In September of 1952, in small-town McFarland, North Dakota, Annie Clausen (the twelve-year-old daughter of the Farmers' Union store manager) doesn't know how good she has it. Annie is pretty sure her loving and hardworking parents expect way too much of her. Her mother's lists of chores take precedence over fun, and the math teacher seems to relish picking on her and her best friend, next-door neighbor, Bobby Merritt. A couple of bullies add to her list of problems. Meanwhile, Rosie Stample takes care of her little brother, Edgar, and doesn't realize how bad their life is going to get. Rosie's mother, who has suffered a horrific shock, has been hospitalized in Minnesota's state mental institution for the last two years. Her father brought his children to McFarland to live because he has found work nearby with a prosperous farmer, Herbert Sloven. Besides caring for Edgar, Rosie tries to do the laundry, cooking, cleaning, and still get to school, while her older brothers manage to bully and alienate everyone. Her father has started drinking again, and the news about her mother's progress gets worse. Neither girl could have predicted the changes that were to come.
By December of 1952, things are definitely looking up for all the Stample kids of McFarland, North Dakota. Albert and George have a good farm home with the Slovens, for whom their father had worked before his death. Rosie and Edgar are cared for and are happy with the Clausens, who manage the Farmers Union store. They see their big brothers almost daily. The Clausens daughter Annie and next-door neighbor / best friend, Bobby Merritt, make sure Rosie and Edgar take part in all the winter activities, especially skating. Christmas comes with a few surprises for all, but by New Years Eve, life is back to normal. Everyone celebrates at the Clausens, with feasting, card playing, and skating. Another blow, though, is about to strike the Stample kids, and grief and healing must begin anew. While her brothers come to terms with their sorrow, Rosie lives with a gray ache. Everyone is very kind, but Rosie has found only one way to copeone very dangerous way!
If you are facing difficult times or times of discouragement in your life and you are feeling like things are not going to get any better, be assured that with God your best days are ahead of you. This book was designed to encourage you through examples of how God has answered prayers. It will give hope to you as you partake of its passages from the Bible. This book will inspire you to look to God to come to your aid through its many prayers. You will rediscover that God is real and the smallest problem we face matters to Him, and that He still communicates with believers in many different ways.
This is a rich collection of personal narratives from seemingly distinct communities that promises to spark conversation and build relationships in the schools and community spaces of Lewiston and Dadaab.
Educated for Change?: Muslim Women in the West inserts Muslim women’s voice and action into the bifurcated, and otherwise male dominated, relations between the West and the Islamic East. A multilayered, multisite, educational ethnography, Buck and Silver’s study takes a novel approach to its feminist charge. Drawing upon thick description of refugee women’s school experiences in two seemingly distinct locations, Educated for Change? engages the dual nature of schooling as at once a disciplinary apparatus of local, national, and international governance, and paradoxically, a space and process through which school community members wield the power to observe, deliberate, and act as agents in the creative and willful endeavor of living. In doing so, the text locates formal schooling as a key location at which one can witness the politics of cultural change that emerge when Western and Islamic communities converge. Following an initial introduction to the ethno-historical formation and dissolution of the Somali postcolonial state resulting in a prolonged exodus of Somali citizens, the text is divided into two parts. Part One features an examination of young women’s approaches to schooling in the Dadaab refugee camps of northeastern Kenya; Part Two looks at schooling among Somali women resettled in a northern region of the United States. Each part includes a description of the unique, if interconnected, local factors and policies that give rise to particular forms and ends of schooling as designed for refugee women. Several chapters depict women’s strategic use of schooling to respond to structural forces, build intercultural social networks, and negotiate new ways of being Somali women. Educated for Change? concludes with an analysis of the implications of Somali refugee women’s schooling experiences for working definitions of global social justice that undergird feminist political scholarship and gender-sensitive, humanitarian aid policy and practice.
In this wonderous and relatable majestic land, when life becomes difficult, he appears. Who am I referring to? Well, the Burgundy Tiger of course. He is the kind of mild mannered, angelic cat that oozies out kindness, love, and peace. Whenever he is around everything miraculously becomes better. As you enter the Burgundy Tiger’s imperial world, you will be mesmerized by his splendid beauty and captivated by his goodness. But best of all, you will be amazed by the way he displays his unselfish acts of goodwill. Why? Because he is the one and only Burgundy Tiger. Come and journey with him.
The Fireside Epics are two traditional sets of verses, each telling the stories of past heroes and ancient ways of life. The Fyrdwhaet Saga does contain some lines in Anglo-Saxon but it is not inaccessible. If you love poetry, traditional stories, words, and language you will enjoy these Fireside Epics.
A 32-page photo biography of the great Zacchini family & their human cannonball legacy. Includes over 70 rare photos. Story written by Pat Ringling Buck, grandniece of John Ringling founder of the famed Ringling Brothers Circus. This is the only book in publication about the Great Zacchinis. To order: Casa di Zacchini, 941-359-3577.
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