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Exiled by RaShelle Workman7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() "Writing that moves readers to ponder their hearts is good writing, and that's what readers will find with Workman. Seriously." Nancy, reviewer Tumbling Books "Michael and Venus have probably been the best pairing/couple that I've read about this year! GO READ THIS BOOK! You will love it. If she doesn't triumph, she'll die, but if she does she might lose her heart. Her life, her planet, and her people depend on her success. With time running out, and an evil force trying to destroy her, she is determined to help Michael heal and find love. But when she meets Michael her attitude changes. From her Earth Studies classes, she’s learned humans fall in love easily. ![]() It’s a planet she can’t survive on for long.Īfter pleading with the Gods, her guardian, Zaren counsels that the only way Venus can return home is if she helps someone find his soul mate. But on her birthday, before the change can take place, she’s hurled to Earth. On princess Venus’s planet of Kelari, her people go through a change at the age of sixteen, one that takes them from mortality to immortality. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I did note at a pretty early age, around third grade or something, in primary school, that I felt different. As I said the other night, I see myself as having a pretty typical middle-class childhood in the seventies and eighties. How did you identify in the years prior to transitioning?Įverett Maroon: There were 33 of them. ![]() ![]() The Pioneer: Describe your life prior to transitioning. He has written for Bitch Magazine “I Fry Mine in Butter,” a blog about popular culture RH Realit圜heck and Remedy Quarterly. Maroon also blogs about writing, relocating to Walla Walla from Washington D.C., and raising a baby son at trans/plant/portation. “Bumbling into Body Hair” was a finalist in the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association’s 2010 literary contest for memoir. It tells the story of Maroon’s transition candidly and humorously. The Pioneerrecently sat down with local author Everett Maroon, whose book “Bumbling into Body Hair: A Transsexual’s Memoir” was published in March. ![]()
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The Dowry by Maggie Gould7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() These have been seen as alternatives that reduce the pressure on individuals who wish to have their unions recognized but are challenged by the dowry factor. Given the changing times other alternatives have been used to make marriages official for example affidavits and administrative recognition. This concern has been prompted by the fact that in contemporary society it could be an impediment to happy marriages while some couples have questioned its very relevance. ![]() This paper intends to examine the roots of this practice with specific reference to the African milieu where husbands are expected to honor dowry requirements. ![]() In most African societies, it is the groom's family's responsibility while in other jurisdictions, for example India it is placed on the bridal family. The payment of dowry in the marriage process is a practice that is upheld in many societies and is a significant pillar in most marriages especially in the African context. ![]()
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Carl sagan voyager 17/1/2023 ![]() ![]() As for Voyager 1, its program included a visit to Titan, which excluded the further possibility of sending the spacecraft to other planets of the Solar System. And after Saturn, their paths parted forever. The spacecraft had an identical design, but different flight plans. ![]() Their target was the giant planets of the Solar System. In 1977, NASA launched a pair of Voyager probes. So, on the occasion of the International Earth Day celebrated today, we would like to tell the story of this amazing image. The famous popularizer of science, Carl Sagan, took several years to convince the aerospace administration. What is much less known is that initially NASA did not want to take such a photo. ![]() The image was taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from an incredible distance of 6 billion kilometers. This is the name of perhaps the most famous photo of our planet in history. Most fans of astronomy and cosmonautics have probably heard the term Pale Blue Dot. ![]()
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Paul david tripp age of opportunity7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() In 2006, he became the president of Paul Tripp Ministries, a position he holds to this day.Despite the obstacles, Tripp continued with his work and his life-long mission in ministry.He has said when looking back that those were some of the most difficult days in his career.Unfortunately, due to local issues and Tripp’s lack of experience as a minister, he was met with a lot of scrutiny. He started at a local church and Christian school in Scranton.In 1971, Tripp became a pastor for the first time in his career.With much candor, Tripp has used his own circumstances to reach people that are also suffering.Eventually, as Tripp recovered, he realized that his life experiences and faith had helped him deal with his illness and pain.In excruciating pain, his illness left him physically, emotionally, and spiritually drained. What followed were many surgeries and several hospital stays. ![]() In 2014, Tripp became ill with kidney failure.In 1987, after living in Ohio with his family for many years, Paul decided to move with his family to Philadelphia, where the family continues to reside today.A few years later, Tripp started a church and Christian School in Scranton, Ohio.During that same year, he took on his first job as a pastor. In 1971, while still attending college, Tripp met and married his wife, Luella Jackson they have four children.Tripp went off to college in 1968, majoring in Bible and Christian Education.Paul David Tripp was born on November 12, 1950, in Toledo, Ohio, to parents Bob Tripp (father) and Fae Tripp (mother). ![]()
