Kennedy Homes An American Tragedy
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Kennedy Homes An American Tragedy
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Author : Pierce Kelley
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009-05-19
Kennedy Homes An American Tragedy written by Pierce Kelley and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-19 with Law categories.
In the early morning hours of October 6, 2003, an electrical fire erupted in the D building at the Kennedy Homes Apartment Complex in Gainesville, Florida, causing the evacuation of its 142 families, 98% of whom were African-American. The fire was strikingly similar to a fire in the A building three years before. The owners, who received nearly a million dollars annually from HUD to operate the facility for low-income families, gave assurances that the complex would be properly repaired and that it would remain in existence until 2009. Two months later, it was closed forever. Kennedy Homes was built in 1968 as part of the War on poverty initiated by John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. There are thousands of such complexes across the country. Many are badly deteriorated as a result of age and lack of proper care. What happened at Kennedy Homes is indicative of what is likely to happen at many more such facilities as they continue to deteriorate. Attorneys from the Three Rivers Legal Services program filed suit against AIMCO, the largest owner and manager of subsidized properties in the United States, and others, claiming, among other things, that the fire resulted from grossly negligent management practices, that the closure had a disparate impact on African-Americans, and that the landlords breached their promise to provide safe, sanitary and decent housing for their tenants. This book chronicles the ensuing five year battle.
American Tragedy
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Author : David E. Kaiser
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2000
American Tragedy written by David E. Kaiser and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A re-creation of the deliberations, actions, and deceptions that brought two decades of post-World War II confidence to an end, this book offers an insight into the Vietnam War at home and abroad - and into American foreign policy in the 1960s.
Hiding In America
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Author : Pierce Kelley
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2017-12-21
Hiding In America written by Pierce Kelley and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-21 with Fiction categories.
This is a sequel to the award-winning Massacre at Sirte. It is the third book in a five-book series, which involves the slaughter of Coptic Christians by ISIS in Sirte, Libya, in 2015. In this book, Mekhaeil Zacharias, a sixteen-year-old Copt who was spared by ISIS, travels to New York City, with assistance from Egyptian countrymen, to hide from them, since they now wish to find and kill him. Mekhaeil is dazzled by the bright lights of the city, as well as a beautiful nineteen-year-old Muslim girl, living a lie, and loses his moral compass. Is he still a Coptic Christian? Or has he become someone else? He questions his religious beliefs and his purpose in life.
Rivers That Run Through Us
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Author : Pierce Kelley
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2022-11-03
Rivers That Run Through Us written by Pierce Kelley and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-03 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In lively story-telling fashion, Pierce Kelley, author of over two dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction, tells the stories of how he and his three brothers have created a tradition of taking mostly white-water rafting trips with their sons, daughters, nephews, nieces, grand-nephews and friends over the last 50 years on over 50 rivers across the United States, and into other countries, like Ireland, New Zealand and Canada. In doing so, they have passed their love of the adventure to the next generation of Kelleys, and they have created a strong family bond in the process. Readers will enjoy the thrills of victories and the agonies of defeats as the various family members experience both successes and near-successes along the way. It is a book which all who love being in nature, on rivers, whether calm or tempestuous, or in mountains or on the high seas will enjoy. It will make everyone, young and old, want to get in a canoe, kayak, rubber-ducky or raft and go down a river, with their family and friends.
Roxy Blues
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Author : Pierce Kelley
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2012-01-12
Roxy Blues written by Pierce Kelley and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-12 with Fiction categories.
Jeremy and Sally Thibodeaux are clammers from Cedar Key, Florida. After Jeremy suffers a herniated disc in his lumbar spine at work one day, while avoiding a menacing Bull Shark, his treating physician prescribes Roxy Contin to relieve the pain. It is an extremely effective pain killing medication. Sally begins taking the pills after she is injured as a result of a slip and fall incident at a local retail store. When the medical treatment ends, and the the doctor refuses to continue to prescribe the pills, Jeremy begins buying the drug from a friend, at a much higher cost. They like the pills with the most Oxycodone in them, 30 milligrams, which provide the most immediate relief. Those pills are bluish in color and on the street they're called Roxy Blues. Jeremy is incarcerated after buying drugs from an undercover police officer and his life spirals downward, as does Sally's. This story, though it is fictionalized, is based upon the lives of real people. It is a story about a problem that is killing people and ruining lives in epidemic proportions all over our country. It is a story about what could happen to any of us.
Thousand Yard Stare
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Author : Pierce Kelley
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2010-05-12
Thousand Yard Stare written by Pierce Kelley and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-12 with Fiction categories.
From its first adrenaline-pumping shot, "Thousand Yard Stare" races full-throttle into the nightmare world of George, a Vietnam vet who descends into the neverland of PTSD and takes the reader with him. Flush with detail, rich in research, Pierce Kelley's latest offering will be hauntingly familiar to all battle-worn soldiers -- and their families and friends. Part courtroom drama, part psychotherapy, "Thousand Yard Stare" is a timely book that deserves a good, hard look. Tom Mayer, Editor, Lake City Reporter "This is a real page turner. The Thousand Yard Stare draws attention to a subject many know about, but few care to discussPTSD. Pierce Kelley limns with detail the problems soldiers returning from combat can experience." Carolyn Risner, Editor, Williston Pioneer
The Jesus Trail
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Author : Pierce Kelley
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2019-06-19
The Jesus Trail written by Pierce Kelley and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-19 with Fiction categories.
Mekhaeil Zacharias, a sixteen year-old Coptic Christian, walks from Nazareth to the Sea of Galilee, and then travels on to Jerusalem, following in the footsteps of Christ, hoping to learn more about Jesus, and himself. This is the fifth and final book in this series, which began after Mekhaeil’s two older brothers and nineteen other Copts were slaughtered by ISIS terrorists in February of 2015 in Sirte, Libya.
Pilgrimage
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Author : Pierce Kelley
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2018-08-17
Pilgrimage written by Pierce Kelley and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-17 with Fiction categories.
In this book, young Mekhaeil Zacharias, a sixteen year-old Egyptian boy, travels to northern Spain to walk el Camino de Santiago...the way of St. James, the apostle. He has been raised as a Copt, a follower of Jesus Christ, but he has doubts and concerns about what he has been taught and what it is he believes. By making a journey of five hundred miles, by foot, across sacred grounds, he hopes that he will be able to discover who he is and exactly what it is that he believes.
Anima
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Author : Pierce Kelley
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2022-08-23
Anima written by Pierce Kelley and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this book I provide my answers to the questions which mankind has asked since the beginning of time: Is there a God? Is there a heaven? Is there an after-life? Do we reincarnate? Do we have an eternal soul? What is a “soul”? After 75 years of life as a lawyer, professor, author, professional athlete, father, husband, brother and friend to many, I have had innumerable experiences, just as every other mature adult has. I have traveled extensively, seen much and done much. I think it is my duty, and responsibility, to share my thoughts on such matters. I know full-well that no one knows, for certain, what those answers are, and probably never will. Regardless, I think every man and woman must examine their lives, and be ready to answer such questions if there is, in fact, a “God” to whom we must provide such answers. As Socrates said many centuries ago, an unexamined life is not worth leading. It is one thing to think about such things, and then to say them out loud, and quite another to put them down on paper for others to read and criticize. I am not trying to convince others that I am right and they are wrong. Again, as Socrates was reportedly quite fond of saying, I know nothing. I have examined my life and these are the conclusions I have reached.
Homelessness An American Tragedy
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Homelessness An American Tragedy written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Homeless persons categories.