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Sorrow and Solace focuses on the importance of cemeteries in the
lives of everyday mourners, and ways in which our bereaved give
meaning to and draw value from their commemorative activities. The
death of someone dear to us is among the most momentous life event
that we experience. In many societies, visiting the grave or
memorial is a common behavioural response to bereavement. Memorial
sites provide vital connections to our deceased loved ones with
whom we wish to maintain ongoing social bonds, and cemeteries are
crucial places of deep healing and growth. Millions of visits are
made to cemeteries every day, but the extent of this activity and
its value to those who mourn - the topics of this volume - have
long remained largely unrecognised. Large urban memorial parks are
hives of activity for recently bereaved persons, and are among the
most visited places in Western communities. Some cemeteries,
hosting millions of annual visits, are more popular than many major
tourist attractions. Cemetery visitation is a high-participatory,
value-laden, expressive activity, and a most significant observable
behaviour of the recently bereaved. This work will be invaluable to
those seeking a scholarly understanding of bereavement, mourning,
and commemoration. Written principally for professionals with a
tertiary educational interest in related fields, such as grief
educators, nurses, palliative carers, and social workers, it is
also an important resource for the further education of other
carers and service providers, including psychologists, physicians,
counsellors, clergy, funeral directors, cemetery administrators,
and monumental masons. The book is also a significant contribution
to the field of social anthropology.
The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric is a
comprehensive compendium of primary texts that is designed for use
by students, teachers, and scholars of rhetoric and for the general
public interested in the history of African American communication.
The volume and its companion website include dialogues, creative
works, essays, folklore, music, interviews, news stories, raps,
videos, and speeches that are performed or written by African
Americans. Both the book as a whole and the various selections in
it speak directly to the artistic, cultural, economic, gendered,
social, and political condition of African Americans from the
enslavement period in America to the present, as well as to the
Black Diaspora.
The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric is a
comprehensive compendium of primary texts that is designed for use
by students, teachers, and scholars of rhetoric and for the general
public interested in the history of African American communication.
The volume and its companion website include dialogues, creative
works, essays, folklore, music, interviews, news stories, raps,
videos, and speeches that are performed or written by African
Americans. Both the book as a whole and the various selections in
it speak directly to the artistic, cultural, economic, gendered,
social, and political condition of African Americans from the
enslavement period in America to the present, as well as to the
Black Diaspora.
Once again, in "Dorothea and Preston, a story of love, " David
Bachelor has captured humanity at its awkward but noble best,
striving as always against unforeseen odds. In 1940 while hate and
destruction in Europe were building to a second world war, Dorothea
Dolan runs her quiet boarding house on the shores of Lake Michigan.
Here she loves and cares for the elderly who have been broken by
the Great Depression. Dorothea's commitment to her charges is
absolute and her tacit motto is "no one will suffer" as she
attempts to rescue them from slow and painful declines. Into this
setting Michigan State Police Detective Preston Duhamel strides in
search of thieves and incorrigibles-who he finds, and sometimes who
find him. Preston, however, is fleeing his own afflictions. With
redemption just around the corner, Dorothea tries to help her lover
and herself, as they are both challenged by elemental powers beyond
their control.
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