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Book Synopsis Retracing Our Roots by : Marivir R. Montebon
Download or read book Retracing Our Roots written by Marivir R. Montebon and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Embracing Our Roots by : Paul J. Palma
Download or read book Embracing Our Roots written by Paul J. Palma and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America has provided a platform for countless migrant peoples who have, in turn, contributed to the nation's landscape as a multicultural land of opportunity. Still, the waves of assimilation can obscure the distinctive customs and beliefs of immigrants, many feeling coerced to conform to American attitudes towards race, the economy, and politics. Others, inundated with American media, consumerism, and secularity, have forgotten those aspects about their family heritage that make them unique. Drawing from Palma's background as an Italian American evangelical, Embracing Our Roots considers the significance of rediscovering our ancestral history in a society where many are forced to repress, ignore, or reject their heritage. A nation of immigrants, every American is, in some sense, an "ethnic" American and stands to gain from considering how the people and places they come from make them unique. In addition to using genealogy databases and social networks, Palma maintains the rich value of thumbing through the family archives, hearty conversations with loved ones, and building one's family tree. This book is for scholars and laypersons alike with interest in the themes of biblical living, faith-based traditions, food culture, immigration, social class, race, family dynamics, and mental health.
Book Synopsis A Life Fully Lived by : Helmut Lemke
Download or read book A Life Fully Lived written by Helmut Lemke and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Life Fully Lived (Loving Hildegard) is the story of an immigrant family. Hildegard, a young university graduate, meets an architect from Germany. They both immigrate to Canada and start their life together as professionals in Vancouver, BC. They try to contribute creatively to their new environment. Hildegard gives up her profession as a teacher and devotes her time and energy to her family bringing up three children in the turbulent sixties and seventies, the time of draft dodgers, hippies and Jesus people. After the children left home and she withdrew from her church, Hildegard goes through a period of self evaluation. Searching in feminism, mythology and spirituality she finds her identity as a woman with new visions and responsibilities. Exploring new territories, she discovers a way to express herself in art She is drawn to a Mennonite fellowship where she feels valued and accepted and to which she can contribute creatively. She and her husband share enjoyable and adventurous retirement activities, exploring the beauty and diversity of this world. At the age of seventy-three, Hildegard is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, unexpectedly for her and as a shock for her family. Her tranquil preparation for dying is moving and amazing for doctors and all those who knew her. A Life Fully lived, Loving Hildegard, is written by Hildegard's husband in memory of her.
Book Synopsis The New American Cyclopaedia by : George Ripley
Download or read book The New American Cyclopaedia written by George Ripley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
Book Synopsis The New American Cyclopaedia by : George Ripley
Download or read book The New American Cyclopaedia written by George Ripley and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From a Prince to a Slave by : Webster Gregg
Download or read book From a Prince to a Slave written by Webster Gregg and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2009 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hill family has an almost unbelievable history. Their ancestors were royalty in the Zulu nation in Africa before being sold into slavery on a plantation in the American south. However, after centuries of hard work and perseverance, one family member overcame the odds to serve on the cabinet of a president of the United States. Sound too incredible to be true? It gets better. Some of the Hills are black; some are white. From a Prince to a Slave is a heartwarming book about a diverse family who fought to find one another after centuries of separation and forgive, reconnect, and reconcile under the banner of God's grace and love.
Book Synopsis Cultural Gumbo, Our Roots, Our Stories by : Marian Olivia Heath Griffin
Download or read book Cultural Gumbo, Our Roots, Our Stories written by Marian Olivia Heath Griffin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no subject in the world more stereotypical than slavery of African Americans. This book is about four families: my mother and father’s families and my husband’s mother and father’s families, dating back to the era before slaves were brought out of Africa. Historically, our families evolved on a continuous basis and have proven to have been strong, resilient people, whose hopes and dreams were not easily squelched. We have researched the backgrounds of these relatives who were a part of the Atlantic slave trade because I want my children and grandchildren as well as the world to know who their ancestors were. I want them to know under what circumstances they came to America and finally became citizens with voting rights, educational and financial privileges, marital rights, and freedom. I want to clear up the misrepresentation and confusion of facts about slavery and the black man’s worth. Slaves over the last two thousand years have become a misnomer to our young people’s minds, and there is little knowledge of this period. Many civilizations and nations have been involved in slavery during the course of history. Contemporary records and archival documents were sought in an effort to reach greater heights of authenticity, enhance ancestral reality, and relate the facts to younger generations.
