Straighten Up America

Author : Marian Olivia Heath Griffin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781664110069

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Straighten Up, America by Marian Olivia Heath Griffin Pdf

Fighting for justice in America is a struggle for a lifetime. It is not just a struggle for a moment, a day, a month, a year. A moral voice must be heard for the quest for equality and must be relevant to an entire new generation of Americans - Black, White, Asians, Latinos and Native Americans. There is no such thing as perfection for all situations because the challenges are too great. Many unforeseen things are coming, but with the Creator's help, we will prevail, we will not fail. Our Creator has given us air to breathe, love, and substance to live by and our very existence is a gift. Our talents are based on our faith and willingness to let God's power work in us. We must made a concerted effort to value each other as we all have the Creator's finger print on us. We are a community, a nation, America!

Author : Will Friedwald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190882051

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Straighten Up and Fly Right by Will Friedwald Pdf

One of the most popular and memorable American musicians of the 20th century, Nat King Cole (1919-65) is remembered today as both a pianist and a singer, a feat rarely accomplished in the world of popular music. Now, in this complete life and times biography, author Will Friedwald offers a new take on this fascinating musician, framing him first as a bandleader and then as a star. In Cole's early phase, Friedwald explains, his primary task of keeping his trio going was just as much of a focus for him as his own playing and singing, always a collective or group performance. In the second act, Cole's collaborators were more likely to be arranger-conductors like Nelson Riddle and Gordon Jenkins, rather than his sidemen on bass and guitar. In the first act, his sidemen were equals, in the second phase, his collaborators were tasked exclusively with putting the focus on him, making him sound good, while being largely invisible themselves. Friedwald brings his full musical knowledge to bear in putting the man in the work, demonstrating how this duality appears over and over again in Cole's life and career: jazz vs. pop, solo vs. trio, piano vs. voice, wife number one (Nadine) vs. wife number two (Maria), the good songs vs. the less-than-good songs, the rhythm numbers vs. the ballads, the funny songs and novelties vs. the "serious" songs of love and loss, Cole as an advocate for the Great American Songbook vs. Cole the intrepid explorer of other options: world music, rhythm & blues, country & western. Cole was different from his contemporaries in other ways; for roughly ten years after the war, the majority of hitmakers on the pop charts were veterans of the big band experience, from Sinatra on down.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Government publications
ISBN : LOC:00019977997

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Organized Crime in America by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Meridel I. Gatterman
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780763738693

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Chiropractic, Health Promotion, and Wellness by Meridel I. Gatterman Pdf

Chiropractors have traditionally counseled patients on health promotion and wellness. Chiropractic, Health Promotion, and Wellness offers patients a better understanding of the chiropractor's important role, with practical questions and authoritative answers across a range of topics, including nutrition, exercise, and health behaviors. The doctor of chiropractic as a wellness provider promotes not just spinal health but a comprehensive model of health and wellness. A must-have resource for anyone contemplating chiropractic are or already undergoing treatment!

Author : Eugene Lyons
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-13T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781774646779

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The Red Decade: The Classic Work on Communism in America During the Thirties by Eugene Lyons Pdf

Originally titled The Red Decade: Stalinist Penetration of America, this work describes a period in American history in the 1930s characterized by a widespread infatuation with communism in general and Stalinism in particular. Lyons believed this idolization of Joseph Stalin and of Bolshevik achievements to have reached its high point in 1938, running deepest amongst liberals, intellectuals, and journalists and even some government and federal officials. Of relevance today in light of the current interest in Socialism expressed by young voters and progressives in the U.S.

Author : Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Industries
ISBN : UOM:39015033862478

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The United States of America by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler Pdf

Author : P.J. O'Connell
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780809386109

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Robert Drew and the Development of Cinema Verite in America by P.J. O'Connell Pdf

Author P. J. O’Connell traces Robert Drew’s influence on cinema verite through extensive interviews with Drew and with some of the founding fathers of American cinema verite filmmaking—Donn Alan Pennebaker, Gregory Shuker, and Richard Leacock. Robert Drew’s contributions to documentary film have been both technical and conceptual. Realizing that his equipment was too heavy and intrusive, Drew persuaded Time-Life Broadcasting to sponsor the development of new, lightweight, portable synchronous sound equipment that freed documentary filmmakers from the bulky, tripod-mounted, AC-powered equipment of the past. His new technology allowed him to capture intense moments as they happened, and to make viewers feel personally involved in the events he presented. While making more than twenty documentaries in the early 1960s, Drew continued to initiate innovations that were not thought possible a generation before him. P. J. O’Connell is the executive producer of public affairs at Penn State Television and an affiliate assistant professor in the School of Communication at Penn State University.

