What it Is, What it Was

What it Is, What it Was
Author: Gerald Martinez
Publisher: Miramax Books
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1998-10-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

"From Shaft to Superfly, Foxy Brown to Cleopatra Jones, What It Is...What It Was! presents a vivid pictorial and oral history of the best movies to emerge from a singularly American film movement. The book explores this film explosion. Between 1970 and 1980 over 200 films with Black themes including family dramas, mysteries, horror films, comedies, and action films, were released by both major and independent studios. The book preserves cinema history with the first book to highlight the movie poster artwork while presenting the people who created this history on screen. With the increased use of photography, this period would be the last time that top artists would draw and paint the vibrant bold movie poster images that in themselves were classics. Groundbreaking producer-director-writer Melvin Van Peebles, actors Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, and William Marshall, composer Isaac Hayes, along with many other artists, talk about this body of cinema that has withstood the test of time and influenced American culture. The films are described as powerful, funky, sexy, exuberant, violent, hip, and just plain fun. They also became a target of debate as some coined the sweeping term "blaxploitation." Samuel L. Jackson, John Singleton, Reginald Hudlin, Ice-T, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Quentin Tarantino, and others offer insightful commentary into the history and impact of the films in their work."--back cover.

It Is What It Is

It Is What It Is
Author: Michelle Harbin
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2014-03-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1304941434

This is my story about my life and how i felt i had to conceal and not feel my feelings. You will go through my trials with me and feel how i felt. You will be able to live my life with me.I want my story told in hopes of helping someone else in the world. Alot of us think our lives are bad untill we see or hear about someone else and thier story. Everyone has as a story to tell but mine is different. I am battling a storm with in inside my self and i want to let go, but will i ever be able to?

It Is What It Is

It Is What It Is
Author: Judy Sunne Knowles
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2019-06-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 179603844X

This author has a desire and dream to write a memoir, and here it is, It Is what It Is. It is a story—true, sad, happy, stupid at times, but actually true!

Guide Book of How to Obtain Pureness of Heart Required to Enter Heaven

Guide Book of How to Obtain Pureness of Heart Required to Enter Heaven
Author: J. Phillips Crute
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2022-05-04
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1646281969

Even if you think you don't need any help with your life, I am sure there is someone in your orbit that you love that does. By understanding the principles and information in this book, you can help them. And I believe almost everyone has someone they wish to help. It is frustrating when you want to help but don't know how. That might not be enough reason for you to want to buy this book. So let's go into what you learn from it. We all are governed by the rules of the spirit world. I call these rules AVP--the Alternate Viewpoint System. You will not only learn how the spirit world operates but what to expect when you get there. I think that piece of information would be valuable since fear of death is really fear of the unknown. This book was my task from before my previous life, as Elizabeth Reilly. Yes, my veil was lifted in 1989. I had a need to know, you see. So that brings us to the most important obstacle to using AVP. The entire system is predicated on the FACT that we have all lived before. That's why I couldn't proceed until Sharon Holt did her job. Yes, that was a planned event. When you accept the fact that you have lived before, you can also accept that you are in the proper place to learn lessons--the real reason we are here. That means you don't need to be jealous, envious, covetous, or do anything harmful against anyone. If you read this book, you will know how to fight temptation and desire. You will learn to purge you past of negative traits. Then, of course, you will learn how to purge the negative out of your heart and replace it with love, kindness, humility, and forgiveness, vital for a pure heart and required to get into heaven!

Elite Art Worlds

Elite Art Worlds
Author: Eduardo Herrera
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2020
Genre: Avant-garde (Music)
ISBN: 0190877537

"Between 1962 and 1971, the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM) of the Di Tella Institute in Buenos Aires became the central hub of Latin American avant-garde music. With the support of the Rockefeller Foundation and the wealthy Di Tella family, CLAEM offered two-year fellowships to some of the most recognized young composers of the region to undertake graduate studies in a unique privileged setting under the direction of Alberto Ginastera and with permanent and visiting faculty that included Gerardo Gandini, Francisco Kröpfl, Mario Davidovsky, Iannis Xenakis, Luigi Nono, Aaron Copland, Luigi Dallapiccola, Bruno Maderna, Riccardo Malipiero, Olivier Messiaen, Roger Sessions, and Earle Brown. In Elite Art Worlds, author Eduardo Herrera combines oral histories, ethnographic research, and archival sources to reveal CLAEM as a meeting point of US and Argentine philanthropy, local experiences in transnational currents of artistic experimentation and innovation, and regional discourses of musical Latin Americanism. The story of CLAEM shows how musical avant-gardes were articulated, embodied, resignified, and institutionalized in Latin America, how composers during the 1960s engaged with discourses of Latin Americanism as professional strategy, identification marker, and musical style, and sheds light into the role of art in the legitimation and construction of elite status and identity. By looking at CLAEM as both an artistic and a philanthropic project, Herrera illuminates the relationships between foreign policy, corporate interests, and funding for the arts concerning Latin America and the U.S. in the mid-twentieth century"--

