Author: John Naidoo
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525558250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Silvertower, a large US-based real estate investment company, has experienced incredible success over the past ten years. However, to maintain their momentum, expanding into new markets is vital. CEO Patrick Miller thinks he has hit upon the perfect idea: investing in Africa. However, the road will be far from easy. Not only does the Rescue Africa rebel group stand in his way, so does Patrick’s long time business partner, Robert Bradford. Though written as a novel, this book employs fiction to reframe Africa as ... the next land of opportunity.
The Next Land of Opportunity
Author: John Naidoo
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525558250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Silvertower, a large US-based real estate investment company, has experienced incredible success over the past ten years. However, to maintain their momentum, expanding into new markets is vital. CEO Patrick Miller thinks he has hit upon the perfect idea: investing in Africa. However, the road will be far from easy. Not only does the Rescue Africa rebel group stand in his way, so does Patrick’s long time business partner, Robert Bradford. Though written as a novel, this book employs fiction to reframe Africa as ... the next land of opportunity.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525558250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Silvertower, a large US-based real estate investment company, has experienced incredible success over the past ten years. However, to maintain their momentum, expanding into new markets is vital. CEO Patrick Miller thinks he has hit upon the perfect idea: investing in Africa. However, the road will be far from easy. Not only does the Rescue Africa rebel group stand in his way, so does Patrick’s long time business partner, Robert Bradford. Though written as a novel, this book employs fiction to reframe Africa as ... the next land of opportunity.
Land of Opportunity
Author: William M. Adler
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047203863X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
An exceptional work of investigative journalism, Land of Opportunity is a probing tale of blighted dreams and misguided ambition. "One of the most fascinating and unforgettable families in American literature . . . destined to become the most prominent tome in the modern inner-city street life genre".--Claude Brown, author of Manchild in the Promised Land. Land of Opportunity has been optioned by Boyz 'N the Hood director John Singleton for his next film.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047203863X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
An exceptional work of investigative journalism, Land of Opportunity is a probing tale of blighted dreams and misguided ambition. "One of the most fascinating and unforgettable families in American literature . . . destined to become the most prominent tome in the modern inner-city street life genre".--Claude Brown, author of Manchild in the Promised Land. Land of Opportunity has been optioned by Boyz 'N the Hood director John Singleton for his next film.
Texaplex
Author: David Winans
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692423677
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Texas is the best place in America to live, work and raise a family. Texas boasts a pro-growth tax policy offering no state income tax, a low tax burden for businesses, and sensible laws and regulations. This is drawing an increasing number of American firms seeking to relocate to Texas.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692423677
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Texas is the best place in America to live, work and raise a family. Texas boasts a pro-growth tax policy offering no state income tax, a low tax burden for businesses, and sensible laws and regulations. This is drawing an increasing number of American firms seeking to relocate to Texas.
India Calling
Author: Anand Giridharadas
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458763099
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Reversing his parents immigrant path, a young writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new. Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, Were all trying to go that way, pointing to the rear. You, youre going this way. Giridharadas was...
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458763099
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Reversing his parents immigrant path, a young writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new. Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, Were all trying to go that way, pointing to the rear. You, youre going this way. Giridharadas was...
Land of Opportunity
Author: Ruth McKoy Lowery
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1475847432
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
This book presents the experiences of immigrant children and their families in the US. We use the lens of Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students' cultural references in all aspects of learning (Ladson-Billings, 1994). Teachers become culturally relevant when they intentionally acknowledge and incorporate the experiences of all their students. They ensure that all students feel welcomed in their classrooms, regardless of their cultural, racial or ethnic backgrounds. The ongoing negative debates surrounding immigrant populations, center on minority immigrants. We believe that all immigrant students can succeed in the US education system if given the most appropriate experiences to support their learning. We advocate for employing a culturally responsive stance to achieve this. To that end, this book shares diverse experiences from different minoritized immigrant groups, in the hope that these stories illuminate the importance of acknowledging and celebrating all students and their experiences in the school, home and community.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1475847432
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
This book presents the experiences of immigrant children and their families in the US. We use the lens of Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students' cultural references in all aspects of learning (Ladson-Billings, 1994). Teachers become culturally relevant when they intentionally acknowledge and incorporate the experiences of all their students. They ensure that all students feel welcomed in their classrooms, regardless of their cultural, racial or ethnic backgrounds. The ongoing negative debates surrounding immigrant populations, center on minority immigrants. We believe that all immigrant students can succeed in the US education system if given the most appropriate experiences to support their learning. We advocate for employing a culturally responsive stance to achieve this. To that end, this book shares diverse experiences from different minoritized immigrant groups, in the hope that these stories illuminate the importance of acknowledging and celebrating all students and their experiences in the school, home and community.
