By allowing the child within to take center stage through rough times, survivor and author Patricia Beth Kramer entwines early life lessons with hardships encountered while fighting breast cancer. Color Me Pink is a five-year journey where prayers are answered, dreams come true, and readers will smile as they soak up the sweet taste of winning. This is a book full of noteworthy quotes and inspirational Bible scriptures to strengthen any woman's backbone.
The Karoo is big sky country; a land of vast open plains punctuated by flat-topped mountains, conical hills and secluded valleys, a land of scrubby bushes and hardy trees, where pioneers carved roads out of rock to set down roots in an unforgiving environment. Here dreams are born, legends are made, and outcasts find sanctuary. It is also an ancient place, whose story is revealed through geology, fossils and artefacts, and whose human lineage predates any written history. Today, the people who inhabit it must manifest the same fortitude that sustained those who left their footprints in the primieval mud. In Hidden Karoo you will find all this, and more. Through a series of superb photo-essays, this majestic place is revealed as a land where conservation and neglect are seldom far apart, where one town boasts splendidly restored buildings, while along a dusty back road lie forgotten villages waiting for ... something. Could it be a renewal, or a slow death? There’s nothing novel about the movement of people from country to city, and the Karoo mimics other parts of the world where rural areas become derelict as they are depopulated. Hidden Karoo presents a snapshot of the region as it is now, offering a glimpse into towns and villages, farmsteads and churches, important buildings and humble homes, all against a backdrop of awe-inspiring landscapes. Through words and pictures, it prompts us to consider what was, what is and, perhaps, what might be. One constant about the Karoo is change. A book can do no more than capture a moment in time or depict fragments of a place, but in doing so, it bears witness to the past and offers the hope that there may yet be a future for this unparalleled part of our country.
The essays in this volume discuss racism and sexism as they affect mental health. In particular, they focus on training, diagnosis, treatment, and research, emphasizing the power relationships between individuals and groups that cause unequal access to mental health care. They offer perspectives on issues and their distinct effects on mental health: interracial adoptions, teenage motherhood, gender bias in mental health diagnosis and therapy, prisons used as substitutes for hospitals, homeless families, and increasing violence- in the home, on college campuses, and in the streets.
The "Dynamics of Relationships" program was originally designed as a preventive approach to the many social ills affecting young people and families today. This teacher's manual for the program provides objectives and activities for helping students develop and maintain a strong and secure self-image, effective communication and coping skills, and realistic expectations about the complexity of adult roles, relationships, marriage, parenting, and family life. The first volume of the teacher's guide addresses several elements directly related to the real problems of youth. The 21 chapter topics include: self-esteem; communication; anger and conflict; gender roles; friendship; affection and touching; love; jealousy; expectations; dating; single life; selecting a partner; living together; marriage preparation; intermarriage; marriage; separate but equal identity; power; to be or not to be parents; when baby makes three; and dual income families. Each chapter contains various activities, a series of review and discussion questions, various experiential exercises and activities for teachers, and a list of resource materials and contacts to further assistance. A section of supplementary teaching materials, on areas such as gangs, date rape, suicide, and grief, is included. The second volume of the guide was developed in light of the AIDS virus. The three chapters of this guide deal with sexuality, alternative sexual orientation, and alternative lifestyles. (AA)
Six-year-old Mia misses her daddy who is serving in the military and deployed to Africa. While at Camp Gecko at her grandparents' ranch in central Texas, she learns about Africa and imagines waving to her daddy as she rides around in the safari's Ranger. The best part about Camp Gecko is the new friends she makes -- children from a family of missionaries to Africa! She learns of the hardships of missionary life while they inform people about God. Thankful the seven campers are only pretending to be in Africa, they go bowling, act in funny skits, make animal-shaped cookies, catch frogs, and go on treasure hunts. Also while at camp, Mia beats everyone in shooting wild game and helps discover an escaped lion hiding in the barn. While she is having so much fun at Camp Gecko, what does Mia forget about? How does her brother, Thomas, help her understand that everything will be okay?
This book is the student manual for The Dynamics of Relationships, a preventative program designed to teach teens skills for dealing with adolescence and their approaching adulthood.
Shows how heredity, environment, and personality and character traits all combine to make each person a unique individual with his or her own special sense of self-worth.
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