Hidden In Plain Sight

Author : Daniel J. K. Beavon,Cora Jane Voyageur,David Newhouse
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802085818

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The history of Aboriginal people in Canada taught in schools and depicted in the media tends to focus on Aboriginal displacement from native lands and the consequent social and cultural disruptions they have endured. Collectively, they are portrayed as passive victims of European colonization and government policy, and, even when well intentioned, these depictions are demeaning and do little to truly represent the role Aboriginal peoples have played in Canadian life. Hidden in Plain Sight adds another dimension to the story, showing the extraordinary contributions Aboriginal peoples have made – and continue to make – to the Canadian experience. From treaties to contemporary arts and literatures, Aboriginal peoples have helped to define Canada and have worked to secure a place of their own making in Canadian culture. For this volume, editors David R. Newhouse, Cora J. Voyageur, and Daniel J.K. Beavon have brought together leading scholars and other impassioned voices, and together, they give full treatment to the Aboriginal contribution to Canada's intellectual, political, economic, social, historic, and cultural landscapes. Included are profiles of several leading figures such as actor Chief Dan George, artist Norval Morrisseau, author Tomson Highway, activist Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, and politician Phil Fontaine, among others. Canada simply would not be what it is today without these contributions. The first of two volumes, Hidden in Plain Sight is key to understanding and appreciating Canadian society and will be essential reading for generations to come.

Author : Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780691146218

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Hidden in Plain Sight tells the tragic untold story of children's rights in America. It asks why the United States today, alone among nations, rejects the most universally embraced human-rights document in history, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This book is a call to arms for America to again be a leader in human rights, and to join the rest of the civilized world in recognizing that the thirst for justice is not for adults alone. Barbara Bennett Woodhouse explores the meaning of children's rights throughout American history, interweaving the childhood stories of iconic figures such as Benjamin Franklin with those of children less known but no less courageous, like the heroic youngsters who marched for civil rights. How did America become a place where twelve-year-old Lionel Tate could be sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 1999 death of a young playmate? In answering questions like this, Woodhouse challenges those who misguidedly believe that America's children already have more rights than they need, or that children's rights pose a threat to parental autonomy or family values. She reveals why fundamental human rights and principles of dignity, equality, privacy, protection, and voice are essential to a child's journey into adulthood, and why understanding rights for children leads to a better understanding of human rights for all. Compassionate, wise, and deeply moving, Hidden in Plain Sight will force an examination of our national resistance--and moral responsibility--to recognize children's rights.

Author : John T. Matthews
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820356716

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For as long as the United States owed its prosperity to a New World plantation complex, from colonial settlement until well into the twentieth century, the toxic practices associated with its permutations stimulated imaginary solutions to the contradiction with the nation’s enlightenment ideals and republican ideology. Ideals of liberty, democracy, and individualism could not be separated from a history of forcible coercion, oligarchic power, and state-protected economic opportunism. While recent historical scholarship about the relation of capitalism to slavery explores the depths at which U.S. ascension was indebted to global plantation slave economies, John T. Matthews probes how exemplary works of literature represented the determination to deny the open secret of a national atrocity. Difficult truths were hidden in plain sight, allowing beholders at once to recognize and disavow knowledge they would not act on. What were the habits of mind that enabled free Americans to acknowledge what was intolerable yet act as if they did not? In what ways did non-slave-owning Americans imagine a relation to slavery that both admitted its iniquity and accepted its benefits? How did the reconfiguration of the plantation system after the Civil War elicit new literary forms for dealing with its perpetuation of racial injustice, expropriation of labor, and exploitation for profit of the land? Hidden in Plain Sight examines signal nineteenth-century works by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Joel Chandler Harris to show how writers portrayed a nation founded on the unseen seen of slavery’s capitalism.

Author : Eviatar Zerubavel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199366620

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Hidden in Plain Sight by Eviatar Zerubavel Pdf

Many of us take for granted that what we perceive is a completely accurate representation of the world around us. Yet we have all had the experience of suddenly realizing that the keys or glasses that we had been looking for in vain were right in front of us the whole time. The capacity of our sense organs far exceeds our mental capabilities, and as such, looking at something does not guarantee that we will notice it. Our minds constantly prioritize and organize the information we take in, bringing certain things to the foreground, while letting others - that which we deem irrelevant - recede into the background. What ultimately determines what we perceive, and what we do not? In this fascinating book, noted sociologist Eviatar Zerubavel argues that we perceive things not just as human beings but as social beings. Drawing on fascinating examples from science, the art world, optical illusions, and all walks of life, he shows that what we notice or ignore varies across cultures and throughout history, and illustrates how our environment and our social lives - everything from our lifestyles to our professions to our nationalities - play a role in determining how we actually use our senses to access the world. A subtle yet powerful examination of one of the central features of our conscious life, this book offers a way to think about all that might otherwise remain hidden in plain sight.

