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Author: Robert M. Ricketts Publisher: Wright Publishing Company ISBN: 9780963596109 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 454
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Covering a span of 73 years, 1920 to 1993, this book describes in penetrating straightforward terms the tremendous opportunities available in the United States today. Author Dr. Robert Ricketts, one of the world's most respected orthodontists, is a health scientist, international lecturer & teacher of orthodontics. Writing in fascinating, often humorous, quasi-autobiographical format, the author highlights the opportunities that there are for every American. He speaks to the need for youth's parental support, & reminds us how teachers, professors, & many other adults stand ready to help a sincere & striving individual. His concerns cover how the actions or failures of our elected government officials affect the lives of all citizens in their personal vision of success. "THE REAPPEARING AMERICAN should be required reading for every high school student in the United States."--Arizona high school principal. "Buried among the many good stories in THE REAPPEARING AMERICAN is a wealth of original thought & information pertaining to the philosophy of life & living. Worthwhile reading for young & old."--Alabama University professor. (ISBN: 0-9635961-0-1, $21.95 plus $2.95 s/h) Volume discounts available from publisher: Wright & Co., Publishers, 4839 East Greenway Rd., Suite 154, Scottsdale, AZ 85254; 602/443-9431.
Author: Robert M. Ricketts Publisher: Wright Publishing Company ISBN: 9780963596109 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 454
Book Description
Covering a span of 73 years, 1920 to 1993, this book describes in penetrating straightforward terms the tremendous opportunities available in the United States today. Author Dr. Robert Ricketts, one of the world's most respected orthodontists, is a health scientist, international lecturer & teacher of orthodontics. Writing in fascinating, often humorous, quasi-autobiographical format, the author highlights the opportunities that there are for every American. He speaks to the need for youth's parental support, & reminds us how teachers, professors, & many other adults stand ready to help a sincere & striving individual. His concerns cover how the actions or failures of our elected government officials affect the lives of all citizens in their personal vision of success. "THE REAPPEARING AMERICAN should be required reading for every high school student in the United States."--Arizona high school principal. "Buried among the many good stories in THE REAPPEARING AMERICAN is a wealth of original thought & information pertaining to the philosophy of life & living. Worthwhile reading for young & old."--Alabama University professor. (ISBN: 0-9635961-0-1, $21.95 plus $2.95 s/h) Volume discounts available from publisher: Wright & Co., Publishers, 4839 East Greenway Rd., Suite 154, Scottsdale, AZ 85254; 602/443-9431.
Author: Kate Fagan Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1629143014 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 220
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It’s hard enough coming out, but playing basketball for a nationally ranked school and trying to figure out your sexual identity in the closeted and paranoid world of big-time college sports—that’s a challenge. Kate Fagan’s love for basketball and for her religious teammates at the University of Colorado was tested by the gut-wrenching realization that she could no longer ignore the feelings of otherness inside her. In trying to blend in, Kate had created a hilariously incongruous world for herself in Boulder. Her best friends were part of Colorado’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes, where they ran weekly Bible studies and attended an Evangelical Free Church. For nearly a year, Kate joined them and learned all she could about Christianity—even holding their hands as they prayed for others “living a sinful lifestyle.” Each time the issue of homosexuality arose, she felt as if a neon sign appeared over her head, with a giant arrow pointed downward. During these prayer sessions, she would often keep her eyes open, looking around the circle at the closed eyelids of her friends, listening to the earnestness of their words. Kate didn’t have a vocabulary for discussing who she really was and what she felt when she was younger; all she knew was that she had a secret. In The Reappearing Act, she brings the reader along for the ride as she slowly accepts her new reality and takes the first steps toward embracing her true self.
Author: Samuel C. Heilman Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 0295800658 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 210
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Has America been a place that has preserved and protected Jewish life? Is it a place in which a Jewish future is ensured? Samuel Heilman, long-time observer of American Jewish life, grapples with these questions from a sociologist’s perspective. He argues that the same conditions that have allowed Jews to live in relative security since the 1950s have also presented them with a greater challenge than did the adversity and upheaval of earlier years. The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a minimum of prejudice and almost all domains of life have been accessible to them, but it has also been a time of assimilation, of swelling rates of intermarriage, and of large numbers ignoring their Jewishness completely. Jews have no trouble building synagogues, but they have all sorts of trouble filling them. The quality of Jewish education is perhaps higher than ever before, and the output of Jewish scholarship is overwhelming in its scope and quality, but most American Jews receive a minimum of religious education and can neither read nor comprehend the great corpus of Jewish literature in its Hebrew (or Aramaic) original. This is a time in America when there is no shame in being a Jew, and yet fewer American Jews seem to know what being a Jew means. How did this come to be? What does it portend for the Jewish future? This book endeavors to answer these questions by examining data gleaned from numerous sociological surveys. Heilman first discusses the decade of the fifties and the American Jewish quest for normalcy and mobility. He then details the polarization of American Jewry into active and passive elements in the sixties and seventies. Finally he looks at the eighties and nineties and the issues of Jewish survival and identity and the question of a Jewish future in America. He also considers generational variation, residential and marital patterns, institutional development (especially with regard to Jewish education), and Jewish political power and influence. This book is part of a stocktaking that has been occurring among Jews as the century in which their residence in America was firmly established comes to an end. Grounded in empirical detail, it provides a concise yet analytic evaluation of the meaning of the many studies and surveys of the last four and a half decades. Taking a long view of American Jewry, it is one of very few books that build on specific sociological data but get beyond its detail. All those who want to know what it means and has meant to be an American Jew will find this volume of interest.
Author: Bertie Charles Forbes Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business Languages : en Pages : 1110
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This business magazine covers domestic and international business topics. Special issues include Annual Report on American Industry, Forbes 500, Stock Bargains, and Special Report on Multinationals.
Author: Ruth Bienstock Anolik Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476633401 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 315
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American Gothic literature inherited many time-worn tropes from its English Gothic precursor, along with a core preoccupation: anxiety about power and property. Yet the transatlantic journey left its mark on the genre--the English ghostly setting becomes the wilderness haunted by spectral Indians. The aristocratic villain is replaced by the striving, independent young man. The dispossession of Native Americans and African Americans adds urgency to traditional Gothic anxieties about possession. The unchanging role of woman in early Gothic narratives parallels the status of American women, even after the Revolution. Twentieth-century Gothic works offer inclusion to previously silent voices, including immigrant writers with their own cultural traditions. The 21st century unleashes the zombie horde--the latest incarnation of the voracious American.
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