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do you hear what i hear history: Do You Hear What I Hear? Minna Proctor, 2005-02-03 At age thirty, Minna Proctor, a child of the seventies and product of divorced parents—Jewish mother, Catholic father, had no religious orientation. In fact, her last “spiritual” foray was her perfunctory bat mitzvah. So when her father wants to become an Episcopal priest, Minna Proctor is flummoxed. Brought up primarily by her mother in a household without any religious expression or guidance, Proctor was surprised to learn that her charming, intellectual father had a religious life, and what’s more, a higher calling. When he is summarily turned away, Proctor delves into the Byzantine discernment process that rejected her father from the priesthood—discovering, to her surprise, how insanely difficult it is to actually become a priest—and the pivotal role that calling plays in the evaluation, both historically and to this day. What unfolds is a remarkable intellectual pursuit—a young woman’s quest to understand religious and spiritual experience, her family, and the cultural context in which she was raised. Based on lengthy conversations with her father, interviews with clergy and religious scholars, and readings of classic faith narratives from Augustine to Simone Weil, Do You Hear What I Hear? is a broad-minded and fascinating exploration of a very human phenomenon—the urge to know WHAT you are supposed to be doing with your life—in the light of cultural shifts over the last three decades, from one of the most talented young intellectuals writing today. |
do you hear what i hear history: Why You Hear what You Hear Eric J. Heller, 2013 This title makes possible a deep intuitive understanding of many aspects of sound, as opposed to the usual approach of mere description. This goal is aided by hundreds of original illustrations and examples, many of which the reader can reproduce and adjust using the same tools used by the author. |
do you hear what i hear history: Preacher, Can You Hear Us Listening? Roger E. Van Harn, 2005-02-03 Everyone knows that pulpits are for preaching and pews are for listening to sermons. This obvious scenario, however, masks an essentialprerequisite for faithful, fruitful preaching -- namely, that preachers listen to God and to their people before they speak. Roger Van Harn here puts forth pointed questions that sermon listeners really ask of preachers: Why should we listen to sermons? Doesevery sermon need a Bible text? How can a sermon be the word of God? Do you preach for the church or the world? Van Harn grapples withand discusses such questions, giving preachers fresh insights into the needs and desires of congregations. Preacher, Can You Hear Us Listening? will foster an ongoing dialogue between pulpit and pew and sharpen listening skills in both directions. |
do you hear what i hear history: Do You Hear in the Mountains... and Other Stories Maïssa Bey, 2018-09-19 This new translation brings together two of Algerian author Maïssa Bey’s important works for the first time in English. Do You Hear in the Mountains... is a compelling piece of autofiction in which three destinies meet dramatically on a train moving through France. We meet an Algerian refugee, whom we recognize as Bey herself. She has escaped the civil war and cannot forget her father’s commitment to independence nor his death under the torture of the French soldiers. Sitting near her is a retired doctor whose military service in Algeria coincidentally took him to the same area at the time of that tragedy. Their neighbor is a girl who would like to understand this past that is so painful to discuss. The eleven diverse tales that follow, presented under the title Under the Jasmin, at Night, exemplify some of Bey’s recurring themes—the Franco-Algerian colonial legacy and the feminine condition. Together, these works provide an unforgettable picture of a turbulent history that reaches across generations and continents. CARAF: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French |
do you hear what i hear history: Do You Hear what I Hear? Helen Borten, 1960 A picture book to stimulate interest in the variety of sounds in the environment. |
do you hear what i hear history: Can You Hear My Pain Now? Michael G. Maness, Kevaughn Mattis, 2022-05-05 Pastoral care and its theology get a gentle boost from some of the best in the business of caring for the soul. When a person hurts, they often look to God. Several pathfinders give new light from their specialties, each one speaking powerfully, uniquely, and artfully from decades of experience. Dr. Amos Yong’s article on disability forwards the amazingly helpful term, “temporarily able-bodied.” Greek Orthodox Dr. Vasileios Thermos and Roman Catholic Dr. Robert Fastiggi enlighten next to the powerful testaments of Professor Godfrey Harold on South Africa and Dr. Samuel Yonas Deressa on Ethiopia. Each weathered author contributes universal insights into the grace of our great God and challenges pastors throughout the Christian world to kindly consider the heart of the afflicted. These finely hewn stones can be used by anyone in the ministry to sharpen their serve. Mattis and Maness offer this third collection from Testamentum Imperium with a prayer that these will open new avenues of sensitivity to the hearts and souls of those in travail and aid those who are called by God to serve those in pain. |
do you hear what i hear history: The Hard-To-Believe-But-True? Book of New York History, Mystery, Trivia, Legend, Lore, Humor and More Carole Marsh, 1994 |
do you hear what i hear history: Life After Deaf Noel Holston, 2019-11-05 From a renowned media critic to a man with sudden and full hearing loss, Noel Holston ran the gauntlet of diagnoses, health insurance, and cochlear implant surgery. On a spring night in 2010, Noel Holston, a journalist, songwriter, and storyteller, went to bed with reasonably intact hearing. By dawn, it was gone, thus beginning a long process of hearing-restoration that included misdiagnoses, an obstinate health-insurance bureaucracy, failed cochlear-implant surgery, and a second surgery that finally worked. He negotiated the gauntlet with a wry sense of humor and the aid of his supportive wife, Marty. Life After Deaf details his experience with warmth, understanding, and candor. It’s the story not only of his way back to the world of the hearing, but of a great marriage that weathered serious testing. Their determination and resilience serve as a source of inspiration for all. Life After Deaf is not just for the more than forty million people in the United States alone who cope with some form of hearing loss, but is also for their wide circles of friends, family, caregivers, and audiologists. This highly readable book will be an invaluable guide and source of hope for the large number of baby boomers now handling hearing loss. |
