Still Hopeful

Author : Maude Barlow
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773059341

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Still Hopeful by Maude Barlow Pdf

“Canada’s best-known voice of dissent.” — CBC “It’s time we listened to the Maude Barlows of the world.” — CNN In this timely book, Barlow counters the prevailing atmosphere of pessimism that surrounds us and offers lessons of hope that she has learned from a lifetime of activism. She has been a linchpin in three major movements in her life: second-wave feminism, the battle against free trade and globalization, and the global fight for water justice. From each of these she draws her lessons of hope, emphasizing that effective activism is not really about the goal, rather it is about building a movement and finding like-minded people to carry the load with you. Barlow knows firsthand how hard fighting for change can be. But she also knows that change does happen and that hope is the essential ingredient.

Author : Dr M.A. Monareng
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781499088205

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LIFE IS HOPEFUL FOR THE LIVING by Dr M.A. Monareng Pdf

Dr Monareng believes that there are rays of hope even during the darkest hours of our lives. Hope gives us zeal and courage to believe that things will be better one day. We are in the world that is full of lies and lacks forgiveness. The world that has become an employer to the human race. In this fascinating journey of life, elders need to pass on a baton to the younger generation with the hope that norms and values of the past remain immortal. The twenty-first-century parents should apply the relevant parenting style. Our lives have an impact on the lives of our followers in this world. Be brave and be a conqueror who is not a fake but is him/herself. We must be remembered even long after our deaths. Swim through the storms of life and make peace with the past in order to enjoy the present.

Author : Karen Thomas Wisdom
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480988859

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Hopeful Hearts and Butterfly Blessings by Karen Thomas Wisdom Pdf

Hopeful Hearts and Butterfly Blessings By: Karen Thomas Wisdom In Hopeful Hearts and Butterfly Blessings, Karen shares her experiences with her first-born son, Brooks, who was born with a congenital heart defect. It’s a story of Brook’s eighteen-year struggle through the surgeries and post-surgical complications that eventually took his life. Her sole mission through those eighteen years was to ease his pain and discomfort and to make him feel loved and cared for. Because of her deep faith in God, He allowed her to see there are miracles even in the grimmest circumstances; that good can come from bad; and there is always light at the end of the tunnel. She shares ideas on what helped her to move forward on her grieving journey. Though Karen’s story doesn’t have the happy ending she so fervently prayed for, it is, nevertheless, a story of faith, hope and love. She tells her story so that it can provide support for others living with the same type of trials. Through our everyday pains and struggles, when our prayers aren’t getting answered in the way we think they should be, it is her hope that we can still see the many blessings that God is giving us. He is with us not just in our joys, but also in our sufferings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433069133951

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Minutes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ruth R. Caston,Robert A. Kaster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190627171

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Hope, Joy, and Affection in the Classical World by Ruth R. Caston,Robert A. Kaster Pdf

The emotions have long been an interest for those studying ancient Greece and Rome. But while the last few decades have produced excellent studies of individual emotions and the different approaches to them by the major philosophical schools, the focus has been almost entirely on negative emotions. This might give the impression that the Greeks and Romans had little to say about positive emotion, something that would be misguided. As the chapters in this collection indicate, there are representations of positive emotions extending from archaic Greek poetry to Augustine, and in both philosophical works and literary genres as wide-ranging as lyric poetry, forensic oratory, comedy, didactic poetry, and the novel. Nor is the evidence uniform: while many of the literary representations give expression to positive emotion but also describe its loss, the philosophers offer a more optimistic assessment of the possibilities of attaining joy or contentment in this life. The positive emotions show some of the same features that all emotions do. But unlike the negative emotions, which we are able to describe and analyze in great detail because of our preoccupation with them, positive emotions tend to be harder to articulate. Hence the interest of the present study, which considers how positive emotions are described, their relationship to other emotions, the ways in which they are provoked or upset by circumstances, how they complicate and enrich our relationships with other people, and which kinds of positive emotion we should seek to integrate. The ancient works have a great deal to say about all of these topics, and for that reason deserve more study, both for our understanding of antiquity and for our understanding of the positive emotions in general.

