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India Lately

By: Ginger L Franklin, PhD.

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India Lately exploes the experience of the modern nation of India through the use of three distinct genres: travel narrative, poetry, and academic thesis. In the travel narrative, Ginger L. Franklin, PhD., takes the reader on a journey of personal discovery through a land that is foreighn to many, but home to many others. She walks with gods, beggars, and geniuses. She explores sights ranging from divinely inspired to crushingly destitute. Her poetry expresses emotions, inspirations, and passions that the Indian culture has instilled within her. Her thesis examines the ways in which Hinduism informed Tagore's writing and political ideology. Taken as a whole, India Lately stands to transform the reader's perspective of this complex and intriguing world within herself.

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330

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0359232744

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9780359232741

American Educator

By: Ginger L Franklin

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American Educator

By: Ginger L Franklin

American Educator chronicles one woman's journey from ninth-grade dropout, to university professor and beyond. The novella takes place over a turbulent eleven years of teaching in colleges and even in prison. Franklin helped students from over 50 different countries, many of whom are refugees from war-torn regions. Through their personal, often heart-wrenching stories, she presents some of the complex realities of overseas conflicts that are rarely seen on the news. These people changed her life and perspective, and she feels compelled to share what she learned. Throughout, the author interweaves her personal journey and her own struggle of trying to earn a living as an educator in a system that makes it nearly impossible. She went from making a nice living in the beginning of her teaching career to near homelessness, all while undergoing a personal transformation in her goals and identity.

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1387084275

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9781387084272

Terra Llantera: Placemaking and Finding Home in the Borderlands, with Photos by Vivian Grimes

By: Ginger L Franklin

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Terra Llantera: Placemaking and Finding Home in the Borderlands, with Photos by Vivian Grimes

By: Ginger L Franklin

Terra Llantera: Placemaking and Finding Home in the Borderlands, with Photos by Vivian Grimes is a work of collaboration through and through. It is a narrative nonfiction, photo essay, and collection of research. Through these various lenses, the hidden world of Tijuana's trash and tire-based construction is revealed in stunning fashion.A fascinating cycle of use, disposal, and reuse of tires and trash plays out in massive scale along the border between the United States and Mexico. In the city of Tijuana, impermanent communities often adopt materials that have been cast off by people and re-purpose them to build houses, parks, and a stable life for themselves. The alternative is something akin to an ecological disaster waiting to happen. The social implications of this unique ecological and economic dynamic are far from obvious, and are not trivial.

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