Author: Sheryl St. Germain
Publisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595342567
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Writing programs in prisons and rehabilitation centers have proven time and again to be transformative and empowering for people in need. Halfway houses, hospitals, and shelters are all fertile ground for healing through the imagination and can often mean the difference for inmates and patients between just simply surviving and truly thriving. It is in these settings that teachers and their students need reading that nourishes the soul and challenges the spirit. Words without Walls is a collection of more than seventy-five poems, essays, stories, and scripts by contemporary writers that provide models for successful writing, offering voices and styles that will inspire students in alternative spaces on their own creative exploration. Created by the founders of the award-winning program of the same name based at Chatham University, the anthology strives to challenge readers to reach beyond their own circumstances and begin to write from the heart. Each selection expresses immediacy--writing that captures the imagination and conveys intimacy on the page--revealing the power of words to cut to the quick and unfold the truth. Many of the pieces are brief, allowing for reading and discussion in the classroom, and provide a wide range of content and genre, touching on themes common to communities in need: addiction and alcoholism, family, love and sex, pain and hope, prison, recovery, and violence. Included is work by writers dealing with shared issues, such as Dorothy Alison and Jesmyn Ward, who write about families for whom struggle is a way of life; or Natalie Kenvin and Toi Derricotte, whose pieces reveal violence against women. Also included are writings by those who have spent time in prison themselves, such as Jimmy Santiago Baca, Dwayne Betts, Ken Lamberton, and Etheridge Knight. Eric Boyd ennobles the day he was released from jail. Stephon Hayes reflects on what he sees from his prison window. Terra Lynn evokes the experience of being put in solitary confinement. Because in 2011 almost half of all prisoners in federal facilities were in for drug-related offenses, there are pieces by James Brown, Nick Flynn, and Ann Marlowe, who explore their own addiction and alcoholism, and by Natalie Diaz, Scott Russell Sanders, and Christine Stroud, who write of crippling drug abuse by family and friends. These powerful excerpts act as models for beginning writers and offer a vehicle to examine their own painful experiences. Words without Walls demonstrates the power of language to connect people; to reflect on the past and reimagine the future; to confront complicated truths; and to gain solace from pain and regret. For students in alternative spaces, these writings, together with their own expressions, reveal the same intense desire to write and share one’s writing, found in the Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya, who scratched her poems on bars of soap in a Gulag shower, or the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet, who smuggled bits of poetry out of jail in the clothing of visiting friends. Wole Soyinka, in solitary confinement forty years ago, wrote that “creation is admission of great loneliness.” In these communal spaces, our loneliness is lessened, our vulnerability exposed, and our honesty tested, and through these revelatory writings students receive the necessary encouragement to share the whispering corners of their minds.
Author: Jonathan Meades
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 190871719X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Jonathan Meades has an obsessive preoccupation with places. He has spent thirty years constructing sixty films, two novels and hundreds of pieces of journalism that explore an extraordinary range of them, from natural landscapes to man-made buildings and 'the gaps between them', drawing attention to what he calls 'the rich oddness of what we take for granted'. This book collects fifty-four pieces and six film scripts that dissolve the barriers between high and low culture, good and bad taste, deep seriousness and black comedy. Meades delivers what he calls 'heavy entertainment' – strong opinions backed up by an astonishing depth of knowledge. To read Meades on places, buildings, politics or cultural history is an exhilarating workout for the mind. He leaves you better informed, more alert, less gullible.
Author: Ching Yeung Russell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1499809301
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Most people imagine "home" as a safe, warm place with four walls. But for child refugees Lam and Dee Dee escaping Vietnam, "home" is ever-changing and often doesn't have any walls at all. "A moving and thought-provoking picture of a refugee experience filled with both tragedy and hope."--School Library Journal Eleven-year-old Lam escapes from Vietnam with Dee Dee during the Vietnamese Boat People Exodus in 1979, when people from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fled their homelands for safety. For a refugee, the trip is a long and perilous one, filled with dangerous encounters with pirates and greedy sailors, a lack of food and water, and even the stench of a dead body onboard. When they finally arrive at a refugee camp, Lam befriends Dao, a girl her age who becomes like a sister-a welcome glimmer of happiness after a terrifying journey. Readers will feel as close to Lam as the jade pendant she wears around her neck, sticking by her side throughout her journey as she experiences fear, crushing loss, boredom, and some small moments of joy along the way. Written in verse, this is a heartfelt story that is sure to build empathy and compassion for refugees around the world escaping oppression.
Author: Jerry L. Martin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429671547
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 367
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Thinking about ultimate reality is becoming increasingly transreligious. This transreligious turn follows inevitably from the discovery of divine truths in multiple traditions. Global communications bring the full range of religious ideas and practices to anyone with access to the internet. Moreover, the growth of the nones and those who describe themselves as spiritual but not religious creates a pressing need for theological thinking not bound by prescribed doctrines and fixed rituals. This book responds to this vital need. The chapters in this volume each examine the claim that if the aim of theology is to know and articulate all we can about the divine reality, and if revelations, enlightenments, and insights into that reality are not limited to a single tradition, then what is called for is a theology without confessional restrictions. In other words, a Theology Without Walls. To ground the project in examples, the volume provides emerging models of transreligious inquiry. It also includes sympathetic critics who raise valid concerns that such a theology must face. This is a book that will be of urgent interest to theologians, religious studies scholars, and philosophers of religion. It will be especially suitable for those interested in comparative theology, inter-religious and interfaith understanding, new trends in constructive theology, normative religious studies, and global philosophy of religion.
