Author: Anzia Yezierska
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1649741146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
A woman being crushed by motherhood is offered a stay at a free vacation house but finds the strict humiliating living conditions worse than her life in poverty. Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants—particularly Jewish immigrant women.
The Free Vacation House
Author: Anzia Yezierska
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1649741146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
A woman being crushed by motherhood is offered a stay at a free vacation house but finds the strict humiliating living conditions worse than her life in poverty. Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants—particularly Jewish immigrant women.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1649741146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
A woman being crushed by motherhood is offered a stay at a free vacation house but finds the strict humiliating living conditions worse than her life in poverty. Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants—particularly Jewish immigrant women.
Immigrant Women
Author: Maxine Seller
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791419038
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Immigrant Women combines memoirs, diaries, oral history, and fiction to present an authentic and emotionally compelling record of women's struggles to build new lives in a new land. This new edition has been expanded to include additional material on recent Asian and Hispanic immigration and an updated bibliography.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791419038
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Immigrant Women combines memoirs, diaries, oral history, and fiction to present an authentic and emotionally compelling record of women's struggles to build new lives in a new land. This new edition has been expanded to include additional material on recent Asian and Hispanic immigration and an updated bibliography.
The House Takes a Vacation
Author: Jacqueline Davies
Publisher: Two Lions
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
While the Petersons are away, their house decides to take a trip to the sea to watch the "Dance of the Sunlight, " despite some groaning from the chimney and the basement's refusal to rise to the occasion.
Publisher: Two Lions
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
While the Petersons are away, their house decides to take a trip to the sea to watch the "Dance of the Sunlight, " despite some groaning from the chimney and the basement's refusal to rise to the occasion.
Free Vacations & Make Money Traveling
Author: Gina Henry-Cook
Publisher: Go Global Inc.
ISBN: 0978690907
Category : Cash discounts
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Do you love to travel? Do you dream of taking more vacations? If you need a way to pay for your vacations, this information packed book provides over forty fun, practical and step-by-step ways to make all your vacations absolutely free! Plus, many of these ideas can become new careers and additional money makers.
Publisher: Go Global Inc.
ISBN: 0978690907
Category : Cash discounts
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Do you love to travel? Do you dream of taking more vacations? If you need a way to pay for your vacations, this information packed book provides over forty fun, practical and step-by-step ways to make all your vacations absolutely free! Plus, many of these ideas can become new careers and additional money makers.
Forum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
The Forum
Author: Lorettus Sutton Metcalf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Current political, social, scientific, education, and literary news written about by many famous authors and reform movements.
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Current political, social, scientific, education, and literary news written about by many famous authors and reform movements.
The Haves and Have Nots
Author: Various
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110116073X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Collected for the first time in one volume.How does money--or the lack of it--affect our lives? What happens when the rich meet the poor, when status comes with a price tag, when personal desires do battle with financial concerns? This unique anthology offers a mosaic of answers, with stories by: * Francine Prose * F. Scott Fitzgerald * Jack London * Kate Chopin * Ethan Canin * Gloria Naylor * Sandra Cisneros * O. Henry * Theodore Dreiser * Stephen Crane * Kate Braverman * James T. Farrell * Charlotte Perkins Gilman * and many others.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110116073X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Collected for the first time in one volume.How does money--or the lack of it--affect our lives? What happens when the rich meet the poor, when status comes with a price tag, when personal desires do battle with financial concerns? This unique anthology offers a mosaic of answers, with stories by: * Francine Prose * F. Scott Fitzgerald * Jack London * Kate Chopin * Ethan Canin * Gloria Naylor * Sandra Cisneros * O. Henry * Theodore Dreiser * Stephen Crane * Kate Braverman * James T. Farrell * Charlotte Perkins Gilman * and many others.
Giving Well, Doing Good
Author: Amy A. Kass
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253219558
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
This anthology explores the enterprise of philanthropy—assumptions, aspirations, and achievements. It brings together key texts that can provide guidance to current and prospective donors, trustees and professional staff of foundations, and leaders of nonprofit organizations. Organized thematically, these texts seek to illuminate fundamental questions about the idea and practice of philanthropy, to promote more thoughtful discussion about practical issues facing the philanthropic sector, and to point a way toward a philanthropic practice that is more responsible, more effective, and more civic-spirited. Amy A. Kass has selected readings from sources that range from the classics to the contemporary, from foundational statements on philanthropy to reflections on key issues of novelists and poets. Each illuminates some aspect of philanthropy. The book is arranged according to themes: goals and intentions; gifts, donors, and recipients; grants, grantors, grantees; bequests and legacies; effectiveness; accountability; and leadership.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253219558
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
This anthology explores the enterprise of philanthropy—assumptions, aspirations, and achievements. It brings together key texts that can provide guidance to current and prospective donors, trustees and professional staff of foundations, and leaders of nonprofit organizations. Organized thematically, these texts seek to illuminate fundamental questions about the idea and practice of philanthropy, to promote more thoughtful discussion about practical issues facing the philanthropic sector, and to point a way toward a philanthropic practice that is more responsible, more effective, and more civic-spirited. Amy A. Kass has selected readings from sources that range from the classics to the contemporary, from foundational statements on philanthropy to reflections on key issues of novelists and poets. Each illuminates some aspect of philanthropy. The book is arranged according to themes: goals and intentions; gifts, donors, and recipients; grants, grantors, grantees; bequests and legacies; effectiveness; accountability; and leadership.
From Hester Street to Hollywood
Author: Bettina Berch
Publisher: Bettina Berch
ISBN: 1607251841
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This is the first full-scale biography of Jewish-American authorAnzia Yezierska. Based on extensive research into her letters and writings, it tells the real story of America's "Sweatshop Cinderella."
Publisher: Bettina Berch
ISBN: 1607251841
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This is the first full-scale biography of Jewish-American authorAnzia Yezierska. Based on extensive research into her letters and writings, it tells the real story of America's "Sweatshop Cinderella."
Hungry Hearts
Author: Anzia Yezierska
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description