American Born

Author : Gene Luen Yang
Publisher : First Second
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781466805460

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American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang Pdf

A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and Chin-Kee, a personification of the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, who is ruining his cousin Danny's life with his yearly visits. Their lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action-packed modern fable. American Born Chinese is an amazing ride, all the way up to the astonishing climax. American Born Chinese is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature, the winner of the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New, an Eisner Award nominee for Best Coloring and a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. This title has Common Core Connections

Author : Gene Luen Yang
Publisher : First Second
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781626725744

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Secret Coders by Gene Luen Yang Pdf

Welcome to Stately Academy, a school which is just crawling with mysteries to be solved! The founder of the school left many clues and puzzles to challenge his enterprising students. Using their wits and their growing prowess with coding, Hopper and her friend Eni are going to solve the mystery of Stately Academy no matter what it takes! From graphic novel superstar (and high school computer programming teacher) Gene Luen Yang comes Secret Coders, a wildly entertaining new series that combines logic puzzles and basic programming instruction with a page-turning mystery plot!

Author : Music Lovers for Women and Men
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1076871275

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Notebook by Music Lovers for Women and Men Pdf

Attention Music Lovers! Looking for a new Music Notebook? Then this special Sounds Memo Book is the perfect booklet for you and your ideas. Great design for all Songs Lovers! Title of the Book: NOTEBOOK Nice Audio Design, useful and handy! Use this classical Note Book as a Diary for your most intimate memories. Also usable as a diary or calendar. Or just give it to Musicians as a cool gift! Important appointments and tasks are always in view with your daily notes. Singers should not miss this great booklet. Cool 6x9 inches A5 notepad with a Melodies style - ruled - 120 pages! Useful A5 Format 15.2 x 22.9 cm, 6x9 inches, so it fits almost anywhere. On a total of 120 pages you can put all of your thoughts on paper. Lined edition. Includes Page Numbers for a perfect overview. For international use, e.g. in the languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese Need more choices? Are you looking for a beautiful present or a gift idea? Just have a look at our other Notebooks. With a simple click on the Authors Name you will find a large selection of hundreds of cool designs. We offer notebooks in lined, plaid, dotted, blank and many other formats, such as daily and weekly planners. Get your copy now with your favourite design, for yourself or a loved one.

Author : Rachel M. Brownstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226823072

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American Born by Rachel M. Brownstein Pdf

An incisive memoir of Rachel M. Brownstein’s seemingly quintessential Jewish mother, a resilient and courageous immigrant in New York. When she arrived alone in New York in 1924, eighteen-year-old Reisel Thaler resembled the other Yiddish-speaking immigrants from Eastern Europe who accompanied her. Yet she already had an American passport tucked in her scant luggage. Reisel had drawn her first breath on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1905, then was taken back to Galicia (in what is now Poland) by her father before she turned two. She was, as she would boast to the end of her days, “American born.” The distinguished biographer and critic Rachel M. Brownstein began writing about her mother Reisel during the Trump years, dwelling on the tales she told about her life and the questions they raised about nationalism, immigration, and storytelling. For most of the twentieth century, Brownstein’s mother gracefully balanced her identities as an American and a Jew. Her values, her language, and her sense of timing inform the imagination of the daughter who recalls her in her own old age. The memorializing daughter interrupts, interprets, and glosses, sifting through alternate versions of the same stories using scenes, songs, and books from their time together. But the central character of this book is Reisel, who eventually becomes Grandma Rose—always watching and judging, singing, baking, and bustling. Living life as the heroine of her own story, she reminds us how to laugh despite tragedy, find our courage, and be our most unapologetically authentic selves.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale Cengage Learning
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410339751

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A Study Guide for Gene Yang's "American Born Chinese" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Gene Yang's "American Born Chinese," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Aliens
ISBN : MINN:31951D03505151M

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Immigration and Citizenship of American-born Women Married to Aliens by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization Pdf

Author : Ted Campbell,Ann Riggs,Gilbert Wayne Stafford
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780809143214

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Ancient Faith and American-born Churches by Ted Campbell,Ann Riggs,Gilbert Wayne Stafford Pdf

