Homeless Hero

Author : Mike Tapscott
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781458210647

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Homeless Hero by Mike Tapscott Pdf

Homeless Hero: Understanding the Soul of Home considers the human mission to know the soul and navigate life experiences. When pain and emptiness show up in life, only those who undertake the hero's journey grow into a place of understanding where they can then flourish. Mike Tapscott was watching a movie at a resource center for homeless people when he developed the idea for this book. The movie workshop at Lodestar Day Resource Center in Phoenix, Arizona, teaches life's lessons through the magic of cinema. The lessons manifest through a series of dramatic events: hearing a call to adventure; refusing the call; crossing a threshold; encountering tests, allies and enemies; being unable to turn back; soul searching; finding reward; returning with the story; and experiencing resurrection. These events are what life is all about. The hero's journey through homelessness--just one symptom of the challenge of overcoming emotional pain--is one way to help change individuals and then change tracks, patterns, and less-than-constructive behaviors. Here is a compilation of experiences from Tapscott's 36-hour experimental journey into life on the streets, his own volunteer work and through interviews with employees in the social service system, other volunteers and homeless individuals. Homeless Hero is a case study, an experiment, an adventure, and a multi-layered examination of American society that seeks to help you understand the moving picture of your own hero's journey.

Author : raymond wells
Publisher : Raymond Wells
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781533180858

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Homeless Hero's - American Veterans In Need by raymond wells Pdf

There are about 50,000 veterans homeless on any given night.

Author : Mike Tapscott
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781458210654

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Homeless Hero by Mike Tapscott Pdf

Grand Prize Winner of the 2014 Great Southwest Book Festival and Silver Medal Winner of the 2014 Global Ebook Awards - Homeless Hero: Understanding the Soul of Home considers the human mission to know the soul and navigate life experiences. Tapscott's book explores humanity in a way that is vibrantly vivid and personally accessible to the reader. Many questions that we have probably asked ourselves at one time or another are addressed: what is homelessness, why does it exist, are they just on drugs, how do I help, when is helping really enabling, and why does it bother me so much in the first place? Here is a compilation of experiences from Tapscott's experimental journey into life on the streets, his own volunteer work, and his fascinating interviews with individuals utilizing and individuals working for the social service system. Homeless Hero is a case study, an experiment, an adventure, and a multi-layered examination of American society that seeks to help you expand your understanding of homelessness and more importantly your own humanity.

Author : Douglas V. Mastriano
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813145228

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Alvin York by Douglas V. Mastriano Pdf

Alvin C. York (1887--1964) -- devout Christian, conscientious objector, and reluctant hero of World War I -- is one of America's most famous and celebrated soldiers. Known to generations through Gary Cooper's Academy Award-winning portrayal in the 1941 film Sergeant York, York is credited with the capture of 132 German soldiers on October 8, 1918, in the Meuse-Argonne region of France -- a deed for which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. At war's end, the media glorified York's bravery but some members of the German military and a soldier from his own unit cast aspersions on his wartime heroics. Historians continue to debate whether York has received more recognition than he deserves. A fierce disagreement about the location of the battle in the Argonne forest has further complicated the soldier's legacy. In Alvin York, Douglas V. Mastriano sorts fact from myth in the first full-length biography of York in decades. He meticulously examines York's youth in the hills of east Tennessee, his service in the Great War, and his return to a quiet civilian life dedicated to charity. By reviewing artifacts recovered from the battlefield using military terrain analysis, forensic study, and research in both German and American archives, Mastriano reconstructs the events of October 8 and corroborates the recorded accounts. On the eve of the WWI centennial, Alvin York promises to be a major contribution to twentieth-century military history.

Author : Harold Bloom,Blake Hobby
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Heroes in literature
ISBN : 9780791098035

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The Hero's Journey by Harold Bloom,Blake Hobby Pdf

The hero's journey, a quest that leads to self-discovery, has been central to literature since the earliest epics. Covering the role of the hero's journey in Beowulf, The Lord of the Rings, Moby-Dick, and To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hero's Journey contains about 20 original and reprinted essays and critical analyses that discuss the role of the title's subject theme in a great work of literature.

Author : Jesse Thistle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982101237

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From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle Pdf

*#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER *Winner, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Nonfiction *Winner, Indigenous Voices Awards *Winner, High Plains Book Awards *Finalist, CBC Canada Reads *A Globe and Mail Book of the Year *An Indigo Book of the Year *A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of the Year In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who he is. If I can just make it to the next minute...then I might have a chance to live; I might have a chance to be something more than just a struggling crackhead. From the Ashes is a remarkable memoir about hope and resilience, and a revelatory look into the life of a Métis-Cree man who refused to give up. Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Jesse Thistle briefly found himself in the foster-care system with his two brothers, cut off from all they had known. Eventually the children landed in the home of their paternal grandparents, whose tough-love attitudes quickly resulted in conflicts. Throughout it all, the ghost of Jesse’s drug-addicted father haunted the halls of the house and the memories of every family member. Struggling with all that had happened, Jesse succumbed to a self-destructive cycle of drug and alcohol addiction and petty crime, spending more than a decade on and off the streets, often homeless. Finally, he realized he would die unless he turned his life around. In this heartwarming and heart-wrenching memoir, Jesse Thistle writes honestly and fearlessly about his painful past, the abuse he endured, and how he uncovered the truth about his parents. Through sheer perseverance and education—and newfound love—he found his way back into the circle of his Indigenous culture and family. An eloquent exploration of the impact of prejudice and racism, From the Ashes is, in the end, about how love and support can help us find happiness despite the odds.

