Mr. Batson has been writing poetry and putting his thoughts on paper since he was a young child on his beloved islands of Eastport, Maine and Campobello, Canada. This compilation traces the changes from childhood through present day and depicts his very heart, revealing innermost feelings and observations about life’s lessons, adventures, joys, ardent hopes, trials and tribulations. His most ardent hope is that as he travels down life’s numerous pathways the positive lessons learned will provide some illumination in a darkening world.
Milton Joseph Batson has been chronicling his life experiences in poetic form and reflections since childhood, brilliantly describing inner thoughts about faith and human emotions as he traces the changes from childhood through maturity, writing from the perspectives of both a child and an adult, traveling through the various seasons of life. In The Heart Of Milton, Poetry, Love, Reflection Book One, the author's inspiring and expressive words are grouped into seven heartwarming, revealing sections that cover Forever Love; Mother and father; Children; Other Loves; My Country; Thoughts And More; culminating with Prayer. Dates beneath the poems and reflections help chronical Milton's experiences, and increased understanding, which work hand-in-hand as someone grows in spiritual exploration, faith, and ability to better comprehend life's many twisty pathways. As a little thought-provoking addition, he drew sketches and placed them above a few corresponding poems intended as pictorial puzzles paraphrasing portions of the poem; and dated his literary works in descending chronological order by date, to enable the reader to visualize changes in thinking and literary ability throughout the aging process. Milton Joseph Batson began writing poems and stories at an early age. This is his first book of poetry and reflection. Growing up he lived in the small island community of Eastport, Maine, with its Huckleberry Finn-type activities, and his grandparent's home on Campobello Island Canada. Milton served in the US. Air Force's Space and Missile Program for twenty years, after earning a degree in Applied Science/Industrial Technology from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He spent time bringing intercontinental ballistic missile silos to launch ready status in North Dakota and served at Vandenberg Air Force Base California in operational testing and preparing intercontinental ballistic missiles for test launches. After his U.S. Air Force career Milton worked twenty-one more years as a Disabled Veteran's Outreach Program specialist for the state of California, helping thousands of veterans transition back into civilian life, find jobs, and obtain other needed assistance through the federal Department of Veteran Affairs. He and his wife Panela live on the central coast of California, a stone's throw from the Pacific Ocean. They have seven children and twenty two and 4/5th grandchildren.
Milton Joseph Batson turns to poetry to more fully understand God's Word and its possibilities for humankind. His poems and reflections chronicle his life story, describing inner thoughts about faith, human emotion, and the indescribable fulfilling joy of experiencing God's miraculous love. The author's expressive words are grouped in sections that cover God's beauty and bounty; God's promises; God's gifts; God's wisdom, guidance, lessons learned; gratitude; and questions, searching and answers. Dates on each poem help chronicle Milton's experiences, and increasing comprehension, which work hand-in-hand as someone grows in faith and spiritual exploration. He included sketches above a few of his poems, intended as pictorial puzzles paraphrasing portions of the poem. Milton's heartwarming poems chronicle his journey as he works to share God's truths, his struggles along the way, and adventures with indescribable joy. His elegant words provide a truly enjoyable read for those who seek God's wisdom and appreciate poetry's ability to translate human feelings and emotions. But above all, Milton wants to help others experience God's grace filled love and enlightenment in their own lives: "My most ardent hope is that as I travel down life's numerous pathways, the positive lessons experienced and chronicled might provide some illumination in an otherwise darkening world." Milton Joseph Batson Milton Joseph Batson began writing poetry and stories at an early age. This is his second book of poetry. Growing up, he split his time between the small island community of Eastport, Maine, and its Huckleberry Finntype activities and his grandparents' home on Campobello Island, Canada. Milton served in the U.S. Air Force's space and missile program for twenty years, after earning a degree in applied science/industrial engineering from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He spent time bringing intercontinental ballistic missile silos to launch ready status in North Dakota and served at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California in operational testing, and preparing intercontinental ballistic missiles for test launches. After his U.S. Air Force career Milton worked twenty one years as a disabled veterans' outreach representative for the state of California, helping thousand of veterans transition back to civilian life, find jobs, and obtain other needed assistance through the federal Department of Veteran Affairs. He and his wife, Pamela, live on the central coast of California, a stones through from the Pacific Ocean. They have seven children and twenty-two grandchildren.
