This volume explores Shakespeare’s interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action within the plays, even as it generates one of the audience’s most common responses to tragic drama in the theater. For Shakespeare, the word "pity" contained a broader range of meaning than it does in modern English, and was often associated with ideas such as mercy, compassion, charity, pardon, and clemency. This cluster of ideas provides Shakespeare’s characters with a rich range of possibilities for engaging some of humanity’s deepest emotional commitments, in which pity can be seen as a powerful stimulus for fostering social harmony, love, and forgiveness. However, Shakespeare also dramatizes pity’s potential for deception, when the appeal to pity is not genuine, and conceals contrary motives of vengeance and cruelty. As Shakespeare’s works remain relevant for modern audiences and readers, so too does his dramatization of the powerful ways in which emotions such as pity remain essential to our understanding of our shared humanity and of our awareness of compassion’s role in our own private and civic lives.
Paint it black. That's what Combat Tours Unlimited does — takes our gray postmodern, postmortem, post-history, post-ethics, post-Toasties world and paints it black. From the Book of Job to the banks of a stinking jungle river in the south of Thailand, or what used to be Thailand, this novella takes you through a guided tour both of a post-apocalyptic war and of postmodern hypocrisy on sex, death, and spirit. Set largely on the battlefields of Thailand's troubled southern provinces in the year 2016, Combat Tours is a lyrically written novella, dripping with religious iconography and depicting an amoral, blood stained world of violence, lust and personal compromise.
The HR Answer Book is an easy-to-use problem solver for managers and human resources professionals struggling to adapt to new workplace challenges. Authors Shawn Smith and Rebecca Mazin address more than 200 of the most common employer questions relating to job functions such as recruitment and hiring, discipline and downsizing, compensation and benefits, and training and employee relations. As a result, the book equips readers with the industry's best practices to overcome any hurdle and experience astounding success in their roles.The updated second edition of The HR Answer Book contains a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the human resources field for management instructors, including revised and expanded sections on FMLA, health insurance changes, compensation laws, salary reductions, and using social networking to recruit employees. It is also packed with bonus checklists including: 10 Questions to Ask Before Scheduling an Interview, Job Applicant Flow logs, Performance Goals forms, and an Exit Interview Questionnaire.In the fast-paced environment of the twenty-first century, human resources professionals and department managers must try on new approaches to success. Whether used as a cover-to-cover resource or a quick reference for tackling specific challenges, this book offers the immediately accessible tools you need to thrive and help others--and your organization--do the same.
The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to see with the human eye. In At the Edge of Sight, Shawn Michelle Smith engages these dynamics of seeing and not seeing, focusing attention as much on absence as presence, on the invisible as the visible. Exploring the limits of photography and vision, she asks: What fails to register photographically, and what remains beyond the frame? What is hidden by design, and what is obscured by cultural blindness? Smith studies manifestations of photography's brush with the unseen in her own photographic work and across the wide-ranging images of early American photographers, including F. Holland Day, Eadweard Muybridge, Andrew J. Russell, Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, and Augustus Washington. She concludes by showing how concerns raised in the nineteenth century remain pertinent today in the photographs of Abu Ghraib. Ultimately, Smith explores the capacity of photography to reveal what remains beyond the edge of sight.
For the desire of money, murder, love, sex, and power, a Caucasian pimp stops at nothing to succeed on the mean streets of Hollywood CA. This unique story has strong fascinating characters not stereotypes. Growing up in Compton Dollar Bill is an ambitious child always trying to make a dollar by any mean necessary by age eleven he is a look - out man for a drug dealer quickly graduating to selling drugs, and by the age thirteen becoming the richest kid in the neighborhood but despite his hard work it all comes to an abrupt end when his house was raided by cops and he is sentenced to five years in prison. Back on the streets as a young man he crosses paths with a beautiful mixed African American woman who introduces him to the underworld of prostitution drug deals and murder on the streets of Sunset Blvd. In Hollywood California.
