Author: Carl B. Allen Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1462811833 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 382
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Memoirs of Myths and Truths in an Ordinary Pebble’s Extraordinary Life. We find the author considers himself an ordinary pebble amoung others of his time,who has gone on a desperate search for love and approval. But even an ordinary pebbles like him can have an extraordinary life, because he is not ordinary from the start finding at an early age confusion and embarrassment regarding whether an accident or his mind makes him that way. It ́s not until into his young adult stream does he discover another reason for his rebel behavior in school and life. Which as a reader, you ́ll recognized some problems in the text of the book cover and in the book ́s writen words or spelling or sentance structure being a struggle. You ́ll see it ́s not his schooling, it ́s his battle with being dyslexic. Yet there is some great writing and inspiration, plus the help of a few photos, to bring you into his or your memories and times when some myths emerged from stories and some being real truths. Pebbles we all are, truths are maybe what we think they should be, and myths are longer lasting then we may know. The author finds himself slowly aware of being in his September years, having a sense of belonging to the past and present, but a much shorter future. With that comes a sense of family, and the closeness of friends, which has brought him to this place of wonderment that has continued from those wonderful years of youth. They have brought him to these joyous thoughts while writing these memoirs, and making reflecting on his extraordinary life. Starting at first writing this for all his kin and others within that stream surround him, but then realize other pebbles of this time can bring back some reflection on these times with a little smile, some sadness, and reflection too. He may have wandered through those youthful years winding through life’s paths and finding some running on empty or full or too fast or too slow at the time like the automobiles of the day. His nurturing as a child, not always satisfying, resulted in the builting many protective walls around his self. Yet like James Dean in East of Eden or Rebel Without a Cause or Giant, there was this desperate search for love and approval, not always available for many reasons and questionable behavior leading to myths or truths. Seeking his own needs, while being an ordinary pebble has resulted in finding an extraordinary life. There is a expression of views from his heart and mind trying to embrace so much of that extraordinary life that lies hidden deeper within his self, and yet always trying to hold and consider that these are parts of his life, whether shinning with beauty or happiness or sadness, finding only to be viewed as an expression of soul. He has tried painting, but now the writen word, in expressing some of those myths, spoken truths found within the soul, and trusted memories. They carry simple but complex myths in the life of an ordinary pebble, always amazed by the course of the streams found. These memoirs are a reflection of our times, history, love for the automobile,then adding the racing with many encounters with lovers and places that have been traveled that brings this extraordinary life into view. The book is about people encountered in his life ́s stream, the persons who have enriched this life and helped him to find out who he is. Also that going through this journey, gathering memories, myths or truths, these moments sustained his notion of an ordinary pebble’s extraordinary life. These events have allowed reflection on moral issues and things that are questionable judgment. He hope that you enjoy this time traveling in this stream. Pebbles we are, yet we are still the most important part in those stream surrounding us, finding most everyone else’s lives continue similarly within those same small stream we live in rubbing shoulders and sharing our life ́s stream with others matter more than we know because as others enrich our lives, we can d
Author: Antoinette Nora Claypoole Publisher: ISBN: 9781539163251 Category : Languages : en Pages : 248
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PROCEEDS OF THIS BOOK donated to Civil Liberties Defense Center in Eugene, Ore. which assists varied groups protecting Mother Earth. (www.cldc.org). This book is a mythological telling of memoir, based on true events that happened to the author in and around Dineh (Navajo) lands in Arizona, USA. And within the "hippy" movement in the Pacific Northwest during the 1970's and 1980's. Dineh (Navajo) asked rag tag hippies and the active environmental movement of the time, for help in their resistance to forced relocation by the U.S. Government. Hippies responded happily. "Legends" depicts their converging paths and the treacheries involved in demanding human rights for American Indian nations. Using both mythology and memoir the endnotes of this book help readers to learn about facts of Big Mountain resistance, and the overall landscape of white and Red worlds, meeting. The story weaves truths otherwise unseen. With Love, as the theme.
Author: William Berens Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773535861 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 291
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In the 1930s, Chief William Berens shared with anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell a remarkable history of his life, as well as many personal and dream experiences that held special significance for him. Most of this material has never been published. Because the elderly chief wanted his visitor to understand the Ojibwe world, and because Hallowell was deeply interested in his subject matter and was such a good listener, Berens freely related his dreams and other stories about encounters with powerful beings. The fact that he also shared traditional myths in summer, when Ojibwe people thought it dangerous to discuss such things, shows the depth of his relationship with Hallowell. Berens' reminiscences and story and myth texts are unparalleled as sources for the life, experiences, and outlook of this important Ojibwe leader, and for the insights they provide into the history and culture of his people. Rooted in the collaboration between Berens as steward of his oral traditions and Hallowell as creator and guardian of their written versions, Memories, Myth, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader draws the reader into the world - and world view - of Chief Berens, showing how an Aboriginal Christian of the early twentieth century could simultaneously take part in "modern" and "traditional" Ojibwe life.
