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Amazing Win, Amazing Loss
Angela Perez Baraquio
其他書名
Miss America Living Happily, EVEN After
出版Angela Perez Baraquio, 2014-09
主題Family & Relationships / GeneralFamily & Relationships / Life Stages / GeneralSelf-Help / General
ISBN09903594099780990359401
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QvHGoQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Angela Perez Baraquio opens up for the first time and shares her life story in Amazing Win, Amazing Loss: Miss America Living Happily, EVEN After. Angela reveals personal life-changing experiences regarding love, family, depression, recovery from loss, and inner strength. Told with humility, humor, and warmth, she shows young adult women the invaluable lessons she learned after enduring the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. Angela's foundation of her character ― faith, family, friends and education ― helped her achieve the dream of becoming Miss America. That foundation is at the core of everything she does, including knowing what it takes to win at anything in life. Her success took her from relative obscurity from being one in a ten-children Filipino family in Hawai'i to becoming a national figure, literally overnight. It happened in the year 2000 when she was crowned the first teacher, first Asian, and the only Filipina Miss America in history. As an elementary school teacher, Angela has a passion for educating and empowering youth. She is motivated by the fact that she was able to make a difference as Miss America, a teacher, a coach, a speaker, a mother, a wife, and now, as an author. In her debut book, Angela reveals major challenges she faced including her inner turmoil with ethnic stereotypes and other racial obstacles; departure from "traditional" beauty; search for identity; emotional rollercoaster as Miss America during and after the 9/11 tragedy in New York; living with her younger brother's depression and eventual death; and two miscarriages -- how their close-knit family stayed strong and hopeful through it all, managing to find happiness. Through personal anecdotes, Angie teaches readers how to find their unique path and to see themselves as strong, beautiful beings, deserving of joy and a satisfying life, amidst any obstacles they may encounter. Angela will encourage and help readers evaluate where they are today and learn ways to write their own success story and live happily, EVEN AFTER tremendous success and tragedy.