Woman Un-Bent
Author | : Irene Zimmerman |
Publisher | : Saint Mary's Press |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780884895855 |
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Author | : Irene Zimmerman |
Publisher | : Saint Mary's Press |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780884895855 |
Author | : Ping Fu |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2012-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101608196 |
“Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times. . . . Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, yet always staying calm inwardly.” —Ping Fu’s “Shanghai Papa” Ping Fu knows what it’s like to be a child soldier, a factory worker, and a political prisoner. To be beaten and raped for the crime of being born into a well-educated family. To be deported with barely enough money for a plane ticket to a bewildering new land. To start all over, without family or friends, as a maid, waitress, and student. Ping Fu also knows what it’s like to be a pioneering software programmer, an innovator, a CEO, and Inc. magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year. To be a friend and mentor to some of the best-known names in technology. To build some of the coolest new products in the world. To give speeches that inspire huge crowds. To meet and advise the president of the United States. It sounds too unbelievable for fiction, but this is the true story of a life in two worlds. Born on the eve of China’s Cultural Revolution, Ping was separated from her family at the age of eight. She grew up fighting hunger and humiliation and shielding her younger sister from the teenagers in Mao’s Red Guard. At twenty-five, she found her way to the United States; her only resources were $80 in traveler’s checks and three phrases of English: thank you, hello, and help. Yet Ping persevered, and the hard-won lessons of her childhood guided her to success in her new homeland. Aided by her well-honed survival instincts, a few good friends, and the kindness of strangers, she grew into someone she never thought she’d be—a strong, independent, entrepreneurial leader. A love of problem solving led her to computer science, and Ping became part of the team that created NCSA Mosaic, which became Netscape, the Web browser that forever changed how we access information. She then started a company, Geomagic, that has literally reshaped the world, from personalizing prosthetic limbs to repairing NASA spaceships. Bend, Not Break depicts a journey from imprisonment to freedom, and from the dogmatic anticapitalism of Mao’s China to the high-stakes, take-no-prisoners world of technology start-ups in the United States. It is a tribute to one woman’s courage in the face of cruelty and a valuable lesson on the enduring power of resilience.
Author | : Dorothy F. Cotton |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0743296842 |
Director of the Citizenship Education Program, Dorothy Cotton, recounts the accomplishments of the program and her experiences in the civil rights movement.
Author | : Huda Khattab |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Muslim women |
ISBN | : 9789960987125 |
Author | : Natalie K. Houghtby-Haddon |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2011-04-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1608996751 |
In this work, Houghtby-Haddon takes a new look at an old text, using a theory of the Social Imagination as an exegetical guide. In her exploration of the Bent-Over Woman story in Luke 13:10-17, Houghtby-Haddon uncovers clues suggesting that this story is a key interpretive text for seeing Luke's social vision for his community at work. Exploring mythic, social, communal, and cultural elements beneath the surface of the story, Houghtby-Haddon suggests that the Bent-Over Woman is the embodiment of Jesus' claim in the synagogue in Nazareth that "today, these Scriptures are fulfilled in your hearing" (Luke 4:16-21), and that the woman prefigures the post-Pentecost community that will gather in Jesus' name. The author concludes by taking the theory from the Gospel of Luke to the streets to see how a contemporary neighborhood group might use the Social Imagination model--and the new reading of the story of the Bent-Over Woman--to imagine a twenty-first-century social vision for its own community: a vision that more fully embodies the just community Jesus proclaims in Nazareth.
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Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 1999 |
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Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1897 |
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Author | : Kansas State Historical Society |
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Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Kansas |
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1st-6th biennial reports of the society, 1875-88, included in v. 1-4.
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Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1840 |
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Author | : David Sievert Lavender |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1954-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803257535 |
Bent's Fort was a landmark of the American frontier, a huge private fort on the upper Arkansas River in present southeastern Colorado. Established by the adventurers Charles and William Bent, it stood until 1849 as the center of the Indian trade of the central plains. David Lavender's chronicle of these men and their part in the opening of the West has been conceded a place beside the works of Parkman and Prescott.