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Author: Brandy Miller Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781500646011 Category : Languages : en Pages : 396
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***Until You've Been There*** It's just not possible to understand what it's actually like. However, this book will get you as close to poverty as you can get without living it. It's a dangerously honest book that pries back the covers on a topic that's frequently discussed but poorly understood and shows you poverty from the perspective of one woman who struggles with its realities on a daily basis. ***Challenge the Assumptions*** She's not on welfare, she's not illiterate, she doesn't have a half-dozen kids all by different fathers, she's been married to the same man for 19 years and counting, and she is addicted to neither drugs nor alcohol. So, why isn't she a financial success? The author defies the stereotypes of modern thinking and examines the true causes of poverty, along with the reasons it's so hard to break free once you're there. ***Change the Dialogue*** In writing this book, the author sincerely hopes to change the dialogue taking place among politicians, social workers, business owners, community leaders, church congregations, and the wealthy about the causes and solutions to poverty by presenting an insider's perspective on the situation.
Author: Brandy Miller Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781500646011 Category : Languages : en Pages : 396
Book Description
***Until You've Been There*** It's just not possible to understand what it's actually like. However, this book will get you as close to poverty as you can get without living it. It's a dangerously honest book that pries back the covers on a topic that's frequently discussed but poorly understood and shows you poverty from the perspective of one woman who struggles with its realities on a daily basis. ***Challenge the Assumptions*** She's not on welfare, she's not illiterate, she doesn't have a half-dozen kids all by different fathers, she's been married to the same man for 19 years and counting, and she is addicted to neither drugs nor alcohol. So, why isn't she a financial success? The author defies the stereotypes of modern thinking and examines the true causes of poverty, along with the reasons it's so hard to break free once you're there. ***Change the Dialogue*** In writing this book, the author sincerely hopes to change the dialogue taking place among politicians, social workers, business owners, community leaders, church congregations, and the wealthy about the causes and solutions to poverty by presenting an insider's perspective on the situation.
Author: Jonathan Morduch Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400884594 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 253
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What the financial diaries of working-class families reveal about economic stresses, why they happen, and what policies might reduce them Deep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children. But in a nation experiencing unprecedented prosperity, even for many families who seem to be doing everything right, this ideal is still out of reach. In The Financial Diaries, Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider draw on the groundbreaking U.S. Financial Diaries, which follow the lives of 235 low- and middle-income families as they navigate through a year. Through the Diaries, Morduch and Schneider challenge popular assumptions about how Americans earn, spend, borrow, and save—and they identify the true causes of distress and inequality for many working Americans. We meet real people, ranging from a casino dealer to a street vendor to a tax preparer, who open up their lives and illustrate a world of financial uncertainty in which even limited financial success requires imaginative—and often costly—coping strategies. Morduch and Schneider detail what families are doing to help themselves and describe new policies and technologies that will improve stability for those who need it most. Combining hard facts with personal stories, The Financial Diaries presents an unparalleled inside look at the economic stresses of today's families and offers powerful, fresh ideas for solving them.
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre Publisher: Verso Books ISBN: 1844677842 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 401
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During the phony war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Jean-Paul Sartre was stationed in his native Alsace as part of a meteorological unit. He used his considerable periods of spare time, between mundane duties like watching weather balloons, to make a series of notes on philosophy, literature, politics, history and autobiography that anticipate the themes of his later masterpieces, and often surpass them in literary verve and directness. These War Diaries form a portrait of Sartre in his most intense and brilliant phase. With them the twentieth century’s most remarkable and public philosopher has provided us with a fitting posthumous monument to his honest and creativity.