Visual texts uniquely demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. In American Archives Shawn Michelle Smith offers a bold and disturbing account of how photography and the sciences of biological racialism joined forces in the nineteenth century to offer an idea of what Americans look like--or "should" look like. Her varied sources, which include the middle-class portrait, baby picture, criminal mugshot, and eugenicist record, as well as literary, scientific, and popular texts, enable her to demonstrate how new visual paradigms posed bodily appearance as an index to interior "essence." Ultimately we see how competing preoccupations over gender, class, race, and American identity were played out in the making of a wide range of popular and institutional photographs. Smith demonstrates that as the body was variously mapped and defined as the key to essentialized identities, the image of the white middle-class woman was often held up as the most complete American ideal. She begins by studying gendered images of middle-class domesticity to expose a transformation of feminine architectures of interiority into the "essences" of "blood," "character," and "race." She reads visual documents, as well as literary texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pauline Hopkins, and Theodore Dreiser, as both indices of and forms of resistance to dominant images of gender, class, race, and national identity. Through this analysis Smith shows how the white male gaze that sought to define and constrain white women and people of color was contested and transformed over the course of the nineteenth century. Smith identifies nineteenth-century visual paradigms that continue to shape debates about the terms of American belonging today. American Archives contributes significantly to the growing field of American visual cultural studies, and it is unprecedented in explaining how practices of racialized looking and the parameters of "American looks" were established in the first place.
In Photographic Returns Shawn Michelle Smith traces how historical moments of racial crisis come to be known photographically and how the past continues to inhabit, punctuate, and transform the present through the photographic medium in contemporary art. Smith engages photographs by Rashid Johnson, Sally Mann, Deborah Luster, Lorna Simpson, Jason Lazarus, Carrie Mae Weems, Taryn Simon, and Dawoud Bey, among others. Each of these artists turns to the past—whether by using nineteenth-century techniques to produce images or by re-creating iconic historic photographs—as a way to use history to negotiate the present and to call attention to the unfinished political project of racial justice in the United States. By interrogating their use of photography to recall, revise, and amplify the relationship between racial politics of the past and present, Smith locates a temporal recursivity that is intrinsic to photography, in which images return to haunt the viewer and prompt reflection on the present and an imagination of a more just future.
Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Shawn Michelle Smith reveals the visual dimension of the color line that Du Bois famously called “the problem of the twentieth century.” Du Bois’s prize-winning exhibit consisted of three albums together containing 363 black-and-white photographs, mostly of middle-class African Americans from Atlanta and other parts of Georgia. Smith provides an extensive analysis of the images, the antiracist message Du Bois conveyed by collecting and displaying them, and their connection to his critical thought. She contends that Du Bois was an early visual theorist of race and racism and demonstrates how such an understanding makes the important concepts he developed—including double consciousness, the color line, the Veil, and second sight—available to visual culture and African American studies scholars in powerful new ways. Smith reads Du Bois’s photographs in relation to other turn-of-the-century images such as scientific typologies, criminal mugshots, racist caricatures, and lynching photographs. By juxtaposing these images with reproductions from Du Bois’s exhibition archive, Smith shows how Du Bois deliberately challenged racist representations of African Americans. Emphasizing the importance of comparing multiple visual archives, Photography on the Color Line reinvigorates understandings of the stakes of representation and the fundamental connections between race and visual culture in the United States.
Cassia, a young slave, has never known freedom. She has spent her life serving Mistress Helena, whose brutality has been increasing. With her son, Master Marius, away so much overseeing their shipping business, Helena has no one to tame her fury. But the streets throughout the Ancient Rome empire aren’t safe for Cassia either. Christians are being found and taken to be executed by orders of Emperor Trajan and Pliny the Younger. When Cassia’s own mother, Livia, is taken to jail, Cassia is sure that all is lost. When Master Marius returns home, he finds his household in chaos and people he cares about taken away from him. As a leader in his community, how can Marius share the Good News that he has found for himself and make a difference in the lives of the people he loves? And can he ever bring his mother the peace that she longs for? In a time when Christianity is against the law, freedom is something that few can claim. But perhaps freedom is more easily obtained than any of them realize.
First Published in 2005. While many previous books on Pynchon allude to his fictional engagement with historical events and figures, this book explores Pynchon as a historical novelist and, by extension, historical thinker. The book interprets Pynchon's four major novels V., Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, and Mason & Dixon through the prism of historical interpretation and representation. In doing so, it argues that Pynchon's innovative narrative techniques express his philosophy of history and historical representation through the form of his texts.
