As American politics and television became more closely intertwined in the early 1960s, each underwent enormous and long-lasting changes. In The Expanding Vista, originally published in 1990 (Oxford University Press), Mary Ann Watson looks at how television was woven into the events and policies of John Kennedy's presidency, not only in his unprecedented use of the medium in campaigning and image projection, but in the vigorous efforts of his administration to regulate and improve the content of network programs. Examining the legacy of the New Frontier and its relationship to the new medium, she traces the Kennedy influence across a spectrum of programming that includes news, documentary, drama, situation comedy, advertising, children's shows, and educational TV. Through extensive archival research and oral histories Watson reconstructs key moments of an extraordinary time in the television age. The Expanding Vista's analysis and interpretation of that era continue to enlighten our understanding of culture and communication as the themes sounded in the 1960s resonate in today's complex media marketplace.
TOUGH TO TENDER This book is about a child, Rolf that has been neglected, mentally and emotionally abused. He grows up into a man, feeling unloved and insecure. He becomes bitter toward the world. Rolf commits murder, rape and even marries his own brother's fiance. But in the end he finds true love, the love of God and a woman that takes him on the right path for his life.
Certified health coach Karen Ann Kennedy provides month-long action plans for the twelve most common New Year's resolutions. Each plan includes activities, tips, and suggestions to help you slowly change your behavior and habits."--Back cover.
This book describes my journey to enlightenment and emphasizes the importance of being tactful when we approach the newness of life and an embodied one. This is an inspired book which brings wisdom from the universal field. It translates the journey as a pathway to progressive and purposeful life and engages readers with the richness of life as an enlightened one. The ethos of this book will introduce you to the different layers of densities of the mind and book. It is captivating and descriptive in a way that the wisdom flows from through me from the universal field. As you read this book, you are guided to be gentle with yourself and try to conjure up the images in your mind so that you feel peaceful and relax. Just know that the wisdom that flows in this book will take you to a deeper level of understanding about yourself and this can easily translate into a more fulfilling destiny for you. In this book, I describe what I call the path to enlightenment. It is a path that recognizes that we experience immense pain when we go through enlightenment. In this process, we are allowed to recognize that pain comes from traumatic experiences in childhood and adulthood. Pain from traumatic experiences simply means unprocessed pain. This is the path that lets us understand what it means to be on this journey and how this affects our sensibility. I also explained what it means to function efficiently in a fully embodied state. This journey encapsulates both light and darkness and can really affect our own existence with what is called mental illness. The reality is this process takes us on the path where we are able to be clearly guided by our own wisdom, goodness, or our purest self. This is what I call Spirit. We must be seen as vessels of change for humanity and cherished by all who see the wisdom that flows in the pages of this book. I am confident that you will be richly blessed by reading and understanding this book as it flows through you with wisdom and grace. Long Book Description This book is the equivalent of the inspiration the flows from the eons of time of long ago. It represents the distinction between the known and the unknown. It is structured in a way the elevate the readers to deeper levels of understanding of themselves and others. It serves to soften the density of the mind and body and can easily translate into the distinctiveness of the wisdom of the ages. This book takes readers on my own journey to enlightenment and factors in the densities that we have to encounter in life before we can find our true purpose and meaning in life. This book describes my journey to enlightenment and emphasizes the importance of being tactful when we approach the newness of life and an embodied one. This is an inspired book which brings wisdom from the universal field. It translates the journey as a pathway to progressive and purposeful life and engages readers with the richness of life as an enlightened one. The ethos of this book will introduce you to the different layers of densities of the mind and book. It is captivating and descriptive in a way that the wisdom flows from through me from the universal field. As you read this book, you are guided to be gentle with yourself and try to conjure up the images in your mind so that you feel peaceful and relax. Just know that the wisdom that flows in this book will take you to a deeper level of understanding about yourself and this can easily translate into a more fulfilling destiny for you.In this book, I describe what I call the path to enlightenment. It is a path that recognizes that we experience immense pain when we go through enlightenment. In this process, we are allowed to recognize that pain comes from traumatic experiences in childhood and adulthood. Pain from traumatic experiences simply means unprocessed pain. This is the path that lets us understand what it means to