Author: Frederick MarryatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Poor Jack
Author: Frederick MarryatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Poor Jack
Author: Frederick MarryatPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
'Poor Jack' is a rags-to-riches story written by the English author Frederick Marryat, published in 1840. It tells the story of Thomas Saunders, a sailor's son and neglected street urchin struggling to survive in Greenwich, London in the early 19th century. "Poor Jack" was the title given by the waterfront boys, or mudlarks, to their chief. Despite his poor background, Saunders eventually rises by his own efforts to become a ship's pilot on the Thames, makes his fortune and retires to the life of a wealthy squire. The novel has interesting descriptions of domestic life among the naval lower ranks and contains many anecdotes of seafaring life.
The Privileged Poor
Author: Anthony Abraham JackPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674239660
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
An NPR Favorite Book of the Year “Breaks new ground on social and educational questions of great import.” —Washington Post “An essential work, humane and candid, that challenges and expands our understanding of the lives of contemporary college students.” —Paul Tough, author of Helping Children Succeed “Eye-opening...Brings home the pain and reality of on-campus poverty and puts the blame squarely on elite institutions.” —Washington Post “Jack’s investigation redirects attention from the matter of access to the matter of inclusion...His book challenges universities to support the diversity they indulge in advertising.” —New Yorker The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In this bracing exposé, Anthony Jack shows that many students’ struggles continue long after they’ve settled in their dorms. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This powerfully argued book documents how university policies and campus culture can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why some students are harder hit than others.
Dirt Poor
Author: Jack BarnesPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781505667172
Category : Homeless men
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
"I was born dirt poor and will probably die dirt poor," states Jack Barnes in his beguiling memoir in which he reveals the life fate dealt him and what he did with it. Despite being homeless and living in his car for a number of years, he always maintained a job in order to support his family. Written up in two feature stories in Newsday, Jack's life is that of a man who loved and lost but never forgot his sense of humanity and responsibility to his children and grandchildren."Every day he broke his back. Every night he slept in his car. This was the only America that John Barnes knew." Newsday, Sunday, December 27, 1987.
Jack and the Giant
Author: Vera MorrisPublisher: Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Children's plays
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Punch
Author: Mark LemonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Kottabos
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College students' writings, Irish (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Sailor's Magazine, and Naval Journal
Author: The Universal Songster
Author: The Fireside Encyclopædia of Poetry. Comprising the best Poems of the Most Famous Writers, English and American
Author: Henry Troth CoatesPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385441544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.