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Book Synopsis Vietnam - The Teenage Wasteland by : Tom Martiniano
Download or read book Vietnam - The Teenage Wasteland written by Tom Martiniano and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam - The Teenage Wasteland A Hippie in a War Zone by Tom Martiniano What was it like in Vietnam? What was it like for a peace loving late-60's Hippie, drafted, with no desires to go off to war and kill people; to go through the harshest combat that one could ever endure and not only survive but to help lead a decimated company of tattered soldiers to victory against the insurmountable odds? What was that like? And what was that war really all about? People have asked these questions since the Vietnam War started and their quests for the truth have gone on unanswered since then. Not anymore. Finally this book answers ALL of the questions. I realize that is a big statement, but it is true. It is a rearward analytical look at what American Combat Soldiers experienced so that it not only makes sense to the reader, but it puts the reader right in his boots. The book is laid out in an informative way to put the reader there, in the terrain, with the hot humid, stifling weather, the green vipers and chattering monkeys in breathtaking mountainous terrain in which a company of US soldiers traverse in hopes of not being seen and forced to engage in a fire-fight with dedicated enemy combatants. The book is divided into three distinct parts: 1. "What Was it Like" answers all of the questions such as What was the weather like?. What about drugs? What about the people there? What were the weapons like? and so forth. Any question I was ever asked is covered in this section so that the reader totally gets it. 2.The story of the Hippies in combat; my personal story about learning how to survive in this killing machine while keeping my convictions and principles intact. I start with being a "FNG" to the point where I end up running the company and keeping my men alive and safe as possible while kicking the enemy's ass all the way back to North Vietnam. 3. Re-entry into the USA was more brutal than the war itself with more hatred from Americans than the enemy had shown us. Whatever morale we had left was taken from us in the airports and on the street by those who were against the war. I have one year of college, drafted right out of school. I am an insurance adjuster by trade. I worked all over the United States, in California, Nevada and Louisiana in particular after Hurricanes Katrina/Rita. I did start writing back then because I felt that America has to know the real story of Vietnam. Over the years I have written the following books: 1.Vietnam - TheTeen-aged Wasteland 2.The Muscle Car Kings 3.The ABCs of Home Schooling. And I've written the following screenplays: 1.Mothers Day Massacre 2.Missing from Action 3.The Flight 4.Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 5.The Lensmen 6. Head Masters Submitted by Tom Martiniano 10401 N Cave Creek Rd #254 Phoenix, AZ 85020 Office: 480-427-8492 Email: [email protected]
Download or read book Teenage Wasteland written by Donna Gaines and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-04-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage Wasteland provides memorable portraits of "rock and roll kids" and shrewd analyses of their interests in heavy metal music and Satanism. A powerful indictment of the often manipulative media coverage of youth crises and so-called alternative programs designed to help "troubled" teens, Teenage Wasteland draws new conclusions and presents solid reasons to admire the resilience of suburbia's dead end kids. "A powerful book."—Samuel G. Freedman, New York Times Book Review "[Gaines] sheds light on a poorly understood world and raises compelling questions about what society might do to help this alienated group of young people."—Ann Grimes, Washington Post Book World "There is no comparable study of teenage suburban culture . . . and very few ethnographic inquiries written with anything like Gaines's native gusto or her luminous eye for detail."—Andrew Ross, Transition "An outstanding case study. . . . Gaines shows how teens engage in cultural production and how such social agency is affected by economic transformations and institutional interventions."—Richard Lachman, Contemporary Sociology "The best book on contemporary youth culture."—Rolling Stone
Book Synopsis My God Is Bigger Than Your God by : Tom Martiniano
Download or read book My God Is Bigger Than Your God written by Tom Martiniano and published by Agent Orange Publishing . This book was released on 2014-12-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Todays headlines pretty much detail reports of murder, rape, killing of men, women and children -all in the name of religion or God. Even today I read that 120 children we murdered by religious zealots who are trying to prove that their religion and that their god are the "only ones". I decided that this subject really needs to be confronted head on and that I needed to get to the bottom of this insanity. And get to the bottom I did! And none too soon because right about now, the entire subject of religion is starting to become a liability on this planet because of the amount of killing and harming, and this is not good. Religion used to be what people relied on to get them through life successfully. Religion is what normally succors people from the harshness of life. But - from the Crusades to the Jihads religion is fast becoming one of the leading causes for death on this planet and if this does not change, and fast, man will outlaw religion because it is deadly. This has to change because without religion we are all doomed. We need religion for spirituality and for succoring the needy. We need religion as a guiding light; from where to get our moral compass. Without God we are done for. Tom Martiniano Phoenix, AZ [email protected]
