We Will Tell Our Own Story

Author : Adebayo C. Akomolafe,Molefi Kete Asante,Augustine Nwoye
Publisher : Academy
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0982532768

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We Will Tell Our Own Story by Adebayo C. Akomolafe,Molefi Kete Asante,Augustine Nwoye Pdf

This superb book will be a landmark in African studies because the scholars who have undertaken the task of telling their own social sciences, humanities, and literary narratives have displayed a sharp and penetrating engagement with history, politics and culture in such a powerful manner that one cannot read these chapters without claiming them to be the gold standard in contemporary thinking.AARON SMITH, TEMPLE UNIVERSITYWe Will Tell Our Own Story is instructive to scholars and general readers as a method of confronting the manifold problems of misinterpretation and false presentations about African people. I find this work to be extraordinary in conception and execution.SWAHILI SMT, FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA, BRAZILWe Will Tell Our Own Story joins a growing number of Afrocentric books that are already revolutionizing the way Africans view themselves and their academies. The creation of a cadre of scholars devoted to truth, rigor, ancestrality, and values is a mark of a mature civilization; these authors are the necessary foundation for further growth.

Author : Adebayo C Akomolafe,Molefi Kete Asante,Augustine Nwoye
Publisher : Academy
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0615283136

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We Will Tell Our Own Story! by Adebayo C Akomolafe,Molefi Kete Asante,Augustine Nwoye Pdf

This superb book will be a landmark in African studies because the scholars who have undertaken the task of telling their own social sciences, humanities, and literary narratives have displayed a sharp and penetrating engagement with history, politics and culture in such a powerful manner that one cannot read these chapters without claiming them to be the gold standard in contemporary thinking. AARON SMITH, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY We Will Tell Our Own Story is instructive to scholars and general readers as a method of confronting the manifold problems of misinterpretation and false presentations about African people. I find this work to be extraordinary in conception and execution. SWAHILI SMT, FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA, BRAZIL We Will Tell Our Own Story joins a growing number of Afrocentric books that are already revolutionizing the way Africans view themselves and their academies. The creation of a cadre of scholars devoted to truth, rigor, ancestrality, and values is a mark of a mature civilization; these authors are the necessary foundation for further growth.

Author : Laura Pashby
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781787137127

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Little Stories of Your Life by Laura Pashby Pdf

Embrace the power of storytelling with Little Stories of Your Life. Start telling your own story, find your creative self and be more mindful. Combining the wellbeing benefits of mindfulness, creativity and daily photography, this book shows you how to use words and photographs to capture precious little moments and how to share these in order to connect with others. Each chapter explores the different ways you can tell your own stories, considers why you might choose to tell them and helps you to create a patchwork of tiny tales about your life, however small they might be. Throughout the book, Laura shares her own personal stories and research that shows you how to tune out of the bigger picture and focus on the everyday. There are exercises to gently guide you through how to journal and harness your inner creativity, as well as tips on improving your photography, photo challenges and writing prompts to get you started. It’s easy to feel that our own lives are not enough, but real lives are not defined by bright, exciting events: we don’t need a grand narrative arc. It’s the stretches of time in between that matter, the tiny moments and the daily choices that make us who we are.

Author : Annette Simmons
Publisher : AMACOM
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814400845

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Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins by Annette Simmons Pdf

Stories have tremendous power. They can persuade, promote empathy, and provoke action. Better than any other communication tool, stories explain who you are, what you want...and why it matters. In presentations, department meetings, over lunch-any place you make a case for new customers, more business, or your next big idea-you'll have greater impact if you have a compelling story to relate. Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins will teach you to narrate personal experiences as well as borrowed stories in a way that demonstrates authenticity, builds emotional connections, inspires perseverance, and stimulates the imagination. Fully updated and more practical than ever, the second edition reveals how to use storytelling to: Capture attention * Motivate listeners * Gain trust * Strengthen your argument * Sway decisions * Demonstrate authenticity and encourage transparency * Spark innovation * Manage uncertainty * And more Complete with examples, a proven storytelling process and techniques, innovative applications, and a new appendix on teaching storytelling, Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins hands you the tools you need to get your message across-and connect successfully with any audience.

