Fala

Author : Dana Kittendorf
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491773420

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Fala by Dana Kittendorf Pdf

Fifteen-year-old Michelle knows she has been fooling herself by thinking she could go on living happily-ever-after. When her father announces that he has been deployed and that she and her brothers must temporarily move to a mountainous Pennsylvania town, Michelle tries to make the best of it. As she adjusts to her new life in the middle of nowhere, Michelle cannot help but feel change is in the air. Plagued by dreams, voices, whispers in the wind, and a crow who seems to be watching and guiding her, Michelle journeys from the disappointment in having to move yet again to an extraordinary discovery of a hidden reality, new friends with uncommon gifts, and a unique ability manifesting within herself. As the months pass, the original disappointment is replaced with the fear of saying goodbye to the place Michelle now realizes she most belongs. Guided by spirits, Michelle adopts a new mantra as she searches for her chosen path. But it is only after she crosses a bridge between the past, present, and future when everything suddenly becomes clear. Fala is the poignant story of a teenagers journey to the truth as she explores eerie occurrences, a trail of dreams, a strange crow, and most importantly, the power within herself.

Author : Kate Klimo
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780553534924

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Dog Diaries #8: Fala by Kate Klimo Pdf

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Scottie dog Fala helps run a nation! As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s nearly constant companion, Fala the Scottish terrier was in the unique position to witness the workings of the U.S. presidency. And now for the first time, the sassy Scottie shares his story with readers—from his idyllic puppyhood spent chasing squirrels through his adulthood spent chasing dignitaries around the world with FDR! This entertaining tail (that is, tale) gives middle-graders a dog’s-eye view of the events leading up to the United States entering World War II, as well as a look at the private side of FDR’s life in a wheelchair. Based on primary source material, with realistic black-and-white illustrations and an appendix including information about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, World War II, Scottish terriers, and more, this is the kind of historical fiction that begs to be read by reluctant readers. It’s a perfect choice for supporting Common Core State Standards.

Author : Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781682635933

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First Dog Fala by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk Pdf

Meet the Scottish terrier who won the hearts of a United States president and the American people. In 1940, Fala came to live with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House. The little dog played in the grass outside the Oval Office, attended important meetings with the president's advisors, and even dined with the president. But as America was drawn into the conflict of a world war, life at the White House changed. Fala accompanied the president across the country and around the world, waiting with him for the return of American servicemen and an end to a terrible war. Author Elizabeth Van Steenwyk offers young readers a glimpse into American history and the life of an American president through the story of a loyal dog. Michael G. Montgomery's full-color illustrations capture the indomitable spirit of Fala and the nation and president who loved him.

Author : James Gilbert Ryan,Leonard C. Schlup
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780765621078

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Historical Dictionary of the 1940s by James Gilbert Ryan,Leonard C. Schlup Pdf

Contains entries for individuals, institutions, and events, focusing mostly on the U.S. Entries cover topics in science, history, literature, theater and entertainment, and many other areas.

Author : Sean Mallon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0824826752

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Samoan Art and Artists by Sean Mallon Pdf

"Samoan Art and Artists is a wide-ranging survey of both the traditional and contemporary arts of Samoa. The author has drawn on an extensive research base to present a contemporary and accessible picture of a vibrant culture. The book has a broad sweep, covering all facets of the Samoan arts, including canoe and house building, siapo (tapa) weaving, tattooing, oratory, adornment, all forms of performance art, the visual arts, and literature. An important feature of the book is the inclusion of profiles of living practitioners, both from Samoa and the large Samoan communities in other Pacific countries."--Publisher description.

Author : Dorothee Brantz
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813929477

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Beastly Natures by Dorothee Brantz Pdf

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Author : David Clement Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:HNJJFY

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A Cyclopaedic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language by David Clement Scott Pdf

Author : Marian Klamer
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783944675480

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The Alor-Pantar languages by Marian Klamer Pdf

