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Author: Dale Smith Publisher: ISBN: 9780986440809 Category : Languages : en Pages : 220
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When a 20-year old art student is drafted into the military in 1970, he chooses to immigrate to Canada with his girlfriend and her daughter rather than go to Vietnam. His struggle to survive in the Canadian wilderness changes the course of his life forever.
Author: Dale Smith Publisher: ISBN: 9780986440809 Category : Languages : en Pages : 220
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When a 20-year old art student is drafted into the military in 1970, he chooses to immigrate to Canada with his girlfriend and her daughter rather than go to Vietnam. His struggle to survive in the Canadian wilderness changes the course of his life forever.
Author: Frank Kusch Publisher: Praeger ISBN: 0275972682 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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Annotation Looks at the experiences of American draft dodgers in Canada during the Vietnam War, arguing that many of these young men were motivated not only by their opposition to the war but also by their sense of alienation from American society as a whole.
Author: Sarah Ellis Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd ISBN: 1773060732 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 142
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From award-winning author Sarah Ellis comes the story of an American draft dodger who turns up to stay with thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her family. In 1970 Vancouver, thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her best friend, Dawn, are keen to avoid the pitfalls of adolescence. Couldn’t they just skip teenhood altogether, along with its annoying behaviors—showing off just because you have a boyfriend, obsessing about marriage and a ring and matching dining-room furniture? Couldn’t one just learn about life from Jane Austen and spend the days eating breakfast at noon, watching “People in Conflict,” and thrift-store shopping for cool castoffs to tie-dye for the upcoming outdoor hippie music festival? But life becomes more complicated when the girls meet a Texan draft dodger who comes to live with Charlotte’s Quaker family. Tom Ed expands Charlotte’s horizons as they discuss everything from war to civil disobedience to women’s liberation. Grappling with exhilarating and disturbing new ideas, faced with a censorship challenge to her beloved English teacher and trying to decode the charismatic draft dodger himself, Charlotte finds it harder and harder to stick to her unteen philosophy, and to see eye to eye with Dawn. Key Text Features historical context Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
Author: Mark Satin Publisher: House of Anansi ISBN: 1487002904 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 99
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In print for the first time since 1971, Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada has once again become relevant in a time of major political upheaval in the United States of America. First published in 1968 by House of Anansi Press, the Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada was a handbook for Americans who refused to serve as draftees in the Vietnam War and were considering immigrating to Canada. Conceived as a practical guide with information on the process, the Manual also features information on aspects of Canadian society, touching on topics like history, politics, culture, geography and climate, jobs, housing, and universities. The Manual went through several editions from 1968–71. Today, as Americans are taking up the discussion of immigration to Canada once again, it is an invaluable record of a moment in our recent history.
Author: Robert Ziegler Publisher: Trafford ISBN: 9781412095112 Category : Immigrants Languages : en Pages : 425
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If we are paying attention at all, we come to realize that every story has several sides. If history is to achieve any degree of accuracy in its description of our collective evolution, then it should be balanced by the telling (and the listening) to more than one version of a historic event. We have been presented with numerous books and an abundance of movies that recount in graphic detail the story of the veterans of the Vietnam War. But we have not, for some reason, been told the various other sides of this story. The Draft Dodger Dues: A Banquet of Crow is Robert's version. Ziegler's tale takes his reader on a journey from the fall festivals in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to the 1960's circus of Haight-shbury, through the aspen groves of North Western BC, to the communes and prot-side streets in the Maritimes, through the deserts of Mexico, and back again to BC. Ziegler as Vietnam draft dodger metamorphoses from college professor, to log cabin hippy, into Maritime street-poet, clown, bankrupt mime, addictions therapist, and finally, fulfilled husband and father. Suffused with poetry and drama, and written with courage and vulnerability, The Draft Dodger: A Banquet of Crow explores the feelings of confusion, heartbreak, loss, and hope that cultural exile ultimately fosters.
Author: Dale Smith
Author: Dale Smith
Author: Frank Kusch
Author: Sarah Ellis
Author: Mark Satin
Author: Robert Ziegler
Author: Eugene Chadbourne
Author: Louis Caron
Author: Louis Caron
Author: Roberta E. Dell
Author: Roberta E. Dell