The Heroics Of Falling Apart

Author : Dan Gordon,Judy Gordon
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780595862580

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The Heroics of Falling Apart by Dan Gordon,Judy Gordon Pdf

Sometimes we need to see other people do something that's scary first, and then we can take that first step into the unknown ourselves. Conventional wisdom says one must "fight" breast cancer, but fighting is not for everyone. For some, falling apart proves to be the better response. The Heroics of Falling Apart: One Couple's Breast Cancer Journey is the story of how one couple found their own authentic way to survive the ordeal of coping with a life-threatening illness. In separate voices, Judy and Dan Gordon relate and reflect on their yearlong journey with Judy's cancer, from diagnosis through the end of treatment. The Heroics of Falling Apart examines the broad range of experiences from the surprisingly different viewpoints of patient and caregiver, and does so with a candidness and humor that others facing a similar journey will find touching and inspiring, as well as informative. In the wake of a cancer diagnosis, there is an overwhelming amount of things to do-decisions to be made, questions to ponder, and emotions and people with which to cope. Often, simply knowing that there is no right or wrong way to get through it makes the journey bearable, a fact made strikingly clear through the Gordons' deeply personal and detailed account of their journey.

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0435905252

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Pdf

Set in an Ibo village in Nigeria, the novel recreates pre-Christian tribal life and shows how the coming the white man led to the breaking up of the old ways.

Author : Joseph Mbele
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557181292

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Notes on Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Joseph Mbele Pdf

Author : Jude Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350306479

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Falling Down by Jude Davies Pdf

Falling Down (1993) caused controversy because of its depiction of violence and vigilantism, and was accused of racism in its portrayal of a Korean shopkeeper. Jude Davies explores the film's production and reception context, arguing that it was marketed as a deliberate provocation to a growing 'uncivility' in American society.

Author : Désiré Baloubi,Christina R. Pinkston
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030507978

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Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart' by Désiré Baloubi,Christina R. Pinkston Pdf

This book celebrates Chinua Achebe, one of the most profound and famous African writers of our time, and his widely read masterpiece, Things Fall Apart. The novel remains a “must read” literary text for reasons the many contributors to this book make clear in their astute readings. Their perspectives offer thought provoking and critically insightful considerations for scholars of all ages, cultures and genders.

Author : Glenn Martin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780980404579

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The big story falls apart by Glenn Martin Pdf

The big story is the story that sits behind all our other stories. It is the story that provides the stable context for our lives. The author describes, in first-person perspective, what it means when the big story falls apart. He grew up in the 1960s, so there were plenty of socially based reasons for feeling that all the certainties were crumbling. And there were personal reasons too. An inability to even choose a career. Part 1 is The Disintegration. It finds the author leaving the city. Fleeing. But he finds a place to settle, in a valley that has walls of refuge., a place of retreat. It is good enough. He is telling this story as it happened, that memory returns to him after so long. He gives up books, he takes up gardening. He never stops thinking about the big story. But he ventures back in to a town, to a job, a tumultuous job that required him to learn the art of war. Books come back in, and music. Eventually there is a return to the city, wondering if it will be different. Part 2 is The Renewing. He says he is on a campaign to find the roots of the world tree. Writing about human resources and training in the day time, finding peace and joy in music. But he knows what he is finding in the stories, when his experiences turn into story. It is love, and morals. And some of the stories are in song. Part 3 is Onward. The author has to come back to the present, but he is called away by Mu, the chanter who has been here before. Mu's desire is to dance at the music festival, and we think he intends to stay, but he comes and is gone, with just a nod to the tawny frogmouth sitting in the tree. Part 4 is Reframing. The author is older. He is making principles. Now he knows that heaven and earth are working together. At the end, the story goes on. The energy flows in all directions.

Author : Intelligent Education
Publisher : Influence Publishers
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781645420637

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Study Guide to Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe by Intelligent Education Pdf

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, regarded as one of literature’s first counter narratives. As a classic novel written two years before Nigeria’s independence, Things Fall Apart showcases a pre-colonized Nigeria and the transformation of culture after English colonization. Moreover, Achebe is a colorful and gifted storyteller, allowing readers to experience a culture they otherwise might not have the pleasure of knowing. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Achebe’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.

