Hard Head City

Author : Calvin Kerr Jr
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479783021
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard Head City written by Calvin Kerr Jr and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout my military and civilian careers I have had the opportunities to work in many diverse occupations and positions. Some of the jobs include: First Sergeant, Army Instructor (Junior Reserve offi cer Training Corps), High School Basketball Coach, Registered Dental Hygienist, Real Estate Consultant, Financial Advisor with securities 6 and 63 certifi cations, Drill Instructor, Calvary Scout, Infantryman, Track Commander, Machine Gunner, Grenadier, and Rifl eman. Sometimes the aforementioned jobs entailed being placed in many unpleasant places. The Demilitarized Zone in Korea and the Jungles of Panama are two places that come to mind However, I must admit that one of my biggest disappointments occurred when I was released by an Air Force Colonel at the Pentagon and found myself without a job. I never imagined after at least forty years of service (22 active) with the Army that I did not even rate an interview. Although, I felt empty at the time without a job, It turned out to be a blessing because it allotted me the time to fi nish this book. I still make the sacrifi ce of being away from my family to have a job. Nonetheless, I work out of another state away from home but at least I have a job to support my family. Anyway, I thank God for the ability and skills to write this book. the events that took place in this book are all based on true stories. The short stories you are about to engage in were witnessed by me (the author) or told to me by the storyteller. Names have been changed to protect the rights of people actually involved. I wrote this book in such a manner that my generation can relate to it and our younger generation may attain historical and geographical knowledge. Intentionally, I wanted to be as inexplicit as possible so that it may be used as a teaching tool. I apologize if anyone is offended; however, I am merely describing incidents as seen from my eyes with the use of references. Resources include the internet, books and people.

Author : Jr. Calvin Kerr
Publisher : Goldtouch Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781951461614
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard Head City written by Jr. Calvin Kerr and published by Goldtouch Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hard Head City" contains the following eight di­ erent short stories: 1. Black Mondays is a story of a boys journey of seeing signs stating, " For Whites Only", while growing up in Memphis to seeing both inaugurations of President Obama and Martin Luther King's memorial dedication. 2. "Chained 2 Da' Porch", tells of a woman's demise from a child to an adult. 3. "Whose Life Is It, Anyway?", portrays the rigors of being an Army drill instructor training male and female privates while facing discrimination. 4. "Hard Head City", describes an Army instructor who helps create of an Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps at an alternative in an inner-city. Moreover, he becomes the basketball coach. 5. "2 Dans", is a split family situation. 6. "3 Hots and a Cot", highlights the cavalier attitude of an inmate at Leavenworth and why he was there. 7. "Who's Loving Katie", is a heart touching story of an abused child. 8. "X-cape from Panama, talks about a soldiers escape from Panama.

Author : Colin Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845233167
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Have You Father Hard Head written by Colin Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin Robinson's long-awaited debut collection, You Have You Father Hard Head, represents a nuanced but unswerving engagement with desire and intimacy as he explores what it means to be a Caribbean son negotiating the complexities of relationships between men. In poems of generous vulnerability and intimacy, Robinson captures the voice of boys on whose spirits and "hard heads" their mothers live out the memory of their fathers.

Author : Calvin Kerr Jr
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479783048
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard Head City written by Calvin Kerr Jr and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout my military and civilian careers I have had the opportunities to work in many diverse occupations and positions. Some of the jobs include: First Sergeant, Army Instructor (Junior Reserve offi cer Training Corps), High School Basketball Coach, Registered Dental Hygienist, Real Estate Consultant, Financial Advisor with securities 6 and 63 certifi cations, Drill Instructor, Calvary Scout, Infantryman, Track Commander, Machine Gunner, Grenadier, and Rifl eman. Sometimes the aforementioned jobs entailed being placed in many unpleasant places. The Demilitarized Zone in Korea and the Jungles of Panama are two places that come to mind However, I must admit that one of my biggest disappointments occurred when I was released by an Air Force Colonel at the Pentagon and found myself without a job. I never imagined after at least forty years of service (22 active) with the Army that I did not even rate an interview. Although, I felt empty at the time without a job, It turned out to be a blessing because it allotted me the time to fi nish this book. I still make the sacrifi ce of being away from my family to have a job. Nonetheless, I work out of another state away from home but at least I have a job to support my family. Anyway, I thank God for the ability and skills to write this book. the events that took place in this book are all based on true stories. The short stories you are about to engage in were witnessed by me (the author) or told to me by the storyteller. Names have been changed to protect the rights of people actually involved. I wrote this book in such a manner that my generation can relate to it and our younger generation may attain historical and geographical knowledge. Intentionally, I wanted to be as inexplicit as possible so that it may be used as a teaching tool. I apologize if anyone is offended; however, I am merely describing incidents as seen from my eyes with the use of references. Resources include the internet, books and people.

