The Wall Between Us

Author : David Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781481946933
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wall Between Us written by David Scott Fitzgerald and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Walls Between Us examines the experiences indigenous Mixteco migrants from Oaxaca living in the United States and their family members who remain in Mexico. Covering topics that range from border crossing experiences to the education of youth to mental health, the book provides a scholarly analysis of current migration from Mexico to the United States.

Author : Matthew Small
Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910266310
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wall Between Us written by Matthew Small and published by Legend Press Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The biology of Israel/Palestine simply and beautifully revealed,” from the author of Down and Out Today: Notes from the Gutter (Jon Snow, journalist and presenter). Writer Matthew Small traveled to the Holy Land to further his understanding of the enduring conflict between Israel and Palestine. While there, he discovered beauty, fear and suffering like nowhere else in the world. In these honest and evocative reflections, Small retells his experiences of crossing into the West Bank to work the olive harvest with Palestinian farmers. He relates his encounters with organizations that are determinedly working to sow the seeds of peace in soils that are deeply scarred by suffering and war. While reliving these unforgettable experiences, through his writing he struggles to find why the wall between these two groups of people exists. Deciding to join a group of international and Israeli volunteers, Small attempts to show that, despite the ongoing occupation, peace is not lost, but still to be discovered. “Matthew Small, despite the horror of both the war, and the wall, works and travels both sides of the divide, and brings us to an understanding of where the seeds of peace can yet be found.”—Jon Snow, journalist and presenter “What is really refreshing about this book is the way Small writes from a very personal perspective, often admitting in his diary entries that he’s unsure what to write or how he feels about the situation. His emotion surrounding his visit and the people living amongst the occupation every day is portrayed in a gritty, raw way.”—The Bookbag

Author : Alyce F. Norris
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483649393
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wall Between Us written by Alyce F. Norris and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when she thought it was over, Michelle Andrews found herself facing more dramatic changes in her life; ones that involved a marriage request, a murder, and a four generation secret. Her friendship with Dr. Peter Driscoll was becoming more than comfortable and after getting settled in her own condo and learning how to live alone and loving it, Pete proposed. Her time as a volunteer at a Woman's Shelter opened up a whole new world of relationships creating a circle of friends that didn't know they were related, except by the appearance of a mystifying birthmark. The sudden appearance of a dead body, the collapse of a long standing business and the people involved, began to twist and turn until Michelle finds herself in the middle of a police investigation, friends in jeopardy and the answer to a long lost child. The Wall Between Us is the story of Michelle's struggle for a normal life and the simple things in that life being plagued with outrageous events.

Author : Haru Tsukishima
Publisher : Kodansha America LLC
ISBN 13 : 164212804X
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Walls Between Us written by Haru Tsukishima and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makoto Sakurai finally starts dating her childhood friend, Reita Kikuchi. As the two inch towards a real romantic relationship, a distant cousin of Makoto's shows up unexpectedly and starts making waves… Follow their adventure in the sixth installment of this hilarious love story full of Reita's egoism, the "wall thing," and heart-pounding, butterfly-inducing romance!

Author : Beth Brykman
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615928987
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wall Between Women written by Beth Brykman and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women today struggle to make difficult choices involving their children and their careers - so why do they simultaneously criticize, undermine, and point fingers at one another? Beth Brykman taps her personal experience as well as her professional marketing skills in crafting this well-researched look at the life-transforming issue that American mothers face. Having been both a full-time employed mother and a stay-at-home mom, Brykman interviewed more than one hundred mothers. She lets these women speak for themselves about the reality of their lives, their views of the "other" mother, and how they balance the pros and cons of motherhood.Separate chapters examine the factors that create the wall between women, stereotypes of mothers on both sides of the wall, the lives and attitudes of full-time employed mothers versus mothers who choose to stay at home, working part-time, the reality of daycare, how different women determined what was right for them and their families, coparenting and suggestions for modifying marriages, and letting go of the emotional baggage of success and guilt, including suggestions for broad cultural change.An appendix details her research methods, including questions she posed to each mother, and a useful bibliography that points readers to other resources.Filled with revealing quotations and stories from mothers themselves, this insightful discussion of contemporary motherhood reveals the many challenges facing women and offers creative solutions for overcoming those challenges.