Mr. Batson has been writing poetry and putting his thoughts on paper since he was a young child on his beloved islands of Eastport, Maine and Campobello, Canada. This compilation traces the changes from childhood through present day and depicts his very heart, revealing innermost feelings and observations about life’s lessons, adventures, joys, ardent hopes, trials and tribulations. His most ardent hope is that as he travels down life’s numerous pathways the positive lessons learned will provide some illumination in a darkening world.
How can we draw on the liberating aspects of individualism in marriage without denying the importance of connection? How might we benefit from recognizing the importance of sharing and sacrifice in marriage without reinforcing the traditional view that women should subordinate their interests to those of other family members? In addressing these questions, Regan's analysis is informed by communitarian and liberal theory, as well as by feminist perspectives on marriage and family life.
Contemporary marriage involves complex notions of both connection and freedom. On the one hand, spouses are members of a shared community, while on the other they are discrete individuals with their own distinct interests. Alone Together explores the ways in which law seeks to accommodate tensions between commitment and freedom in marriage. Author Milton Regan suggests that only close attention to context can guide us in deciding what weight to assign to each dimension of spousal identity in a given setting. This interdisciplinary work has relevance to family law, family studies, feminist legal theory, and the debate between liberal and communitarian social theorists.
We need scarcely note that the topic of this book is the stuff of headlines. Around the world, political, economic, educational, military, religious, and social relations of every variety have a racial or ethnic component. One cannot begin to understand the history or contemporary situation of the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Great Britain, Lebanon, Mexico, Canada-indeed, almost any land-without careful attention to the influence of cultural and racial divisions. Preparation of this new edition has brought a strong sense of deja vu, with regard both to the persistence of old patterns of discrimination, even if in new guises, and also to the persistence of limited and constraining explanations. We have also found, however, rich new empirical studies, new theoretical perspectives, and greatly expanded activity and analyses from members of minority groups. Although this edition is an extensive revision, with reference both to the data used and the theoretical approaches examined, we have not shifted from our basically analytical perspective. We strongly support efforts to reduce discrimination and prejudice; but these can be successful only if we try to understand where we are and what forces are creating the existing situation. We hope to reduce the tendency to use declarations and condem nations of other persons' actions as substitutes for an investigation of their causes and consequences.
This book applies new scientific research in the fields of biology and genetics to an empirical study of the Greco-Roman civilizations and the European Renaissance. These two periods were remarkable in part because of the dominance of empathy and humanism in the philosophical thought of each era. Both periods were preceded by the influx of many populations and genetic lines, a circumstance this book treats as not coincidental but probably causative. The author cites the expression of new genetic combinations in these periods as evidence that genetic evolution can play a large part in the development of new philosophical concepts, as manifested in these two periods. The author explains that humanistic traits seem to rise and fall in lockstep throughout human history, directly or indirectly correlating with changing genetic underpinnings.
Scientists have emphasized the innate, genetically based nature of our fascination with the human face and its almost limitless expressive capacity, all of which is represented in the art of the last six centuries. But little attention has been paid to the anomoly of the vacuous expressions of earlier facial representations. Brener attributes this change to a change in the functioning of the human brain, as well as the role of cultural factors. It is the evolution of both genes and culture that has resulted in a marked increase in the human ability to create and interpret facial expressions. The result of this has impacted human behavior.
In the last three decades North Carolina has witnessed a remarkable growth in population, economic development, and political importance, and it now ranks as the tenth most populous state in the Union. The Tar Heel State: A History of North Carolina constitutes the most comprehensive and inclusive single-volume chronicle of the state's storied past to date, culminating with an attentive look at recent events that have transformed North Carolina into a southern megastate.
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