Maru

Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781478611615

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Maru by Bessie Head Pdf

Read worldwide for her wisdom, authenticity, and skillful prose, South African–born Bessie Head (1937–1986) offers a moving and magical tale of an orphaned girl, Margaret Cadmore, who goes to teach in a remote village in Botswana where her own people are kept as slaves. Her presence polarizes a community that does not see her people as human, and condemns her to the lonely life of an outcast. In the love story and intrigue that follows, Head brilliantly combines a portrait of loneliness with a rich affirmation of the mystery and spirituality of life. The core of this otherworldly, rhapsodic work is a plot about racial injustice and prejudice with a lesson in how traditional intolerance may render whole sections of a society untouchable.

Author : Julia Ecklar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743419987

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The Kobayashi Maru by Julia Ecklar Pdf

A freak shuttlecraft accident -- and suddenly Captain Kirk and most of his senior officers find themselves adrift in space, with no hope of rescue, no hope of repairing their craft, or restoring communications -- with nothing, in short but time on their hands. Time enough for each to tell the story of the Kobayashi Maru -- the Starfleet Academy test given to command cadets. Nominally a tactical exercise, the Kobayashi Maru is in fact a test of character revealed in the choices each man makes -- and does not make. Discover now how Starfleet Cadets Kirk, Chekov, Scotty, and Sulu each faced the Kobayashi Maru...and became in turn Starfleet officers.

Author : mugumogu
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780062101259

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I Am Maru by mugumogu Pdf

Meet Maru! This round, adorable Scottish Fold cat may be an internet sensation, but he knows how to keep his celebrity status from going to his fluffy head . . . mostly. Maru and his owner, mugumogu, give readers a peek into the low-key life of the world’s most famous cat. See all his favorite hiding places—trash cans, cupboards, cereal boxes . . . if it’s cozy, he’s there—meet his treasured toys, and learn what it means to wield just the right amount of cat-titude.

Author : Colleen Traviss-Lea
Publisher : Pearson South Africa
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English literature
ISBN : 1868914925

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X-kit Literature Series: FET Maru by Colleen Traviss-Lea Pdf

Author : Hugh J. M. Johnston
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780774825498

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The Voyage of the Komagata Maru by Hugh J. M. Johnston Pdf

This new and expanded edition offers the most thoroughly researched account of the notorious Komagata Maru incident. The event centres on the ship's nearly four hundred Punjabi passengers, who sought entry into Canada at Vancouver in the summer of 1914, only to be chased away by a Canadian warship. This story became a symbol of prejudicial immigration policies, which Canadians today reject, and served to fuel the emerging anti-British movement in India. It deserves the careful re-examination it gets in this thoroughly updated edition that provides a contemporary perspective on a defining moment in Canadian, British Empire, and Indian history.

Author : Angela Aldana de Alvarez
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462835768

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Maru by Angela Aldana de Alvarez Pdf

Este libro lo empec a escribir cuando mi hija se enferm, era tan grande mi dolor que senta la necesidad de desahogar todos esos sentimientos que me hacan sentir tan desgraciada. Quera comprender la vida, ser una mujer normal y aceptar lo que Dios me mandaba, pero algo, dentro de m se revelaba, y senta un gran resentimiento con Dios. Porqu nos castigaba de esa manera tan cruel?, y al mismo tiempo senta que Dios me daba la oportunidad de luchar por la vida de mi hija, que como todas las madres de la tierra que aman y luchan por ellos, esta confusin de sentimientos, me hacia mucho dao.

Author : Rita Dhamoon,Davina Bhandar,Renisa Mawani,Satwinder Kaur Bains
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774860680

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Unmooring the Komagata Maru by Rita Dhamoon,Davina Bhandar,Renisa Mawani,Satwinder Kaur Bains Pdf

In 1914, the SS Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbour and was detained for two months. Most of its 376 passengers were then forcibly returned to India. Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional Canadian historical accounts by drawing from multiple disciplines and fields to consider the international and colonial dimensions of the voyage. By situating South Asian Canadian history within a global-imperial context, the contributors offer a critical reading of Canadian multiculturalism through past events and their commemoration. A hundred years later, the voyage of the Komagata Maru has yet to reach its conclusion.

Author : Graham Thomas FRSA
Publisher : Sagus
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911489993

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The voyage and visit of the Kanrin Maru to San Francisco by Graham Thomas FRSA Pdf

The Kanrin Maru was the first Japanese ship to visit the United States of America in an official capacity as the Treaty of Edo that Japan signed with the US Government in 1858 stipulated that Japan should subsequently dispatch an envoy to the US to ratify the Treaty. By March 1859 it had been agreed that a Japanese ambassador and officials would travel to Washington on the Powhatan, the US’s flagship of the East India Squadron, a voyage that was then scheduled to start a year later in February 1860. Preparations to dispatch an ambassador then began. Sometime thereafter, the Japanese government decided they would also send a ship of their own to America. Behind this decision lay three reasons. First this was a matter of pride showing that they too were capable of crossing the mighty Pacific Ocean in their own vessel; second, on a practical note, the Kanrin Maru (the vessel that made the journey) would return with news of Powhatan’s safe arrival in the US but third, she would also carry a second Ambassador in case the Powhatan failed to reach the US. This is the story of that voyage.