WHY I LEFT THE KRONE KORPORATION

WHY I LEFT THE KRONE KORPORATION
Author: DUANE THE GREAT WRITER
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 533
Release: 2014-05-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1312222352

This is a 'TOP SECRET DOCUMENT' that very few will understand. You have to be a Real RiskTaker to See it. Will you Take The Risk to find out? Have Fun Deciding!!! www.DuaneTheGreatWriter.info

The Churches and Democracy in Brazil

The Churches and Democracy in Brazil
Author: Rudolf von Sinner
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1630877271

Brazil is a rapidly emerging country. Brazilian theology, namely the Theology of Liberation, has become well known in the 1970s and 1980s. The politically active Base Ecclesial Communities and the progressive posture of the Roman Catholic Church contrasted with a steadily growing number of evangelicals, mostly aligned with the military regime but attractive precisely to the poor. After democratic transition in the mid-1980s, the context changed considerably. Democracy, growing religious pluralism and mobility, a vibrant civil society, the political ascension of the Worker's Party and growing wealth, albeit within a continuously wide social gap, are some of the elements that show the need of a new approach to theology. It must be a theology that is both critical and constructive, resisting and cooperative, a theology that is able to give orientation to the churches, valuing and encouraging their contribution in society while avoiding attempts of imposition. The Churches and Democracy in Brazil, the fruit of years of interdisciplinary study of the Brazilian context and its main churches and theology, makes its case for an ecumenically articulated public theology. It seeks inspiration mainly in Luther and Lutheran theology, emphasizing human dignity, freedom, trust, the disposition to serve, and the ability to endure the ambiguities of reality, as well as a fresh interpretation of the doctrine of the two regiments. These are the fundamental elements of what makes human beings full members of the body politic: citizenship, their right to have rights and to be able to effectively live them, together with their corresponding duties, in a move of growing political participation conscious of their religious motivation in view of the commonweal.

For You It Was Written

For You It Was Written
Author: Paul Martin
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2014-03-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1490828230

What happens when two best friends are separated by a tragedy? How does a survivor move on? This is a story of life, love, and friendship. Many events parallel John and Clarisses life. Clarisse and John become best friends before John has a terrible fall. John slips into a coma. While family and others give up on any hope of recovery, Clarisse does not. Her unconditional love for John is a testament to their friendship. Clarisse fulfills her lifelong ambition to be an author, writing a book that recounts the fantastic adventure she wishes John could have. John and his faithful companion, Forilee, a multicolored falcon; Gesalt, a wood horse deer; and Getule, a Knu, embark on an eventful mission through dangerous territory filled with agents of darkness. The message they seek to leave for those still in the world is of Gods unending love.

Copperhead

Copperhead
Author: Alexi Zentner
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2020-07-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1984877305

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "One of the bravest, most bracing novels I've read in years." --Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Jessup's stepfather gave him almost everything good in his life--a sober mother, a sister, a sense of home, and the game of football. But during the years that David John spent in prison for his part in a brutal hate crime, Jessup came to realize that his stepfather is also a source of lethal poison for his family. Now it's Jessup's senior year, and all he wants to do is lay low until he can accept one of the football scholarships that will be his ticket out of town. So when his stepfather is released from prison, Jessup is faced with an impossible choice: condemn the man who saved his family or accept his part in his family's legacy of bigotry. Before he can choose a side, Jessup will cause a terrible accident and cover it up--a mistake with the power to ruin them all. Told with relentless honesty and a ferocious gaze directed at contemporary America's darkest corners, Copperhead vibrates with the energy released by football tackles and car crashes and asks uncomfortable questions about the price we pay--and the mistakes we'll repeat--when we live under the weight of a history we've yet to reckon with. Alexi Zentner unspools the story of boys who think they're men and of the entrenched thinking behind a split-second decision, and asks whether hatred, prejudice, and violence can ever be unlearned.

JOURNEY TO REALFREEDOM

JOURNEY TO REALFREEDOM
Author: DUANE&EVA THE GREAT WRITERS
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2015-09-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1329557093

To most of the general public what I am presenting is not known or common knowledge. I have come up thru my own RealExperiences and this is what I am sharing and also 'Reporting The RealNews' as to what is actually happening on the earth Right Now. We are Duane&Eva The Great Writers. WE created The NUPresentation as a WorldWide Education & WakeUp for Everyone. What We are presenting is not religious, political or a spiritual teaching or a path and WE do not have 'followers' as do the masters and gurus of days gone by. We are Simply Real with everything I do and present. I stand with Rebazar Tarzs & The Real UNUversal Guides & The TruReality, THE ALLIS. In 2001, I was given The Rod of Power from Rebazar & Paul. See for yourself on The RealSide in Your DreamVisions... www.DuaneTheGreatWriter.info / ASK DUANE&EVA on Facebook