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Sexual abuse can have devastating effects on a person's life. This
story chronicles my forty-two year journey. It began when I was
only nine and tells how I dealt with the abuse at different stages
of my life. I have been told that God never gives you more than you
can handle, but that doesn't mean He won't push you to the very
limits of what you can take. Read how God used this to raise up a
spiritual warrior!
Strip Search is one of the favorite spots on the UExpress website.
Aspiring cartoonists are invited to submit their strips for
possible inclusion. (Note: The Big Picture book on the Spring 1999
list came through this site.) To further the search for new
cartoonists, AMU has joined with Follett College Stores to sponsor
a Strip Search contest.
The Follett Company manages approximately 450 college bookstores
throughout the U.S. These stores range from full-service campus
bookstores to small outlets that sell books on the opening day of
school. The contest is running from August 1 through October 31,
1998. Entries are submitted for one of three categories: comic
strip, comic panel, and other. Contest submissions will be
evaluated by the Universal Press Syndicate editorial staff. After
the closing of the contest, the winning strips will be transmitted
to AMP editorial, who will produce the book.
Publicity and promotion for the book will be in April 1999. The
contest winners will be announced to coincide with the book
publication. A publication party for the overall winner will be at
the Follett store nearest his or her college residence.
Silence, Civility, and Sanity addresses the reclamation of civil
communication and healthy public conversation at a time when people
are very divided. Throughout this book, Stephanie Bennett focuses
on the importance of silence to temper speech and embrace the art
of listening to foster a more positive dialogue and civil society.
Throughout this book, the author addresses the place of silence as
a communicational good, intrapersonal silence in the history of
contemplative prayer, the importance of attentive silence, the
reflective use of silence, the ethnical dimensions of silence, and
the abuses of silence. This book also delves into the layers of
technological advancement that obscure perception and act as noise
that poses as silence, phantom silence. Bennett offers readers an
alternative to the false binaries of culture-warring that plague
our relationships, institutions, and public sphere. Scholars of
communication, rhetoric, and media studies will find this book of
particular interest.
Reinventing Rural is a collection of original research papers that
examine the ways in which rural people and places are changing in
the context of an urbanizing world. This includes exploring the
role of the environment, the economy, and related issues such as
tourism. While traditionally relying on primary sector work in
agriculture, mining, natural resources, and the like, rural areas
are finding new ways to sustain themselves. This involves a new
emphasis on environmental protection, as one important strategy has
been to capitalize on natural amenities to attract residents and
tourists. Beyond improvements to the economy are general
improvements to the quality-of-life in rural communities.
Consistent with this, the volume focuses on the two cornerstones of
education and health, considering current challenges and offering
ideas for reinventing rural quality-of-life.
The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of
urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of
society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically
relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status
through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural and
cultural changes rooted in urbanization are connected in complex
ways to spatial arrangements that can be described in terms of
inequality and uneven development. Through a focus on localities,
Studies in Urbanormativity: Rural Community in Urban Society
examines the implications of urbanization and its corresponding
ideology. Urbanormativity justifies rural domination by holding
urban life as the standard against which rural forms are compared
and deemed to be irregular, inferior, or deviant. Urban production,
as conceptualized in this book, is inherently exploitative of rural
resources natural, social, cultural, and symbolic. As this
exploitation advances, a wake of entropic conditions is left behind
in the forms of degraded landscapes, broken social institutions,
and denigrated communities, cultures and identities. Edited by
Gregory M. Fulkerson and Alexander R. Thomas, Studies in
Urbanormativity engages a topic on which scholars have been
surprisingly silent. Designed for advancing theory and practice,
the chapters provide new theoretical tools for understanding the
complex relationship between the urban and rural. While primarily
intended for scholars and practitioners interested in rural life,
rural policy, and community development, the insights of this book
will also be of interest to scholars studying various forms of
cultural and social domination, as well as identity politics.
Reinventing Rural is a collection of original research papers that
examine the ways in which rural people and places are changing in
the context of an urbanizing world. This includes exploring the
role of the environment, the economy, and related issues such as
tourism. While traditionally relying on primary sector work in
agriculture, mining, natural resources, and the like, rural areas
are finding new ways to sustain themselves. This involves a new
emphasis on environmental protection, as one important strategy has
been to capitalize on natural amenities to attract residents and
tourists. Beyond improvements to the economy are general
improvements to the quality-of-life in rural communities.
Consistent with this, the volume focuses on the two cornerstones of
education and health, considering current challenges and offering
ideas for reinventing rural quality-of-life.
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