What is Worth While? Insights for Your Spiritual Journey focuses on the true meaning of life and what is the purpose of life, as well as how to separate and concentrate on what is truly meaningful and significant in this life. This compact volume speaks with the resonance that many books and talks aim to achieve. What is Worth While? By Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay, Ph.D. is the print version of an address given to a group of college alumnae that offers spiritual wisdom and guidance, with the aim of sharing the meaning of happiness, what our life purpose is, and how to be happy.
What is Worth While?" This fascinating little book, written in 1893, starts out with, "Only one life to live! We all want to do our best with it. We all want to make the most of it. How can we best get hold of it? How can we accomplish the most with the energies and powers at our command? What is worth while?" It was penned by Anne Robertson (Brown) Lindsay, the first woman to earn a doctorate from Penn State University. She wrote a number of books on theological topics, most of which were published in the early-1900s.This particular book is both inspirational and motivational. It addresses the questions faced by students as they graduate from college, and was actually given as a speech to the Philadelphia branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae.
The Safford and Aravaipa valleys of Arizona have always lingered in the wings of Southwestern archaeology, away from the spotlight held by the more thoroughly studied Tucson and Phoenix Basins, the Mogollon Rim area, and the Colorado Plateau. Yet these two valleys hold intriguing clues to understanding the social processes, particularly migration and the interaction it engenders, that led to the coalescence of ancient populations throughout the Greater Southwest in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries A.D. Because the Safford and Aravaipa valleys show cultural influences from diverse areas of the pre-Hispanic Southwest, particularly the Phoenix Basin, the Mogollon Rim, and the Kayenta and Tusayan region, they serve as a microcosm of many of the social changes that occurred in other areas of the Southwest during this time. This research explores the social changes that took place in the Safford and Aravaipa valleys during the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries A.D. as a result of an influx of migrants from the Kayenta and Tusayan regions of northeastern Arizona. Focusing on domestic architecture and ceramics, the author evaluates how migration affects the expression of identity of both migrant and indigenous populations in the Safford and Aravaipa valleys and provides a model for research in other areas where migration played an important role. Archaeologists interested in the Greater Southwest will find a wealth of information on these little-known valleys that provides contextualization for this important and intriguing time period, and those interested in migration in the ancient past will find a useful case study that goes beyond identifying incidents of migration to understanding its long-lasting implications for both migrants and the local people they impacted.
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