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People From My Neighborhood (Japanese: このあたりの人たち, Hepburn: Kono Atari no Hito-tachi, lit. ' People Around Here ') is a 2016 short story collection by Hiromi Kawakami published by Switch Publishing. [1] In thirty-six interlinked stories, the book explores the lives of people in a neighborhood outside of Tokyo. [2]
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice is a children's book by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins and Ann Hazzard; illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin; and published March 1, 2018 by Magination Press. The book follows two families as they discuss a racialized police shooting in their community.
The book was first published as Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum by the University of Chicago Press in 1943. It received little attention at the time, but when it was republished in 1955 it garnered critical praise and became a bestseller and a standard college text.
The neighborhood began to change when large numbers of Hispanics moved in and started to overpopulate the community. The neighborhood began to experience higher crime rates and the school system began to go downhill with over populated classrooms. The school system decided to start busing students out to other neighborhoods that had the extra ...
Big changes are in store for The Neighborhood. When the CBS comedy returns for Season 6, Calvin and Tina’s son Marty (played by Marcel Spears) will discover that he’s going to be a father. The ...
The book covers a year in the life of an inner city drug market at Fayette & Monroe Streets in Baltimore. Simon and Burns spent over a year interviewing and following around the people who lived on the Fayette & Monroe corner. Although written like a novel, the book is nonfiction; it uses the real names of those people and recounts actual events.
“They want to build a massive building,” a longtime resident told Fortune. “It’s too big, it’s too high, it’s too dense.”
The book version of the material reflects the Middle Eastern story telling tradition dating back to One Thousand and One Nights. Mahfouz later published a book, Arabian Nights and Days: a Novel, that is based on characters derived from One Thousand and One Nights. Mafouz uses the novel form in this work rather than the story form more common in ...