A lucid, smart, engaging, and accessible introduction to the impact of lynching photography on the history of race and violence in America. "—Grace Elizabeth Hale, author of Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in America, 1890-1940 "With admirable courage, Dora Apel and Shawn Michelle Smith examine lynching photographs that are horrifying, shameful, and elusive; with admirable sensitivity they help us delve into the meaning and legacy of these difficult images. They show us how the images change when viewed from different perspectives, they reveal how the photographs have continued to affect popular culture and political debates, and they delineate how the pictures produce a dialectic of shame and atonement."—Ashraf H. A. Rushdy, author of Neo-Slave Narratives and Remembering Generations "This thoughtful and engaging book offers a highly accessible yet theoretically sophisticated discussion of a painful, complicated, and unavoidable subject. Apel and Smith, employing complementary (and sometimes overlapping) methodological approaches to reading these images, impress upon us how inextricable photography and lynching are, and how we cannot comprehend lynching without making sense of its photographic representations."—Leigh Raiford, co-editor of The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory "Our newspapers have recently been filled with photographs of mutilated, tortured bodies from both war fronts and domestic arenas. How do we understand such photographs? Why do people take them? Why do we look at them? The two essays by Apel and Smith address photographs of lynching, but their analysis can be applied to a broader spectrum of images presenting ritual or spectacle killings."—Frances Pohl, author of Framing America: A Social History of American Art
Your mind is not built to make you happy; it’s built to help you survive. So far, it’s done a great job! But in the process, it may have developed some bad habits, like avoiding new experiences or scrounging around for problems where none exist. Is it any wonder that worry, bad moods, and self-critical thoughts so often get in the way of enjoying life? Based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), The User’s Guide to the Human Mind is a road map to the puzzling inner workings of the human mind, replete with exercises for overriding the mind’s natural impulses toward worry, self-criticism, and fear, and helpful tips for acting in the service of your values and emotional well-being—even when your mind has other plans. •Find out how your mind tries to limit your behavior and your potential •Discover how pessimism functions as your mind’s error management system •Learn why you shouldn’t believe everything you think •Overrule your thoughts and feelings and take charge of your mind and your life
Kermit is a hermit and a very unique traveler. When a familiar smell wakes Kermit up, he finds himself searching through his magical, one-of-a-kind, and colorful cluttered house to find a missing coffee cake. Join Kermit on a fun, poetic, and exciting adventure as Kermits imagination is brought to life and the adventure becomes a quest! After you read this story, you and Kermit will become the best of friends! Check the back of the book for more fun and then look back through the story to help Kermit find his toy collection and many lost treasures. Youll find yourself getting lost in his very hoarded, unforgettable house.
Frustration with our political leaders is at an all-time high. The American people are at a loss as to why children are shooting their classmates. They can't understand why single-parent families are now the landscape of the land as divorce rates climb higher than 50 percent. They seem baffled for an explanation as to why kids are becoming addicts to sex, drugs, and alcohol. In "God's Truth or the Liberal Lie: American at the Crossroads," Shawn Smith gives brutally honest answers that illustrate how liberalism is destroying our country and our leaders and stealing the innocence of our children in the process. He exposes how our country's walk away from God is leading society down the path of judgment--like so many other advanced civilizations--and how the pattern has repeated itself countless times since that fateful day in the Garden of Eden. Smith's goal in writing this book was to give people sound biblical truth and help them find the God-given tools they possess to fight the spiritual battle that is being waged in the homes, boardrooms, schools, and political arenas of this country. Once a liberal who now calls himself a "Benedict Arnold of the best kind," Smith deftly exposes the hypocrisy, hatred, and intolerance in America's supposedly caring, compassionate, and tolerant movement while encouraging readers to take a stand against liberalism. He believes that if we do not turn back the satanic tide of humanism, relativism, and secularism that is sweeping our country today, there will be a steep price to pay for turning our backs on God.
Offers realistic violence prevention techniques to human resource personnel, front line workers who regularly deal with the public, and anyone who wants to learn practical methods to prevent aggression in schools, on the streets, and in other public places.