Author : Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440854040

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Hidden in Plain Sight by Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco Pdf

Pimp-controlled sex workers, exploited migrants, domestic servants, and sex trafficking of runaway and homeless youth are just a few of the many forms of sex trafficking and labor trafficking going on all around the world-including in the United States. This book exposes both well-known and more obscure forms of human trafficking, documenting how these heinous crimes are encountered in our daily lives. What types of human trafficking crimes are being committed here in the United States? Who are the victims of traffickers? How do we all unknowingly consume the services and products of slavery? And why are human traffickers able to maintain their illicit operations with relative impunity-indeed, with less than .01 percent of human traffickers ever being held accountable for their crimes? Hidden in Plain Sight: America's Slaves of the New Millennium documents how human trafficking and its byproducts touch every community in America, from impoverished inner-city neighborhoods to middle-class suburbs and alcoves of wealthy estates. It presents information derived from narrative accounts of real-life trafficking cases, interviews with convicted human traffickers, empirical research, and criminal case files to expose the grim realities of human trafficking in America, perpetrated by Americans. Readers will grasp the origins, evolution, and extent of the problem; understand how trafficking plays an unrecognized role in our day-to-day lives; and see why advancements in awareness and anti-trafficking resources have not changed the status quo. The victims of trafficking continue to be criminalized by law enforcement, and the offenders continue to exploit and profit from new recruits. This book equips readers with the knowledge needed to identify human trafficking cases and advocate for policy changes to end this scourge in America.

Author : Wayne B. Bowman
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781607997795

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The truth about Catholicism is Hidden in Plain Sight. New author Wayne B. Bowman exposes the catechism for what it really is in this eye-opening book. Bowman, a former Catholic, sought out truths and discovered the contents of the catechism and the traditions of the Catholic Church are not biblical. As he presents strong arguments against well-known rituals, such as praying to Mary and infant baptism, readers will find themselves questioning all they know. With historical information and intense scriptural study, Bowman guides readers on a journey to enlightenment, giving them the chance to change their lives for God.

Author : Mark Davidson
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781619960251

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Hidden in Plain Sight is a book about Bible end-times prophecy, but ti is not typical. Starting with the assumption that the Antichrist may turn out to be a Muslim and not a Roman, the book uses historical sources to show that Bible prophecy actually argues for a Muslim Antichrist. Then, using this new way of looking at prophecy, this book explores several Bible passages, revealing a series of events that must take place before the Tribulation. Where the Bible was thought to be silent about the years leading up to the Tribulation, it actually has much to say.

Author : Robert P. Debelak Jr.
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556354991

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Hidden in Plain Sight by Robert P. Debelak Jr. Pdf

Hidden in Plain Sight explores the potential contours of reading biblical narrative. The Old Testament book of Esther is used to advance a prospective shape for this reading method, and proposes a profile for curriculum design. This work demonstrates that the text of Scripture itself proposes a reading method. Esther is an underestimated heroine in her story world. Her character is informed by the silent actions of Vashti and by the intentionality of Mordecai. She is confronted with a writing that challenges her with few options, each of which is deconstructed and focused in community dialogue. At a pivotal stage in the narrative, she acts in solidarity with those under a death threat, emerging as an agent of life. Esther's actions and speeches are traced as one entry into a story world, proposing a means for students of Scripture to gain appreciable reading skills via sensitivity to the general components of Old Testament narrative. This reading informs a study method enabling direct engagement with a text and appreciation for the art of literary crafting. The approach is suitable for Christian education and biblical study settings at the academic level, and for use in local church ministries.

