Author: Anthony Iacone
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1641381086
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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Mario Muscella is a fictional character. His lifestyle is taken from many different experiences of the author and many others whom he has encountered over the years. In this story, Mario feels that he has to be accepted by his peers by doing everything that satisfies them even though he usually hates doing those things. Throughout most of his life, he is a follower, although he wants to break loose and become a leader. Mario is a child from the beginning, who never really grows up. He just gets older, weaker, and beaten down by the many pitfalls of his sorry life. He is a second generation Italian American growing up in an ethnic neighborhood in South Philadelphia. He has some success along the way, and at times, he accumulates some wealth and good fortune. Those components only seem to last for a few brief moments. Each time, he gets hit over the head with a large mallet, which brings him back to reality. He decides to go far away to school, and he finally meets a girl who he seems to love. As soon as he hits the high point of this romance, she does a complete 180 and breaks his heart. He never recovers from that dismal moment, which takes him down another rocky road. He is pushed into an unhappy marriage by his own hand. All during this time, he longs for his lost sweetheart, but he never cheats on his wife. Later on, his wife decides to betray him. None of this ends very well. His story is about cheating, heartaches, murder, crime, and other misfortunes that seem to plague him wherever he goes. He never seems to catch a break even when he works his tail off. He gets slammed in Eau Claire, Washington, DC, and back at home. Mario seems to be snake-bitten. Mario hits rock bottom. He runs away, but he can never run away from himself. He gets another chance with his lost love, but he gets hit with another surprise. He is always on the doorstep of some type of calamity. Mario is about to throw in the towel when something mysterious happens. He finds out that his luck is godsend. His life is about to change forever. He also may have found a new love that will also last forever.
Author: Eduardo Machado
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367008
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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Includes The Modern Ladies of Guanabacoa, Fabiola, In the Eye of the Hurricane and Broken Eggs.
Author: Alan L. Carsrud
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461412013
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Many of the challenges faced by family-owned businesses develop after the firm has reached a stage of maturity, when the first generation is faced with issues concerning the role of their children in the business and the long-term future of the enterprise. This collection of case studies from around the world demonstrates how governance of both the business and the family (or lack thereof) impacts succession of leadership in the firm and the inheritance of ownership and wealth. It is the role of governance and how it impacts both family and firm that link these family business cases together with succession and inheritance. These topics have been clustered together because the social systems of the family and the management system of the firm have significant impacts on the success, or failure, of succession plans. All the planning in the world for succession and inheritance will not succeed if the firm does not have a well established and functional governance system. Likewise, if the family does not understand its role in the governance of the firm and the mechanisms for making sound decisions, succession choices may not be accepted by family members. Most family firms fail because of succession issues, not economic ones. This volume features nine in-depth cases of family-owned business from a variety of industries to illuminate the dynamics of governance, succession, and inheritance. Each case illustrates the complexity of issues and, through interactive exercises and questions, offers readers approaches to solutions, which may include less-than-optimal compromises or even selling the business as the only viable option. The examples and insights will prove valuable for students and members of entrepreneurial and family-owned firms, as well as consultants, investors, and other professional advisors.
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Publisher: Jeffrey Frank Jones
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Over 200 pages ... Developed by I Corps Foreign Language Training Center Fort Lewis, WA For the Special Operations Forces Language Office United States Special Operations Command LANGUAGE TRAINING The ability to speak a foreign language is a core unconventional warfare skill and is being incorporated throughout all phases of the qualification course. The students will receive their language assignment after the selection phase where they will receive a language starter kit that allows them to begin language training while waiting to return to Fort Bragg for Phase II. The 3rd Bn, 1st SWTG (A) is responsible for all language training at the USAJFKSWCS. The Special Operations Language Training (SOLT) is primarily a performance-oriented language course. Students are trained in one of ten core languages with enduring regional application and must show proficiency in speaking, listening and reading. A student receives language training throughout the Pipeline. In Phase IV, students attend an 8 or 14 week language blitz depending upon the language they are slotted in. The general purpose of the course is to provide each student with the ability to communicate in a foreign language. For successful completion of the course, the student must achieve at least a 1/1/1 or higher on the Defense Language Proficiency Test in two of the three graded areas; speaking, listening and reading. Table of Contents Introduction Introduction Lesson 1 People and Geography Lesson 2 Living and Working Lesson 3 Numbers, Dates, and Time Lesson 4 Daily Activities Lesson 5 Meeting the Family Lesson 6 Around Town Lesson 7 Shopping Lesson 8 Eating Out Lesson 9 Customs, and Courtesies in the Home Lesson 10 Around the House Lesson 11 Weather and Climate Lesson 12 Personal Appearance Lesson 13 Transportation Lesson 14 Travel Lesson 15 At School Lesson 16 Recreation and Leisure Lesson 17 Health and the Human Body Lesson 18 Political and International Topics in the News Lesson 19 The Military Lesson 20 Holidays and Traditions
Author: John Ferth
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460201930
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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The Stage is our world. We play our part in it, within the time allotted to us. When the time is up - down goes the curtain. Fate distributes the parts we play, we have no hand in the choosing. We are lucky sometimes. Olga believes she was destined to be a bag-lady, living in doorways. On her hospital bed, anorexic Tina is convinced that nothing is wrong with her. If people would just mind their own business. The Three Buddies, living on skid row, try to survive the best they can. There are good moments. And to hope costs nothing. One learns to accept the things one cannot change. Mister Alister and Mister Pedro realize that sometimes there are Happy Endings, after all....