Author : Tom O’Donnell
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781426966484

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The Spirit of America Party by Tom O’Donnell Pdf

Fourteen chapters will touch on the decline and fall of the American Spirit. From the defeat of our war on drugs to the greatest military defeat ever visited upon American soil 9-1-1 While politicians danced on their party platform shouting we are the strongest nation on the face of the earth. The box cutter of terror was being sharpened in a cave in the Hindu Kush. An over medicated nation preoccupied with Academy award winners that failed to hear the giant steps of fire worshipers. Osama Bin Laden has taught the Moslem world that the United States is a paper tiger and our giant war ships can be sunk by a dinghy. A Nation who has lost touch with its roots and is ripe for Europeanization. Supreme court judges who want us to be ruled by The Hague. Communism has temporarily failed in the Soviet Union but has found a wet nurse in US liberalism. The media controls the mind of many and is a willing accomplice to the lies and charades of the demoncrat party. The American military is the last shred of American decency left and has more enemies in the USA than in the world. Religion has been downsized and replaced with Oscar worship. Abortion claims two victims. The mother and the child. Both are harmed by two villains. The politician and the butcher. Special interest groups have to be driven out of the senate auction house. The largest campaign contribution in any form should not be greater than one dollar. Housewives should have to approve the budget. The three biggest killers of the spirit of America are drugs, divorce and demoncrats. The CYA, the FIB, the State department and the Pentagon all need a make over. They all failed us on 911. The first casualty should be PC lawyers. We need wartime consulters. It is not Bush's job to get Bin Laden it is theirs. Anyone who thinks that this war will not last at least ten more years is living under false pretenses. Going to Iraq has given us a forward staging area for the invasion of Iran. A great strategic move. We bypassed all the minefields from the UN to Paris to Turkey to Saudi. Soon all who witnessed the greatness of the United States will be gone and the liars will rewrite history. This book will bring you home to a God Loving Nation of Dads and Moms who kept freedom alive and snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. Never forget you are a special breed. You are an American and the spirit of America is the great spirit. The red in the banner is for blood spilled for you and me by young people who gave up all their tomorrows so we could stand together and keep the vow. You will enjoy the New York 50's humor. You will get sentimental. You will get good flashbacks. You will see this country in the eyes of one who saw how great we were. Yet poor by monetary standards but rich in children and oneness in love. We were the servants yet we were kings. We were drug free. We tried to be better. We kept the vow. We served God and country in war and peace.

Author : Harriot Stanton Blatch,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Jane Addams,Ida Husted Harper,Anna Howard Shaw,Susan B. Anthony,Alice Stone Blackwell,Matilda Gage
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 5772 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547404293

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History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in America by Harriot Stanton Blatch,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Jane Addams,Ida Husted Harper,Anna Howard Shaw,Susan B. Anthony,Alice Stone Blackwell,Matilda Gage Pdf

This book is produced by women's suffrage leaders: the Great Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage & Ida Husted Harper. It presents the complete history of the women's suffrage movement, primarily in the United States. This edition presents the major source for primary documentation about the women's suffrage movement from its beginnings through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which enfranchised women in the U.S. in 1920. In addition to the remarkable history of suffrage movements this collection is enriched with the biographies of the most influential figures of American movement for women's suffrage: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Jane Addams, Lucy Stone, Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul.