Book Synopsis The New American Cyclopædia by : George Ripley
Download or read book The New American Cyclopædia written by George Ripley and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Roots of Theatre written by Eli Rozik and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of the origins of theatre is one of the most controversial in theatre studies, with a long history of heated discussions and strongly held positions. In The Roots of Theatre, Eli Rozik enters the debate in a feisty way, offering not just another challenge to those who place theatre’s origins in ritual and religion but also an alternative theory of roots based on the cultural and psychological conditions that made the advent of theatre possible. Rozik grounds his study in a comprehensive review and criticism of each of the leading historical and anthropological theories. He believes that the quest for origins is essentially misleading because it does not provide any significant insight for our understanding of theatre. Instead, he argues that theatre, like music or dance, is a sui generis kind of human creativity—a form of thinking and communication whose roots lie in the spontaneous image-making faculty of the human psyche. Rozik’s broad approach to research lies within the boundaries of structuralism and semiotics, but he also utilizes additional disciplines such as psychoanalysis, neurology, sociology, play and game theory, science of religion, mythology, poetics, philosophy of language, and linguistics. In seeking the roots of theatre, what he ultimately defines is something substantial about the nature of creative thought—a rudimentary system of imagistic thinking and communication that lies in the set of biological, primitive, and infantile phenomena such as daydreaming, imaginative play, children’s drawing, imitation, mockery (caricature, parody), storytelling, and mythmaking.
Book Synopsis Eight Muses of the Fall by : Edgar Calabia Samar
Download or read book Eight Muses of the Fall written by Edgar Calabia Samar and published by Anvil Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is on the one hand a young man’s frustrated attempt to write the great Filipino novel, and on the other, his coming to terms with the futility of his search for his lost mother. Along the way, he is guided and misdirected by some muses and demons to reimagine his personal past without the burden of national history. He will be forced to accept that truth can somehow be in the deceptive, inchoate recreation of memories, without which, the fall seems inevitable.
Book Synopsis Homes of the Past by : Jeffrey Shandler
Download or read book Homes of the Past written by Jeffrey Shandler and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the United States in the early 1940s were a small number of Polish scholars who had devoted their professional lives to the study of Europe's Yiddish-speaking Jews at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Faced with the devastating knowledge that returning to their former homes and resuming their scholarly work there was no longer viable, they sought to address their profound sense of loss by continuing their work, under radically different circumstances, to document the European Jewish lives, places, and ways of living that were being destroyed. In pursuing this daunting agenda, they made a remarkable decision: they would create a museum to memorialize East European Jewry and educate American Jews about this legacy. YIVO scholars determinedly pursued this undertaking for several years, publicizing the initiative and collecting materials to exhibit. However, the Museum of the Homes of the Past was abandoned shortly after the war ended. With insight and clarity, Jeffrey Shandler draws upon the surviving archival sources to tell the story of the purpose, development, and ultimate fate of the Museum of the Homes of the Past. Homes of the Past explores this largely unknown episode of modern Jewish history and museum history and demonstrates that the project, even though it was never realized, marked a critical inflection point in the dynamic interrelations between Jews in America and Eastern Europe.
Book Synopsis Strawberry Mansion by : Allen Meyers
Download or read book Strawberry Mansion written by Allen Meyers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999-11-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strawberry Mansion: The Jewish Community of North Philadelphia is a testament to the urban experience in American Jewish life. Perfect for fans of Jewish-American History. A section of North Philadelphia, Strawberry Mansion is nestled high on the banks of the Schuylkill River, adjacent to the large expanses of Fairmount Park, with many wonderful venues such as Woodside Park. The area became the setting for America's premiere Jewish Community in the 20th century, with over 50,000 inhabitants. Strawberry Mansion was the first Jewish suburb within an urban setting. Affectionately known as the Mansion, it was only a trolley car ride away from South Philadelphia's immigrant district. Jewish families migrated from one neighborhood to another as they advanced economically in American society during the early 1900s. By the mid-1950s, the decision to discontinue the once heavily traveled Route #9 trolley car marked the decline and eventual demise of Strawberry Mansion as a Jewish enclave.
