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Voices from the Peace Corps

Author : Angene Wilson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813140102

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President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961. In the fifty years since, nearly 200,000 Americans have served in 139 countries, providing technical assistance, promoting a better understanding of American culture, and bringing the world back to the United States. In Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers, Angene Wilson and Jack Wilson, who served in Liberia from 1962 to 1964, follow the experiences of volunteers as they make the decision to join, attend training, adjust to living overseas and the job, make friends, and eventually return home to serve in their communities. They also describe how the volunteers made a difference in their host countries and how they became citizens of the world for the rest of their lives. Among many others, the interviewees include a physics teacher who served in Nigeria in 1961, a smallpox vaccinator who arrived in Afghanistan in 1969, a nineteen-year-old Mexican American who worked in an agricultural program in Guatemala in the 1970s, a builder of schools and relationships who served in Gabon from 1989 to 1992, and a retired office administrator who taught business in Ukraine from 2000 to 2002. Voices from the Peace Corps emphasizes the value of practical idealism in building meaningful cultural connections that span the globe.

A Life Inspired

Author :
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 35,29 MB
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Contains a collection of autobiographical reminiscences written by about 28 former Peace Corps volumteers.

When the World Calls

Author : Stanley Meisler
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : 0807050490

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This work presents a history of the Peace Corp and exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the struggles volunteers faced abroad. Not an institutional history, the book is a look at the Peace Corps's first fifty years. On October 14, 1960, at an impromptu speech at the University of Michigan, John F. Kennedy presented an idea to a crowd of restless students for an organization that would rally American youth in service. Though the speech lasted barely three minutes, his germ of an idea morphed dramatically into Kennedy's most enduring legacy, the Peace Corps. From this offhand campaign remark, shaped speedily by President Kennedy's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, in 1961, the organization ascended with remarkable excitement and publicity, attracting the attention of thousands of hopeful young Americans. The author unpacks the complicated history with sharp analysis and anecdotes, taking readers on a global trek starting with the historic first contingent of Volunteers to Ghana on August 30, 1961. The Peace Corps has served as an American emblem for world peace and friendship, yet few realize that it has sometimes tilted its agenda to meet the demands of the White House. Tracing its history through the past nine presidential administrations, the author discloses, for instance, how Lyndon Johnson became furious when Volunteers opposed his invasion of the Dominican Republic; he reveals how Richard Nixon literally tried to destroy the Peace Corps, and how Ronald Reagan endeavored to make it an instrument of foreign policy in Central America. But somehow the ethos of the Peace Corps endured, largely due to the perseverance of the 200,000 volunteers themselves, whose shared commitment to effect positive global change has been a constant in one of our most complex-and valued-institutions.

It Depends

Author : Kelly Branyik
Publisher : Write with Light Publications LLC
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 46,67 MB
Release : 2017-08-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780980236675

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It Depends" is a Peace Corps guide dedicated to present and future volunteers preparing for their first, second, or even third Peace Corps Journey. The title was inspired by the phrase often used by Peace Corps staff when volunteers asked questions about what to expect during their service. The Peace Corps staff always settled on the same answer, "It Depends." This guide draws from past volunteers' individual experiences as well as the author's personal journey and presents real stories, ideas, experiences, and advice on how to make the most of the Peace Corps lifestyle, experience, and journey. The author will take you through the Peace Corps life from start to finish, from considering Peace Corps to closing out your service. This guide is short, informative, fun, and will get any person considering Peace Corps excited to start the adventure and assist current volunteers in finding their next passion in life once their passion for Peace Corps has been completed.

All You Need Is Love

Author : Elizabeth COBBS HOFFMAN
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674029607

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Traversing four decades and three continents, this story of the Peace Corps and the people and politics behind it is a fascinating look at American idealism at work amid the hard political realities of the second half of the twentieth century.

Peace Corps Times

Author : Peace Corps (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Peace Corps (U.S.)
ISBN :

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Breakfast with Buddha

Author : Roland Merullo
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1565126165

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At the behest of his sister, Otto Ringling finds himself reluctantly accompanying her guru, an enigmatic Mongolian monk, on a trip through Middle America to their childhood home, introducing his passenger to some American "fun" along the way.

Voices from the Field

Author : Peace Corps Office of World Wise Schools
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 34,89 MB
Release : 2008-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780160815096

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The publication "Voices From the Field" contains personal essays written by returned Peace Corps Volunteers, accompanied by standards-based language arts lesson plans and workshops that Stengthen students' reading comprehension and writing skills. Engage and inspire students to respond to the text and create original narratives Broaden students' perspectives on the world and themselves.