Viva George

Author : Elaine A. Peña
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477321461

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Viva George! by Elaine A. Peña Pdf

2021 Jim Parish Award for Documentation and Publication of Local and Regional History, Webb County Heritage Foundation Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's birthday. The celebration can last a whole month, with parade goers reveling in American and Mexican symbols; George Washington saluting; and “Pocahontas” riding on horseback. An international bridge ceremony, the heart and soul of the festivities, features children from both sides of the border marching toward each other to link the cities with an embrace. ¡Viva George! offers an ethnography and a history of this celebration, which emerges as both symbol and substance of cross-border community life. Anthropologist and Laredo native Elaine A. Peña shows how generations of border officials, civil society organizers, and everyday people have used the bridge ritual to protect shared economic and security interests as well as negotiate tensions amid natural disasters, drug-war violence, and immigration debates. Drawing on previously unknown sources and extensive fieldwork, Peña finds that border enactments like Washington's birthday are more than goodwill gestures. From the Rio Grande to the 38th Parallel, they do the meaningful political work that partisan polemics cannot.

Author : Elaine A. Peña
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477321447

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¡Viva George! by Elaine A. Peña Pdf

Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's birthday. The celebration can last a whole month, with parade goers reveling in American and Mexican symbols; George Washington saluting; and “Pocahontas” riding on horseback. An international bridge ceremony, the heart and soul of the festivities, features children from both sides of the border marching toward each other to link the cities with an embrace. ¡Viva George! offers an ethnography and a history of this celebration, which emerges as both symbol and substance of cross-border community life. Anthropologist and Laredo native Elaine A. Peña shows how generations of border officials, civil society organizers, and everyday people have used the bridge ritual to protect shared economic and security interests as well as negotiate tensions amid natural disasters, drug-war violence, and immigration debates. Drawing on previously unknown sources and extensive fieldwork, Peña finds that border enactments like Washington's birthday are more than goodwill gestures. From the Rio Grande to the 38th Parallel, they do the meaningful political work that partisan polemics cannot.

Author : Paul White
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783743856578

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Rupert, Carla & the General by Paul White Pdf

Rupert DeVille is happy. This evening Rupert has planned to surprise his girlfriend, Carla by proposing to her over a romantic meal. When Rupert is on his way to work that morning he is snatched off the street by two men in a white van. Live with Rupert during his abduction, learn about his dysfunctional parents, his fears, his dreams for the future and his love for Carla. Meanwhile, at home, Carla learns that Rupert is missing. Carla starts a frantic search to find Rupert and enlists the help of Rupert's employer, George, who is just about to retire. As Carla searches for Rupert we find out about her Fathers sudden death, her Mothers depression and Carla's own wayward past. Rupert, Carla & the General is a thrilling suspense romance written with a touch of wit and humour that will keep you turning page after page. Paul White has the rare ability to bring characters to life, making them real people with feelings, worries and inner doubts, just like you and I. Paul White has masterly crafted Rupert, Carla & the General into a work that leads the reader astray, down the dark alleyways of the past, before bringing them back into the glaring light of the present. Paul manages to do all this while weaving a mixture of laugh-out-loud humour and offbeat wit into the story.

Author : O. Henry
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 3500 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026836032

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The Complete O. Henry Short Stories (Rolling Stones + Cabbages and Kings + Options + Roads of Destiny + The Four Million + The Trimmed Lamp + The Voice of the City + Whirligigs and more) by O. Henry Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete O. Henry Short Stories (Rolling Stones + Cabbages and Kings + Options + Roads of Destiny + The Four Million + The Trimmed Lamp + The Voice of the City + Whirligigs and more)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings. Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early 20th century. Many take place in New York City and deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen, waitresses, etc. O. Henry's work is wide-ranging, and his characters can be found roaming the cattle-lands of Texas, exploring the art of the con-man, or investigating the tensions of class and wealth in turn-of-the-century New York. O. Henry had an inimitable hand for isolating some element of society and describing it with an incredible economy and grace of language. Some of his best and least-known work is contained in Cabbages and Kings, a series of stories each of which explores some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town, while advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another.

Author : O. Henry
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Page : 1472 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Roads of Destiny (命運之路) by O. Henry Pdf

This short story collection, a facsimile of the 1909 Authorized Edition, includes the title story, 'The Lonesome Road', 'The Emancipation of Billy, and many more.

Author : O. Henry
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 2897 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547399803

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Short Stories by O. Henry Pdf

William Sydney Porter (1862–1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings. Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early 20th century. Many take place in New York City and deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen, waitresses, etc. O. Henry's work is wide-ranging, and his characters can be found roaming the cattle-lands of Texas, exploring the art of the con-man, or investigating the tensions of class and wealth in turn-of-the-century New York. O. Henry had an inimitable hand for isolating some element of society and describing it with an incredible economy and grace of language. Some of his best and least-known work is contained in Cabbages and Kings, a series of stories each of which explores some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town, while advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another. Table of Contents: Cabbages And Kings: The Proem By The Carpenter "Fox-in-the-morning" The Lotus And The Bottle Smith Caught Cupid's Exile Number Two The Phonograph And The Graft Money Maze The Admiral The Flag Paramount The Shamrock And The Palm The Remnants Of The Code Shoes Ships Masters Of Arts Dicky Rouge Et Noir Two Recalls The Vitagraphoscope Heart of the West My Tussle with the Devil by O. Henry's Ghost O Henryana Options Roads of Destiny Rolling Stones Sixes and Sevens Strictly Business The Four Million The Gentle Grafter The Trimmed Lamp The Two Women The Voice of the City Waifs and Strays Whirligigs Biography of O. Henry...

Author : O. Henry
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513274928

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Roads of Destiny by O. Henry Pdf

Roads of Destiny (1909) is a collection of short stories by American writer O. Henry. Inspired by his experiences as a fugitive and in prison, these stories address themes of crime, poverty, and fate. “A Retrieved Reformation,” perhaps the most notable of the collection’s twenty-two stories, is semi-autobiographical in that it explores the life of a criminal and fugitive who maintains a moral identity while struggling to adjust to life outside of prison. “Roads of Destiny” is the story of a French poet and shepherd named David Mignot. After fighting with his lover Yvonne, he decides to leave his home village of Vernoy in search of fame and adventure. The dreamlike narrative follows him down three paths: one takes him to the home of a wealthy Marquis, where he falls in love with his young daughter; the next leads him to the halls of the king, where he is recruited to act as a body double during a visit to the nearby cathedral; the final one finds him turning back toward home, where he struggles to balance a life of marriage with his poetic calling. In “A Retrieved Reformation,” a safecracker named Jimmy Valentine attempts to lead a quiet life following his release from prison. Using an assumed identity, he settles in Arkansas, where he marries the beautiful daughter of a local banker. Despite his best efforts, however, his criminal past threatens to resurface at every turn. Roads of Destiny is a collection of stories exploring themes of fate and identity by an icon of American literature. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of O. Henry’s Roads of Destiny is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433070790054

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Journal of the ... Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Pennsylvania by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ezra Schabas,Carl Morey
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781550023466

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Opera Viva by Ezra Schabas,Carl Morey Pdf

A history of the Canadian Opera Company and Canadas cultural growth in the second half of the twentieth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788196106645

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paolo Sandro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509905232

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The Making of Constitutional Democracy by Paolo Sandro Pdf

