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Book Victims  Villains and Heroes

Download or read book Victims Villains and Heroes written by Don Phin and published by . This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all actors in a play, for which the stage is set every day, in every workplace. Owners, managers, employees, customers and suppliers are all part of the constant, swirling emotional drama, a drama we call The Plot, involving victims, villains and heroes. This book explains how to step out of emotional dramas in the workplace.

Book Villains  Victims  and Violets

Download or read book Villains Victims and Violets written by Resa Haile and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern writers have reconsidered every subject under the sun through the lens of Sherlock Holmes. The overlooked subject is agency: the opportunities available to these women for independence and control. What we find all too often are the silences around them. And yet, these clients--villains, victims, and Violets--are pivotal in the world of Sherlock Holmes. Perhaps more enigmatic than Holmes’ methods is what Watson sees: the woman in the shadows. Whether lady or lady’s maid, if she does speak, it’s often not recorded in her words. That was life for half the population of Victorian England. A woman’s role was written before she was born; it merely required her to don the starched white apron of a maid, or the rough, stained skirts of a "char"--who did the dirtiest of household jobs—or the fine silk gowns of a lady. Enter Villains, Victims, and Violets to spy and report on these women in their darkest, most vulnerable moments. How does Irene Adler—pursued by a powerful king, and by Sherlock Holmes--outwit them both? Can Lady Hilda conceal the secret that only Holmes unravels? When Violet Hunter takes the last job offered before she loses everything, can Holmes free her and her doppelganger? To understand Holmes’ world is to gaze unsparingly into the lives of its women: the villains and what drives them astray; the victims Holmes races to rescue; and the Violets, who make up the strongest characters from Holmes’ unforgettable cases. The authors pull back the curtain on their private spaces, revealing their "proper" place in a man’s world at the dusk of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th. Foreword by Nisi Shawl, noted Sherlockian and the James Tiptree Jr. Award-winning and Nebula-nominated author of the brilliant steampunk, feminist, Afrofuturist novel Everfair.

Book Beyond Victims and Villains

Download or read book Beyond Victims and Villains written by Victoria Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First major anthology of dramatic work dealing with disabilities.

Book White Victims  Black Villains

Download or read book White Victims Black Villains written by Carol A. Stabile and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are all victims white? Are all villains black? White Victims, Black Villains traces how race and gender have combined in news media narratives about crime and violence in US culture. The book argues that the criminalization of African Americans in US culture has been most consistently and effectively legitimized by news media deeply invested in protecting and maintaining white supremacy. An illuminating, and often shocking text, White Victims, Black Villains should be read by anyone interested in race and politics.

Book Branding with Powerful Stories

Download or read book Branding with Powerful Stories written by Greg Stone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are branding your company, your product, your service, or yourself, learn to boost the power of your story and convey a compelling message in any setting by incorporating villains, victims, and heroes. Compelling stories exalt, motivate, and acculturate every worker in an enterprise. They also attract customers and media alike. Imagine an elderly man, snowed in, unable to shop for groceries until a supermarket comes to the rescue and delivers his food. The story of this company going out of its way to help a customer in need will resonate not only with consumers but also with employees. This book explains not just how to tell a captivating story, but also what elements—namely, villains, victims, and heroes—it should include in the first place. This approach is based on the notion that in business messaging, the villains may just be your best friends. The "villains" are simply any problems that cause pain, discomfort, or extra expense for customers, who are in effect the "victims." As for the "heroes," they are best illustrated by the supermarket going beyond expectations. Who in business wouldn't want to emulate that company? If your products and services offer real solutions to customers' predicaments, there is nothing more powerful than communicating that message and making sure your potential customers remember it.

Book Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking

Download or read book Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking written by Alexandra Lutnick and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The domestic sex trafficking of minors is a problem of growing concern yet little critical attention. This book analyzes the forces behind the sex-trafficking industry in the United States and provides a much-needed reference for practitioners. It adopts a holistic approach, pursuing a nuanced exploration of these young people's experiences, their treatment, and outside efforts to combat sex trafficking. The book features interviews with service providers and experts, and incorporates recent research, thereby mapping the complex factors associated with young people's involvement in trading sex and the social connections that facilitate their behavior. It considers the experiences of both those who "choose" sex work and those who are forced into it by circumstances or third parties, and it discusses the networks of friends and close acquaintances who introduce newcomers to the trade. In addition, it takes a hard look at how local and federal responses to trafficking increase young people's vulnerability to trading sex. Urging policymakers and practitioners to move beyond the simple framework of "rescuing" victims and "punishing" villains, this book calls for policies and programs that focus on the failure of social and cultural systems and respond better to the young people caught in this web.

