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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Signposts on the Road to Forgiveness is a book about forgiveness
and so much more. It's a call to come to the spiritual place for
which you were born. It's a call to a deeper relationship with the
Lord.
Ten chapters lay a scriptural foundation concerning the plan God
has had for you from the beginning. Twenty signposts then give
scriptural directives to help you make these truths a reality in
your life.
Learn how to get beyond the pain you've experienced at the hands
of others, even as Jesus did. See how to forgive others and how to
forgive yourself, so you can truly fulfill your destiny. Understand
what the Bible really teaches about gossip, anger, and the
Christian's responsibility in judging others. Take a fresh,
scriptural look at when to remit sins, when to retain sins, when to
confront, and when to walk away.
Whether you have just embarked on your spiritual quest or you've
been a Christian for years, God wants to take you on a walk with
Him that will liberate and heal you, enabling you to be all He
intended you to be. Hear anew His call to follow Him on this
spiritual road purchased for you by His own blood. Lift up your
eyes and behold His glory. Experience the restoration of the joy of
your salvation. Rejoice as you continue on your personal journey
with Him, recognizing and following His signposts along the
way.
November 2015 marked the third year the Corvallis-Benton County
Public Library sponsored events in support of National Novel
Writing Month. Awe-struck by the hard work and dedication of the
35+ writers that attended the Library's events over the course of
the month, we decided to publish a third annual book of excerpts
from the writing done by writers in the Corvallis area during
NaNoWriMo 2015. Thirteen phenomenal writers contributed their work
and we present them for you here. We hope you will be inspired by
their work and encouraged to take the challenge yourself next year!
Where would we be without conversation? Throughout history,
conversations have allowed us to see different perspectives, build
ideas, and solve problems. Conversations, particularly those
referred to in this book as academic conversations, push students
to think and learn in lasting ways. Academic conversations are
back-and-forth dialogues in which students focus on a topic and
explore it by building, challenging, and negotiating relevant
ideas. Unfortunately, academic conversations are rare in many
classrooms. Talk is often dominated by the teacher and a few
students, or it does not advance beyond short responses to the
teacher's questions. Even certain teaching approaches and
curriculum programs neglect to train students how to maintain a
focused, respectful, and thoughtful conversation. To address these
challenges, authors Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford have identified
five core communication skills to help students hold productive
academic conversations across content areas. These skills include:
elaborating and clarifying, supporting ideas with evidence,
building on and/or challenging ideas, paraphrasing, and
synthesizing. This book shows teachers how to weave the cultivation
of academic conversation skills and conversations into current
teaching approaches. More specifically, it describes how to use
conversations to build the following: Academic vocabulary and
grammar Critical thinking skills such as persuasion,
interpretation, consideration of multiple perspectives, evaluation,
and application Literacy skills such as questioning, predicting,
connecting to prior knowledge, and summarizing Complex and abstract
essential understandings in content areas such as adaptation, human
nature, bias, conservation of mass, energy, gravity, irony,
democracy, greed, and more An academic classroom environment
brimming with respect for others' ideas, equity of voice,
engagement, and mutual support The ideas in this book stem from
many hours of classroom practice, research, and video analysis
across grade levels and content areas. Readers will find numerous
practical activities for working on each conversation skill,
crafting conversation-worthy tasks, and using conversations to
teach and assess. Academic Conversations offers an in-depth
approach to helping students develop into the future parents,
teachers, and leaders who will collaborate to build a better world.
This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking.
Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the
social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and
status within a particular culture and at a particular historical
moment, this book offers the necessary locally grounded analysis.
Focusing on the case of Nepal, from where 5,000 to 7,000 thousands
of Nepali girls and women are trafficked each year primarily to
India, Mary Crawford assesses how the social construction of
trafficking - the concept and its representation in discourse - are
influenced by the dynamics of gender, caste, and the development
establishment. The defining figure is an innocent, naive young girl
being lured or duped into leaving the safety of her village. The
trafficking victim is portrayed as "backward"; however, she is
"backward" in specific ways that resonate with Nepal's struggle to
resist and yet encompass Western influence. This view may lead to
paradoxical effects in which efforts to protect girls and women
instead restrict their human rights. Rather than seeing women as
universalized victims, Crawford assesses how the social
construction of trafficking in a particular society affects girls
and women who live in that society. In this book, the author's
voice as a woman, a feminist, and a social scientist immersed in a
"foreign" way of life, illuminates aspects of this process and
highlights the subjectivity of urban women. It makes the connection
between Nepali subjectivities and a problem of international
significance, the trafficking of girls and women. The book provides
a model for other locally grounded accounts of sex trafficking to
counter the universalizing rhetoric of the mass media and some
anti-trafficking activists, filling a niche in South Asian Studies
and Women's Studies.
`I love the warmth and wit in this book, but I say this in no way
to detract from the seriousness of its subject matter and its
incisive treatment by Mary Crawford... this is a great book and an
important book which articulates current critical thinking about
research around gender and language. Mary Crawford writes
brilliantly, powerfully and lucidly... I thoroughly recommend it' -
British Psychological Society Psychology of Women Section
Newsletter This refreshing re-evaluation of current wisdom - both
academic and popular - about men's and women's language critically
assesses the abundant social science research of recent years and
its representation in the mass media. Exploring a wide range of
topics, from talk shows to self-help books, Mary Crawford offers a
new understanding of the role of language practices in both
maintaining - and disrupting - gender inequality. The book
addresses such provocative questions as: Why has the study of
gender and language so often focused on the limitations of women's
talk? How do academic practices constrain our understanding of how
gender relations are re-created and maintained in language use? Why
do assertiveness texts usually ignore indirect modes of speech such
as humour and storytelling?
In this volume, gender serves as a general framework for analyzing
the ways people think about mathematical performance, language,
self-concept, social categories, and methods and ways of knowing
and creating knowledge. A distinguished group of authors shows how
various forces in language, family practices, and education
reinforce differentiation among the sex roles. This volume attempts
to bridge this gap between difference and equality by revitalizing
and reinterpreting the concept of gender differences. Gender and
Thought places research on women and gender at the heart of many
important areas of scholarly inquiry.
This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking.
Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the
social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and
status within a particular culture and at a particular historical
moment, this book offers the necessary locally grounded
analysis.
Focusing on the case of Nepal, from where 5,000 to 7,000
thousands of Nepali girls and women are trafficked each year
primarily to India, Mary Crawford assesses how the social
construction of trafficking - the concept and its representation in
discourse - are influenced by the dynamics of gender, caste, and
the development establishment. The defining figure is an innocent,
naive young girl being lured or duped into leaving the safety of
her village. The trafficking victim is portrayed as "backward";
however, she is "backward" in specific ways that resonate with
Nepal's struggle to resist and yet encompass Western influence.
This view may lead to paradoxical effects in which efforts to
protect girls and women instead restrict their human rights. Rather
than seeing women as universalized victims, Crawford assesses how
the social construction of trafficking in a particular society
affects girls and women who live in that society.
In this book, the author's voice as a woman, a feminist, and a
social scientist immersed in a "foreign" way of life, illuminates
aspects of this process and highlights the subjectivity of urban
women. It makes the connection between Nepali subjectivities and a
problem of international significance, the trafficking of girls and
women. The book provides a model for other locally grounded
accounts of sex trafficking to counter the universalizing rhetoric
of the mass media and some anti-trafficking activists, filling a
niche in South Asian Studies and Women's Studies.
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