Row For Freedom

Author : Julia Immonen,Craig Borlase
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780718021535

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Row for Freedom by Julia Immonen,Craig Borlase Pdf

“When you’re in the middle ofthe adventure, you just have to live it. When you’re on an expedition, you putyour head down and battle through. Storytelling happens after the finish line.. . . now that time has come [and] Julia can tell her story. The full story.” —from the foreword by Bear Grylls *** An incredible account ofone woman’s record-breaking row across the Atlantic Thirty-two-year-oldJulia Immonen and four other women take on a challenge completed by fewerpeople than have climbed Mount Everest or gone into space: row three thousandmiles, unaided, from the Canary Islands to Barbados. Row for Freedom chroniclesthat dramatic journey, detailing the grueling, peril-filled crossing,which broke two world records, as it weaves together Julia’s search for hopeand purpose against a background of relationships scarred by violence. As Julia’s physical andemotional treks unfold, you also learn about the plight of the thirty millionvictims of the modern-day slave trade that serves as the motivation for herrow. Be inspired by Julia’s self-discovery and her team’s triumph in one of themost formidable physical quests ever undertaken.

Author : Jarvis Jay Masters
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611809114

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Finding Freedom by Jarvis Jay Masters Pdf

There are many forms of liberation—some that exist at the mercy of circumstance and others that can never be taken away. In this stirring and timely collection of stories, essays, poems, and letters, Jarvis Jay Masters explores the meaning of true freedom on his road to inner peace through Buddhist practice. He reveals his life as a young African American man surrounded by violence, his entanglement in the criminal justice system, and—following an encounter with Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche—an unfolding commitment to nonviolence and peacemaking. At turns joyful, heartbreaking, frightening, and soaring with profound insight, Masters’s story offers a vision of hope and the possibility of freedom in even the darkest of times.

Author : Anthony Ray Hinton,Lara Love Hardin
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250124722

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The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton,Lara Love Hardin Pdf

Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection The Instant New York Times Bestseller A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. “An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity.” —Archbishop Desmond Tutu In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty–nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in agonizing silence—full of despair and anger toward all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. But as Hinton realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but find a way to live on Death Row. For the next twenty–seven years he was a beacon—transforming not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, fifty–four of whom were executed mere feet from his cell. With the help of civil rights attorney and bestselling author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015. With a foreword by Stevenson, The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times. Destined to be a classic memoir of wrongful imprisonment and freedom won, Hinton’s memoir tells his dramatic thirty–year journey and shows how you can take away a man’s freedom, but you can’t take away his imagination, humor, or joy.

Author : John Hollway,Ronald M. Gauthier
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781626369146

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Killing Time by John Hollway,Ronald M. Gauthier Pdf

In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a prominent white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola Prison and confined to his cell for twenty-three hours a day. However, Thompson adamantly proclaimed his innocence and just needed lawyers who believed that his trial had been mishandled and would step up to the plate against the powerful DA’s office. But who would fight for Thompson’s innocence when he didn’t have an alibi for the night of the murder and there were two key witnesses to confirm his guilt? Killing Time is about the eighteen-year quest for Thompson’s freedom from a wrongful murder conviction. After Philadelphia lawyers Michael Banks and Gordon Cooney take on his case, they struggle to find areas of misconduct in his previous trials while grappling with their questions about Thompson’s innocence. John Hollway and Ronald M. Gauthier have interviewed Thompson and the lawyers, and paint a realistic and compelling portrait of life on death row and the corruption in the Louisiana police and DA’s office. When it is found that evidence was mishandled in a previous trial that led to his death sentence in the murder case, Thompson is finally on his road to freedom—a journey that continues with his suit against Harry Connick, Sr. and the New Orleans DA’s office to this day.

Author : Jaycee Dugard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501147630

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Freedom by Jaycee Dugard Pdf

"In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IYD, Inc.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780971307308

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Invest In Your Debt How to Achieve True Financial Freedom by First Eliminating Your Debt by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mumia Abu-Jamal
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0896087182

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We Want Freedom by Mumia Abu-Jamal Pdf

In his youth Mumia Abu-Jamal helped found the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party, wrote for the national newspaper, and began his life-long work of exposing the violence of the state as it manifests in entrenched poverty, endemic racism, and unending police brutality and celebrating a people's unending quest for freedom. In We Want Freedom, Mumia combines personal experience with extensive research to provide a compelling history of the Black Panther Party--what it was, where it came from, and what rose from its ashes. Mumia also pays special attention to the U.S. government's disruption of the organization through COINTELPRO and similar operations. While Abu-Jamal is a prolific writer and probably the world's most famous political prisoner, this book is unlike any of Mumia's previous works. In We Want Freedom, Abu-Jamal applies his sharp critical faculties to an examination of one of the U.S.'s most revolutionary and most misrepresented groups. A subject previously explored by various historians and forever ripe for "insider" accounts, the Black Panther Party has not yet been addressed by a writer with the well-earned international acclaim of Abu-Jamal, nor with his unique combination of a powerful, even poetic, voice and an unsparing critical gaze. Abu-Jamal is able to make his own Black Panther Party days come alive as well as help situate the organization within its historical context, a context that included both great revolutionary fervor and hope, and great repression. In this era, when the US PATRIOT Act dismantles some of the same rights and freedoms violated by the FBI in their attack on the Black Panther Party, the story of how the Party grew and matured while combating such invasions is a welcome and essential lesson.

