In May 1991, Conley, the first female tenured full professor of neurosurgery in the country, made headlines when she resigned from Stanford to protest the school's unabashed gender discrimination. In this forthright memoir, she tells her controversial story.
What Is the What is the story of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee in war-ravaged southern Sudan who flees from his village in the mid-1980s and becomes one of the so-called Lost Boys. Valentino’s travels bring him in contact with enemy soldiers, with liberation rebels, with hyenas and lions, with disease and starvation, and with deadly murahaleen (militias on horseback)–the same sort who currently terrorize Darfur. Eventually Deng is resettled in the United States with almost 4000 other young Sudanese men, and a very different struggle begins. Based closely on true experiences, What Is the What is heartbreaking and arresting, filled with adventure, suspense, tragedy, and, finally, triumph.
Alex doesn't mean to cause trouble. He didn't mean to cover his dad with pink yoghurt, or drop the goldfish in the bath. He just couldn't help it. Alex's mum and dad ask him to keep out of trouble for just one day - so the sideways skateboard isn't such a bad idea, is it?
Edward Sniders'' experiences of World War Two make compelling reading. As a Mosquito pilot, he led a charmed life until his luck ran out in dramatic fashion.'
This story is about four boys who grew up as close friends, while growing up they would see women or their friend's mothers in their neighborhood being abused by men leaving these four boys with a sick feeling inside over the years. It would play back in their minds time after time, so much that they gave their word to treat their women with love and respect. Little did these boys know after growing, things have changed with women in todays fast-paced society mainly in the home and work. Never would the four friends would have thought for one second that women would have abusive behavior toward men, carrying out acts of physical, sexual, emotional, and verbal abuse against men. This leaves a man no choice but to walk out his home leaving his children behind.
In 1984 Myanmar, an extraterrestrial from a warfaring race known as the Magals landed on Earth and began a desperate fight with the United States. This creature abandoned his post on Earth sometime thereafter, but left his sons with his father, Gozaren. These sons, Gozer and Malhavco, have since joined the military and use their near-invincibility for special operations, presumably not for the protection and promotion of America's interests abroad, but for dark, ulterior motives.