The Audacity of Conviction

The Audacity of Conviction
Author: Joba Akinpelu
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1524670308
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Yes, indeed, the tomb of Jesus was empty the third day! Is this a myth or a reality? Despised and rejected of men as a blasphemer, was his crucifixion a murder or a sacrifice? He was revered as Son of God, Son of Man, Lamb of God, and the Lion of tribe of Judah! Did Jesuss personality actually fit the billing of these self-contradictory designations? By inspiration? Does inspiration then automatically confer absolute literary authenticity on every ecclesiastical work selected by few individuals and published in sacred books? To what extent can we rely on this axiom? Made from the rib of Adam? Till this very moment, every male Jew is proud of his heritage of not being born as a woman or as a slave! So is it a burden of inferiority crises to be created as a woman? Most importantly, was Eve really a by-product from the rib of Adam? Homosexuality! The battle rages on, for and against. But is apparent attraction between homosexuals based on sexuality or due to other compelling reasons that result in same-sex couples walking down the aisle to tie the conjugal knot? These and other spiritually burning issues were deeply x-rayed. The work exposes barriers already set up assiduously by traditional beliefs, ideas, and schisms of religious dogmatisms. It challenged time-honored views and rent asunder many a false claim. Therefore, it is not unexpected if its contents attract relentless criticisms and opposition from circles of those already sided with rigidity and hypocrisy of philosophy and religions, particularly those professionally involved in the trade of perfidy. Truthfulness can never breed doubters nor idiosyncrasies of fundamentalism, whose main goal was to enslave minds of other human beings. It is on this basis that readers may recognize the true worth of this work.

The Audacity of Courage

The Audacity of Courage
Author: Magnus Odunze Duruji
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781478312147
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At eight years old in 1968 Magnus Duruji saw the evil of Communism and Islamic fundamentalism through the ravages of a civil war, his mother dragging him and his four little siblings into an underground bomb bunker behind his house, built by his father with the help of his brother and a male refugee. Then in 1970 at age eleven Magnus , his parents and his seven siblings survived the civil war after barrage of roaring and thundering brutal bombardment in my little farming country hometown from then Soviet Union, now Russia, and from the Arab Islamic fighter pilots in Russian MIGS and British Harrier Jets on behalf of then divided national Nigerian government , but, only to make it into the United States for freedom to be thrown into Prison on a disguised U.S. Department of Justice Immigration illegal imposition when applicable laws weren't retroactive in non criminal dynamic events relevant to Magnus Duruji. Unconstitutionally imprisoned by the U&.S. department Of Justice Immigration ICE, and consequently shuffled from one prison to another in his quest to become a United States citizen, Magnus fasted and cumulatively cried out to God for Divine intervention. Magnus exchanged a solemn oath of promise with God if He will intervene and make His presence practically clear that He God exists. Well, the rest of the fight for for freedom to become an American Citizen was Divinely written. This is the story about my childhood journey for Freedom from age eight to now 52, tipping in the United States of America. " In America you fight, you don't give up" Magnus Duruji, quoted in the Columbus Dispatch February 23, 2012; Associated Press February 24,2012The Audacity of Courage challenges our conscience in relation to our belief in a free democratic system by taking us back to examine our relationship with the Purest form of Goodness: God. Through perseverance , a new level of humility was attained but not without audacious spiritually directed content of missteps and emergentic guidelines that may lead freedom. But, for this quest of freedom to be romantically fulfilled, the emergentic driving energy will challenge the very pristine document that currently holds the conscience of mankind to order: The Constitution of the United States. The issues that emerge in an effort to derail the mother of life known as "freedom" as enshrined in the U.S. constitution will also escalate through invisible rowdy noise of energy calling for the release of an innocent man through pious legal frame work. Interestingly, the journey of freedom for American citizen Magnus Duruji only serves as an instrument or tool if you will to showcase the the character of the American mind. "What is the mind mind"? The American mind is the in-dominate spirit of the American people to sacrifice their blood, their reputation, their wealth and their character for the good of all. This spirit of true will of character representative for all Americans in the people of the Great State Of Ohio ( my adopted home State) is what makes America " The Land and Home of the freest people in the world. Ohio fought for me and my family free of color and accent. They only had interest in the preservation of the Great Constitution of the United States of America. Well, the audacity of courage is a politically incorrect book of the 21st century. it calls out the blights of arrogance in the current politically correct world we live. The American mind endures the truth it hurts in the politically correct society we live in. Thus, the Audacity of Courage highlights the story of a man who by his fathers mythological bedtime stories aspired for the United States of America. Having obtained permissible work student Visa directly from then U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Thomas Pickering Jr. Magnus Duruji arrived in the United States in 1981. "Will Magnus Duruji be welcomed by ICE" To say the least, his welcome will only become unfolding unconstitutional events in profiling.