Author : Pam Rosewell Moore
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441262868

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Life Lessons from The Hiding Place by Pam Rosewell Moore Pdf

Corrie ten Boom was a woman admired the world over for her courage, her forgiveness, and her memorable faith. From her unforgettable experience in a Nazi prison camp during World War II to her remarkable life as a speaker and evangelist, Corrie's steadfast trust in God is well documented. Countless Christians hold her as the example of faith they would like to have in their own lives. Pam Rosewell Moore, Corrie's constant companion for the last seven years of her life, shares never-before-published insights on this incredible servant of God, offering readers lessons on living a faithful life by exploring what made "Tante" (Aunt) Corrie into the wonderful example of faith that she was. More than a biography, this is an intimate inside look at a remarkable soul that helps readers to be more effective in their own Christian walks.

Author : Barbara Wingard,Jane Lester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 0957792921

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Telling Our Stories in Ways that Make Us Stronger by Barbara Wingard,Jane Lester Pdf

In this graceful, strong, and groundbreaking book, Barbara Wingard and Jane Lester relate stories of their lives and work as two Indigenous Australian women. These stories offer hopeful and practical ideas in relation to a wide range of issues facing Indigenous Australian families including grief, diabetes, family violence, homelessness, and developing culturally-appropriate services. This book offers stories that will inspire and sustain.

Author : Franklin Roosevelt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351503945

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My Own Story by Franklin Roosevelt Pdf

This volume is in many ways Roosevelt's political autobiography. It permits Roosevelt, in his own words, to tell what he intended to do and what he tried to do as a political leader. It differs sharply from a memoir in that it explains why Roosevelt acted without offering justification or explanation. Donald Day chooses passages that reveal all Roosevelt's dimensions - his humor, personal magnetism, and his insights into the outlook of the American people.Each document reveals a stage in Roosevelt's thinking and at the same time provides the flavor of his personality. The chapters trace his development as a social and political thinker, and also as a unique personality. This unique autobiography begins on ""a very hot Saturday morning in 1910 at the policeman's picnic in Fairview when ‘I started to make the acquaintance of that part of Dutchess County that lays outside of the town of Hyde Park. …On that joyous occasion of clams and sauerkraut and real beer I made my first speech, and I have been apologizing for it ever since.""The book carries the reader through the highlights of Roosevelt's American domestic policies, foreign dangers, and his personal reflections on the best course of action in each moment of his presidency. The book ends with the last words Roosevelt ever wrote, when he was working on an address to have been delivered on Jefferson Day: ""The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."" The day was April 12, 1945, the day of his death. The book remains timely and moving.

Author : John Maxwell
Publisher : Canoe Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9768125640

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How to Make Our Own News by John Maxwell Pdf

A must-read for community activists who've ever wondered how to get their stories in the media. How to Make Our Own News will also be a useful resource for journalists who cover environmental issues. The author is a veteran journalist who also has long been directly engaged in work on behalf of the environment, and he has written a cogent "how to" on reaching audiences, developing story ideas, conducting successful interviews and writing stories that will be accepted by news editors. The work includes appendixes that summarise Agenda 21, the principles of sustainable development that resulted from the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Author : Kevin Wood
Publisher : Lerner Publications (Tm)
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541524385

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Create Your Own Story with Scratch by Kevin Wood Pdf

Build your Scratch skills by learning how to turn your stories into amazing interactive adventures! Try ready-made blocks of code to produce simple projects and use them as inspiration and models for your own ideas.

Author : Vivian Gornick
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781466819016

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The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick Pdf

A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth. How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks--and answers. Taking us on a reading tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, or Marguerite Duras. This book, which grew out of fifteen years teaching in MFA programs, is itself a model of the lucid intelligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of nonfiction. In it, she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Race Point Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781627889926

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Draw Your Own Story, The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Pdf

Story time has never been more creative! Growing up with whimsical and rich classic stories is one of the best parts of youth, and now you can foster your child's creativity with the Draw Your Own Story series. Draw Your Own Story: The Jungle Book contains the classic tale and characters you love, along with plentiful space to create your own illustrations. Let your family's imagination run wild with images of lush jungles, elephants, tigers, and amazing imagery. The Draw Your Own Story series offers creative families and relatives of children age 6 and up the perfect way to express their own creative vision with a beautiful edition of the text they can illustrate themselves. The stunning presentation of the abridged version of Rudyard Kipling's enduring classic The Jungle Book includes a handsome typographic treatment and charming, colorful flourishes on the numerous blank pages, each captioned with a prompt from the accompanying text. If you need inspiration, the book contains a gallery of illustrations from classic to modern, from simple to extravagant, for further motivation.

