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Book Synopsis The Shoeshine Boy by : Harrison O. Akingbade
Download or read book The Shoeshine Boy written by Harrison O. Akingbade and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Akin Quicksilver's struggle to acquire education, which every Nigerian knows to be the surest means of ascending from poverty. With the death of his benefactor and a mediocre performance at the West African School Certificate Examinations, he knows that the only way to advance himself academically must be through his own exertion and determination. The inability to fulfill his educational ambition in Nigeria sets him out on adventure, which eventually takes him to Liberia where he has to eke out an existence by shining shoes. Through his dedication to his shoeshine business, he gets a lucky break. An Episcopal Mission in the country employs him as a utility man. In spite of suffering a series of setbacks, he obtains a scholarship to an American university and eventually wends his way to America. His strongest motivation for success is his love for Jumoke Phoenix, which is seriously threatened by his poor performance in the West African School Certificate Examinations. Jumoke is in grade one and Akin in three, with little or no chance for further advancement. The problem is further complicated by the appearance of a rival who seems to be gaining an upper hand in the competition for Jumoke's affection. Akin is determined not to give Jumoke the satisfaction of saying in future: "I m glad I left him at the time I did."
Book Synopsis The Barefoot Shoeshine Boy by : Al Rivera
Download or read book The Barefoot Shoeshine Boy written by Al Rivera and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a the true story of Al Rivera, who was not the only boy who suffered from parental abuse and extreme poverty, but what makes his story unique was his daily determination to find food and shoeshine customers and to be positive with his life. He didn't whine, cry, complain, or daydream. He cheerfully went about surviving in a real world.
Book Synopsis The Shoeshine Boy by : Melvin Sterne
Download or read book The Shoeshine Boy written by Melvin Sterne and published by Lamar University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many lives have been altered by "spiritual experiences." Pablo, the shoeshine boy, has such an experience, one he assures the reader that they will not believe. And why should we? It's a story so outlandish that Pablo scarce believes it himself. The Shoeshine Boy is a story of individual redemption. Can Pablo, a five-year-old, illiterate orphan, survive on the streets of a hostile world? But even more, it is a novel of human redemption, contrasting the power of belief with the power of delusion, of truth with the lies we tell ourselves every day. This is a novel about faith. More broadly, it is a tale of choices. We live in a world of dwindling resources, exploding population, and technological revolution that is threatening our existence. The question becomes not whether Pablo will survive, but whether you and I will survive--and if so, how? The values we affirm and the choices we make based on our values can seal our fate as a species. Kurt Vonnegut once said that he wanted to stay as close to the edge as he could without going over. "Out on the edge," he said, "you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." His words describe The Shoeshine Boy perfectly. It will take you to the edge.
Author :Cambridge University Press Publisher :Cambridge University Press ISBN 13 :9780521543804 Total Pages :132 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (438 download)
Book Synopsis Cambridge Learner's Dictionary by : Cambridge University Press
Download or read book Cambridge Learner's Dictionary written by Cambridge University Press and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for PET and FCE preparation The Cambridge Learne's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for intermediate learners and for FCE preparation. This new edition contains many features to make learning English even easier.
Book Synopsis Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy by : Doug Stumpf
Download or read book Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy written by Doug Stumpf and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazilian-born Gil is trying to find the American Dream. In the meantime, he polishes the shoes of the superrich and powerful on Wall Street—high-rolling traders as uninhibited as they are ruthless. Gil sees things as few other people do—from the ground up—and his perspective on the day-to-day insanity of the trading floor is priceless. But this fly on the wall overhears one or two things that maybe he shouldn't. And when a Glossy magazine journalist, desperate for a big break, persuades him to be an undercover source for what may be the biggest insider trading scam in Wall Street history, Gil is catapulted into a danger zone darker than anything he or the journalist could have imagined.
Download or read book Boys' Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1976-08 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Download or read book ShoeShine Boy written by Charles Belim and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis North Carolina Reports by : North Carolina. Supreme Court
Download or read book North Carolina Reports written by North Carolina. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina.
