Author: Marie S. Glover
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496957881
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A Hard Row to Hoe is a narrative novel that stems from the memoirs of its main character, Ree, born in 1941. The story is based on her recollections from the around the age of four years old to the end of the decade. The story gives a concise view of the time, history, and southern setting in which the story unfolds. The story tells of how Ree slowly learns about life under the watchful eyes of her mother, doting grandmother, and their profound religious teachings. Although shes inquisitive, the excessively protective nature of her parents and grandmother always kept her curiosities at bay. However, despite their concerns, this rather sickly, quiet, and curious child senses theres more to life and utilizes every given opportunity to learn about people outside her secluded world. Sheltered in a world of blackness, she realizes her skin is black, and shes very happy being black because everybody she knows in her little world is kindhearted and nonjudgmental. It was only when she finally ventures out into the greater society that she realizes what it means to be a little black child in America. Shockingly, her aspirations temporarily floundered when she faced the harsh reality that not all people accepted her blackness. Ree learns life can be hard and very painful and that it incorporates many different kinds of painmost devastatingly, the pain of rejection. By the storys end, she has become so resolute it dulled the pain of an unaccepting world. Assuredly, she knows the moral teachings of her mother and grandmother would always be there to help her overcome the stigmas that have been attached to black skin. It is said: theres nothing new under the sun. Subsequently, everything that goes around comes around. Moral principles that have spanned the decades are embedded within the lines of events, which will provide many teachable moments, just as its gripping conclusion will provide timeless answers to age-old problems.
A Hard Row to Hoe
Author: Marie S. Glover
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496957881
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A Hard Row to Hoe is a narrative novel that stems from the memoirs of its main character, Ree, born in 1941. The story is based on her recollections from the around the age of four years old to the end of the decade. The story gives a concise view of the time, history, and southern setting in which the story unfolds. The story tells of how Ree slowly learns about life under the watchful eyes of her mother, doting grandmother, and their profound religious teachings. Although shes inquisitive, the excessively protective nature of her parents and grandmother always kept her curiosities at bay. However, despite their concerns, this rather sickly, quiet, and curious child senses theres more to life and utilizes every given opportunity to learn about people outside her secluded world. Sheltered in a world of blackness, she realizes her skin is black, and shes very happy being black because everybody she knows in her little world is kindhearted and nonjudgmental. It was only when she finally ventures out into the greater society that she realizes what it means to be a little black child in America. Shockingly, her aspirations temporarily floundered when she faced the harsh reality that not all people accepted her blackness. Ree learns life can be hard and very painful and that it incorporates many different kinds of painmost devastatingly, the pain of rejection. By the storys end, she has become so resolute it dulled the pain of an unaccepting world. Assuredly, she knows the moral teachings of her mother and grandmother would always be there to help her overcome the stigmas that have been attached to black skin. It is said: theres nothing new under the sun. Subsequently, everything that goes around comes around. Moral principles that have spanned the decades are embedded within the lines of events, which will provide many teachable moments, just as its gripping conclusion will provide timeless answers to age-old problems.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496957881
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A Hard Row to Hoe is a narrative novel that stems from the memoirs of its main character, Ree, born in 1941. The story is based on her recollections from the around the age of four years old to the end of the decade. The story gives a concise view of the time, history, and southern setting in which the story unfolds. The story tells of how Ree slowly learns about life under the watchful eyes of her mother, doting grandmother, and their profound religious teachings. Although shes inquisitive, the excessively protective nature of her parents and grandmother always kept her curiosities at bay. However, despite their concerns, this rather sickly, quiet, and curious child senses theres more to life and utilizes every given opportunity to learn about people outside her secluded world. Sheltered in a world of blackness, she realizes her skin is black, and shes very happy being black because everybody she knows in her little world is kindhearted and nonjudgmental. It was only when she finally ventures out into the greater society that she realizes what it means to be a little black child in America. Shockingly, her aspirations temporarily floundered when she faced the harsh reality that not all people accepted her blackness. Ree learns life can be hard and very painful and that it incorporates many different kinds of painmost devastatingly, the pain of rejection. By the storys end, she has become so resolute it dulled the pain of an unaccepting world. Assuredly, she knows the moral teachings of her mother and grandmother would always be there to help her overcome the stigmas that have been attached to black skin. It is said: theres nothing new under the sun. Subsequently, everything that goes around comes around. Moral principles that have spanned the decades are embedded within the lines of events, which will provide many teachable moments, just as its gripping conclusion will provide timeless answers to age-old problems.