Author : Chol Soo Lee
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824857943

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Freedom without Justice by Chol Soo Lee Pdf

Freedom without Justice is the compelling story of Chol Soo Lee’s wrongful imprisonment and his years of survival in prison, while political activists fought to win his freedom. His saga took place against a backdrop of great historical change in Asian American communities following the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act. In 1973, less than a decade after he immigrated to the United States from Korea at the age of twelve, Lee is convicted of murder and given a life sentence. Four years later, his case became a nationwide rallying point for an extraordinary pan–Asian American movement during the late 1970s and early 1980s, bringing together people from a broad spectrum of social backgrounds for a common political cause. This diverse grassroots activism organized a six-year “Free Chol Soo Lee!” campaign that led to his release from San Quentin’s Death Row in 1983. While the case inspired newspaper headlines, TV specials, and even a Hollywood movie, until now the full story has never been told in Chol Soo Lee’s own voice. Freedom without Justice reveals the race and class dimensions of US correctional institutions from the perspective of convicts who fiercely refuse to be victims. As a chronicle of the life of a youth at risk, during a time when Asian American inmates were scarce, and Korean Americans even scarcer, Lee's memoir draws readers into a variety of worlds—war-torn Korea, the streets of San Francisco, the criminal justice system, prison gang politics, and death row.

Author : Robert L. Williams (II.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Manipulators (Mechanism)
ISBN : NASA:31769000447360

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Local Performance Optimization for a Class of Redundant Eight-degree-of-freedom Manipulators by Robert L. Williams (II.) Pdf

Author : Loki Mulholland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1629721778

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She Stood for Freedom by Loki Mulholland Pdf

Biography of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland follows her from her childhood in 1950s Virginia through her high school and college years, when she joined the Civil Rights Movement, attending demonstrations and sit-ins. She also participated in the Freedom Rides of 1961 and was arrested and imprisoned. Her life has been spent standing up for human rights.

Author : Joseph Dean Klatt PhD
Publisher : Author House
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781481760416

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FREEDOM FOUND by Joseph Dean Klatt PhD Pdf

"Tells of one man's struggle in his search for independence, for the freedom to be all that he could be, to reach the unreachable star, [ultimately] achieving independence with dignity with each of his 7 Seeing Eye dogs ... The reader will also meet Morris Frank, one of the founders of The Seeing Eye, Inc. and the Seeing Eye trainers, all of whom demonstrate the highest professional excellence and do so with elan and good humor"--Dust jacket flap.

Author : Manning Marable
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 023150750X

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Freedom on My Mind by Manning Marable Pdf

Freedom on My Mind reveals the richly diverse and complex experience of black people in America in their own words, from the Colonial era of Benjamin Banneker to the present world of Kweisi Mfume and Clarence Thomas. Personal correspondence, excerpts from slave narratives and autobiographies, leaflets, significant addresses and speeches, oral histories and interviews, political manifestos, and important statements of black institutions and organizations are brought together to form a volume that testifies to the boundless creative potential of black Americans in indefatigable pursuit of the dream of freedom. Arranged thematically, the selections illustrate the politics of resistance—as reflected through gender and sexuality, kinship and community, work and leisure, faith and spirituality. They also highlight the contributions of women to black identity, history, and consciousness, and offer excerpts from the work of some of the finest stylists in the African American canon. A general introduction as well as short introductions and bibliographies for each document further enhance the usefulness of the book for students and researchers.

Author : Doreen Rappaport
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781630831301

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Freedom River by Doreen Rappaport Pdf

Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789600803

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Corker's Freedom by John Berger Pdf

A powerfully unsettling, mordantly witty story about the pitfalls of free will. In the course of a day, the ageing owner of an employment agency is propelled into a fantasy world through his romantic yearnings and inarticulate dreams, seeking an illusory freedom from the bonds of responsibility.

Author : Katherine Mellen Charron
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807833322

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Freedom's Teacher by Katherine Mellen Charron Pdf

Septima Poinsette Clark's gift to the civil rights movement was education. In the mid-1950s, this former public school teacher developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousands of African Americans to register to vote and then to link the po