Akron and Summit County's classic hot spots have satisfied palates since the early twentieth century. Akron alone could sit up to thirty thousand people at once during the golden age of the '50s and '60s. Marcel's made a name for itself with its scampi, and Icaomini's became synonymous with lobster. Ladd's dished crowd-pleasing coney dogs, and Yanko's sliced up its mouthwatering shish kabobs. Digging up vintage images and recipes, author Sharon Myers leads readers on a delectable trip down memory lane to the area's most renowned and cherished eateries.
The life of a teenage girl is full of drama. Contrary to popular belief, drama isn't always "all that." Alexis, Bonita, Courtney, and Deidre pinky pledge to survive it together. Friends since elementary school, reared in the church, they learn the hard way that life outside of the rules, hidden in secrecy, is more drama than they can handle alone. Alexis is the smallest, smartest, and strongest of them all, or so they thought. Bonita is the bubbly, social butt erfl y who always keeps it real. Courtney is the level-headed, spiritual leader of them. Deidre is the spoiled one with her daddy wrapped around her fi nger. Together, they learn that even when ti mes get tough and ugly, strong relati onships with friends and family can and will overpower any drama.
Step into the world of virtual reality with your newly created avatar and begin to experience the tools that make this world interactive! During their infancy stage, virtual environments were largely based upon the gaming community and over time have been adapted to meet the growing number of users and educators. The Virtual Worlds Handbook, with CD-ROM, provides a user-friendly approach that will help trainers and educators create an effective and interactive environment within the Second Life virtual world. This book was written to help the novice user tackle the natural learning curve while providing the experienced user with tips, tools, and tricks to help any educator or trainer meet their professional goals faster. The opportunities using virtual reality are limitless and provide online students with a unique opportunity to connect both physically and educationally to one another, to faculty, to university, and to a worldwide market.
A study of the early years of the life insurance industry in 19th century America. Investing in Life considers the creation and expansion of the American life insurance industry from its early origins in the 1810s through the 1860s and examines how its growth paralleled and influenced the emergence of the middle class. Using the economic instability of the period as her backdrop, Sharon Ann Murphy also analyzes changing roles for women; the attempts to adapt slavery to an urban, industrialized setting; the rise of statistical thinking; and efforts to regulate the business environment. Her research directly challenges the conclusions of previous scholars who have dismissed the importance of the earliest industry innovators while exaggerating clerical opposition to life insurance. Murphy examines insurance as both a business and a social phenomenon. She looks at how insurance companies positioned themselves within the marketplace, calculated risks associated with disease, intemperance, occupational hazard, and war, and battled fraud, murder, and suicide. She also discusses the role of consumers?their reasons for purchasing life insurance, their perceptions of the industry, and how their desires and demands shaped the ultimate product. Winner, Hagley Prize in Business History, Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference Praise for Investing in Life “A well-written, well-argued book that makes a number of important contributions to the history of business and capitalism in antebellum America.” —Sean H. Vanatta, Common Place “An intriguing, instructive history of the establishment and development of the life insurance industry that reveals a good deal about changing social and commercial conditions in antebellum America . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
In Subversive Spirituality Peterson has gathered together a host of writings penned over the past twenty-five years that reflect on the overlooked facets of the spiritual life. Comprising occasional pieces, short biblical studies, poetry, pastoral readings, and interviews, this work captures the epiphanies of life with the pleasing pastoral style and inspiring depth of insight for which Peterson is well known. Peterson describes his book this way: "This gathering of articles and essays, poems and conversations, is a kind of kitchen midden of my noticings of the obvious in the course of living out the Christian life in the vocational context of pastor, writer, and professor. The randomness and repetitions and false starts are rough edges that I am leaving as is in the interests of honesty. Spirituality is not, by and large, smooth. I do hope, however, that these pieces will be found to be freshly phrased".
