As The Old Folks Usta Say

Author : Corinne Jennings
Publisher : Sepia Pub
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : African American proverbs.
ISBN : 0964933209

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As the Old Folks Usta' Say-- by Corinne Jennings Pdf

As The Old Folks Usta' Say... records the proverbs, sayings and folk-wit from the rich oral tradition of African-American history. In over 250 hilarious, wise and witty one-liners, the voices of old-school wisdom come to life on these pages. A welcome change from African proverbs, these sayings are exclusively from the American experience, Ebonics and all! You'll laugh, you may even cry, as you remember the guiding words of your parents or grandparents. You'll be touched with pride in your heritage. You'll learn some witty and concise responses to say to your children. As they remember and repeat them to their children, your words will become a cherished memory. Los Angeles, California -- Is it ever correct to use Ebonics? Will recognition of Ebonics by the educational established condemn an entire generation of African-American students to failure? Heated debate and controversy continue as a key factor is often overlooked: context. Ebonics, in proper context, is a valid and relevant form of language in the classroom and beyond. Ebonics is not just street slang with fractures of the verb To Be. Past generations of African-Americans who lacked formal education developed a unique, emphatic dialect which they used to express themselves eloquently, often in proverbs and sayings which endure to this day. In As The Old Folks Usta' Say... Black Proverbs, Sayings and Folk-wit, Ebonics occurs in a natural context. Readers will develop a new appreciation and respect for its power to communicate. Each generation in the family will enjoy the over 250 hilarious, wise and witty adages. Devoted exclusively to African-American oral literature, this book is a refreshing change from run-of-the-millethnic proverbs. Parents, teachers, preachers and other speakers will welcome this new resource for life lessons from the old school.

Author : Askhari Johnson Hodari,Yvonne McCalla Sobers
Publisher : Broadway Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307589200

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Lifelines by Askhari Johnson Hodari,Yvonne McCalla Sobers Pdf

This little book contains the wisdom of the ages, and is guaranteed to produce a smile of appreciation at the sheer sense of the proverbs you will find inside. From advice you wish your mother had given you, to things you probably suspected, but had never put into words, Lifelines is a book to be read, absorbed and treasured.—Pearl Cleage, New York Times best selling author of What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day This illustrated treasury of proverbs unites the timeless wisdom of Black communities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, while speaking to the triumphs and challenges of everyday life. Lifelines: The Black book of Proverbs travels to all corners of the globe to reclaim and preserve African wisdom. This book offers the remarkably wise heart of Africa and her children to readers experiencing career changes, new births, weddings, death, and other rites of passage. Readers will find truth in the African saying, “When the occasion arises, there is a proverb to suit it.” Proverbs are presented in vibrant story-poem form; and are uniquely arranged by key life cycle events such as birth, initiation, marriage, and death. The proverbs can be found under themes such as “wealth”, “parenting”, “change” and “strength.” Inspired illustrations introduce each section along with beautiful vignettes showing how African proverbs comfort, inspire and instruct during different phases of life. Lifelines illuminates how traditions, civilization and spirit survive and thrive, despite centuries of loss of freedom, family, identity, language, land, and wealth. The proverbs offer wisdom for every stage of our lives. Collected in one place as never before, it is the perfect addition to the book shelves of families large and small, from Nairobi to New Orleans and every city in between. From Birth: Every cackling hen was an egg at first. -Rwanda to Marriage: A woman's clothes are the price her husband pays for peace. -Central Africa, East Africa, and Southern Africa (Bantu) and Elderhood: Every time an old man dies it is as if a library has burnt down. -West Africa as well as every stage of life in between, the proverbs found in Lifelines offer the guidance and wisdom to last a life time. Unlike other collections of proverbs, Lifelines hews closely to the cycle of life and draws inspiration from the authors combined 110 years of experience. Askhari Johnson Hodari and Yvonne McCalla Sobers have set out to let their proverbs both tell a story and stand alone. So whether you flip it open to a random page, read it through from start to finish, or go searching for a proverb to match your unique circumstance, you’ll find just the right lifeline to provide the comfort and guidance you’re looking for. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Tracy Kidder
Publisher : Random House
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307826473

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Home Town by Tracy Kidder Pdf

In this splendid book, one of America's masters of nonfiction takes us home--into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraordinary, and the ordinary, lives that people live there. As Tracy Kidder reveals how, beneath its amiable surface, a small town is a place of startling complexity, he also explores what it takes to make a modern small city a success story. Weaving together compelling stories of individual lives, delving into a rich and varied past, moving among all the levels of Northampton's social hierarchy, Kidder reveals the sheer abundance of life contained within a town's narrow boundaries. Does the kind of small town that many Americans came from, and long for, still exist? Kidder says yes, although not quite in the form we may imagine. A book about civilization in microcosm, Home Town makes us marvel afresh at the wonder of individuality, creativity, and civic order--how a disparate group of individuals can find common cause and a code of values that transforms a place into a home. And this book makes you feel you live there.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UVA:X006067022

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Ebony by Anonim Pdf

Author : Manuel S. Cervantes
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781514420911

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WHAT TENNIS PROS DON’T TEACH (WTPDT) by Manuel S. Cervantes Pdf

What Tennis Pros Don’t Teach encompasses a World of information threading Tennis and life at work. It talks about the forces of Tennis under all different scenarios. This book is based on the love of Tennis as the foundation to tackle philosophy, mental toughness, discipline, strategy, the meaning of momentum, technique, player development, politics in sports, etc... What Tennis Pros Don’t Teach also shows us how to make Tennis a special friend and use it to help forge our lives and destiny. What Tennis Pros Don’t Teach is somewhat anecdotal using storytelling to illustrate lessons learned on the Tennis courts. There is something for everyone in this book, Tennis player or not. This book is easily one of the most comprehensive treatises in Tennis written to date. There is more wisdom and information in this book than in any other Tennis book ever written!

