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Book Synopsis Damn Bunch of Cripples by : Lew Shaver
Download or read book Damn Bunch of Cripples written by Lew Shaver and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was sitting in a small upstairs room attempting to write this narrative of my education in disability awareness. For over 30 years I have been involved in working with individuals with disabilities as a coach and administrator on the intercollegiate, national and international levels. When I started this journey, at a small, Midwestern University, I had no idea of what I was getting myself into. Now that I have traveled this educational path I have come to realize that it may have been one of the most important learning experiences of my life, an experience I feel needs to be shared. In putting this narrative together, one very real issue I struggled with was how to deal with the present climate of political correctness. My decision was to tell the stories as I remember them, in the language as I remember. To do differently would change and compromise the actual experience. Thus, this is a sharing of feelings and experiences that a coach and his athletes spent in timeless hours in a gym practicing and competing, of thousands of miles traveled throughout the United States and beyond, and days and nights spent together in laughter and frustration.
Book Synopsis Hoop Dreams on Wheels by : Ronald Berger
Download or read book Hoop Dreams on Wheels written by Ronald Berger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoop Dreams on Wheels is a life-history study of wheelchair athletes associated with a premier collegiate wheelchair basketball program. The book, which grapples with the intersection of biography and history in society, situates the study in broader context with background on the history and sociology of disability and disability sports. It documents the development and evolution of the basketball program and tells the individual life stories of the athletes, highlighting the formative interpersonal and institutional experiences that influenced their agentive actions and that helped them achieve success in wheelchair sports. It also examines divisions within the disability community that reveal both empowering and disempowering aspects of competitive wheelchair athletics, and it explores some of the complexities and dilemmas of disability identity in contemporary society. The book is intended to be read by a general audience as well as by students in college courses on disability, sports, social problems, deviance, medical sociology and anthropology, and introductory sociology. It also will be of interest to scholars in the sociology of disability, sociology of sports, and medical humanities, as well as life-history researchers and professionals in the fields of physical education, therapeutic recreation, and rehabilitative counseling.
Book Synopsis Wheelchair Warrior by : Melvin Juette
Download or read book Wheelchair Warrior written by Melvin Juette and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melvin Juette has said that becoming paralyzed in a shooting was "both the worst and best thing that happened" to him. This memoir re-constructs the defining moments of his life with the assistance of sociologist Ronald Berger. It is bracketed by Berger's introduction and conclusion, which places this narrative in proper sociological context.
Book Synopsis The Half-Life of Remorse by : Grant Jarrett
Download or read book The Half-Life of Remorse written by Grant Jarrett and published by SparkPress. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two vagrants meet on the streets of Muncie, Indiana, they are both unaware that their paths crossed years before. Chic, crude and uneducated, is convinced that Sam is nothing more than a harmless lunatic, and Sam, emotionally scarred and psychologically traumatized by events long past, regards Chic as just another denizen of the street. But Chic has spent his adult life trying to purge his soul of the brutal crime he committed as a teenager―the same botched burglary that resulted in the deaths of Sam’s wife and son. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter Claire is still unable to give up hope that her father might someday reappear. When these three lives converge, the puzzle of the past gradually falls together, but redemption commands a high price, and what is revealed will test the limits of love and challenge the human capacity for forgiveness.
Download or read book Trees Without Wind written by Rui Li and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfolding in the tense years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Trees Without Wind takes place in a remote Shanxi village in which a rare affliction has left the residents physically stunted. Director Liu, an older revolutionary and local commune head, becomes embroiled in a power struggle with Zhang Weiguo, a young ideologue who believes he is the model of a true revolutionary. Complicating matters is a woman named Nuanyu, who, like Zhang Weiguo and Director Liu, is an outsider untouched by the village's disease. "Wedded" to all of the male villagers, Nuanyu lives a polyandrous lifestyle based on necessity and at odds with the puritanical idealism of the Cultural Revolution. The deformed villagers, representing the manipulated masses of China, become pawns in the Party representatives' factional infighting. Director Liu and Zhang Weiguo's explosive tug-of-war is part of a larger battle among politics, self-interest, and passion gripping a world undone by ideological extremism. A collectively told narrative powered by distinctive subjectivities, Trees Without Wind is a milestone in the fictional treatment of a horrific event.
Book Synopsis The Crippled God by : Steven Erikson
Download or read book The Crippled God written by Steven Erikson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 931 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savaged by the K
Book Synopsis A Supplement to the Morning-exercise at Cripple-gate by : Samuel Annesley
Download or read book A Supplement to the Morning-exercise at Cripple-gate written by Samuel Annesley and published by . This book was released on 1674 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cripple Joe written by Donald Davis and published by Blair. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Davis has remarked that he "didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them" from a family of traditional storytellers that has lived on the same western North Carolina land since 1781. Considered by many to be the father of family tales, Donald turns the focus of his newest collection on his own father, Joe.As Donald reveals in the opening story, when he was 28, he mistakenly thought his father had died. Until learning of the mistake, he lamented that he'd been "too young and immature to know to ask for the stories that would have filled out his life." Given a "second chance," Donald asked those questions for the next 22 years. In this collection of 20 tender and often humorous stories--including one that tells how the elder Davis came to be called "Cripple Joe"--he shares the lessons he learned from his father. The late Wilma Dykeman wrote in an article for the New York Times, "I could have listened all morning to Donald Davis. . . . His stories often left listeners limp with laughter at the same time they struggled with a lump in the throat." If you are already a Donald Davis fan, here's his latest offering. If you have yet to discover him, here's your chance to see what all the excitement is about.