Book Victims Or Villains

Download or read book Victims Or Villains written by Malcolm J. Turnbull and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceeding from the premise that Jews, negatively depicted according to a range of demeaning stereotypes, are a feature of English crime writing between the two world wars, the author examines why this is so, with reference to recent debate over the profundity of anti-Semitism in Britain, and traces the evolution of fictional Jewish images in the context of socio-historical trends and events. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Re Thinking Men

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Synnott
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-04-08
  • ISBN : 1317063945
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Re Thinking Men written by Anthony Synnott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much writing on men in the field of gender studies tends to focus unduly, almost exclusively, on portraying men as villains and women as victims in a moral bi-polar paradigm. Re-Thinking Men reverses the proclivity which ignores not only the positive contributions of men to society, but also the male victims of life including the homeless, the incarcerated, the victims of homicide, suicide, accidents, war and the draft, and sexism, as well as those affected by the failures of the health, education, political and justice systems. Proceeding from a radically different perspective in seeking a more positive, balanced and inclusive view of men (and women), this book presents three contrasting paradigms of men as Heroes, Villains and Victims. With the development of a comparative and revised gender perspective drawing on US, Canadian and UK sources, this book will be of interest to scholars across a range of social sciences.

Book Challenging the Human Trafficking Narrative

Download or read book Challenging the Human Trafficking Narrative written by Erin O'Brien and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the moral of the human trafficking story, and how can the narrative be shaped and evolved? Stories of human trafficking are prolific in the public domain, proving immensely powerful in guiding our understandings of trafficking, and offering something tangible on which to base policy and action. Yet these stories also misrepresent the problem, establishing a dominant narrative that stifles other stories and fails to capture the complexity of human trafficking. This book deconstructs the human trafficking narrative in public discourse, examining the victims, villains, and heroes of trafficking stories. Sex slaves, exploited workers, mobsters, pimps and johns, consumers, governments, and anti-trafficking activists are all characters in the story, serving to illustrate who is to blame for the problem of trafficking, and how that problem might be solved. Erin O’Brien argues that a constrained narrative of ideal victims, foreign villains, and western heroes dominates the discourse, underpinned by cultural assumptions about gender and ethnicity, and wider narratives of border security, consumerism, and western exceptionalism. Drawing on depictions of trafficking in entertainment and news media, awareness campaigns, and government reports in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, this book will be of interest to criminologists, political scientists, sociologists, and those engaged with human rights activism and the politics of international justice

Book Victims and Villains in Vasari s Lives

Download or read book Victims and Villains in Vasari s Lives written by Andrew Ladis and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Artists (1550, 1568) has been a key subject of study for students of the Italian Renaissance over the hundreds of years since its publication. It has maintained a powerful grip on the historical imagination and continues to influence the way scholars treat the Renaissance, its artists, and the entire intellectual enterprise of Western art. Focusing on Vasari's literary and narrative achievements, Andrew Ladis turns to Vasari's villains, rather than his heroes, to demonstrate the biographer's foremost interest in glorifying Michelangelo. Approaching Lives on Vasari's terms--as the grand story of the rebirth and triumph of art in Italy--Ladis argues that Vasari was not a mere compiler of facts, but a shrewd, self-confident author aware of the power of metaphor. With a literary reading of the text, Ladis analyzes Vasari's motives and methods as an attempt to portray the great Michelangelo as a Christlike exemplum of ultimate light and goodness. Through biographic details both real and invented, Vasari presents all other artists as various players with varying degrees of heroic and villainous value. Antiheroic characters such as Buffalmacco, Lippi, and Castagno, Ladis argues, serve to accentuate the contrasting greatness of Michelangelo.

Book Hero on a Mission

Download or read book Hero on a Mission written by Donald Miller and published by HarperCollins Leadership. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller shares the plan that led him to turn his life around. This actionable guide will teach you how to do the same through journaling prompts and goal-planning exercises. There are four characters in every story: The victim, the villain, the hero, and the guide. These four characters live inside us. If we play the victim, we’re doomed to fail. If we play the villain, we will not create genuine bonds. But if we play the hero or guide, our lives will flourish. The hard part is being self-aware enough to know which character we are playing. In this book, bestselling author Donald Miller uses his own experiences to help you recognize if the character you are currently surfacing is helping you experience a life of meaning. He breaks down the transformational, yet practical, plan that took him from slowly giving up to rapidly gaining a new perspective of his own life’s beauty and meaning, igniting his motivation, passion, and productivity, so you can do the same. In Hero on a Mission, Donald’s lessons will teach you how to: Discover when you are playing the victim and villain. Create a simple life plan that will bring clarity and meaning to your goals ahead. Take control of your life by choosing to be the hero in your story. Cultivate a sense of creativity about what your life can be. Move beyond just being productive to experiencing a deep sense of meaning. Donald will help you identify the many chances you have of being the hero in your life, and the times when you are falling into the trap of becoming the victim. Hero on a Mission will guide you in developing a unique plan that will speak to the challenges you currently face so you can find the fulfillment you have been searching for in your life and work.