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045119224

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District of Columbia Bill for 1940, Hearings Before ... 76-1, on H.R. 5610 by United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1620 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015069455312

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1658 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:B3636976

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District of Columbia Appropriation Bill for 1940 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : Fiona Hodgkin
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780882215

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The Tennis Player from Bermuda by Fiona Hodgkin Pdf

In The Tennis Player from Bermuda, Fiona Hodgkin tells the story of her short but spectacular career as an amateur tennis player in the early 1960s. Fiona met Claire Kershaw, the number one woman tennis player and twice a Wimbledon champion. Claire was an imp. To get Fiona into the qualifying round for Wimbledon, Claire makes a comical, tongue-in-cheek offer to the mysterious Committee that runs the Championships at Wimbledon. Fiona and Claire quickly become best friends - as well as rivals on the brilliant green grass tennis courts of Wimbledon. Against the backdrop of the London social season, the tennis competition at Wimbledon, and the tennis fashions designed by the irrepressible Teddy Tingling, Fiona has two love affairs, one of which Fiona ends forever - or perhaps she doesn't.

Author : Alice Wilson-Fried
Publisher : Basic Health Publications, Inc.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1591200768

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Menopause, Sisterhood, and Tennis by Alice Wilson-Fried Pdf

In Menopause, Sisterhood, and Tennis, Wilson-Fried offers the powerful story of one woman's tangled journey through menopause. Based upon her own experience, and steeped in the rich Southern humour of her mother and grandmother, this guide to surviving 'the change' unveils the mystery of menopause, laying bare the physiological, psychological, and emotional transformations menopause brings to women's lives.

Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726665796

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The Man-Eater by Edgar Rice Burroughs Pdf

Love and greed, cowardice and heroism, rights and wrongs. This story set in the jungles of Africa has it all. You won't believe who turns out to be the hero of this suspenseful tale! 'The Man Eater' is an adventure novel that takes place in Congo, where the Belgian missionaries suffer frequent attacks and killings by the native Wakandas. There is no Tarzan this time, just an unusual hero. He takes it upon himself to punish the wrongdoers and go after justice and peace. A little bit of racial stereotyping and language which wouldn't be tolerated today, but all in all, it is a compelling and highly entertaining adventure novel that fans of Burroughs and Tarzan enthusiasts will devour in one go. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American author, best known for his novel ‘Tarzan of the Apes’ (1914) and its sequels as well as the Barsoom series. During World War II, he was one of the oldest U.S war correspondents. Tarzan and his adventures are loved by both young and old, and are evergreen classics. Many have watched at least one Tarzan tv series or movie with the most popular probably being the Disney animation film from 1999 and 'The Legend of Tarzan' from 2016 starring Alexander Skarsgård and Samuel L. Jackson.

Author : Barbara J. Wells
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440149870

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Be Careful of What You Wish 4 by Barbara J. Wells Pdf

A wish tossed out carelessly on the worst night in her life proves impossible to escape when a sista, Lindsey-Smith, a struggling songwriter, must confront a crushing childhood secret in order to end a sadistic serial killer's reign. She's lead into this fight for her life when seduced by an intuitive exotic Chicago homicide detective, Lieutenant Lake, who has hunted the monster for a year. He targets girls linked by a freakish tapestry that must be unraveled by those who wish to stop him. Only one person on earth can make that hell-of-a wish come true. Lindsey-Smith. She's got it like that because Satan made it so during his annual pursuit of his favorite drink, courageous souls with a dash of vanity on the rocks. It is Halloween, that one day of the year when earth spaces and hell's faces get horizontal in a parellel universe. Those caught on the rim are there by Satan's invitation to make a wish come true or die. While reading enjoy "Speak of the Devil" and "Jump On It", the first songs to accompany a novel and discover the name of the first female Olympic gold metalist.

Author : Heidi Ehernberger Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134823062

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Language and Communication in Old Age by Heidi Ehernberger Hamilton Pdf

This volume explores physiological and psychological changes in speech among the elderly, drawing on 20 years of research on the physical and emotional aspects of language and communication. Index.

Author : Robert McLean
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781490729510

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Here for a Reason by Robert McLean Pdf

The memoir side of the house relates to truth, honesty, and experience. the satire side of the house is not true, not honest, and not from experience. It is just relevant on the imagination of the reader.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : UOM:39015011416362

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Puck on Wheels by Anonim Pdf