This is a thoughtful response to the question posed to all mothers of girls, implicitly or explicitly, of what it means to be a woman. It's written as a letter directly addressing the daughter in clear, everyday language, offering the best answer that the mother has been able to figure out, based on her analyses of eleven dimensions of women's lives. These appear in chapters about: gender origins; women's relationships with children and men's lack of equivalent relationships; the reproductive as well as the so-called "productive" economy where women work; human formation via childraising practices; social identity and self-experience resulting from those practices; Marxist and other governments' failures to "liberate" women; race and class colorations of women's experience in the U.S.; and the shitwork factor en(gendered) by present social relations. What makes this book different from many others addressing these issues? 1. An historical perspective of gender relations as a product of human development created by both men and women. 2. A highly original analysis of political economy which defines labor relations as including: * the production of socialized humans * the servicing of human emotional needs * the production of leisure time and * the production of all non-profitable goods and services (usually those for immediate consumption) necessary for human survival 3. Practical suggestions yielded by that analysis for creating a new social order in which children, women, and men enjoy themselves and each other much, much more than they do today (a vision). 4. Humor, hope, and a flat-out sincere voice spoken by a real mother to a real girl. (Lit critters beware! This book is in earnest.) It's for mothers to give to themselves and to their daughters. It's for all men and women bewildered by these issues who want to make things better.
Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Theology - Miscellaneous, grade: A, , course: Master of Metaphysical Science - Reincarnation, language: English, abstract: There are many discussions and opinions on the topic of Reincarnation and its link to the Akashic records. First, this paper will examine myths as well as stated proof of reincarnation, as well as the proof of the existence of the Akashic Records or the abilities of people being able to access the Akashic records. Another goal of the paper is to show individuals as well as some religions including Christianity, that it is possible to find out for themselves that there is such as life after death, and how we as individuals can access information from higher realms. When this information is accessed it allows us to find evidence for ourselves that reincarnation happens to the soul, and that there is life after death. The paper then analyzes the myths and proofs of such existence of life after death and in the next section will discuss the Akashic records and the fact that they do exist and are accessible to each individual on the planet. This section will also bring together Reincarnation and the Akashic Records, revealing how past lives can be healed so that we may finally reach ascension. The last section of this paper will share why we must go beyond religion, which limits our understanding. We must understand that when we find truth we find God, by going within ourselves. We can then see how the human mind with all its limitations keep us from the wide and broad Mind of God. When we truly realize we are both physical and spiritual beings with a body that will eventually die and a soul that will live forever because it is a part of God, we can begin to understand the truths of Reincarnation and its link to the Akashic records. Because of the fact that we are physical and spiritual beings, we have two sets of senses. There are the five senses which connect us to this world; these include taste, touch, smell, hearing and touch. There are other senses which connect us to the spiritual world, including intuition, dreams, visions and our psychic abilities.
Return to Miss Stretchberry's class with Jack, the reluctant poet, who over the course of a year encounters new and challenging things like metaphors, alliterations, onomatopoeia, and one mean fat black cat! The Newbery Medal-winning author of Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech, introduced Jack in Love That Dog, a New York Times bestseller. Both Love That Dog and Hate That Cat are approachable, funny, warm-hearted introductions to poetry told from the point of view of a very real kid wrestling with school assignments. These books are fast reads that will be welcomed by middle graders as they too wonder how poetry and schoolwork connect with their interests and how to uncover their true voices. In Hate That Cat, Jack is only trying to save that fat black cat stuck in the tree by his bus stop—but the cat scratches him instead! At school Miss Stretchberry begins teaching new poems, everything from William Carlos Williams to Valerie Worth to T.S. Eliot. As the year progresses, Jack gradually learns to love that cat and finds new ways to express himself.
Hanna guides students through this in-depth, positive approach to developing healthy interactions and relationships in all aspects of life. Coverage includes personal understanding and self-enhancement, improving interpersonal communication skills, and developing and enriching different types of relationships. This edition represents a major revision to include updating of recent relevant material. It also includes new coverage to reflect recent developments in the field of psychology and related areas.
A young farm boy and his parents become entangled in a neo-Nazi plot to isolate a small town in eastern Maryland and bring fear and persecution to America.
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