Author: Ilaria Serra
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823226786
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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Author: Ilaria Serra
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ISBN: 9780823293308
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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The writer Giuseppe Prezzolini said that Italian immigrants left behind tears and sweat but not "words," making their lives in America mostly in silence, their memories private and stories untold. In this innovative portrait of the Italian-American experience, these lives are no longer hidden. Ilaria Serra offers the first comprehensive study of a largely ignored legacy--the autobiographies written by immigrants. Here she looks closely at fifty-eight representative works written during the high tide of Italian migration. Scouring archives, discovering diaries, and memoirs in private houses and forgotten drawers, Serra recovers the voices of the first generation--bootblacks and poets, film directors and farmers, miners, anarchists, and seamstresses--compelled to tell their stories. Mostly unpublished, often thickly accented, these tales of ordinary men and women are explored in nuanced detail, organized to reflect how they illuminate the realities of work, survival, identity, and change. Moving between history and literature, Serra presents each as the imaginative record of a self in the making and the collective story of the journey to selfhood that is the heart of the immigrant experience.

Author: Taiwan Holmes
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533134219
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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After repeated beatings, which started when I was in Kindergarten, I learned two certainties in life: I was worthless and I was unlovable. These beliefs permeated every aspect of my life from my family, to the classroom, and on to the basketball court. It followed me beyond school into my professional life, and even my new family, I became BLIND to the value that was in me, and the value that I could truly add to the world around me. Jim Rohn said, "It is more important to work harder on yourself, than you do on your job." IV4S reveals my journey as I worked to shine a light through the blindness of my value both inside and out of the classroom. The journey has uncovered one of the greatest truths the world has ever known. First and foremost, I am INFINITELY VALUABLE. The second discovery is the fact that there is an INFINITE amount of VALUE that I can add to the world around me. As a student and professional, I believed that my value was conditional. If I did well on a test, my value increased by 1 point. But if I had a bad basketball game, it decreased by 1,378 points. In a professional setting, you are only as good as your last sale or accomplishment. Fortunately, my journey revealed the reality that my value isn't conditional or static, but it is accumulating. As humans, we are the summation of all of our life experiences. It is that ever increasing minute by minute, second by second total that ultimately calculates your True Market Value. Once I was able to correctly calculate my Inherent Value, I was then able to more clearly decide what type of value that I would like to add to the marketplace and society. During my blindness, I could only see the value that I could add to someone else's company, through telling their story. The journey you are about to read is the First revelation of the Infinite amount of Value that I will add to the marketplace through telling my story and sharing my talents. When you choose to read this book in its entirety, I promise you that you will have a mirror to see both your Inherent Value and the Value that you will be able to add to the world around you. (Spoiler Alert: They are Both INFINITE!). You will be provided with tools and resources that I didn't have when I was a kid and student that will aid you uncovering your True Value even sooner. (It took me over 30 years). I could tell you to read this book to benefit yourself, but that would be too finite. You should read this book for the thousands upon thousands of people that your life will add Value to once you do. Another important reality that I learned on this journey is "It's not ONLY about me!" If it was only about me, then the tough times that I went through would really suck (not that it didn't hurt at the time, because it did). There are lives that I will be able to add value to, because I went through my beatings. And that is why I write. There are thousands of lives around this planet right now that are waiting to be helped by your experiences. My journey can show you a path to be able to reach the people you are supposed to add your INFINITE VALUE to.

Author: Nancy Caronia
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823262286
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo as a writer who has produced a vast and provocative body of memoir writing, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives. More than an anthology, Personal Effects represents an author case study and an example for modern Italian American interdisciplinary scholarship. Personal Effects examines DeSalvo’s memoirs as works that push the boundaries of the most controversial genre of the past few decades. In these works, the author fearlessly explores issues such as immigration, domesticity, war, adultery, illness, mental health, sexuality, the environment, and trauma through the lens of gender, ethnic, and working-class identity. Alongside her groundbreaking scholarship, DeSalvo’s memoirs attest to the power and influence of this feminist Italian American writer.

Author: Josef Popper-Lynkeus
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847680368
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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A translation of a German humanist tract written popularly for a wide audience by Josef Popper (1838-1921), most widely known by the pseudonym "Lynkeus." On the first page, Popper provides the ethical ideal that is meant to serve as the foundation for his program of social reform: "The obliteration of any individual who has not willfully or forcibly endangered another...is a much more important event than all the political, religious, and national events, and all scientific, artistic, and technical progress of all centuries and people taken together." Introduction by Joram Graf Haber. Paper edition (unseen), $21.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Connecticut. State Board of Agriculture
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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1898 has Appendix: Condensed index of reports of Connecticut Board of Agriculture, 1866-98.

Author: Henry Harrison Metcalf
Publisher:
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Category : New Hampshire
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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A quarterly review of philosophy.

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Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Author: Jeffrey Gitomer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119647193
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Learn how to go online with a winning sales and marketing strategy in this insightful resource Go Live! Turn Virtual Connections into Paying Customers helps readers understand and take advantage of several online tools to boost their sales and increase their revenue. Accomplished salesperson, consultant, and online personality Jeffrey Gitomer describes how tools like Facebook Live and podcasting can drive sales and help you connect with your customers. You'll discover: How to use tools like YouTube, LinkedIn Live, podcasting, and Facebook Live to connect with and develop your leads How to properly utilize social media like Instagram and Twitter to spread your message and sell to clients How to promote and repurpose content to create as big an impact on your audience as possible Written specifically for a post-pandemic sales audience, Go Live! Turn Virtual Connections into Paying Customers delivers results for anyone expected to deliver sales results in a virtual environment. It also belongs on the bookshelves of those who hope to take their successful offline sales strategies to the online world.