Don't Be a Dumba$$

Don't Be a Dumba$$
Author: Adam Brueggen
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2023-01-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1662927592

It’s an unfortunate reality that most teenagers and young adults lack the knowledge or basic understanding of something so necessary for survival, so ingrained in everyday life, that it is often forgotten just how important it is – money. Everyone wants money, yet few know how to make it work for them. Today, only 14 of the 50 US states mandate high school personal finance education. This book aims to even the playing field, ensuring all teens and young adults learn how to manage money and start life with a solid financial foundation. Co-authored by an Air Force officer and a high school teacher, Don’t Be a Dumba$$ is a persuasive and relatable self-help financial book that uses real-life examples to teach and motivate teenagers and young adults to make smart decisions now through six simple decisions before irreversible, life-lasting damage is done. So, what’s the secret to becoming a millionaire? Make smart decisions in one’s teens and twenties-in other words, don’t be a dumba$$. Adhering to the book’s six decisions made the authors millionaires at thirty-three. It’s possible for everyone – most importantly, it’s possible for you.

Nikolaus Dumba (1830-1900)

Nikolaus Dumba (1830-1900)
Author: John Tzafettas
Publisher: AKAKIA Publications
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2015-05-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1910714186

Nikolaus Dumba, was a most inspired and enthusiastic Viennese who became Maecenas of the Arts and national benefactor for Austria and Greece. He was most prominent in Vienna’s cultural life in the 2nd half of the 19th century and was acclaimed as a ‘genius of the Muses’, although he also distinguished himself in other fields, such as those of politics and finance. He had a leading role in the shaping of New Vienna. «...without Dumba many of the Vienna monuments would have never been created, neither of Schubert, Schiller, Beethoven or Grillparzer, nor that of Motzart and Makart»(Neue Freie Presse 25.03.1900). His personal friends Johannes Brahms and Johann Strauss extolled the legendary role he played in music and the arts and in the ‘expansion and embellishment’ of the city of Vienna by dedicating the choral waltz Neu Wien (New Vienna) to him. The ‘immortal’ Donauwalzer (Blue Danube Waltz), may have not existed without his personal intervention as President then of the ‘Vienna Men’s Choral Society’. He is best known as «founder of the Musikverein in its present form...» in the Dumba Strasse. He donated the ‘Dumba-Schubert collection’, the largest in the world, to the Vienna Library. Nikolaus Dumba made a distinct political career as Member of the Austrian Parliament for 30 years (1870-1900) and served as personal adviser to the emperor Franz Josef. His name was registered in the Golden Book of Vienna’s Honorary Citizens and his tomb is included among those of the great composers in the Vienna’s Central Cemetery.

The Fat of the Land

The Fat of the Land
Author: Harlan Walker
Publisher: Oxford Symposium
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2003
Genre: Cooking
ISBN:

Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cooking for the year 2002. The subject is The Fat of the Land.

ANaFRICANdREAM I the Day of the Long Night

ANaFRICANdREAM I the Day of the Long Night
Author: David J Kalany
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2010-07-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1445728540

Joseph Ntanda has been committed to Reformatory School in pre-independent Uganda. On remand. Nearly six months later, it is the last night before he has to appear in Kampala High Court for sentencing. Ntanda had been accused of a very serious crime. However, he has never come to terms to admit it. It is also the second night running that he has not slept and his mind is in disarray and turmoil as he remains stubbornly in denial.

Silent Patience

Silent Patience
Author: Jane Alison Kaberuka
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This compelling family saga tells of three generations of a Tutsi family. It begins with the arranged marriage of Stella to an older man of the same tribe whom she has never met. She is prematurely withdrawn from school and married off despite her protests. With succeeding generations, however, the order of things changes and old tenets based on gender, traditions and sectarianism, are replaced with new concepts which seek to do away with all forms of discrimination.

African Immigrants in South Africa

African Immigrants in South Africa
Author: Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher: New Africa Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0981425828

This work looks at the fate of black African immigrants in South Africa and the xenophobic attacks against them which have taken place in many parts of the country through the years since the end of apartheid. The xenophobic violence has been perpetrated by black South Africans, prompting some people to describe this phenomenon as the new apartheid - by blacks against other blacks - after the end of white minority rule. Besides the violence directed against them, black African immigrants also face hostility in general from a significant number of South Africans including educated ones and members of the middle class as well as some leaders who "encourage" them to "go home." In 2008, black African immigrants were attacked in different parts of the country in the worst form of violence since the end of apartheid. Tens of thousands were left homeless and just as many were forced to flee South Africa and return to their home countries. The author looks at the factors behind the violence and why many Africans are forced to flee their home countries in search of greener pastures elsewhere. Bad African leadership is one of the main factors. He also argues that South Africa can not solve the problems of other African countries, including unemployment, and should not be expected to. The attacks against the immigrants have resulted in many deaths and destruction of property through the years. And their plight is inextricably linked with the transformation the country has been undergoing since the end of apartheid, the author contends. This work also looks at prospects for transformation and the challenges South Africa faces in its quest for social justice across the spectrum in a society still dominated by whites in terms of economic power. Millions of blacks are still trapped in poverty with no relief in sight, a factor which explains some of the violence that has been directed against foreigners, mostly black African immigrants who are accused of taking jobs away from black South Africans, especially those living in poverty in the townships which were also the scene of the worst form of violence perpetrated against the immigrants since the end of white minority rule.

Dumba Nengue, Run for Your Life

Dumba Nengue, Run for Your Life
Author: Lina Magaia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN:

A personal account of the horrifying effects of life caused by apartheid South African backed MNR rebels in Mozambique