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This story begins on June 28, 1959, when nineteen years old Janet, married Jake, a worldly man and eleven years her senior. Janet had high exceptions when they moved into their Shotgun cottage. She imagined that they would live happily ever after. She was not prepared for her future with Jake. Janet’s life experiences would have been devastating for most women but, she stood tall and turned each experience into opportunities to move forward faster than normal. Using money, she save from her household budget and her sewing, Janet secretly pursued a college education. During this time, she gave birth to two sons and earned her college degree and later earned two post grad degrees. Jake’s sudden death brought her family new challenges that they were well prepared for. Janet’s life became more meaningful and fulfilling when she met the man that was worthy of her love. This new life had its difficult time but, Janet’s experiences and training skills played a major role in easing the pain that came about. She always remembered that experiences are learning steps that you take one at a time and learn from each step.
A collection of 15 interviews.
What drove three young black men, each from America's most urban environments, to achieve their dreams of becoming doctors? The answer is in the Pulse of Perseverance. In 1998, Max Madhere, Pierre Johnson, and Joe Semien were three young, black, premedical students at Xavier University of Louisiana. Each was struggling with the demands of Xavier's rigorous curriculum, yet each was determined to succeed, even if the statistics, or the stereotypes about black men, said otherwise. By drawing on each other's determination and individual strengths, they forged a brotherhood and created a bond so strong that it would carry them through college, medical school, and well beyond. Now they've come tog...
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"Grips you by the throat from beginning to end."—Cleveland Plain Dealer ALONE WITH HER NEW HUSBAND on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd aluminum container washed up out of the lagoon, and beside it on the sand something glitters: a gold tooth in a scorched human skull. The investigation that follows uncovers an extraordinarily complex and puzzling true-crime story. Only Vincent Bugliosi, who recounted his successful prosecution of mass murderer Charles Manson in the bestseller Helter Skelter, was able to draw together the hundreds of conflicting details of the mystery and reconstruct what really happened when four people found hell in a tropical paradise. And the Sea Will Tell reconstructs the events and subsequent trial of a riveting true murder mystery, and probes into the dark heart of a serpentine scenario of death.