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Family & Relationships

Until the End A Fight for Survival

The reason for writing this book is to transmit my experience in the fight—the anxiety, the hope, ... My wife, Fanny, was the patient; I was her companion in battle; and the children were her reason to continue fighting until the end.

Author: Jesús L. Gutiérrez, PhD

Publisher: iUniverse

ISBN: 9781491730751

Category: Family & Relationships

Page: 126

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In 1985, when a small freckle on Fanny Gutiérrez’s cheek grew to the size of a quarter and turned dark brown, the young mother sought medical advice. She soon learned she had malignant melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer. In Until the End, her husband, author Jesús L. Gutiérrez, shares her battle with cancer and how the diagnosis and treatment affected Fanny, Jesús, and their two young sons. It narrates the family’s very real and vivid personal experiences to show how the psychological dynamics influenced them during the nine long and uncertain years of their cancer battle. This memoir provides insight into this particular form of cancer and shows how patients can serve the scientific community by being pioneers in the search for a cure. Until the End pays tribute to Fanny and demonstrates the deep love she held for her husband and her children. It communicates the life-and-death decisions she made in regard to her health in order to extend her longevity. Most of all, it describes how she never lost her willingness to fight against the disease until the end. “By writing about this distressing experience, Jesús has remarkably transformed the death of his wife Fanny from a private, tragic event to an instrument to end his suffering and sorrow. At the same time, he has used it as a testimony to help others to fight this terrible disease called cancer.” —Foreword from Dr. Enrique Zuniga del Campo, Psychoanalyst
2014-05-30 By Jesús L. Gutiérrez, PhD
History

Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation

But—and there it ends. Off and out of the confines of the publicity columns I am just a man—not one who has fought and sacrificed to make the case possible; one who is still fighting and sacrificing—almost the “supreme sacrifice” to see ...

Author: James W. Endersby

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

ISBN: 9780826273628

Category: History

Page: 393

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Winner, 2017 Missouri Conference on History Book Award In 1936, Lloyd Gaines’s application to the University of Missouri law school was denied based on his race. Gaines and the NAACP challenged the university’s decision. Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938) was the first in a long line of decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding race, higher education, and equal opportunity. The court case drew national headlines, and the NAACP moved Gaines to Chicago after he received death threats. Before he could attend law school, he vanished. This is the first book to focus entirely on the Gaines case and the vital role played by the NAACP and its lawyers—including Charles Houston, known as “the man who killed Jim Crow”—who advanced a concerted strategy to produce political change. Horner and Endersby also discuss the African American newspaper journalists and editors who mobilized popular support for the NAACP’s strategy. This book uncovers an important step toward the broad acceptance of racial segregation as inherently unequal. This is the inaugural volume in the series Studies in Constitutional Democracy, edited by Justin Dyer and Jeffrey Pasley of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy.
2016-12-31 By James W. Endersby
History

Will To Fight Japan s Imperial Institution And The U S Strategy To End World War II

Introduction Background Sun Tzu asserts that to succeed in war, one need not win every battle fought, but instead seek to ... as the means to achieve their ends and the threat of violence against the enemy's means-to-fight as their way.

Author: Major Eric S. Fowler

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

ISBN: 9781782895909

Category: History

Page: 57

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Sun Tzu asserts that success is not winning every battle fought, but subduing the enemy’s will without fighting. Nevertheless, modern military thought fails to distinguish an enemy’s will-to-fight from their means to do so, limiting the ways military leaders apply operational art, problem framing, and conflict termination in pursuit of strategic objectives. The author asserts that gaining and maintaining a position of relative advantage for favorable conflict resolution requires leaders to understand the enemy’s will-to-fight with equal fidelity as their means. This study examines U.S. planning efforts for post-WWII Japan from 1942 to 1945, focusing on the options planners possessed to achieve their ends; their choice to safeguard the Japanese Emperor; their understanding of the Japanese will-to-fight; and the way planners developed that understanding. The record reveals that-despite more forceful options-planners favored safeguarding the Imperial Institution; planners considered the Japanese people’s will-to-fight as inexorably linked to the condition of their Sovereign, increasing in response to threats against Japanese national identity; and planners developed this understanding through discourse among experts in diplomacy, military governance, political culture, anthropology, and military intelligence. The implication-an enemy’s will-to-fight can be targeted separate from their means and doing so may not require fighting.
2014-08-15 By Major Eric S. Fowler
Juvenile Nonfiction

The Fight for Freedom Ending Slavery in America

Ending Slavery in America Melissa Carosella, Stephanie Kuligowski. : An African American Union soldier The Bitter End After four years of fighting , the Civil War ended on April 9 , 1865. The Confederates surrendered to the Union .

