Author: William A. James Sr.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532060785
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Hard Times and Survival: The Autobiography of an African American Son is my story. It is how I overcame all the heartbreaking, brutal, and horrendous circumstances that I was born into in 1947. I saw it all in my first sixteen years: unbridled lust, gross immorality, damning lies, and terrible brutality by my father against me and my mother. He tried to kill me once but kept up a constant campaign of horrible abuses of my mother until I left home at sixteen. However, success is the best revenge! After three years of alcoholism, I pulled myself together and went back to school on my own. That was after I spent a year in Job Corps from 1966 to 1967. From 1975 to 1977, I went to Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville. From 1977 to 1980, I attended Virginia State University in Petersburg. I earned my BA and MA degrees. I studied above a master's at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville from 1980 to 1983. I did not graduate, but I learned valuable life lessons. I started to write in 1993 about what had happened to me over the years and how I used my dire circumstances as motivation to pick myself up and make my life better. I hope I am an example that will help others who are suffering through similar atrocities to be motivated to not give up but persevere and that they will, as I did, overcome anything they are being faced with.
Hard Times and Survival; the Autobiography of an African-American Son
Author: William A. James Sr.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532060785
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Hard Times and Survival: The Autobiography of an African American Son is my story. It is how I overcame all the heartbreaking, brutal, and horrendous circumstances that I was born into in 1947. I saw it all in my first sixteen years: unbridled lust, gross immorality, damning lies, and terrible brutality by my father against me and my mother. He tried to kill me once but kept up a constant campaign of horrible abuses of my mother until I left home at sixteen. However, success is the best revenge! After three years of alcoholism, I pulled myself together and went back to school on my own. That was after I spent a year in Job Corps from 1966 to 1967. From 1975 to 1977, I went to Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville. From 1977 to 1980, I attended Virginia State University in Petersburg. I earned my BA and MA degrees. I studied above a master's at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville from 1980 to 1983. I did not graduate, but I learned valuable life lessons. I started to write in 1993 about what had happened to me over the years and how I used my dire circumstances as motivation to pick myself up and make my life better. I hope I am an example that will help others who are suffering through similar atrocities to be motivated to not give up but persevere and that they will, as I did, overcome anything they are being faced with.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532060785
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Hard Times and Survival: The Autobiography of an African American Son is my story. It is how I overcame all the heartbreaking, brutal, and horrendous circumstances that I was born into in 1947. I saw it all in my first sixteen years: unbridled lust, gross immorality, damning lies, and terrible brutality by my father against me and my mother. He tried to kill me once but kept up a constant campaign of horrible abuses of my mother until I left home at sixteen. However, success is the best revenge! After three years of alcoholism, I pulled myself together and went back to school on my own. That was after I spent a year in Job Corps from 1966 to 1967. From 1975 to 1977, I went to Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville. From 1977 to 1980, I attended Virginia State University in Petersburg. I earned my BA and MA degrees. I studied above a master's at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville from 1980 to 1983. I did not graduate, but I learned valuable life lessons. I started to write in 1993 about what had happened to me over the years and how I used my dire circumstances as motivation to pick myself up and make my life better. I hope I am an example that will help others who are suffering through similar atrocities to be motivated to not give up but persevere and that they will, as I did, overcome anything they are being faced with.
Supreme Court Appellate Division
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Pages : 1110
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Supreme Court of the State New York
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Pages : 1128
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Pages : 1128
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Court of Appeals
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Pages : 1090
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Verbal Behavior
Author: Burrhus Frederic Skinner
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Category : Verbal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Category : Verbal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Nuclear Science Abstracts
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Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 2006
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Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 2006
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Supreme Court
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Pages : 1138
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State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division
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Pages : 1280
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Reports of Cases Heard and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Author: Marcus Tullius Hun
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Pages : 758
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“Pittman Creek“
Author: Lawrence Wayne
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665505508
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Pittman Creek follows Darnell Barker growing up poor in a rural setting in Northwest Florida . He is born with a club foot and the novel deals with his overcoming adversity and ridicule and his journey and adventures into manhood . His star crossed love affair with the rich girl on the hill , culminating in Darnells combat experiences at the Battle of Iwo Jima. It is a moving and poignant portrayal of life in these troubling times and overcoming all the odds. Pittman Creek is a coming of age novel that spans the era from 1922 to 1946 from the Depression, Prohibition and through WW2.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665505508
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Pittman Creek follows Darnell Barker growing up poor in a rural setting in Northwest Florida . He is born with a club foot and the novel deals with his overcoming adversity and ridicule and his journey and adventures into manhood . His star crossed love affair with the rich girl on the hill , culminating in Darnells combat experiences at the Battle of Iwo Jima. It is a moving and poignant portrayal of life in these troubling times and overcoming all the odds. Pittman Creek is a coming of age novel that spans the era from 1922 to 1946 from the Depression, Prohibition and through WW2.