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911 tulosta hakusanalla Millicent
In Sight of Goodwill Island
Millicent L. Vetterlein
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
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Welcome to a flashback of the swinging seventies, where the drugs, music, sex, and politics all converged to create provocative memories for baby boomer women and the men who love them. Clarissa Bateman is a beautiful, well-educated woman with a rocketing career, an active social conscience, political aspirations, a vast circle of accomplished friends, and a great appetite for all of life's pleasures. What she wants now is a partner worthy of her desires-someone who is her intellectual equal, who cares about the things she cares about, who is fun and sexy, who respects and appreciates her, and who wants to make the world a better place. Clarissa doesn't know who this man might be, but she's sure she's going to enjoy the process of finding out. In this erotic romance set in the 1970s, a brilliant and beautiful political operative working in Seattle looks for someone to be her partner in love and life.
For observers of the European film scene, Federico Fellini’s death in 1993 came to stand for the demise of Italian cinema as a whole. Exploring an eclectic sampling of works from the new millennium, Italian Film in the Present Tense confronts this narrative of decline with strong evidence to the contrary. Millicent Marcus highlights Italian cinema’s new sources of industrial strength, its re-placement of the Rome-centred studio system with regional film commissions, its contemporary breakthroughs on the aesthetic front, and its vital engagement with the changing economic and socio-political circumstances in twenty-first-century Italian life. Examining works that stand out for their formal brilliance and their moral urgency, the book presents a series of fourteen case studies, featuring analyses of such renowned films as Il Divo, Gomorrah, The Great Beauty, We Have a Pope, The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer, and Fire at Sea, along with lesser-known works deserving of serious critical scrutiny. In doing so, Italian Film in the Present Tense contests the widely held perception of a medium languishing in its "post-Fellini" moment, and instead acknowledges the ethical persistence and forward-looking currents of Italian cinema in the present tense.
For observers of the European film scene, Federico Fellini’s death in 1993 came to stand for the demise of Italian cinema as a whole. Exploring an eclectic sampling of works from the new millennium, Italian Film in the Present Tense confronts this narrative of decline with strong evidence to the contrary. Millicent Marcus highlights Italian cinema’s new sources of industrial strength, its re-placement of the Rome-centred studio system with regional film commissions, its contemporary breakthroughs on the aesthetic front, and its vital engagement with the changing economic and socio-political circumstances in twenty-first-century Italian life. Examining works that stand out for their formal brilliance and their moral urgency, the book presents a series of fourteen case studies, featuring analyses of such renowned films as Il Divo, Gomorrah, The Great Beauty, We Have a Pope, The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer, and Fire at Sea, along with lesser-known works deserving of serious critical scrutiny. In doing so, Italian Film in the Present Tense contests the widely held perception of a medium languishing in its "post-Fellini" moment, and instead acknowledges the ethical persistence and forward-looking currents of Italian cinema in the present tense.
All-Sufficient God Prophetic Prayer Book Daily in His Presence
Millicent N Kalu
Westbow Press
2017
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All-Sufficient God Prophetic Prayer Book is a constant reminder that God is the EL-SHADDAI, meaning "The Almighty God," who is sufficient to provide for every of our needs. He is sufficient to carry us through the storms of life, to bring us to the place of abiding peace. All-sufficient God is our strength and sustenance forevermore. In him we have a fountain of living water, without end and without possibility of drying up, bringing life and luxuriousness to the waiting soul. He meets every need according to His riches in glory. He is the ultimate provider, the ultimate champion, the great healer, mighty deliverer.Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace in God's presence daily in prayer, casting all our cares upon Him, trusting the all-sufficient God for victory in all areas of our life, because power belongs to our God, and with him all things are possible. "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9). Have faith in the Lord, ask whatsoever you desire without wavering and it shall be granted "And this is the confident that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him" (1 John 5:14-15). You will surely be blessed beyond measures as you read, meditate, pray and trust God without doubts in your heart because "Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it" (1 Thessalonians 5:24).
