When Rocky Balboa set a goal to go the distance against Apollo Creed, moviegoers everywhere found themselves rooting for the underdog, including author Felice Cantatore, who was just eleven years old when he first saw the film. Going the distance became a metaphor for Cantatores own life, and the premise led to an appreciation and fascination with the film franchise. Just like Rocky, he went on to become an underdog fighter in the ring, and was also a ringside extra in the final movie of the series. Join him as he shares his passion for the Rocky movies, and learn how their message inspired him to pursue and accomplish his goals. The lives of both Cantatore and Rocky Balboa are pure examples of how the Law of Attraction, hard work, and tenacity can lead to success. You can accomplish anything you want as long as you decide to go for it. Get motivated to pursue your goals, recognize that a champion resides in your heart, and unlock your Rocky Spirit with this true story about the passion, dreams and success of an everyday man.
Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema is the first book-length study of the Hollywood boxing film, a popular movie entertainment since the 1930s, that includes such classics as Million Dollar Baby, Rocky, and Raging Bull. The boxer stands alongside the cowboy, the gangster, and the detective as a character that shaped America’s ideas of manhood. Leger Grindon relates the Hollywood boxing film to the literature of Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, and Clifford Odets; the influence of ring champions, particularly Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali; and controversies surrounding masculinity, race, and sports. Knockout breaks new ground in film genre study by focusing on the fundamental dramatic conflicts uniting both documentary and fictional films with compelling social concerns. The boxing film portrays more than the rise and fall of a champion; it exposes the body to reveal the spirit. Not simply a brute, the screen boxer dramatizes conflicts and aspirations central to an American audience’s experience. This book features chapters on the conventions of the boxing film, the history of the genre and its relationship to famous ring champions, and self-contained treatments of thirty-two individual films including a chapter devoted to Raging Bull.
This story is about how on a hope a mother gets a horse for a young man with autism. Drawn into the emotional nature of horses, a life changing bond forms between this young man and both the best and the worst horse he could learn from. The stubborn and defiant will of Rocky challenges him to understand the body language through which horses communicate their emotions. As these two minds learn from their struggle together, competing on who will be the leader on the trail, an autistic mind experiences a revolutionary change in which he discovers he can read the body language and learn how to understand the emotional nature of this majestic creature. Using information that he could not previously see, he quickly grows into an excelling rider exploring nature with this horse that constantly challenges him for position as leader. Sadly, Rocky learns as much from this young man as he learns from Rocky. After a year, Rocky is no longer safe to ride, and this young man must give up the bond he has created. Heartbroken, he searches for a new horse with all the good but none of the bad of the first. He finds this horse as he discovers a path to veterinary school and continues his discovery of the emotions communicated through body language, but not just those of horses but of the people around him. Struggling to understand the nuances of communication used by the students at his community college, the struggle to connect with others continues at a university as his young horse learns and grows from the adventures they experience together. Through an ambition to learn the emotions that governed Rocky, an autistic mind learns how to see the passion, the desires, the fears, the unwillingness to stop fighting one another and through it, learns to see himself. The self-discovery catalyzes revolutionary changes that carry him through struggles, injuries, rejection, heartbreaks, disappointments, loneliness, through the exceedingly difficult accomplishment of gaining entry into a veterinary college and into a world of emotion and compassion.
Welcome To The 2013 Award Winning, Most Unique Booksite By Most Unique Award Winning Author J.P.L. Lubek!!! archive.is/YhQYx = educalingo.com/en/dic-pl/lubek “strong>Cena Mówi o Jakoci> LUBEK'S LEGACY: THE CHESS CASTLE 2000/0000 MOVE: archive.is/c2TdS, archive.is/949sw In My First Book: Rocky Marciano & Classic Boxing & Boxers are discussed, also comparison to new era boxers are mentioned. Me & my Dearest Grandma, the ever-wise Venerabilis Wanda Wladyslawa Nida (PTASZYNA ZLOCISTA) mother of Golden-Heart Grazyna Maria Nida, daughter of decorated mining engineer Tadeusz Nida, son of Postmaster Rudolf Nida) (encyclopediasupreme.org/Babcia, encyclopediasupreme.org/Philosophy/Warpeace.txt Wanda's Eternal Words of Wisdom) introduced the idea to the promise breaking WBC/Sulaiman family: archive.is/eVoto to erect Rocky Marciano statue in Brockton who owes us huge gratitude. You will find out lots of information on Rocky (and on many other topics, especially classic boxing) you never knew before. Special attention is given to Rocky's exhibitions in Asia (especially in Japan) & Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Archie Moore was not the last fighter Rocky faced in the ring in front of a live audience because it happened in Brazil in March of 1956 against 3 opponents. The last fight was for real!!! November 2022 Update: Rocky fought 2 rounds each against: Nelson Andrade, Antônio Cândido (replaced Francisco de Assis) & Waldemar Adao: 1956 & 1957 Brazilian heavyweight champion. There is lots of information on 'The Super Fight' film Rocky had with Muhamed Ali shortly before he died as if God waited for this fight to happen. Discover Rocky's many weird business ventures & his care-free investments, his life during & after boxing. Find out why Rocky's only logical opponent 'Big' Bob Baker 45-5 (special chapter is dedicated to him, also to Rocky's Amateur 10-4 (8KOs) record) was supposed to be Rocky's opponent on February 3 1956? Why was Sonny Liston (Rocky almost became his manager in 1961) not included in the elimination tournament to choose Rocky's 1956 Fall Opponent? Did Rocky avoid Floyd Patterson, Bob Satterfield, John Holman, Johnny Summerlin, and undefeated Eddie Machen for the 1957 New Year's fight? In My Second Book: George 'Superman' Reeves & Paul Bern (among others) are covered. Find out who might have murdered them. Were Toni & Eddie Mannix behind 