Climb a Lonely Hill
Climb a Lonely Hill

Author: Lilith Norman

Publisher:

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780006715962

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Chronicles a brother's and sister's attempts to survive after an auto accident strands them in the Australian bush.

Climb a Lonely Hill
Climb a Lonely Hill

Author: Lilith Norman

Publisher:

Published: 1995-06

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780091830205

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First published in 1970, and commended at the Australian Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award in 1971, this novel for young teenagers tells of two children stranded in desert country following a car crash, and their struggle to survive. The author's other publications include 'The Flame Takers' and 'The Shape of Three.'.

Voices of the Other
Voices of the Other

Author: Roderick McGillis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1136601007

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This book offers a variety of approaches to children's literature from a postcolonial perspective that includes discussions of cultural appropriation, race theory, pedagogy as a colonialist activity, and multiculturalism. The eighteen essays divide into three sections: Theory, Colonialism, Postcolonialism. The first section sets the theoretical framework for postcolonial studies; essays here deal with issues of "otherness" and cultural difference, as well as the colonialist implications of pedagogic practice. These essays confront our relationships with the child and childhood as sites for the exertion of our authority and control. Section 2 presents discussions of the colonialist mind-set in children's and young adult texts from the turn of the century. Here works by writers of animal stories in Canada, the U.S. and Britain, works of early Australian colonialist literature, and Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess come under the scrutiny of our postmodern reading practices. Section 3 deals directly with contemporary texts for children that manifest both a postcolonial and a neo-colonial content. In this section, the longest in the book, we have studies of children's literature from Canada, Australia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.

Fight the Power
Fight the Power

Author: Eric Leif Davin

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-11-12

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 0578013940

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Eric Leif DaVietnamesen was raised as a Southern Baptist and Mormon convert, although he was always a non-believer. However, like everyone else in his blue collar surroundings, he believed in America, the military, anti-Communism, and, although too young to vote, Senator Barry Goldwater when he ran for president in 1964. Then, in the Sixties, he went to college and became swept up in the movements of the times. He came to realize that everything he'd believed about "his war," the Vietnameseetnam War, was wrong. He came to believe that we were more than just on the "wrong side." We were the wrong side. Eventually he was drafted. However, he refused induction into the military, preferring to face five years in prison, the maximum sentence, rather than fight in an immoral war. This memoir describes his journey through the Sixties, from a working class gung-ho Goldwater Republican supporter of the Vietnameseetnam War to a radicalized anti-war actiVietnamesest who was eventually drafted to fight in that war -- but refused to go.

Ex Nihilo
Ex Nihilo

Author: Eric Wayne Flynn

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2020-01-30

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1480887226

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Diverse poems examine a young man’s journey through life as he experiences love, loss, hope, fulfillment, and failure while working to accept himself just as he is. Home, just another thing to turn your back on. Into the wild, into the unknown, Into a 1965 Ford filled to the brim, foot upon the gas, Accelerating into the future, back to the past. Hands on the wheel, windows down, radio up. In a rush, in a fog, figuring a way out ... Within his first volume of poems, Eric Wayne Flynn amasses an evocative, thought-provoking collection that challenges belief and morality through the narrative of a young man deeply involved with an ideal while battling through existential dilemmas of the spirit and temptations of the flesh. Flynn reflects on a variety of topics that include his coming-of-age journey and experiences with love, loss, hope, fulfillment, and failure while lyrically examining the world—both seen and unseen—from creation to the brink of extinction and salvation. As he leads others down a path into his heart and life, Flynn explores what it means to truly live, not just exist, while celebrating the lessons derived from both good and bad experiences. Ex Nihilo is a volume of contemporary poetry that examines a young man’s journey through life as he works to accept himself just as he is.