Book: Central America in My Heart. — Love Poetry
(revised) Central America in My Heart / Centro America En El CorazonItem Specifics - Nonfiction BooksAuthor: Oscar N. Gonzales Edition Description: Bilingual Publisher: Bilingual Pr Category: POETRY ISBN-10: 1931010390 ISBN-13: 9781931010399 Format: Softcover Condition: New Publication Year: 2006 Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Signed See ReviewsPortions of this page Copyright 1995 - 2008 Muze Inc. Additional information
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In Central America in My Heart / Centro America en el corazon, Gonzales expresses nostalgia for the beauty of his native Honduras, sharing his passion and sense of loss. Vacillating between rage and undying love, Gonzales’s poems express his deep cultural appreciation for the people of his homeland while he reveals their struggles and berates a corrupt and unjust political and economic system. Inspired by Pablo Neruda, Roberto Sosa, and Jorge Luis Borges, Gonzales hopes to lessen the antipathy within Honduras and awaken a social consciousness through his poems.
When I read “Central America in My Heart”, I travel through the mystical landscape of Latin America and instantly feel the author’s love for his homeland. The poems, named after all the major cities of Central America, evoke images of Paradise where pure love and time carry the reader to an eternal land of breathtaking beauty. Once settled in the U.S., we feel the author’s realization that he can never go back to the daily memories of his childhood in his native land. Finally when he returns home, he describes the political and economical injustices through his political poems, which call on all of us to awaken to the notion of relentless commitment and love to our family, to our immediate community and to the inequities of our world. You will set this book down, inspired and moved to do something that makes a difference in the lives of those less fortunate that you.
Central America in My Heart is a heartfelt and mystical collection of poems that make you feel the brevity of life, the love of the homeland and the intensity of justice and freedom. In a beautiful English translation the poems describe the search for meaning in life and the breathtaking landscapes and culture of Latin America. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book one day at a time and I highly recommend it. It is a great book that can help with daily contemplation. The poetry reminded me of Pablo Neruda.
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This clip from BBC London on Thursday 19 June 2008, kindly sent in by a BorisWatch.co.uk reader, shows how Boris is not the one running London - he doesn't know what's being done in his name and doesn't even know about a key public document relating to the funding of the Olympics! The first report is about the Olympic document, about which he said on Radio 4: "I rather doubt it exists"! The second report features a shocking clip from Tuesday, after 48 hours of controversy in both online and national printed media (e.g. the Guardian) about what his office claimed was his own decision to axe the anti-racism message from the annual Rise: London United Against Racism festival. Despite all the controversy around this, when he was approached by BBC London on Tuesday, he had clearly never heard about this decision, let alone taken it himself! In fact it appears he's never heard of the Rise festival! It's clear that the Mayor a million Londoners elected in May 2008 is not the man who's actually running London. What we don't know is who is, nor why they would choose to do such controversial and offensive things and blame them on him. For more on this story and much more coverage and scrutiny of Boris as Mayor, visit http://www.boriswatch.co.uk/
2-29-08 Twelve miles from airport 24-7abusiveaircraftx6 yrs
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/AEP/supersonic_noise/media/1-Panel6-Coen-Shepherd-NASA.pdf Click on the above link. Scroll to the end of that document. You will see a picture of a seal forcefully immobilized for repeated forced exposure to sonic booms. I understand the suffering that seal was forcefully subjected to. The abuse from fighter jets overhead has been so severe it has left me stunned and it has felt like my home was exploding around me. There is documentation of heart attacks triggered from abusive sound. The U.S. Military has been infamously involved in research on aircraft sound effects on 'target' communities for over twenty years and an official U.S. Air Force website reported that research was ongoing. Step aside reports of U.S. government involved secret torture of suspected terrorists and make room for very public sound torture of susceptible civilians using military aircraft in deliberate flight paths emitting deliberate harmful sound. Below are a few sample videos I recorded of the ongoing abuse which have forcefully induced in me near continuous disabling migraines x 6 YEARS. 6-5-02 video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CpL47AArY0&feature=related 9-30-03 video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVIaPAQY5jQ&feature=related 9-12-06 video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G29-I3Tb1pc&feature=related 7-23-07 video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNEyavO0pa8&feature=related 7-31-07 video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Si_jIqjt0w&NR=1 9-5-07 video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vc-MJF1nTg My educational background in Biomedical Science allows me a very good understanding of medical research literature. I've learned that the years of forcefully induced migraines from the deliberate and harmful sounds from the military aircraft, flying a deliberate and narrow path above my home, have a high probability of having caused permanent physiological damage, at the very least weakening the vessels in my head, leaving me at high risk for an incapacitating or fatal stroke at any time. Some viewers of my videos on YouTube have sent me abusive/hate filled messages. I read those messages and I wonder how many painful flights it would take for them to drop to their knees. I wonder if it would cure their arrogance/ignorance/cowardice... Could it teach them empathy? Besides a verbally abusive message, YouTube member 'rarebasses' posted the following message to one of my videos: "this is nothing more than a C-5 cargo plane turning for landing. THe loud sound at the end are the engines reving for landing to compensate for the flaps and gear". My reply is: LANDING WHERE??? My home is NOT near any airport. Check out the distances yourself from Spring Terrace, San Antonio, Texas to the nearest Air Force Bases and airport runways able to accomodate this size aircraft: Lackland AFB, Randolph AFB, San Antonio International Airport http://maps.google.com/ Abusive/harmful aircraft sound is such an important public health concern that FAA gives it substantial coverage on its website. FAA has kept a 1976 report on this subject on its website: http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/... Page 47: "All of these operational procedures designed to provide noise relief have been the subject of formal consultation between the FAA, the EPA and the Secretary of Transportation. That consultation process has been completed and the FAA has taken final action to implement these operational procedures". Pages 13 through 15: Standardized method of measuring aircraft noise and "People's reactions to noise differ widely". There are two important measurements: EPNdB (Effective Perceived Noise Level) is the measurement of noise generated by a single aircraft and takes into account: 1. The sound energy received by the human ear 2. The known effect on humans to the amount of sound energy received 3. Pure tones/screeches in the noise increase the EPNdB value 4. Duration of the noise NEF (Noise Exposure Forecast) is the measurement of cumulative noise exposure. It is the more important measurement of aircraft noise when there are multiple aircraft involved over a given period of time. This measurement is calculated using: 1. Number of aircraft involved 2. Type of aircraft involved 3. Noise characteristics of each aircraft 4. The flight paths of the aircraft 5. The time of day of the individual flights 6. Operator's use of the aircraft at the time NOTE: Each increase of 10 EPNdB affects humans as a doubling of the loudness. NOTE: Night time aircraft noise increases the NEF value. There are aircraft operating procedures for pilots to follow to minimize abusive sound levels. This means pilots are fully aware of what to do to maximize harmful sound from their aircraft. Page 32: "There remains a critical role for local authorities in protecting their citizens from unwanted aircraft noise..." THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR ABUSIVE PILOTS.