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In the close-knit African American community where Eugene Lawrence Wright was born, everyone seems to have questions about his destiny, but no answers. Even Cousin Beulah, who sets him on the path in search of his destiny, left him confused. And, after her untimely death, his father, to whom he turned for clarity, only offers a warning: "The problem for most of us is not that we never find our destiny, it's just that we aren't prepared to fulf...

With Eyes Wide Open is the story of Quentin Marshall, an African American man falsely charged with raping and murdering Carley Andrews, a young White woman. The action unfolds in a fictional town in the state of South Carolina in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Despite his protestations of innocence, Quentin is quickly tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death in the electric chair. With Eyes Wide Open, however, is not just another story abo...

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Well into the twentieth century, slavery cast its long shadow over African American life. The creation of systemic innovations such as sharecropping, the chain gang, and Jim Crow laws provided former enslavers the means to legally restrict and/or deny people of African descent the rewards of freedom. Within the restrictions imposed by the existence of these restraints on black life, Albert "Bert" Williams, a sharecropper living in South Caroli...

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TRAUMA IN THE FAMILY" is written as a self-help book to assist Families and close relatives to try and understand how their family member or close loved one can be affected by being exposed to a traumatic event, which can change their lives and future behavior and normal reactions. A couple of second's exposure can change your life forever. As a personal sufferer of Twenty years before help from this disorder called Post Traumatic Stress Disor...

TRAUMA IN THE FAMILY: PTSD and Domestic Violence (cause and effect) is written as a self-help book to assist Families and close relatives in understanding PTSD Background to Domestic Violence how it affects Individuals and Families especially children.

TRAUMA IN THE FAMILY" is written as a self-help book to assist Families and close relatives to try and understand how their family member or close loved one can be affected by being exposed to a traumatic event, which can change their lives and future behavior and normal reactions. A couple of second's exposure can change your life forever. As a personal sufferer of Twenty years before help from this disorder called Post Traumatic Stress Disor...

Looking Within is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these book...

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When their teenage daughter Julie is killed by a hit and run driver her parents react in totally different ways. The father Lawrence, who is a committed medievalist, had worshipped his daughter as the feminine ideal of purity, now sees himself as a knight avenger determined to destroy the killer driver. He becomes involved in sabotaging motorists' cars. The wife Moira seeks to heighten public awareness of the misery such crimes cause. When Jul...

The anti-animal experiments group FAAN(Free All Animals Now) has been fighting to close down the chemical company STEYN for over six years but despite constant picketing and harassing its employees has had no success. When they trick their way into STEYN'S premises one of their youngest members falls to her death when trying to spread a protest banner from the laboratory roof. Later when the FAAN member who led the group into STEYN's premis...

Modern semiconductor devices are principally made using the element silicon. In recent years, silicon carbide (SiC), with its wide band-gap, high thermal conductivity, and radiation resistance, has shown prospects as a semiconductor material for use in high temperature and radiation environments such as jet engines and satellites. A limiting factor in the performance of many SiC semiconductor components is the presence of lattice defects forme...

To protect their identity and values, Africans enslaved in America transformed various familiar character types to create folk heroes who offered models of behavior both recognizable to them as African people and adaptable to their situation in America.Roberts specifically examines the Afro-American trickster and the trickster tale tradition, the conjurer as folk hero, the biblical heroic tradition, and the badman as outlaw hero.

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Crooked financier Byron Fuller has planned what he thinks is the perfect murder of his wife Lucy. He has arranged a holiday for them in Greece but murders and buries Lucy the night before they are due to leave. His mistress, Serena, an accomplished actress POD-Distribution & Short Runsguises herself as Lucy then takes her place on the holiday. A fake boat accident is staged where Serena as Lucy is supposedly drowned with no chance of her body ...

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