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Book Synopsis Harvesting the American Dream by : Karen Richardson
Download or read book Harvesting the American Dream written by Karen Richardson and published by Barbera Foundation. This book was released on with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A toast to the man who changed how America drinks… Enduring an unspeakable nightmare and a family secret that he guarded at all costs, Ernest Gallo overcame unimaginable odds to achieve the American dream. Ernest Gallo (the “E” of E & J Gallo) may have been haunted by tragedy, but that didn’t deter him from his mission: putting a bottle of wine on every American table. Gallo grew his legacy from the musty Modesto, California, dirt. From fallow acres, he practically willed the wine industry into being out of faith and tenacity as he overcame physical and emotional abuse, illness, and the near destruction of the family he was determined to save.
Book Synopsis All American Dream Dolls by : David Haynes
Download or read book All American Dream Dolls written by David Haynes and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's an attractive, successful, all-around-together girl to do when she's dumped at 65 miles per hour on the way to a romantic getaway? If you're Deneen Wilkerson, you retreat to your mother's suburban home in St. Louis for a solitary orgy of snacks, talk shows and mental hygiene. Deneen's crash--and her wildly funny, improbable rebirth--is the basis of this new novel by the acclaimed author of "Somebody Else's Mama" and "Live at Five."
Book Synopsis Harvesting the American Dream by : Harrell S. Spruill
Download or read book Harvesting the American Dream written by Harrell S. Spruill and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author tells a wonderful story about the life of a man who proudly walks in his intergrity Harrell Solomon Spruill tells his life story from the farm to the classroom and shares his hard earned secrets on becoming a success in life. Through his multifauceted struggles to success, a compassionate soul emerged to benefit all mankind, particularly the youth, creating a burning passion for philanthropy that is the essence of his very soul. The Spruill Journey is a brilliant reflection of his personal and family's mission to empower people through knowledge and education. Although he has pursued other work as an educator, he enthusiastically admits that farming is his true love. The author begins this epic journey form his earliest memory on his beloved father's farm in rural Travis, North Carolina. It is there where the dream was initially instilled catapulting him, and his siblings forward into life seeking to achieve what, at the time, was believed to be an impossibility for African Americans. Actually, colored was the preferred reference of the day in the brutal segregated South, where Jim Crow was the law. However, it was the support and guidance if his loving mother who understood that education was the single most important ingredient necessary to neutralize those forces that bred poverty and despair. Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Spruill provided a solid foundation that allowed their son to dream the impossible dream: the American Dream. Together they assertively planted the seeds that cultivated the Spruill Journey. A visionary creation of the imagination with a strong desire to embrace a social ideal that stresses egalitarianism but more importantly, material prosperitythrough ownership of land. This concepts and his appreciation for the land, and farming, directly related to whence he came, becoming a labor of love for Harrell Solomon Spruill. A graduate of Hampton University, he taught mathematics at Alcorn University prior to coming to Annapolis to teach at the former Wiley H. Bates High School. As an educator in the separate but equal segregated school system for most of his career he taught his students the social, political, and economic rights and privileges available to every human being. Harrell Solomon Spruill's deep-rooted faith and belief in children as our only hope for the future has been his life's motivating energy. Harrell Solomon Spruill is a husband, father, grandfather, and teacher, volunteer, successful farmer and often referred to as a ?Man of All Seasons?. He embraces the farm enterprise with great enthusiasm and currently owns a large farm in Southern Maryland. He has a strong desire to acquaint young children with rural life to which he is currently developing plans to build a learning center on his farm. This quiet gentle hard-working man with unbridled enthusiasm continuously exhibits a strong determination to pursue humanitarian efforts to support the community. He has been an active volunteer in Annapolis and Southern Anne Arundel County for over half a century. He has received recognition form his peers, many state and local businesses, churches, and civic organizations including the Ann Arundel County Public School System. In addition, he has been featured in the Baltimore Sun, the Capital Newspaper and countless publications. Harrell Solomon Spruill had donated thousands of dollars to promoteprograms of good will to include; special support to the boys and girls clubs of Annapolis; Maryland Forward Tutorial Program; the purchase of computers, televisions, copy machines and van for transportation children. His wiliness to give has impacted countless lives by contributing enormous amounts of his personal time to tutor children in the area of reading and mathematics. It significant to note that he has donated financial support to individuals and organizations providing support to children in need. Each of us asks ourselves, if only in thought, during our journey through life; how would we be remembered? Though the excellent reflections recorded in the memoir, ?Harvesting the American Dream?, Harrell Solomon Spruill answers this question eloquently. Judge me by the work that I have done.
