When Rav and Asha discover a treasure chest at the museum, they find themselves whisked away – to sea! They meet a sea captain who's lost the queen's treasure, and a pirate who's stolen it! Can they help get it back? Yo Ho Ho! is part of the Comet Street Kids range of books from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Comet Street Kids is an action-packed character series with highly decodable books for Pink A to White band. Children will love experiencing the amazing adventures of Rav, Asha, Tess, Finn and Stefan!Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and activities to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6 years
Among all the Native American tribes, the Iroquois people are some of the most well documented Native Americans in history. Indigenous to the northeast region of what is now the United States and parts of Canada, they were among some of the earliest contacts Europeans had with the native tribes. And yet they have remained a constant source of mystery. The name "Iroquois", like many Native American tribal names, is not a name the people knew themselves by, but a word applied to them by their enemies the Huron, who called them "Iroquo" (rattlesnake) as an insult. The French later added the suffix "ois." Moreover, the Iroquois are not even a single tribe but a confederation of several different tribal nations that include the Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Mohawk, Cayuga and the Tuscarora, who didn't become part of the union until the early 1700's. The name Haudenosaunee (pronounced "ho-den-oh-SHO-nee") is the name the people use for themselves, which translates as "the People of the Longhouse." They are also commonly known as the Six Nations. Despite their own cultural differences, the nations that comprised the Iroquois Confederacy established their political dominance across much of America's East Coast and Midwest through conquest, and it is that aspect which has perhaps best endured among Americans in terms of the Iroquois' legacy. European settlers who came into contact with the Mohawks in the Northeast certainly learned to respect their combat skills, to the point that there were literally bounties on the Mohawks' heads, with scalps fetching money for colonists who succeeded in slaying them and carrying away the "battle prize". In addition to the constant state of conflict between the Iroquois and different nations, including the French and the colonists, the Six Nations are perhaps best known for their political structure, and their influence on American democracy is well documented if not well known by most Americans. Far from being relics of history, they are living communities who maintain political relationships with United States and Canada, as they have occupied their territories long before international borders were drawn. Their histories have left an indelible mark on the formation of the United States and Canada.
E' il primo romanzo di questo autore, scritto all'inzio degli anni '90. Racconta la storia di un piccolo gruppo di amici che lavorano in una divisione periferica ma fortemente specializzata di un'importante industria elettronica, situata nei dintorni di Roma. Un giorno, uno di loro si trova di fronte a un evento imprevisto, molto strano e totalmente al di fuori delle normali esperienze: una situazione "da film di fantascienza", ma del tutto reale. Da l prende il via una vicenda che in breve trasciner il protagonista e i suoi pi cari amici in un turbine di scoperte, apparizioni e forti emozioni, alcune affascinanti, altre drammatiche, tra le quali anche l'amore giocher un ruolo determinante. Una drammatica conclusione della loro vicenda sembra per attenderli e in un certo senso riuscir davvero a travolgerli. Era davvero il loro comune destino, gi scritto in precedenza, o solo un'assurda beffa del caso? Ma poi, c' davvero una differenza, per loro, fra queste due ipotesi?
Two of the twentieth century's most fascinating figures, Ernest Hemingway and Ho Chi Minh, grappling with a world in which Western culture and their respective governments were failing them, came to Paris at the same time in the 1920s. Trained by their faiths to give their lives to and for others, each had survived a terrifying near-death experience, leading to the realization that this belief in service and sacrifice had been exploited for others' gain. They came to Paris to resist this violent heresy and learn what compassion could do.In the City of Light, Ho and Hemingway found movements that resisted an overly aggressive Western culture that gave too little, both materially and spiritually, to its young people, to its struggling poor, and to the colonies it oppressed. They learned the arts of resistance, which involved psychologically realistic writing, hostility toward sexual and political repressions, a celebration of working people, the exposure of exploitations such as colonialism and militarism, and an ongoing struggle to determine whether violence was required to bring about a more just and nourishing civilization. Before leaving Paris, each began to gain an international reputation, Ho for documenting colonial ills and crafting political demands, Hemingway for writing parables of youthful survival amid rampant international violence.Hemingway and Ho Chi Minh in Paris tells the untold, engrossing story of two young men who came to Paris to resist and left as two of their century's most famous figures.
In the summer of 1969, as America's intervention in Vietnam builds toward its ugly climax in Southeast Asia (and at home), a group of eighteen-year-old boys and girls in a small midwestern town find themselves facing a bleak immediate future. Narrator Joe and his friends Frank, Benny, Dallas, Moon Man, Tina and Carol, smoke dope, drink, and party because they don't know what else to do. They are not searching for justice or spiritual enlightenment or anything noble. They barely grasp that they're hurtling toward the dead ends of their lives.
