Brown American
Brown American

Author: Veronico ''Ron'' Somera

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2009-12-16

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1450007163

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You, Mr. Somera, have followed the path that was pioneered by the first settlers of this great country... demonstrating your desire for freedom.” - Dan Rostenkowski, Congressman, Chicago, Illinois, USA • “BROWN AMERICAN is recommended best reading to those passionately in quest of that elusive formula for a most-simple-life-turned-most-fulfilled! One can be a witness here to an extraordinary man’s transplant to the heart of a vaunted brave new land where the faint-hearted dare not roam. Good readers, especially immigrants, shouldn’t let their libraries be without this rare legacy.” - Ody M. Sabino, Manager in Corporate Services Intel Technoloy Philippines, Inc., Cavite, Philippines • “My deepest thanks to you and The Mahoganies for your time and services... for our Filipino culture.” - Tomas R. Padilla, Consul General, Philippine Consulate in the USA • “Certainly, you and your friends are wonderful representatives of your country in every respect. We are grateful for all the charm, talent, attractive appearance, and generosity of spirit that you shared with us.” - Genevieve Biliskis, Program Chairman Sears, Roebuck and Co., Chicago, Illinois, USA • “Brown America is so well written and a compelling story that I found it difficult to put down. Congratulations!” - Rev. Msgr. Frank Fawcett San Diego, CA, USA

Brown & Sharpe and the Measure of American Industry
Brown & Sharpe and the Measure of American Industry

Author: Gerald M. Carbone

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-03-21

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1476629196

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Joseph Brown, founder of Brown & Sharpe, was a skilled clockmaker who invented new machines, and new ways to make things. Samuel Darling, an eccentric inventor from Maine, joined up and brought with him his engine for marking precise graduations on measuring instruments. Lucian Sharpe, with his son Henry and grandson Henry, Jr., guided the company for more than a century--and along with it the global machine tools industry. The men and women of Brown & Sharpe produced and marketed a dazzling array of measuring devices, machine tools and precision machinery. They truly helped shape Rhode Island, the nation and the modern world. The history of Brown & Sharpe covers more than 150 years of technological development, labor history and public policy, culminating in history's longest strike.

William Wells Brown: An African American Life
William Wells Brown: An African American Life

Author: Ezra Greenspan

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2014-10-06

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 0393242005

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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Biography' A groundbreaking biography of the most pioneering and accomplished African-American writer of the nineteenth century. Born into slavery in Kentucky, raised on the Western frontier on the farm adjacent to Daniel Boone’s, “rented” out in adolescence to a succession of steamboat captains on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the young man known as “Sandy” reinvented himself as “William Wells” Brown after escaping to freedom. He lifted himself out of illiteracy and soon became an innovative, widely admired, and hugely popular speaker on antislavery circuits (both American and British) and went on to write the earliest African American works in a plethora of genres: travelogue, novel (the now canonized Clotel), printed play, and history. He also practiced medicine, ran for office, and campaigned for black uplift, temperance, and civil rights. Ezra Greenspan’s masterful work, elegantly written and rigorously researched, sets Brown’s life in the richly rendered context of his times, creating a fascinating portrait of an inventive writer who dared to challenge the racial orthodoxies and explore the racial complexities of nineteenth-century America.

Brown
Brown

Author: Richard Rodriguez

Publisher: Viking Adult

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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The author concludes his "trilogy of American public life" by contemplating the many cultural associations of the color brown--toil, decay, impurity, and time--as he considers the meaning of Hispanics in American society.

The Brown Center Report on American Education
The Brown Center Report on American Education

Author: Paul Diperna

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Published: 2000-09-01

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780815753018

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The Brown Center on Education Policy conducts research on topics in American education, with a special focus on efforts to improve academic achievement in elementary and secondary schools. The center seeks to inform policymakers at all levels of government, to influence the course of future educational research, and to produce a body of work not only valuable to policymakers and scholars, but also parents, teachers, administrators, taxpayers, school board members, and the general public.This annual report card analyzes the state of American education using the latest measures of student learning, uncovers and explains important trends in achievement test scores, and identifies promising and disappointing educational reforms. Unlike similar reports intended solely for government use, the Brown Center annual report card is written for an audience of parents, teachers, and policymakers.