Slum Heaven Gamblers

Author : Lungile Lolo Lubuzo
Publisher : Europa Edizioni
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slum Heaven Gamblers written by Lungile Lolo Lubuzo and published by Europa Edizioni. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slum Heaven Gamblers is an exaggerated portrayal of life in a poverty-stricken slum and township plagued with gang thrills and community uproars in which a teenage girl narrates her journey of self-discovery surrounded by her internal conflicts and unweaving faith in righteousness, condemnation of sin and belief which is tested and defied by experiences. In abusive relationships, she finds comfort and wonders off to psychologically battle the good that is done for and to her. During her journey, she loses her innocence, and she battles with herself as a teenager in prime puberty state in gang violence and young first-time love ecstasies. The story sheds light on religious beliefs, the struggle to survive growth through the demand for age maturity, moral deprivation, and faith in God and gods. Lungile Lubuzo was born in the townships of the city of Durban, South Africa on the 10th of May 1993. The only surviving child of late mother Duduzile Patience Mhongo and father Michael Lubuzo raised by stepmother Monica Thobeka Lubuzo. A heritage of Zulu and Xhosa dynasties is her cultural inheritance. Official records of her education began in 2001 at Nobuhle International Primary school which is where the excessive hoppy of writing descriptive poetry began and later on graduated in Bachelor of Social work in the summer of 2018 at the University of South Africa. Besides creative writing she also enjoys creative arts and farming. Slum Heaven Gamblers is her first published book.

Author : Vachel Lindsay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General William Booth Enters Into Heaven written by Vachel Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Russell
Publisher : James Russell Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0916367592
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Gospel of James written by James Russell and published by James Russell Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lost Gospel of James - a New Testament of Jesus of Galilee. The second series of the novel, The Lost Gospel of John. Come join this fabulous miracle-working Jesus and his trusted and admired Saint James with the entertaining, funny and remarkably bumbling dysfunctional apostles. You'll experience strange and powerful creatures, mysterious paths and twisted lands taking you to places you never knew existed. Enjoy the infamous agonizing filthy slums of heaven, the wicked joys of hell and discover the awful and true horror that there will be no escape for you, ever! You should read the Lost Gospel of John first before reading this second book in the series. Isn't it time you discover The Lost Gospels?

Author : Jack Kelly
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1137280093
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heaven's Ditch written by Jack Kelly and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning narrative, Heaven's Ditch offers an excitingly fresh look at a heady, foundational moment in American history. The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking outburst of imagination in American history. Zealots invented new religions and new modes of living. The Erie Canal made New York the financial capital of America and brought the modern world crashing into the frontier. Men and women saw God face to face, gained and lost fortunes, and reveled in a period of intense spiritual creativity. Heaven's Ditch by Jack Kelly illuminates the spiritual and political upheavals along this "psychic highway" from its opening in 1825 through 1844. "Wage slave" Sam Patch became America's first celebrity daredevil. William Miller envisioned the apocalypse. Farm boy Joseph Smith gave birth to Mormonism, a new and distinctly American religion. Along the way, the reader encounters America's very first "crime of the century," a treasure hunt, searing acts of violence, a visionary cross-dresser, and a panoply of fanatics, mystics, and hoaxers.

Author : Mike Davis
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 1844671607
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planet of Slums written by Mike Davis and published by Verso. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated urban theorist Davis provides a global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor.

Author : Paschal Eze
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595284272
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing Casino With God written by Paschal Eze and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many can point to thousands of reasons why money is money, however it is made, as far as God and His servants get their own share. But does that glorify the Almighty God or gainsay Him? Should we see receiving from God through the casino lens? Is the quest for hitting holy jackpots Biblical? Is neo-tithing an exercise in fear or faith? Can the church survive without tithes? Is asking to be rich asking to be part of God's agenda for the needy? And what is terrorism telling us today as Christians? Should we be obsessed with hunting for gains and glory or busy winning precious souls? Questions upon questions, one may say, but we either find their answers or allow them to haunt us in this end time. This insightful book will help us make the requisite well-informed and God-glorifying choice today.

Author : Toyohiko Kagawa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Shooter at the Sun written by Toyohiko Kagawa and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Philip Quinn
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fools of Fortune; or, Gambling and Gamblers written by John Philip Quinn and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a history of the vice in ancient and modern times all over the world and makes an exposition of its alarming prevalence and destructive effects. This work discusses with an unreserved and exhaustive disclosure of such frauds, tricks and devices as are practiced by "Professional" gamblers, "Confidence Men" and "Bunko Steerers", in order to alert readers not to fall into a trap.

Author : Tyler Anbinder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439137749
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Points written by Tyler Anbinder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century NYC’s most dynamic and dangerous neighborhood comes vividly to life in this “careful, intelligent, and sympathetic history” (The New York Times Book Review). Located in today’s Chinatown, Five Points was home to poor immigrants and other marginalized communities. It witnessed more riots, scams, prostitution, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in America. But at the same time it was a font of creative energy, crammed full of cheap theaters, dance halls, and boxing matches. It was also the home of meeting halls for the political clubs and the machine politicians who would come to dominate not just the city but an entire era in American politics. Drawing from letters, diaries, newspapers, bank records, police reports, and archaeological digs, Anbinder has written the first-ever history of Five Points, the neighborhood that was a microcosm of the American immigrant experience. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America’s immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich. A New York Times Notable Book

Author : Alastair Wilcox
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443859974
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Church and the Slums written by Alastair Wilcox and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organised religion played such a central part in Victorian life that it is impossible to understand this era without some reference to it. Yet the question, which worried the Victorians, still remains, how religious was the mass of Victorian society? Recent scholarship has challenged the orthodoxy that the working classes, and the working classes of large urban centres in particular, were irreligious. Yet Liverpool, with its large migratory population, including Roman Catholics from Ireland and Nonconformists from Wales and Scotland, appeared to offer unpromising ground for the Anglican Church to sow its seed. Within the city, Liverpool’s notorious slums seemed to offer the most barren ground of all. What strategies did the Anglican clergy employ to make their churches work at a grassroots level? How could they overcome the problems they faced, which ranged from the hostility of the local community to severe financial constraints? How helpful was the advice dispensed by Church handbooks in dealing with these challenges? More important, is it now possible to estimate the success in gaining not only worshippers, but a wider penumbra of working class adherents to church-based activities? Some of Liverpool’s more aristocratic churches were overwhelmed by the encroaching city slums, and the reaction of at least one clergyman was to retreat within his vicarage, and ‘shut up shop’. However, other clergy set about energetically working the slums. Largely Oxbridge men, with a very different background in social and educational terms to their flock, they made surprising progress. By drawing upon a variety of local sources, including many hitherto unused, this book contends that it is possible to evaluate the success of the Anglican Church in the slums. The Church had successes not only to be judged solely by the number of working class worshippers, but also by the uses the local community made of rites of passage, philanthropic activities and the clubs and societies offered by the Anglican Church in Liverpool. This book is aimed at readers interested in researching family and local history as well as those following wider national trends in religious history.