Author : Selina Bunbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600053075

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Our own story; or, The history of Magdelene and Basil St. Pierre by Selina Bunbury Pdf

Author : Bayo Akomolafe
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781623171650

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These Wilds Beyond Our Fences by Bayo Akomolafe Pdf

Tackling some of the world’s most profound questions through the intimate lens of fatherhood, Bayo Akomolafe embarks on a journey of discovery as he maps the contours of the spaces between himself and his three-year-old daughter, Alethea. In a narrative that manages to be both intricate and unguarded, he discovers that something as commonplace as becoming a father is a cosmic event of unprecedented proportions. Using this realization as a touchstone, he is led to consider the strangeness of his own soul, contemplate the myths and rituals of modernity, ask questions about food and justice, ponder what it means to be human, evaluate what we can do about climate change, and wonder what our collective yearnings for a better world tell us about ourselves. These Wilds Beyond Our Fences is a passionate attempt to make sense of our disconnection in a world where it is easy to feel untethered and lost. It is a father’s search for meaning, for a place of belonging, and for reassurance that the world will embrace and support our children once we are gone.

Author : Carolyn Wells
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 15667 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788779869

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Delphi Collected Works of Carolyn Wells (Illustrated) by Carolyn Wells Pdf

Famous today as the creator of the reserved and scholarly detective Fleming Stone, Carolyn Wells was a prolific American writer of popular mystery novels, celebrated for their intricate plots and engaging characters. The first novel in the series, ‘The Clue’ (1909), features on the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone list of essential mysteries. Throughout her career, Wells produced over 170 titles, including children’s stories, detective novels, anthologies and humorous and nonsense writings. This eBook presents Wells’ collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wells’ life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * 73 novels, with individual contents tables * Features many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * The complete Patty Fairfield and Marjorie Maynard series * Famous children’s books are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Includes Wells’ rare poetry collections – available in no other collection * Features Wells’ seminal non-fiction work ‘The Technique of the Mystery Story’ * Features the author’s autobiography ‘The Rest of My Life’ (first time in digital print) – discover Wells’ literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Fleming Stone Series The Clue (1909) The Gold Bag (1911) A Chain of Evidence (1912) The Maxwell Mystery (1913) Anybody But Anne (1914) The White Alley (1915) The Curved Blades (1915) The Mark of Cain (1917) Vicky Van (1918) The Diamond Pin (1919) Raspberry Jam (1920) The Mystery of the Sycamore (1921) The Mystery Girl (1922) Feathers Left Around (1923) Spooky Hollow (1923) The Furthest Fury (1924) Prillilgirl (1924) The Daughter of the House (1925) The Bronze Hand (1926) Where’s Emily (1927) The Crime in the Crypt (1928) The Huddle (1936) Murder in the Bookshop (1936) Murder Will In (1942) Who Killed Caldwell? (1942) The Alan Ford Series The Bride of a Moment (1916) Faulkner’s Folly (1917) The Pennington Wise Series The Room with the Tassels (1918) The Man Who Fell Through the Earth (1919) In the Onyx Lobby (1920) The Come Back (1921) The Luminous Face (1921) The Vanishing of Betty Varian (1922) The Affair at Flower Acres (1923) Wheels within Wheels (1923) Kenneth Carlisle Series Sleeping Dogs (1929) The Patty Fairfield Series All 17 Patty Fairfield novels (too many to list) The Marjorie Maynard Series All Marjorie novels The Dorrance Family Series The Dorrance Domain (1905) Dorrance Doings (1906) The Two Little Women Series Two Little Women (1915) Two Little Women and Treasure House (1916) Two Little Women on a Holiday (1917) Other Novels Abeniki Caldwell (1902) Eight Girls and a Dog (1902) The Gordon Elopement (1904) The Staying Guest (1904) The Matrimonial Bureau (1905) The Emily Emmins Papers (1907) Dick and Dolly (1909) Betty’s Happy Year (1910) Ptomaine Street (1921) Face Cards (1925) The Deep-Lake Mystery (1928) Short Stories Christabel’s Crystal (1905) An Easy Errand (1910) The Adventure of the Mona Lisa (1912) The Adventure of the Clothes-Line (1915) The Poetry and Nonsense Works Many poetry works; too many to list. The Non-Fiction The Technique of the Mystery Story (1913) The Autobiography The Rest of My Life Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Author : Selina Bunbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000552484

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Our Own Story; Or, The History of Magdalene and Basil St. Pierre by Selina Bunbury Pdf