ANCIENT FAITH AND AMERICAN-BORN CHURCHES is a groundbreaking book that brings together in dialogue, representatives of various Christian churches which function as though they were in completely different worlds. These dialogues were undertaken by the ecclesiology study group of the Faith and Order Commission, National Council of the Churches Christ. Churches originating in pre-American (pre-United States) experience were brought into dialogue with churches in the American experience, i.e., a dialogue between Roman Catholic and Baptist traditions. Some of the topics explored in the eight dialogues are apostolicity, Christian Initiation, and the authority and function of scripture. The result then is a dialogue that exemplifies much of what is best in the modern ecumenical movement. Though the participants live and work in different ecclesial communities, they were able to see each other as friends and faith--"faith that recognizes Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.

Author : Beverly P. Lyons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317732556

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Sociocultural Differences between American-born and West Indian-born Elderly Blacks by Beverly P. Lyons Pdf

Sociocultural differences between elderly American-born and West Indian-born Blacks: A comparative study o f health and social service use, represents an important contribution to the available knowledge on Black elderly and the diversity found within the Black community. It is an outgrowth of a larger scale study of older people in New York City—"Growing older in New York in the 1990s" (M.Cantor and B. Gurland, principal investigators).

Author : Gene Luen Yang
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781596432352

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Level Up by Gene Luen Yang Pdf

Dennis, the son of Chinese immigrants, yearns to play video games like his friends and, upon his strict father's death, becomes obsessed with them but later, realizing how his father sacrificed for him, he chooses a nobler path.

Author : Zalika Reid-Benta
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487005351

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Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta Pdf

Set in the neighbourhood of “Little Jamaica,” Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation immigrants experiencing first-generation cultural expectations, and Black identity in a predominantly white society. Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her North American identity and her desire to be a “true” Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother’s rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too “faas” or too “quiet” or too “bold” or too “soft.” In these twelve interconnected stories, we see Kara on a visit to Jamaica, startled by the sight of a severed pig’s head in her great-aunt’s freezer; in junior high, the victim of a devastating prank by her closest friends; and as a teenager in and out of her grandmother’s house, trying to cope with ongoing battles of unyielding authority. A rich and unforgettable portrait of growing up between worlds, Frying Plantain shows how, in one charged moment, friendship and love can turn to enmity and hate, well-meaning protection can become control, and teasing play can turn to something much darker.

Author : Gene Luen Yang
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781626720763

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Secret Coders: Paths & Portals by Gene Luen Yang Pdf

Stately Academy is just crawling with mysteries to be solved! In the last volume, Hopper and Eni discovered a robot in the supply closet and programmed him to do mischief. Now they're trapped in an underground lair, and they must use their new programming skills to escape. Hot on the heels of the highly anticipated first volume, Paths & Portals offers more of the same high-stakes adventure and real-world coding instruction. The Secret Coders series is an exciting new direction for Gene Luen Yang, one of the most popular creators in children's comics.

Author : United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : UCD:31175021805976

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Reports of the Immigration Commission: Changes in bodily form of descendants of immigrants. (Final report) by United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910) Pdf

Author : Scott A. Sandage
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 067401510X

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Born Losers by Scott A. Sandage Pdf

What makes somebody a Loser, a person doomed to unfulfilled dreams and humiliation? Nobody is born to lose, and yet failure embodies our worst fears. The Loser is our national bogeyman, and his history over the past two hundred years reveals the dark side of success, how economic striving reshaped the self and soul of America. From colonial days to the Columbine tragedy, Scott Sandage explores how failure evolved from a business loss into a personality deficit, from a career setback to a gauge of our self-worth. From hundreds of private diaries, family letters, business records, and even early credit reports, Sandage reconstructs the dramas of real-life Willy Lomans. He unearths their confessions and denials, foolish hopes and lost faith, sticking places and changing times. Dreamers, suckers, and nobodies come to life in the major scenes of American history, like the Civil War and the approach of big business, showing how the national quest for success remade the individual ordeal of failure. Born Losers is a pioneering work of American cultural history, which connects everyday attitudes and anxieties about failure to lofty ideals of individualism and salesmanship of self. Sandage's storytelling will resonate with all of us as it brings to life forgotten men and women who wrestled with The Loser--the label and the experience--in the days when American capitalism was building a nation of winners.

