This is a story of a middle child's journey in search of her own identity and happiness. Even at such a young age, Ivvi loved adventures and she knew that if she could keep up with her older brother she would be heading into one. The streetlights were on, but there was a much brighter light shining down on them as they made their way to their hills. It was their world, their time.

Beginning in the late 1950s, several authors began writing plays with absurdist themes in a realistic guise that depict power struggles in which characters use seemingly everyday language to combat ambiguously menacing forces, to negotiate hierarchical relationships, to create and maintain character masks, and to coerce others into accepting subjective versions of reality. This book analyzes the conversational implications of selected works by Harold Pinter, Simon Gray, David Mamet, and Sam Shepard toward a better understanding of how characters pursue goals with masked language and indirect speech acts disguised as mundane conversation. Four plays are treated with a discourse analysis to explore how everyday-sounding, dramatic conversation defamiliarizes the spectator with language as an effective means of communication by reacquainting him/her with commonly occurring discursive phenomena, so habitualized as to have become hidden. This book is intended for professional and student actors and directors studying both stage and camera work. The analytical methodology put forth will also assist scholars of dramatic literature.

With a foreword by Joycelyn Elders, M.D., " No Secrets, No Lies" is a powerful and daringly honest resource guide for families seeking to understand, prevent, and overcome childhood sexual abuse and its devastating impact on adult survivors.
An estimated one in four women and one in six men is abused by age eighteen, most often by someone they know. Most of these sexual assaults are never disclosed, much less reported to the police.
"No Secrets, No Lies" demystifies the cultural taboos and social dynamics that keep Black families silent and enable abuse to continue for generations. Among them:
- Fear of betraying family by turning offenders in to "the system"
- Distrust of institutions and authority figures, such as police officers
- Reluctance to seek counseling or therapy
- A legacy of enslavement and stereotypes about black sexuality
Through compelling personal accounts from everyday people, Robin D. Stone, a sexual abuse survivor herself, illuminates the emotional, psychological and hidden consequences of remaining silent, and provides holistic, practical steps to move toward healing.
"No Secrets, No Lies" candidly speaks to: survivors, telling them they are not at fault, not alone and how they can seek help; parents, guardians and caretakers, explaining how they can keep children safe and help survivors recover; and family, friends and other loved ones, showing ways to lend support.

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This text looks at the anti-capitalist movement and examines the history of opposition to capitalism throughout the world since the early 19th century. It explains attempts by early socialists and communists to think of alternative ways of running an economy and society. It then goes on to look at how the anti-colonial movements and youth revolts of the 1960s evolved into today's new wave of protests.