Download or read book Outraged written by Robert J. Hoshowsky and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Murder That Changed a City The tragic story of Shoeshine Boy Emanuel Jaques has been the basis of novels, short stories, a documentary, a play, songs, a children's book on the dangers of abduction, and dozens of essays, but never a True Crime book...until now. The torture and killing of Emanuel over a 12-hour period above a seedy Toronto body rub parlour outraged citizens who demanded change to Toronto's Yonge Street strip, which by 1977 resembled New York's grimy 42nd Street with its many X-rated movie theatres, massage parlours, pornographic bookstores, and prostitutes. Through a series of original interviews, archival research, and previously unpublished documents, author Robert J. Hoshowsky recreates in detail Emanuel's brutal death, the hunt for the boy's killers, the shocking trial and press coverage, the controversial Yonge Street clean-up, and what remains one of the most sensational True Crime cases in Canadian history.
Book Synopsis Poetic Memoir by : Raymond G Chow, Sister Theresa Chow
Download or read book Poetic Memoir written by Raymond G Chow, Sister Theresa Chow and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetic Memoir The symbolism of Red Hibiscus Is time shared with Sr. Theresa Chow OSF Picking Red Hibiscus Buds. (insert small picture of red hibiscus)
Book Synopsis Civil Rights by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book Civil Rights written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Civil Rights -- The President's Program, 1963 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book Civil Rights -- The President's Program, 1963 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers legislation to prohibit discrimination in employment, education and voting, and to prohibit discrimination in federally funded programs.
Book Synopsis Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memory and Identity by : Linda Pillière
Download or read book Memory and Identity written by Linda Pillière and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which ghosts haunt and shape cultural identities and memory, considering the manner in which the fluctuations of such identities sometimes imply the rethinking or rewriting of the past. Drawing on case studies in historical, political, literary and linguistic studies, it explores the narratives that produce imagined communities and identities and the places in which cultural identities are constructed through memory, asking how far these identities and memories disinherit or exclude otherness, and how far ghosts disturb orderly narratives, inviting multiple readings of the past. Thematically organized to consider the persistence of ghosts within present memory and identity, the creation of new identities through intertwining narratives of the past, and the reclamation of identities in postcolonial contexts, Memory and Identity: Ghosts of the past in the English-speaking world offers a multi-disciplinary examination of the concept of haunting. Memory and Identity will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and history with interests in memory and identity.
Book Synopsis Criminal Justice Act of 1963 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book Criminal Justice Act of 1963 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Narrative Economics by : Robert J. Shiller
Download or read book Narrative Economics written by Robert J. Shiller and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a world in which internet troll farms attempt to influence foreign elections, can we afford to ignore the power of viral stories to affect economies? In this groundbreaking book, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller offers a new way to think about the economy and economic change. Using a rich array of historical examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that affect individual and collective economic behavior--what he calls "narrative economics"--has the potential to vastly improve our ability to predict, prepare for, and lessen the damage of financial crises, recessions, depressions, and other major economic events. Spread through the public in the form of popular stories, ideas can go viral and move markets--whether it's the belief that tech stocks can only go up, that housing prices never fall, or that some firms are too big to fail. Whether true or false, stories like these--transmitted by word of mouth, by the news media, and increasingly by social media--drive the economy by driving our decisions about how and where to invest, how much to spend and save, and more. But despite the obvious importance of such stories, most economists have paid little attention to them. Narrative Economics sets out to change that by laying the foundation for a way of understanding how stories help propel economic events that have had led to war, mass unemployment, and increased inequality."--
Book Synopsis Questions of Identity in Detective Fiction by : Anita Higgie
Download or read book Questions of Identity in Detective Fiction written by Anita Higgie and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With essays by an international group of scholars, Questions of Identity in Detective Fiction delves into the ways in which this genre, given its status as popular yet marginalized literature, allows for the exploration of a wide range of meanings. Contributors examine how the genre both mirrors and focuses the personal/sexual/ ethnic/spiritual, how it interfaces with national literatures and histories, and how the generic identity of detective fiction has evolved over time. Chapters include discussions of novels and short stories from American, Argentine, British, Canadian, French, German, and Japanese national literatures, ranging from the mid 19th century to the early 21st century.