be on this journey and how this affects our sensibility. I also explained what it means to function efficiently in a fully embodied state. This journey encapsulates both light and darkness and can really affect our own existence with what is called mental illness. The reality is this process takes us on the path where we are able to be clearly guided by our own wisdom, goodness, or our purest self. This is what I call Spirit. We must be seen as vessels of change for humanity and cherished by all who see the wisdom that flows in the pages of this book. I am confident that you will be richly blessed by reading and understanding this book as it flows through you with wisdom and grace. The path to awakening is filled with many perils of danger and density that can really accumulate to death and decay if we are not careful to listen to the inner knowing of the wisdom that flows in the universal field. We must ensure that we can capitalize on the things that cause us to feel self-assured and calm. I the same breath we must stay away from the elemental nature that causes us to have stifling feelings about ourselves and others. It is also the newness of the day that would allow us to understand that when we are guided to read a book such as this, we must know for sure that it is a higher calling to find our true purpose and meaning in life. We should also reflect on the things in this book with keen insight and be engaged with the wisdom that flows, knowing that it is really the call to come home to our true self. There is dignity and grace in the writing of this book which is simply inspired by my own inner goodness. Our inner goodness is simply our brightest light and purest self. This is where the wisdom of the ages is coming from, and it is always flowing towards us to clear the pathways of life for us. You must never underestimate the dignity of Spirit which is really infinite intelligence. Spirit is really everything that is existing in this universal field and is flowing with ease and grace to calibrate our bodies to higher levels of existence. You can be assured that this book is full of many of the lessons to be learned by those who are simply ready for the next step in life. The wisdom that flows through my books are really guidepost to the final destination of life. They provide rich and insightful wisdom to support the goodness of our being. As you read this book, just be gentle with yourself and allow the richness that is flowing through the pages to engulf your being with delight and courage. You are guided to soften the dictates of the mind that will try to impede the newness of the day as you read. Allow yourself to embrace the truth that is here and share in the peace and assurance that is presented. This book is filled with goodness and grace. It encourages you to be more dignified with yourself and others. As you continue to read my books, you will be inspired to respond to the call for self-reflection and be transported to a place of a more purposeful and nurturing life. It is easy to surrender to the goodness of yourself. Be soft and gentle with yourself and take control of your destiny.
This is the fifth book in a series that I have written about the enlightenment journey and the things that affect us as we transition from the function of the mind to the flow of the universal field. It is really the nuances of time that has allowed this book to become a reality. As you read this book be gentle with yourself and understand that it is written with love and simplicity as it is translated to become more effective in the future. Resentment simple falls into the category of anger and hate. It cannot be easily understood by those who are suffering from the piercing guilt trip that fluctuate in space and time. As we traverse through life, we must be willing to relinquish the things that cause us to feel like we must always be right and have the last say when others are bringing wisdom. The journey to self-discovery really needs to be injected into the correct patterns in the mind and body. It is a simple process called the individuated self as a reflection of what the pure essence of a person really represents. This means that each of us is really a reflection of what the real self signifies. It is the reflection in the mirror that stifles the right projection of what the real self looks like. The reality is that we are more insured in the cellular structure than is really actualized in the process called life. There are many levels to the real self, and this can be distinguished as the boundaries of what someone can surpass in their lifetime. This means that I was able to supersede the individuated self to actualize myself as the embodied person who has attained enlightenment. In this regard, I am someone who can access the wisdom of the universal field and be granted the personhood of the Devine Feminine. This does not make me better than anyone else on this earth, but it allows me the gifts of healing, speaking, singing, writing, and many others to be revealed. I urge you to be gentle and kind to yourself and you get emersed in the wisdom that flows here. --- This book presents some simple techniques to help us to soften the feelings of resentment and anger that can boil over and affect our lives in many ways. We must also become more useful in the things that are flowing to us so that we are able to transcend the feelings which are associated with resentment. This book offers you some concrete yet beautifully illustrated topics to help you become more focused on the things that are really going well in your life. In this