[PDF] Freedom Tree eBook

Author : Kenneth Lippincott
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1490858121

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Have you ever desired to escape and live simply? Have you ever fantasized about moving to a small town? Having spent half of my forty-three year career as a high school principal and volunteer pastor in small towns and counties with less than five thousand people, I learned that bliss was superficial. No matter how positive, people resisted change, especially with a newcomer serving as the agent of change. Kinfolk mattered more than issues. To survive, newcomers walked a fine line and had to learn who controlled and who was related to whom. Relationships mattered more than issues. Good versus evil became obvious. In Freedom’s Tree, Rock Creek Valley resembled Canaanite cities with heavily fortified bulwarks. Interstate highway construction had decimated the economy and school reorganization altered valley culture. Perceived as invaders, newcomers arrived in Rock Creek at God’s direction, while a murderer escaped detection and residents presumed another’s guilt.

Author : Susan VanHecke
Publisher : Charlesbridge
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1607347369

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Taut free verse tells the little-known story of the first contraband camp of the Civil War—seen by some historians as the "beginning of the end of slavery in America." One night in 1861, three escaped slaves made their way from the Confederate line to a Union-held fort. The runaways were declared "contraband of war" and granted protection. As word spread, thousands of runaway slaves poured into the fort, seeking their freedom. These "contrabands" made a home for themselves, building the first African American community in the country. In 1863, they bore witness to one of the first readings of the Emancipation Proclamation in the South—beneath the sheltering branches of the tree now known as Emancipation Oak.

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780824818234

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This early collection of eight short stories and a novella is vintage Wendt. Stories convey the unease of traditional island community caught up in the rapid changes of the modern world. Wendt writes with enviable directness and with deep feeling: comedy and tragedy are often hard to distinguish as his characters struggle to come to terms with their changing world.

Author : Yogi
Publisher : www.wealthybuddha.in
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2000-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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The art of buying freedom is a timeless fable that shows the simple path to freedom. Written in a question and answer format, this book breathes with the soul and propels the heart to buy freedom. The book teaches the concept of w.i.s.e (work, invest, spend, enjoy), through a detailed conversation between a freedom guide and a freedom seeker.

Author : Paul Sharrad
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 2003-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719059421

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Albert Wendt is the leading writer and exponent of Pacific literature. His work is consistently different in style, politically challenging, and ranges across essays, plays, poems, stories and novels, two of which have been filmed. This book is the first full-length study of his work. There is an introduction to Pacific literature as a whole and Wendt's Samoan background. Chapters offer readings of all Wendt's major texts in chronological sequence, relating them to his essays, to literary movements of the time and to key motifs from Polynesian culture. There is an extensive bibliography of works by and about Wendt.

Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195162530

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The bestselling author of "Washington's Crossing" and "Albion's Seed" offers a strikingly original history of America's founding principles. Fischer examines liberty and freedom not as philosophical or political abstractions, but as folkways and popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture. 400+ illustrations, 250 in full color.

Author : Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 2022-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9385932853

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From Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932), the writer of the feminist utopian fantasy ‘Sultana’s Dream’, come these tales of gumptious wit, describing the twists and turns of India’s two-hundred-year relationship with the imperial British. Freedom Fables begins with the two eponymous fables, both compact in form but temporally vast. The first story ‘Muktiphal’ (translated in this volume as ‘The Freedom Tree’) traces the rise of and divisions within India’s Congress party. ‘Gyanphal’ or ‘The Tree of Knowledge’, the second fable, begins in the Garden of Eden and moves swiftly to an idealised Kanakadwipa where a trading company beguiles the prosperous country and proceeds to ruin it. Throughout both, the fantastic floats easily over mere facts. Adam and Eve, the Almighty, djinns, paris, demons, and Mayavi magicians: these classic characters play decisive, intriguing roles. These major political satires are accompanied in this edition by six essays and two poems, which the intrepid Hossain wrote over a period of seventeen years. Interwoven through her writings are ideals that endure even today: education and emancipation for women, dignity for those living in the subcontinent, and freedom from colonial rule and influence.

Author : Merrill Phillips
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1490713212

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Price of Freedom was written to honor those who gave their lives protecting the freedoms we hold so dear. That they may be remembered for the sacrifices they made so that we of today might live in a freedom-loving country.

Author : Cynthia Mercati
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,83 MB
Release : 2002
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780789155207

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Caroline knows it is dangerous to give a reading lesson to the slave girl Keely for they both could be punished severely, but she continues the lessons.

Author : Sigve K. Tonstad
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493419625

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This practical commentary on Revelation is conversant with contemporary scholarship, draws on ancient backgrounds, and attends to the theological nature of the text. Sigve Tonstad, an expert in the early Jewish context of the New Testament, offers a nonretributive reading of Revelation and addresses the issue of divine violence. Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical strategies the text employs, showing how the text shapes moral habits, and making judicious use of photos and sidebars in a reader-friendly format.