Book Synopsis Twelve and Twenty - A Vietnam War Novel by : James Toomey
Download or read book Twelve and Twenty - A Vietnam War Novel written by James Toomey and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title connotes the tour of duty for a US Marine in Vietnam, for twelve months and twenty days. PFC Sean P. O’Hara embarks upon an adventure that would change his life forever. Twelve and Twenty is a riveting novel that takes place in the jungles of Southeast Asia and the quagmire of the Vietnam War. In a graphic and haunting naturalistic style, James Toomey adroitly tells the story of the madness of war and the paradox of valor in the early summer of 1968 in the Republic of Vietnam. With great skill, Colonel Toomey has created a page-turner. It reveals the arduous and sometimes horrific life of an infantry marine serving his country in a sustained and unpopular ground war. That war changed the country, and that change was not for the better. The book honestly and graphically presents the minute-to-minute, day-to-day, week-to-week dichotomy of insipid drudgery and violent combat that almost instantaneously transforms an Ivy League candidate into a highly trained, coldhearted killing machine. The psychological scars of these hellacious 385 days in 1968 and 1969 will never go away. O’Hara, during the course of his tour, is given a ribald and Mephistophelian education in life that he never would receive at Harvard. A macabre curriculum that included the sight of his fellow marines blown to bits; innocent indigenous villagers tortured by their own countrymen; commercial lust sold by adolescent prostitutes in Bangkok, Thailand. Lastly the ultimate, final examination, which is the manic-depressive phenomenon of an otherwise kind and gentle person having to kill other human beings to survive. O’Hara passed the exam physically but not mentally, and he will never be the same again! There is no glory in war, only heartache and despair.
Book Synopsis Friendly Fire in the Literature of War by : Earl R. Anderson
Download or read book Friendly Fire in the Literature of War written by Earl R. Anderson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "friendly fire" was coined in the 1970s but the theme appears in literature from ancient times to the present. It begins the narrative in Aeschylus's Persians and Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story. It marks the turning point in Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, the Chanson de Roland, Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage and Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato. It is the subject of transformative disclosure in Jaan Kross's Czar's Madman, Ron Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods and A.B. Yehoshua's Friendly Fire. In some stories, events propel the characters into a friendly-fire catastrophe, as in Thomas Taylor's A Piece of this Country and Oliver Stone's 1986 film Platoon. This study examines friendly fire in a broad range of literary contexts.
Book Synopsis Companion to Literature by : Abby H. P. Werlock
Download or read book Companion to Literature written by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous edition:Booklist/RBB "Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers"RUSA/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source"" ... useful ... Recommended for public libraries and undergraduates."
Book Synopsis Teenager's War Vietnam- 1969 by : Michael P. Zboray
Download or read book Teenager's War Vietnam- 1969 written by Michael P. Zboray and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal journey from boyhood to manhood written first hand by a teenager living through the experiences of war
Book Synopsis Fabricating the Absolute Fake by : Jaap Kooijman
Download or read book Fabricating the Absolute Fake written by Jaap Kooijman and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of how global cultures struggle to create their own "America" within a post-9/11 media culture, Fabricating the Absolute Fake reflects on what it might mean to truly take part in American pop culture.
Book Synopsis Worth a Thousand Words by : Bette D. Ammon
Download or read book Worth a Thousand Words written by Bette D. Ammon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-09-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide provides a single-source, comprehensive listing of a fascinating and helpful group of books-picture books for older readers. A multitude of ideas about how to use them in the classroom supplements this list of carefully selected quality fiction and nonfiction books that focuses on universal themes, appeals to all ages, addresses important issues, and is accessible to multiple learning styles. Picture books aren't just for the very young. Innovative educators and parents have used them for years with readers of all ages and reading levels, knowing that students comprehend more from the visual-verbal connections these books offer. They are great tools for teaching visual literacy and writing skills; are effective with reluctant readers, ESL students, and those reading below grade level; and can easily be used to support various curriculum. This guide provides a single-source, comprehensive listing of a fascinating and helpful group of books and a multitude of ideas about how to use them in the classroom. The authors have carefully selected quality fiction and nonfiction that focus on universal themes, appeal to all ages, treat important issues, and are accessible to multiple learning styles.