regard, you are guided to become more focused on the positive and negate the things that affect your mental stability. Millions of people in the world today are suffering from feelings associated with discounted personality and resentment. These feelings stem from a place of deep despair in the systems around them, which are not functioning at optimum. It means that somewhere along the pathway of life, the real wisdom of the universal field gets diluted with lies and deceit. This then filters down through the education, health, and religious systems, to name a few, and this, in turn, spreads out to people who do not understand the true purpose of their lives. When there is disfunction in society we tend to become too complacent with our own feelings and allow whatever is presented to us to become the norm. It means that we cannot shape a future for mankind that is full of hope and fulfillment when the fundamentals are in a state of imbalance. The imbalances are called the densities of the planetary alignment, and this can cause a shift in the collective consciousness. It is also the place where millions of people can become offended by each other’s patterns of behaviour. One of the main causes of suffering today is the lack of purpose which people are feeling today. The discontent also stems from feelings of inadequacy and disillusionment. It is a growing concern we see happening all over the world. In this regard, even though the systems of the universal field are getting upgraded with more intelligence, the density is also getting distilled in the pathways of the body. It is this recognition that causes people to become more lucid in their thought patterns and then feel lost and empty. We should never become too resentful towards our own dignity so that it stifles our sense of self. Our true self is just waiting to be envelope in love when we realize that it is never too late to come into the light of truth and dignity. As many people aspire to do better in life, millions more are falling by the wayside with feelings of hopelessness and shame. This scourge is also causing people to have deep feelings of resentment toward themselves. This can essentially destroy the fabric of society and lead to more death and decay. This is because places like social media do not provide the real solutions which are needed to change the fabric of society. It is also stifling the things that are real in the natural world because much less people are taking time to enjoy the outdoors. In fact, more people are drawn to the wrong patterns of doing things with the mind and body and this causes more discomfort and distilled feelings of shame and guilt. When we consider that the parks and pathways are free and easy we must use more time to go for walks. We can especially benefit from going to places that have waterways like the riverfront and ocean. It is free of cost and can easily be translated into progressive thinking and feelings of hope and gratefulness. This further intensifies the crack in the system that is causing people to die by the millions from the many afflictions of life. This includes natural and man-made disasters like war and famine. The real concern is that there are others in the system who completely understand the way to empower people with the truth but are not doing this due to the need to control the population of the world with illogical teaching of what the goodness of life really means for them. If more of the wisdom of the universal field is infused into the fabric of society, then many more of the injustices of the world will cease. This also means that as the density of life is enveloped in the body things in the stratosphere are more likely to become more easily distorted and fractured. This means that in the summer heat millions of people can get ill due to excessive heat and even die of heatstroke. It is incumbent upon us to use our time wisely and become more loving towards ourselves and others so that we can share in the dignity. I am a gifted healer and speaker. I bring wisdom through the Language of Light and can clear pathways in life for your so that the karmic field of your body will be drawn to the richness of life, and you will attract more abundance and prosperity. As you read my books, know that you are infinitely guided to call me or connect with me on social media. I am available to speak and heal the things that are burdensome to you and your loved ones. Just be calm and trust that goodness is flowing always.
Historicizing Post-Discourses explores how postfeminism and postracialism intersect in dominant narratives of triumphalism, white male crisis, neoliberal and colonial feminism, and multiculturalism to perpetuate systemic injustice in America. By examining various locations within popular culture, including television shows such as Mad Men and The Wire; books such as The Help and Lean In; as well as Hollywood films, fan forums, political blogs, and presidential speeches, Tanya Ann Kennedy demonstrates the dominance of postfeminism and postracialism in US culture. In addition, she shows how post-discourses create affective communities through their engineering of the history of both race and gender justice.
What is it like to parent an adopted child, gifted with strong attributes and talents who, nonetheless, is burdened with abusive programming from an early age? How do you raise a loving, attractive boy, admired by adults, shunned by children, who you sense has a secret cancer growing inside? Who do you count on when tragedy inevitably strikes? Who can break the chains of intergenerational abuse?