Author: T. Richard Snyder
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1506466044
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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A Future without Walls offers a comprehensive and complex analysis of Othering, while unveiling the connections between our divisions and the roots, forms, and consequences of the walls that have been erected. It also offers concrete steps forward to help us dismantle these walls. In A Future without Walls, T. Richard Snyder draws upon his half-century of activism in the struggle for justice and weaves analysis, prescription, and personal story throughout. Racism, extreme nationalism, xenophobia, gender abuse, bullying, and religious intolerance are all on the rise globally. Walls that many thought had been torn down are now being rebuilt. Those people who are different, and even those who differ, are treated as Other. A Future without Walls is a lamentation for the tragedy of Othering and a clarion call for justice. The dividing walls are more than a problem calling for a quick fix. They are embedded in both our history and our current culture and demand fundamental transformation. Snyder analyzes the entangled fabric of Othering: its history, roots, various forms, and inevitable violent consequences. Countering this tragedy are the voices of activists, mystics, scientists, philosophers, and theologians--black and white, indigenous and cosmopolitan, Christian, Jew, and Buddhist, female and male--each of whom urges us to embrace rather than exclude. This universal moral imperative is a call to action. A Future without Walls offers paths to healing and transformation, drawing on both individual and collective actions that have made a difference. Walls that have been erected can be dismantled. And while success is not inevitable, failure to act only guarantees disaster.
Author: Sheryl St. Germain
Publisher: Etruscan Press
ISBN: 0999753495
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 163
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Fifty Miles is a memoir in linked essays that addresses addiction and alcoholism. The book traces the life and death of the author’s son, Gray, a talented but troubled young man, to a drug overdose at thirty, as well as the author’s own recovery from substance abuse.
Author: Henry Davis McHenry
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776604554
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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In this book, Henry Davis McHenry Jr. sets forth his thoughtful conviction that teachers must constantly invent and re-invent ways of being together with their students to enable both a shared mastery and a shared apprenticeship. Philosophically grounded though accessibly written with examples from the author's personal experiences with his students, the book engages the reader in inquiry rather than argument. Instead of simply providing a list of tips and prescriptions, From Cognition to Being encourages renewed awareness of the relationship between teacher and student.
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Publisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595347720
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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Selections from Trinity University Press's best books of 2015.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190085274
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 457
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A detailed look at various ways to conduct research for public scholarship Traditional research practices have often been critiqued for resulting in a wellspring of research that circulates exclusively within academic circles and garners small readership. With opinions and values shifting in the world of academia, public scholarship is on the rise. Popularizing Scholarly Research: Research Methods and Practices focuses on how to use and implement both traditional and emergent research methods in order to contribute to public scholarship. This book contextualizes the role of digital resources such as blogs, social media, and email in the move toward making scholarship accessible and explains the role of research methods in knowledge construction and dissemination. Drawing from the authoritative Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship, an impressive list of interdisciplinary contributors expand on survey research, interviews, oral history, ethnography, autoethnography, evaluation, literature, visual art, health theatre, narrative film, and a range of methods that rely on the internet and social media. Because of this and Patricia Leavy's robust introduction and supplementary resources, this book is an essential resource for scholars looking to create more accessible research and further the efforts of public scholarship.
Author: Rodrigo Arteaga Trigo
Publisher: Chay.Life
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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The 2020 season has taught us to know what we do not know, to be prepared for the unexpected. Who was ready for a mandatory adjustment of our breathing process? Probably no one was, but this should lead us to ask ourselves a more profound question. Am I breathing within my heart what life is about? Do I have the necessary inner strength for what is coming next? Will I be able to live life in its fullness in the coming years? Ten Words that Will Change Your Chay delivers a present-day revelation that will help find these answers through a groundbreaking prayer model based on God’s life-shaping and breathing processes found in ancient Hebrew texts. The Chay Revelation provides an inner healing and supernatural prayer template that will help you forgive, love, bless, and restore different areas of your life. It is a divine map navigated through ten Hebrew words. Each Hebrew word reveals magnificent things of life that need to be completed in you. They will take you to know the who, what, how, and why of your spiritual life. You will uncover the Hebrew words’ significances in the nonvisible realms of life that will deliver your life into a more abundant one. The spiritual meaning of an untranslated word that has baffled the sages of all times will come alive to you, and open a place within you to keep your hopes up safely. We consider the prayer model for inner healing found in the Ten Words that Will Change Your Chay to be the best to tackle a holistic view of our makeup. Sounds pretentious, but is not. What if our spiritual life consists of 10 chambers that we need to know about? And we only knew a few of them and never figured out the rest? Disregarding the complete floorplan will not enable you to take the appropriate actions in order to have the house or life of your dreams. Ten Words that Will Change Your Chay will help you turn on the light of your spirit and see the different chambers you have that need to be restored to their proper condition so that you may host life to its fullest. As we have natural body systems, like the respiratory or skeletal system, you also have ten realms that let you function correctly in the spirit realm. Ten Words that Will Change Your Chay will guide you through each dimension to know what sort of spiritual events to expect at each chamber. You will be able to enter the dimensions by their names given in Hebrew. We begin by sharing our story on how we received the revelation and how the Hebrew words work in the spirit realm. Before entering into the core subject, we have been careful to explain the human spirit’s role in effective inner healing prayer and how he will provide your senses with all the information you need. Then, we describe each supernatural realm of your life through a series of visions and eye-opening inner healing prayer experiences. The Chay Revelation includes five key things: A) The different Hebrew words that connect to 10 spiritual realms within our makeup. B) The exact layout or placement of each realm concerning all the others. One corridor or hallway that connects each realm. C) The order in which each realm should be cleansed in an inner healing prayer session. D) The fulfillment point that may be attained in each realm (the purpose and value of each), E) A four-arm spinning wind wheel structure that downloads living breath from heaven to the heart dimension in a parallel world within.
