The Great Sacrifice

Author : James G. Mendez
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823282524

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A Great Sacrifice by James G. Mendez Pdf

A Great Sacrifice is an in-depth analysis of the effects of the Civil War on northern black families carried out using letters from northern black women—mothers, wives, sisters, and female family friends—addressed to a number of Union military officials. Collectively, the letters give a voice to the black family members left on the northern homefront. Through their explanations and requests, readers obtain a greater apprehension of the struggles African American families faced during the war, and their conditions as the war progressed. The original letters that were received by government agencies, as well as many of the copies of the letters sent in response, are held by the National Archives in Washington, D.C. This study is unique because it examines the effects of the war specifically on northern black families. Most other studies on African Americans during the Civil War focused almost exclusively on the soldiers.

Author : John Cumming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Bible
ISBN : BL:A0023197821

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The Great Sacrifice, Or, The Gospel According to Leviticus by John Cumming Pdf

Author : Robert Nelson (F.R.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1723
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024943994

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The Great Duty of Frequenting the Christian Sacrifice, and the Nature of the Preparation Required; with Suitable Devotions: Partly Collected from the Ancient Liturgies. To which is Prefixed, Instructions for Confirmation. [The Preface Signed: Rob. Nelson]. The Eighth Edition by Robert Nelson (F.R.S.) Pdf

Author : Maggi Lidchi Grassi
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184002096

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The Great Golden Sacrifice of the Mahabharata by Maggi Lidchi Grassi Pdf

A stunningly lyrical work, The Great Golden Sacrifice of the Mahabharata reinterprets Vyasa’s epic from Arjuna’s point of view. As Arjuna relives the battle of Kurukshetra, he senses a profound change coming upon himself. He begins to understand the true meaning of surrender and sacrifice. The book comprises three parts, narrated principally by Arjuna. Part I takes us through the childhood and youth of the Pandavas and Kauravas, the game of dice, the Pandavas’ exile, and ends with the armies arrayed for battle at Kurukshetra. Part II recounts the battle itself, and the teachings of the Bhagvad Gita. Part III presents a moving and brilliantly original take on the Mahabharata, as Lidchi-Grassi gives a voice to the forgotten victims of every war—the ordinary citizens who must pick themselves up, and resume the business of life. An old order has been swept away, but can the new age—the Kali Yuga—help lessen human strife and misery? Vastly ambitious in scope and epic in scale, The Great Golden Sacrifice of the Mahabharata is an astonishing read.

Author : Lamar Waldron,Thom Hartmann
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781458760630

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Ultimate Sacrifice by Lamar Waldron,Thom Hartmann Pdf

Cuba's number three official today - Commander Juan Almeida - was secretly working with JFK in November 1963 to overthrow Fidel. The U.S. government recently revealed Almeida's work for JFK, allowing the updated trade paperback of Ultimate Sacrifice to tell the full story for the first time (complete with new photos and documents). The authors obtained the story from almost two dozen associates of John and Robert Kennedy, starting in 1990 with JFK's Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Their accounts are supported by thousands of newly-released files at the National Archives. Almeida's ''palace coup,'' set for December 1, 1963, was to be backed up by U.S. forces ''invited'' in by Commander Almeida, then Chief of the Cuban Army. However, three Mafia bosses being targeted by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy used several CIA assets to infiltrate the secret plot and murder JFK. This resulted in cover-ups by officials like RFK and LBJ, to prevent the exposure of Almeida and a possible nuclear confrontation with the Soviets. The new edition explains why Almeida was not a double agent, why Fidel suspected Almeida's ally Che Guevara, and what Fidel did in 1990 when he finally found out about Almeida's work for JFK.

Author : Fr. Steven Allen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781483498317

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The Eternal Sacrifice: The Genesis Readings for Great Lent by Fr. Steven Allen Pdf

The Eternal Sacrifice appeared originally in Fr. Steven's blog ?Orthodox Truth? as a series of daily commentaries on the passages from Genesis read at Vespers every weekday of the Orthodox Great Lent. The present volume provides the texts of the Scripture readings themselves along with the author's commentary, which aims at giving an authentic patristic reading of the text while providing contemporary advice to the Orthodox layman living in the world. Not only Eastern Orthodox readers, however, but also Eastern Rite Catholics who follow the Byzantine lectionary, as well as all those who seek life-changing truth in the Scriptures, will find The Eternal Sacrifice an engaging and accessible invitation to go more deeply into the first book of the Bible.

Author : David Anthony Downes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039448233

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The Great Sacrifice by David Anthony Downes Pdf

Author : Anthony Fields
Publisher : WAHIDA CLARK PRESENTS
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936649792

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The Ultimate Sacrifice by Anthony Fields Pdf

Betrayal is worse than slaughter. That s what Antonio Ameen Felder always instilled in his friends. When a murder at the prison threatens to incarcerate them all for life, one man decides to sacrifice himself to free the others. All he asks in return is for his family to be taken care of. Luther Khadafi Fuller is the leader of the recently freed trio. He takes his two friends Boo and Umar on a ride they will never forget through the streets of DC. Take a ride with these three men as they make love and money, while trying not to forget the man they left behind. When one wrong move causes things to spiral out of control, can their bond survive the viciousness of the streets? Will their lives be spared? Or will their promises to each other be forgotten? The Ultimate Sacrifice is a story of love, life, money, sex, betrayal and murder. This is a page turner that you won t be able to put down.