Author: Melissa Carosella

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

ISBN: 143331519X

Category: Juvenile Nonfiction

Page: 32

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Discusses the history of slavery in the United States and describes the work of those who fought to end slavery and ensure that African Americans received equal rights.
2011-08-15 By Melissa Carosella
History

Determined to Stand and Fight

Taking cover in the cellar, the families, especially young Glenn watched and listened as first John McClausland's and then John Gordon's men came up to fight. At the tail end of the battle, John Worthington nearly became a casualty of ...

Author: Ryan Quint

Publisher:

ISBN: 9781611213478

Category: History

Page: 192

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In early July 1864, a quickly patched together force of outnumbered Union soldiers under the command of Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace prepared for a last-ditch defense along the banks of the Monocacy River. Behind them, barely fifty miles away, lay the capital of the United States, open to attack. Facing Wallace’s men were Lt. Gen. Jubal Early’s Confederates. In just over a month, they had cleared the Shenandoah Valley of Union soldiers and crossed the Potomac River, invading the north for the third time in the war. The veterans in Early’s force could almost imagine their flags flying above the White House. A Confederate victory near Washington could be all the pro-peace platforms in the north needed to defeat Abraham Lincoln in the upcoming election. Then came Monocacy. Over the course of the day, Union and Confederate soldiers attacked and counter-attacked, filling the fields just south of Frederick, Maryland, with the dead and wounded. By the end of the day, Wallace’s men fell into retreat, but they had done their job: they had slowed Jubal Early. The fighting at Monocacy soon became known as the “Battle that Saved Washington.” Determined to Stand and Fight by Ryan T. Quint tells the story of that pivotal day and an even more pivotal campaign that went right to the gates of Washington, D.C. Readers can enjoy the narrative and then easily follow along on a nine-stop driving tour around the battlefield and into the streets of historic Frederick. Another fascinating title from the award-winning Emerging Civil War Series.
2017-04-19 By Ryan Quint
Travel

Traveling Around the World with Mike and Barbara Bivona

... does Spartacus give the order: “Meet the enemy head on in a fight to the end” The rebels are defeated and many captured in one of the most spectacular battle scenes in film history; the heroic Spartacus and Antonius are spared the ...

Author: Mike Bivona

Publisher: iUniverse

ISBN: 9781491710395

Category: Travel

Page: 386

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Mike and Barbara Bivona have danced their way around the world, embracing the colorful rhythms of each country and culture in their travels. Now, Mike, the author of Dancing Around the World with Mike and Barbara Bivona, returns to share more of their globe-trotting adventures in part one of a new travel memoir series. While cruising the islands, they witnessed lava flowing into the surf off the shores of Hawaii and danced on a nightclub floor that once saw the white-uniformed officers of the warships anchored at the naval station in Pearl Harbor. Mike describes the thrill and challenge of learning the intricate steps of the Argentine tango in Buenos Aires and, more importantly, absorbing its proper attitude from master dancers. The brimstone fumes wreathing the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius transported them back in time, as the frozen bodies of the unlucky residents of Pompeii and Herculaneumas well as the evidence of Romans lively erotic imagination left on walls and sculptured into clayinspired numerous colorful conversations. Mike and Barbaras shared passion for art and history has led them to seek out the haunts of other lovers of adventureColumbus, Ponce de Leon, General Custer, circus impresario John Ringling, and the elderly jazz musicians in New Orleans. Part memoir and part travelogue, this volume offers you a trip around the world with the Bivonaswithout ever leaving your chair. Traveling Around the World with Mike and Barbara Bivona by Michael Bivona CPA, published by IUniverse, was a winner in the Annual Eric Hoffer Awards for Short Prose and Independent Books 2014 for eBooks nonfiction The US Review of Books reviewed by Barbara Bamberger Scott.
2013-11-01 By Mike Bivona
Comics & Graphic Novels

The Mice Templar V Night s End 2

... the mice sought a leader who could end the fear and bloodshed. However, also like Bres, King Icarus' reign deprecated the status of mice in their own society. THE SECOND BATTLE OF MAAC TU IRED The inevitable battle between the ...

