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Book Where the Brave Dare Not Go

Download or read book Where the Brave Dare Not Go written by Lela Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of Literary Devices

Download or read book A Dictionary of Literary Devices written by Bernard Marie Dupriez and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising some 4000 terms, defined and illustrated, "Gradus" calls upon the resources of linguistics, poetics, semiotics, socio-criticism, rhetoric, pragmatics, combining them in ways which enable readers quickly to comprehend the codes and conventions which together make up 'literarity.'

Book Train the Brave

Download or read book Train the Brave written by Margie Warrell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do today if you were being brave? Courage begets courage. It's a habit. Doing something brave everyday - no matter how small - unlocks new possibilities, opportunities and pathways to thrive in your work, relationships and life. Drawing on her background in business, psychology and coaching, best-selling author Margie Warrell guides you past the fears that keep you from making the changes to create your ideal life. In today's uncertain times, fear can unconsciously direct our lives. Start small, dare big, and begin today to live with greater purpose, courage and success. Originally published in 2015 as Brave, this book has been reviewed and redesigned to become part of the Wiley Be Your Best series - aimed at helping readers acheive professional and personal success.

Book Where the Brave Dare Not Go

Download or read book Where the Brave Dare Not Go written by Lela Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book It   S All in the Knowing

Download or read book It S All in the Knowing written by Bishop J. A. Tolbert 1st. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been recorded by some astute observer of life that Knowledge is power! If that is the truth, then ignorance is impotence! Nowhere is this reality of greater consequence than in the arena of the classic battle between good and evil; right and wrong; holiness and unholiness! No one can live what one has never known nor can one know what one has never heard. This book, Its all in the Knowing, puts to rest every excuse that the Child of the King has for living beneath the privileges of the sons of God! Read this book! Study this book! Examine it with your Bible in your hand and you will see that your prayer life will be revolutionized! You will rejoice because your expectations of God will be those that will cause Him to smile at His sons who are living as His sons! If you allow this book to become a Knowing in your heart; a Revelation in your spirit - you will walk as a son of God among men! Its all in the Knowing! Bishop J. A. Tolbert 1st

Book Braving the Wilderness

Download or read book Braving the Wilderness written by Brené Brown and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection Don’t miss the five-part Max docuseries Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart! “True belonging doesn’t require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are.” Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, MSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives—experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. With her trademark mix of research, storytelling, and honesty, Brown will again change the cultural conversation while mapping a clear path to true belonging. Brown argues that we’re experiencing a spiritual crisis of disconnection, and introduces four practices of true belonging that challenge everything we believe about ourselves and each other. She writes, “True belonging requires us to believe in and belong to ourselves so fully that we can find sacredness both in being a part of something and in standing alone when necessary. But in a culture that’s rife with perfectionism and pleasing, and with the erosion of civility, it’s easy to stay quiet, hide in our ideological bunkers, or fit in rather than show up as our true selves and brave the wilderness of uncertainty and criticism. But true belonging is not something we negotiate or accomplish with others; it’s a daily practice that demands integrity and authenticity. It’s a personal commitment that we carry in our hearts.” Brown offers us the clarity and courage we need to find our way back to ourselves and to each other. And that path cuts right through the wilderness. Brown writes, “The wilderness is an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searching. It is a place as dangerous as it is breathtaking, a place as sought after as it is feared. But it turns out to be the place of true belonging, and it’s the bravest and most sacred place you will ever stand.”

