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CONFLICTED DESTINY

Author : Pete Amadi
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460224280
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book CONFLICTED DESTINY written by Pete Amadi and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1971 in the Igbo region of Nigeria, Pete Amadi left his impoverish family at the age of 17 after graduating from high school and after enduring a very thorny relationship with his Uncle to search for greener pasture. He traveled throughout West Africa, passing through some insurmountable and most difficult experiences every step of the way. He eventually ended up in Europe in 1992. Europe presented another unique set of challenges to him; hence his chaotic life continued there. In 1994 he gained admission to Abraham Balding College Tifton Georgia, USA and eventually migrated to America in December 1994. He later enlisted in the United Sated Marine Corps in 1996. After graduating from California State University in 2000, and receiving a promotion to rank of sergeant, he applied and was accepted to attend the Marine Corps officer candidate school. He was commissioned 2nd Lt on August 2001. He went on to command troops and served many tours of duty in more than four continents including a combat tour in Iraq. He also served as a military observer with the United Nations both in Liberia and Haiti. He is currently a Major in the United States Marine Corps (RES).

Destiny Calls

Author : Samantha Wayland
Publisher : Loch Awe Press
ISBN 13 : 1940839181
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Destiny Calls written by Samantha Wayland and published by Loch Awe Press. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best friends might make the best lovers, but can it last? Patrick didn’t think it would be a big deal to kiss his best friend Brandon. Hell, they’d done crazier things to avoid a bar fight. But getting punched in the face would have been less shocking than how hot kissing Brandon is, and how much he wants to do it again. Patrick, after all, is straight. Or, at least, he thought so. Destiny has never been afraid to ask for what she wants, and when she sees Patrick and Brandon together, she knows exactly what that is. She’s not interested in a commitment, but what could be more fun than exploring this with her best friends? Brandon is a fool. He’s been in love with his best friends for as long as he can remember, and he knows a terrible idea when sees one, but he can’t resist. To complicate matters even further, he and Patrick are both cops, and are embroiled in an investigation that puts them, and Destiny, in an unknown enemy’s sights. Now, the three friends have to fight for their lives—and their hearts.

Conflicted Destiny

Author : Pete Amadi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781460224267
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book Conflicted Destiny written by Pete Amadi and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author's ancestral home of Owerri Nkworji Town in the eastern region of Nigeria to JFK Airport in New York City, Conflicted Destiny is a profoundly visceral and spiritual memoir of one man's unrelenting focus to transcend his circumstances to fulfill the destiny that is written on his heart. Driven by an insatiable ambition and an unquenchable fire in his spirit, Pete Amadi eloquently and tirelessly describes details of his life from birth to young adulthood. While facing chaos, poverty, and abuse in a country known for its diversity and tension, Mr. Amadi is forced to summon the fullness of his own intellectual, spiritual, and emotional resources to cope with complicated and tangled cultural traditions. Despite all the obstacles in his path, it was his vision and inspiration for a greater life that caused him to remain steadfast and strong in completely unacceptable situations-and it was this vision and inspiration that ultimately delivered him to the shores of the United States of America.

Conflicts and Confusions

Author : Swamini Vimalananda
Publisher : Central Chinmaya Mission Trust
ISBN 13 : 8175975407
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Conflicts and Confusions written by Swamini Vimalananda and published by Central Chinmaya Mission Trust. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents Caste System untouchables Dowry System Arranged Marriage System One God, Many Gods? Idol Worship Many Scriptures, Many Ways, Many Masters Life, Death and Rebirth Heaven and Hell Destiny and Self Effort.

Destiny's Conflict

Author : Janny Wurts
Publisher : Voyager
ISBN 13 : 9780008230029
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Destiny's Conflict written by Janny Wurts and published by Voyager. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited second book of the fourth story arc - Sword of the Canon - in the epic fantasy series, the Wars of Light and Shadow. Sweeping defeat True Sect warhost resets the stage of an epic conflict: Divine avatar, Lysaer's unstable integrity lies under threat of total downfall, and as his determined protector, Daliana will face the most frightening decision of her young life. Master of Shadow, marked for death and still hunted, Arithon's critical quest to recover his obscured past entangles him in a web of deep intrigue and ancient perils beyond his imagining. Condemned initiate of the Koriathain, Elaira's urgent pursuit of the Biedar Tribes' secret embroils her in the terrible directive of the Fellowship Sorcerers, while Dakar the Mad Prophet confronts the hard reckoning for his misspent past, and Tarens is steered by a destiny far from his crofter's origins. The penultimate volume of the Wars of Light and Shadows will touch the grand depths of Athera's endowment, and deliver the thrilling finale of arc IV, the Sword of the Canon. War, blood, magic, mystery - and the most hidden powers of all will stand or fall on their hour of unveiling.