*****NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION****** IT AMAZES ME HOW QUICKLY WE FORGET OUR HISTORY. JUST OVER 100 YEARS AGO THIS SPEECH WAS WRITTEN BY THE LEADING NATIVE AMERICANS OF OUR TIMES, YET VERY FEW PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE IT HAD ON OUR COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE OF TODAY. THE IROQUOIS CONFERENCE WAS ESTABLISHED TO MEET WITH SOME OF THE LEADING MINDS AT THE TIME TO DEAL WITH A PROBLEM EACH ONE OF THE TRIBES WERE DEALING WITH INDIVIDUALLY AS WELL AS NATION OF PEOPLE; DESTRUCTION OF THEIR PEOPLE AND LAND. IN THIS BOOK, THE PUBLISHER, HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT, WAS SENT TO THE CONFERENCE BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO RECORD THE CONFERENCE AS IT WAS DELIVERED. HE WAS HIRED TO DO THIS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS AND WROTE DOWN HIS FINDINGS NOT ONLY IN REPORTS, BUT IN SEVERAL BOOKS DOCUMENTING THE CULTURE OF NATIVE AMERICANS. THIS WAS ESSENTIAL IN USING THE INFORMATION AGAINST THE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE OF THIS LAND TO MAKE PROMISES THAT WERE EVENTUALLY BROKEN AS WELL AS WIPING OUT THE ABORIGINAL POPULATION. IT IS SAD TO SAY THAT THERE HAS BEEN MORE WARS WAGED AGAINST THE ABORIGINAL NATIVE AMERICAN ON THIS SOIL WE CALL THE UNITED STATES THAN ANY OTHER WAR COMBINED. THERE HAS BEEN MORE LIVES LOST, IN THE NAME OF DISCOVERY, GOLD, AND RELIGION AGAINST THE NATIVE AMERICANS THAN ANY HOLOCAUST OR WAR IN THE WORLD. SOME SEE IT AS GENOCIDE, AND WE ALL CAN AGREE, MANY OF THE TRIBES ARE NO MORE. YET, WE HAVE A STRANGE CONNECTION TO THE INFORMATION AND THE HISTORY UNLIKE ANY OTHER. I BELIEVE YOU WILL FIND THE CONTENT OF THIS LITTLE BOOK BEAUTIFUL AND MOVING AS THE NATIVE AMERICANS MAKE THEIR SPEECHES FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE OF HISTORY, THE LAND, AND ITS PEOPLE. BUT WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT IS THE FACT THAT THE CHIEF TAKES HIS TIME TO NAME SEVERAL TRIBES OF PEOPLE AND THE LAND WHICH THEY ORIGINATE FROM AROUND THE WORLD AS HE DESCRIBES IN SO MANY WORDS THAT WE KNOW THESE PEOPLE, AND THEY ARE A PART OF THE HUMAN FAMILY; THEY ARE OUR DISTANT RELATIVES IN DISTANT LANDS; WE ARE ALL ONE. THIS BOOK BEING FULL OF PICTURES OF NATIVE AMERICANS LIVES GIVES US BUT A GLIMPSE AT SEEING THE WORLD IN THEIR EYES. I TRULY HAVE A GREATER APPRECIATION AND CONNECTION TO PEOPLE OF ALL COLORS AFTER READING THIS BOOK AS I BELIEVE AS THE INDIAN CHIEF; WE ARE ALL ONE. -ZAAFIRAH BEY, Editor and Chief Table of Contents: Forward by Zaafirah Bey PICTURE CHEROKEE WOMAN WITH HER CHILD THE WAS-AH HO-DE-NO-SON-NE Speech PICTURE OF BLACKFOOT CHIEF PICTURE OF OSAGE NATION IN 1924 WITH PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE SIGNING THE CITIZENSHIP ACT PICTURE OF STATEN ISLAND NY NATIVE AMERICANS 1822 PICTURE OF CHOCTAW INDIANS ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER PICTURE OF CATAWBA INDIANS IN ROCK HILL PICTURE OF CHIEF COOK OF THE PAMUNKEY INDIANS PICTURE OF PIMA INDIANS PICTURE OF IROQUOIS CHILDREN PICTURE OF INDIAN CHIEF CHEYENNE 1895 PICTURE OF HOPI INDIAN BOYS PICTURE OF INDIAN WITH EAGLE PICTURE OF CROW WARRIOR PICTURE OF CROW WARRIOR CRYING PICTURE OF CHEROKEE INDIAN NC PREFACE TO GENUNDEWAH PICTURE OF NAVAJO GENUNDEWAH, A LEGEND OF THE CANANDAIGUA LAKE NOTES PICTURE OF CHEROKEE FAMILY 1900 PICTURE OF THREE INDIAN BOYS PICTURE OF CHEROKEE COUPLE
High Performance Ho'oponopono provides the reader with a set of methods and techniques to expand upon their practice of Ho'oponopono. These methods are extremely practical and easy to implement and as such they may not be for everyone. However, even the most sophisticated of Ho'oponopono practitioners may benefit from some of these techniques. By supercharging one's Ho'oponopono practice one may be able to clean their memories more efficiently. This edition contains fifty practical methods and techniques for experiencing results.
Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new while traveling? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is just for you.Greater Than a Tourist - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam by Jordan Williams offers the inside scoop on Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there's nothing wrong with that, as a part of the Greater than a Tourist series this book will give you tips and a bunch of ideas from someone who lives at your next travel destination.In these pages you'll discover local advice that will help you throughout your stay. Greater than a tourist is a series of travel books written by locals. Travel like a local. Get the inside scoop. Slow down, stay in one place, take your time, get to know the people and the culture of a place. Try some things off the beaten path with guidance. Patronize local business and vendors when you travel. Be willing to try something new and have the travel experience of a lifetime.By the time you finish this book, you will be excited to travel to your next destination.