This open access book addresses a palpable, yet widely neglected, tension in legal discourse. In our everyday legal practices – whether taking place in a courtroom, classroom, law firm, or elsewhere – we routinely and unproblematically talk of the activities of creating and applying the law. However, when legal scholars have analysed this distinction in their theories (rather than simply assuming it), many have undermined it, if not dismissed it as untenable. The book considers the relevance of distinguishing between law-creation and law-application and how this transcends the boundaries of jurisprudential enquiry. It argues that such a distinction is also a crucial component of political theory. For if there is no possibility of applying a legal rule that was created by a different institution at a previous moment in time, then our current constitutional-democratic frameworks are effectively empty vessels that conceal a power relationship between public authorities and citizens that is very different from the one on which constitutional democracy is grounded. After problematising the most relevant objections in the literature, the book presents a comprehensive defence of the distinction between creation and application of law within the structure of constitutional democracy. It does so through an integrated jurisprudential methodology, which combines insights from different disciplines (including history, anthropology, political science, philosophy of language, and philosophy of action) while also casting new light on long-standing issues in public law, such as the role of legal discretion in the law-making process and the scope of the separation of powers doctrine. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Author : Norma Elia Cantú
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816551811

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Chicana Portraits by Norma Elia Cantú Pdf

This innovative collection details critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an engaging look at their work, contributions to the field, and major achievements. Portraits of the authors are each examined by a noted scholar, who delves deep into the authors' lives for details that inform their literary, artistic, feminist, and political trajectories and sensibilities. What results is a brilliant intersection of visual and literary arts that explores themes of sexism and misogyny, the fragility of life, Chicana agency, and more.

Author : Manuel R. Cuellar
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477325186

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Choreographing Mexico by Manuel R. Cuellar Pdf

2023 de la Torre Bueno® First Book Award, Dance Studies Association The impact of folkloric dance and performance on Mexican cultural politics and national identity. The years between 1910 and 1940 were formative for Mexico, with the ouster of Porfirio Díaz, the subsequent revolution, and the creation of the new state. Amid the upheaval, Mexican dance emerged as a key arena of contestation regarding what it meant to be Mexican. Through an analysis of written, photographic, choreographic, and cinematographic renderings of a festive Mexico, Choreographing Mexico examines how bodies in motion both performed and critiqued the nation. Manuel Cuellar details the integration of Indigenous and regional dance styles into centennial celebrations, civic festivals, and popular films. Much of the time, this was a top-down affair, with cultural elites seeking to legitimate a hegemonic national character by incorporating traces of indigeneity. Yet dancers also used their moving bodies to challenge the official image of a Mexico full of manly vigor and free from racial and ethnic divisions. At home and abroad, dancers made nuanced articulations of female, Indigenous, Black, and even queer renditions of the nation. Cuellar reminds us of the ongoing political significance of movement and embodied experience, as folklórico maintains an important and still-contested place in Mexican and Mexican American identity today.

Author : Robert A. Nowlan,Gwendolyn W. Nowlan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476620589

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Film Quotations by Robert A. Nowlan,Gwendolyn W. Nowlan Pdf

Certain lines define a movie. Marlene Dietrich in Morocco: “Anyone who has faith in me is a sucker.” Too, there are lines that fit actor and character. Mae West in I’m No Angel: “I’m very quick in a slow way.” Jane Fonda in California Suite: “Fit? You think I look fit? What an awful shit you are. I look gorgeous.” From the classics to the grade–B slasher movies, over 11,000 quotes are arranged by over 900 subjects, like accidents, double entendres, eyes (and other body parts!), ice cream, luggage, parasites, and ugliness. Each quote gives the movie title, production company, year of release, speaker of the line, and, when appropriate, a comment putting the quote in context.

Author : Michael Dear
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Borderlands in motion pictures
ISBN : 9780520391932

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Border Witness by Michael Dear Pdf

"Border Witness offers a surprising catalogue of films dealing with the US-Mexico border and released during the past 100 years. It compares these screen visions with what was happening on the ground at the time in both countries. From revolution through to the present global crisis, the films are left to speak for themselves, but their stories are measured alongside the author's experience following decades of research, writing, and activism along the line. Taken together, this book outlines a unique Border Film genre just now entering its Golden Age. This book also comes with a message to both nations that they should learn more from borderlanders about how to conduct cross-border lives"--