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Innocence Lost in a Black Embrace

Author : Edward E. Bortot
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463426615
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Innocence Lost in a Black Embrace written by Edward E. Bortot and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innocence Lost in a Black Embrace is a dark collection of poetry by Edward E Bortot. According to the author, this is the final installment of the Innocent Souls Trilogy. Because it represents the end of the innocent soul, it is starkly darker than the previous two works. This work explored a plethora of human emotions and states, including pain and sorrow, love and hate, spirituality and politics. The first poem, Within, is representative of the bleak tone that is throughout this work. Within Rip my flesh from my bone. Bury me and leave me alone with premonitions of 18 vision stone. The unmarked graves of unselfish slaves. A reminder of dehumanization in back alley caves. A savior in his mortality who tries to save. A treason brought fourth on a black day. A knife in the back that leaves a lasting display. Two faces of the same individual leading in two different ways. A faithless fling that sings with protruding force. A life being a blemish on a disdainful course. A stoic laughter in silence, trying to find its true source. The grains of sands run through my hands. A high stake life with deaths demands. You are no more complex, than I am a simple man. Innocence Lost in a Black Embrace is a thought-provoking collection of poetry that looks at life and people through a different lens. This work may be appreciated by readers of Sylvia Plath.

Innocence Lost

Author : Barbara Lynn Blake
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477216022
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book Innocence Lost written by Barbara Lynn Blake and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of innocence a young American girl, Rachel Lester, travels to Europe to find her destiny and love. She meets three men who will decide her life. She meets Forrest Mann, a young American man her own age, who shares with her the promise of a conventional American life. In England she meets Lord Hatfield, a man fifteen years older, who can give her a title and money. And in France she meets Count Kovensky, a charming man who offers her a life among artists, writers and philosophers and a world revolving around his houses in Paris, Monte Carlo and Florence. What choice will she make and what price will she pay for her innocence lost.

Into the Dark Abyss

Author : Lillith Pandora
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490707107
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Into the Dark Abyss written by Lillith Pandora and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine the darkest, most evil, and empty places of the mind and soul that can be reached, then imagine yourself on this dark journey . . . Follow me, if you will, to see just how dark the abyss really is . .

Battling Earthquakes

Author : Crystal Gail Welcome
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312519096
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Battling Earthquakes written by Crystal Gail Welcome and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-14 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Battling Earthquakes," Crystal Gail Welcome explores the fragility of human emotions. Crystal Gail's powerful use of language and honest transparency invites readers to journey through intense, confusing, and sometimes frightening emotions. Words, like hands have the ability to tear down Words, like hands have the ability to lift up I've bared witness to the destruction of hands But I have found hope in the power of words... Words have taught me that you cannot silence life "Battling Earthquakes" is beautifully written; in the aftermath of the storm, there is peace as rebuilding begins.

Racial Innocence

Author : Robin Bernstein
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081478707X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Racial Innocence written by Robin Bernstein and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Racial Innocence, Robin Bernstein argues that the concept of "childhood innocence" has been central to U.S. racial formation since the mid-nineteenth century. Children--white ones imbued with innocence, black ones excluded from it, and others of color erased by it--figured pivotally in sharply divergent racial agendas from slavery and abolition to antiblack violence and the early civil rights movement. Bernstein takes up a rich archive including books, toys, theatrical props, and domestic knickknacks which she analyzes as "scriptive things" that invite or prompt historically-located practices while allowing for resistance and social improvisation. Integrating performance studies with literary and visual analysis, Bernstein offers singular readings of theatrical productions from blackface minstrelsy to Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; literary works by Joel Chandler Harris, Harriet Wilson, and Frances Hodgson Burnett; material culture including Topsy pincushions, Uncle Tom and Little Eva handkerchiefs, and Raggedy Ann dolls; and visual texts ranging from fine portraiture to advertisements for lard substitute. Throughout, Bernstein shows how "innocence" gradually became the exclusive province of white children--until the Civil Rights Movement succeeded not only in legally desegregating public spaces, but in culturally desegregating the concept of childhood itself." -- Publisher's description.

New Daughters of Africa

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0241997011
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book New Daughters of Africa written by Various Authors and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection of contemporary writing by 200 women writers of African descent, including Zadie Smith, Bernardine Evaristo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A glorious portrayal of the richness and range of African women's voices, this major international book brings together their achievements across a wealth of genres. From Antigua to Zimbabwe and Angola to the USA, overlooked artists of the past join key figures, popular contemporaries and emerging writers in paying tribute to the heritage that unites them, the strong links that endure from generation to generation, and their common obstacles around issues of race, gender and class. Bold and insightful, brilliant in its intimacy and universality, this landmark anthology honours the talents of African daughters and the inspiring legacy that connects them-and all of us.