Book Synopsis Vietnam War Through the Eyes of a Teenage Soldier by : Thomas Joyce
Download or read book Vietnam War Through the Eyes of a Teenage Soldier written by Thomas Joyce and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis I Sing the Body Politic by : Peter Swirski
Download or read book I Sing the Body Politic written by Peter Swirski and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical investigation of the dead ends, dead metaphors, dead bodies, and other historical constants of American politics.
Download or read book Reading Culture written by Diana George and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Culture is the original cultural studies-based reader. Now in its fourth edition, this widely used text continues to challenge students with provocative readings, images, writing assignments, and fieldwork projects. In addition to an updated case study of talk television, this edition of Reading Culture includes a second case study which draws on both print and internet resources to examine debates on the meaning and the consequences of the Columbine High School shootings. As with previous editions, Reading Culture continues to include instruction for reading and evaluating visual messages, for conducting micro-ethnographies, and for writing about the culture of everyday life.
Book Synopsis American Cultural Studies by : Neil C. Campbell
Download or read book American Cultural Studies written by Neil C. Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on literature, art, film theatre, music and much more, American Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary introduction to American culture for those taking American Studies. This textbook: * introduces the full range and variety of American culture including issues of race, gender and youth * provides a truly interdisciplinary methodology * suggests and discusses a variety of approaches to study * highlights American distinctiveness * draws on literature, art, film, theatre, architecture, music and more * challenges orthodox paradigms of American Studies. This is a fast-expanding subject area, and Campbell and Kean's book will certainly be a staple part of any cultural studies student's reading diet.
Download or read book Teenage Wasteland written by Anne Tyler and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First appearing in the pages of Seventeen Magazine, “Teenage Wasteland” has become one of Anne Tyler’s most widely beloved short stories—an affecting and masterful portrait of a life interrupted and a family come undone. Daisy Coble had been a good mother, and so she was ashamed to find out from Donny’s teacher that he had been misbehaving. He was noisy, lazy, disruptive, and he was caught smoking. At night, she lay awake wondering where she had gone wrong, and how she could have failed as a parent. Unsure of herself, Daisy follows the advice of professionals, and hires Donny a tutor with some unusual ideas to set the boy straight. But, has the gap between them grown too wide to bridge? A Vintage Short.
Book Synopsis American Cultural Studies by : Neil Campbell
Download or read book American Cultural Studies written by Neil Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for previous editions: 'Something of a godsend ... as a teaching resource this book is second to none ... achieves levels of multiplicity rarely, if ever, reached by others.' - Borderlines: Studies in American Culture This third edition of American Cultural Studies has been updated throughout to take into account the developments of the last six years, providing an introduction to the central themes in modern American culture and explores how these themes can be interpreted. Chapters in the book discuss the various aspects of American cultural life such as religion, gender and sexuality, and regionalism. Updates and revisions include: discussion of Barack Obama’s rise to power and the end of the ‘Bush Years’ consideration of ‘Hemispheric American Studies’ and the increasing debates about globalisation and the role of the USA up-to-date case-studies, such as The Wire and Nurse Jackie, more on suburbia, the Mexican-border crossing, the Twilight phenomena etc updated further-reading lists.Accompanying website. American Cultural Studies is a core text and an accessible introduction to the interdisciplinary study of American culture.
Download or read book Microphone Fiends written by Tricia Rose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microphone Fiends, a collection of original essays and interviews, brings together some of the best known scholars, critics, journalists and performers to focus on the contemporary scene. It includes theoretical discussions of musical history along with social commentaries about genres like disco, metal and rap music, and case histories of specific movements like the Riot Grrls, funk clubbing in Rio de Janeiro, and the British rave scene.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture by : Robert Gregg
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture written by Robert Gregg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a meeting point for world cultures, the USA is characterized by its breadth and diversity. Acknowledging that diversity is the fundamental feature of American culture, this volume is organized around a keen awareness of race, gender, class and space and with over 1,200 alphabetically-arranged entries - spanning 'the American century' from the end of World War II to the present day - the Encyclopedia provides a one-stop source for insightful and stimulating coverage of all aspects of that culture. Entries range from short definitions to longer overview essays and with full cross-referencing, extensive indexing, and a thematic contents list, this volume provides an essential cultural context for both teachers and students of American studies, as well as providing fascinating insights into American culture for the general reader. The suggestions for further reading, which follows most entries, are also invaluable guides to more specialized sources.
