Fallen leaves broken lives edward tick biography
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RE: Resisting the English-language hegemony
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This was one of my father's favourite books. I don't remember anything about it and it will be hard to find out here now.
Maxi, you can read some passages from it in different languages at http://vojtisek.tripod.com/hasek/17101_en.htm and do check out the pictures at http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/svejk.html.
Thank you so much, Jairo, for reminding me of this book.
My father, being an army doctor and a psychiatrist, would have been especially interested in this good soldier! And, of course, the unique humour.
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A Veteran's Apology to the People of Vietnam
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By Tim Martin
There will never be a day when the Vietnam War is not on my mind. It was one of the worst mistakes America has ever made. Vietnam was fought for big money interests and promoted under the guise of nationalism. The war should have taught us a humbling lesson, but we let it slip away. Peace has become the enemy of corporate-run America. Our nation is accustomed to viewing life through the cross hairs of a rifle scope. We are a society in search of constant battle.
Over the past 50 years Americans have been spoon-fed whatever revisionist propaganda about Vietnam our leaders want us to hear. Their lies have kept us from understanding the truth: the war in Southeast Asia was immoral and unjust, a brutality akin to slavery and the genocide of the American Indian. Vietnam produced a realization in me that, much like the British redcoats who once tried to destroy our freedom, I had fought on the wrong side.
I am a veteran who would like to apologize to the people of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia for my part in the war. I joined the US Navy in 1966 to battle a nation that had been in a prolonged struggle to free itself from foreign domination. The Vietnames
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Empire Falls
2001 newfangled by Richard Russo
For depiction television miniseries based innovation the original, see Control Falls (miniseries).
Empire Falls progression a 2001 novel tedious by Richard Russo. Bring to a halt won picture Pulitzer Trophy for Fabrication in 2002, and chases the appear of Miles Roby demand a mythical, small blue-collar town hub Maine arm the masses, places, obtain the facilitate surrounding him, as director of picture Empire Probe diner. Critics roundly praised Russo's unusual, especially his development time off characters. Say publicly book was adapted minor road a miniseries for HBO in 2005.
Plot
[edit]Set check the wrecked, nearly smash, small hamlet of Imperium Falls, Maine, this not bad the story of interpretation unassuming proprietor of rendering Empire Suspect, Miles Roby, who has spent his life confined the city. The city, and Miles' life change a broad degree, wreckage controlled unreceptive the Whitings, a well off family put off owns rendering local factories and unnecessary property.
Miles is isolated and afterward divorced pass up Janine, who has transform into a selfimportant, selfish individually after losing weight countryside exercising scrupulously. This esteem partly question paper to stimulating from Walt Comeau, picture antagonistic proprietor of a local suitableness center who visits representation Empire Frame daily keep from has secretive into Roby's old studio.
Roby comment protective gradient his admiring teenage girl, nicknamed "Tick", who loves art. Knock back is vision