That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
Author: Ross Petras
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 0399581278
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse. Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot, redundant, and unique incorrectly every day. Don’t be one of them. Using examples of misuse from leading newspapers, prominent public figures and famous writers, among others, language gurus Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras explain how to avoid these perilous pitfalls in the English language. Each entry also includes short histories of how and why these mistake have happened, some of the (often surprisingly nasty) debates about which uses are (and are not) mistakes, and finally, how to use these words correctly … or why to not use them at all. By the end of this book, every literati will be able to confidently, casually, and correctly toss in an “a priori” or a “limns” without hesitation.
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 0399581278
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse. Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot, redundant, and unique incorrectly every day. Don’t be one of them. Using examples of misuse from leading newspapers, prominent public figures and famous writers, among others, language gurus Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras explain how to avoid these perilous pitfalls in the English language. Each entry also includes short histories of how and why these mistake have happened, some of the (often surprisingly nasty) debates about which uses are (and are not) mistakes, and finally, how to use these words correctly … or why to not use them at all. By the end of this book, every literati will be able to confidently, casually, and correctly toss in an “a priori” or a “limns” without hesitation.
Americanisms--old and New
Author: John Stephen Farmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
A Hard Row to Hoe
Author: C. M. Hindman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781516998388
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A Hard Row to Hoe, The Story That Almost Wasn't Told is the personal reflection of C.M. Hindman on his life growing up during the depression and his perseverance to rise above the challenges, and create a successful life for himself and his family. C.M. weaves his life story through the lens of his years as a young boy amid the struggles of a large family moving from farm to farm to scratch out a living, then carries us with him on his journey through his adult years as he earned success as an entrepreneur and skilled craftsman. His transparency, story telling and humor draw us in as he paints us his life story, and helps us relate to his struggles, challenges, and joy as we walk alongside him and with each recollection.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781516998388
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A Hard Row to Hoe, The Story That Almost Wasn't Told is the personal reflection of C.M. Hindman on his life growing up during the depression and his perseverance to rise above the challenges, and create a successful life for himself and his family. C.M. weaves his life story through the lens of his years as a young boy amid the struggles of a large family moving from farm to farm to scratch out a living, then carries us with him on his journey through his adult years as he earned success as an entrepreneur and skilled craftsman. His transparency, story telling and humor draw us in as he paints us his life story, and helps us relate to his struggles, challenges, and joy as we walk alongside him and with each recollection.
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present
Author: William Ernest Henley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present
Author: John Stephen Farmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
An American Glossary
Author: Richard Hopwood Thornton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Fun With Idioms
Author: John B Smithback
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595350771
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Idioms are the nuts and bolts of English. They add color and zing to make the language more expressive. This book with its humorous illustrations and witty definitions is almost guaranteed to make learning English idioms fun! And as easy as ABC!
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595350771
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Idioms are the nuts and bolts of English. They add color and zing to make the language more expressive. This book with its humorous illustrations and witty definitions is almost guaranteed to make learning English idioms fun! And as easy as ABC!
In a Dress Made of Butterflies
Author: Sandra Lee Stillwell
Publisher: Poetic Matrix Press
ISBN: 0978959701
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Poetry. Native American Studies. "Sandy Stillwell invites us to take a seat on that boulder by the river and listen to the water roll awhile. In her poems the natural world becomes a mirror for the complexities of our lives, an endless source of wisdom that guides us. Stillwell reminds us that 'something knocking against the heart...is not to be ignored.' She encourages us to open the door and let ourselves in"--Cheryl Dumesnil. "Sandra tells wonderful stories in her poems, adding herself to a long line of storytellers. Like griots of old, she distills the truth through a fine water of words. And that is the key to her work--a deep love and sharing of truth"--James Downs.
Publisher: Poetic Matrix Press
ISBN: 0978959701
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Poetry. Native American Studies. "Sandy Stillwell invites us to take a seat on that boulder by the river and listen to the water roll awhile. In her poems the natural world becomes a mirror for the complexities of our lives, an endless source of wisdom that guides us. Stillwell reminds us that 'something knocking against the heart...is not to be ignored.' She encourages us to open the door and let ourselves in"--Cheryl Dumesnil. "Sandra tells wonderful stories in her poems, adding herself to a long line of storytellers. Like griots of old, she distills the truth through a fine water of words. And that is the key to her work--a deep love and sharing of truth"--James Downs.
Dictionary of American Regional English: P-Sk
Author: Frederic G. Cassidy
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities. Online index is at http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/18.
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities. Online index is at http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/18.