The Road Love Traveled is a story of deception, lust, greed and gentrification told through the life of Lawrence Blake, a single father living in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, DC. Tired of the same ol’ same ol’, Lawrence wants something different. His love life is stale, and with his son out of state on summer vacation, he takes the opportunity to try to make some changes. He begins with a night on the town. Lawrence recruits his best friend, Howard, to join him in the rat race chase to find some new skins. Lawrence ends up finding what he’s looking for, but the greed of lust causes everything to change. The Road Love Traveled gives the world a first-hand look of what a man goes through to make decisions for a better life. Full of laughter, bad choices, suspense, jealous ex-girlfriends, good friends, broken hearts, rogue law enforcement and the apocalyptic virus known as gentrification, you will learn the reality of how lies will smear and destroy love’s results.
The Road Love Traveled is a story of deception, lust, greed and gentrification told through the life of Lawrence Blake, a single father living in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, DC. Tired of the same ol' same ol', Lawrence wants something different. His love life is stale, and with his son out of state on summer vacation, he takes the opportunity to try to make some changes. He begins with a night on the town. Lawrence recruits his best friend, Howard, to join him in the rat race chase to find some new skins. Lawrence ends up finding what he's looking for, but the greed of lust causes everything to change. The Road Love Traveled gives the world a first-hand look of what a man goes through to make decisions for a better life. Full of laughter, bad choices, suspense, jealous ex-girlfriends, good friends, broken hearts, rogue law enforcement and the apocalyptic virus known as gentrification, you will learn the reality of how lies will smear and destroy love's results.
Survival is not limited to the fittest but survival is limited to those that know the value of defeat and are not willing to take the charge. Instead they maneuver and learn and at the right moment counter any motion that is meant to cancel their progress with an attack of their own. It's almost like war in a sense. Survival is war." Working as a journalist for the Philadelphia Daily was a change of pace for a man who was once a trained Marine Corp assassin and linguistics specialist deployed during war. He made the most of the opportunity after surviving the Guatemalan jungles followed by action in the NATO lead Kosovo conflict. Mason Sessions now had to survive the battlefield of a cold, wintery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was summoned by his Top, The Boss and former Army Ranger with secrets of his own to chronicle the death of a Marine murdered in Camden County's nearby Pennsauken but the assignment changed when Mason had to use his skill of language and military knowledge to assist local law enforcement with the bizarre murder. A bizarre murder with an encrypted Victorian Era poetic twist. Fortunately for Mason, he was paired with the astute, quick-witted and equally beautiful Orinda Costa to bring a feminine brilliance to assist. In order to find the poetic killer, she needed access to Mason's mind to unlock the past. Because of how he felt for her he allowed it but not without some assistance to ease his anxiety that was given to him for free courtesy of the United States Marine Corp. It wasn't until they deciphered the murderer's message that they learned who was next and time was not their ally. Scars of war aren't always visible through stitched wounds and amputations because the brain holds secrets that body doesn't allow. A Soldier's Heart is always in the right place but war is never one of those. Slivovica Mason will tell a story of struggle, secrets and survival. About the Author Clifton L Bullock Jr is a novelist and poet living in the South San Francisco Bay area. He has written for websites whose content has varied from art and design to sports, namely, My Boxing (http: //myboxing.com/) and Sick of the Radio (http: //sickoftheradio.com/). Clifton found electronic publishing for The Road Love Traveled with Price World Publishing, LLC and is ready bless with his completed second novel, Slivovica Mason and a compilation of poems titled Chronicles Of while he completes his 3rd project tentatively titled Deja True. A connoisseur of hip hop and jazz music, ranging from The Roots to Common, from Terrance Blanchard to Art Blakey which he listens to while creating. He is married to his childhood sweetheart and is a father of 2, praying for number 3. He loves the World Champion San Francisco Giants and is a distance runner.