Aria

Author : Moan Lisa
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312261528
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Aria written by Moan Lisa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-08 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of poetry. These are poems from the heart, much of this volume touches on questions of spirituality and faith through a darker lens; there is love lost and hopelessness. Nature's revolt against the flesh and spirit. It is a depressive work.

The Lost Children

Author : Timothy Shay Arthur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Children written by Timothy Shay Arthur and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Innocent 3

Author : Leo Sullivan
Publisher : Sullivan Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1946789542
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book Innocent 3 written by Leo Sullivan and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INNOCENT'S REVENGE IS THE EPIC TALE OF MURDER, DRUGS, SEX AND BETRAYAL. After his release from prison, where he served time on death row for a hideous crime that he did not commit, Innocent comes home a changed man. He can't seem to shake the demons from his head; the racist attacks on his life, the violence, the killings, and the many men that he killed in order to survive life on the Row. He is determined to make a new life for himself and Tamara, his new bride and childhood sweetheart, and her children. He soon discovers that the old adage, you can't make a wife out of a ''hood rat'', is true, when Tamara is caught betraying him. Innocent's world is further devastated when psychopathic madman, Ghetto Bin Laden, kills the one person he loves most, to settle a score with him. Innocent has no choice, but to seek revenge. In his wake, he leaves behind a trail of bodies in the streets of Atlanta, as he searches for the phantom killer Bin. The cops are on his trail and when things seem hopeless, the pimptress Kenisha Williams mysteriously appears. She is willing to help him find Ghetto Bin, but she wants something in return, something that Innocent thought he'd never compromise. How far will Innocent go to get revenge? Will he survive the streets of Atlanta and find the killer before he finds him? Who will be the last man standing? THE EPIC SAGA CONTINUES...

A Hard Rain

Author : Frye Gaillard
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1603064540
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book A Hard Rain written by Frye Gaillard and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller’s eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times — civil rights, black power, women’s liberation, the War in Vietnam, and the protests against it. But he also examines the cultural manifestations of change — music, literature, art, religion, and science — and so we meet not only the Brothers Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X, but also Gloria Steinem, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Harper Lee, Mister Rogers, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Andy Warhol, Billy Graham, Thomas Merton, George Wallace, Richard Nixon, Angela Davis, Barry Goldwater, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Berrigan Brothers. “There are many different ways to remember the sixties,” Gaillard writes, “and this is mine. There was in these years the sense of a steady unfolding of time, as if history were on a forced march, and the changes spread to every corner of our lives. As future generations debate the meaning of the decade, I hope to offer a sense of how it felt to have lived it. A Hard Rain is one writer’s reconstruction and remembrance of a transcendent era — one that, for better or worse, lives with us still.”

The Redemptive Self

Author : Dan P. McAdams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198039301
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Redemptive Self written by Dan P. McAdams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are we as Americans? What is our deep identity? How do we make a good life? Renowned psychologist Dan P. McAdams suggests that the key to American identity lies in the stories we live by. And the most powerful life story in America today is the story of redemption. On a broad societal scale and in our own private lives, we want first and foremost to transform our suffering into a positive emotional state, to move from pain and peril to redemption. American identity is the redemptive self. Based on 10 years of research on the life stories of especially caring and productive American adults, The Redemptive Self explores the psychological and cultural dynamics of the stories Americans tell to make sense of who they are. Among the most eloquent tellers of redemptive stories are those midlife adults who are especially committed to their careers, their families, and making a positive difference in the world. These highly "generative" men and women embrace the negative things that happen to them, for it is by transforming the bad into good that they are able to move forward in life and ultimately leave something positive behind. Unconsciously, they find inspiration and sustenance in the rich store of redemptive tales that American culture offers - from the autobiographies of Massachusetts Puritans, Benjamin Franklin, and escaped African-American slaves to the stories of upward mobility, recovery, fulfillment, and release that come to us today from Hollywood, 12-step programs, self-help experts, religious stories, political speeches, business gurus, and Oprah. But can all American lives find redemption? Some people seem unable to make their lives into redemptive tales. Instead, their stories show contaminated plots and vicious cycles. Moreover, might there be a dark side to the redemptive stories Americans love? While these stories can sustain a productive and caring approach to life, they can also suggest a peculiarly American kind of arrogance and self-righteousness. For all their strengths, redemptive stories sometimes fail, and sometimes suggest important failings in the way Americans see themselves and the world. The Redemptive Self encourages us to examine our lives and our stories in full, to apprehend both the good and the bad in the stories we live by. By doing so, we may fashion better stories and better lives for the future.

