The Life Times Of An Incorrigible

Author : G. M. Roberts
Publisher : America Star Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1630045977

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The Life & Times of an Incorrigible by G. M. Roberts Pdf

"I was called 'incorrigible.' Why not live up to it?" Whether it was teaching jungle warfare, a deep water cave or marriage to the woman of his dreams-Jerry has never stopped diving into life. Jerry is retired in Georgia, where he teaches his grandkids to be incorrigible too. Jerry Roberts has lived a life more full and colorful than most people ever will. He has lived a wild and explorative childhood. He has seen war. He has learned and taught many important skills and lessons to people of all walks of life. The Life & Times of an Incorrigible covers his journey from the tumultuous times of his youth, to the age of relaxation and reflection. The stories herein are sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, and sometimes simply fascinating. These tales are of the type that would be told over the years by a grandfather to his grandchildren. Sit on the porch in a rocking chair, and allow Jerry Roberts to entertain you with his adventures...and his misadventures.

Author : Velma Demerson
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781554586677

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Incorrigible by Velma Demerson Pdf

On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a “crime” that was compounded by her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child. Sentenced to a home for wayward girls, Demerson was then transferred (along with forty-six other girls) to Torontos Mercer Reformatory for Females. The girls were locked in their cells for twelve hours a day and required to work in the on-site laundry and factory. They also endured suspect medical examinations. When Demerson was finally released after ten months’ incarceration weeks of solitary confinement, abusive medical treatments, and the state’s apprehension of her child, her marriage to her lover resulted in the loss of her citizenship status. This is the story of how Demerson, and so many other girls, were treated as criminals or mentally defective individuals, even though their worst crime might have been only their choice of lover. Incorrigible is a survivor’s narrative. In a period that saw the rise of psychiatry, legislation against interracial marriage, and a populist movement that believed in eradicating disease and sin by improving the purity of Anglo-Saxon stock, Velma Demerson, like many young women, found herself confronted by powerful social forces. This is a history of some of those who fell through the cracks of the criminal code, told in a powerful first-person voice.

Author : G. M. Roberts
Publisher : America Star Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 168229711X

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The Life & Times of an Incorrigible: (Special Christmas Edition) by G. M. Roberts Pdf

"I was called" incorrigible." Why not live up to it?" Whether it was teaching jungle warfare, a deep water cave or marriage to the woman of his dreams-Jerry has never stopped diving into life. Jerry is retired in Georgia, where he teaches his grandkids to be incorrigible too. Jerry Roberts has lived a life more full and colorful than most people ever will. He has lived a wild and explorative childhood. He has seen war. He has learned and taught many important skills and lessons to people of all walks of life. The Life & Times of an Incorrigible covers his journey from the tumultuous times of his youth, to the age of relaxation and reflection. The stories herein are sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, and sometimes simply fascinating. These tales are of the type that would be told over the years by a grandfather to his grandchildren. Sit on the porch in a rocking chair, and allow Jerry Roberts to entertain you with his adventures...and his misadventures.

Author : G.M. Roberts
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781627722728

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The Life & Times of an Incorrigible by G.M. Roberts Pdf

Author : Ron Enfield,Diane Enfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 173707673X

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Incorrigible by Ron Enfield,Diane Enfield Pdf

Mirror Lake is the true story of Diane, a survivor of inexcusable childhood neglect. At fourteen years old she spent ten days in solitary confinement as punishment for trying to escape from the Minnesota Home School for Girls, where she was sent as a ward of the court. Years later, after an unsuccessful first marriage, she married her childhood sweetheart. After he developed paranoid schizophrenia and attempted suicide, Diane discovered he had become obsessed with murder - and he had a gun. Diane left him to protect her infant daughter. That decision changed her life and brought her to a chance encounter with me at Mirror Lake, in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. I spent the next fifty years with this extraordinary woman, who overcame her early deprivation to lead a vibrant, exceptional life. A talented writer, Diane spent several years writing a frank and honest account of her life, with sensitive and thoughtful insights into her own and others' actions. She is no longer alive to speak for herself, but this book tells her story using her own writings and journals. Our life encompassed passionate commitment, money troubles, conflict, anger, disappointment, reconciliation, and joy. This is our story about our life together, our struggles and sins, and especially the loving, enthusiastic woman Diane was before dementia overwhelmed her. I cared for Diane at home until the end. Dementia ultimately destroyed her passion, drive, and personality, and finally ended her life. I kept a detailed caregiving journal, providing a narrative of those years. After her death I set out on a journey of resolution, healing, and regeneration together with my daughter Lauren, to rebuild my relationship to Lauren and reconnect with my own past, and to seek a new future.

