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Strange Acquaintances - Part 1 de Jerroll Dolphin

Strange Acquaintances - Part 1

Autor Jerroll Dolphin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 oct 2018
J.D.'s encounters with the advanced alien race begin in Los Angeles in the late 1950s, when he's just a boy and continues through his early adulthood amid the turbulent Civil Rights era. As the extraterrestrials reveal cosmic insight into the nature of existence in the heavens and beyond, J.D. powers through racism and the Civil Rights movement, associating with key figures in history, such Elvis Presley, Liberace, Malcom X, Cassius Clay, as Black Panther founders, Nation of Islam, his San Jose State University track team teammates Tommie Smith, John Carlos, and Lee Evans, who threw a Black Power fist in the air at the 1968 Summer Olympics. As his world transforms before him, J.D.'s IQ only increases with the help of his otherworldly allies - he defies restrictions imposed on Black children by skipping a grade in school and his scientific knowledge scares his teachers so much, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the NSA are called in to quiz him on his advanced knowledge of nuclear explosions. J.D., who eventually becomes a physicist and medical doctor, passes on the extraterrestrials' knowledge as he describes his encounters in the pages within this first installment of his story-Strange Acquaintances - Part 1
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ISBN-13: 9780692114674
ISBN-10: 069211467X
Pagini: 186
Dimensiuni: 6 x 228 x 152 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: BOOKBABY
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Born in 1950 in Los Angeles to a well-known black business family, JD was the third of three boys, a twin brother to Earl. He suffered polio just after his 4th birthday and was hospitalized for almost a year, recovering. He was left with a partial paralysis of his right side and the lower left side of his face for the rest of his life.Not to be held back, he loved sports and excelled in sports like baseball, basketball, and track and field. He eventually perfected his track and field finesse becoming Los Angeles City Champion in the High Hurdles in his junior year in High School, at age 15. In his senior year in high school, 16, he set the US national High School low hurdle record six times in both the straightaway and on a turn. Going on to San Jose State University, San Jose, California, he was on the 1969 NCAA Championship team, participating in high jump, long jump, high and intermediate hurdles, etc., and was inducted into the SJSU Athletic Hall of Fame in September 2016, along with Tommie Smith, John Carlos, Lee Evans, and numerous others.JD was not just known for athletics. He was accepted by more than 3-dozen universities into their Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry departments, including Cal Tech, Princeton, University of Chicago, US Naval Academy, etc., even University of Marcelle, France. He was top SAT scorer in Los Angeles County and was told he was amongst the top 1000 SAT and ACT scorers in the USA. He went on to earn a BSc in Physics and Mathematics, with minor in Chemistry. He specialized in nuclear and atomic physics, doing research on transmission lines and Laplace transformation. For 4 years he worked as nuclear reactor assistant engineer and engineer designing boiling water reactors in San Jose CA before moving on to Aerospace and System Engineering for next 15 years in Northern and Southern California. He went to medical school at age 42, graduating with a M.D. at age 46. He is the father of six and a grandfather as well.