Robert Latimer

Author : Gary Bauslaugh
Publisher : Lorimer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1552775194

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Robert Latimer by Gary Bauslaugh Pdf

In October 1993, Robert Latimer, a Saskatchewan farmer, decided to end the life of his chronically ill daughter rather than subject her to another painful surgery. Tracy, who had the mental capacity of a five-month-old infant, was twelve at the time of her death. She had already endured multiple operations to correct conditions caused by her severe cerebral palsy. Tracy's death and the charge of murder laid against Robert Latimer set in motion Canada's most famous and controversial case of "mercy killing." The case sparked a national debate about euthanasia and the rights of the severely disabled that continues today. Author Gary Bauslaugh takes us back to the beginning of this case, describes its explosion on the national scene during two highly publicized trials, and looks at later conflicts surrounding Latimer's parole hearing. In clear, insightful prose, Bauslaugh discusses the conflicting views of Latimer's sympathizers and detractors in chapters that explore the ethical dilemmas as well as the legal issues that this case has raised. As a reporter who has followed the case from its beginnings and interviewed Latimer multiple times during his imprisonment and subsequent parole, Bauslaugh's intimate knowledge of the personalities and facts of this difficult case allow him to write a revealing and informed book.

Author : Ruth Enns
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub.
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12-31
Category : Law
ISBN : PSU:000046518972

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A Voice Unheard by Ruth Enns Pdf

This book reveals the stigma attached to disabled persons in Canadian society and continues the debate surrounding Robert Latimer and Tracy Latimer. "A Voice Unheard" shows the positive options for Canadians with disabilities and reveals the opinion held by many people with disabilities that death was not Tracy Latimer's only option.

Author : Kathy Stinson
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781926920825

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What Happened to Ivy by Kathy Stinson Pdf

David's younger sister Ivy, born with multiple disabilities, needs constant attention. She may be eleven years old, but in many ways she's still a baby. She embarrasses him in public. She takes all of their parents' focus, to the point where David wonders if they see him as anything more than a helper for Ivy. But despite it all, he loves her. The summer days are following their usual pattern of taking care of his sister, doing chores, and trips to the cottage. The one exception is Hannah, the new girl across the street. Hannah makes David feel anything but routine. He wants to be around her all the time. And, amazingly, she seems to be into him as well. Everything changes when Ivy has an accident while being looked after by her dad. As David wrestles with what happened to Ivy, he is forced to confront his own feelings of guilt, the meaning of mercy, and what can be forgiven.

Author : Robert B. Jones,Margot Toomer Latimer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781469616414

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The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer by Robert B. Jones,Margot Toomer Latimer Pdf

This volume is the only collected edition of poems by Jean Toomer, the enigmatic American writer, Gurdjieffian guru, and Quaker convert who is perhaps best known for his 1923 lyrical narrative Cane. The fifty-five poems here -- most of them previously unpublished -- chart a fascinating evolution of artistic consciousness. The book is divided into sections reflecting four distinct periods of creativity in Toomer's career. The Aesthetic period includes Imagist, Symbolist, and other experimental pieces, such as "Five Vignettes," while "Georgia Dusk" and the newly discovered poem "Tell Me" come from Toomer' s Ancestral Consciousness period in the early 1920s. "The Blue Meridian" and other Objective Consciousness poems reveal the influence of idealist philosopher Georges Gurdjieff. Among the works of this period the editor presents a group of local color poems picturing the landscape of the American Southwest, including "Imprint for Rio Grande." "It Is Everywhere," another newly discovered poem, celebrates America and democratic idealism. The Quaker religious philosophy of Toomer's final years is demonstrated in such Christian Existential works as "They Are Not Missed" and "To Gurdjieff Dying." Robert Jones's clear and comprehensive introduction examines the major poems in this volume and serves as a guide through the stages of Toomer's evolution as an artist and thinker. The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer will prove essential to Toomer's admirers as well as to scholars and students of modern poetry, Afro-American literature, and American studies.

Author : William Kaplan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773550704

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Why Dissent Matters by William Kaplan Pdf

An inquiry into dissent and how it might save the world.

Author : Jonathan Latimer
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453206003

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Headed for a Hearse by Jonathan Latimer Pdf

Just days from meeting the reaper, a convicted murderer hires Chicago’s most hard-boiled PI to save his neck—before the executioner can claim it Robert Westland’s death is just around the corner when he finally decides to fight the murder rap that’s sending him to the electric chair. Fingered for his wife’s grisly demise, Westland is in a bind, and his last hope is Bill Crane, a booze-soaked detective who’s as ruthless with a quip as he is when trawling the streets for Chicago’s most brutal criminal element. Crane’s got just a few days to suss out the real killer—someone clever enough to off Westland’s wife and lock her in a room whose only key belongs to Westland himself. Fueled by an abundance of liquor and a habit of bad manners, Crane sets his sights on a cast of oddball characters among whom hides a murderer. But in 1930s Chicago, everyone’s got a secret, and the pressure is on for Crane to separate the dangerous from the truly homicidal before it’s too late.

Author : Petra Hauke,Karen Latimer,Robert Niess
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110679724

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New Libraries in Old Buildings by Petra Hauke,Karen Latimer,Robert Niess Pdf

This book focuses on difficulties and opportunities in revitalization of old, derelict or abandoned buildings into a library and investigates the transformation of buildings which originally had a different purpose. The publication shows worldwide best practice examples from different types of libraries in historic environments, both urban and rural, while maintaining a focus on sustainability concerning the architecture and interior design.

Author : Emil Sher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Euthanasia
ISBN : UCSC:32106018339819

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Mourning Dove by Emil Sher Pdf

A stunning theatrical piece in which assuming a loved one's best interests leads to an entire family's loss.

Author : Jon Latimer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674039955

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1812 by Jon Latimer Pdf

Listen to a short interview with Jon Latimer Host: Chris Gondek - Producer: Heron & Crane In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British perspective, Jon Latimer offers an authoritative and compelling account that places the conflict in its strategic context within the Napoleonic wars. The British viewed the War of 1812 as an ill-fated attempt by the young American republic to annex Canada. For British Canada, populated by many loyalists who had fled the American Revolution, this was a war for survival. The Americans aimed both to assert their nationhood on the global stage and to expand their territory northward and westward. Americans would later find in this war many iconic moments in their national story--the bombardment of Fort McHenry (the inspiration for Francis Scott Key's Star Spangled Banner); the Battle of Lake Erie; the burning of Washington; the death of Tecumseh; Andrew Jackson's victory at New Orleans--but their war of conquest was ultimately a failure. Even the issues of neutrality and impressment that had triggered the war were not resolved in the peace treaty. For Britain, the war was subsumed under a long conflict to stop Napoleon and to preserve the empire. The one lasting result of the war was in Canada, where the British victory eliminated the threat of American conquest, and set Canadians on the road toward confederation. Latimer describes events not merely through the eyes of generals, admirals, and politicians but through those of the soldiers, sailors, and ordinary people who were directly affected. Drawing on personal letters, diaries, and memoirs, he crafts an intimate narrative that marches the reader into the heat of battle.

Author : Klaus K. E. Neuendorf,American Geological Institute
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Geology
ISBN : 0922152764

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Glossary of Geology by Klaus K. E. Neuendorf,American Geological Institute Pdf

The fifth edition of the Glossary of Geology contains nearly 40,000 entries, including 3.600 new terms and nearly 13,000 entries with revised definitions from the previous edition. In addition to definitions, many entries include background information and aids to syllabication. The Glossary draws its authority from the expertise of more than 100 geoscientists in many specialties who reviewed definitions and added new terms.

Author : Hans-Georg Moeller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231519243

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The Moral Fool by Hans-Georg Moeller Pdf

Justice, equality, and righteousness these are some of our greatest moral convictions. Yet in times of social conflict, morals can become rigid, making religious war, ethnic cleansing, and political purges possible. Morality, therefore, can be viewed as pathology-a rhetorical, psychological, and social tool that is used and abused as a weapon. An expert on Eastern philosophies and social systems theory, Hans-Georg Moeller questions the perceived goodness of morality and those who claim morality is inherently positive. Critiquing the ethical "fanaticism" of Western moralists, such as Immanuel Kant, Lawrence Kohlberg, John Rawls, and the utilitarians, Moeller points to the absurd fundamentalisms and impracticable prescriptions arising from definitions of good. Instead he advances a theory of "moral foolishness," or moral asceticism, extracted from the "amoral" philosophers of East Asia and such thinkers as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Niklas Luhmann. The moral fool doesn't understand why ethics are necessarily good, and he isn't convinced that the moral perspective is always positive. In this way he is like most people, and Moeller defends this foolishness against ethical pathologies that support the death penalty, just wars, and even Jerry Springer's crude moral theater. Comparing and contrasting the religious philosophies of Christianity, Daoism, and Zen Buddhism, Moeller presents a persuasive argument in favor of amorality.

Author : John R. Latimer
Publisher : John R. Latimer
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0968521800

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Maker of Men by John R. Latimer Pdf

Author : Herman W. Mudgett
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368927813

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Holmes' Own Story by Herman W. Mudgett Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : Robert Latimer Bates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Geology, Economic
ISBN : UCAL:B4118629

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Geology of the Industrial Rocks and Minerals by Robert Latimer Bates Pdf

Author : Nancy Van Styvendale,J.D. McDougall,Robert Henry,Robert Alexander Innes
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887559433

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The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being by Nancy Van Styvendale,J.D. McDougall,Robert Henry,Robert Alexander Innes Pdf

Drawing attention to the ways in which creative practices are essential to the health, well-being, and healing of Indigenous peoples, The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being addresses the effects of artistic endeavour on the “good life”, or mino-pimatisiwin in Cree, which can be described as the balanced interconnection of physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being. In this interdisciplinary collection, Indigenous knowledges inform an approach to health as a wider set of relations that are central to well-being, wherein artistic expression furthers cultural continuity and resilience, community connection, and kinship to push back against forces of fracture and disruption imposed by colonialism. The need for healing—not only individuals but health systems and practices—is clear, especially as the trauma of colonialism is continually revealed and perpetuated within health systems. The field of Indigenous health has recently begun to recognize the fundamental connection between creative expression and well-being. This book brings together scholarship by humanities scholars, social scientists, artists, and those holding experiential knowledge from across Turtle Island to add urgently needed perspectives to this conversation. Contributors embrace a diverse range of research methods, including community-engaged scholarship with Indigenous youth, artists, Elders, and language keepers. The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being demonstrates the healing possibilities of Indigenous works of art, literature, film, and music from a diversity of Indigenous peoples and arts traditions. This book will resonate with health practitioners, community members, and any who recognize the power of art as a window, an entryway to access a healthy and good life.