Book Victims  Villains and Heroes

Download or read book Victims Villains and Heroes written by Loy Young and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Readers Are Saying I just finished reading Victims, Villains and Heroes: Managing Emotions in the Workplace, and I need to tell you that you are right on the money. If business America would only read this book, we would have fewer problems in the workplace. Your insight in bringing the teachings of Loy Young and your own experience cannot help but ease the problems that individuals have, not only in the workplace, but also in their personal lives. Good work and my congratulations! Ken Varga, President Professional Buyers GuildVictims, Villains and Heroes: Managing Emotions in the Workplace has contributed a valuable piece to my education in relationships, which are the core of my business (and yours!). The old dramas I used to unwittingly play took about 70 percent of my energy--energy that can now be used productively. I've learned how to avoid the hidden traps of the Victim, the Villain and the Negative Hero--the ones at work, and the ones battling it out inside of me. I've stopped trying to save the world and started taking care of me and, ironically, am making MORE of a difference now--and having more fun working and laughing a lot more. I am being my own Hero, and the satisfaction that comes with that is amazing. My effectiveness as a speaker, trainer and consultant has increased with this knowledge. I am becoming a much wiser woman! Loy and Don, much gratitude. Bobbie Jones, Trainer and Consultant for IBM, Advanced Microdevices, Samsung and many U.S. clientsExcellent . . . excellent . . . I have just finished reading the book Victims, Villains and Heroes: Managing Emotions in the Workplace. Congratulations to both Loy and Don! Don made a statement that deeply touched me personally. He stated something about "owning 100% of the content, or 100 percent of the audience." This immediately reminded me of my own style of "teaching" and "counseling," which is to give sooo much information and want them to "get what I am wanting them to get" rather than what they are wanting to get out of it or letting them have their lessons . . . because I am afraid I will lose control. I'm going to recommend it to all my clients. Rene Schulz, Business Consultant Schulz Associates I can't tell you enough how going to your seminar last week has impacted my life. The ideas you talked about, I have been repeating on a regular daily basis. The 80/20/40 image of managing energy has been particularly useful personally. And last but definitely not least, the parallels of using your ideas in my home life has been amazing! Without going into all the details, let's just say that my husband and I have actually been really communicating since the Friday seminar! Anne Dor, Co-Founder RM Automation Systems"Attending one of Don's seminars made the decision to buy this book an easy one. As a business consultant who deals with how HR impacts a business' bottom line, I found this book a veritable treasure trove of gems and nuggets of practical wisdom. His metaphor of "the stage" is pure genius and has yielded the unexpected bonus of benefiting my personal life as much as my professional. I would stake my reputation on recommending this book to anyone who has to manage people at the workplace, and fully expect his ideas to become universally accepted in the years to come." Rick Neyman, Broker Slaton Risk ManagementIn writing this book, our goal is to give you powerful references to help you identify your emotions and their interplay with relationship scenarios surrounding you at work every day. This book isn't just about what you're thinking while at work. It's also about what you are feeling and how that affects what you think, do and accomplish. You'll learn how to be a more conscious participant in life, to deal with your feelings in a way that will make you proud and bring you peace.

Book The Moral Panics of Sexuality

Download or read book The Moral Panics of Sexuality written by B. Fahs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative feminist analysis of the moral panics of sexuality, this interdisciplinary edited collection showcases the range of historical and contemporary crises we too often suppress, including vagina dentata, vampires, cannibalism, age appropriateness, breast cancer, menstrual panics, and sex education.

