The Diary of Hakim Jones
The Diary of Hakim Jones

Author: Joseph Khalid Massenburg

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2015-06-10

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1504914384

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Never surrender your dreams. Life in the hood is tough; violence and drugs are everyday realities, and motivation to change can be hard to come by. The Diary of Hakim Jones is a gritty story of a young man who grew up in one of the most violent neighborhoods in America, but he finds out that through vision and perseverance, he can escape to a different life, one he would never have dreamed possible. Enlightening and inspiring for all readers, The Diary of Hakim Jones is especially meaningful to anyone who grew up in a rough environment, showing that a good work ethic and the will to succeed can break through seemingly impossible barriers. Realistic, motivational, and hard-hitting, this true-to-life novel will inspire you to see past your limitations.

The Diary of Hakim Jones
The Diary of Hakim Jones

Author: Joe Massenburg Jr.

Publisher:

Published: 2024-07-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Never surrender your dreams. Life in the hood is tough; violence and drugs are everyday realities, and motivation to change can be hard to come by. The Diary of Hakim Jones is a gritty story of a young man who grew up in one of the most violent neighborhoods in America, but he finds out that through vision and perseverance, he can escape to a different life, one he would never have dreamed possible. Enlightening and inspiring for all readers, The Diary of Hakim Jones is especially meaningful to anyone who grew up in a rough environment, showing that a good work ethic and the will to succeed can break through seemingly impossible barriers. Realistic, motivational, and hard-hitting, this true-to-life novel will inspire you to see past your limitations.

Diary of Hakim Jones
Diary of Hakim Jones

Author: Joe Massenburg Jr

Publisher: Outskirts Press

Published: 2015-01-14

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9781478746904

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The Diary of Hakim is a urban fictional nova of a young man who grows up in one of the worst urban cities in America he encounters many of the trials and tough circumstances that a lot young men and women encounter when their grow up in this environment but through hard work and dedication along with a strong faith he is able to rise beyond his circumstances a elevate to levels of success that as a young child he never thought would be possible he encounters many hardships and challenges along the way but he stays steadfast with a dogged determination and resolve to succeed no matter the difficulties he faces with this book I'm hoping to inspire and help some of the inner city youth and others who may be just a few steps away from achieving their goals but may just find it hard to stay focused and motivated though trying times. I'm also trying to help elevate the awareness of many of those who grow up in the inner cities and fill as though they are isolate from the rest of society when in fact no matter who you are or where you come from dreams can become reality in this great nation of ours. Luck is simply when preparation meets opportunity so basically you get out of life what you put into it. I also show in the book how even after you achieve success the trials of life will test you from time to time in essence their no such thing as a free ride or a easy life.in life you difficulties even in success but it is this challenges and who you address these challenges that will define you as a person. This novel is not just a inner city urban story but a American story that I will can inspire us all to hold on have strong faith and family values and keep striving not matter the difficulties one may face.

A Matter of Record
A Matter of Record

Author: John Scott

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-04-03

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0745687733

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This textbook aims to give an introduction to the use of documentary sources in social research. It is designed to be a companion to courses in research methods in the social sciences and history and a reference text for those beginning research on documentary sources. The book begins with an overview of the nature of social research and the variety of methods which can be used. Scott identifies three types of evidence useful in such research - physical evidence, personal evidence and documentary evidence. He argues that the logic of research is common to each type of evidence, but that each involves specific methodological issues. An appraisal grid for the analysis of documents is presented, showing the criteria which must be used in evaluating documentary sources. In the following chapters these criteria are applied to the variety of documentary sources available to the social researcher: census data and official statistics; government publications; directories and yearbooks; personal diaries and letters.

Cultures of London
Cultures of London

Author: Charlotte Grant

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-12-14

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1350242047

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From its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London's history and culture has been shaped by migration. This book expresses and celebrates the plurality of the capital's cultures and affirms the importance of migration in the making of the modern city through thirty-three short essays written by academics, artists, broadcasters and curators. Subjects range from the mediaeval to the contemporary: buildings and institutions, individuals and communities, objects, visual art, street performances and literary texts. Some contributors focus on famous people and places, like Shakespeare and St Paul's, while others explore less well-known subjects, like the Free German League of Culture (1939-46) or Ignatius Sancho, the eighteenth-century musician, grocer and man-of-letters. It is not only London's cultures which are diverse, migration is also plural. This book engages with the very many human migrations from across the globe and within the British Isles that have taken place over the last two-thousand years, as well as with the movements of plants, animals, and ideologies from other countries and continents, and the movement of natural resources and manmade toxins into and through the city. Composed of a vivid collection of snapshots, the volume offers a kaleidoscopic vision of the city and provides new insights into the successive migrant communities that have come to London and made it their own.

Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters
Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters

Author: Philip Eade

Publisher: Picador

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1250045908

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THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF SYLVIA BROOKE, THE LAST WHITE RULER OF THE JUNGLE KINGDOM OF BORNEO Sylvia Brooke was one of the more exotic and outrageous figures of the twentieth century. Otherwise known as the Ranee of Sarawak, she was the wife of Sir Vyner Brooke, the last White Rajah, whose family had ruled the jungle kingdom of Sarawak on Borneo for three generations. They had their own flag, revenue, postage stamps, and money, as well as the power of life and death over their subjects—Malays, Chinese, and headhunting Dyak tribesmen. The regime of the White Rajahs was long romanticized, but by the 1930s, their power and prestige were crumbling. At the center of Sarawak's decadence was Sylvia, author of eleven books, mother to three daughters, an extravagantly dressed socialite whose behavior often offended and usually defied social convention. Sylvia did her best to manipulate the line of succession in favor of her daughters, but by 1946, Japan had invaded Sarawak, sending Sylvia and her husband into exile, ending one of the more unusual chapters of British colonial rule. Philip Eade's Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters is a fascinating look at the wild and debauched world of a woman desperate to maintain the last remains of power in an exotic and dying kingdom.

Ways of Seeking
Ways of Seeking

Author: Emily Drumsta

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2024-02-20

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0520390199

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Ways of Seeking, Emily Drumsta traces the influence of detective fiction on the twentieth-century Arabic novel. Theorizing a “poetics of investigation,” she shows how these novels, far from staging awe-inspiring feats of logical deduction, mock the truth-seeking practices on which modern exercises of colonial and national power are often premised. Their narratives return to the archives of Arabic folklore, Islamic piety, and mysticism to explore less coercive ways of knowing, seeing, and seeking. Drumsta argues that scholars of the Middle East neglect the literary at their peril, overlooking key critiques of colonialism from the intellectuals who shaped and responded through fiction to the transformations of modernity. This book ultimately tells a different story about the novel’s place in the constellation of Arab modernism, modeling an innovative method of open-ended inquiry based on the literary texts themselves.

Ruritania
Ruritania

Author: Nicholas Daly

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0198836600

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A cultural history of Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda that explores its afterlife including how it was adapted for stage and screen, woven into narratives about the Cold War, and influenced children's writers such as Frances Hodgson Burnett and Meg Cabot.