Land of Opportunity
Author: William M. Adler
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472129317
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Part true crime, part work of urban sociology, Land of Opportunity is a meticulously researched account of the rise and fall of the Chambers brothers, who ran a multi-million-dollar crack cocaine operation in Detroit in the 1980s. Descended from Arkansas sharecroppers, BJ, Larry, and Willie Chambers moved to Detroit seeking economic opportunity, and built a successful drug empire by applying strict business principles to their trade; their business grossed an estimated $55 million annually until the brothers were sent to prison in 1989. Reading the Chambers brothers in the context of the fall of the Detroit auto-industry and its impact on the city’s economy and residents, Land of Opportunity demonstrates how for the Chambers brothers, crack dealing was a rational career choice; and through the Chambers brothers’ story, Adler provides bottom-up history of late Second Great Migration, deindustrialization, the War on Drugs, and crack era in both Detroit and the United States.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472129317
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Part true crime, part work of urban sociology, Land of Opportunity is a meticulously researched account of the rise and fall of the Chambers brothers, who ran a multi-million-dollar crack cocaine operation in Detroit in the 1980s. Descended from Arkansas sharecroppers, BJ, Larry, and Willie Chambers moved to Detroit seeking economic opportunity, and built a successful drug empire by applying strict business principles to their trade; their business grossed an estimated $55 million annually until the brothers were sent to prison in 1989. Reading the Chambers brothers in the context of the fall of the Detroit auto-industry and its impact on the city’s economy and residents, Land of Opportunity demonstrates how for the Chambers brothers, crack dealing was a rational career choice; and through the Chambers brothers’ story, Adler provides bottom-up history of late Second Great Migration, deindustrialization, the War on Drugs, and crack era in both Detroit and the United States.
The Land of Opportunity and Other Fictions
Author: Edward Makuta
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450234925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
The Land of Opportunity and Other Fictions is a collection of related short stories that tell of a time long gone, when immigrants from Slavic countries arrived in America on boats in droves. Told in intimate detail, these stories portray the families who settled in the coal regions of Pennsylvania and the hardships that they endured as their communities grew to become burgeoning towns full of families. Times were tough as they forged their way in the new country. To many immigrants, America was not the land of opportunity. Many died because of the coal mines. Many died of influenza, but more than that, they found themselves fighting a war where the European soldiers against whom they fought were often family from their native countries. Among the stories are many memorable characters, like Nicholas Noble, the interpreter and mediator between the captain and the passengers on the Carpathia, a ship that brought many immigrants from Eastern Europe to America. The ship is notable in that it saved the few survivors of the sinking of the SS Titanic from the cold northern seas. In the end, the Carpathia was destroyed by German torpedoes, and Nicolas Noble along with it. Through these heartfelt and vivid stories, the experiences of the Eastern European immigrants and life in the coal towns of Pennsylvania will come to life.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450234925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
The Land of Opportunity and Other Fictions is a collection of related short stories that tell of a time long gone, when immigrants from Slavic countries arrived in America on boats in droves. Told in intimate detail, these stories portray the families who settled in the coal regions of Pennsylvania and the hardships that they endured as their communities grew to become burgeoning towns full of families. Times were tough as they forged their way in the new country. To many immigrants, America was not the land of opportunity. Many died because of the coal mines. Many died of influenza, but more than that, they found themselves fighting a war where the European soldiers against whom they fought were often family from their native countries. Among the stories are many memorable characters, like Nicholas Noble, the interpreter and mediator between the captain and the passengers on the Carpathia, a ship that brought many immigrants from Eastern Europe to America. The ship is notable in that it saved the few survivors of the sinking of the SS Titanic from the cold northern seas. In the end, the Carpathia was destroyed by German torpedoes, and Nicolas Noble along with it. Through these heartfelt and vivid stories, the experiences of the Eastern European immigrants and life in the coal towns of Pennsylvania will come to life.