This is the second book that I have written from the wisdom that flows from the universal field. It is emanating in space and time as the essence of time to reflect that the real challenges we face today are the encumberment of the mind and body which causes us to go into feelings of hopelessness and depression. This book will serve as a guidepost on the journey to enlightenment. It is especially suitable for those of you who are already triggered by the density of life and is propelled to the path of awakening. The main purpose of this book is to bring forth new wisdom to this world in a way that was never dispelled before. It is also to allow the wisdom of the ages to be upgraded in the way it is disseminated to the masses. I am gifted to share about the different ways that society can be more focused on the right details about the planet and use the resources of the earth wisely. In this regard I am using the gifts of speaking and writing to dispel fears that others are propagating about a new earth to come. We are all aligned differently and can begin to assimilate our own electromagnetic bodies so that we can be utilized to bring new wisdom to humanity. We are all gifted in many ways to clearing collective consciousness. We must always know that the patterns of the earth are changing constantly, and this give rise to new ways of understanding ourselves and others. This means that as the progression of time unfolds, we must become more aware of the newness of the times and allow the victories of those who came before us to become realized. It is the changing of time and seasons that are shared in this book as the eons of time marches on. We must come to the realization that the truth of what we are as humanity must become fully realized. The densities which are affecting our lives are really the triggers of the universal field that wants to become less destructive and more adaptive to our lives. As the essence of time become real to us, we change and adapt. Long Book Description This is the second book that I have written from the wisdom that flows from the universal field. It is emanating in space and time as the essence of time, to reflect that the real challenges we face today are the encumberment of the mind and body which causes us to go into feelings of hopelessness and depression. This book will serve as a guidepost on the journey to enlightenment. It is especially suitable for those of you who are already triggered by the density of life and is propelled to the path of awakening. The main purpose of this book is to bring forth new wisdom to this world in a way that was never dispelled before. It is also to allow the wisdom of the ages to be upgraded in the way it is disseminated to the masses. I am guided to share about the different ways that society can be more focused on the right details about the planet and use the resources of the earth wisely. In this regard, I am also gifted to heal those who are suffering with many of the ailments of life and contribute to higher levels of awareness and purpose. I am also writing to bring the corrected version of what it means to become embodied at this time in the world, especially in the Western hemisphere. I cannot be the subject of ridicule with those who do not understand what it means to become embodied, but I understand that it is also difficult to become knowledgeable when the wisdom of becoming aware of the nuances of the awakening process does not get distilled to the masses. The cumbersome way that it happened to me made me suffer greatly, but the resulting victory is also the greatest blessing in the world. I cannot even begin to appreciate the depth of what is happening to me at the moment, as it is always bringing new wisdom and grace to my life. I am infinitely guided to be grateful for everything all the time. There is much to be grateful for in every day and with each passing day, I am assured of new depth and meaning to life as an enlightened one. The reason for this book is also to assure those who are on the journey to awakening, to understand that the simplicity of the process will be continuously shared with you in many ways in the future. The conditions to become awakened require your thoughts to be clean and calm, and the whispering words do not need to be harsh on the body. The distinction between being awakened and not, is that the light that guides, is what is in control all the time, while the mind is in the background. It requires discipline to allow the light to be in the foreground of the body. This means that we cannot always escape from the thoughts that come. It is actually impossible to be absent from the mind. It is the best feeling to know that the light that shines is all that is required to be guided, and this is the essence of life. It is the greatest gift to the world to become one with the light or self. The light is the true self, and the mind is the reflection of the self. We cannot expect the difference to be clearer than this. The true self is always vying for the first place in the body and allows the mind to be in the second place. What this means is that the light is neither wrong nor right. It just is. The importance of gratitude is always a priority to the enlightened one, since to become embodied means, you begin to function more efficiently and optimally. This means that the essence of time becomes more realistic and genuine. It is the practical thing to be always grateful because it allows more wisdom to flow naturally since it needs the light to be brightest. This cannot always be possible because of the changing nature of time and space. As we assimilate the density of the day we are guided to become more in tuned with what is happening to us and be assured that the newness of the day will continue to unfold in many ways that brings us blessings and abundance. In this regard, we are also guided to become more astutely aware of the dangers of allowing the carelessness of wasted time to envelope our being and bring us to death and decay. The body always life to be refreshed with new ways of functioning and we must remember that the earth's patterns are constantly changing. This means that as the essence of time marches on we are called to become more realistic about what is right for us at any given time. The ocean is a critical part of our lives, and we must cherish the saline content of the water and air that we breathe. We must not take a single breath for granted. This book will truly help you to understand yourself at a deeper level and add new meaning and depth to your life. Be gentle as you read the pages of this book and allow yourself to immerse in the richness that flows on the pages. Become captivated with the new wisdom and allow yourself the dignity to become a vessel of light for those who are waiting to be healed. It is not very difficult to achieve when there is guidance from someone like me. We must also realize that time is very precious and so is life.
