Overall rating and opinion of "Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream" by Dr Frank L Douglas.
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Re: Overall rating and opinion of "Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream" by Dr Frank L Douglas.
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However, I found some of the terms confusing. There was a lot of information about his country that I wasn't familiar with, and had to look up many of the local words, such as the things he bought when he went to the market. He referred to local flora and fauna but didn't provide definitions. The spelling of his home country changed from "Guiana" to "Guyana" frequently, and although I've seen it spelled both ways, it was confusing to see it changed so frequently in just a couple of chapters. When he was discussing his process for going to college, he spent a lot of time defining the political parties and their acronyms, but then threw in USIS without defining it at all. And I found it frustrating that he misspelled one of the most common names in Israel, "Tel A Viv" which should have been Tel Aviv, despite his waxing poetic about the lure of the Holy Land.
Overall, I think the sample was interesting, but not interesting enough to make me want to read the rest of the book.