Author : Barbara Lupack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317434245

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Early Race Filmmaking in America by Barbara Lupack Pdf

The early years of the twentieth century were a formative time in the long history of struggle for black representation. More than any other medium, movies reflected the tremendous changes occurring in American society. Unfortunately, since they drew heavily on the nineteenth-century theatrical conventions of blackface minstrelsy and the "Uncle Tom Show" traditions, early pictures persisted in casting blacks in demeaning and outrageous caricatures that marginalized and burlesqued them and emphasized their comic or servile behavior. By contrast, race films—that is, movies that were black-cast, black-oriented, and viewed primarily by black audiences in segregated theaters—attempted to counter the crude stereotyping and regressive representations by presenting more authentic racial portrayals. This volume examines race filmmaking from numerous perspectives. By reanimating a critical but neglected period of early cinema—the years between the turn-of-the-century and 1930, the end of the silent film era—it provides a fascinating look at the efforts of early race film pioneers and offers a vibrant portrait of race and racial representation in American film and culture.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Bank fraud
ISBN : PSU:000017587181

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Fraud in America's Insured Depository Institutions by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Pdf

Author : Ronald Bacy
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504963480

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The Perils of One from Rock Cocaine in America by Ronald Bacy Pdf

The story of this book reveals the explicit escapades of a black American male enduring the hardships of life caused by his excessive indulgence in rock cocaine. From an ambitious pursuit of success and a good life after graduating from high school to the introduction through an associate of cocaine in powder form, from there on into selling it in powder, and finally ending up both selling and using it in rock form. His unusual confrontations from drug dealers, encounters with the law, the frivolous contacts with stray people for the purpose of acquiring more currency to support his addiction, the manipulation of vulnerable prospects, the hustling, the stealing, and lying; all of the attributes that would eventually either bring an end to his life, or land him in prison.

Author : Matthew B. Schwartz
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781532644139

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Jews in America by Matthew B. Schwartz Pdf

Using a readable question-and-answer format, Jews in America: The First 500 Years presents the activities of Jews in America since the beginnings of European settlement. It tells something of the story of how Jews came to the "golden land" and what they have done here--men and women, scientists and athletes, soldiers and merchants, settlers and scholars. It is indeed a remarkable story.

Author : John Edwards,Marion Crain,Arne L. Kalleberg
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781595587329

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Ending Poverty in America by John Edwards,Marion Crain,Arne L. Kalleberg Pdf

An “engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly). Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the tens of millions of Americans living in “near poverty”? In this book, some of the country’s most prominent scholars, businesspeople, and community activists answer with a resounding yes. Published in conjunction with one of the country’s leading anti-poverty centers, Ending Poverty in America brings together respected social scientists, journalists, neighborhood organizers, and business leaders—both liberal and conservative—to tackle hot-button issues such as job creation, schools, housing, and family-friendly social policy, offering a template for a renewed public debate and a genuine effort to confront this urgent issue that undermines the long-term security of our nation. Contributors include: Jared Bernstein, Anita Brown-Graham, Carol Mendez Cassell, Richard Freeman, Angela Glover-Blackwell, Jacob Hacker, Harry Holzer, Jack F. Kemp, Ronald Mincy, Katherine S. Newman, Melvin L. Oliver, Dennis Orthner, David K. Shipler, Beth Shulman, Michael A. Stegman, Elizabeth Warren, William Julius Wilson.

Author : Cheryl Jean Glenn
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780817355753

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Rhetorical Education In America by Cheryl Jean Glenn Pdf

A timely collection of essays by prominent scholars in the field—on the past, present, and future of rhetoric instruction. From Isocrates and Aristotle to the present, rhetorical education has consistently been regarded as the linchpin of a participatory democracy, a tool to foster civic action and social responsibility. Yet, questions of who should receive rhetorical education, in what form, and for what purpose, continue to vex teachers and scholars. The essays in this volume converge to explore the purposes, problems, and possibilities of rhetorical education in America on both the undergraduate and graduate levels and inside and outside the academy. William Denman examines the ancient model of the "citizen-orator" and its value to democratic life. Thomas Miller argues that English departments have embraced a literary-research paradigm and sacrificed the teaching of rhetorical skills for public participation. Susan Kates explores how rhetoric is taught at nontraditional institutions, such as Berea College in Kentucky, where Appalachian dialect is espoused. Nan Johnson looks outside the academy at the parlor movement among women in antebellum America. Michael Halloran examines the rhetorical education provided by historical landmarks, where visitors are encouraged to share a common public discourse. Laura Gurak presents the challenges posed to traditional notions of literacy by the computer, the promises and dangers of internet technology, and the necessity of a critical cyber-literacy for future rhetorical curricula. Collectively, the essays coalesce around timely political and cross-disciplinary issues. Rhetorical Education in America serves to orient scholars and teachers in rhetoric, regardless of their disciplinary home, and help to set an agenda for future classroom practice and curriculum design.