The authors skillfully combine a philosophical and pragmatic approach, exploring the cognitive processes behind children’s painting. To deepen children’s understanding, the book suggests meaningful tasks for each phase of imagery and offers methods for encouraging children to discuss the concepts involved in their work. Focusing on children from 1-1/2 to 11, the authors include in this second edition: a more detailed discussion about painting in the preschool; an expanded description of techniques effective in motivating five- and six-year-olds; and a stronger emphasis on painting as a more central, rather than occasional, activity in all classrooms. “Experience and Art is a lean, wise, and useful book . . . that speaks to those who teach children.” —From the Foreword by Elliot W. Eisner
Recently, literary critics and some historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to "mistake fiction for reality." However, the tendency in this criticism is to ignore the work of feminist political theorists who argue that a range of ideologies of the public and private consistently work to mask gender inequalities. In Keeping Up Her Geography, Tanya Ann Kenedy argues that these inequalities are shaped by multiple, but interconnected, spatial constructions of the public and private in US culture. Moreover, the early twentieth century when key spatial concepts – the nation, the urban, the regional, and the domestic – were being redefined is a pivotal era for understanding how the public-private binary remains tenaciously central to the defining of gender. Keeping Up Her Geography shows that this is the case in a range of literary and cultural contexts: in feminist speeches at the World’s Columbian Exposition, in middle-class women’s urban reform texts, in southern writer Ellen Glasgow’s novels, and in the autobiographical narratives of Zora Neale Hurston and Agnes Smedley.
This insightful volume describes a sample of prevention demonstration projects of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP). Substance Abuse Prevention in Multicultural Communities illuminates various aspects of prevention theory, practice, and research with a focus on the design, implementation, adaptation, and outcome of specific demonstration programs. Researchers work with prevention professionals to describe, measure, and intensify effects of interventions upon both intermediate problems and the ultimate long-term goal of decreasing substance abuse. Chapters in Substance Abuse Prevention in Multicultural Communities demonstrate how the CSAP demonstration logic model works. The process of prevention program design begins with an analysis of the root causes of the problem as defined by the specific community and illuminated by theory. Comprehensive prevention programs that buttress community strengths and build on local resources are then designed to deal with these problems. The programs you'll learn from include: a leadership and substance abuse prevention program, based on the social influence model, for girls in grades 6-8 from four geographically and ethnically diverse communities a program intricately designed to build resiliency and protective factors within young at-risk American Indian children in a Head Start program which addresses school transition, school readiness, school attendance, and classroom-based prevention activities. a family skills training program for African American parents in substance abuse treatment, which evolved in response to client and evaluation feedback a program for Native American families, which uses a culturally oriented curriculum emphasizing traditional values, beliefs, and practices a coalition of neighborhood agencies, organized to provide a comprehensive array of school and community-based prevention services, which impacted gang membership in inner-city Latino youth. a prevention program specifically designed to serve the diverse needs of Asian-American youth from five different Asian ethnic communities a model substance abuse prevention program implemented to provide counseling, mentoring, and academic support to Hispanic and African-American students in an urban public middle school the nationally recognized FAST program which strengthens the family and brings parents and schools together in building up protective factors for high risk elementary students a program that combines several complementary strategies to develop personal and communal empowerment in Native American communities. Substance Abuse Prevention in Multicultural Communities illustrates the wealth of information generated by demonstration programs. Unlike a standard research protocol that imposes and tests a rigid, single-focused intervention under carefully controlled circumstances, these programs do science in real-life situations, documenting and measuring effects of multiple interventions.
Posey loves Christmas, especially the presents! She shakes and squeezes each gift—what's inside? And one afternoon, when she's alone, Posey picks up a present and lifts the wrapping just a little.
The combination of scientific and institutional integrity represented by this book is unusual. It should be a model for future endeavors to help quantify environmental risk as a basis for good decisionmaking." â€"William D. Ruckelshaus, from the foreword. This volume, prepared under the auspices of the Health Effects Institute, an independent research organization created and funded jointly by the Environmental Protection Agency and the automobile industry, brings together experts on atmospheric exposure and on the biological effects of toxic substances to examine what is knownâ€"and not knownâ€"about the human health risks of automotive emissions.
For the first time, the secrets of legendary Hollywood stuntman, Kim Kahana's dangerous life journeys and personal struggles are told. His story reveals how he unlocks the power within himself to conquer life's spiritual, emotional and physical challenges. Just like the man, it's a hearty plate of gritty inspiration and encouragement.
Longman Cornerstones Pockets for pre-kindergarten builds oral language, phonemics awareness, and vocabulary through engaging activity-based lessons, creating a solid foundation for systematic literacy development. The program explores high-interest themes through motivating and developmentally appropriate activities.
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