Book Synopsis Blemished Harvest When the American Dream Goes Wrong by : Dan Weatherington
Download or read book Blemished Harvest When the American Dream Goes Wrong written by Dan Weatherington and published by Dan Weatherington. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climbing the corporate ladder is supposed to assure the American Dream, but every once in a while a rung on the ladder breaks.
Download or read book Harvesting Dreams written by Erica Alfaro and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2019, Erica's graduation picture went viral and made headlines around the world. She was dressed in a graduation cap and gown, standing in a field with her farm worker mother and father. To honor her parents sacrifices, she took her master's degree pictures in the field where they had worked long hours to provide her with an education.This is the testimony of a girl who never believed she could achieve great goals, for she always felt she was less than a man. A teenage mother and a victim of domestic violence, who, after years of many adversities, managed to reinvent herself and become the woman she is today-someone who has achieved everything she thought was impossible.
Book Synopsis American Harvest by : Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Download or read book American Harvest written by Marie Mutsuki Mockett and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Plains For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s father was raised. Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with her father and her Japanese mother, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it. In American Harvest, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the conservative farmer who has cut her family’s fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth’s crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as “the divide,” inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields, attends church, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals “not white,” but who people she encounters can’t quite categorize. American Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite lyricism and humanity, this astonishing book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story.
Download or read book Harvest Son written by David Mas Masumoto and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Japanese-American farmer recounts the challenges of taking over and renewing his family's farm in Del Rey, California, describing the pains and pleasures of farm work, and the perseverance of his grandmother.
Download or read book Harvesting Dreams written by Erica Alfaro and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis I Was Their American Dream by : Malaka Gharib
Download or read book I Was Their American Dream written by Malaka Gharib and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of family, that pulls off the feat of being both intimately specific and deeply universal at the same time. I adored this book.”—Jonny Sun “[A] high-spirited graphical memoir . . . Gharib’s wisdom about the power and limits of racial identity is evident in the way she draws.”—NPR WINNER OF THE ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews I Was Their American Dream is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents' ideals, learning to code-switch between her family's Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and trying to understand the tension between holding onto cultural values and trying to be an all-American kid. Malaka Gharib's triumphant graphic memoir brings to life her teenage antics and illuminates earnest questions about identity and culture, while providing thoughtful insight into the lives of modern immigrants and the generation of millennial children they raised. Malaka's story is a heartfelt tribute to the American immigrants who have invested their future in the promise of the American dream. Praise for I Was Their American Dream “In this time when immigration is such a hot topic, Malaka Gharib puts an engaging human face on the issue. . . . The push and pull first-generation kids feel is portrayed with humor and love, especially humor. . . . Gharib pokes fun at all of the cultures she lives in, able to see each of them with an outsider’s wry eye, while appreciating them with an insider’s close experience. . . . The question of ‘What are you?’ has never been answered with so much charm.”—Marissa Moss, New York Journal of Books “Forthright and funny, Gharib fiercely claims her own American dream.”—Booklist “Thoughtful and relatable, this touching account should be shared across generations.”– Library Journal “This charming graphic memoir riffs on the joys and challenges of developing a unique ethnic identity.”– Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Radical written by David Platt and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT IS JESUS WORTH TO YOU? It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle would actually look like. They would, he said, leave behind security, money, convenience, even family for him. They would abandon everything for the gospel. They would take up their crosses daily... BUT WHO DO YOU KNOW WHO LIVES LIKE THAT? DO YOU? In Radical, David Platt challenges you to consider with an open heart how we have manipulated the gospel to fit our cultural preferences. He shows what Jesus actually said about being his disciple--then invites you to believe and obey what you have heard. And he tells the dramatic story of what is happening as a successful" suburban church decides to get serious about the gospel according to Jesus. Finally, he urges you to join in The Radical Experiment -- a one-year journey in authentic discipleship that will transform how you live in a world that desperately needs the Good News Jesus came to bring. (From the 2010 edition)"
Download or read book Feast written by Merrie Destefano and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy…breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead.” —Tosca Lee, author of Havah and Demon: A Memoir “Merrie Destefano has made a fine start on a promising career.” —James Gunn, science fiction Grand Master With her brilliant debut novel, Afterlife, author Merrie Destefano earned herself a place of honor at the banquet table alongside today’s top authors of sf and urban fantasy. With Feast, she serves up another heaping helping of thrills, shivers, wonder, and glorious invention while spicing up the recipe with dark romance in the bestselling vein of C.L Wilson, Marjorie M. Liu, and other paranormal superstars. A spellbinding fantasy of supernatural intrigue and forbidden love, Feast blends vampire and fairy lore, with the resulting dish offering a sumptuous new take on both, as a troubled storyteller returns home to the mysterious autumn woods just prior to Halloween, to find her life and her soul captivated by a cursed immortal, the Lord of the Hunt.