Author : Tony Banham
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789622097711

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The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru by Tony Banham Pdf

Almost 2,000 British Prisoners of War were aboard the Japanese freighter Lisbon Maru when an American submarine torpedoed and sank her in October 1942. This book tells the story of those men, from the fighting in Hong Kong, through the sinking, and for some, to liberation and beyond. Although never previously studied in any depth, the sinking of the Lisbon Maru was the most costly American on British "Friendly Fire" incident of the Second World War. Of the 4,500 of Hong Kong's garrison who perished during the war, 1,000 died directly or indirectly from this sinking. From American, British, Hong Kong and Japanese sources, this book reconstructs the fateful voyage of the Lisbon Maru, and the experiences of the captives, the captors, and those on board the submarine that sank her. The book will be of interest to anyone wishing to know more about the "Hellships" that caused the deaths of almost 20,000 Allied Prisoners of War during the Second World War, or the experiences of Allied POWs in Japan.

Author : Pamela Hickman
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459404373

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Righting Canada's Wrongs: The Komagata Maru by Pamela Hickman Pdf

In 1914, Canada was a very British society with anti-Asian attitudes. Although Great Britain had declared that all people from India were officially British citizens and could live anywhere in the British Commonwealth, Canada refused to accept them. This racist policy was challenged by Gurdit Singh, a Sikh businessman, who chartered a ship, the Komagata Maru, and sailed to Vancouver with over 300 fellow Indians wishing to immigrate to Canada. They were turned back, tragically. Over the years, the Canadian government gradually changed its immigration policies, first allowing entry to wives and children of Indian immigrants and later to many more immigrants from India. The Indo-Canadian community has grown throughout Canada, especially in British Columbia. Many in the community continue to celebrate their Indian heritage which enriches Canadian culture.

Author : India. Komagata Maru Committee of Inquiry
Publisher : Unistar Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Canada
ISBN : 8189899341

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Report of the Komagata Maru Committee of Inquiry and Some Further Documents by India. Komagata Maru Committee of Inquiry Pdf

Author : Rei Kimura
Publisher : Booksmango
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780977913176

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Awa Maru - Titanic of Japan by Rei Kimura Pdf

On the 1st of April 1945, a Japanese hospital ship that had been given 'safe passage' by the Allies, in the dead of night, was mistaken for a military vessel and torpedoed by the American submarine 'Queenfish.' It sank within minutes taking almost all of the 2007 passengers to their watery graves. This is the gripping story of the Awa Maru, the little known 'Titanic of Japan.' Follow the journey of Kyoko Tanaka, whose parents and brother had been passengers on the Awa Maru as she set sail on her own voyage of discovery. She travels from Japan to Singapore in search of the truth and a 'piece of her history' and makes poignant and touching discoveries of the lives of her parents and some of the other families as they prepared to board the Awa Maru. The lives of the doomed passengers of the Awa Maru and the events of that horrific night when they perished are all told in this book as never before.

Author : Michael A. Martin,Andy Mangels
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439101742

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Kobayashi Maru by Michael A. Martin,Andy Mangels Pdf

To protect the cargo ships essential to the continuing existence of the fledgling Coalition of Planets, the captains of the United Earth's Starfleet are ordered to interstellar picket duty, with little more to do than ask "Who goes there?" into the darkness of space. Captain Jonathan Archer of the Enterprise™ seethes with frustration, wondering if anyone else can see what he sees. A secret, closed, militaristic society, convinced that their survival hangs by a thread, who view their neighbors as a threat to their very existence -- the Spartans of ancient Greece, the Russians of the old Soviet Union, the Koreans under Kim Il-sung -- with only one goal: attain ultimate power, no matter the cost. The little-known, never-seen Romulans seem to live by these same principles. The captain realizes that the bond between the signers of the Coalition charter is fragile and likely to snap if pushed. But he knows that the Romulans are hostile, and he believes they are the force behind the cargo ship attacks. If asked, Archer can offer no proof without endangering his friend's life. To whom does he owe his loyalty: his friend, his world, the Coalition? And by choosing one, does he not risk losing all of them? What is the solution to a no-win scenario?

Author : Mark Douglas
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426964350

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Uss Hoquiam Pf-5: Hocky Maru by Mark Douglas Pdf

Lee Harrison Stewart, seaman apprentice and seaman, USN-EV, served on the USS Hoquiam (PF-5) as a radioman during the first two years of the Korean Conflict (later labeled a war.) In this third book in his series on the USS Hoquiam PF-5, he brings the experiences of young sailor in the 1950s to life. The Hoquiam, after being recommissioned in Yokosuka, Japan, sailed in harms way off the east coast of North Korea. It participated in all the east coast landings and the Hungnam evacuation. This story begins where Road to Hungnam endedback in Yokosuka on New Years Eve, 1950, for a few weeks of pier-side overhaul, as the crew winds down from Hungnam. There is hard work preparing the ship for a new assignment to Task Force Ninety-Five off Wonsan, North Korea. Still, theres time for romance and hijinks on liberty in Yokosuka and later in Sasebo, Japan. The Hoquiams crew sees a full range of work in the next assignment periodincluding work they detest with the Service Force, firing remote-controlled target aircraft for other ships to shoot at, days spent on submarine patrol (when they doubled as targets for the North Korean or Chinese gunners in Wonsan caves), convoy escort duty, and the best assignment of allshooting at the potbellied narrow-gauge trains coming down from Mongolia. Eventually, the crew of the Hoquiam again sails for Yokosuka and prepares for yet another trip to the Korean bomb line.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Marine insurance
ISBN : NYPL:33433019053374

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Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping by Anonim Pdf