The Audacity of Hope

The Audacity of Hope
Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2006-10-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307382095
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Barack Obama’s lucid vision of America’s place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared understandings as Americans, based on his years in the Senate “In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama’s talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope.”—Michael Kazin, The Washington Post In July 2004, four years before his presidency, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Obama called “the audacity of hope.” The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama’s call for a different brand of politics—a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the “endless clash of armies” we see in congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of “our improbable experiment in democracy.” He explores those forces—from the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise money to the power of the media—that can stifle even the best-intentioned politician. He also writes, with surprising intimacy and self-deprecating humor, about settling in as a senator, seeking to balance the demands of public service and family life, and his own deepening religious commitment. At the heart of this book is Barack Obama’s vision of how we can move beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and the transnational threats—from terrorism to pandemic—that gather beyond our shores. And he grapples with the role that faith plays in a democracy—where it is vital and where it must never intrude. Underlying his stories is a vigorous search for connection: the foundation for a radically hopeful political consensus. Only by returning to the principles that gave birth to our Constitution, Obama says, can Americans repair a political process that is broken, and restore to working order a government that has fallen dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary Americans. Those Americans are out there, he writes—“waiting for Republicans and Democrats to catch up with them.”

Audacity

Audacity
Author: Melanie Crowder
Publisher: Philomel Books
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2015
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0399168990
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"A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York"--

American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring

American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring
Author: William Giraldi
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2018-08-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1631493914
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One of the most gifted literary essayists of his generation defends stylistic boldness and intellectual daring in American letters. Over the last decade William Giraldi has established himself as a charismatic and uncompromising literary essayist, “a literature-besotted Midas of prose” (Cynthia Ozick). Now, American Audacity gathers a selection of his most powerful considerations of American writers and themes—a “gorgeous fury of language and sensibility” (Walter Kirn)—including an introductory call to arms for twenty-first-century American literature, and a new appreciation of James Baldwin’s genius for nonfiction. With potent insights into the storied tradition of American letters, and written with a “commitment to the dynamism and dimensions of language,” American Audacity considers giants from the past (Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Harper Lee, Denis Johnson), some of our most well-known living critics and novelists (Harold Bloom, Stanley Fish, Katie Roiphe, Cormac McCarthy, Allan Gurganus, Elizabeth Spencer), as well as those cultural-literary themes that have concerned Giraldi as an American novelist (bestsellers, the “problem” of Catholic fiction, the art of hate mail, and his viral essay on bibliophilia). Demanding that literature be audacious, and urgent in its convictions, American Audacity is itself an act of intellectual daring, a compendium shot through with Giraldi’s “emboldened and emboldening critical voice” (Sven Birkerts). At a time when literature is threatened by ceaseless electronic bombardment, Giraldi argues that literature “must do what literature has always done: facilitate those silent spaces, remain steadfastly itself in its employment of slowness, interiority, grace, and in its marshaling of aesthetic sophistication and complexity.” American Audacity is ultimately an assertion of intelligence and discernment from a maker of “perfectly paced prose” (The New Yorker), a book that reaffirms the pleasure and wisdom of the deepest literary values.

Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity

Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity
Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1997-05-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780374524951
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Gathers essays by the Jewish scholar, activist, and theologian about Judaism, Jewish heritage, social justice, ecumenism, faith, and prayer.

Profiles in Audacity

Profiles in Audacity
Author: Alan Axelrod
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781402732829
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In brief vignettes, historian Axelrod pinpoints and investigates the make-or-break event in the lives and careers of some of history's most significant figures. Axelrod reexamines history by answering the fascinating question of why the people who made history made their choices--and conveys the resonance of those choices today. The 46 profiles range from ancient times to the present day and include Cleopatra's decision to rescue Egypt; Washington's decision to cross the Delaware and win; Gandhi's decision to prevail against the British Empire without bloodshed; Truman's decision to drop the A-bomb and end WW II; Rosa Parks' decision to sit in for civil rights; Boris Yeltsin's decision to embrace a new world order; and Flight 93's decision to take a stand against terror.--From publisher description.

The Audacity of Inez Burns

The Audacity of Inez Burns
Author: Stephen G. Bloom
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1682450104
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THE VIVID, SCANDAL-FILLED STORY OF A SHREWD, RAGS-TO-RICHES MILLIONAIRESS AND THE RUTHLESS POLITICIAN WHO PURSUED HER, TOLD AGAINST THE EFFERVESCENT BACKDROP OF AMERICA’S GOLDEN CITY—SAN FRANCISCO. San Francisco, until the mid-1940s, was a city that lived by its own rules, fast and loose. Formed by the gold rush and destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, it served as a pleasure palace for the legions of men who sought their fortunes in the California foothills. For the women who followed, their only choice was to support, serve, or submit. Inez Burns was different. She put everyone to shame with her dazzling, calculated, stone-cold ambition. Born in the slums of San Francisco to a cigar-rolling alcoholic, Inez transformed herself into one of California’s richest women, becoming a notorious powerbroker, grand dame, and iconoclast. A stunning beauty with perfumed charm, she rose from manicurist to murderess to millionaire, seducing one man after another, bearing children out of wedlock, and bribing politicians and cops along the way to secure her place in the San Francisco firmament. Inez ruled with incandescent flair. She owned five hundred hats and a closet full of furs, had two small toes surgically removed to fit into stylish high heels, and had two ribs excised to accentuate her hourglass figure. Her presence was defined by couture dresses from Paris, red-carpet strutting at the San Francisco Opera, and a black Pierce-Arrow that delivered her everywhere. She threw outrageous parties on her sprawling, eight-hundred-acre horse ranch, a compound with servants, cooks, horse groomers, and trainers, where politicians, judges, attorneys, Hollywood moguls, and entertainers gamboled over silver fizzes. Inez was adored by the desperate women who sought her out—and loathed by the power-hungry men who plotted to destroy her. During a time when women risked their lives with predatory practitioners lurking in back alleys, Inez and her team of women, clad in crisp, white nurse’s uniforms, worked night and day in her elegantly appointed clinic, performing fifty thousand of the safest, most hygienic abortions available during a time when even the richest wives, Hollywood stars, and mistresses had few options when they found themselves with an unwanted pregnancy. Inez’s illegal business bestowed upon her power and influence—until a determined politician by the name of Edmund G. (Pat) Brown—the father of current California Governor Jerry Brown—used Inez to catapult his nascent career to national prominence. In The Audacity of Inez Burns, Stephen G. Bloom, the author of the bestselling Postville, reveals a jagged slice of lost American history. From Inez’s riveting tale of glamour and tragedy, he has created a brilliant, compulsively readable portrait of an unforgettable woman during a moment when America’s pendulum swung from compassion to criminality by punishing those who permitted women to control their own destinies.

The Audacity of Deceit

The Audacity of Deceit
Author: Bradley S. O'Leary
Publisher: WND Books
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1935071025
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Argues that Barack Obama's political agenda would promote more government intervention in health care, increase taxes to pay for social initiatives, and introduce a naiveté in foreign policy which would benefit rogue states around the world.