Leonard Cohen and Philosophy

Author : Jason Holt
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 0812698827
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Leonard Cohen and Philosophy written by Jason Holt and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early years, when he morphed from celebrated poet to provocative singer-songwriter, to his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Leonard Cohen has endured as one of the most enigmatic and profound figures—with a uniquely compelling voice and unparalleled depth of artistic vision—in all of popular music. The aesthetic quality and intellectual merit of Cohen’s work are above dispute; here, for the first time, a team of philosophers takes an in-depth look at its real significance. Want to know what Cohen and Kierkegaard have in common? Or whether Cohen rivals the great philosophical pessimist Schopenhauer? Then this book is for you. It provides the first thorough analysis of Cohen from various (philosophical) positions. It is intended not only for Cohen fans but also undergraduates in philosophy and other areas. It explores important neglected aspects of Cohen’s work without attempting to reduce them to academic tropes, yet nonetheless will also be useful to academics—or anyone—beguiled by the enigma that is Leonard Cohen.

Shakespeare and Immigration

Author : Ruben Espinosa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317056620
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Immigration written by Ruben Espinosa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and Immigration critically examines the vital role of immigrants and aliens in Shakespeare's drama and culture. On the one hand, the essays in this collection interrogate how the massive influx of immigrants during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I influenced perceptions of English identity and gave rise to anxieties about homeland security in early modern England. On the other, they shed light on how our current concerns surrounding immigration shape our perception of the role of the alien in Shakespeare's work and expand the texts in new and relevant directions for a contemporary audience. The essays consider the immigrant experience; strangers and strangeness; values of hospitality in relationship to the foreigner; the idea of a host society; religious refuge and refugees; legal views of inclusion and exclusion; structures of xenophobia; and early modern homeland security. In doing so, this volume offers a variety of perspectives on the immigrant experience in Shakespearean drama and how the influential nature of the foreigner affects perceptions of community and identity; and, collection questions what is at stake in staging the anxieties and opportunities associated with foreigners. Ultimately, Shakespeare and Immigration offers the first sustained study of the significance of the immigrant and alien experience to our understanding of Shakespeare's work. By presenting a compilation of views that address Shakespeare's attention to the role of the foreigner, the volume constitutes a timely and relevant addition to studies of race, ethics, and identity in Shakespeare.

Art Therapy and the Creative Process

Author : Cynthia Pearson
Publisher : Loving Healing Press
ISBN 13 : 1615992960
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Art Therapy and the Creative Process written by Cynthia Pearson and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chiaroscuro

Author : Mary W. Jensen
Publisher : Briarbook Lane Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chiaroscuro written by Mary W. Jensen and published by Briarbook Lane Press. This book was released on 2021-07-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHIAROSCURO is a poetry book about the contrast and balance between light and dark. It’s a journey through a crumbling world that leaves a gritty taste. It shines light on the edge of awareness where dark magic wars with childish innocence. These poems range from internal conflict to worldwide war to creatures of myth, but all follow the themes of finding havens of light in dark days, persisting despite the odds. The light is only brighter for the darkness that surrounds it.

Religion, Race, and COVID-19

Author : Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479810223
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Race, and COVID-19 written by Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book analyzes how the particular dynamics and effects emerging from the COVID-19 crisis both impact and are perceived by its most vulnerable yet visionary populations, based on their pragmatic and prescient analysis of the American experiment of freedom with regards to race and religion. Without a doubt, this book addresses the various ways the COVID-19 crisis marks not merely a moment in time, but also a world-historical event that threatens to leave its imprint on lives and cultures for decades to come"--

Cuban Film Media, Late Socialism, and the Public Sphere

Author : Nicholas Balaisis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137584319
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Cuban Film Media, Late Socialism, and the Public Sphere written by Nicholas Balaisis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book maps the aesthetic experience of late socialism through Cuban film and media practice. It shows how economic and material scarcity as well as political uncertainty is expressed aesthetically in films from the period following the collapse of the Soviet Union, a characteristic described as imperfect aesthetics. The films examined in the book draw attention to the unique temporal experience of late socialism, a period marked both by rapid change and frustrating stasis, nostalgia for Cuba’s past and anxiousness about its future. Aesthetic modes such as melodrama and irony, and stylistic elements such as direct address and the long take, communicate the temporal experience of late socialism in Cuba, where new global traffic and a globalizing economy co-exist with iconic socialist features of the Cuban revolution. Film aesthetics constitute an important public dimension within this context, serving as a site of political and cultural critique amidst political uncertainty. In examining large-scale international co-productions as well as regional film collectives and amateur media making, the book traces the aesthetic continuities between contemporary film practices and those of the immediate post-revolutionary period, showing how the Cuban revolution continues to be an important touchstone for contemporary Cuban filmmakers in the face of new and imminent change.