Impacts of Violent Conflicts on Resource Control and Sustainability

Author : Nyam, Esther Akumbo
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522559884
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Impacts of Violent Conflicts on Resource Control and Sustainability written by Nyam, Esther Akumbo and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of violent conflicts in developing countries in recent years has attracted concerns from scholars from all fields of study. The significance of the issue calls for an expansion of current research on the various dimensions of violent conflicts and how they impact resource control and sustainability. Impacts of Violent Conflicts on Resource Control and Sustainability provides innovative insights into the dimensions and ramifications of violent conflicts, how they are managed, and how resolution efforts contribute to resource control and sustainability. The content within this publication includes information on media coverage of conflict, religious ideology conflict, and global development. This book is a vital reference source for academicians, researchers, policy makers, government functionaries, and individuals seeking current research on the cause and management of violent conflicts.

Understanding U.S. Military Conflicts through Primary Sources [4 volumes]

Author : James R. Arnold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2024 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Understanding U.S. Military Conflicts through Primary Sources [4 volumes] written by James R. Arnold and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 2024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easily accessible resource that showcases the links between using documented primary sources and gaining a more nuanced understanding of military history. Primary source analysis is a valuable tool that teaches students how historians utilize documents and interpret evidence from the past. This four-volume reference traces key decisions in U.S. military history—from the Revolutionary War through the 21st-century conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq—by examining documents relating to military strategy and national policy judgments by U.S. military and political leaders. A comprehensive introductory essay provides readers with the context necessary to understand the relationship between diplomatic documents, military correspondence, and other documentation related to events that shaped warfare, diplomacy, and military strategy. Once the stage is set, the work covers 14 conflicts that are significant to U.S. history. Treatment of each of the conflicts begins with a historical overview followed by a chronology and approximately 30 primary source documents presented in chronological order. Each document is accompanied by a description and annotations and by an analysis that highlights its importance to the event or topic under discussion. Designed for secondary school and college students, the work will be exceptionally valuable to teachers who will appreciate the ready-made lessons that fit directly into core curriculum standards.

Conflicts and Conciliations

Author : Geoffrey Ribbans
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557531087
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Conflicts and Conciliations written by Geoffrey Ribbans and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1881 and 1897, Benito P rez Gald s, generally acknowledged as Spain's greatest nineteenth-century novelist, composed some twenty "contemporary" novels, which Geoffrey Ribbans characterizes as the peak of his achievement. This monumental study traces the evolution of the many strands that make up one of them: the long and complex novel Fortunata y Jacinta. Ribbans examines the various stages of composition, not only the earlier, reconstructed Alpha version but also subsequent revisions in the much corrected handwritten text and in the printer's galleys. He treats these tentative drafts as part of the process of reaching out toward the coherent definitive text. Ribbans's analysis of such devices as the ambiguous role of the narrator, the use of free indirect style and direct dialogue, and the construction of distinctive ideolects leads to the heart of his study, the development of Gald s's characters.

Stray Shifter

Author : Aimee Easterling
Publisher : Wetknee Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stray Shifter written by Aimee Easterling and published by Wetknee Books. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pack can follow only one alpha. Too bad ours has two. Luke and I spent eight months gradually turning leadership over to his sister. But in the midst of an attack on the compound, she stumbles. He steps in. That's when the whispers start. Now, half of our pack members look to Luke rather than his sister for leadership. A major problem when power-hungry neighbors will be dropping by in a very short while. We have two days left to root out the problem. Two days left to prove to our neighbors that attacking us is a death sentence. Two days left to figure out whether I can act like a pack wolf and obey bad orders when push comes to shove. Don't miss the exciting finale of the Moon-Crossed Wolves Trilogy!

