Two Sides To Everything

Sixth-grader Amy and her family move to Taiwan to do missionary work, but even at her school for English-speaking students Amy finds the adjustment difficult.

This is an oral history and ethnography of miners and their families in Kentucky focusing on political ideology and working class consciousness. Harlan County, Kentucky emerged in the public eye during the 1930s when poverty, unemployment, and violent unionization struggles caught the attention of the national news media and the American people. It burst on the scene again during the 1972-73 Brookside strike, an event chronicled in the Academy Award-winning film, "Harlan County, U.S.A." In this book the author brings the American reader up to date on this interesting community by documenting the everyday lives of Harlan miners and their families in the mid-1980s. Using a neo-Marxian perspective, Two Sides to Everything characterizes the nature, limitations, and transformative potential of class consciousness among two generations of Harlan miners. It also elucidates the apparent contradictions between popular images of central Appalachians, as militant labor activists, on one hand, and passive, traditional, fatalistic "hillbillies," on the other. The book accomplishes these tasks through a systematic consideration of the relationship between the central experiential bases and sources of identity among Harlan county miners—class, kinship, community, religion, and gender.

While his mother recuperates from an accident that has left her partially paralyzed, Josh leaves Denver and goes to stay at his Uncle Hamish's New Zealand sheep farm, where his faith in God is strengthened as he faces new challenges.

This is an ethnography and oral history of miners and their families in Kentucky focusing on political ideology and working class consciousness.

This book of poetry dives deep into the heart, mind and soul of the author. Each poem recanting a particular moment or moments of his life. Almost each poem tells a story. Read about the author transmutes the dark into light. If you want to have a love for life you have to live for love.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth because there was a war in heaven. At the end of that war, long before this new Adamic beginning, Almighty Father God gave Archangel Michael charge of leading the battle in casting Satan, the enemy of God, out of heaven. In the archangel's victory Satan was cast down to this God-created earth. In God's full knowledge of the pure evil that Satan possessed, He created man (the first one, Adam) in His own image. Each one of us that proceeded after that creation up to this very day are created as a person or piece of the Almighty God, endowed with the inheritance of who and what He is. God created man to be soldiers in His army. The purpose for our creation is to battle the evils that Satan would use to try to destroy us and this earth in his way of attacking God. In God's creation of man, we are "keepers of His footstool" because Almighty God is on His throne in heaven. Satan, having had the favor of God before he grew insanely jealous of Him, knew that not to be a good idea. So the very first man God created, Satan attacked and was successful. Satan knew that if he could insert his seed into the very first of God's creation, he would have a good chance of destroying all human beings that man would create. Psalm 139:14 says, "I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." In my opinion, there has never been a statement that has been proven more true. With Satan hiding behind the scene, he anxiously awaits man to explore his God-given creativity until man knows no limit, which ends us where we are today. Limitless possibilities! Constructive and destructive. Everything man creates is accompanied by an operating manual. In God's proof of all His creation, He accompanied us with one also. It's called the Holy Bible, which is not the story that we are able or want to create simply because we can, but it is His story that we are to follow. Like any other manual of instruction created by man that is unused or not read, you will undoubtedly end up with a lot of extra screws and pieces that do not fit. Give the Lord the mangled pieces of the life you have tried to put together. It's called surrender! It's the only way to true health, wealth, and spiritual freedom.

Presents ten vignettes with strange and evocative endings designed to invite analysis and speculation through discussion. Includes point of view discussion question, improvisation/role play variations, writing suggestions and student comments.

Growing up on either side of the Iron Curtain, David Scott and Alexei Leonov experienced very different childhoods but shared the same dream to fly. Excelling in every area of mental and physical agility, Scott and Leonov became elite fighter pilots and were chosen by their countries' burgeoning space programs to take part in the greatest technological race ever-to land a man on the moon. In this unique dual autobiography, astronaut Scott and cosmonaut Leonov recount their exceptional lives and careers spent on the cutting edge of science and space exploration. With each mission fraught with perilous risks, and each space program touched by tragedy, these parallel tales of adventure and heroism read like a modern-day thriller. Cutting fast between their differing recollections, this book reveals, in a very personal way, the drama of one of the most ambitious contests ever embarked on by man, set against the conflict that once held the world in suspense: the clash between Russian communism and Western democracy. Before training to be the USSR's first man on the moon, Leonov became the first man to walk in space. It was a feat that won him a place in history but almost cost him his life. A year later, in 1966, Gemini 8, with David Scott and Neil Armstrong aboard, tumbled out of control across space. Surviving against dramatic odds-a split-second decision by pilot Armstrong saved their lives-they both went on to fly their own lunar missions: Armstrong to command Apollo 11 and become the first man to walk on the moon, and Scott to perform an EVA during the Apollo 9 mission and command the most complex expedition in the history of exploration, Apollo 15. Spending three days on the moon, Scott became the seventh man to walk on its breathtaking surface. Marking a new age of USA/USSR cooperation, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Scott and Leonov together, finally ending the Cold War silence and building a friendship that would last for decades. Their courage, passion for exploration, and determination to push themselves to the limit emerge in these memoirs not only through their triumphs but also through their perseverance in times of extraordinary difficulty and danger.