Uninsured in America, Updated
Author: Susan Sered
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052093346X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Uninsured in America goes to the heart of why more than forty million Americans are falling through the cracks in the health care system, and what it means for society as a whole when so many people suffer the consequences of inadequate medical care. Based on interviews with 120 uninsured men and women and dozens of medical providers, policymakers, and advocates from around the nation, this book takes a fresh look at one of the most important social issues facing the United States today. A new afterword updates the stories of many of the people who are so memorably presented here.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052093346X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Uninsured in America goes to the heart of why more than forty million Americans are falling through the cracks in the health care system, and what it means for society as a whole when so many people suffer the consequences of inadequate medical care. Based on interviews with 120 uninsured men and women and dozens of medical providers, policymakers, and advocates from around the nation, this book takes a fresh look at one of the most important social issues facing the United States today. A new afterword updates the stories of many of the people who are so memorably presented here.
Land of Hope
Author: Wilfred M. McClay
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594039380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
For too long we’ve lacked a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that offers American readers a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their country. Such a fresh retelling of the American story is especially needed today, to shape and deepen young Americans’ sense of the land they inhabit, help them to understand its roots and share in its memories, all the while equipping them for the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in American society The existing texts simply fail to tell that story with energy and conviction. Too often they reflect a fragmented outlook that fails to convey to American readers the grand trajectory of their own history. This state of affairs cannot continue for long without producing serious consequences. A great nation needs and deserves a great and coherent narrative, as an expression of its own self-understanding and its aspirations; and it needs to be able to convey that narrative to its young effectively. Of course, it goes without saying that such a narrative cannot be a fairy tale of the past. It will not be convincing if it is not truthful. But as Land of Hope brilliantly shows, there is no contradiction between a truthful account of the American past and an inspiring one. Readers of Land of Hope will find both in its pages.
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594039380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
For too long we’ve lacked a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that offers American readers a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their country. Such a fresh retelling of the American story is especially needed today, to shape and deepen young Americans’ sense of the land they inhabit, help them to understand its roots and share in its memories, all the while equipping them for the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in American society The existing texts simply fail to tell that story with energy and conviction. Too often they reflect a fragmented outlook that fails to convey to American readers the grand trajectory of their own history. This state of affairs cannot continue for long without producing serious consequences. A great nation needs and deserves a great and coherent narrative, as an expression of its own self-understanding and its aspirations; and it needs to be able to convey that narrative to its young effectively. Of course, it goes without saying that such a narrative cannot be a fairy tale of the past. It will not be convincing if it is not truthful. But as Land of Hope brilliantly shows, there is no contradiction between a truthful account of the American past and an inspiring one. Readers of Land of Hope will find both in its pages.
Land of Oppression Instead of Land of Opportunity
Author: Gaines Bradford Jackson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469173158
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Land of Oppression Instead of Land of Opportunity, was written to enlighten the American public about the responsibility of government; how Franklin D. Roosevelt had proposed the Second Bill of Rights yet they never were implemented; how our own government is now being controlled by the very wealthy and tuning our democracy into a powerful money-controlled Oligarchy; how the American Constitution is continually being desecrated when it is supposed to be defended since it is the enshrined supreme law of the land, and finally, forty suggestions addressing what has taken place and addressing what needs to be changed to bring the government back to the respectful organization portrayed by the Constitution and the re-installment of stolen civil liberties (which were once guaranteed by the Bill of Rightsfirst ten amendments of the Constitution).
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469173158
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Land of Oppression Instead of Land of Opportunity, was written to enlighten the American public about the responsibility of government; how Franklin D. Roosevelt had proposed the Second Bill of Rights yet they never were implemented; how our own government is now being controlled by the very wealthy and tuning our democracy into a powerful money-controlled Oligarchy; how the American Constitution is continually being desecrated when it is supposed to be defended since it is the enshrined supreme law of the land, and finally, forty suggestions addressing what has taken place and addressing what needs to be changed to bring the government back to the respectful organization portrayed by the Constitution and the re-installment of stolen civil liberties (which were once guaranteed by the Bill of Rightsfirst ten amendments of the Constitution).