In Empower the Women Within: Stepping into Total Freedom you will be taken on a journey with the author who suffered abuse in a marriage which lasted more than 20 years and how she became empowered, instead.
This book is about a young girl who was broken. A girl that overcame many adversities in her life. A girl who became a woman. A girl that did the best she could with what she had, until she accepted the Lord as her savior and realized she didn’t have to do it alone. This book tells the story of forgiveness, grace and how through His blood alone we can be made new. We pray the same for you.
Meet Carmen! She LOVES the spotlight and applause. She's an actress, a singer, a dancer—a one-girl sensación! She exhausts her parents with her nightly performances and completely overshadows Eduardo, her adoring little brother. But when Eduardo shows his big sister how much he loves her in a way even Carmen can’t ignore, will Carmen realize that the stage is big enough for two? Exuberant illustrations by Lorena Alvarez Gómez offer the perfect complement to Anika Denise’s warm, Spanish-sprinkled text in this celebration of theater, family, and imagination.
Looking back I can see the steps Ive already conquered in life. They depict places of heartaches as well as triumphs. My life is as it is with ups and downs and curves and stops; with trials, disappointments and tragedies; with hope, love and peace. Its necessary to reflect upon those moments but unnecessary to stay in those moments. I am finally back on the journey that I am supposed to be on. I am willing now, more than ever, to step forward and be the person God created me to be and to live out His purposes while I still have breath on this earth. When Im finished, Hell take me home. Thats the story of my life. Whats yours?
The life of Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer Rita Moreno, from her girlhood journey to the United States to her rise as a timeless superstar"--
In each chapter you will find a song selection that is used to create an encouraging environment and worship experience. In this story you will gain knowledge about Spirituality, Relationships, Investments, Feminicity, Synchronicity and much more. I admonish you to take a walk with me down the path to my journey of being Gracefully Broken!! This story was birthed to inspire, encourage, and break chains of the heartache and painful situations and experiences that we encounter during our jump into entrepreneurship. Finding ourselves mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually is never comfortable or easy. In each chapter you will find a song selection that is used to create an encouraging environment and worship experience. In this story you will gain knowledge about Spirituality, Relationships, Investments, Feminicity, Synchronicity and much more. I admonish you to take a walk with me down the path to my journey of being Gracefully Broken!!
NOW IS THE TIME TO RISE UP!Shannon shares poignant stories that detail the struggles in her journey to be the “Woman of God” she was called to be. She realized that she was living below her privileges and that she was being watched by the people of the world. She made a choice to turn away from the things of her past and represent GOD fully. Her life has been like a butterfly going through its metamorphosis as it slowly evolves, transforms, and rises up to spread its wings and soar towards His marvelous light. She hopes that her life's experiences and revelations will ignite a fire in Christians of all ages to Rise Up and be real Saints and not S”Aints”.
After an encounter with Jesus Christ, Denise changed her life. She received God's forgiveness, and with His help overcame addictions to drugs and alcohol. Since 1987, she has been continuously sharing her passionate testimony and information exposing the lies and rhetoric about legal abortion. She confidently declares how it is damaging women's mental and reproductive health. Denise has become a resilient voice for her children who had no voice, and with determination continues to run the race set before her to change hearts, minds, laws and history for such a time as this. Denise has appeared as a guest on many radio and television programs shedding light on the truth, as well as revealing the mountain of studies proving legal abortion is not a "safe" procedure for women. The CBC, The National aired a documentary on her work in 2005. She is the Founder/President of Canada Silent No More, a non-profit association of former abortion patients devastated after abortion, and who are speaking out. They are also collecting testimonies from women hurt by abortion; as well as ministering to the broken hearted. Since 2006, Denise has been bringing teams to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, Geneva and the World Health Organization to meet with UN Ambassadors, Ministers of Health and Delegates bringing insight and education on the humanity of children in the womb. In 2012 she was presented The Queen Elizabeth II, Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Governor General of Canada for her contributions to pro-life work. She is in the "Hush" documentary; and hopes to make a movie one day. Denise is married to Paul, and they have a miracle son, Shawn; the greatest blessing of all. For more information go to: www.canadasilentnomore.com
Explores the creation of identities through cross-cultural interactions in multiethnic commercial settlements in the Archaic and Classical Mediterranean.
