Poor Jack
Author: Frederick Marryat
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Published: 1841
Total Pages: 316
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Author: Frederick Marryat
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Published: 1841
Total Pages: 316
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Published: 1857
Total Pages: 480
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederick Marryat
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-27
Total Pages: 364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Poor Jack' is a rags-to-riches story written by the English author Frederick Marryat, published in 1840. It tells the story of Thomas Saunders, a sailor's son and neglected street urchin struggling to survive in Greenwich, London in the early 19th century. "Poor Jack" was the title given by the waterfront boys, or mudlarks, to their chief. Despite his poor background, Saunders eventually rises by his own efforts to become a ship's pilot on the Thames, makes his fortune and retires to the life of a wealthy squire. The novel has interesting descriptions of domestic life among the naval lower ranks and contains many anecdotes of seafaring life.
Author: Anthony Abraham Jack
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2019-03-01
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0674239660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn NPR Favorite Book of the Year Winner of the Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association Winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award Winner of the CEP–Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship “Eye-opening...Brings home the pain and reality of on-campus poverty and puts the blame squarely on elite institutions.” —Washington Post “Jack’s investigation redirects attention from the matter of access to the matter of inclusion...His book challenges universities to support the diversity they indulge in advertising.” —New Yorker “The lesson is plain—simply admitting low-income students is just the start of a university’s obligations. Once they’re on campus, colleges must show them that they are full-fledged citizen.” —David Kirp, American Prospect “This book should be studied closely by anyone interested in improving diversity and inclusion in higher education and provides a moving call to action for us all.” —Raj Chetty, Harvard University The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In this bracing exposé, Anthony Jack shows that many students’ struggles continue long after they’ve settled in their dorms. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This powerfully argued book documents how university policies and campus culture can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why some students are harder hit than others.
Author: Frederick Marryat
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 476
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Drawing on a mass of contemporary material spanning four millennia, this book follows the merchant seaman ashore and afloat through the typical vicissitudes of his exotic but uncertain life. Although it is an unsentimental 'warts and all' portrayal, it is nevertheless an affectionate valedictory tribute to a lifestyle that has almost vanished."--Amazon.
Author: Jack Barnes
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-12-19
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781505667172
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"I was born dirt poor and will probably die dirt poor," states Jack Barnes in his beguiling memoir in which he reveals the life fate dealt him and what he did with it. Despite being homeless and living in his car for a number of years, he always maintained a job in order to support his family. Written up in two feature stories in Newsday, Jack's life is that of a man who loved and lost but never forgot his sense of humanity and responsibility to his children and grandchildren."Every day he broke his back. Every night he slept in his car. This was the only America that John Barnes knew." Newsday, Sunday, December 27, 1987.
Author: Emily Sarah Holt
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-09-16
Total Pages: 250
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Clare Avery" (A Story of the Spanish Armada) by Emily Sarah Holt. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Park Benjamin
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Published: 1841
Total Pages: 426
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clifford R. Shaw
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-02-11
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 022607496X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Jack-Roller tells the story of Stanley, a pseudonym Clifford Shaw gave to his informant and co-author, Michael Peter Majer. Stanley was sixteen years old when Shaw met him in 1923 and had recently been released from the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac, after serving a one-year sentence for burglary and jack-rolling (mugging), Vivid, authentic, this is the autobiography of a delinquent—his experiences, influences, attitudes, and values. The Jack-Roller helped to establish the life-history or "own story" as an important instrument of sociological research. The book remains as relevant today to the study and treatment of juvenile delinquency and maladjustment as it was when originally published in 1930.