A Struggle With Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Bipolar Disorder: My Daughter's Story is a non-fiction memoir describing the many experiences my daughter battled with both of these diseases and how they affected her life. It is a story of my lovely, intelligent, and resilient daughter, Calaundra Dawn Morrison Hazzard, who persevered limitations, bodily pain, strained cognitive ability, depression of highs and lows for more than eight years, but she never gave up on living her best life. The essential needs of her life during these eight years were a loving family, strong compassionate caregivers, expert healthcare team, inspirations of encouragement, poetry, and a great support system. The struggle was not easy, but she was always pushing forward to make the best life for herself and her son. Hopefully, this book will inform, encourage and stimulate you who may be going through situations similar to Calaundra's Story. Enjoy!
This publication is for people who are involved in creating, publishing, delivering or using material on the Internet or other online systems. It is also for people who are interested in copyright policy and regulatory issues. ... In this publication we have attempted to do two things: to give some analysis of how current Australian copyright law applies to the Internet and other online systems, and to discuss some development and reform proposals." - page 1.
Trauma has always been part of the American collective experience, but only since September 11, 2001 has it been acknowledged on a widespread scale. Most people will experience some form of trauma during their lifetime, but in contemporary American culture, it is often understood as a problem to be blamed on someone, fought, or repressed entirely. Despite burgeoning trauma studies, popular responses to trauma – from the media to politics – produce ever more aggression and fear. This book responds to this growing awareness through literary analyses of texts by Louise Erdrich, Siri Hustvedt, Melanie Thernstrom, Nicole Krauss, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Toni Morrison. Considered separately, each chapter provides a lens into a historically-situated trauma and the process of renegotiating it. Read together, they function as voices in an ongoing conversation that affirms the power of narrative. A good story can become a space for curiosity in the face of trauma and uncertainty. A story opens imaginative possibilities for asking, “in what ways can readers bring more awareness to the benefits of seeing our planetary interdependence in the midst of global polarization?” The readings of novels, autobiographical texts, and poems here suggest how this question is among the most valuable we can ask in the early 21st century.
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