Book Child Prostitution in Thailand

Download or read book Child Prostitution in Thailand written by Siroj Sorajjakool and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we learn from the tragedy of these exploited young people? In Thailand, a thriving sex industry makes its money exploiting the young. Some children are coerced into prostitution and some have been sold into sexual slavery by their own families, but just as tragically there is no shortage of young girls (and boys) willing to work as prostitutes. Child Prostitution in Thailand: Listening to Rahab searches for the reasons why. This uniquely insightful book looks into the lives--and even more importantly, listens to the words--of ten Thai prostitutes. Child Prostitution in Thailand is about what we can learn from them--who they are, what they go through, and why. In their own words, the young prostitutes you'll meet in this book Thailand discuss what brought them into this life. Some have come from a tragic home situation, but not all are impoverished, orphaned, or abused. Nevertheless, they have entered into a dangerous and degrading lifestyle that often leads to violence, sickness, and early death. Of these ten prostitutes, one has already passed away and four more are dying with AIDS. This remarkable volume will help you to understand: how Thailand's child prostitution industry developed the impact upon girls and young women of Thailand's evolution from an agriculturally based economy to an industrial one changing forms of child prostitution who the customers are the role of tourism and its impact on child prostitution in Thailand how poverty, poor education, a sexually focused mass media, lack of religious emphasis, disability, and the lack of a clear policy on child prostitution help the sex industry to thrive This book also explores the details of child prostitution in Thailand--for instance, in open-air “restaurants” and “pubs” in Chiang Mai, your young waitress may double as a sex worker--and her provocative “uniform” represents a dress code enforced by the establishment’s owner. A “café” is another kind of sex service disguised as (and functioning as) a bar/restaurant. Here, young girls working ten- and eleven-hour shifts in short skirts must wear price tags pinned to their shirts and may have to service five to ten clients per night. The head of the U.S. State Department's office for international women’s issues estimates that traffickers bring 50,000 women and children into the United States illegally each year. The lessons Listening to Rahab teaches can help us to better understand the situation here at home as well as overseas. A helpful appendix assessing incidents of child prostitution around the globe bring the information even more clearly into focus.

Book Lift Up Your Hearts

    Book Details:
  • Author : James A. Wallace
  • Publisher : Paulist Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780809142880
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Lift Up Your Hearts written by James A. Wallace and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of homilies represents the efforts of three preachers to interpret the lives of a community of faith and lead them deeper into the liturgy and life. It grows out of a vision of the homily as "a scriptural interpretation of human existence which enables a community to recognize God's active presence, to respond to that presence in faith through liturgical word and gesture, and, beyond the liturgical assembly, through a life lived in conformity with the Gospel." The first intent of Lift Up Your Hearts is to focus on homilies as acts of interpretation, in which: "the preacher does not so much attempt to explain the Scriptures as to interpret the human situation through the Scriptures." This book casts the homilist not so much as a teacher but as a "mediator of meaning"--speaking words that help the community to know itself and to act as the People of God, the Body of Christ, and the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit. In addition, these homilies are intended to move the parishioners toward the act of Eucharist, to giving praise and thanks here and now, and then beyond the Church doors, out into the world to take part in the mission of the Church. Pastors, priests, deacons, and anyone who preaches will find this collection of source material to be particularly useful in crafting homilies that are grounded in Holy Scripture and yet relevant and meaningful in today's world. Also, it is written for the churchgoer in search of a helpful reflection on the Sunday readings with the intent of connecting the biblical texts with life. +

Book What I Wore to Save the World

Download or read book What I Wore to Save the World written by Maryrose Wood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third in the fabulous series that started with Why I Let My Hair Grow Out Senior year?s coming up fast and Morgan still has no clue about college, or a career?the whole rest of-her-life thing is basically a blank. Maybe it?s because she spent her junior year obsessing about Colin, the hot Irish guy she fell for last summer (that was right around the same time she discovered she?s a half- goddess from the days of Irish lore? you had to be there). She even saved Colin from a nasty enchantment, but he doesn?t know that. Colin doesn?t believe in magic, not even a little. But then a mysterious message reunites her with Colin, who turns out to be caught up in the biggest faery-made disaster ever. We?re talking the end of reality?not just reality TV. To save the world, she?s going to have to tell Colin the truth about her half-goddess mojo. But if he doesn?t believe in magic, how will he ever believe in her?