Download or read book American Dreams written by H. W. Brands and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling historian H. W. Brands, an incisive chronicle of the events and trends that guided-and sometimes misguided-our nation from the A-bomb to the iPhone. For a brief, bright moment in 1945, America stood at its apex, looking back on victory not only against the Axis powers but against the Great Depression, and looking ahead to seemingly limitless power and promise. What we've done with that power and promise over the past six decades is a vitally important and fascinating topic that has rarely been tackled in one volume, and never by a historian of H. W. Brands's stature. As American Dreams opens, Brands shows us a country dramatically different from our own-more unequal in social terms but more equal economically, more religious and rural but also more liberal and more wholeheartedly engaged with the rest of the world. As he traces the changes we have gone through as a nation, he reveals the great themes and dreams that have driven America-the rising focus on individual rights and pleasures, the growing distance between our global goals and those of the rest of the world, and the inexorable dissolution of a shared sense of what it means to be American. In Brands's adroit hands, these trends unfold through a character-driven narrative that sheds brilliant light on the obvious highs and lows-from Watergate to the Berlin Wall, from Apollo 11 to 9/11, from My Lai to shock and awe. But he also chronicles the surprising impact of less celebrated events and trends. Through his eyes, we realize the sweeping significance of the immigration reforms of the 1960s, which gradually transformed American society. We come to grasp the vast impact of abandoning the gold standard in 1971, which enabled both globalization and the current financial crisis. We ponder the unnerving results of CNN's debut in 1979, which sped up the news cycle and permanently changed our foreign policy by putting its effects live on our TV screens. Blending political and cultural history with his keen sense of the spirit of the times, Brands captures the national experience through the last six decades and reveals the still-unfolding legacy of dreams born out of a global cataclysm.
Download or read book Last Harvest written by Witold Rybczynski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of "Home" and "A Clearing in the Distance" tells the compelling story of the transformation of a Pennsylvania cornfield into a neotraditional housing development--taking the reader on a revelatory inside tour of real estate in America.
Book Synopsis After 30 Years, America's Continuing Harvest of Shame by : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging
Download or read book After 30 Years, America's Continuing Harvest of Shame written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Harvesting History by : Daniel P. Ott
Download or read book Harvesting History written by Daniel P. Ott and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvesting History focuses on the example of Cyrus McCormick’s invention of the mechanized reaper in 1831 to reveal connections between the historical profession and economic power in the competitive harvesting machine industry of the late nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis Harvesting and Utilization Opportunities for Forest Residues in the Northern Rocky Mountains by :
Download or read book Harvesting and Utilization Opportunities for Forest Residues in the Northern Rocky Mountains written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Dream written by Jim Cullen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cullen particularly focuses on the founding fathers and the Declaration of Independence ("the charter of the American Dream"); Abraham Lincoln, with his rise from log cabin to White House and his dream for a unified nation; and Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial equality. Our contemporary version of the American Dream seems rather debased in Cullen's eyes-built on the cult of Hollywood and its outlandish dreams of overnight fame and fortune.