Author : Kathleen Engebretson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623567132

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Catholic Schools and the Future of the Church by Kathleen Engebretson Pdf

During the first decade of the 21st century the Catholic Church in the developed world has faced a decline in its moral authority, increasing accusations of irrelevance to a secular age, and a steep and steady decline in commitment among successive generations from the 1960s on. Despite this Catholic schools have multiplied and grown in popularity and educational achievement. The book sets out a programme for the contribution of Catholic schools to the future of the Church, covering such topics as the religious education curriculum in its cognitive and affective aspects, the sacramental life of the school, selection of staff, the issue of staff and Catholic witness and many other topics. Engebretson argues that Catholic schools are a powerful key to the future of the Church and shows how, within their diversity, Catholic schools can be ecclesial communities, which have at their heart the building up of the Church.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Women
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030026286999

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Arthur's Lady's Home Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shea Balik
Publisher : Shea Balik
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Flicker of Hope by Shea Balik Pdf

Kegan Tulach already knew that monsters were real. He’d faced them. Watched in horror as they killed those he loved. Then run from them. It was his response for the past two years. But now, on his twenty-first birthday, running wasn’t an option. He had no where to go. It was time for him to face his worst nightmare. There weren’t many people who could do what Bjorn did. Fight monsters and live to tell the tale. It was a job thrust upon him as a kid. If he had known the true hell that would be cursed upon him, he would have preferred to die even though he’d only been fourteen at the time. Now, years later, he had hope that the curse would come to an end. The question was, would he choose the death he’d so desperately craved for more than a millennia, or would he do the one thing he swore he’d never do? Choose love. If Kegan and Bjorn can find a way past their fears, they may discover something worth living for - each other. This is a stand alone with an HEA, but reading the first book is recommended for full enjoyment.

Author : William Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : English fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:HW21MS

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The Earthly Paradise by William Morris Pdf

A series of 24 tales in verse, 2 for each month of the year.

Author : Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190209575

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Emerging Adulthood by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett Pdf

In recent decades, the lives of people in their late teens and twenties have changed so dramatically that a new stage of life has developed. In his provocative work, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett has identified the period of emerging adulthood as distinct from both the adolescence that precedes it and the young adulthood that comes in its wake. Arnett's new paradigm has received a surge of scholarly attention due to his book that launched the field, Emerging Adulthood. On the 10th Anniversary of the publication of his groundbreaking work, the second edition of Emerging Adulthood fully updates and expands Arnett's findings and includes brand new chapters on media use, social class issues, and the distinctive problems of this life stage. In spite of the challenges they face, Arnett explains that emerging adults are particularly skilled at maintaining contradictory emotions--they are confident while being wary, and optimistic in the face of large degrees of uncertainty. Merging stories from the lives of emerging adults themselves with decades of research, Arnett covers a wide range of topics, including love and sex, relationships with parents, experiences at college and work, and views of what it means to be an adult. He also refutes many of the negative stereotypes about emerging adults today, finding that they are not "lazy" but remarkably hard-working in most cases, and not "selfish" but rather concerned with making a contribution to improving the world. As the nature of American youth and the meaning of adulthood further evolve, Emerging Adulthood will continue to be essential reading for understanding the face of modern America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082249149

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Minutes of the ... Anniversary of the Vermont Baptist Convention by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Malcolm Johnston,William Hand Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N10592513

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Life of Alexander H. Stephens by Richard Malcolm Johnston,William Hand Browne Pdf

Alexander H. Stephens was a career politician who served as a United States senator and representative from Georgia, both before and after the Civil War. He also served as the vice president of the Confederate States of America. This biography is drawn from a wealth of correspondence, journals, notes of conversations, letters to his brother Linton, speeches and other records of his public life.

Author : Jennifer Dance
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459748798

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Gone but Still Here by Jennifer Dance Pdf

As her recent memories fade, Mary lives increasingly in the past — returning to the secrets of her turbulent interracial love story. Coming to terms with advancing dementia, Mary has no choice other than to move into her daughter’s home. Her daughter, Kayla, caught between her cognitively impaired mother and her belligerent teenage son, soon finds caregiving is more challenging than she imagined. Sage, the family’s golden retriever, offers comfort and unconditional love, but she has her own problems, especially when it comes to dealing with Mary’s cat. Throughout it all, Mary struggles to complete her final book — a memoir, the untold story of the love of her life, who died more than forty years earlier. Her confused and tangled tales span Trinidad, England, and Canada, revealing the secrets of a tragic interracial love story in the 1960s and ’70s. But with her writing skills slipping away, it’s a race against time. Heartwarming, funny, and hopeful, Gone but Still Here is an honest, open look at the struggles of one family as they journey into the unknown.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HXPMWZ

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The Wellesley Prelude by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z256561507

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Report ... Of The British Association For The Advancement Of Science by Anonim Pdf