Shared Land/Conflicting Identity

Author : Robert C. Rowland
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0870139495
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Shared Land/Conflicting Identity written by Robert C. Rowland and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use argues that rhetoric, ideology, and myth have played key roles in influencing the development of the 100-year conflict between first the Zionist settlers and the current Israeli people and the Palestinian residents in what is now Israel. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is usually treated as an issue of land and water. While these elements are the core of the conflict, they are heavily influenced by the symbols used by both peoples to describe, understand, and persuade each other. The authors argue that symbolic practices deeply influenced the Oslo Accords, and that the breakthrough in the peace process that led to Oslo could not have occurred without a breakthrough in communication styles. Rowland and Frank develop four crucial ideas on social development: the roles of rhetoric, ideology, and myth; the influence of symbolic factors; specific symbolic factors that played a key role in peace negotiations; and the identification and value of criteria for evaluating symbolic practices in any society.

No Man's Land

Author : Sandra M. Gilbert
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300066609
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book No Man's Land written by Sandra M. Gilbert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-21 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do writers and their readers imagine the future in a turbulent time of sex war and sex change? And how have transformations of gender and genre affected literary representations of "woman," "man," "family," and "society"? This final volume in Gilbert and Gubar's landmark three-part No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century argues that throughout the twentieth century women of letters have found themselves on a confusing cultural front and that most, increasingly aware of the artifice of gender, have dispatched missives recording some form of the "future shock" associated with profound changes in the roles and rules governing sexuality. Divided into two parts, Letters from the Front is chronological in organization, with the first section focusing on such writers of the modernist period as Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, and H.D., and the second devoted to authors who came to prominence after the Second World War, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, and A.S. Byatt. Embroiled in the sex antagonism that Gilbert and Gubar traced in The War of the Words and in the sexual experimentations that they studied in Sexchanges, all these artists struggled to envision the inscription of hitherto untold stories on what H.D. called "the blank pages/of the unwritten volume of the new." Through the works of the first group, Gilbert and Gubar focus in particular on the demise of any single normative definition of the feminine and the rise of masquerades of "femininity" amounting to "female female impersonation." In the writings of the second group, the critics pay special attention to proliferating revisions of the family romance--revisions significantly inflected by differences in race, class, and ethnicity--and to the rise of masquerades of masculinity, or "male male impersonation." Throughout, Gilbert and Gubar discuss the impact on literature of such crucial historical events as the Harlem Renaissance, the Second World War, and the "sexual revolution" of the sixties. What kind of future might such a past engender? Their book concludes with a fantasia on "The Further Adventures of Snow White" in which their bravura retellings of the Grimm fairy tale illustrate ways in which future writing about gender might develop.

Conflicts of Interest

Author : MarÕa Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611920994
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Conflicts of Interest written by MarÕa Amparo Ruiz de Burton and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, the recently discovered nineteenth-century novelist, broke many of the boundaries that circumscribed the life of both women and Hispanics in the southwestern territories of the United States. Not only was she the first Hispanic novelist to write English, but her courage and resolve took her into the circles of governmental and financial power where very few women had tread before. Conflicts of Interest captures the conflicted personality of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, a woman pulled in different directions by tensions of class, race, gender, and nationality. The trajectory of Ruiz de Burtons life through her correspondence makes for a compelling and revealing narrative, one that brings to life the evolution of discourse and culture in the Southwest as it was becoming integrated in the United States a process which, some might argue, continues today. This volume is as complete a collection of the Ruiz de Burton letters as is possible, given the imperfect historical record. Included are various personal and business documents and a collection of articles about her family. Among her correspondents were such important historical figures as Samuel L. M. Barlow, E. W. Morse, Prudenciana Moreno, and Platón Vallejo. But this album is not a simple collection of letters and documents; rather, researchers Sánchez and Pita have made great efforts to reconstitute Ruiz de Burtons life and times through their analysis and commentary.

The Revenge of Geography

Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812982223
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Revenge of Geography written by Robert D. Kaplan and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “ambitious and challenging” (The New York Review of Books) work, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts offers a revelatory prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world’s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe’s pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland. Kaplan then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties: China, able to feed only 23 percent of its people from land that is only 7 percent arable, has sought energy, minerals, and metals from such brutal regimes as Burma, Iran, and Zimbabwe, putting it in moral conflict with the United States. Afghanistan’s porous borders will keep it the principal invasion route into India, and a vital rear base for Pakistan, India’s main enemy. Iran will exploit the advantage of being the only country that straddles both energy-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Finally, Kaplan posits that the United States might rue engaging in far-flung conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan rather than tending to its direct neighbor Mexico, which is on the verge of becoming a semifailed state due to drug cartel carnage. A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century’s looming cataclysms.