Book The Heart of a Great Pastor

Download or read book The Heart of a Great Pastor written by H. B. London and published by Gospel Light Publications. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heart of a Great Pastor salutes pastors everywhere – those wanting to take a fresh look at their ministries, as well as those just starting out. As the baton is passed to the “new breed of pastors,” there is a great need to help them count the cost of serving Christ and equip them with the tools, wisdom and encouragement from those who have gone before them. H.B. London, Jr., and Neil B.Wiseman bring their experiences and heart to pastors for such a task. To the “new breed,” they ask: Do you have a mentor? Have you examined your unique call and place in society? Do you have buy-in from your spouse and children? Do you spend as much time in the Word and study as you do in the entrepreneurial pursuits of your ministry? Do you genuinely love people? Do you really understand how invested God is in you and how important it is for you to make it? Here is help for young pastors and their mentors to stay strong personally while taking churches to the edge of creative, imaginative newness for Christ while remaining safely anchored to the abiding and adventuresome gospel.

Book For Love of Maria

Download or read book For Love of Maria written by Beryl Robson and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A couple in their eighties, Dennis and Maria Cramp were quite contentedly and quietly living out their twilight years in the town of Accrington, Lancashire. However, in 2006 this was to change. Not through choice they were parted, and their plight became known world wide.This is the remarkable true story of a couple whose love has stood the test of time. It begins by looking at their individual lives, to the day their paths crossed; Dennis will relate the story of how he met and fell in love with Maria and the battle he fought to care for her until they were parted through death. Whilst he fought for his country he could never have imagined the battle that was to follow. Not once did he falter in his fight to care for his wife. His strength and courage will serve as an inspiration to other couples who may find themselves in a similar situation.

Book Choosing Authenticity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard N Southworth Ma
  • Publisher : Richard N Southworth
  • Release : 2011-04-07
  • ISBN : 1450500951
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Choosing Authenticity written by Richard N Southworth Ma and published by Richard N Southworth. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is not enough. Culture is not enough. Both religion and culture are important, even crucial to living a full life, but they are not enough. Choosing authenticity is the only thing that is enough. Our deepest desire is for our active lives to actually become more and more an authentic expression of who we are and who we are called to be by that Mysterious Other we call God. We long for a No BS Spirituality that changes the way we actually experience and live our lives. We need spiritual practice that facilitates that growth and transformation, and conversion of heart. It is my prayer that these reflections will respond to that longing. Read, reflect, and enjoy!

Book Acting the Song

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tracey Moore
  • Publisher : Allworth Communications, Inc.
  • Release : 2010-06-29
  • ISBN : 1581157835
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Acting the Song written by Tracey Moore and published by Allworth Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting the Song offers a contemporary, integrated approach to singing in musicals that results in better-trained, smarter performers everyone wants to work with. Directors, teachers of musical theater, and students-including actors, singers, or dancers-will find time-tested advice, exercises, and worksheets for all skill levels. This book guides readers through musical theater elements, classroom workshops, and the world of professional auditions and performances. Chapters cover: --Singing and acting terminology --Modern microphone use --"Legit" singing and belting --Vocal and physical warm-ups --Body movement and gesture --Finding subtext --Creating a character --Personalization --Song structure --Interpreting music and lyrics --Risks and spontaneity --Collaborating with other actors --Keeping a performance fresh and new Teachers and students alike will appreciate the sections for beginning, intermediate, and advanced performers. Everyone involved in musical theater, from new students to working professionals, will benefit from this rich resource. Additional teaching materials and downloadable worksheets are available at www.actingthesong.com.

Book Man of La Mancha

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dale Wasserman
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2011-04-27
  • ISBN : 0307786676
  • Pages : 97 pages

Download or read book Man of La Mancha written by Dale Wasserman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the New York Drama Critics Award for Best Musical, 1966 "To me the most interesting aspect of the success of Man of La Mancha is the fact that it plows squarely upstream against the prevailing current of philosophy in the theater. That current is best identified by its catch-labels--Theater of the Absurd, Black Comedy, the Theater of Cruelty--which is to say the theater of alienation, of moral anarchy and despair. To the practitioners of those philosophies Man of La Mancha must seem hopelessly naive in its espousal of illusion as man's strongest spiritual need, the most meaningful function of his imagination. But I've no unhappiness about that. "Facts are the enemy of truth," says Cervantes-Don Quixote. And that is precisely what I felt and meant."--Dale Wasserman, from the Preface.

