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Soldier for Equality

2019-09-03 Juvenile Nonfiction
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Release : 2019-09-03
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 195/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Soldier for Equality by : Duncan Tonatiuh

Download or read book Soldier for Equality written by Duncan Tonatiuh. This book was released on 2019-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of one man’s fight for Mexican-American civil rights, from award-winning picture book creator Duncan Tonatiuh A 2020 Pura Belpré Author Honor Book! José de la Luz Sáenz (Luz) believed in fighting for what was right. Though born in the United States, Luz often faced prejudice because of his Mexican heritage. Determined to help his community, even in the face of discrimination, he taught school—children during the day and adults in the evenings. When World War I broke out, Luz joined the army, as did many others. His ability to quickly learn languages made him an invaluable member of the Intelligence Office in Europe. However, Luz found that prejudice followed him even to war, and despite his efforts, he often didn’t receive credit for his contributions. Upon returning home to Texas, he joined with other Mexican American veterans to create the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), which today is the largest and oldest Latinx civil rights organization. Using his signature illustration style and Luz’s diary entries from the war, award-winning author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh tells the story of a Mexican American war hero and his fight for equality.

Walking for Water

2021-06-01 Juvenile Nonfiction
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Release : 2021-06-01
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 983/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Walking for Water by : Susan Hughes

Download or read book Walking for Water written by Susan Hughes. This book was released on 2021-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy finds a way to help his sister go to school. Victor and his twin sister, Linesi, are close. Only, now that they are eight years old, she is no longer able to go to school with him. Linesi, like the other older girls in their community, must walk to the river to get water five times a day to help their mother farm. But Victor is learning about equality in school. He’s beginning to realize how boys and girls are not treated equally. And that’s not fair to his sister. So Victor comes up with a plan to help. Can one boy make a difference in an unequal world? It turns out, he can!

Soldier of Change

2014-09-15 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2014-09-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 979/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Soldier of Change by : Stephen Snyder-Hill

Download or read book Soldier of Change written by Stephen Snyder-Hill. This book was released on 2014-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the official U.S. policy on gays serving in the military, was repealed in September 2011, soldier Stephen Snyder-Hill (then Captain Hill) was serving in Iraq. Having endured years of this policy, which passively encouraged a culture of fear and secrecy for gay soldiers, Snyder-Hill submitted a video to a Republican primary debate held two days after the repeal. In the video he asked for the Republicans' thoughts regarding the repeal and their plans, if any, to extend spousal benefits to legally married gay and lesbian soldiers. His video was booed by the audience on national television. Soldier of Change captures not only the media frenzy that followed that moment, placing Snyder-Hill at the forefront of this modern civil rights movement, but also his twenty-year journey as a gay man in the army: from self-loathing to self-acceptance to the most important battle of his life-protecting the disenfranchised. Since that time, Snyder-Hill has traveled the country with his husband, giving interviews on major news networks and speaking at universities, community centers, and pride parades, a champion of LGBT equality.

No Greater Love

2008 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2008
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 586/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis No Greater Love by : Freddie Valenzuela

Download or read book No Greater Love written by Freddie Valenzuela. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Greater Love is essential reading for both American civilians and past, present, and future military personnel. Written by Major General Freddie Valenzuela, who has served all over the world and throughout several wars, this book offers eye-opening discussions of:* Challenges faced by Hispanic soldiers in the U.S. Army.* The life and burial of the very first casualty of the Iraq War.* The relatively unknown lives of the other twenty-one casualties that General Valenzuela buried.* Advice for current and future soldiers in moving up the ranks in their military careers.* Life in a military family, as revealed through firsthand accounts by the general's wife and children.* And many other topics affecting today's soldiers.

Killing in War

2009-04-23 Philosophy
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Release : 2009-04-23
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 463/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Killing in War by : Jeff McMahan

Download or read book Killing in War written by Jeff McMahan. This book was released on 2009-04-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what morality permits and the justifications for killing people are the same in war as they are in other contexts, such as individual self-defence. This view is radically at odds with the traditional theory of the just war and has implications that challenge common sense views. McMahan argues, for example, that it is wrong to fight in a war that is unjust because it lacks a just cause.

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