Author : Gareth Evans
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780522866452

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Incorrigible Optimist by Gareth Evans Pdf

A colourful and central figure in Australian politics for two decades—described by Bob Hawke as having ‘the most acute mind’ of any of his ministers—Gareth Evans has also been applauded worldwide for his contributions, both as Foreign Minister and in later international roles, to conflict resolution, genocide prevention and curbing weapons of mass destruction. In this sometimes moving, often entertaining, and always lucid memoir Evans looks back over the highs and lows of his public life as a student activist, civil libertarian, law reformer, industry minister, international policymaker, educator and politician. He explains why it is that, despite multiple disappointments, he continues to believe that a safer, saner and more decent world is achievable, and why, for all its frustrations, politics remains an indispensable profession not only for megalomaniacs but idealists.

Author : Jackson Galaxy
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399163807

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Cat Daddy by Jackson Galaxy Pdf

Cat behaviorist and star of Animal Planet's hit television show "My Cat from Hell," Galaxy, a.k.a. "Cat Daddy," isn't what readers might expect for a cat expert. Yet his ability to connect with even the most troubled felines--not to mention their owners--is awe-inspiring.

Author : Charlie Hopkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0578552442

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Hard Time by Charlie Hopkins Pdf

HARD TIME: THE LIFE OF AN INCORRIGIBLE ON ALCATRAZ The true story of Charlie Hopkins #1186 one of the last surviving inmates of Alcatraz Penitentiary. "My friend and fellow alumni Charlie Hopkins and I both graduated from America's Top Crime School- Charlie was a better student than I- He's still free!" -James "Whitey" Bulger, #1428 AZ What if one could travel back in time and interview one of the 1500 or so hardened criminals that had served time at Alcatraz Penitentiary before it was permanently closed in 1963? Even if one could do such an impossible thing, what exactly would one ask a man who had rubbed shoulders with some of the most notorious gangsters, murderers, and thieves of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s? How would the conversation go when speaking to a close friend of "Creepy" Al Karpis, the "Birdman of Alcatraz" Robert Stroud, and Whitey Bulger. Now, thanks to author Don DeNevi, for the first time one does not need a time machine to recapture the first hand eyewitness accounts of one man's life on Alcatraz. Alcatraz inmate #1186 was Charles Edward Hopkins and Mr. Hopkins was no ordinary inmate. Not only did he serve time with the Anglin brothers who made the only successful escape from Alcatraz but he was well acquainted with notorious crime boss "Bumpy" Johnson and the legendary Italian mafia boss Vito Genevese and many other infamous Alcatraz inmates. Early in his prison career Charlie was clinically pronounced "psychotic" and "incorrigible" and was sent to Alcatraz. After serving his time, Hopkins disappeared into history before re-emerging in recent years as the pen pal of notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger. Never before has Charlie's full story been captured and shared with the public. This is his true story as told in 1999 to author Don DeNevi and recently reviewed by him to ensure maximum historical accuracy. Mr. Hopkins is still alive and is approaching 88 years old and is estimated to be one of the last 5 or 6 remaining inmates that served Hard Time in Alcatraz before its closing in 1963. No matter what you have read or think you know about Alcatraz, you may be certain of one thing, you have never heard a story like this.

Author : Greg Eghigian
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472119653

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The Corrigible and the Incorrigible by Greg Eghigian Pdf

Explores how the social sciences and clinical medicine contributed to the understanding and treatment of offenders in three disparate political regimes

Author : Thomas Boston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10061941

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Memoirs of the Life, Times and Writings of the Rev. Thomas Boston of Ettrick by Thomas Boston Pdf

Author : Dannie M. Martin
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480988811

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Incorrigible by Dannie M. Martin Pdf