Author: Cindy Lane Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443875791 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 367
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This book examines the perceptions of European travelling writers about southern Western Australia between 1850 and 1914. Theirs was a narrow vision of space and people in the region, shaped by their individual personalities, their position in society, and the prevailing discourses and ideologies of the age. Christian, Enlightenment, and Romantic philosophies had a major influence on their responses to the land – its cultivation and conservation, and its aesthetic qualities – and on their views of both indigenous and settler colonial society – their class and assumptions of race and ethnicity. The travelling men and women perpetuated an idealised view of a colonised landscape, and a “pioneer” community that eliminated class struggle and inequality, even though an analysis of their observations suggests otherwise. Nevertheless, although limited, their narratives are invaluable as a reflection of opinions, attitudes and knowledge prevalent during an age of imperialism. Their perspectives reveal unique viewpoints that differ from those of immigrants who wrote about their hopes and fears in making a new life for themselves. These travellers were economically secure, literate and educated; foundations which provide an insight into the way power and privilege, implicit in their writings, governed the way they imagined Western Australia in the colonial and immediate post-federation period. The tinted lenses through which European travelling writers narrowly observed space and people, presented a mythical, imagined sense of southern Western Australia.
Author: Antoinette Nora Claypoole Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781539879978 Category : Languages : en Pages : 232
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PROCEEDS OF THIS BOOK donated to the Civil Liberties Defense Center in Eugene, Ore. which assists varied groups protecting Mother Earth. (www.cldc.org), including the 2016 Standing Rock Sioux Tribe movement. This book is a mythological telling of memoir, based on true events that happened to the author in and around Dineh (Navajo) lands in Arizona, USA. And within the "hippy" movement in the Pacific Northwest during the 1970's and 1980's. Dineh (Navajo) asked rag tag hippies and the active environmental movement of the time, for help in their resistance to forced relocation by the U.S. Government. Hippies responded happily. "Legends" depicts their converging paths and the treacheries involved in demanding human rights for American Indian nations. Using both mythology and memoir the endnotes of this book help readers to learn about facts of Big Mountain resistance, and the overall landscape of white and Red worlds, meeting. The story weaves truths otherwise unseen. With Love, as the theme.
Author: Itzchak Weismann Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317112202 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 267
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Islamic myths and collective memory are very much alive in today’s localized struggles for identity, and are deployed in the ongoing construction of worldwide cultural networks. This book brings the theoretical perspectives of myth-making and collective memory to the study of Islam and globalization and to the study of the place of the mass media in the contemporary Islamic resurgence. It explores the annulment of spatial and temporal distance by globalization and by the communications revolution underlying it, and how this has affected the cherished myths and memories of the Muslim community. It shows how contemporary Islamic thinkers and movements respond to the challenges of globalization by preserving, reviving, reshaping, or transforming myths and memories.
Author: Ben Dodds Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030890589 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 291
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This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The concept of cultural memory is used to examine the ways in which journalists, writers of fiction, scholars and others referred to, described and explained the Black Death from around 1800 onwards. The distant medieval past was often used to make sense of aspects of the present, from the cholera pandemics of the nineteenth-century to the climate crisis of the early twenty-first century. A series of overlapping myths related to the Black Death emerged based only in part on historical evidence. Cultural memory circulates in a variety of media from the scholarly article to the video game and online video clip, and the connections and differences between mediated representations of the Black Death are considered. The Black Death is one of the most well-known aspects of the medieval world, and this study of its associated memories and myths reveals the depth and complexity of interactions between the distant and recent past.
Author: Mike Davis Publisher: ISBN: 9781718829282 Category : Languages : en Pages : 56
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You have had your DNA tested. That's good. You know your ethnic and national lineage. But what about the family history, the stories that someone thought they had heard?Now, you can become the family historian by writing not only your memoirs but by interviewing your relatives and recording their stories.Your family and generations to come will thank you. Do it now before it's too late!
Author: Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000929442 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 201
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Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat Generation from the critical lens of revisionist discourses. Using the metaphor and the critical lens of looking back, an act infused with feminist implications after Adrianne Rich (1972), the volume focuses on poetry, fiction, and autobiographical writing to analyze the different ways in which Beat women used revisionist discourses to refashion the Beat Generation and establish themselves as literary and artistic subjects. Offering the first comprehensive study of the use of mythology in the Beat Generation, Beath Myths in Literaute: Revisionist Strategies in Beat Women focuses on the specific re-writing or revisioning of mythical texts. As such, it studies the ways in which Beat poets incorporate mythology into their works, both through the feminist reinvention or appropriation of ancient myths, but also by debunking more contemporary myths used to contain women in particular social and artistic roles. Furthermore, this volume expands Rich’s notion of re-vision, considering memoirs and autobiographies as factual and fictional re-interpretations of history. Seen through the eyes of revisionist studies and the poets’ investment in “personal myth”, the book establishes new points of entrance into works that allow us to explore the feminist, political, and poetical relevance of the work of Beat women.
Author: Naomi Bryson Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1499067674 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 248
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“Where did you come from?” “How did you get here?” These questions came from people who had not seen black skiers before. “Black people can’t endure cold temperatures”, is a myth that has been held by Caucasians and some black people. Black skiers enjoy gliding, sliding and riding on the cold and snowy mountains. The myths that black people don’t ski and that black people are too lazy to learn will be dispelled. There are countless stories of their experiences on the snowy mountains, their volunteer services, networking, finding love, and the friendships over the years.
Author: Carl B. Allen
Author: Antoinette Nora Claypoole
Author: William Berens
Author: Cindy Lane
Author: Antoinette Nora Claypoole
Author: Itzchak Weismann
Author: Ben Dodds
Author: Mike Davis
Author: Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo
Author: Naomi Bryson