Book Synopsis Religion and Politics: New Developments Worldwide by : Roy C. Amore
Download or read book Religion and Politics: New Developments Worldwide written by Roy C. Amore and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and Politics: New Developments Worldwide features ten articles about recent developments in the interaction of Religion and Politics in various countries of Asia, Africa, Europe, and both North and South America. Most articles focus on one country, and including China, South Korea, India, Nigeria, Malaysia, France, and Cuba. Others address issues across regions such as Latin America, Southeast Asia, or the Middle East. The fifteen contributors are scholars from diverse disciplines as well as diverse regions of Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Subjects include the Indian government’s favoritism for Hinduism over rival religions; the way the Sikhs of India avoid the religion–politics divide; the way the Western media fails to fully understand the Chinese government’s policies on religious minorities; the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo demonstrations in France; religious attitudes toward tax politics in South Korea as well as among Christians compared to Muslims; how to lessen the radicalization of Muslims in Southeast Asia; whether Nigeria should encourage its Muslims to be active in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation; the spiritual role played by the permaculture movement in Cuba; and how the former tendency of scholars to polarize religion and politics is no longer viable, especially in Latin America.
Book Synopsis Fundamental Concepts of Algebra by : Bruce Elwyn Meserve
Download or read book Fundamental Concepts of Algebra written by Bruce Elwyn Meserve and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncommonly interesting introduction illuminates complexities of higher mathematics while offering a thorough understanding of elementary mathematics. Covers development of complex number system and elementary theories of numbers, polynomials and operations, determinants, matrices, constructions and graphical representations. Several exercises — without solutions.
Download or read book Be Still written by Karin Larsen Ford and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covid-19 came on suddenly and caused lives throughout the world to change dramatically. It was not a pandemic that robbed me of the beloved husband of my youth, the father of my children. It was a tragic plane crash. Along with him on that fateful June day in 1982 were our two youngest children. As impossible as it is to imagine, it happened yet again thirty-four years later. This time it was my adult son and my teenage grandson, along with a teenage friend. When I wondered, so many years ago, if I could ever again be truly happy, my elder brother, Jesus Christ, guided my way to true joy. This is my story. "Be Still weaves a woman's journey through unthinkable tragedy, at once both heartbreaking and hopeful. Fate and faith play hand in hand in this gripping story of love, loss, and family." --Greg Boeck, former USA Today sports writer, currently teaches journalism at Arizona State University "Admire life while it lasts." --Maxel Jed Belnap
Book Synopsis The Franco-Americans of New England by : Yves Roby
Download or read book The Franco-Americans of New England written by Yves Roby and published by Les éditions du Septentrion. This book was released on 2004 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1840 and 1930, approximately 900,000 people left Quebec for the United States and settled in French-Canadian colonies in New England's industrial cities. Yves Roby draws from first-person accounts to explore the conversion of these immigrants and their descendants from French-Canadian to Franco-American. The first generation of immigrants saw themselves as French Canadians who had relocated to the United States. They were not involved with American society and instead sought to recreate their lost homeland. The Franco-Americans of New England reveals that their children, however, did not see a need to create a distinct society. Although they maintained aspects of their language, religion, and customs, they felt no loyalty to Canada and identified themselves as Franco-American. Roby's analysis raises insightful questions about not only Franco-Americans but also the integration of ethno-cultural groups into Canadian society and the future of North American Francophonies.
Download or read book Adopted written by Monica Blackman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a riveting heartfelt story of triumph of a woman who has evolved in varying facets to be a discerning, kind and an unequivocally stylish, passionate soul. Her story starts in her picturesque native island of Jamaica, which gives a preview of the rebounding spirit she would need throughout her life. Her story of Adoption from the Natural to the Spiritual is one which greets the readers heart with emotions to protect, encourage, and love young Peggy McDonald. While the lack of encouragement and affection would affect her in her childhood, she discovered her worth not based on anyone’s summation, but on what she felt was possible through her natural intuition. Her innate giftings would start to bloom in her young adult life as she traversed bustling New York City at the tender age of 18. She learnt some harsh lessons which gave her both a steely strength and quintessential capacity to care for the vulnerable or heartbroken. This memoir she has written is an honest look into a lady who pursues excellence in all aspects of her life, while allowing kindness to direct her soul.