Book Maypole Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carol Egmont St. John
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2023-12-27
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 429 pages

Download or read book Maypole Man written by Carol Egmont St. John and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late sixties, its spirit, its despair, and its drama, comes to life in Maypole Man. Set in New York and Vermont, Maypole Man mirrors these turbulent years of American history when families came apart, new truths challenged the old, and revolution was in the air. Peter Rozycki, first-born and only American child of immigrant parents, is raised to reach his full potential In the land of opportunity. Thwarted in his dreams, he runs away to discover a new world, one he had not known existed. He is awakened as he is thrust into the cultural revolution of sex, music, religion, and politics to become an unlikely victim of the times. Elusive truth, evolving norms, lovable characters and intense emotions capture the challenges of the era.

Book Forever Was A Day

    Book Details:
  • Author : E. D. Arrington
  • Publisher : E.D. Arrington
  • Release : 2007-06
  • ISBN : 9781434303127
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Forever Was A Day written by E. D. Arrington and published by E.D. Arrington. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. D. Arrington returns with: Forever Was A Day, the sequel to her spellbinding novel, Stay The Course. In this continuing saga, Lori faces possibly the toughest challenges of her short life's journey. Mere hours after attending her grandmother's ("Ma") funeral, Lori is sent away from the only home she knows, away from the only people she loves, to live in Alexandria, Virginia, with a relative she has just met. A relative who comes from the white-looking side of the family. A relative who has neglected to tell her husband one minor detail...that Lori looks like...a Negro. What Readers Said About Stay The Course: Stay The Course is a magnificent book. It's the kind of book that should be in every school in this country. Our children need to know what it was truly like in the '60s and '70s, and Stay The Course does just that. Our children need to know their history, and Stay The Course is full of facts.-Isolene Taylor, (Retired Teacher) Snow Hill, N.C. I enjoyed Stay The Course very much, chuckling at times and crying, too. The author tells a story of love, devotion, hope, despair, faith, and triumph. I am anxiously awaiting the sequel.-Beverley Brown, Falls Church, VA. I am a reading enrichment teacher. My students enjoyed Stay The Course. They learned so much about segregation.-Uzal Daniels, Los Angeles, CA I am overwhelmed at the impact Stay The Course had on me. The author really captured the "Old South" style.-Kris Chinn, Washington, D.C. As an assistant principal, I would recommend Stay The Course to be included as required reading for all children. It teaches so much about how to overcome life's challenges in a positive way-Tonya Johnson, Wilson, N.C.

Book Collaborative Spirit Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives

Download or read book Collaborative Spirit Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives written by Bryant Keith Alexander and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives is about the interconnectedness between collaboration, spirit, and writing. It is also about a dialogic engagement that draws upon shared lived experiences, hopes, and fears of two Black persons: male/female, straight/gay. This book is structured around a series of textual performances, poems, plays, dialogues, calls and responses, and mediations that serve as claim, ground, warrant, qualifier, rebuttal, and backing in an argument about collaborative spirit-writing for social justice. Each entry provides evidence of encounters of possibility, collated between the authors, for ourselves, for readers, and society from a standpoint of individual and collective struggle. The entries in this Black performance diary are at times independent and interdependent, interspliced and interrogative, interanimating and interstitial. They build arguments about collaboration but always emanate from a place of discontent in a caste system, designed through slavery and maintained until today, that positions Black people in relation to white superiority, terror, and perpetual struggle. With particular emphasis on the confluence of Race, Racism, Antiracism, Black Lives Matter, the Trump administration, and the Coronavirus pandemic, this book will appeal to students and scholars in Race studies, performance studies, and those who practice qualitative methods as a new way of seeking Black social justice.