I Can, I Must, I Will

I Can, I Must, I Will
Author: Reginald Abraham Mengi
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2018-08-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781717871749

This is a powerful account of the story of Africa told through the life of one of its contemporary shapers, Reginald Abraham Mengi of Tanzania. I Can, I Must, I Will comes at a time when Africa is casting a new vision that is guided largely by the power of entrepreneurship. There could be no better guiding light for that vision than the spirit of courage, determination and dedication to self-improvement that is so vividly represented by the life and work recounted in this book. Like Africa itself, Dr. Mengi is a person of humble origins. But his character and personality were shaped by a family history that imbued in him a sense of self-confidence and commitment to setting goals and seeking to accomplish them. In addition to these personal values, the book also reveals a self-driven person with unflinching commitment to duty. Nothing seems to stand in the way of Dr. Mengi in his determination to reaffirm his self-worth through the pursuit of excellence.

Anarchaeologies

Anarchaeologies
Author: Erin Graff Zivin
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020-01-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0823286835

How do we read after the so-called death of literature? If we are to attend to the proclamations that the representational apparatuses of literature and politics are dead, what aesthetic, ethical, and political possibilities remain for us today? Our critical moment, Graff Zivin argues, demands anarchaeological reading: reading for the blind spots, errors, points of opacity or untranslatability in works of philosophy and art. Rather than applying concepts from philosophy in order to understand or elucidate cultural works, the book exposes works of philosophy, literary theory, narrative, poetry, film, and performance art and activism to one another. Working specifically with art, film, and literature from Argentina (Jorge Luis Borges, Juán José Saer, Ricardo Piglia, César Aira, Albertina Carri, the Internacional Errorista), Graff Zivin allows such thinkers as Levinas, Derrida, Badiou, and Rancière to be inflected by Latin American cultural production. Through these acts of interdiscursive and interdisciplinary (or indisciplinary) exposure, such ethical and political concepts as identification and recognition, decision and event, sovereignty and will, are read as constitutively impossible, erroneous. Rather than weakening either ethics or politics, however, the anarchaeological reading these works stage and demand opens up and radicalizes the possibility of justice.

The Things In Your Head

The Things In Your Head
Author: Kimberly Johnson
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2012-10
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1452560730

Bulu experiences all sorts of different emotions and learns what makes him happy and what makes him sad.

Rags of Light

Rags of Light
Author: Brian J. Walsh
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2024-10-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1666782157

Creatively bringing the songs, prayers, and poetry of Leonard Cohen into conversation with Scripture, this book deeply grounds Cohen's work in the landscape of the biblical imagination, paying special attention to Jesus together with the prophetic and priestly voices of Scripture. What emerges is a compellingly lyrical work of theology that deepens our understanding of both Cohen and biblical faith. Leonard Cohen has undoubtedly been a liturgist for our time, a cantor singing for all those clothed in rags of light, a prophet in the ruins, and a priest who greets us "from the other side of sorrow and despair."

Why I Write

Why I Write
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
Total Pages: 15
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1913724263

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Break Through

Break Through
Author: Mark Fennell
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2024-02-08
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0717197352

We all feel stuck at times – professionally, personally, financially, emotionally, or even just stuck in our own heads. Life coach Mark Fennell has given thousands of clients the tools they need to shift their thinking, unlock inner strength and find the motivation required to break through the feeling of being stuck so that they can move forward and make lasting life changes. In this practical and relatable book, Mark shares some of these client stories along with his own experience of anxiety and coping with infertility. Using proven exercises and actions, Mark provides a roadmap for working through feelings of frustration and despair towards a fulfilled and happy future. Break Through will help you to change your approach to decision-making, tune into your gut and make choices that chime with who you really are, empowering you to be your own coach and get the breakthrough you need.