Author : PaPa Sak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970449559
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hard Head Makes A Soft Ass written by PaPa Sak and published by . This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pooh is now a boss and calling shots on the streets of San Bernardino. Now the drama really gets thick because he has a number of people that he has to answer. Though he's a boss, all the signs that the streets doesn't want him anymore. Will he heed the warnings or will it be too late?

Author : Jason Hardy
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982128607
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Chance Club written by Jason Hardy and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden part of our justice system through the intertwining stories of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after prison in this illuminating and dramatic book. Prompted by a dead-end retail job and a vague desire to increase the amount of justice in his hometown, Jason Hardy became a parole officer in New Orleans at the worst possible moment. Louisiana’s incarceration rates were the highest in the US and his department’s caseload had just been increased to 220 “offenders” per parole officer, whereas the national average is around 100. Almost immediately, he discovered that the biggest problem with our prison system is what we do—and don’t do—when people get out of prison. Deprived of social support and jobs, these former convicts are often worse off than when they first entered prison and Hardy dramatizes their dilemmas with empathy and grace. He’s given unique access to their lives and a growing recognition of their struggles and takes on his job with the hope that he can change people’s fates—but he quickly learns otherwise. The best Hardy and his colleagues can do is watch out for impending disaster and help clean up the mess left behind. But he finds that some of his charges can muster the miraculous power to save themselves. By following these heroes, he both stokes our hope and fuels our outrage by showing us how most offenders, even those with the best intentions, end up back in prison—or dead—because the system systematically fails them. Our focus should be, he argues, to give offenders the tools they need to re-enter society which is not only humane but also vastly cheaper for taxpayers. As immersive and dramatic as Evicted and as revelatory as The New Jim Crow, The Second Chance Club shows us how to solve the cruelest problems prisons create for offenders and society at large.

Author : Kerri Arsenault
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250155959
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mill Town written by Kerri Arsenault and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics John Leonard Prize for Best First Book Finalist for the 2021 New England Society Book Award Finalist for the 2021 New England Independent Booksellers Association Award A New York Times Editors’ Choice and Chicago Tribune top book for 2020 “Mill Town is the book of a lifetime; a deep-drilling, quick-moving, heartbreaking story. Scathing and tender, it lifts often into poetry, but comes down hard when it must. Through it all runs the river: sluggish, ancient, dangerous, freighted with America’s sins.” —Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland Kerri Arsenault grew up in the small, rural town of Mexico, Maine, where for over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that provided jobs for nearly everyone in town, including three generations of her family. Kerri had a happy childhood, but years after she moved away, she realized the price she paid for that childhood. The price everyone paid. The mill, while providing the social and economic cohesion for the community, also contributed to its demise. Mill Town is a book of narrative nonfiction, investigative memoir, and cultural criticism that illuminates the rise and collapse of the working-class, the hazards of loving and leaving home, and the ambiguous nature of toxics and disease with the central question; Who or what are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?

Author : John A. Ruppert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recovery of Tin from Hardhead by Filtration written by John A. Ruppert and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sam Anderson
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0804137323
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boom Town written by Sam Anderson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from award-winning journalist Sam Anderson NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Chicago Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • Deadspin Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous “Land Run” in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn between the wild energy that drives its outsized ambitions, and the forces of order that seek sustainable progress. Nowhere was this dynamic better realized than in the drama of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team’s 2012-13 season, when the Thunder’s brilliant general manager, Sam Presti, ignited a firestorm by trading future superstar James Harden just days before the first game. Presti’s all-in gamble on “the Process”—the patient, methodical management style that dictated the trade as the team’s best hope for long-term greatness—kicked off a pivotal year in the city’s history, one that would include pitched battles over urban planning, a series of cataclysmic tornadoes, and the frenzied hope that an NBA championship might finally deliver the glory of which the city had always dreamed. Boom Town announces the arrival of an exciting literary voice. Sam Anderson, former book critic for New York magazine and now a staff writer at the New York Times magazine, unfolds an idiosyncratic mix of American history, sports reporting, urban studies, gonzo memoir, and much more to tell the strange but compelling story of an American city whose unique mix of geography and history make it a fascinating microcosm of the democratic experiment. Filled with characters ranging from NBA superstars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook; to Flaming Lips oddball frontman Wayne Coyne; to legendary Great Plains meteorologist Gary England; to Stanley Draper, Oklahoma City's would-be Robert Moses; to civil rights activist Clara Luper; to the citizens and public servants who survived the notorious 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building, Boom Town offers a remarkable look at the urban tapestry woven from control and chaos, sports and civics.

Author : Donald A. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recovering Tin from Hardhead by Selective Oxidation of Iron written by Donald A. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: