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Book Community Life 101

    Book Details:
  • Author : Randall G. Neighbour
  • Publisher : TOUCH Publications Inc
  • Release : 2004-10
  • ISBN : 0975289624
  • Pages : 79 pages

Download or read book Community Life 101 written by Randall G. Neighbour and published by TOUCH Publications Inc. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have searched for a simple, concise booklet to put in the hands of each of your group members to fully explain what cell life is all about, you've found it! This easy-to-read booklet is filled with stories about healthy cell life and how to interact with fellow cell members and unchurched people. Topics include: - Developing a personal prayer life - Investing time with other members between meetings - Reading out to unchurched people and connecting them to the group - Discovering their own leadership potential and using it in the group - Helpful information on how to host a group meeting Each chapter ends with ways to share what has been learned as well as experience it. Additional resources are also included for deeper reading. If your cell group members don't seem to get it, or you want to put something in the hands of every incoming cell member so they'll know what to expect (and what cell life involves when it's done right), you will love this book.

Book Home and Community Life

Download or read book Home and Community Life written by Gertrude Hartman and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Church Cooperation in Community Life

Download or read book Church Cooperation in Community Life written by Paul Leroy Vogt and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life 101  Lessons from a 13 Year Old Father

Download or read book Life 101 Lessons from a 13 Year Old Father written by Saladin Davis and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reel Life 101

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  • Author : Jon Anthony Dosa
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2006-04-20
  • ISBN : 1546271651
  • Pages : 469 pages

Download or read book Reel Life 101 written by Jon Anthony Dosa and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reel Life: 101 meticulously and cleverly presents more than 1,101 of the most culturally influential movie lines of our time, it is not a mere collection of familiar movie quotes from popular movies. In fact, you probably won’t remember most of them. But, they remember you. Reel Life 101 is a fascinating first-ever compilation of those special lines and bits of dialogue that went, as if by some divine cinematic guidance, directly to your brain. There, it was compressed and stored in a unique one-of-a-kind “celebrity cell,” ready to be re-act-ivated into the scenes of your own reel life dramas. Jon Anthony Dosa, the Emmy Award winning producer of A Day At The Movies, lovingly and meticulously presents more than 1,101 of these literary gems, these nuggets of “behavioral truths,” in a meaningful, easy to read, and entertainingly clever way. Years in the making, and a true labor of love, Reel Life 101 is a must-have resource book for film buffs, sociologists, therapists, historians, writers, speakers, and anyone who wants to understand what life, death, love, marriage, anger, and humor are all about.

Book School and Home Education

Download or read book School and Home Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Technical  Social  and Legal Issues in Virtual Communities  Emerging Environments

Download or read book Technical Social and Legal Issues in Virtual Communities Emerging Environments written by Dasgupta, Subhasish and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technical, Social and Legal Issues in Virtual Communities: Emerging Environments examines a variety of issues related to virtual communities and social networking, addressing issues related to team identification, leader-member issues, social networking for education, participation in social networks, and other issues directly related to this eclectic field of study. This publication provides comprehensive coverage and understanding of the social, cultural, organizational, human, and cognitive issues related to the virtual communities and social networking. Readers will find that this book encompasses an overall body of knowledge regarding participation of individuals, groups and organizations in virtual communities and networks, by providing an outlet for scholarly research in the area.

Book The Public School Journal

Download or read book The Public School Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narratives of Community

Download or read book Narratives of Community written by Roxanne Harde and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives of Community draws together essays that examine short story sequences by women through the lenses of Sandra Zagarell’s theoretical essay, “Narrative of Community.” Reading texts from countries around the world, the collection’s twenty-two contributors expand scholarship on the genre as they employ diverse theoretical models to consider how female identity is negotiated in community or the roles of women in domestic, social and literary community. Grouped into four sections based on these examinations, the essays demonstrate how Zagarell’s theory can provide a point of reference for multiple approaches to women’s writing as they read the semiotic systems of community. While “narrative of community” provides an organizing principle behind this collection, these essays offer critical approaches grounded in a wide variety of disciplines. Zagarell contributes the collection’s concluding essay, in which she provides a series of reflections on literary and cultural representations of community, on generic categorizations of community, and on regionalism and narrative of community as she returns to theoretical ground she first broke almost twenty years ago. Overall, these essays bring their contributors and readers into a community engaged with a narrative genre that inspires and affords a rich and growing tradition of scholarship. With Narratives of Community, editor Roxanne Harde offers a wealth of critical essays on a wide variety of women's linked series of short stories, essays that can be seen overall to explore the genre as a kind of meeting house of fictional form and meaning for an inclusive sororal community. The book itself joins a growing critical community of monographs and essay collections that have been critically documenting the rise of the modern genre of the story cycle to a place second only to the novel. But more than simply joining this critical venture, Narratives of Community makes a major contribution to studies in the short story, feminist theory, women's studies, and genre theory. Its introduction and essays should prove of enduring interest to scholars and critics in these fields, as well as continue highly useful in the undergraduate and graduate classrooms. — Gerald Lynch, Professor of English, University of Ottawa The introduction, by Prof. Harde, and the 20 essays in the book dialogue with Sandra Zagarell’s proposed paradigm “narratives of community”, which other scholars have called “short story cycles” or “story sequences”. Zagarell’s proposal organically blends a generic model with a thematic concern to explain how women writing community often turn to a particular narrative style that itself supports the literary creation of that community. Harde and the volume contributors appropriate this brilliant and engaging proposal in the context of other crucial discussions of the genre—notably Forest Ingram’s germinal study, J. Gerald Kennedy’s work, and those by Robert Luscher, Maggie Dunn and Anne Morris, James Nagel, Gerald Lynch and (I’m honored to note), my own study on Asian American short story cycles—to expand the range of the critical discussion on the form. The quality and diversity of the essays remind us that there is still much work that can be done in the area of genre studies. The volume emphasizes an important caveat to one vital misconception: that although writers like James Joyce or Sherwood Anderson are thought to be the precursors or, even, “inventors” of the form, women’s sequences, by Sara Orne Jewett and Elizabeth Gaskell, among others, actually predate the work of the male writers. This fact suggests that the development of the form as a genre that attends to specific perspectives or creative formulations of and by women needs to be considered in depth. The temporal scope of the volume is therefore a vital contribution to scholarship on the form, as is the diversity of the writers analyzed. Indeed, the examination of narratives by writers from different countries and that focus on characters from different time periods, racial, religious, or ethnic communities, and social class impels a multilayered reading of the texts that inevitably promotes a nuanced understanding of the project of each of the writers, a project that connects issues of individuality and community in varied and often surprising ways. The essays thus critically explore the notion of community in its myriad associations with the individual and as a crucial site not only for women’s action upon the world but also for her creative endeavors. The essays in the volume revisit familiar texts—Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place, Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street, Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, Welty’s The Golden Apples, Munro’s The Lives of Girls and Women, among others—but offer new perspectives on the way form interacts with issues of women’s communities and women creating community in these works. Significantly, it also offers readings on texts that have not been analyzed in detail from this perspective—Gaskell’s Cranford or Woolf’s A Haunted House, for example—thus contributing to a continuing conversation about the ways women write. The juxtaposition of the familiar and the new expand the paradigms of current criticism not only on the story cycle but also on women’s writing in general. —Rocio Davis, Professor of Literature, University of Navarre "Roxanne Harde’s forthcoming volume, Narratives of Community: Women’s Short Story Sequences, provides an abundant collection of varied responses to Sandra Zagarell’s longstanding call for further in-depth exploration of the genre that Zagarell christened “the narrative of community” in her 1988 essay linking non-novelistic narrative form with representations of female experience. As Harde observes, such narratives of community overlap significantly with the growing canon of unified but discontinuous collections of autonomous stories that critics have variously labeled as the short story cycle/ sequence/ composite . . . The essays in her collection examine a rich variety of such works by women, extending the scholarship in this area. . . Harde’s ample collection of essays presents a concerted and diverse exploration of the implications of the short story sequence form as a representation of women’s lives as part of and in conflict with membership in a community. . . . Overall, Harde’s volume is a welcome addition to current scholarship on the short story sequence, bringing in a variety of new voices and perspectives to the community of scholars who have engaged in the exploration of this paradoxical, evolving, and increasingly popular genre." — Dr. Luscher

Book Love 101

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  • Author : Peter McWilliams
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780931580567
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Love 101 written by Peter McWilliams and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unequal Freedom

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  • Author : Evelyn Nakano GLENN
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 9780674037649
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Unequal Freedom written by Evelyn Nakano GLENN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Evelyn Nakano Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War II. During this era the country experienced enormous social and economic changes with the abolition of slavery, rapid territorial expansion, and massive immigration, and struggled over the meaning of free labor and the essence of citizenship as people who previously had been excluded sought the promise of economic freedom and full political rights. After a lucid overview of the concepts of the free worker and the independent citizen at the national level, Glenn vividly details how race and gender issues framed the struggle over labor and citizenship rights at the local level between blacks and whites in the South, Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest, and Asians and haoles (the white planter class) in Hawaii. She illuminates the complex interplay of local and national forces in American society and provides a dynamic view of how labor and citizenship were defined, enforced, and contested in a formative era for white-nonwhite relations in America.

Book A Journey of Personal and Relational Transformation

Download or read book A Journey of Personal and Relational Transformation written by Bruce Wayne Knight LMFT LCMHC CST MDiv and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-05-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for a Bible study that goes beyond the surface? Let’s dive into the depths of transformation. Ever find yourself on a spiritual treadmill, going through the motions without feeling truly moved? Do you wrestle with inner struggles, feeling stuck or unsure of your core values? It’s time for a change. Imagine experiencing significant and sustained life change. Picture those close to you noticing a difference and walking confidently in God’s presence, power, and purpose. It’s possible. While there’s no quick fix or magic wand, the path to spiritual growth is within reach. This experiential workbook is tailored just for you. It offers a 30-day solo journey with Paul’s warmest letter, providing intimate communion with God. Additionally, there’s a 12-week group experience to foster interpersonal connections and growth. Enhancing this journey is powerful and relevant worship music that will stir your soul. If you’re intrigued by the prospect of experiencing more—more depth, more growth, more connection—then read on. This study is designed to ignite your spiritual journey and lead you toward lasting transformation.

Book A City for Children

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  • Author : Marta Gutman
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2014-09-19
  • ISBN : 022615615X
  • Pages : 479 pages

Download or read book A City for Children written by Marta Gutman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration boom at the end of the nineteenth century permanently changed the urban fabric of these newly diverse, plural metropolises. In A City for Children, Marta Gutman focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place for children. She introduces us to the women who were determined to mitigate the burdens placed on working-class families by an indifferent industrial capitalist economy. Often without the financial means to build from scratch, women did not tend to conceive of urban land as a blank slate to be wiped clean for development. Instead, Gutman shows how, over and over, women turned private houses in Oakland into orphanages, kindergartens, settlement houses, and day care centers, and in the process built the charitable landscape—a network of places that was critical for the betterment of children, families, and public life. The industrial landscape of Oakland, riddled with the effects of social inequalities and racial prejudices, is not a neutral backdrop in Gutman’s story but an active player. Spanning one hundred years of history, A City for Children provides a compelling model for building urban institutions and demonstrates that children, women, charity, and incremental construction, renovations, alterations, additions, and repurposed structures are central to the understanding of modern cities.

Book Hebrews and the Temple

Download or read book Hebrews and the Temple written by Philip Church and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hebrews and the Temple Philip Church argues that the silence of Hebrews concerning the temple does not mean that the author is not interested in the temple. He writes to encourage his readers to abandon their preoccupation with it and to follow Jesus to their eschatological goal. Following extensive discussions of attitudes to the temple in the literature of Second Temple Judaism, Church turns to Hebrews and argues that the temple is presented there as a symbolic foreshadowing of the eschatological dwelling of God with his people. Now that the eschatological moment has arrived with the exaltation of Christ to the right hand of God, preoccupation with the temple and its rituals must cease.

Book Community Studies

Download or read book Community Studies written by Colin Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1971, this was the first text on community studies which analysed the major empirical work in this field in a comparative perspective. It is concerned both with the sociology of community and the sociology of community studies. It takes both the findings of individual studies and the research process itself as significant sociological data in their own right, and it asks continually: how do we know what we know about communities? Community Studies is, then, not only a contribution to that particular field but also to our understanding of the interaction between theory and method in sociology. Studies are analysed from North and Latin America, Britain and Western Europe, and India. Two central problems, stratification and power, are considered at greater length. This book would prove to be an invaluable introduction not only for students of sociology but also for architects, planners and all those who had an interest in the community at the time. Its authors were, and had been, actively engaged in field research in this area.

Book Community Life for the Mentally Ill

Download or read book Community Life for the Mentally Ill written by George W. Fairweather and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Community Life for the Mentally Ill" presents a social innovative experiment aimed at providing new and more participating social positions in American society for mental patients. It presents the events that occurred when a courageous group of former chronic mental patients abruptly left a hospital and established their own autonomous sub-society in a large, metropolitan area.In order to complete this experiment, the patients created a small society in the community where discharged patients could live and work. Others evaluated the effects of the newly created society upon the behavior and perceptions of its members, which is also presented here. Both the descriptive and comparative aspects of this study are presented as they occurred in real life. The book is concerned with the medical, economic, sociological, and psychological facets of these former patients' daily lives. The effects of this small society upon the neighborhood and city in which it was located, as well as its effects upon professional persons, are richly explored.Clearly defining a radical departure from standard methods for treating the mentally ill, the authors conclude that such an autonomous society can thrive in the appropriate setting; the ex-patient's chances of employment are increased and the chance of recidivism are reduced; the member's self-esteem is enhanced; treatment costs are greatly reduced; the community adjustment of all members is increased, especially among those who have been hospitalized for a long period. With new guidelines for identifying danger zones in urban settings, this becomes a critical work.

Book Ways of Living Religion

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  • Author : Christina M. Gschwandtner
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2024-03-31
  • ISBN : 1009476785
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book Ways of Living Religion written by Christina M. Gschwandtner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a philosophical analysis of different types of religious experience, focusing on the lived experience of religion.