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Effortless book sc stephens7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C. ![]() Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give.By TOPIC Award Winning Books African American Children's Books Biography & Autobiography Diversity & Inclusion Foreign Language & Bilingual Books Hispanic & Latino Children's Books Holidays & Celebrations Holocaust Books Juvenile Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers Professional Development Reference Books Test Prep.By GRADE Elementary School Middle School High Schoolīy AGE Board Books (newborn to age 3) Early Childhood Readers (ages 4-8) Children's Picture Books (ages 3-8) Juvenile Fiction (ages 8-12) Young Adult Fiction (ages 12+).BESTSELLERS in EDUCATION Shop All Education Books. ![]()
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Sledgehammer 44 by Mike Mignola7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When he’s not punching or blowing stuff up, he’s gloomy and silent with the reader rarely given the occasional glimpse into his mind. The irony is that in his own book, we don’t really get to know who Sledgehammer 44 is. While it’s more superhero-y than we usually get in Mignola’s books, it looks awesome – Laurence Campbell’s art is great and his photorealistic style makes the Black Flame look really chilling, like when he lands on the airplane wing and starts walking towards the reader! The story is minimal, a contrivance to get these two fighting Dragon Ball Z-style, in the sky, smashing each other as hard as possible. The second and final three-issue arc sees Sledgehammer 44 (what an unwieldy name!) go up against the Black Flame. It’s not a bad story but not a very impressive one either – spirits haunting physical suits is a very common theme in Mike Mignola’s comics as are strong man characters! Jason Latour’s art is ok but feels a little sketchy and rushed. The first two-issue arc introduces us to the character and tells us a bit about him, what he is, what he can do, etc. ![]() Though Sledgehammer 44 turns out to be a fairly uninteresting dude, nor are his stories particularly memorable, the book is not without its charms. But during a mission to retrieve a prisoner and experimental plane, Sledgehammer 44 comes up against a formidable Nazi figure: the Black Flame! A powerful new Allied weapon enters the closing stages of World War 2: Sledgehammer 44, a robot imbued with supernatural Vril power. ![]()
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Confessions of a common reader7/1/2023 ![]() Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. Anne Fadiman is–by her own admission–the sort of person who learned about sex from her father’s copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate’s 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice. ![]()
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The man who saw his wife as a hat6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() And as he found this out, he grew fretful and restless again, and wandered the corridors, uneasy and bored and with a sense of indignity games and puzzles were for children, a diversion. He would become keenly and briefly involved in games, but soon they ceased to offer any challenge: he solved all the puzzles, and could solve them easily and he was far better and sharper than anyone else at games. ![]() This worked better better than the diary. ![]() Later, having noted his aptitude for, and pleasure in, quick games and puzzles, and their power to 'hold' him, at least while they lasted, and to allow, for a while, a sense of companionship and competition - he had not complained of loneliness, but he looked so alone he never expressed sadness, but he looked so sad - I suggested he be brought into our recreation programmes at the Home. Oliver Sacks recounts his condition and history, then tells us about their efforts to solve Jimmy’s restlessness and sadness. Everything after that, including the recent past, was a blank, due to brain damage from alcohol abuse. Jimmy was a patient whose memories stopped in 1945. A short, interesting excerpt from “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat” by neurologist Oliver Sacks ![]()
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Faust part 1 by goethe6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This past Winter Quarter, Auslander taught an Urban Studies course in Paris. ![]() There's no reason to assume that when students walk into a classroom, they have any idea how to actually learn from each other.” “Part of my job is to teach people how to do that. “How do you create a classroom community where everybody exchanges their points of view and learns from each other?” Auslander asked. This awareness manifests in her teaching style, one that makes sure differences are respected and that listening, as well as speaking, is taken seriously. She shows how the smallest differences-in style, in food, in manners-can lead to inclusion, exclusion and sometimes violence. Leora Auslander works on how abstractions like “nationality,” “class,” “gender,” and “race,” are made and transformed in the things and spaces we use every day. ![]() |