Amadi Oha

Author : Pete J. Amadi
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525543008
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Amadi Oha written by Pete J. Amadi and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever wonder why natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, and other violent acts persist in the Western world? Amadi Oha knows why! According to Amadi Oha, the African God of Thunder, these calamities on the West are retribution for the wrong-doings cast on Africa during the slave trade. And the gods are still angry. Through African folktales and mythology, and the magic of dreams, Amadi Oha! The God of Thunder explores a time that devastated the people of Africa. A work of fiction based on African realities, the book shows readers how the past still haunts the present, from generation to generation, and how the desecration on African land must be cleansed and the gods appeased to avoid further devastation.

Dream Children

Author : Gail Godwin
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345389921
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Dream Children written by Gail Godwin and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1996-07-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compelling, beautiful. . .Miraculous. . . Astonishing. . . So deeply satisfying, as to be breathtaking." --The Philadelphia Inquirer In fifteen extraordinary and lyrical short stories, esteemed novelist Gail Godwin has created worlds in which we discover ourselves as lovers, mothers, wives, and friends. Carefully, delicately, Ms. Godwin peels back the layers of defense and reveals women who search for meaning and connection in a world of abstraction and isolation. In "Dream Children," a reckless young wife finds herself unable to separate from the child she has lost; in "My Love, His Summer Vacation," the mistress of a married man so closely follows his every action that she has no life of her own; and in "Indulgences," a woman makes a list of her lovers, only to wonder if she can love. A keen observer of both heart and mind, Ms. Godwin has conjured up a stunning collection of stories that strike at the center of our lives. "In Dream Children, Gail Godwin shows her capabilities as a clear-seeing uncoverer of thought. . . . What she knows about the workings of the human mind as it deals with grand tragedies, tiny sorrows, she knows with conviction." --The Christian Science Monitor "The work of a writer who is moving confidently to the forefront of contemporary American fiction." --The Miami Herald "The stories are all. . . detailed with expertise and frosted with elegance." --Kirkus Reviews

Queen of the Underworld

Author : Gail Godwin
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345483197
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Queen of the Underworld written by Gail Godwin and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here at last is the eagerly awaited new novel from New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin. Queen of the Underworld is sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers. In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of exiles flees to the States to wait out what they hope to be his short-lived reign, Emma Gant, fresh out of college, begins her career as a reporter. Her fierce ambition and belief in herself are set against the stories swirling around her, both at the newspaper office and in her downtown Miami hotel, which is filling up with refugees. Emma’s avid curiosity about life thrives amid the tropical charms and intrigues of Miami. While toiling at the news desk, she plans the fictional stories she will write in her spare time. She spends her nights getting to know the Cuban families in her hotel–and rendezvousing with her married lover, Paul Nightingale, owner of a private Miami Beach club. As Emma experiences the historical events enveloping the city, she trains her perceptive eye on the people surrounding her: a newfound Cuban friend who joins the covert anti-Castro training brigade, a gambling racketeer who poses a grave threat to Paul, and a former madam, still in her twenties, who becomes both Emma’s obsession and her alter ego. Emma’s life, like a complicated dance that keeps sweeping her off her balance, is suddenly filled with divided loyalties, shady dealings, romantic and professional setbacks, and, throughout, her adamant determination to avoid “usurpation” by others and remain the protagonist of her own quest.

North American Border Conflicts

Author : Laurence Armand French
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351709879
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book North American Border Conflicts written by Laurence Armand French and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North American Border Conflicts: Race, Politics, and Ethics adds to the current discussion on class, race, ethnic, and sectarian divides, not only within the United States but throughout the Americas in general. The book explores the phenomenon of border challenges throughout the world, particularly the current increase in population migration in the America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, which has been linked to human trafficking and many other causes of human suffering. North American Border Conflicts takes students through the rich, sad history of border conflict on this continent.