Author : Anne Braden
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572330603
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wall Between written by Anne Braden and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Wall Between is a chilling depiction of a pattern repeated over and over again across the South as brave Blacks and whites tried to breach the barrier between the races. . . . We need to know Anne Braden's story, perhaps even more in 1999 than when she wrote it in 1957." --from the foreword by Julian Bond In 1954, Anne and Carl Braden bought a house in an all-white neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, on behalf of a black couple, Andrew and Charlotte Wade. The Wall Between is Anne Braden's account of what resulted from this act of friendship: mob violence against the Wades, the bombing of the house, and imprisonment for her husband on charges of sedition. A nonfiction finalist for the 1958 National Book Award, The Wall Between is one of only a few first-person accounts from civil rights movement activists--even rarer for its author being white. Offering an insider's view of movement history, it is as readable for its drama as for its sociological importance. It contains no heroes or villains, according to Braden--only people urged on by forces of history that they often did not understand. In an epilogue written for this edition, the author traces the lives of the Bradens and Wades subsequent to events in the original book and reports on her and her husband's continuing activities in the Civil Rights movement, including reminiscences of their friendship with Martin Luther King. Looking back on that history, she warns readers that the entire nation still must do what white Southerners did in the 1950s to ensure equal rights: turn its values, assumptions, and policies upside down. In his foreword to this edition, Julian Bond reflects on the significance of the events Anne describes and the importance of the work the Bradens and others like them undertook. What's missing today, he observes, is not Wades who want a home but Bradens who will help them fight for one. Anne and Carl Braden showed that integrated groups fight best for an integrated world, and The Wall Between is a lasting testament to that dedication. The Author: Ann Braden was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and worked as a newspaper reporter and a public relations agent for trade unions. She served as a delegate to the 1984 and 1988 Democratic National Conventions and has been a visiting professor at Northern Kentucky University, where she teaches civil rights history. She continues to work with the Kentucky Alliance against Racial and Political Repression. [Gene: edit for book cover by deleting last sentences of second and third paragraphs, last two of fourth. The Bond foreword isn't exactly bristling with quotes. The only drawback to the one I selected is that the reference to 1999 might tend to date the book if you use it on the back cover. Do you think you could legitimately edit it to read "even more today"?]

Author : Mitali Perkins
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466899832
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Us and Abuela written by Mitali Perkins and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Mitali Perkins and illustrator Sara Palacios comes Between Us and Abuela, a timely debut picture book about love overcoming the border fences between Mexico and the United States. It's almost time for Christmas, and Maria is traveling with her mother and younger brother, Juan, to visit their grandmother on the border of California and Mexico. For the few minutes they can share together along the fence, Maria and her brother plan to exchange stories and Christmas gifts with the grandmother they haven't seen in years. But when Juan's gift is too big to fit through the slats in the fence, Maria has a brilliant idea. She makes it into a kite that soars over the top of the iron bars. Here is a heartwarming tale of multi-cultural families, and the miracle of love.

Author : Kate McGahan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967851129
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Walls Between Us: A Borderland Love Story written by Kate McGahan and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-16 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two sides to a border. In this story one side is American, one side is Mexican. Threats from illicit activities permeate both sides with issues of illegal immigration and drug and human trafficking. There are two faces of the Arizona desert. Sarah sees it as a heaven, he sees it as a hell. She is a budding attorney from New York; he is a photojournalist fleeing the Mexican drug cartel. Destiny brings the two together in the Mexico Arizona borderlands of the Sonoran Desert. Follow the lives of soulmates Sarah and Benito as they learn from their striking similarities and discover their diverse cultural differences. Learn the true meaning of family. Witness the humble Mexican woman who inspires change in a Vietnam veteran vigilante through the power of unconditional love. Listen to the retired professor from New York who finds a unique way to help the underprivileged on the south side of the border. All paths and stories of these people intersect and destiny rules the direction that their lives take. The people in this story live on the edge of a political, manmade border line. A line that crosses through cities and homelands. A line that divides those who are prejudiced from one another but also a line that divides those who love. We discover that a border wall is just one kind of wall. There are political walls of injustice, emotional walls of defensiveness and social walls of discrimination. Join us as we watch the walls of Fate come tumbling down when one prioritizes the power of love, compassion and acceptance. We may not be able to open our Borders, but we can open our hearts. Based on a true story."Every day since I've been writing this book I grieve for people I never met, people I never knew. They will sell everything short of their soul to make the border crossing. And a few will sell their soul..." Kate McGahan "You don't build walls, you build bridges between people." Andrew Cuomo"The little wall will fall away so quietly beneath the wings of peace." A Course in Miracles"Men will find that they can avoid far more easily the perils, which beset them...by uniting forces." Benedict Spinoza

Author : Leopoldo Y. Yabes
Publisher : UP Press
ISBN 13 : 9715420850
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philippine Short Stories, 1941-1955 written by Leopoldo Y. Yabes and published by UP Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is a collection of some sixty-six short stories written in English by Filipino authors within the forty years following the introduction of English in the Philippines.

Author : Krystyna Ros.Sorell
Publisher : Xlibris
ISBN 13 : 9781425744700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wall Between Us written by Krystyna Ros.Sorell and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: