Since Jesus Christ, only two people have affected the life or death of christianity: Saint Paul with his missionary success and Constantine The Great with his divine revelation. Constantine was the emperor who turned the Roman Empire from persecuting Christians to promoting them and this resulted in major and lasting consequences for Christianity. He created an environment for Christianity to evolve from a fringe society to become the single most important influence on Western civilization. In addition to being the greatest builder of Christian churches, Constantine created Constantinople, today's Istanbul a centre that kept Christianity and classical literature alive for a thousand years.
Lion images are everywhere. In literature, in religion, in statues, emblems and heraldry. Symbols of them are found in all larger European cities -- particularly London. Many are also in Vancouver, British Columbia. A lion image is visually stimulating and should become part of our life.
Wodan sat back in his High Seat as he looked back over the last ten years. The mess known as Discovery Center had been eliminated and Midgard was free....... Morgan vividly remembered the conversation that he and his sister had with his goddess birth mother, the Morrigan, and Freya before the Discovery Center assault. Morgan found out that, had Freya had a different disposition, she would have been chosen as his goddess birth mother and not the Morrigan. That fact did not sit well with him, when he considered that Freya wanted to seduce him to piss off the Morrigan....... Freya had picked up the slack for Sunny, preforming the various duties that fell to Sunny after her mother Gina's death. It appeared to Freya, and too many other gods and goddesses, that Sunny was a woman beyond redemption.......
The Muller family saga continues! Madmen get their hands on nuclear weapons and threaten the stability of a now peaceful world. Murder and mayhem, blood and lust, run along side of solid moral behavior throught the book. The author draws a vivid picture of what happens to people when their live's have been turned upside down. Once again, the reader will find gods and goddesses interacting with their human charges for the good of all; the Multiverse. Is this the beginning of Ragnarok, the end of the world? Read the book and you decide!
This book is about effective literacy instruction for students in grades K-4 who use the language variety that many linguists call African American English, but which, as explained in the Introduction, the author calls Black Communications (BC). Throughout, considerable attention is given to discussing the integral and complex interconnections among African American language, culture, and history, drawing significantly on examples from African American historical and literary sources. Although it is theoretical in its description of the BC system and its discussion of research on language socialization in African American communities, the major focus of this book is pedagogy. Many concrete examples of successful classroom practices are included so that teachers can readily visualize and use the strategies and principles presented. *Part I, ‘What is Black Communications?” presents an overview of the BC system, providing a basic introduction to the major components of the language—phonology, grammar, lexicon, and pragmatics, and illustrating how these components work in synchrony to create a coherent whole. *Part II, “Language Socialization in the African American Discourse Community,” examines existing research on African American children’s language socialization. *Part III, “Using African American Children’s Literature,” draws connections between strategy instruction and the linguistic and rhetorical abilities discussed in Part II. Each chapter ends with suggestions for using African American literature to help children develop their speaking and writing abilities. *Part IV, “Children Using Language,” moves from a focus on teaching comprehension strategies to helping BC speakers learn to decode text. This volume is directed to researchers, faculty, and graduate students in the fields of language and literacy education and linguistics, and is well-suited as a text for graduate-level courses in these areas.
In the spring of 1996, an assessment study was performed to ascertain the feasibility of integrating the Tuskegee VA Medical Center with the VA Medical Center located in Montgomery, Alabama. Representative work-groups from both medical centers, the Atlanta Network, veteran service organization officials, along with a paid consultant, participated in the development of findings and conclusions that consolidation should be undertaken. On September 10, 1996, the Honorable Jesse Brown, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, approved the merger. The primary goals of the merger were to improve the quality of healthcare and access to care, reduce administrative costs, and redirect the savings to patient care delivery and enhance patients' satisfaction. The merger created a new organization to be known as "Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System" or CAVHCS. The Tuskegee Campus was designated as the East Campus and Montgomery site was to be recognized as the West Campus. Approved plans stipulated that the West Campus would provide acute, general medical and surgical services. The East Campus new mission would be sub-acute and long-term care and a full range of psychiatric services. Plans also showed that both campuses were expected to continue to provide primary care services. In January 1997, Jimmie Clay was appointed Health Care System Director for the new organization, CAVHCS. His appointment to this position was the straw that broke the camel's back. As some viewed the event, "all hell broke lose." Shortly after Clay's appointment, a number of extraordinary events occurred that precipitated disappointments and apprehension over the merger and caused a number of stakeholders to question whether the merger should be continued. It was made known in February 1997 that a handful of employees at the Montgomery Campus were upset with the proposed plan presented by Clay that considered centralizing administrative services at the Tuskegee Campus. At least two disgruntled employees wrote protest letters to U.S. Representative Terry Everett, who's Congressional District included part of Montgomery County Alabama. In March 1997, the Montgomery County Republican Club submitted a letter to Congressman Everett and the other Alabama Republican Congressional delegation opposing the integration's plans and questioned the appointment of Jimmie Clay as Health Care System Director for CAVHCS. Congressman Everett contacted Dr. Kenneth Kizer, Undersecretary for Health at Veterans Health Administration of VA and requested that a scheduled kickoff meeting for the third phase of the merger be cancelled. On April 1, 1997, Dr. Kizer received a very accusatory letter from Congressman Everett, requesting responses to 29 questions and statements in the form of interrogatories aimed at the Integration and the appointment of Clay. The questions and statements, to a great extent, mirrored those contained in the letter submitted by the Montgomery County Republican Club. Congressman Everett conducted a personal inspection tour of both campuses with two representatives from the General Accounting Office and held a meeting in his Washington, D.C. office that was attended by certain other Alabama elected officials. Dr. Kizer, Dr. Carter Mecher, Atlanta Network Clinical Manager and Clay were mandated to attend the meeting. On June 9, 1997, Congressman Everett asked Dr. Kizer to bring the merger to a complete halt and announced on this same date that he was directing the Office of Inspector General to investigate allegations of mismanagement at the Tuskegee VAMC. The OIG investigators began their review of the Tuskegee Campus on June 26 and Congressman Everett, serving as Chairman of the House's Oversights & Investigation Subcommittee, held a field hearing on the integration on July 28 at the Federal Court House in Montgomery. The latter part of the
This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.
Ethan Sayer had felt the call of God on his life, but he had ignored it. Today, God would get his attention. Plucking Ethan from his car, God would bring Ethan before his throne and ask him to go one more time. Where would he send him? Ethan Sayer and his three daughters will travel around the world with his emissaries. Who are these emissaries? They are dragons. That is not all. God assigns an angel to take Ethan back in time. He is to be a witness to five saints in history. These saints singlehandedly changes the course of history of the nations in which they live. God would break Ethan’s heart for the peoples of the world. He walked and lived among them. He would see kingdoms rise and fall. What is the purpose of his trip through time? When Ethan is returned to the current time, he is shocked to find that he had only been gone for a few hours not the months and years that he has witnessed. Now he must convince his wife, daughters and a US senator that he is not crazy. This is a test for the nations. The first treasure will be revealed by the angel, but they must be told of it beforehand to prove it is from God. Politics and family dynamics crash into their lives. Together, they will uncover the four remaining treasures hidden in the nations that Ethan visited in time. With little else to guide them. How will the Sayers find them? This first book will tell the story of these saints, the birth of the dragons and the training that allows them to fly their dragons around the world!
This book is for statistical practitioners, particularly those who design and analyze studies for survival and event history data. Building on recent developments motivated by counting process and martingale theory, it shows the reader how to extend the Cox model to analyze multiple/correlated event data using marginal and random effects. The focus is on actual data examples, the analysis and interpretation of results, and computation. The book shows how these new methods can be implemented in SAS and S-Plus, including computer code, worked examples, and data sets.
Allen Curnow (1911–2001) was at the time of his death regarded as one of the greatest of all poets writing in English. For seventy years, from Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel's (2001), Curnow's poetry was always on the move – from his early approaches to New Zealand identity and myth to later work concerned with the philosophical encounter between word and world. Curnow also played a major role in New Zealand life as editor, critic, commentator and anthologist, as well as a much-loved writer of light verse under the penname of Whim Wham. In his later years he acquired an impressive international reputation, winning the Commonwealth Prize for Poetry and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Throughout his lifetime, Allen Curnow revised, selected and collected his poetry in various ways. For the first time, this collection brings together all of the poems that Curnow collected in his lifetime grouped in their original volumes. The notes reproduce Curnow's comments on individual poems and include relevant editorial guidance. This is the definitive collection of work by New Zealand's most distinguished poet.
In this funny, warm and touching book Terry Sanderson reveals how he - the most unwilling and unlikely of activists - honed his skills as a campaigner at the very beginning of the struggle for gay rights in Britain. But this is more than just the story of an amazing social revolution, it's an absorbing tale that will take you to a time when coming out of the closet was a radical act with potentially dire consequences and when fear and prejudice were the daily lot of gay people. From the author of the best-selling self-help manual How to be a Happy Homosexual comes this eye-opening and deeply personal memoir which is as much a love story as it is a recounting of a complete transformation in our society's approach to homosexuality. "This wonderful memoir by veteran LGBT campaigner Terry Sanderson offers a vivid personal snapshot of gay life in Britain over the last four decades; told by someone who was an eye-witness to our many advances and to several of our setbacks. From gay activist to agony aunt, media monitor and secular campaigner, Terry has seen, done and now written about it all. Bravo!" - Peter Tatchell.
Thank you for visiting our website. Would you like to provide feedback on how we could improve your experience?
This site does not use any third party cookies with one exception — it uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic.Learn More.