Author: Michael Avon Oeming

Publisher: Image Comics

ISBN: PKEY:FEB150617

Category: Comics & Graphic Novels

Page: 56

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"RUNNING RED" The greatest battle in the history of the Dark Lands continues -- Templar, Maeven, Rat, Bat, Cat, Weasel, Owl and Serpent wage war for control of the city -- and the very destiny of the Shadow Time!
2015-04-29 By Michael Avon Oeming
Social Science

Cinema s Illusions Opera s Allure

Some of the Guarani put their hands in the fate of a god whose followers have abandoned them, while others revert to their past ways and fight to the end. In the end, the Europeans slaughter all the Jesuits and Guarani, and only a few ...

Author: David Schroeder

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781474291415

Category: Social Science

Page: 400

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The invention of cinema was ingenious, so much so that virtually no-one quite knew what to do with it. In its earliest stages, especially with the advent of the feature film, it needed models, and opera proved to be especially useful in that regard. The allure of opera to cinema early in the twentieth century held up through the silent era, into sound films, through the golden age of movies, and beyond. This book explores the numerous ways – some predictable, some unexpected, and some bizarre – in which this has happened. The influence of Richard Wagner on filmmakers has been especially striking, and some have even devised visual images that seem to emerge from a kind of non-verbal Wagnerian essence – a formative, musical urge that can underlie a cinematic idea, defying explanation and remaining purely sensory. Directors like Griffith, DeMille, Eisenstein, Chaplin, Bunuel or Hitchcock have intuited this possibility. Schroeder provides a fascinating, well-researched and always entertaining account of the influence of one medium on another, and shows that opera can often be found lurking in the background (or booming in the foreground) of an impressive range of films.
2016-10-06 By David Schroeder
Performing Arts

Reform Cinema in Iran

The movement ends with a close-up of Karim's hand sliding down the shower wall, followed by a shot of Qeysar stepping back, leaning against the shower door, out of breath. Both of these gestures could signal either the end of a fight or ...

Author: Blake Atwood

Publisher: Columbia University Press

ISBN: 9780231543149

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 272

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It is nearly impossible to separate contemporary Iranian cinema from the Islamic revolution that transformed film production in the country in the late 1970s. As the aims of the revolution shifted and hardened once Khomeini took power and as an eight-year war with Iraq dragged on, Iranian filmmakers confronted new restrictions. In the 1990s, however, the Reformist Movement, led by Mohammad Khatami, and the film industry, developed an unlikely partnership that moved audiences away from revolutionary ideas and toward a discourse of reform. In Reform Cinema in Iran, Blake Atwood examines how new industrial and aesthetic practices created a distinct cultural and political style in Iranian film between 1989 and 2007. Atwood analyzes a range of popular, art, and documentary films. He provides new readings of internationally recognized films such as Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry (1997) and Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Time for Love (1990), as well as those by Rakhshan Bani, Masud Kiami, and other key Iranian directors. At the same time, he also considers how filmmakers and the film industry were affected by larger political and religious trends that took shape during Mohammad Khatami's presidency (1997-2005). Atwood analyzes political speeches, religious sermons, and newspaper editorials and pays close attention to technological developments, particularly the rise of video, to determine their role in democratizing filmmaking and realizing the goals of political reform. He concludes with a look at the legacy of reform cinema, including films produced under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose neoconservative discourse rejected the policies of reform that preceded him.
2016-11-08 By Blake Atwood
Biography & Autobiography

My Search

These kinds of outrageous fights would never end if we do not stop the people by pointing out their unacceptable concepts and ideas to fight for their civil rights and their human rights. We can protect our community from all kind of ...

Author: Susaik Chu

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

ISBN: 9781490755854

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 376

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My Search is the result of over 10 years of research, testing and experimenting to find answers for all the people about allergies and sickness, and how and why they were getting them. The author feels that her work will serve and help people around the world. This book is a personal journey of an author who fundamentally cares about the welfare and health of her fellow man, and wanted to use her own personal challenges and transform them into opportunity to learn and better the world around her.
2015-10-16 By Susaik Chu

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