Author : Donald Driver
Publisher : Crown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385349161

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Driven by Donald Driver Pdf

The legendary NFL receiver, all-time receptions and yards leader for the Green Bay Packers, and Dancing with the Stars champion looks back on his life and career. When he was picked in the seventh-round of 1999 NFL draft, Donald Driver couldn’t find Green Bay on a map. He was given little chance of making the Packers roster, much less of amassing over 10,000 yards in his career and becoming a Super Bowl champion. But in an unlikely journey, Driver has overcome obstacle after obstacle to become one of the most successful players in the NFL. Now, for the first time, Driver recalls his time growing up in Houston, spending nights living in a U-Haul trailer with his mother and stealing cars and selling drugs with his brother to get by. He recalls what it was like to walk into the locker room as a little-regarded prospect out of Alcorn State, an athlete who one year earlier thought his future was in high jump rather than football, and why he would have never made the team without the support of General Manager Ron Wolf. With the help of his winning speed, skill, not to mention, smile, Driver became one of Brett Favre's most-trusted targets and a fan favorite at Lambeau. (Though it took some time for him to perfect his Lambeau leap.) Driven takes you inside the locker room with Favre, shares his experiences with Reggie White, and recalls his more recent role as a veteran leader for like Aaron Rodgers and Greg Jennings during their Super Bowl run in 2010. Over 14 years Driver has been through it all—game winning touchdowns, crushing playoff defeats, frightening injuries, and the glory of the Super Bowl. Traveling off the field, Driver discuss his relationship with his wife and three children: how uncertain they were when he undertook the relentless training necessary to become a champion on the 2012 season of Dancing With the Stars, and how supportive they are of his charity work and service to God. Driver retired on his terms after 14 years in the NFL: as a Packer for life. Driven is the definitive story of Donald Driver’s extraordinary journey.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1478 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : OSU:32437123611218

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Amy C. Singleton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438420189

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Noplace Like Home by Amy C. Singleton Pdf

Noplace Like Home uses four masterpieces of Russian literature--Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov, Evgenii Zamiatin's We, and Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita--to show the successes and failings in Russia's search for home and self. Interdisciplinary in spirit, Noplace Like Home introduces Russian culture for the first time to the field of "home studies," which explores human identity in terms of man's relationship with domestic space. This broad social context, together with general cultural patterns expressed in the novels, encourages readers to consider even the most current events in Russian society--where identity and stability are again key issues--in terms of "home," "homelessness," and "noplace."

Author : Svend Erik Larsen,Steen Bille Jørgensen,Margaret R. Higonnet
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027257963

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Landscapes of Realism by Svend Erik Larsen,Steen Bille Jørgensen,Margaret R. Higonnet Pdf

Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is a two-volume collaborative interdisciplinary investigation of this vast territory, bringing together leading-edge new criticism on the realist paradigms that were first articulated in nineteenth-century Europe but have since gone on globally to transform the literary landscape. Tracing the manifold ways in which these paradigms are developed, discussed and contested across time, space, cultures and media, this second volume shows in its four core essays and twenty-four case studies four major pathways through the landscapes of realism: The psychological pathways focusing on emotion and memory, the referential pathways highlighting the role of materiality, the formal pathways demonstrating the dynamics of formal experiments, and the geographical pathways exploring the worlding of realism through the encounters between European and non-European languages from the nineteenth century to the present.This volume is part of a book set which can be ordered at a special discount:

Author : Charlie LeDuff
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101174951

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Work and Other Sins by Charlie LeDuff Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy "Except for a few drinks, nothing is free in Charlie LeDuff's blunt and touching Work and Other Sins. The laughter and wisdom are hard won, the lessons are often painful... the sad tales and wit from the bar rail are endless and timeless." --The New York Times Book Review Charlie LeDuff is that rare breed of news reporter—one who can cover hard-to-get-at stories in a unique and deeply personal style. In Work and Other Sins, he gives his incomparable take on New York City and its denizens—the bars, the workingmen, the gamblers, the eccentrics, the lonesome, and the wise. Whether writing about a racetrack gambler, a firefighter with a broken heart, or a pair of bickering brothers and their Coney Island bar, LeDuff takes the reader into the lives of his subjects to explore their fears, faults, and fantasies as well as their own small niches of the globe. The result is an at turns riotous, dirt-under-the-nails, contemplative, salty, joyous, whiskey-tinged, and utterly unique vision of life in the Big Apple.

Author : Pierre Anctil,André Loiselle,Christopher Rolfe
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9052015481

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Canada Exposed by Pierre Anctil,André Loiselle,Christopher Rolfe Pdf

"Selected papers from the sixth biennial conference of the International Council for Canadian Studies held in Ottawa in May 2008"--Introd.

Author : Uri Rogoza
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000077018

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Hannah, a Witch by Uri Rogoza Pdf

An endless black streak has come in the life of Stephen Wright. Poor and deceived, what should he do to make the Miracle happen, in which he he has long ceased to believe? It turns out not that much. It's enough to hear the mysterious prediction of a street tramp and get a witch of his own - ridiculous and provincial, but the most real one. The prediction is coming true. Witchcraft comes into its own, bringing into Steve's life joyful colors and forgotten prosperity again! But every Miracle has a price ...

Author : David M. McCarthy,Kurt E. Blaugher
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498219518

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Saving the World and Healing the Soul by David M. McCarthy,Kurt E. Blaugher Pdf

Saving the World and Healing the Soul treats the heroic and redemptive trials of Jason Bourne, Bruce Wayne, Bella Swan, and Katniss Everdeen. The Bourne films, Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, the Twilight saga, and the Hunger Games series offer us stories to live into, to make connection between our personal loves and trials and a good order of the world.

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1376 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : OSU:32437123714392

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United States Statutes at Large by United States Pdf