[PDF] Carrying My Fathers Torch eBook

Author : Gail Weiss Gaspar
Publisher : Oceanwalk Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 33,83 MB
Release : 2020-09-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781735814209

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Finding your place in a family tree that has only one branch, the other shorn by the Holocaust, is a tricky business. Gail Weiss Gaspar grew up believing that her worth was tied to busyness and productivity, with achievement and education prized above all other accomplishments. Keenly aware that her beloved father survived Auschwitz and the brutal environment of the Mauthausen labor camp, she silenced her suffering because nothing could match what he endured. Gail's family had secrets, as all families do. It became her job to be the family's secret keeper. It wasn't until her 63-year-old father stood on stage at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and told his story that Gail understood that her voice mattered, too. This moving memoir honors the past while unshackling from it and highlights a generational journey through loss with tenderness and love. If you have ever said to yourself, "How could I possibly break free from my family's past?" this book is for you. When you read Carrying my Father's Torch, you will be inspired to consider how your family legacy has impacted your life, find the courage to overcome your legacy wound and become the hero of your own story

Author : George Lee Foley
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1491846801

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Are the struggles, obstacles and afflictions experienced by George Lee Foley, ordinary or extraordinary? He is an excellent role-model for others. No matter the obstacle, whenever others are placed ahead of self, a great blessing and reward is attained. Throughout this book, it is evidenced in the lives of others that were assisted by the principles applied in this book. The theme is from The Holy Bible Hebrews Chapter 12 verses 1 7. (NKJV)

Author : Steve Jacobson
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1556527918

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The real and painful struggles of the black players who followed Jackie Robinson into major and minor league baseball from 1947 to 1968 are chronicled in this compelling volume. Players share their personal and often heart-wrenching stories of intense racism, both on and off the field, mixed with a sometimes begrudged appreciation for their tremendous talents. Stories include incidents of white players who gave up promising careers in baseball because they wouldn t play with a black teammate, the Georgia law that forbade a black player from dressing in the same clubhouse as the white players, the quotas for the number of blacks on a team, and how salary negotiations without agents or free agency were akin to a plantation system for both black and white players. The 20 players profiled include Ernie Banks, Alvin Jackson, Charlie Murray, Chuck Harmon, Frank Robinson, Bob Gibson, Hank Aaron, Curt Flood, Lou Brock, and Bob Watson. "

Author : Kalu Ogbaa
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : 9781611634945

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This memoir chronicles the remarkable spiritual and educational journey of a poor village boy from Nigeria who, through sheer dint of hard work and unwavering Christian faith he learned from his father, struggled to realize his American dream. It serves as a model for contemporary immigrants to this land, especially Blacks from Third World countries, who struggle to add their individual strands to the sociocultural mosaic of the United States of America. Besides, as time goes on and the rapidly Americanized Ogbaa clan expands, none of its members may have to look beyond the book to find their roots. Carrying My Father's Torch is part of the African World Series, edited by Toyin Falola, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin. "From the wrestling matches in which he tussled as a young boy living in an Igbo village where the winds swirled against udara trees during the West African harmattan season, to his early Christian schooling, through the horrors of the Biafra War and his eventual move to the United States where he earned his PhD, Kalu Ogbaa's memoir, Carrying My Father's Torch, is a moving, unflinchingly candid look at the life and times of a Nigerian man living in the country during one of its most tumultuous eras. Ogbaa's memoir spans a history dating back to the mid-20th century and furnishes us with fresh insights into the political and social changes during that period, while intimately detailing the personal trials, frustrations, and triumphs of one man's journey to live up to, and grow beyond, his father's desires for him to carry on the family name with honor. No one reading this memoir will doubt that Kalu Ogbaa has lived up to those early expectations, and has truly earned his father's praise name, Ikenga nna ya -- The right hand of his father." -- Tony Morris, Professor of English at the College of Liberal Arts, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Georgia "This memoir is the best literary counterpunch to what I see as the contemporary degeneracy in the lifestyles of recent immigrants, thereby supplying a gradualist, honorable and decent vision of life based on hard work, faith, integrity, and dedication to work and family." -- Toyin Falola, author of A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt, the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Author : Eli Rubenstein
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1772600083

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For 25 years, the March of the Living has organized visits for adults and students from all over the world to Poland, where millions of Jews were enslaved and murdered by Nazi Germany during WWII. The organization's goal is not only to remember and bear witness to the terrible events of the past, but also to look forward. They want to inspire participants to build a world free of oppression and intolerance, a world of freedom, democracy and justice for all members of the human family. Rooted in a touring exhibit launched at the United Nations, this book is a compilation of photographs and text that give firsthand accounts from the survivors who have participated in March of the Living programs, together with reactions and responses from the people, young students in particular, of many faiths and cultures worldwide who have traveled with the group over the years.

Author : Judith Archer
Publisher : Australian Self Publishing Group
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1925346617

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This book was made to emphasize His greatest love to all human races, that when He died, He offered it to His Father. He was obedient and He listened to what His Father wanted Him to fulfil, to obtain the greatest gift that He offered to mankind, the gift of love, He emphasizes to all that His love is never-ending, that He is always there for all, through the good Holy Spirit. He speaks to everyone through this servant, this servant will never leave His children, He promised that to all mankind that they will live a fruitful life if they choose the good Holy Spirit as their counsellor, their guiding light and their comfort. Jesus is the Key is design to shape peoples life, it is meticulously design to fix and dig all areas of human characteristics, negative and positive, so it enables the people to grasp the good Holy Spirit, which lead the people to hear the voice of Jesus Christ, God the Father and all the heavenly Family, that is if they are willing to ask the good Holy Spirit, and if they are focus and believe then they can acquire so many gifts that the Holy Spirit reveals, they can have knowledge and wisdom so they will have a normal, joyful and peaceful life, with compassion and humility.

Author : Yuri Dolgopolov
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,94 MB
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786459956

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Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, cliches, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.

Author : Meredith Premium Publishing
Publisher : Time Home Entertainment
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 2021-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1547859466

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Recent research continues to show that factors such as resilience, experience, attitude and even luck can translate to success through all walks of life. Whether that means advancement in your career or shaping a healthy family, reconsider what success mean to you. Explore how a shift in attitude can increase your odds for success, and examine manageable, simple actions that will compound over time. Inside this special edition, there's a closer look at the biology and psychology of success, the importance of resilience, success in social media, and the secrets of world leaders, politicians, athletes and businesspeople who have achieved personal and professional success. Let this special edition carve out a path for a successful and happy life.

Author : Ronald A.Fenn
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1463404395

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The book is a compilation of short vignettes describing certain seen observations from the point of view of one living in an unreal environment and unreal reality except for sometimes far too much of both. It tries to explain through a mental split of thinking the disorder of being black and white on a red and white flag which the flag of Nigeria was used to make a new flag for a young nation at peace. Some of the book is autobiographical and some more involved in detailed analysis of control by technology and the human animal Man. It may seem to be rather complex and hard to read but one must understand I wrote the book in a psychiatric hospital being brainwashed to get back on my feet again. It spans a life time of observation in the nation of Canada as seen through an african who is white blinded by so many mindsets about colour and race and origins. Leaving everything behind that was most precious in Africa I have had to live this nation s reality as my own sight seen or unseen often misplaced or taken for granted or isolated and or used and abused.