The Alor-Pantar family constitutes the westernmost outlier group of Papuan (Non-Austronesian) languages. Its twenty or so languages are spoken on the islands of Alor and Pantar, located just north of Timor, in eastern Indonesia. Together with the Papuan languages of Timor, they make up the Timor-Alor-Pantar family. The languages average 5,000 speakers and are under pressure from the local Malay variety as well as the national language, Indonesian. This volume studies the internal and external linguistic history of this interesting group, and showcases some of its unique typological features, such as the preference to index the transitive patient-like argument on the verb but not the agent-like one; the extreme variety in morphological alignment patterns; the use of plural number words; the existence of quinary numeral systems; the elaborate spatial deictic systems involving an elevation component; and the great variation exhibited in their kinship systems. Unlike many other Papuan languages, Alor-Pantar languages do not exhibit clause-chaining, do not have switch reference systems, never suffix subject indexes to verbs, do not mark gender, but do encode clusivity in their pronominal systems. Indeed, apart from a broadly similar head-final syntactic profile, there is little else that the Alor-Pantar languages share with Papuan languages spoken in other regions. While all of them show some traces of contact with Austronesian languages, in general, borrowing from Austronesian has not been intense, and contact with Malay and Indonesian is a relatively recent phenomenon in most of the Alor-Pantar region.

Author : Svenja Völkel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027202833

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Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language by Svenja Völkel Pdf

This interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between culture, language and cognition based on the aspects of social structure, space and possession in Tonga, Polynesia. Grounded on extensive field research, Volkel explores the subject from an anthropological as well as from a linguistic perspective. The book provides new insights into the language of respect, an honorific system which is deeply anchored in the societal hierarchy, spatial descriptions that are determined by socio-cultural and geocentric parameters, kinship terminology and possessive categories that perfectly express the system of social status inequalities among relatives. These examples impressively show that language is deeply anchored in its cultural context. Moreover, the linguistic structures reflect the underlying cognitive frame of its speakers. Just as several cultural practices (sitting order, access to land and gift exchange processes) the linguistic means are not only expressions of stratified social networks but also tools to maintain or negotiate the underlying socio-cultural system."

Author : John Marius Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Scotland
ISBN : NLS:B000680332

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The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland by John Marius Wilson Pdf

Author : Gerd Koch
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Industries
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Material Culture of Tuvalu by Gerd Koch Pdf

Author : George Caw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1784
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : BL:A0017814331

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The Poetical Museum by George Caw Pdf

Author : Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822395744

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Little Manila Is in the Heart by Dawn Bohulano Mabalon Pdf

In the early twentieth century—not long after 1898, when the United States claimed the Philippines as an American colony—Filipinas/os became a vital part of the agricultural economy of California's fertile San Joaquin Delta. In downtown Stockton, they created Little Manila, a vibrant community of hotels, pool halls, dance halls, restaurants, grocery stores, churches, union halls, and barbershops. Little Manila was home to the largest community of Filipinas/os outside of the Philippines until the neighborhood was decimated by urban redevelopment in the 1960s. Narrating a history spanning much of the twentieth century, Dawn Bohulano Mabalon traces the growth of Stockton's Filipina/o American community, the birth and eventual destruction of Little Manila, and recent efforts to remember and preserve it. Mabalon draws on oral histories, newspapers, photographs, personal archives, and her own family's history in Stockton. She reveals how Filipina/o immigrants created a community and ethnic culture shaped by their identities as colonial subjects of the United States, their racialization in Stockton as brown people, and their collective experiences in the fields and in the Little Manila neighborhood. In the process, Mabalon places Filipinas/os at the center of the development of California agriculture and the urban West.

Author : Lila Strebeck Wright
Publisher : Author House
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781481767415

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My Brother's Keeper by Lila Strebeck Wright Pdf

One of those drunken dirty derelicts you saw sleeping under a bridge could have been my brother. Before you turn away and pretend he is invisible take a second if you will to look at him through my eyes. He was a golden child full of energy, hope, enthusiasm for life, filled with sunshine and laughter. My brother was ten years older than I and from the very first he was my champion and hero. I loved him unconditionally. He and his entire generation were called upon to set aside their hopes and dreams to fight a war in far off lands with the express purpose of battling injustice and totalitarianism and to preserve the American Dream. It is because of the sacrifices of those selfless men and women we are still living in democracy with all that entails. When he returned from the war the laughter and the sunshine were gone. Back then they called it Combat Fatigue and today it is referred to as PTSD. It doesn't matter what you call it the results are the same. This is his story.

Author : Sara Polak
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781421442839

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FDR in American Memory by Sara Polak Pdf

"This book analyzes Franklin D. Roosevelt's construction as a cultural icon in American memory from two perspectives. First, the author examines the historical leader who intentionally shaped his own public image. Second, she looks at portrayals and negotiations of FDR as an icon in cultural memory from the vantage point of the early twenty-first century"--