Incorrigible By: Dannie M. Martin Praise for Committing Journalism: The Prison Writings of Red Hog: “One of the great political works of our time, a book that ought to be required reading for every American citizen.” -San Francisco Bay Guardian “Fascinating glimpses of prison life.” -Kirkus Review Praise for In the Hat: “Powerful, controlled writing… An unexpected bonus is the deadpan humor of his unadorned writing style. This is a treat.” -Publishers Weekly At thirteen, Dannie M. Martin first entered a jail. For the rest of his life, he would be in jail, on parole, or avoiding arrest. As a teenager, Martin found an unlikely sense of comradeship, a nickname, and a passion for words in juvenile halls. Outside, he developed a drug addiction that would rule his life. In Incorrigible, Martin recounts his life as a criminal and addict – and also as a writer, father, and friend. He writes unflinchingly of the racial tensions and riots in prison, but also the humanity and humor of the prisoners themselves. A series of articles for the San Francisco Chronicle gave Martin a chance to tell his own stories and share how the reality of prison life affected the convicts and their loved ones. Out of prison, Martin continued his cycle of crime and addiction that left him accepting awards while high on heroin and publishing novels while on the lam. Filled with sharply drawn characters of fellow criminals, addicts, prison guards, and lawyers, Incorrigible is a joy ride with an author unlike any other. Humane and funny, this is Martin’s brutally honest telling of his story.

Author : David Alfie Languedoc
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460251683

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Incorrigible by David Alfie Languedoc Pdf

Alfie invites you to understand the long-lasting impact that Childhood Trauma can have. He invites you to gain a first hand review of his life starting at his birth on June 5, 1955. His early experiences shaped the child, adolescent and adult that he would become. His story touches on all aspects of abuse, and attempts to share with the reader the efforts that he has made to overcome these experiences. Alfie believes that there are many others who have similar life experiences, and who struggle to come to terms with their impact. To them he offers his story as words of encouragement to continue to seek ways to find relief and closure to these life events. To parents who have an Alfie in their home, “please be patient and caring at all times. It is difficult to watch your child, teen or adult-child struggle, yet it is your unconditional love that will facilitate the desire to change.” In the insightful words from Alfie’s adopted mother to Alfie,”Everything is going to be alright.”

Author : Maryrose Wood
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780061986659

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The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I by Maryrose Wood Pdf

Found running wild in the forest of Ashton Place, the Incorrigibles are no ordinary children: Alexander, age ten or thereabouts, keeps his siblings in line with gentle nips; Cassiopeia, perhaps four or five, has a bark that is (usually) worse than her bite; and Beowulf, age somewhere-in-the-middle, is alarmingly adept at chasing squirrels. Luckily, Miss Penelope Lumley is no ordinary governess. Only fifteen years old and a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, Penelope embraces the challenge of her new position. Though she is eager to instruct the children in Latin verbs and the proper use of globes, first she must help them overcome their canine tendencies. But mysteries abound at Ashton Place: Who are these three wild creatures, and how did they come to live in the vast forests of the estate? Why does Old Timothy, the coachman, lurk around every corner? Will Penelope be able to teach the Incorrigibles table manners and socially useful phrases in time for Lady Constance's holiday ball? And what on earth is a schottische?

Author : Marshall Smelser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 080329218X

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The Life that Ruth Built by Marshall Smelser Pdf

"One of the best sports biographies ever; Smelser beautifully evokes the life of baseball's most wondrous player and the times he lived in."-Donald Honig

Author : Maryrose Wood
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062069719

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The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book II by Maryrose Wood Pdf

Of especially naughty children it is sometimes said, "They must have been raised by wolves." The Incorrigible children actually were. Thanks to the efforts of Miss Penelope Lumley, their plucky governess, Alexander, Beowulf, and Cassiopeia are much more like children than wolf pups now. They are accustomed to wearing clothes. They hardly ever howl at the moon. And for the most part, they resist the urge to chase squirrels up trees. Despite Penelope's civilizing influence, the Incorrigibles still managed to ruin Lady Constance's Christmas ball, nearly destroying the grand house. So while Ashton Place is being restored, Penelope, the Ashtons, and the children take up residence in London. Penelope is thrilled, as London offers so many opportunities to further the education of her unique students. But the city presents challenges, too, in the form of the palace guards' bearskin hats, which drive the children wild—not to mention the abundance of pigeons the Incorrigibles love to hunt. As they explore London, however, they discover more about themselves as clues about the children's—and Penelope's—mysterious past crop up in the most unexpected ways. . . .