In this laugh-out-loud compendium, Lauren Allison and Lisa Perry take on soccer moms, video dads, rabid gardeners, and grating couples in a collection of short, punchy essays. You know that overprotective PTA mom who needs to be resuscitated after she finds out you fed her son a hotdog? Or that couple who sends out the annual holiday letter about how their little Timmy came up with an alternative to fossil fuels while you're proud of simply replacing the lint catcher in your dryer once a year? Less-than-perfect moms and dads everywhere will be sure to relate to the authors' portraits of the most annoying people around!
Summer vacation. 1999. Fourteen-year-old Bandit finds herself alone and suffering in silence after a death in her family. Unable to cope with her grief-and forced to grow up quickly by neglectful parents-Bandit is in desperate need of a friend: Even if that friend is the neighborhood outcast, Allison Gale... a large-nosed girl with no sense of smell and a penchant for eating raw onions. The Ballad of Allison and Bandit tackles grief, growing up, and gaining a purpose. It's a darkly humorous drama about abandonment, isolation, mortality, friendship, and hope.
Hidden in Plain View is a study of the history of sexuality as it emerges from the institution of slavery in the United States and its transnational circuits. In order to situate the place of slavery in queer studies, I trace diverse sexual encounters within antebellum society, such as master-slave sexual acts, same-sex desire, alternative kinships, and cross-dressing, as they are encoded within a wide variety of sources, including sensational fiction, visual satires, and periodicals. My study requires a composite archive to enrich our account of the sexual landscape of the early nineteenth century, before the advent of the culturally defining and legally limiting terms of miscegenation, heterosexual, and homosexual. The sources that I gather in Hidden in Plain View depict how interracial desire is reworked in the literary and cultural imagination as a homoerotic space of same-sex affiliation. The arc of the project works through complex scenes of interracial and same-sex sexual affiliations within and tangential to the institution of slavery. These literary, archival, and historical accounts of sexual display do not reveal a triumphant insight into the queer past, and as such, they remain "hidden in plain view" within the sexual record of the institution of slavery. From Victor Séjour's transatlantic short story of the fraught love of a slave for his master in pre-revolutionary Haiti (1837), to the German immigrant Ludwig von Reizenstein's sensational fiction of revolutionary lesbian desire and interracial romance in New Orleans (1855), I connect the sphere of the erotic with the shifting political and social boundaries of race and sexuality. The archival research I provide on E.W. Clay, for example, reveals his visual satires (1830s) as mocking abolitionist politics not just through deriding heterosexual interracial desire, but through depicting same-sex desire as part and parcel of interraciality. These joint histories insist that the sexualized racism of slavery is an indelible part of how queerness is constituted today, despite its excision from current queer neoliberal politics. Hidden in Plain View thus shores up a narrative of the interracial, same-sex intimacies of people often deemed undesirable.
Summer vacation. 1999. Fourteen-year-old Bandit finds herself alone and suffering in silence after a death in her family. Unable to cope with her grief-and forced to grow up quickly by neglectful parents-Bandit is in desperate need of a friend: Even if that friend is the neighborhood outcast, Allison Gale... a large-nosed girl with no sense of smell and a penchant for eating raw onions. The Ballad of Allison and Bandit tackles grief, growing up, and gaining a purpose. It's a darkly humorous drama about abandonment, isolation, mortality, friendship, and hope.
College is a time to learn, explore, and grow, but what does faith have to do with it? In this collection of essays, gifted writers in their twenties and early thirties reflect on their college years by telling stories—some hilarious, some heart-wrenching—on the intersection of faith and college. At a time when so much is written about young adults but not by young adults, this collection allows writers to reveal their college experience in their own voice, sharing, through reflection on their own joys and sorrows, unique insight into students’ experience of college. Themes include negotiating identity, sex and sexuality, discerning the future, studying abroad, and transitions in faith. This collection includes stories from large public universities and small, faith-related colleges. Perfect for faith leaders, college administrators, study groups, young adults, and anyone who loves a college student, Kissing in the Chapel, Praying in the Frat House reveals college struggles that help us reflect on faith and life in college, and forever.
The academy is often described as an ivory tower, isolated from the community surrounding it. Presenting the theory, vision, and implementation of a socially engaged program for the Department of Human and Organizational Development (HOD) in Peabody’s College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University, Academics in Action! describes a more integrated model wherein students and faculty work with communities, learn from them, and bring to bear findings from theory and research to generate solutions to community problems. Offering examples of community-engaged theory, scholarship, teaching, and action, Academics in Action! describes the nuanced structures that foster and support their development within a research university. Theory and action span multiple ecological levels from individuals and small groups to organizations and social structures. The communities of engagement range from local neighborhoods and schools to arenas of national policy and international development. Reflecting the unique perspectives of research faculty, practitioners, and graduate students, Academics in Action! documents a specific philosophy of education that fosters and supports engagement; the potentially transformative nature of academic work for students, faculty, and the broader society; and some of the implications and challenges of action-oriented efforts in light of dynamics such as income inequality, racism, and global capitalism. This edited volume chronicles teaching, research, and community action that influences both inside and outside the classroom as well as presents dimensions of a participatory model that set such efforts into action.
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120 Pages Goals Diary Dream Diary Journal or Diary College Ruled Great for Homeschool Perfect for taking notes in school or to use as a diary. Great Book for School notes or anything kids and adults want to write down! Great Birthday Party Gift Favors!
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