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PreviewMona Ruiz, a former gang member, became a police officer and, with the Los Angeles Times journalist Jeff Boucher, produced Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997). Ruiz not only renders gang life from the female point of view, but she ...
Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz
Mona RuizThe author describes how she went from a gang member, married to an abusive husband, and on welfare to becoming a member of the Santa Ana police force.
Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz
Mona RuizFor use in schools and libraries only. The author describes how she went from a gang member, married to an abusive husband, and on welfare to becoming a member of the Santa Ana police force.
Odisea nº 15: Revista de estudios ingleses
PreviewThis essay aims at observing the way Luis Rodríguez's Always Running (1993) and Mona Ruiz's Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997), memoirs ofgang members who have grasped education as a means of escape from their dramatic ...
Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player: Ice-T and the Politics ...
Josephine MetcalfMona Ruiz, for example, was a member of a Santa Ana Latina gang. Her Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997) tells about her gang life and how she went on to become a member of the Santa Ana police force. She had made the ...
The Making of a Chicano Militant: Lessons from Cristal
Jose Angel GutierrezHis book about his life while in Chicano gangs in East Los Angeles, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. (1993) is powerful. Most recently, Mona Ruiz provided a major contribution with her book, Two Badges: The Lives of Mona ...
Females in Gangs
Mona RuizFemale gang membership is on the rise and part of the next generation of offenders. Understand the phenomenon of why females join gangs as well as the necessary steps for intervention and prevention.
One Upon the Throne and the Lamb: A Tradition ...
Russell S. MortonRecent Tradition Historical Analyses and Revelation 4-5 Jean-Pierre Ruiz Here we will focus our discussion upon Jean-Pierre Ruiz's 1989 book, Ezekiel in the Apocalypse}5 Ruiz pays special attention to Rev. 16:17-19:10 because it displays, ...
Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural ...
Ignacio L—pez-CalvoIn fact, they reveal that the F-Troop gang (to which Mona Ruiz belonged) originated in Smedley Intermediate School as well as in other junior highs in the area: It didn't take long to realize the wide intimidating corridors of Valley High School ...
Seeing Mona Naked
Thomas Fox AverillSeeing Mona Naked defines and expands the reader’s vision of contemporary life in the heart of the Great Plains.
From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century ...
Vicki L. RuizFor this new edition of From Out of the Shadows, Ruiz has written an afterword that continues the story of the Mexicana experience in the United States, as well as outlines new additions to the growing field of Latina history.
Mind/Body Makeover
Mona Lisa SchulzThese cards were created by neuropsychiatrist/medical intuitive Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D., to help you rewire the emotional patterns that increase your chance of succumbing to physical illness, depression, and anxiety.
The Harmony of Nature and Spirit
Irving SingerMartin Morillas, Jose M. Ruiz Ruiz, Cayetano Estebanez, Francisco Garcia Tortosa, Leocadio Martin Mingorance, Barbara Ozieblo Rajkowska, and their colleagues. Toward Willis G. Regier, who guided my book as one of his first projects as ...
The Intuitive Advisor
Mona Lisa SchulzIn this enlightening book, Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D., shows you how to combine intuition with intelligence to solve your most pressing health problems. But she's not your run-of-the-mill intuitive.
Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered
Dianne HalesWhat became of her? And why does her smile enchant us still? Dianne Hales, author of La Bella Lingua, became obsessed with finding the real Mona Lisa on repeated trips to Florence.
The Broken Teaglass: A Novel
Emily ArsenaultWhat’s more, his (possibly) flirtatious co-worker Mona Minot has just made a startling discovery: a trove of puzzling citations, all taken from the same book, The Broken Teaglass. Billy and Mona soon learn that no such book exists.
La Tyrannie de la réalité
Mona CholletMona Chollet, épingle l'usage pernicieux de cette notion dans tous les types de discours et démontre pourquoi l’injonction réaliste relève de l’imposture. À une époque où les relations essentielles à notre équilibre — la ...
Texas Bandits: Real to Reel
Mona D. SizerCiting the adage that "those who do not study history are condemned to get it from Hollywood," popular historian Mona Sizer profiles a dozen notorious Texas outlaws and how they have been portrayed on the Silver Screen.
The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from ...
Carol StricklandDynamic design, with succinct, page-length essays, frequent sidebars, and abundant color illustrations incorporated into the text, make The Annotated Mona Lisa a browser's delight, as well as an authoritative reference that can be read from ...
المثقفون العرب وأحداث 11 سيبتمبر 2001
هندة العرفاوي41- Saïd Edward : - «L'outsider» (périphéries) . Mona Chollet - ««Eux»et«nous» unefictionauservicedumeurtre», périphéries Septembre 16, 2001). Mona Chollet et Thomas Lemahieu - “The events and aftermath”, the observer , September 16, ...
CMJ New Music Monthly
Full viewSniff Minty Fresh It's not surprising that Jim Ruiz namechecks the Housemartins, the Jazz Butcher and Aztec Camera on "Goodbye To All That," the eighth track on his band's second album, Sniff. Like those artists, the Legendary Jim Ruiz ...
Affordable Remodel: How to Get Custom Results on Any Budget
Fernando Pages RuizThis book, as with all my endeavors, is dedicated to my beautiful wife and best friend, Deborah A. Pagés; my sons, Fernando and Alejandro; and my parents, Myrtha Elba Ruiz de Pagés and Fernando Pagés Larraya. ACkNOwlEdgMENTS Like ...
Heal Your Mind:
Mona Lisa Schulz M.D. Ph.D.This one-of-a-kind resource combines cutting-edge science with compassion and wisdom to offer answers we can really use.
Heal Your Mind continues the three-pronged healing approach that Dr. Mona Lisa Schulz and Louise Hay ...
Rêves de droite: Défaire l'imaginaire sarkozyste
Mona CHOLLETMona Chollet décortique les principaux éléments de l'univers sarkozyste : la " machine de guerre fictionnelle " que représente la success story, le mythe du self-made man, l'identification illusoire aux riches et aux puissants, le ...
Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
PreviewKristin McGee, celebrity yoga/Pilates instructor and trainer Martha “Pati” Ruiz Corzo —Martha “Pati” Ruiz Corzo, co-founder and. Of course I think humanity can find a way past the current global environmental and social crises. I believe in our ...
Doug Box's Guide to Posing for Portrait Photographers
Douglas Allen BoxDouglas Allen Box. The Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa is the most famous, most beautiful, and most valuable portrait in the world. So, should we use it as a standard for all portraits? I submit several of my images each year in contests. I wonder ...
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Museo Nacional de Colombia... Jaqueline Ruiz Casallas Coordinadora de Exposiciones Itinerantes Luz Edilma Ruiz Casallas Curadora Jefe del Departamento de Arte e Historia Cristina Lleras Figueroa Asistentes del Departamento de Curaduria de Arte e Historia Ángela ...
Beauté fatale: Les nouveaux visages d'une aliénation féminine
Mona CHOLLETDécortiquant presse féminine, discours publicitaires, blogs, séries télévisées, témoignages de mannequins et enquêtes sociologiques, Mona Chollet montre dans ce livre comment les industries du " complexe mode-beauté " travaillent ...
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