'foul play'? Did they play a key role in his death? Toni bombarded George with harassing calls even when he changed phone numbers. Find out who stole George's pet dog. Find out about George's wish to be a pro boxer & a pro wrestler. Find out about the Luger gun that killed George. Was it possible to play Russian roulette with it? Read about how Jack Larson almost filmed 13 episodes of 'Superman's Pal' but refused because it was morbid to him. In My Third Book: History of Reproducing Piano Rolls, I describe in details (especially from technical aspects) different companies who made piano rolls for piano players, player pianos (Pianolas) & reproducing pianos at the turn of the 20th century. I cover piano rolls making companies such as Duo-Art, Welte-Mignon (Welte & Sons from Freiburg, Germany), Ampico A & B & many others. I cover the story of the first Piano Player Vorsetzer, an original machine with wooden fingers which played the piano, reproducing the sounds of great masters like Paderewski, Leshetizky, Saint-Saens, Scriabin, Lhevinne, Hofmann & many others. Even if they are no longer with us their spirit lives on in these (reproducing) piano rolls. "Genius Never Dies" Venerable Wanda Nida always said In Latin: "Dignum Laude Virum, Musa Vetat Mori!!!" 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The life and work of American director John G. Avildsen is thoroughly examined in this detailed filmography and critical study. Each of the most significant films made by the Oscar-winning Avildsen is given a separate chapter, including such critical successes as Joe and Save the Tiger, and box-office blockbusters Rocky and its sequels and the Karate Kid series. The authors' observations on these and other titles--some well known, others less familiar--are enhanced by extensive production notes, and by commentary from John G. Avildsen himself. Cinema historian Jean Bodon of Sam Houston State University provides a foreword.
The Greatest Generation was in full bloom during the enigmatic decade of the fifties. In northern New Jersey, The Newark Star Ledger on the doorstep every morning was bringing changing news as that pastoral period came to an end. A blue-collar ethnic family saga evolves that takes you on an epic journey through unfulfilled dreams, with spiritual forks in every road. In the shadows lurk glamorous alternatives of gangland activities and the allure of the entertainment business. But it was a legendary high school football game that truly signaled winds of change would be rushing in. An outstanding athlete and young man, Frank Bonaducci made a decision in that rivalry that would affect peoples lives forever. Surrounding him is his family, as well as a menagerie of unforgettable charactersfrom Bloomfield Avenue in Newark, to the Silver Lake section of Belleville, to Nutleys Park Oval. They roam the pages of this touching story, teaching life-long lessons. Their roles craft a tapestry of life, creating a yearning in our hearts for these days gone by. Every one should have an uncle like "Petee 5 Corners" and an Aunt Bella who danced across imaginary stages as "Bella LaStarr". Each chapter reads like a short story that will touch your heart and soul. The book depicts frustrations of coming of age and traditional rights of passage that honor family traditions . . . more than the family members themselves. It wont take long to learn . . . that when you look back, . . . you should glance, not stare. In his first novel, Joseph Rocco Cervasio escorts us through New Jerseys fabled Essex County in a way that will make Bad News on the Door Step . . . the good news you are seeking. A demanded public speaker, Cervasio has tested throughout the country the stories that have evolved into the tales of this fiction. And you will react the same way his audiences have over the years--youll laugh and cry and say, . . . "no way". Writing with compassion and spiritual discernment that penetrate the wonder of these times, Cervasio takes you from 1959 to the present. From an Italian American feast during New Years Eve at Grandpa Joes, to the end zone of a football field, to Rahway State Prison, to a hot autumn afternoon at the Five Corners of Fifth Street and Bloomfield Avenue, to the glamor of Havana; you are bound to find a familiar character or even family member, . . . particularly if you are from Jersey! When Buddy Holley, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper crashed in a snow-covered cornfield in Iowa on February 3, 1959, they became the final ingredient to launch the Bonaducci family into a trek every reader will cherish. Witness the battle between self-sacrifice and selfish lusts, as the kingdoms of modest middle class living and mob affiliation collide headon. Ten years in the making, Bad News on the Door Step is a labor of love that introduces Joseph Rocco Cervasio as a consumate storyteller, passionate about changing peoples lives for the better.
Brunelleschi’s basilica of Santo Spirito in Florence was not only a product of creative genius, but also of communal bureaucracy, socio-economic traditions, human and financial resources, factionalism, and rivalry. This complex network of forces behind the monument serves as testimony to the determination and capacity of Renaissance Florentines to actualize the creative ideas of the extraordinary artists and architects who were transforming the profile of the city. Moreover, it reveals that the labor, spirit, and energy of those human beings who were building Renaissance Florence were just as important to its manufacture as the brick, stone and wood used to build it. By investigating those aspects that defined the building tradition of the Renaissance – the architect, the Opera (building committee), the quartiere (neighborhood), the cantiere (worksite and workforce) – we discover that behind a great monument lies a monumental account of collective human achievement.
Finally, the total experience of hiking Rocky Mountain National Park has been captured in one comprehensive volume, which covers literally every named destination in RMNP and many exciting hikes in adjacent public lands. This book is a must-have for any beginning hiker or avid outdoor enthusiast. It will take you anywhere you want to go in RMNP and its surrounding areas. From fun family hikes to hearty mountaineering adventures, Rocky Mountain National Park: The Complete Hiking Guide has something for everyone. It includes details about every trail within RMNP, as well as at-your-fingertips info highlighting trailheads, elevation gain, distance, and the difficulty of each hike. By far the most extensive and accurate hiking resource available for RMNP, this guide provides the information you need for an enjoyable experience in one of the nation's most popular parks. Book jacket.
