Medal of Honor recipient, Noe Haleakua, joins the Christian fundamentalist church, Good Day Ministries, at the urging of his private business billionaire boss, Rolf Lambert, where Lambert introduces Noe to the pastor, Guy Austin Fanning. Through Pastor Fanning's powerful, inspirational sermons, reinforcing the righteousness of the fundamentalist Christian path, Noe works to resolve his personal PTSD-ridden conflict from his Afghanistan tour of duty. A life-long admirer of the Knights of The Round Table, Noe tries his hand at learning to ride and joust where his liberal British trainer in equestrian sport, Fiona, attempts to destroy Noe's Christian Right faith on his path to absolution. Through the strength of Pastor Fanning's sermons, Noe is able to hold firm in his Christian faith and commit to becoming a Christian soldier fighting for Christian Right victories in politics and life. Ultimately, Noe is victorious in his fight against the practice of abortion.
A no-nonsense book of business advice from acclaimed corporate trainer and motivational expert Chet Holmes. His advice starts with one simple concept: pigheaded focus. His book helps readers focus on 12 critical areas for improvement - one at a time - and get great results, by spending just one hour a week on an area to be improved. Holmes offers proven strategies for management, marketing and sales. One of the top 20 change experts [in the USA]' - Industry Week magazine.
The first biography of the general’s complex, often contradictory military service in the US and Confederate armies and his postwar British exploits. Roswell S. Ripley (1823–1887) was a man of considerable contradictions exemplified by his distinguished antebellum service in the US Army, followed by a controversial career as a Confederate general. After the war he was active as an engineer/entrepreneur in Great Britain. Author Chet Bennett contends that these contradictions drew negative appraisals of Ripley from historiographers, and in Resolute Rebel Bennett strives to paint a more balanced picture of the man and his career. Born in Ohio, Ripley graduated from the US Military Academy and served with his classmate Ulysses S. Grant in the Mexican War, during which Ripley was cited for gallantry in combat. In 1849 he published The History of the Mexican War, the first book-length history of the conflict. While stationed at Fort Moultrie in Charleston, Ripley met his Charleston-born wife and began his conversion from unionism to secessionism. After resigning his US Army commission in 1853, Ripley became a sales agent for firearms manufacturers. When South Carolina seceded from the Union, Ripley took a commission in the South Carolina Militia and was later commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate army. Wounded at the Battle of Antietam in 1862, he carried a bullet in his neck until his death. Unreconciled in defeat, Ripley moved to London, where he unsuccessfully attempted to gain control of arms-manufacturing machinery made for the Confederacy, invented and secured British patents for cannons and artillery shells, and worked as a writer who served the Lost Cause. After twenty-five years researching Ripley in the United States and Great Britain, Bennett asserts that there are possibly two reasons a biography of Ripley has not previously been written. First, it was difficult to research the twenty years he spent in England after the war. Second, Ripley was so denigrated by South Carolina’s governor Francis Pickens and Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard that many writers may have assumed it was not worth the effort and expense. Bennett documents a great disconnect between those negative appraisals and the consummate, sincere military honors bestowed on Ripley by his subordinate officers and the people of Charleston after his death, even though he had been absent for more than twenty years. “A vitally useful addition to the Civil War Charleston literature.” —Civil War Books and Authors “[A] deeply researched and closely argued study. General Roswell S. Ripley emerges from the margins of Civil War history thanks to the able pen of Chet Bennett.” —A. Wilson Greene, author of Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War
A fun read-aloud for kids that will delight listeners and readers of all ages. Vibrant, whimsical illustrations complement catchy rhymes to teach vocabulary and animal facts in an amusng way.
Medal of Honor recipient, Noe Haleakua, joins the Christian fundamentalist church, Good Day Ministries, at the urging of his private business billionaire boss, Rolf Lambert, where Lambert introduces Noe to the pastor, Guy Austin Fanning. Through Pastor Fanning's powerful, inspirational sermons, reinforcing the righteousness of the fundamentalist Christian path, Noe works to resolve his personal PTSD-ridden conflict from his Afghanistan tour of duty. A life-long admirer of the Knights of The Round Table, Noe tries his hand at learning to ride and joust where his liberal British trainer in equestrian sport, Fiona, attempts to destroy Noe's Christian Right faith on his path to absolution. Through the strength of Pastor Fanning's sermons, Noe is able to hold firm in his Christian faith and commit to becoming a Christian soldier fighting for Christian Right victories in politics and life. Ultimately, Noe is victorious in his fight against the practice of abortion.
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