Author: Eros Corazza
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019927018X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 383
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This volume presents a fascinating investigation of the role that indexicals play in our thought. Indexicality is crucial to the understanding of such puzzling issues as the nature of the self, the nature of perception, social interaction psychological pathologies and psychological development.
Author: Eduardo Machado
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573660425
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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"The Modern Ladies of Guanabacoa shows one family's climb to wealth in the Cuba of 1928-31. The play is at once a political drama and social comedy, ranging from melodrama to farce. Questions of power, control and revolution within the family mirror society's wider conflicts. The father is a butcher who rules his wife and four grown children with an iron hand, even as he spends most of his time philandering outside the house. The only daughter, aged 27, is accused of having lost her virginity simply because she may once have kissed the now-deceased man who courted her for seven years. While her three brothers live less-cloistered sex lives, they benefit from a double standard that allows young Cuban men to go whoring to satisfy their "special needs." This play is a part of Machado's Before and After the Revolution series, a group of four plays about the Cuban Revolution. Other plays in the series are: Once Removed, In the Eye of the Hurricane, and Havana is Waiting."--Publisher's website.
Author: Hein van der Voort
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110197286
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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This work contains a comprehensive description of Kwaza, which is an endangered and unclassified indigenous language of Southern Rondônia, Brazil. The Kwaza language, also known in the literature as Koaiá, is spoken by around 25 people today. Until recently, our knowledge of Kwaza was based on only three short word lists, from 1938, 1943 and 1984. Like the language, the culture and the history of its speakers are undocumented. The Kwaza people as an ethnic group have been decimated by increasing ecological, physical, social and cultural pressure from Western civilisation since contact in the past century. This is the situation for many indigenous peoples of Rondônia and of the Amazon region in general. Linguists expect that the majority of these peoples will cease to exist as distinct language communities during the coming decades. The present work is intended as a contribution to the documentation and preservation of the languages of the Amazon basin. In this respect, Kwaza has represents an especially urgent case in view of its undetermined classification, the lack of documentation and its endangered status. This work is based on the author ́s personal fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 2002, and it consists of three parts. Part I contains a thorough description of the phonology and morphosyntax of the language and a concise overview of its social, cultural and historical context. Part II contains a diverse selection of transcribed and translated texts with interlinear morphological analyses. Part III is a dictionary of Kwaza, including many examples and an English-Kwaza register. This complete description is of interest to linguists in general, scholars of South American languages in particular, and anthropologists and historians interested in the Guaporé region.
Author: Alan Behm
Publisher: Upswell
ISBN: 1743823673
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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A set of provocative ideas about recalibrating the relationship between Australia and the USA to deliver peace and prosperity rather than conflict and disharmony America matters. Australia matters. They matter to each other. They matter to the world. Their institutional and structural alignments are deep and powerful. Americans believe in themselves. Australians believe in each other. They are mates. They are gregarious. Americans are single-minded and ambitious. Success is the reward for effort. Australians are happy-go-lucky. They do not push themselves too hard. Americans honour success. Australians cut down tall poppies. Both are brash. There are also many contrasts. America is religious. Australia is secular. Curiously, their differences help to explain why they are so close – and why their relationship is so superficial. They share interests: they like winning and being in charge; they like wealth, and they like being liked. They like condescension, and excluding people they do not like. 'National security' is a major shared interest. So is racism. America's (and Australia's) recent wars have all been against non-whites. Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan are worse off for the wars we fought. So are we. Despite the political rhetoric, America and Australians do not share values. They do not share the values of equality, inclusion, respect, tolerance and trust. They do share a pervasive sense of insecurity. America supports a gun and war culture regardless of the costs, and Australia supports American adventurism unconditionally. Their focus on security emphasises war, not peace. America is floundering and appears to have lost its way. It needs friends that advise and encourage. As rich and powerful first-world nations, America and Australia share a problem: how to recalibrate their relationship to deliver peace and prosperity rather than conflict and disharmony. In The Odd Couple, Allan Behm suggests ways that America and Australia can transcend military glitz to strengthen well-being and human security worldwide. America needs a friend, not a flunkey, and Australia may become its best ally.
Author: Carol Caico
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Maria and Mario got married young after a situation that happened when she was young; she had to sneak to see him, but when she was nineteen and he was twenty-one, they were given a lovely wedding. They loved each other and had three sons and a daughter very close in age. This is the story of their lives as parents. A situation occurred, forcing Maria, Mario, and their young daughter to move to America. Two of her sons were at a university in Sicily. Mario had a very successful business growing grapes and making wines and olive oil. He exported to America and at local markets in Italy. His one son then took over the business and was paid a lot of money. There was great sadness that occurred in the family, apart from joyful times. Life took many twists and turns. I hope you enjoy this fictional novel, A Sicilian Family.