Author : Kaleema Overton Ameen
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9798887314952

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This must-have guide exposes nine red flags that you are being groomed for manipulation, abuse and/or abandonment. The author uses her own experiences and that of women she interviewed to uncover a diabolical process that can be a gateway to family dysfunction and economic hardship. You are not alone if you missed the red flags. This book exposes how the predator systematically grooms, deceives, and abuses while undetected by family and friends. You will gain insight to love-bombing, weaponizing abandonment, how narcissism fuels abandonment, trauma bonding, and how to seek justice, heal, and thrive! This book is a guide to restoring your life after it has been hit by a tornado of narcissistic destruction.

Author : Peter J. Wallison
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781594038662

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Hidden in Plain Sight by Peter J. Wallison Pdf

The 2008 financial crisis—like the Great Depression—was a world-historical event. What caused it will be debated for years, if not generations. The conventional narrative is that the financial crisis was caused by Wall Street greed and insufficient regulation of the financial system. That narrative produced the Dodd-Frank Act, the most comprehensive financial-system regulation since the New Deal. There is evidence, however, that the Dodd-Frank Act has slowed the recovery from the recession. If insufficient regulation caused the financial crisis, then the Dodd-Frank Act will never be modified or repealed; proponents will argue that doing so will cause another crisis. A competing narrative about what caused the financial crisis has received little attention. This view, which is accepted by almost all Republicans in Congress and most conservatives, contends that the crisis was caused by government housing policies. This book extensively documents this view. For example, it shows that in June 2008, before the crisis, 58 percent of all US mortgages were subprime or other low-quality mortgages. Of these, 76 percent were on the books of government agencies such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. When these mortgages defaulted in 2007 and 2008, they drove down housing prices and weakened banks and other mortgage holders, causing the crisis. After this book is published, no one will be able to claim that the financial crisis was caused by insufficient regulation, or defend Dodd-Frank, without coming to terms with the data this book contains.

Author : Barbara Gonyo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781514434970

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A young family is assaulted after winning large at a casino in Las Vegas. The father is badly beaten, and the wife and two children are kidnapped. The FBI saves them, and the story continues on about their life in protective custody.

Author : Martin G. Selbrede
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hidden in Plain Sight (Bubble Head, 1) by Martin G. Selbrede Pdf

Young physicist Jenna Wilkes has done the impossible—and the whole scientific world is shaking on its pillars. Could it be that conventional science has misunderstood the very fabric of the universe? Could there be infinitely more to it than anyone has ever guessed? Could science’s whole concept of reality be ... unreal? Jenna’s discovery drills into the heart of reality itself—and that’s why the Establishment is so determined to suppress it. How far will they go to hide the truth? Big-name scientists, the Pentagon, and shady politicians plot and scheme to silence her, one way or another. They did it once, seven years earlier. This time the stakes are incalculably higher. Jenna has more than just a scientific revolution in her hands. If the Establishment can’t stop her, the whole world will be changed in ways not even Jenna can imagine.

Author : Mark Buchanan
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781418554637

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Hidden in Plain Sight by Mark Buchanan Pdf

Even for the religious, life is full of questions: What is faith? Can my life be more satisfying? How can I deepen my walk with Christ? What does it mean to be happy? These bubble and boil underneath the surface of our everyday life. And though we ignore them, we know they point us to realms of wisdom or even mystery-to something more. Author Mark Buchanan asked these same questions. "I want more, God," he prayed-and the answer was more than he was looking for. It was right there, hidden in plain sight among the syllables and syntax of a few words of advice from the apostle Peter. With time and experience, Buchanan learned to tease it out, this secret of more, and he wrote a book about it: Hidden in Plain Sight. The answer, he discovered, is an investigation of the cross. The answer is an excavation of the virtues. The answer urges us passionately to "make every effort." And, Buchanan tells us, the answer is worth it.

Author : Driton Selmani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9951897827

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Author : Amy Lee Burgess
Publisher : Lyrical Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616503703

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Hidden in Plain Sight by Amy Lee Burgess Pdf

The Wolf Within, #3 As Stanzie discovers her wolf, she learns being herself is more dangerous than ever. Where is Bethany Dillon? The seventeen year-old girl is missing from the Maplefair pack and Constance Newcastle--Stanzie--and Liam Murphy must find her. Fast. A serial killer still has not been caught. Bethany could have run away, or killed herself. But no one in her pack seems to know the truth. Or, they're just not telling. Constanceís knack for uncovering secrets leads her into peril, and to save Bethany, she must break every rule. She risks losing everything, including Liam. . .and her life. 90,135 Words