PARENTING POINTS will help guide parents through the ups and downs of their child's early development. It offers straightforward advice, understandable explanations and real-life examples of many of the dilemmas commonly faced by parents. It focuses on how to raise their child using a positive, constructive and sensitive approach. From defining developmental expectations to providing advice on behavior management to outlining the importance of positive changes that support their child, PARENTING POINTS navigates parents through the maze of issues that they often face when trying to do the right thing for their child.
How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically.Our media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, sending toxins roaring across the landscape. In You Are Here, Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner offer strategies for navigating increasingly treacherous information flows. Using ecological metaphors, they emphasize how our individual me is entwined within a much larger we, and how everyone fits within an ever-shifting network map.
Every day women suffer emotional bondage from feeling not good enough, unworthy, or ashamed of a dark past. Whitney L. Barkley, Chief Editor of the Skinny Black Girl's Code, a lifestyle and motivational blog for women, reveals her battles with colorism, body image, faith, sexual assault, abortion, depression, and Imposter Syndrome. Throughout the Skinny Black Girl's Guide to Freedom, Whitney authentically reflects on her journey to build unbreakable confidence to master her life. This book will help you: - Define freedom by your own terms and use stories and examples to help you find audacity to live life without limitations - Get to the bottom of your brokenness and learn the five P's (Plan, Place, Pray, Purpose, and Peace) to piece your life back together - Identify a healthy outlet to help you release trauma from your past and find your voice - Realize that your past does not define your self-worth and speak positivity into your life - Learn the value of being honest with yourself, your mistakes, and flaws, and how to turn bad experiences into teachable moments - Uncover the power of faith and how to place God's Word as the GPS to the most crucial decisions in your life Stop allowing your self-limiting beliefs to slow you down. It's time to take accountability and action for your life to achieve personal freedom and peace.
A major basic text on the theory and structural applications of laminated anisotropic plates. Detailed coverage of problems of bending under transverse load, stability, and free-vibrations, as well as laminated beams, expansional strain effects, curved plates, and free-edge effects.
For over 5 decades, every full moon the children of Marshall Virginia have heard the spooky klanging of a mysterious cow bell. The Ghost Cow is a story of a young farm boy named Bud that falls in love with a white new born calf he names Milky. Their love for one another becomes the stuff of legends when one of them makes the ultimate sacrifice to save the other.
Join us on a frolic through space with a fascinating crew of aliens and humans alike, as they share adventures and romance along the way. "What's it gonna be, Captain?" is what the team of captains, the glamourous and stunning Captain Jenivah Stavah, and the enigmatic Captain John Braxus Cainon, say to each other when ever their next adventure is about to start.The first in a series, "The Belerophon and the Crystal Sphere" start us off in a universe with some remenants from a time before, a hate older than space has lingered and seeks to manipulate and destroy the space-faring races. A star base explodes, and all set off in a race to intercept and gain access to the science aboard this strange vessel. New races and weapons are encountered, till they finally come to an uncharted and unexplored planet in the center of a giant Nebula. They explore this weird planet and find empty dead space vessels an enchanted library with books writing history as its made, and cyber zombies trying to kill them.
This book explores the weird and mean and in-between that characterize everyday expression online, from absurdist photoshops to antagonistic Twitter hashtags to deceptive identity play. Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner focus especially on the ambivalence of this expression: the fact that it is too unwieldy, too variable across cases, to be essentialized as old or new, vernacular or institutional, generative or destructive. Online expression is, instead, all of the above. This ambivalence, the authors argue, hinges on available digital tools. That said, there is nothing unexpected or surprising about even the strangest online behavior. Ours is a brave new world, and there is nothing new under the sun – a point necessary to understanding not just that online spaces are rife with oddity, mischief, and antagonism, but why these behaviors matter. The Ambivalent Internet is essential reading for students and scholars of digital media and related fields across the humanities, as well as anyone interested in mediated culture and expression.
This book explores the weird and mean and in-between that characterize everyday expression online, from absurdist photoshops to antagonistic Twitter hashtags to deceptive identity play. Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner focus especially on the ambivalence of this expression: the fact that it is too unwieldy, too variable across cases, to be essentialized as old or new, vernacular or institutional, generative or destructive. Online expression is, instead, all of the above. This ambivalence, the authors argue, hinges on available digital tools. That said, there is nothing unexpected or surprising about even the strangest online behavior. Ours is a brave new world, and there is nothing new under the sun – a point necessary to understanding not just that online spaces are rife with oddity, mischief, and antagonism, but why these behaviors matter. The Ambivalent Internet is essential reading for students and scholars of digital media and related fields across the humanities, as well as anyone interested in mediated culture and expression.
Viciousness can lurk beneath even the most serene of surfaces.Recently widowed, Clementine Loftis returns to her hometown in North Carolina looking for comfort and peace. Instead, she finds an angry former high-school classmate who sexually assaults her in a bizarre attempt to settle an old score. When her lack of evidence prevents police from charging him, Clementine vows to get even on her own. After her first attempt doesn't pan out, she escalates her effort. When that fails, she escalates again . . . and again. Clementine's determination to make her attacker pay for what he's done drives her to walk a fine, dangerous line between vengeance and justice, making her question who she really is and whether she can ever again be the woman she wants to be. When Enemies Offend Thee is a provocative thriller that will have readers questioning their own friendships, loyalties, ethics, and the possibility of redemption.
During the COVID-19 Pandemic shelter-in-place, Nova reflects on the strange events that are occurring. She is bored with staying inside, and she misses her friends and loved ones. Her mother challenges her to make the most of her time by making a list of goals she would like to accomplish. Nova accepts the challenge and decides to have fun by doing random crazy things. Her mother encourages her to add goals to the list to help herself and others while considering people less fortunate than her. As a result, Nova is motivated to help others by performing acts of kindness and generosity. I Did It In 2020 seeks to inspire the readers to appreciate the positive things they accomplished during the pandemic and other challenging times. Although Nova's mother initiates the challenge and makes suggestions, it is Nova that comes up with fun ways to beat boredom and at the same time bring love and positivity to her community. Accomplishing these tasks makes Nova proud. She learns a lot about herself, and she is inspired to take her goals beyond the list
While Western Jain scholarship has focused on those texts and practices favoring male participation, the Jain community itself relies heavily on lay women's participation for religious education, the performance of key rituals, and the locus of religious knowledge. In this fieldwork-based study, Whitney Kelting attempts to reconcile these women's understanding of Jainism with the religion as presented in the existing scholarship. Jain women, she shows, both accept and rewrite the idealized roles received from religious texts, practices, and social expectation, according to which female religiosity is a symbol of Jain perfection. Jain women's worship shows us a Jainism focused more on devotion than on philosophy. With rituals structured around singing hymns, Jain women negotiate hybrid theologies that sometimes conflict with normative Jainism. Singing to the Jinas describes these women's interpretations of their religion, not as folklore or popular religion, but as a theology that recreates Jainism in a form which honors their own participation.
Although in Hinduism it is mainly used to refer to widow immolation, the term 'sati' means 'true woman' - a female hero. Whitney Kelting has learned that in Jainism satis appear as subjects of devotional hymns. This seems paradoxical, given that Jain spirituality is to disengage oneself from worldly existence and Jain devotionalism is usually directed toward those souls who have reached perfect detachment. In fact, however, there is a vast corpus of popular texts, many of them written by prominent scholar-monks between the 16th and 18th centuries, illustrating the distinctly worldly virtues of devoted Jain wives. In this fieldwork-based study, Kelting explores the ways in which Jain women use sati narratives and rituals to understand wifehood as a choice, which these women's ongoing ritual practices continually shape. She focuses on eight well-known Jain sati narratives, recorded in both formal ritual contexts and in informal retellings, and also as read aloud from printed versions. She finds that one of the principal functions of Jain sati narratives is to contribute to a discourse of wifehood, which addresses the concerns of Jain laywomen within the Jain value system and provides a fertile context in which Jain women can explore their questions of virtue and piety.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Explore the lives and legacies of four pivotal figures in Native American history in "Four American Indians: King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola" by Edson L. Whitney and Frances M. Perry. This powerful biography recounts the struggles and triumphs of King Philip, also known as Metacomet, who led a fierce resistance against English colonists; Pontiac, the Ottawa war leader who united tribes against British rule in the Great Lakes region; Tecumseh, the Shawnee chief and advocate for Native American unity; and Osceola, the Seminole leader who bravely fought against removal from his people's ancestral lands in Florida. Delve into the historical context of these significant figures and their impact on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the expanding United States. This book offers valuable insight into the lives and motivations of these iconic Native American leaders, capturing their enduring spirit and resilience in the face of immense challenges. A compelling account of courage, leadership, and the fight for self-determination in early America.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Explore the lives and legacies of four pivotal figures in Native American history in "Four American Indians: King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola" by Edson L. Whitney and Frances M. Perry. This powerful biography recounts the struggles and triumphs of King Philip, also known as Metacomet, who led a fierce resistance against English colonists; Pontiac, the Ottawa war leader who united tribes against British rule in the Great Lakes region; Tecumseh, the Shawnee chief and advocate for Native American unity; and Osceola, the Seminole leader who bravely fought against removal from his people's ancestral lands in Florida. Delve into the historical context of these significant figures and their impact on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the expanding United States. This book offers valuable insight into the lives and motivations of these iconic Native American leaders, capturing their enduring spirit and resilience in the face of immense challenges. A compelling account of courage, leadership, and the fight for self-determination in early America.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
