scenes, we learn what the experience means to them as they go through it – the trials, the triumphs, and the unexpected answers to a central question: Is it worth it? From the “poet laureate of Michigan football” (according to New York Times’s Joe Drape), and one of the keenest observers of college football, Overtime offers a window into a legendary program and the sport itself that only John U. Bacon could deliver.
Author : Marsha MacDowell
Publisher : Msu Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Michigan Quilts written by Marsha MacDowell and published by Msu Museum. This book was released on 1987 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michigan Quilts celebrates the 150th year of Michigan's statehood by focusing attention on quilt making, quilts, and quilters. Quilts have always represented prized family possessions, important family and community documents, and the strength and breadth of quilting as an art activity in the state.
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Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Centennial Farm Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helen F. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560121763
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Southeastern Michigan Pioneer Families written by Helen F. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russell M. Magnaghi
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Italians in Michigan written by Russell M. Magnaghi and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2001-09-30 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 350 years, Italian immigrants have played important roles in the opening and development of the land that is now Michigan, from their participation in the French fur trade up to the present day. Through an emphasis on the family as the essential institution in ethnic group success, Russell M. Magnaghi celebrates the accomplishments of Michigan's famous and not-so-famous Italian sons and daughters as he documents their struggles and achievements. Through the tenacity and hard work of the immigrants and their descendants, Italians in Michigan have progressed from unskilled laborers to some of the highest positions in business, politics, culture, and education.
Author : Phyllis Michael Wong
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628954523
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book We Kept Our Towns Going written by Phyllis Michael Wong and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH A FOREWORD BY LISA M. FINE, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY—Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is known for its natural beauty and severe winters, as well as the mines and forests where men labored to feed industrial factories elsewhere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But there were factories in the Upper Peninsula, too, and women who worked in them. Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the Gossard Girls, women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ishpeming and Gwinn from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. As the Upper Peninsula’s mines became increasingly exhausted and its stands of timber further depleted, the Gossard Girls’ income sustained both their families and the local economy. During this time the workers showed their political and economic strength, including a successful four-month strike in the 1940s that capped an eight-year struggle to unionize. Drawing on dozens of interviews with the surviving workers and their families, this book highlights the daily challenges and joys of these mostly first- and second-generation immigrant women. It also illuminates the way the Gossard Girls navigated shifting ideas of what single and married women could and should do as workers and citizens. From cutting cloth and distributing materials to getting paid and having fun, Wong gives us a rare ground-level view of piecework in a clothing factory from the women on the sewing room floor.
Author : Family Business Alliance
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781543920451
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Words of Wisdom written by Family Business Alliance and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words of Wisdom is a nearly 100-page collection of West Michigan family business stories.This beautifully designed coffee table book features inspirational quotes from FBA members, lists that will make you laugh out loud, great photography, and in-depth interviews with a handful of our local family business leaders including: - John Mulder, 3rd Generation, Master Finish Co.- Anna Link, 4th Generation, SwissLane Dairy- Bill Muir, 4th Generation, Grand Rapids Label- Jeff Koeze, 4th Generation, Koeze Company- Brien Fox, 3rd Generation, Henry A. Fox Sales- Jack and Brenda Vander Meulen, 3rd Generation, Vander Meulen Builders- Ben Manthei, 2nd Generation, Redi-RockWords of Wisdom is a delightful mix of humor and heartwarming stories of legacy and family values. It's a wonderful reflection of the strong family business community that makes West Michigan so remarkable
Author : Daniel Lassell
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628954299
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Spit written by Daniel Lassell and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever poetry book set on a llama farm, Daniel Lassell’s debut collection, Spit, examines the roles we play in the act of belonging. It is a portrait of a boy living on a farm populated with chickens sung to sleep by lullaby, captive wolves next door that attack a child, and a herd of llamas learning to survive despite coyotes and a chaotic family. The collection in part explores the role of the body in health and illness and one’s treatment of the earth and others. A theme of spirituality also weaves throughout the collection as the speaker treks into adulthood, yearning for peace amid the decline of his parents’ marriage. Driven by a “wish to visit / some landless landscape,” the speaker eventually leaves his family’s farm, only to find that return is impossible. After losing the farm and the llama herd to his parents’ divorce, the speaker wrestles with the role of presence as it relates to healing, remarking, “I wish enough, / to have only // these memories I have.” Unflinching at every turn, the collection pushes the boundaries of “home” to arrive upon new meaning, definition, and purpose.
Download or read book Michigan Farms and Farm Families written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Traci Smith
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 0827211236
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Faithful Families written by Traci Smith and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and expanded version of Seamless Faith, now with more than a dozen new spiritual practices and additional resources for parents, kids, grandparents, and communities that care about families! Add family faith moments to your daily routine with little or no prep, and share meaningful spiritual experiences with your children! Traci Smith, a pastor and mother of three, offers ways to discover and develop new spiritual practices as a family, whether you're a new seeker or a lifelong follower. Faithful Families is brimming with easy, do-it-yourself ideas for transforming your family's everyday moments into sacred moments! Faithful Families helps you: connect faith to your family's everyday life; add family faith moments into your daily routine; learn new spiritual practices alongside your children; teach your children to appreciate religious diversity with time-tested non-Christian and Christian spiritual practices; respond to life's everyday challenges and opportunities with meaningful practices Faithful Families is the perfect gift for Parents, Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles; Baptisms; Baby Showers; New Families; Christian educators and those they serve; Preschool Classes; and Godparents Faithful Families is part of The Young Clergy Women Project
Author : Rosalie Riegle Troester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Historic Women of Michigan written by Rosalie Riegle Troester and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rebecca J. Mead
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1609173236
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Swedes in Michigan written by Rebecca J. Mead and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, large numbers of Swedish immigrants came to Michigan seeking new opportunities in the United States and relief from economic, religious, or political problems at home. In addition to establishing early farming communities, Swedish immigrants worked on railroad construction, mining, fishing, logging, and urban manufacturing. As a result, Swedish Americans made significant contributions to the economic and cultural landscape of Michigan, a history this book explores in engaging and illustrative depth. Swedes in Michigan traces the evolution of hard-working people who valued education and assimilated actively while simultaneously maintaining their cultural ties and institutions. Moving from past to present, the book examines community patterns, family connections, social organizations, exchange programs, ethnic celebrations, and business and technical achievements that have helped Swedes in Michigan maintain a sense of their heritage even as they have adapted to American life.