Survival is not limited to the fittest but survival is limited to those that know the value of defeat and are not willing to take the charge. Instead they maneuver and learn and at the right moment counter any motion that is meant to cancel their progress with an attack of their own. It's almost like war in a sense. Survival is war." Working as a journalist for the Philadelphia Daily was a change of pace for a man who was once a trained Marine Corp assassin and linguistics specialist deployed during war. He made the most of the opportunity after surviving the Guatemalan jungles followed by action in the NATO lead Kosovo conflict. Mason Sessions now had to survive the battlefield of a cold, wintery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was summoned by his Top, The Boss and former Army Ranger with secrets of his own to chronicle the death of a Marine murdered in Camden County's nearby Pennsauken but the assignment changed when Mason had to use his skill of language and military knowledge to assist local law enforcement with the bizarre murder. A bizarre murder with an encrypted Victorian Era poetic twist. Fortunately for Mason, he was paired with the astute, quick-witted and equally beautiful Orinda Costa to bring a feminine brilliance to assist. In order to find the poetic killer, she needed access to Mason's mind to unlock the past. Because of how he felt for her he allowed it but not without some assistance to ease his anxiety that was given to him for free courtesy of the United States Marine Corp. It wasn't until they deciphered the murderer's message that they learned who was next and time was not their ally. Scars of war aren't always visible through stitched wounds and amputations because the brain holds secrets that body doesn't allow. A Soldier's Heart is always in the right place but war is never one of those. Slivovica Mason will tell a story of struggle, secrets and survival. About the Author Clifton L Bullock Jr is a novelist and poet living in the South San Francisco Bay area. He has written for websites whose content has varied from art and design to sports, namely, My Boxing (http: //myboxing.com/) and Sick of the Radio (http: //sickoftheradio.com/). Clifton found electronic publishing for The Road Love Traveled with Price World Publishing, LLC and is ready bless with his completed second novel, Slivovica Mason and a compilation of poems titled Chronicles Of while he completes his 3rd project tentatively titled Deja True. A connoisseur of hip hop and jazz music, ranging from The Roots to Common, from Terrance Blanchard to Art Blakey which he listens to while creating. He is married to his childhood sweetheart and is a father of 2, praying for number 3. He loves the World Champion San Francisco Giants and is a distance runner.
Chronicles of a Revolutionary Dreamer: My personal diary of thoughts that I couldn't always share with a listening world through conversation. Most times, I would write these thoughts on any type of paper I could find until my wife bought me my first Peter Pauper Press journal. Usually, I would write while walking or taking public transit to work and school. Each poem inspired by events happening in our country in a "post-racial" America. You may notice this by some of the titles like Peace to Walter Scott, For Ferguson, 47 to 1 and Who is Burning Black Churches. The pieces range from police brutality, brown bag tests of grief, pride, hurt, liberation; all active ingredients for a revolution. The stories combined eventually became Chronicles of a Revolutionary Dreamer. A collection of poems written over the last 8 years. Some are tributes to those who have been immortalized by America's sometimes unforgiving brutality. Some are a reminder of the hypocrisy written between the lines of her creeds. Some speak of the vulnerabilities of being a black man in a country, sometimes in a world, that loves you for the same reason it hates. Some speak of the black condition and the hope and optimism we all share while tackling the adversity of misogyny, ego, pride, fear, and the likes. Pieces like Honest Truth, the range of emotions and admissions growing up black in America to the accusatory Colonial Rape Made Me Self-Loathe, that blatantly and forwardly anoints colonialism as the original foundation for the class and race here in the United States of America. Chronicles of a Revolutionary Dreamer will be in two parts. First will be The Revolutionary Dreamer and The Inspirational Dreamer. The second part will be The Love Dreamer and The Dreamer. These are just my thoughts... Thoughts On Deaf Ears.
The Road Love Traveled is a story of deception, lust, greed and gentrification told through the life of Lawrence Blake, a single father living in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, DC. Tired of the same ol’ same ol’, Lawrence wants something different. His love life is stale, and with his son out of state on summer vacation, he takes the opportunity to try to make some changes. He begins with a night on the town. Lawrence recruits his best friend, Howard, to join him in the rat race chase to find some new skins. Lawrence ends up finding what he’s looking for, but the greed of lust causes everything to change. The Road Love Traveled gives the world a first-hand look of what a man goes through to make decisions for a better life. Full of laughter, bad choices, suspense, jealous ex-girlfriends, good friends, broken hearts, rogue law enforcement and the apocalyptic virus known as gentrification, you will learn the reality of how lies will smear and destroy love’s results.