Author : David Whittaker,Mpalive-Hangson Msiska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134286485

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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by David Whittaker,Mpalive-Hangson Msiska Pdf

Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is both a tragic and moving story of an individual set in the wider context of the coming of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement of cross-cultural encounters. This guide to Chinua Achebe’s compelling novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Things Fall Apart a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of critical writing on Things Fall Apart, by Abiola Irele, Abdul JanMohamed, Biodun Jeyifo, Florence Stratton and Ato Quayson, providing a variety of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Things Fall Apart and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Achebe’s text.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Igbo (African people) in literature
ISBN : 9781604135817

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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Harold Bloom Pdf

Things Fall Apart, set in Nigeria about a century ago, is widely regarded as Chinua Achebe's masterpiece. Considered one of the most broadly read African novels, Achebe's work responded to the two-dimensional caricatures of Africans that often dominated Western literature. This invaluable new edition of the study guide contains a selection of the finest contemporary criticism of this classic novel.

Author : Ode Ogede
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739164464

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Intertextuality in Contemporary African Literature by Ode Ogede Pdf

Intellectual exchange among African creative writers is the subject of this highly innovative and wide-ranging look at several forms of intertextuality on the continent. Focusing on the issue of the availability of old canonical texts of African literature as a creative resource, this study throws light on how African authors adapt, reinterpret, and redeploy existing texts in the formulation of new ones. Contemporary African writers are taking advantage of and extending the resources available in the existing native literary tradition. But the field of inter-ethnic/trans-national African literary inter-textual studies is a novel one in itself as the theme of African writers' debt to Euro-American authors has been the critical commonplace in African literature. Detailing the echoes and reverberations the voices of the past have generated, and the distinctive uses to which the writers are putting one another's works, the book demonstrates that the influence of local stock is significant: it is pervasive andwidespread, and manifests itself in ways both random and systematic, but it is a ubiquitous presence in the African literary imagination.

Author : William Leith
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385672917

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Bits of Me Are Falling Apart by William Leith Pdf

A hilarious, horrendous, and ultimately helpful memoir about hitting middle age and trying to hit back. William Leith, well-known for his jaw-droppingly candid columns about his dysfunctional and dissolute life, is no longer young. Given what he used to put his body through, before he gave up bingeing on drugs and drink and bad food, he is in fairly good shape. There is no getting past it, though: he’s getting past it. And bits of him are falling apart. What is happening to him? And what can be done about it? In his extraordinary chronicle The Hungry Years, Leith turned his merciless eye and magpie mind on his addictions and the chemistry, psychology, and philosophy behind them. Bits of Me Are Falling Apart is an even more ambitious and mordantly funny book, in which an unflinching memoir of his own, unique voyage into later life becomes an examination of the aging process in all humans - what science tells us about it and might be able to do to arrest it.

Author : Ode Ogede
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826490841

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Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Ode Ogede Pdf

A Reader's Guide to one of the best known African novels, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Author : Louise Hawker
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000067901623

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Colonialism in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Louise Hawker Pdf

A collection of essays that explore issues in Chinua Achebe's work Things fall apart.

Author : Baháʼuʼlláh,Phyllis Peterson,ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī Bāb,ʻAbduʼl-Bahá
Publisher : Baha'i Publishing Trust
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1931847290

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The Heroic Female Spirit by Baháʼuʼlláh,Phyllis Peterson,ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī Bāb,ʻAbduʼl-Bahá Pdf

In the tradition of Joseph Campbell, these stories employ many of the moral virtues found in every religion. The heroes in each tale strive to reshape and improve the world around them, showing the qualities of the heroic female spirit at work. Myths and legends have traditionally been the domain of men and boys. The gallant hero is almost always male. In The Heroic Female Spirit: A Collection of Tales, women and girls are at the center of each story--discovering their inner gifts, defying restrictive customs, and creating peace between seemingly implacable foes. These young women demonstrate that heroic qualities are not only the domain of young men and boys, but rather these qualities are within each of us, regardless of gender.

Author : Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645470557

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The Heroic Heart by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo Pdf

A guidebook to making life meaningful by cultivating compassion, embracing adversity, and training the mind—from one of the foremost living Buddhist nuns. Freeing ourselves from our habitual emotional patterns starts with taming the mind. Why is this so important? Because a wild mind tends to hurt rather than heal. Taming the mind helps us uncover our true nature and connect with those around us from a grounded place of self-awareness. Through caring for others you can walk the Buddhist path of bodhisattvas, becoming a spiritual hero of compassion. Based on the classic fourteenth-century mind training text of Tibetan Buddhism called the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva, this guidebook shares pithy advice on how to act as bodhisattvas in our everyday lives, enabling us to possess compassion in an authentic way. Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, an exemplary spiritual teacher who spent over a dozen years meditating in the Himalayas and one of the first Buddhist nuns to be ordained in the West, shares her reflections on this famous teaching and how to live a life of mindfulness and selflessness.