Download or read book Crippled Earth written by Maquel A. Jacob and published by MAJart Works LLC. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alien enemy launches the first strike ahead of schedule, starting a bloody, drawn out war. Humans, Karysilans and rogue Relliants join forces to defend Earth. The outcome isn’t looking in their favor. Out of fear and desperation, all the players initiate their own agendas while the facilities seal themselves off; refusing to engage in the fight, infuriating Captain Darnizva. He’s tried to unite humanity for half a century and now realizes it was all for nothing. With no word of reinforcements from his home planet, Mankind’s extinction seems to be imminent.
Book Synopsis Goin' Up to Cripple Creek by : Raymond Walter Seibert
Download or read book Goin' Up to Cripple Creek written by Raymond Walter Seibert and published by Advanced Concept Design. This book was released on 2009 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work of historical fiction features the lives of the men and women who established the town of Cripple Creek, Colorado, and mined its gold.
Book Synopsis To Hell and Beyond by : Beth W. Vinson
Download or read book To Hell and Beyond written by Beth W. Vinson and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Prisoner of War's tale of triumph, courage, and a spirit that could not be broken. This critical piece of history is a testament to the indomitable American spirit -- Beth W. Vinson brings Nathan Henry's story alive in a way that takes you into the jungle, into his cell, and into his mind as he fought courageously for survival and honor. His story and her presentation are profound, reminding us vividly of those who went before, and sacrificed so much, for all of us -- and our children. -Larry Slade, CAPT, USN (Ret), former POW, Desert Storm To Hell and Beyond is the story of one man who defied all odds to survive and who, through recalling painful memories, will lead the reader step-by-step into the horrors and debilitation suffered by him and all our men while held as POWs during the Vietnam conflict. This book, although based on one man, reveals the pride and determination of all POWs and their struggle to survive the tortures inflicted by the enemy in an effort to break their spirits and turn them against the country that had sent them to the Godforsaken jungles of Vietnam. He, and the other enlisted men who spent time as Prisoners of War, were not known to the general public simply because they weren't highly decorated pilots or thrust into the limelight during Operation Homecoming in 1973. This is a saga about triumph, courage, and patriotism. Follow the story of Nathan B. Henry, as told in vivid detail to author Beth W. Vinson, and tread with our nation's most honorable men on their war-weary journey To Hell and Beyond.
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Book Synopsis Laurel and Thorn by : Robert J. Higgs
Download or read book Laurel and Thorn written by Robert J. Higgs and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To examine the social and cultural significance of the athlete hero in American literature, Robert J. Higgs turns to the works of Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams. Higgs views the athlete in literature not as an artistic creation but as one who reflects the tastes, attainments, beliefs, and ideals of his society. The athletes he describes as Apollonian are the know-it-alls, of whom Lardner's Busher Keefe is an example; the Dyonisian, as exemplified by Irwin Shaw's Christian Darling, worships his body as an end in itself. The Adonic seeks knowledge for the sake of self-realization and lives in a world of tension, pain, struggle, and hope. Such a figure is Wolfe's Nebraska Crane. Higgs finds in contemporary American literature a clear rejection of the Apollonian and Dyonisian models and an acceptance of the Adonic.
Book Synopsis Deceit Deserves Revenge by : Lucy B. Williams
Download or read book Deceit Deserves Revenge written by Lucy B. Williams and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all of her life, Drucilla Hallmark has been battling to survive within a cruel world. Born into poverty and raised by heartless parents and jealous brothers and sisters, Drucilla thinks she has finally escaped her past when she marries. Unfortunately, she could not be more wrong. When she suspects her philanderer husband, Richard, may want her dead and that her resentful family may be helping him drive her to suicide, Drucilla makes an appointment with a Birmingham psychiatrist. As Dr. Skeet leads Drucilla back into her memories, she unsuccessfully attempts to convince the doctor that her life is in danger. But just as she is coming to grips with her reality, fate leads her to Tony Tortomasi, a handsome stranger who forces her to face the truth and makes her a tempting offer with the potential to change everything. Deceit Deserves Revenge is the suspense-filled tale of one womans emotional journey as she attempts to distinguish reality from fantasy and seeks revenge for all who have wronged her.
Book Synopsis The Crippled Giant by : James William Fulbright
Download or read book The Crippled Giant written by James William Fulbright and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1972 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cripple Creek Strike by : Emma Florence Langdon
Download or read book The Cripple Creek Strike written by Emma Florence Langdon and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tattooed Trees by : Brian R. Bernick
Download or read book Tattooed Trees written by Brian R. Bernick and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revolutionary story is a fictional portrayal of how continued CEO greed, a government steeped in self- interest, and event driven infringement on constitutionally protected rights will cripple a “free” society.
