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Devoured (Blu-ray disc)
Marta Milans, Kara Jackson, Bruno Gunn, Tyler Hollinger, David Conley, …
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R156
Discovery Miles 1 560
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Psychological horror. Immigrant worker Lourdes (Marta Milans) is
the night shift janitor at a high-class French restaurant in New
York. Faced with a tough boss (Kara Jackson) and surrounded by
forceful and abusive men, she struggles through the work as she
needs the money to fund her sick child's hospital treatment back
home. But when she begins seeing visions of shadowy figures at the
restaurant she becomes convinced that someone or something is out
to get her...
While Adolf Hitler's National Socialist government was persecuting
Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses and driving forty-two small German
religious sects underground, the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints continued to practice unhindered. How some
fourteen thousand Mormons not only survived but thrived in Nazi
Germany is a story little known, rarely told, and occasionally
rewritten within the confines of the Church's history - for good
reason, as we see in David Conley Nelson's Moroni and the Swastika.
A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full
account of how Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled
collaboration with Hitler's regime, and then eschewed postwar shame
by constructing an alternative history of wartime suffering and
resistance. The Twelfth Article of Faith and parts of the 134th
Section of the Doctrine and Covenants function as Mormonism's
equivalent of the biblical admonition to ""render unto Caesar,"" a
charge to cooperate with civil government, no matter how onerous
doing so may be. Resurrecting this often-violated doctrinal edict,
ecclesiastical leaders at the time developed a strategy that
protected Mormons within Nazi Germany. Furthermore, as Nelson
shows, many Mormon officials strove to fit into the Third Reich by
exploiting commonalities with the Nazi state. German Mormons
emphasized a mutual interest in genealogy and a passion for sports.
They sent husbands into the Wehrmacht and sons into the Hitler
Youth, and they prayed for a German victory when the war began.
They also purged Jewish references from hymnals, lesson plans, and
liturgical practices. One American mission president even wrote an
article for the official Nazi Party newspaper, extolling parallels
between Utah Mormon and German Nazi society. Nelson documents this
collaboration, as well as subsequent efforts to suppress it by
fashioning a new collective memory of ordinary German Mormons'
courage and travails during the war. Recovering this inconvenient
past, Moroni and the Swastika restores a complex and difficult
chapter to the history of Nazi Germany and the Mormon Church in the
twentieth century - and offers new insight into the construction of
historical truth.
While Adolf Hitler's National Socialist government was persecuting
Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses and driving forty-two small German
religious sects underground, the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints continued to practice unhindered. How some
fourteen thousand Mormons not only survived but thrived in Nazi
Germany is a story little known, rarely told, and occasionally
rewritten within the confines of the Church's history - for good
reason, as we see in David Conley Nelson's Moroni and the Swastika.
A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full
account of how Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled
collaboration with Hitler's regime, and then eschewed postwar shame
by constructing an alternative history of wartime suffering and
resistance. The Twelfth Article of Faith and parts of the 134th
Section of the Doctrine and Covenants function as Mormonism's
equivalent of the biblical admonition to ""render unto Caesar,"" a
charge to cooperate with civil government, no matter how onerous
doing so may be. Resurrecting this often-violated doctrinal edict,
ecclesiastical leaders at the time developed a strategy that
protected Mormons within Nazi Germany. Furthermore, as Nelson
shows, many Mormon officials strove to fit into the Third Reich by
exploiting commonalities with the Nazi state. German Mormons
emphasized a mutual interest in genealogy and a passion for sports.
They sent husbands into the Wehrmacht and sons into the Hitler
Youth, and they prayed for a German victory when the war began.
They also purged Jewish references from hymnals, lesson plans, and
liturgical practices. One American mission president even wrote an
article for the official Nazi Party newspaper, extolling parallels
between Utah Mormon and German Nazi society. Nelson documents this
collaboration, as well as subsequent efforts to suppress it by
fashioning a new collective memory of ordinary German Mormons'
courage and travails during the war. Recovering this inconvenient
past, Moroni and the Swastika restores a complex and difficult
chapter to the history of Nazi Germany and the Mormon Church in the
twentieth century - and offers new insight into the construction of
historical truth.
It's Hard Not to Stare is the second book unpacking StreetLevel's
children's Compassion Series. Tim Huff addresses issues related to
disabilities in this book, as he did homelessness in the first of
the series, applying the same tender and truthful prose, along with
bright and courageous child-friendly illustrations, which have been
heightened by the insights and wisdom of his professional peers,
educators, moms and dads. The material encourages children to look
at their world through the lens of compassion and understanding,
rather than assumption, judgment or fear. Tim believes this
approach will impact the way we care for, and befriend, people in
our communities and beyond, and that when we nurture compassion in
a child in one area of life, the potential is greater that this
goodness will spill over into all other areas.
This book provides valuable insights into a dynamic structural
change that is being experienced, but not completely understood, by
educators and policymakers alike--the transfer of power from the
local to the state and national levels. What will become of our
public schools in this new era of leadership? The author traces the
origins of this process, examines the implications, and considers
where these changes might lead. This extremely timely volume:
-Explores the direction of education policy and the ways in which
both policymakers and educators can adapt and provide leadership in
this new landscape.-Offers a concise, accessible summary of a
multitude of specific programs and policies, helping us to think
more systematically about the shifts in power relationships among
education governance levels.-Presents an outline of actions that
can be taken at the local, state, and national levels to help
facilitate better working relationship and to help improve
schools.-Examines the new federal role and recent federal
legislation, including the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
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