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870704915

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Modern Contemporary by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

MODE LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2012 COLLECTOR'S EDITION - Editor's Letter: Welcome to the January/February 2012 Collector's Edition of Mode Lifestyle Magazine and welcome to the New Year! The end of 2011 marked another positively eventful year for Mode Lifestyle Magazine with some new faces joining our editorial team and with excitement as we prepare for the shooting of our first feature film "IN THE MODE" in 2012. We are very happy to have added a new section to the magazine, "Teenagers Are Always Right", that will be published from the Mar/April 2012 edition. With expert advice from our new editorial contributors, this section will give teenagers ideas on how to tackle some of the challenges they experience as they approach adulthood. As usual we have our beautiful editorials shot across the globe and also profiles of artists such as Philip Ross Munro and successful entrepreneurs such as Thomas Kramer.Alexander MichaelsPresident & Editor-in-ChiefCONTENTS IN THIS EDITION: -ON THE COVER86 APOCALYPTO: An Editorial shot by the amazing Natasha Kertes - Mayan Theme60 STYLE TRANSFORMATION: It's 2012 - Transform Yourself: Mrs. Maid In Porsche Cayenne80 MODERN ARTISTS THAT CALL VEGAS HOME: Peter Lik105 THOMAS KRAMER: Global Networker, Entrepreneur & Philanthropist113 THE NEW MIAMI: Evolution of A CityREGULARS8 CAST MEMBERS9 EDITOR'S LETTER11 SUBSCRIPTIONSTYLE & FASHION26 ASK LIGIA: A New Exclusive Louis Vuitton30 ON THE RUNWAY: Pret-a-Porter SPRING SUMMER 2012 MODE's Fashion Editor Eleonora Genieve de Gray in Paris60 STYLE TRANSFORMATIONFASHION & FEATURES48 SOME LIKE IT HAUTE64 WE MEET ON THE YACHT-WE MEET IN PARIS: Shot In Paris With Michel Bonini86 APOCALYPTO: An editorial shot across Many Locations Based on Nature and The Mayan Theme. By Natasha Kertes.READER WRITES13 READER FEEDBACK: Readers write in with opinions on life, love and fashionJETS, BOATS & CARS15 ACCESS CUSTOM JETS: A New Handcrafted Personalized Private Jet17 DARTZ PROMOMBRON NAGEL: The World's First Armored Sportback For Yacht OwnersGOING PLACES20 LITTLE PALM ISLAND: The Perfect Exotic Getaway DestinationPROFILES37 ERIN MIA MILCHMAN: South Florida's Party DivaMODE ART80 ART IN LAS VEGAS - PETER LIK: We interview the award winning nature photographer to find out what makes him tick.39 PHILIP ROSS MUNRO: Painter & Underwater Photographer ExtraordinaireFLASH42 THE VENETIAN BALL-PARIS: baroness Maria-Elena de Saint-Didier and Friends Celebrate "Work of The Holy Angels" In StyleCLUBS & NIGHTLIFE109 TOP 20 CLUBS: MODE's List of The Top 20 Nightclubs In The WorldLIFE115 STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT: Girls Night Out In Miami - By Belinda ElkaimHEALTH & BEAUTY117 NATURAL CHILDBIRTH - A DYING FAD: An Interview With Dr. Simion Tsinker

Author : Randy D. McBee
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781469622736

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Born to Be Wild by Randy D. McBee Pdf

In 1947, 4,000 motorcycle hobbyists converged on Hollister, California. As images of dissolute bikers graced the pages of newspapers and magazines, the three-day gathering sparked the growth of a new subculture while also touching off national alarm. In the years that followed, the stereotypical leather-clad biker emerged in the American consciousness as a menace to law-abiding motorists and small towns. Yet a few short decades later, the motorcyclist, once menacing, became mainstream. To understand this shift, Randy D. McBee narrates the evolution of motorcycle culture since World War II. Along the way he examines the rebelliousness of early riders of the 1940s and 1950s, riders' increasing connection to violence and the counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, the rich urban bikers of the 1990s and 2000s, and the factors that gave rise to a motorcycle rights movement. McBee's fascinating narrative of motorcycling's past and present reveals the biker as a crucial character in twentieth-century American life.