My Estate Records Guide provides a single place for you to list the location and details of your estate records. Carefully designed, it provides a complete record of your most important information. This guide addresses many areas that are not always covered in a trust or will but are essential to “completing the puzzle” that finalizes your estate.This concise guide will likely be the most important resource your family will reach for in the event you become incapacitated or pass away. You could be young, middle-aged, or golden aged. We never know when the inevitable will happen. Preparing for this in advance is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself and your family. Over the course of time, we have all seen and read about people who were not prepared and did not have their affairs in order. In fact, most of us fall into that category! The task of organizing our records feels overwhelming. It can be time consuming to collect all the data and then periodically spend time to keep it updated. However, if your estate records location is not known, heirs will be hampered in their efforts to handle the difficult task involved in reconciling your estate. It could take your family months to go through paperwork and records. When several heirs are involved, it can be difficult to decide who will take charge. If you are prepared and organized, imagine the relief your family will feel to know that your loving care has provided them with this guide. We call this "A Legacy of Caring™", the cornerstone of our philosophy. Those that have been designated to carry out and honor your final wishes will be extremely grateful that this guide was prepared and kept up-to-date. In addition, this guide makes a truly thoughtful gift for friends and family members. Many adult children have helped their parents fill this out. In so doing, they have engaged them in conversations about their lives and have fostered a closer relationship. It's a great way to really connect with the people you love most. Having a conversation about this topic can be difficult, but giving this guide as a gift can help begin that conversation. My Estate Records Guide includes the following sections: 1: Table of Contents, 2: Foreword, 3: Our Company Information, 4: Legal Disclaimer and Terms of Use, 5: Using this Guide, 6: Where to Begin, 7: Utilizing an Accountability Partner, 8: My Estate Checklist, 9: My Location of Records, 10: My Business Interests, 11: My Calendar of Recurring Dates, 12: My Cards, 13: My Care Provided to Another, 14: My Contacts - Personal, 15: My Contacts - Professional, 16: My Employment, 17: My Estate Documents/Contacts, 18: My Family Information, 19: My Family Tree, 20: My Final Wishes, 21: My Finances, 22: My Home Instructions, 23: My Home Utility Locations, 24: My Home Utility Providers, 25: My Insurances, 26: My Legacy of Caring, 27: My Letters to Loved Ones, 28: My Medical Information, 29: My Memberships, 30: My Military Information, 31: My Obituary, 32: My Personal Information, 33: My Personal Passwords and Log-ins, 34: My Personal Property, 35: My Personal Property - Items Distribution, 36: My Pets Information, 37: My Real Estate, 38: My Safe Deposit Boxes, 39: My Service Providers, 40: My Social Security Information, 41: My Spouse/Partner Information, 42: My Taxes, 43: My Vehicles, 44: My Other Information, 45: My Resources, 46: My Signature Page. This valuable, easy to fill-in guide will set you on the path to becoming Completely Prepared™! Don't wait! Get started today! Ken Petersen & Shawn Smith, Founders
Follow me into a world of swirling emotions that seep from the walls. This is a journey from light to dark through surreal prose and poetry started back in 2011. Through the years this title has ebbed and flowed, undulating to various shapes and sizes until it has settled on it's cosmically apportioned shape and size. Figments is the crow perched on the windowsill, the water running down planes of glass in oil spill color, it is the needle pulled from the authors heart and sewn into the pages. This book is a labor of love, it pulls together fragmented realities, vacuumed into existence through the lens of life and scrawled on pages in manic fervor. Come with me; take this journey, fragment yourself into little figments that will float on forever.
If you work for a community newspaper and are having difficulty handling the multitasking that comes with community journalism, then this book is for you. In "Confessions of a Community Journalist," you'll learn how to juggle reporting, photography and design. You'll figure out how to plan a story board, develop a dummy and execute sharp pages on deadline. This book will help the community journalist compete with the mega-dailies in ways your newspaper never thought possible. Michael Shawn Smith, a community journalist with 11 years of experience and who's won numerous state and national press awards, will show you how one person can accomplish what it takes three people to do at the major dailies. He'll also show you how community journalists can use social media and websites to compete with the dailies and TV people. An homage to community journalists everywhere, "Confessions of a Community Journalist" is a must read for any journalist whose focus or interest is in hyperlocal news coverage.
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