The Money Machines advances the provocative thesis that the mechanisms for financing state and local government in the Northern United States from 1860 to 1920 were deeply enmeshed with those financing the extralegal--often illegal--activities of the major political parties, complicating reform or change mandated by the post-Civil War breakdown of the North's legal fiscal machinery. Few reformers then recognized the interdependence of government and the party money machines; fewer still acknowledged the effectiveness or social value of the extralegal machines. On the contrary, basic fiscal reform in this period was characterized by attempts to exorcise "politics" in any form, which in turn provoked counteraction from politicians whose organizations had the same need for efficient, reliable revenue systems as did governments. Dr. Yearley demonstrates the failure of the established legal money machines to cope with the demands of postwar governments facing industrialization and urbanization. He characterizes the revolt of old and new middle classes against fiscal inequity and inefficiency and shows how much of the North's new wealth escaped taxation altogether while much of its old wealth similarly went into hiding. Because of its forbidding complexities, tax reform was sustained by a small group of experts from the middle class, whose sincerity and competence were unquestionable, but whose reformism evidenced the peculiar views and prejudices of their class. Here, therefore, the graft-grabbing politician is presented in a fresh light. In his efforts to maintain his sources of revenue and power, he emerges as a vital instrument of mass democracy, of the new politics of the ever-growing urban lower classes as well as their principal source of government welfare or support. The author reevaluates the Gilded Age politician in several important ways, principally regarding his power relationship to the business communities and his ability to perform his job well despite middle class disdain and continual allegations of fraud and incompetence. Further, Dr. Yearley shows that often politicians were ahead of reformers in their fiscal thinking in recognizing and utilizing taxation of income rather than of property. The volume considers in some depth several individual reformers, revealing them to be, among other things, prototypes of present academic experts used by government to manage problems too complex for laymen. The book then proceeds to explain essential changes made in local fiscal systems and which of these were to be the most effective, explanations that are of particular interest in view of the continuing crises in state and local financing today.
Displayed on European stages from 1810 to 1815 as the Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman was one of the most famous women of her day, and also one of the least known. As the Hottentot Venus, she was seen by Westerners as alluring and primitive, a reflection of their fears and suppressed desires. But who was Sara Baartman? Who was the woman who became the Hottentot Venus? Based on research and interviews that span three continents, Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus tells the entwined histories of an elusive life and a famous icon. In doing so, the book raises questions about the possibilities and limits of biography for understanding those who live between and among different cultures. In reconstructing Baartman's life, the book traverses the South African frontier and its genocidal violence, cosmopolitan Cape Town, the ending of the slave trade, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, London and Parisian high society, and the rise of racial science. The authors discuss the ramifications of discovering that when Baartman went to London, she was older than originally assumed, and they explore the enduring impact of the Hottentot Venus on ideas about women, race, and sexuality. The book concludes with the politics involved in returning Baartman's remains to her home country, and connects Baartman's story to her descendants in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus offers the authoritative account of one woman's life and reinstates her to the full complexity of her history.
The Schutzstaffel or SS was the primary organization responsible for carrying out exterminations for the Nazi hierarchy. It was a key instrument of terror used by the Nazis and came to represent organized brutality within the Third Reich. The power structure of the SS, however, was established prior to the Second World War. The SS, with Heinrich Himmler as its leader, was a dominant organization within Nazi Germany by 1936. There are many questions that surface in regard to the size and influence of the SS in 1934. How did Himmler and the SS emerge as the dominant force within the Third Reich? How was the SS able to develop into a central organization within the Nazi state? The key to answering these questions lies in the background and development of Himmler and the SS.
This bookexposes the true nature and culture of fraternities and sororities. In these secret societies there are activities and requirements that cause prospective members and members aliketo unknowingly enter into ungodly pacts and covenants. These ungodly practices lead to activities which include physical abuse, fornication, adultery, hatred, envy, strife, manipulation, social and intellectual elitism, abominable sexual activities and witchcraft. These organizationsattract people that are looking for something that only Christ Jesus can provide. However, the organizations appears as a light by their community service and networking abilities. This light however is afalse light.Once one gets into the inner workings of the organizations, the sin and soul inflicting antics are found deeply rooted in darkness. The authorsbeing former members that participated in ungodly activities within these organizations expose the physical, mental, sexualand spiritualdeath-dealing activities found in fraternities and sororities. This is by no means a kiss and tell composition, but it is a trying to save people from hell exposition. Actual accounts of sexual requirements, abuse,ancient ungodly spiritual practices, witchcraft, and required chantswhich denouncetheexistence the One True God are given in detail in this book.Ungodly spirits of oldhave found new vessels to operate inthrough these fraternities and sororities. The good thing about this book is that it not only exposes spiritual wickedness and old ungodly practices, but it shows people who want to be free how to find God, the Ancient of Days.Let the Truth be told. We encourage you to read this book if you arejoining a fraternity or sorority, are a member of one, are apastor, orhave a loved one in one of these organizations. We desire for all to be free and blessed by this book.
Very little if anything seems to have been written about the men who searched for and found prisoners of war that had been released when the armistice was signed (occasionally it would be a grounded pilot) and escorted them through the forward area in to Allied occupied territory. Without the cooperation of il Partito d'Azione and the willing assistance of the ribelli (rebels as the partisans were known), who often provided guides, they would not have been able to operate. The story which is based on the authors personal experience takes place in Abruzzo. It is written as a sister book to The Missing Years, and gives an insight to the risks ordinary people were prepared to take in the midst of almost daily atrocities.
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