Author : Allen J. Frantzen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226260853

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Bloody Good by Allen J. Frantzen Pdf

In the popular imagination, World War I stands for the horror of all wars. The unprecedented scale of the war and the mechanized weaponry it introduced to battle brought an abrupt end to the romantic idea that soldiers were somehow knights in shining armor who always vanquished their foes and saved the day. Yet the concept of chivalry still played a crucial role in how soldiers saw themselves in the conflict. Here for the first time, Allen J. Frantzen traces these chivalric ideals from the Great War back to their origins in the Middle Ages and shows how they resulted in highly influential models of behavior for men in combat. Drawing on a wide selection of literature and images from the medieval period, along with photographs, memorials, postcards, war posters, and film from both sides of the front, Frantzen shows how such media shaped a chivalric ideal of male sacrifice based on the Passion of Jesus Christ. He demonstrates, for instance, how the wounded body of Christ became the inspiration for heroic male suffering in battle. For some men, the Crucifixion inspired a culture of revenge, one in which Christ's bleeding wounds were venerated as badges of valor and honor. For others, Christ's sacrifice inspired action more in line with his teachings—a daring stay of hands or reason not to visit death upon one's enemies. Lavishly illustrated and eloquently written, Bloody Good will be must reading for anyone interested in World War I and the influence of Christian ideas on modern life.

Author : Ruth Presswood Hutchins
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781600669651

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No Sacrifice Too Great by Ruth Presswood Hutchins Pdf

Meet Ruth Presswood Hutchins. You will not likely recognize her name. She has not graced the platform of any large gatherings lately. In No Sacrifice Too Great you will get a close-up view of the Second World War, with its death marches and internment camps in the Philippines. You will learn the dangers, privation, and martyrdom associated with pioneer missionary work in those regions in those years. Sacrifice? It fills every page. It will stab at your heart. It will prick your conscience. It will bring up for examination your own sacrifice for God, your obedience to His Word, your commitment to His will. Begin reading. You will never be the same.

Author : Alex King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845209520

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Memorials of the Great War in Britain by Alex King Pdf

Taking as its focus memorials of the First World War in Britain, this book brings a fresh approach to the study of public symbols by exploring how different motives for commemorating the dead were reconciled through the processes of local politics to create a widely valued form of collective expression. It examines how the memorials were produced, what was said about them, how support for them was mobilized and behaviour around them regulated. These memorials were the sites of contested, multiple and ambiguous meanings, yet out of them a united public observance was created. The author argues that this was possible because the interpretation of them as symbols was part of a creative process in which new meanings for traditional forms of memorial were established and circulated. The memorials not only symbolized emotional responses to the war, but also ambitions for the post-war era. Contemporaries adopted new ways of thinking about largely traditional forms of memorial to fit the uncertain social and political climate of the inter-war years.This book represents a significant contribution to the study of material culture and memory, as well as to the social and cultural history of modern warfare.

Author : Mark Cornwall,John Paul Newman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782388494

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Sacrifice and Rebirth by Mark Cornwall,John Paul Newman Pdf

When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories. Each of the book’s twelve chapters focuses on a separate region, studying how the transition to peacetime was managed either by the state, by war veterans, or by national minorities. This “splintered war memory,” where some posed as victors and some as losers, does much to explain the fractious character of interwar Eastern Europe.

Author : Robert J. Daly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567687029

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Sacrifice in Pagan and Christian Antiquity by Robert J. Daly Pdf

Robert J. Daly S.J. examines the concept of sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world, and discusses how the rise of bloodless Christian sacrifice, and the use of sacrificial language in reference to highly spiritualized Christian lives, would have seemed unsettling and radically challenging to the pagan mind. Acknowledging the difficulties posed by an overwhelmingly Christian scholarly narrative around the topic of sacrifice, Daly specifically sets out to tell the non-Christian side of this story. He first outlines the pagan trajectory, and then the Jewish-Christian trajectory, before concluding with a representative series of comparisons and contrasts. Covering the concept of sacrifice in relation to prayer, ethics and morality, the rhetoric and economics of sacrificial ceremonies, and heroes and saints, Daly finishes with an estimation of how this study might inform further study of sacrifice.

Author : Frederick Oakeley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382319656

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The Order and Ceremonial of the most Holy and Adorable Sacrifice of the Mass. by Frederick Oakeley Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Patrick Olivelle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Asramas (Four stages of life).
ISBN : 9780195083279

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The Āśrama System by Patrick Olivelle Pdf

The lesser known and explored of the two pillars of Hinduism--Ä Å›rama and vará1‡a--Ä Å›rama is the name given to a system of four distinct and legitimate ways of leading a religious life: as a celibate student, a married householder, a forest hermit, and a world renouncer. In this, the first full-length study of the Ä Å›rama system, Olivelle uncovers its origin and traces its subsequent history. He examines in depth its relationship to other institutional and doctrinal aspects of the Brahmanical world and its position within Brahmanical theology, and assesses its significance within the history of Indian religion. Throughout, he argues that the Ä Å›rama system is primarily a theological construct and that the system and its history should be carefully distinguished from the socio-religious institutions comprehended by the system and from their respective histories.