Download or read book Nature s Final Curtain Call written by S T Kimbrough and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the performing arts, curtain calls transpire when performers return to the stage to be recognized by the audience for their performance. It may seem somewhat strange to speak of “nature’s curtain call,” but I am thinking of those amazing moments when with the passing of seasons Mother Nature presents a stunning performance, so to speak, for which we, the observers, are amazed: the appearance of spring’s flowers, the budding trees of spring, snow-white winter snow, huge flocks of Canadian geese flying south, the filling of dry waterbeds with late spring’s melting snow, the stunning colors of autumn’s leaves, the glorious colors of desert flowers, newborn animals of diverse species, and changing climates across the earth. There are cycles of nature that enable these wonders. The poems in this book address some of the wonders of nature: the seasons, weather, flowers, creatures, and beautiful scenes of nature. In the final section, however, the question is raised as to whether these wonders will survive the devastating effects of climate change, global warming, and other threats to nature. Will humankind awaken to the need of caring for nature?
Download or read book Nature s Final Curtain Call written by S T Kimbrough Jr. and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the performing arts, curtain calls transpire when performers return to the stage to be recognized by the audience for their performance. It may seem somewhat strange to speak of "nature's curtain call," but I am thinking of those amazing moments when with the passing of seasons Mother Nature presents a stunning performance, so to speak, for which we, the observers, are amazed: the appearance of spring's flowers, the budding trees of spring, snow-white winter snow, huge flocks of Canadian geese flying south, the filling of dry waterbeds with late spring's melting snow, the stunning colors of autumn's leaves, the glorious colors of desert flowers, newborn animals of diverse species, and changing climates across the earth. There are cycles of nature that enable these wonders. The poems in this book address some of the wonders of nature: the seasons, weather, flowers, creatures, and beautiful scenes of nature. In the final section, however, the question is raised as to whether these wonders will survive the devastating effects of climate change, global warming, and other threats to nature. Will humankind awaken to the need of caring for nature?
Download or read book Small Creatures and Ordinary Places written by Allen M. Young and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2000-11-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Creatures and Ordinary Places reveals to us the beauty and value of hornets, bats, katydids, mice, cicadas, and other tiny dwellers in our own backyards. Young, a renowned expert on butterflies and cicadas of the American tropics, records in these charming essays his keen observations of the natural world as he walks through an urban woods near the Lake Michigan shore, or sits on his deck facing his backyard, or gazes at a field of corn stubble in autumn. He invites us to venture into our own yards, neighborhood parks, fields, and forests and pause there . . . to look and to listen. Small creatures have unique and interesting stories to tell us, Young points out. Their brief life cycles illustrate the intricate workings of a bigger clock driving the seasons, and they dominate the larger web of life in which humans are but a strand. Far too often they are ignored, taken for granted, reviled, or misunderstood. Even now, Young writes, as we move into a new millennium as a species and the technological pace of our existence further quickens, we can gain much from appreciating nature close at hand, despite how steadily it is being pushed aside.
Download or read book Women Rising written by Lark Edlim and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A victim herself, Courtney Stillwell founded the feminist magazine Women Rising to create awareness about male violence. Every day in the world is a struggle between sexes, and her magazine tells all. It seems women must learn to deal with mens inherently aggressive nature because that nature cant be changed . . . or so Courtney believes, until she receives a call from one of her young writers. Ronnie wants to submit an article for publication that will reveal some startling news. Rumor has it a new biochemical weapon has been developed by the US Army that, when added to the drinking water of enemy fighters, will render them unaggressive and unwilling to fight. The drug has been field-tested on a vicious motorcycle gang with surprising results. Apparently, the drug causes men to lose all interest in women. Seeing the promise of an end to male violence, Courtney braves the wrath of the US government by bringing to light this top secret program. Her decision ignites a chain of events that causes Courtney to relive her dark past and question the very basis of her beliefs about men. She is now torn between her devotion to the magazines mission and the desire to finally find a good man to love.
Download or read book The Good Wine Served Last written by Thomas Hanrahan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book is produced by me to publicly witness, share, acknowledge, give thanks to God, for the gift of life, for the gifts, talents, graces bestowed, received, promised, past, present and to come. Reborn, likened unto a child, released to explore, taste, sow new seeds, harvest new crops, embrace outwards, share authentically life. Truly new wine is never poured into old vessels. My Poetry herein hangs together, depicts, records, the changing Seasons of my life, from my anxious cries in Poem entitled Troubled Beginnings to the continuing transformative light of my Poem Catterpillar to Butterfly
Download or read book Curtain Calls written by Mary Anne Schofield and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I here and there o'heard a Coxcomb cry, Ah, rot--'tis a Woman's Comedy." Thus Aphra Behn ushers in a new era for women in the British Theatre (Sir Patient Fancy, 1678). In the hundred years that were to follow -- and exactly those years that Curtain Calls examines -- women truly took the theater world by storm. For each woman who chose a career in the theater world of the eighteenth century, there is a unique tale of struggle, insult, success, good or bad fortune, disaster, seduction, or fame. Whether acting, writing, reviewing, or stage managing, women played a major, if frequently unacknowledged, role in the history of the theater from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries. From Alpha Behn's earliest plays through the glorious celebrity of Sara Siddons, women molded the taste of the age and carved out in the theater one of the few available opportunities for independence and renown. Not all the women who tried succeeded, of course, and even the best faced opposition as they challenged the male stronghold of playwriting and theater managing. Curtain Calls maps the new territory as these pioneering women staked it for their own; it chronicles their lives, their triumphs, and their losses. We begin with Aphra Behn, whose first play was staged in 1670, and conclude in the early decades of the nineteenth century with Inchbald and Siddons. The one hundred and fifty years encompassed by their lives contain the careers of dozens of lesser-known women, a network, as Dr. Johnson would have it, encompassing both talent and tribulation. Contributors include: Edward Langhans, Linda R. Payne, Pat Rogers, Maureen e. Mulvihill, Deborah Payne, Betty Rizzo, Ellen Donkin, Frances M. Kavenik, Jessica Munns, nancy Cotton, Edna L. Steevs, Doreen Saar, Jean B. Kern, Katherine M. Rogers, Constance Clark, William J. Burling, Judith Phillips Stanton, Douglas Butler, Rose Zimbardo, and the editors.
Download or read book Curtain Call written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Crazy about Women written by Paul Durcan and published by Paul Holberton Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry from Britain and Ireland written by Edna Longley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws the poetic line of the century not through culture-defining groups, but through the work of the most significant poets of our time.
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Download or read book 1999 Billboard Music Yearbook written by Joel Whitburn and published by Record Research Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). From rap's reign to teen-pop heartthrobs to Latin music's explosion, it was definitely one fine '99. Now, you can track these trends and many others in Joel Whitburn's 1999 Billboard Music Yearbook . It's the only chronicle of its kind available anywhere with complete chart data for every 1999 hit on Billboard magazine's 10 major music charts: Hot 100, Bubbling Under, Hot Country Singles & Tracks, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Tracks, Adult Contemporary, Mainstream Rock Tracks, Modern Rock Tracks, The Billboard 200 (albums), Top Country Albums, and Top R&B Albums. An added bonus is the special decade-end wrap-up listing "The Top Artists & Top Songs of 1990-1999" in nine major chart categories!