In the 1930s as she ventures from her small and poor New Mexican farming community to go to high school in the city, teenaged Cecilia finds herself challenged in uxexpected ways.
This revised and expanded edition of the authoritative history of Spanish Texas features significant new discoveries throughout. Modern Texas, like Mexico, traces its beginning to sixteenth-century encounters between Europeans and Indians. Unlike Mexico, however, Texas eventually received the stamp of Anglo-American culture, so that Spanish contributions to present-day Texas tend to be obscured or even unknown. Spanish Texas, 1519–1821 undercores the significance of the Spanish period in Texas history. Beginning with an overview of the land and its inhabitants before the arrival of Europeans, it covers major people and events from early exploration to the end of the colonial era. This new edition of Spanish Texas has been extensively revised and expanded to include a wealth of new discoveries. The opening chapter on Texas Indians reveals their high degree of independence from European influence. Other chapters incorporate new information on La Salle's Garcitas Creek colony and French influences in Texas, the destruction of the San Sabá mission and the Spanish punitive expedition to the Red River in the late 1750s, and eighteenth-century Bourbon reforms in the Americas. Drawing on new and original research, the authors shed new light on the experience of women in Spanish Texas across ethnic, racial, and class distinctions, including new revelations about their legal rights on the Texas frontier.
Before the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana became one of the state's top private employers--with its vast landholdings and economic enterprises--they lived well below the poverty line and lacked any clear legal status. After settling in the Bayou Blue in 1884, they forged friendships with their neighbors, sparked local tourism, and struck strategic alliances with civic and business leaders, aid groups, legislators, and other tribes. Coushattas also engaged the public with stories about the tribe's culture, history, and economic interests that intersected with the larger community, all while battling legal marginalization exacerbated by inconsistent government reports regarding their citizenship, treaty status, and eligibility for federal Indian services. Well into the twentieth century, the tribe had to overcome several major hurdles, including lobbying the Louisiana legislature to pass the state's first tribal recognition resolution (1972), convincing the Department of the Interior to formally acknowledge the Coushatta Tribe through administrative channels (1973), and engaging in an effort to acquire land and build infrastructure. Basket Diplomacy demonstrates how the Coushatta community worked together--each generation laying a foundation for the next--and how they leveraged opportunities so that existing and newly acquired knowledge, timing, and skill worked in tandem.
Family Violence in the United States takes an ecological approach to examining violence and abuse within the context of families. Easy-to-read chapters are organized by exploring the "Scope of the Problem", definitions of key terminology, predictors, and consequences of different forms of maltreatment. Attention is paid to larger social systems that can contribute to abuse, as well as community, relationship, and individual predictors of both perpetration and victimization. Additionally, there is an emphasis on both prevention and intervention of family violence at various levels of the ecological model. Authors Denise A. Hines, Kathleen Malley-Morrison, and Leila B. Dutton help students explore what family violence is and the reasons why it happens. Their approach covers contemporary and controversial topics across the lifespan, including maltreatment of male partners by women, of parents, within sexual minority relationships, and on college campuses. This 3rd edition is filled with chapter-opening cases to prompt discussion within the classroom as well as considerations of context and application in the larger community. Rich in scholarly references and case materials, it is suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals alike.
The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections has undergone seven previous editions, the latest in 1988, covering 1900 through 1985. In this new edition, Denise Montgomery has expanded the volume to include collections published in the entire English-speaking world through 2000 and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors. Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume is a valuable resource for libraries worldwide.
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Havana's secondary schools, Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values is a remarkable ethnography, charting the government's attempts to transform a future generation of citizens. While Cuba's high literacy rate is often lauded, the little-known dropout rates among teenagers receive less scrutiny. In vivid, succinct reporting, educational anthropologist Denise Blum now shares her findings regarding this overlooked aspect of the Castro legacy. Despite the fact that primary-school enrollment rates exceed those of the United States, the reverse is true for the crucial years between elementary school and college. After providing a history of Fidel Castro's educational revolution begun in 1953, Denise Blum delivers a close examination of the effects of the program, which was designed to produce a society motivated by benevolence rather than materialism. Exploring pioneering pedagogy, the notion of civic education, and the rural components of the program, Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values brims with surprising findings about one of the most intriguing social experiments in recent history.
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