Book Mohammedans

    Book Details:
  • Author : Festo Michael Kambarangwe
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-11-11
  • ISBN : 9789987997671
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Mohammedans written by Festo Michael Kambarangwe and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the publication of this book necessary even with availability of ubiquitous holy books and countless conciliatory speeches and writings by the religious and political leaders of our time? The unprecedented rise in the terror acts like the bombing of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon abduction of Chibok girls mass killings of non Mohammedans in Nigeria, beheading of males forced marriages to widowed wives and orphaned girls burning alive of the war captives in Syria the siege of the West Gate Mall discriminate killings of university students in Garissa Kenya and gunning down of school children in Pakistan the bombings of the embassies in Dar and Nairobi, attack on Kampala and burning of churches and assassination of priests in Zanzibar, attacks on Lebanon, Mali and Paris, among others, against unwarranted indiscriminate phobia leveled against Arabs and Mohammedans are facts, distasteful facts that have piled up and now are staring at us demanding answers. Why the escalation of radicalism is so high today? Are all radicals necessarily Mohammedans? Where do all fingers point to? But whose fault is it? Are there solutions? The religion and its believers; are they one and same entity? Can the believers have extreme views which don't resonate with the core values of their religion? Are the two really separable? Should the solution come from the victims alone or from the accused too? Should Mohammedans and Arab world stand aside and look when their own interests are in jeopardy, and a great religion and race condemned, unfairly? Who is a true Mohammedan anyway? Do we know? Is it not reasonable to overlook the hole and instead focus on the doughnut itself? Is there any one wining under the present situation? Aren't both sides already losers? In the end it is not about who is wrong or right where. It is rather about who can make it right, and now! And that person is YOU, yes YOU, the immediate reader: Arab or not Mohammedan or not! You realize that this book is not only for Mohammedans Jews or Christians only? Is it indeed not one for all men and women, with or without religions? Is it not for religious as well as for secular education; from lower to the highest level? But what is Religion anyway? Is this discussion urgent? Well the clock is ticking; the detonated bomb is buzzing! Your future your children's hopes, to the nth generation, indeed the hopes of the nation and humankind as a whole are now set on your laps. Indeed with the publication of this book, we bequeath the future of human race of the nation, and of your children and their children's children, into your capable hands and intellect sir, madam!"

Book A Transnational Study of Law and Justice on TV

Download or read book A Transnational Study of Law and Justice on TV written by Peter Robson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines law and justice on television in different countries around the world. It provides a benchmark for further study of the nature and extent of television coverage of justice in fictional, reality and documentary forms. It does this by drawing on empirical work from a range of scholars in different jurisdictions. Each chapter looks at the raw data of how much "justice" material viewers were able to access in the multi-channel world of 2014 looking at three phases: apprehension (police), adjudication (lawyers), and disposition (prison/punishment). All of the authors indicate how television developed in their countries. Some have extensive public service channels mixed with private media channels. Financing ranges from advertising to programme sponsorship to licensing arrangements. A few countries have mixtures of these. Each author also examines how "TV justice" has developed in their own particular jurisdiction. Readers will find interesting variations and thought-provoking similarities. There are a lot of television shows focussed on legal themes that are imported around the world. The authors analyse these as well. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in law, popular culture, TV, or justice and provides an important addition to the literature due to its grounding in empirical data.

Book Hebrew Gothic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Grumberg
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2019-09-01
  • ISBN : 0253042291
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Hebrew Gothic written by Karen Grumberg and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinister tales written since the early 20th century by the foremost Hebrew authors, including S. Y. Agnon, Leah Goldberg, and Amos Oz, reveal a darkness at the foundation of Hebrew culture. The ghosts of a murdered Talmud scholar and his kidnapped bride rise from their graves for a nocturnal dance of death; a girl hidden by a count in a secret chamber of an Eastern European castle emerges to find that, unbeknownst to her, World War II ended years earlier; a man recounts the act of incest that would shape a trajectory of personal and national history. Reading these works together with central British and American gothic texts, Karen Grumberg illustrates that modern Hebrew literature has regularly appropriated key gothic ideas to help conceptualize the Jewish relationship to the past and, more broadly, to time. She explores why these authors were drawn to the gothic, originally a European mode associated with antisemitism, and how they use it to challenge assumptions about power and powerlessness, vulnerability and violence, and to shape modern Hebrew culture. Grumberg provides an original perspective on Hebrew literary engagement with history and sheds new light on the tensions that continue to characterize contemporary Israeli cultural and political rhetoric.

Book Great Horror Movie Villains Paper Dolls

Download or read book Great Horror Movie Villains Paper Dolls written by Erin A. Ellis and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paper dolls of the most notorious characters in film history include Jack Nicholson in The Shining and Kathy Bates in Misery, plus Freddy Krueger, Leatherface, Michael Myers, and many others. Contains mature content.