Author: Rosaleen O'Brien, Dr Publisher: Chipmunkapublishing ltd ISBN: 1847475116 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 102
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DescriptionThis autobiography intercedes factual reminisences in prose with later poems reflecting on the wider implications of Rosaleen's life. These implications stretch to encompass all those who may have suffered at the hands of the state in Ireland. About the AuthorI have been in receipt of trauma counselling since 1999 on a daily basis, at times speaking till the early hours of the morning.Support from my trauma Counsellor helps me to come to terms with accepting that what has happened to me cannot now be changed. I cannot ever forgive those who had a vicarious liability to look after me and failed. As a result of being locked away for some years all because we were poor has brought certain limitations to my day to day life. Writing is a form of therapy and allows me to be free to be the person that I want to be, and should have been my birthright. Through writing I can reach out to others who may have had such an unfortunate experience as myself . Daily flashbacks can be upsetting and I fill my life with things to do so as to block them out. Day to day life can be exhausting and coping mechanisms that I learnt in order to survive have not helped me in the outside world. God help all fellow survivors and perhaps one day Ireland will accept the terrible price we paid. Shame on all you right thinking residents in Ireland to allow the government and Catholic Church to ignore harm done to me and many others who are either dead or too ill to tell their story. Thanks to Chipmunkapublishing I have been able to confront my demons and a Big Thank you to Reatha my trauma counsellor without her I would not be here today writing about my stolen life.
Author: Carolina Maria de Jesus Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 9780813525709 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 256
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Carolina Maria de Jesus' book, Quarto de Despejo (The Trash Room), depicted the harsh life of the slums, but it also spoke of the author's pride in her blackness, her high moral standards, and her patriotism. More than a million copies of her diary are believed to have been sold worldwide. Yet many Brazilians refused to believe that someone like de Jesus could have written such a diary, with its complicated words (some of them misused) and often lyrical phrasing as she discussed world events. Doubters prefer to believe the book was either written by Audáulio Dantas, the enterprising newspaper reporter who discovered her, or that Dantas rewrote it so substantially that her book is a fraud. With the cooperation of de Jesus' daughter, recent research shows that although Dantas deleted considerable portions of the diary (as well as a second one), every word was de Jesus'. But Dantas did "create" a different Carolina from the woman who coped with her harsh life by putting things down on paper. This book sets the record straight by providing detailed translations of de Jesus' unedited diaries and explains why Brazilian elites were motivated to obscure her true personality and present her as something she was not. It is not only about the writer but about Brazil as recorded by her sarcastic pen. The diary entries in this book span from 1958 to 1966, five years beyond text previously known to exist. They show de Jesus as she was, preserving her Joycean stream-of-consciousness language and her pithy characterizations.
Author: Reginald F Christian Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571324061 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 477
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An important and long-overdue contribution to our knowledge of Tolstoy.' D. M. Thomas, Sunday Times Volume 2 of Tolstoy's Diaries covers the years 1895-1910. These Diaries were meticulously edited by R.F. Christian so as to reflect Tolstoy's preoccupations as a writer (his views on his own work and that of others), his development as a person and as a thinker, and his attitudes to contemporary social problems, rural life, industrialisation, education, and later, to religious and spiritual questions. Christian introduces each period with a brief and informative summary of the main biographical details of Tolstoy's life. The result is a unique portrait of a great writer in the variegation of his everyday existence. 'As a picture of the turbulent Russian world which Tolstoy inhabited these diaries are incomparable - the raw stuff not yet processed into art.' Anthony Burgess 'A model of scholarship, one of the most important books to be published in recent years.' A. N. Wilson, Spectator
Author: Batsheva Ben-Amos Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253046955 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 477
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The diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. The Diary offers an exploration of the form in its social, historical, and cultural-literary contexts with its own distinctive features, poetics, and rhetoric. The contributors to this volume examine theories and interpretations relating to writing and studying diaries; the formation of diary canons in the United Kingdom, France, United States, and Brazil; and the ways in which handwritten diaries are transformed through processes of publication and digitization. The authors also explore different diary formats, including the travel diary, the private diary, conflict diaries written during periods of crisis, and the diaries of the digital era, such as blogs. The Diary offers a comprehensive overview of the genre, synthesizing decades of interdisciplinary study to enrich our understanding of, research about, and engagement with the diary as literary form and historical documentation.
Author: Elisabeth Leseur Publisher: Sophia Institute Press ISBN: 1928832482 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 336
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When Elizabeth Leseur's husband, Felix - an avowed atheist - discovered this diary, he converted and later answered God's call to become a priest.
Author: Brandy Miller
Author: Brandy Miller
Author: Jonathan Morduch
Author: M. B. Tyler
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Author: Rosaleen O'Brien, Dr
Author: Carolina Maria de Jesus
Author: Reginald F Christian
Author: Batsheva Ben-Amos
Author: Elisabeth Leseur
Author: Maria Karoline E.L. von Nathusius