do you hear what i hear history: New York History! Carole Marsh, 1996-09 |
do you hear what i hear history: The Shepherd Speaks . . . Do You Hear Him? Ron Warrren, 2018-03-15 This book, written by a practitioner of the gospel, seeks to reveal firstly the difference between what life looks like when there is a shepherd looking after life and what it feels like when a shepherd is absent and, secondly, how to recognize and listen to the voice of the Shepherd and the difference it makes when we obey that voice. Jesus, the Good Shepherd, the Ancient of Days, has been speaking to all of creation since before the beginning of time. Jesus is the gospel. He is the good news. It is, and only ever will be, all about him. His ancient words are always constant and unchanging, and He continues to speak to the world today through His infallible Word, the Bible, and through the outworking and constancy of the Holy Spirit. The Shepherds words speak to all areas of His creation and lifefrom following Him and discipleship to how He wants the church that bears His name and how His earthly shepherds, whom He has called to lead the church, will fulfill the mandate set down as clearly laid out in scripture. The question for all who seek to follow Him has always been and always will be until the end of time, Do you hear Him? This book seeks to help us answer that question. |
do you hear what i hear history: The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare Mary Cowden Clarke, 1886 |
do you hear what i hear history: Popular Music Perspectives B. Lee Cooper, 1991 In thirteen essays, this book probes ideas and themes that are prominent in contemporary song lyrics. The essays take social change, human interaction, technology, and intellectual development as points of departure for specific examinations of public education, railroads, death, automobiles, and rebels. The essays also examine humor, traditions, and historical events found in answer songs, cover recordings, nursery rhyme adaptations, and novelty tunes. |
do you hear what i hear history: Did You Hear About The Girl Who . . . ? Marianne H Whatley, Elissa R Henken, 2001-03-01 Ever hear the one about the man who wakes up after a chance sexual encounter to discover he's been involuntarily relieved of one of his kidneys? Or the tiny gift-wrapped box from a recently departed lover that reveals a horrible secret? Everyone knows contemporary legends, those barely believable, often lurid, cautionary tales, always told as though they happened to the friend of a friend. Sometimes we pass them on to others unsure of their truthfulness, usually we dismiss them as mere myth. But these far-fetched legends tell us quite a bit about our deepest fears and fantasies. In fact, a large part of what we know about our bodies we have learned informally, from kids on the playground or colleagues at work, from piecing together the information contained in folk beliefs, jokes and legends. Sexual folklore goes beyond classroom lessons of mechanics to answer many questions about what people actually do and how they do it. Mariamne H. Whatley and Elissa R. Henken have collected hundreds of sexually-themed stories and jokes from college students in order to tell us what they reveal about our sexual attitudes and show us how they have changed over time. They confront myths and stereotypes about sexual behavior and use folklore as a tool to educate students about sexual health and gender relations. Whether analyzing popular rumors about celebrity emergency room visits or the latest schoolyard jokes, Did You Hear About The Girl Who . . . ? presents these tales in a way that is intriguing and educational. |
do you hear what i hear history: Varsity Faith Trevor Hamaker, 2013-04 You want a faith that can help you live well in a world that seldom seems to make any sense. Varsity Faith offers a way forward. Students are in a tough spot. What they've heard about God doesn't seem to match what they see in the world, and they're getting tired of slogans and clichés that try to sweep it under the rug. Many are choosing to leave their faith behind. This book addresses the problem and offers a way of Christian faith that is able to help students pick up the past, live in the present, and look toward the future. Leaving is not the only option. |
do you hear what i hear history: Hello? Can You Hear Me? Bianca de Reus, 2018-10-16 Imagine being able to talk with your dog, cat, bird, or horse? If you could hear their voice and feel what they feel? What if you were to receive guidance from your animal companion, and provide reassurance in return? Think of the amazing life you could live together, full of joy and happiness? Picture a world where animals and humans coexist in harmony and with love. Where all Beings are free, sharing wisdom and compassion with each other. Animal communication can help us to achieve this! Bianca de Reus takes you on an explorative journey of animal language, connection, relationships, and spiritual abilities. She shares her personal journey and experiences, teaching you to improve your own life and relationships with animals around you, by tuning into animal language. Bianca brings animal communication to you in an inspiring and practical way. By learning how to tune into the energetic world, you too can learn to talk with the animals. |
do you hear what i hear history: The Rail, the Body and the Pen Brian Cowlishaw, 2021-08-11 Many of the best-known British authors of the 1800s were fascinated by the science and technology of their era. Dickens included spontaneous human combustion and mesmerism (hyptnotism) in his plots. Mary Shelley created the immortal Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his creature. H.G. Wells imagined the Time Machine, the Invisible Man, and invaders from Mars. Percy Shelley was as infamous at Oxford for his smelly experiments and for his atheism. This book of essays explores representations of technology in the work of various nineteenth-century British authors. Essays cluster around two important areas of innovation-- transportation and medicine. Each essay contributor accessibly maps out the places where art and science meet, detailing how these authors both affected and reflected the technological revolutions of their time. |
do you hear what i hear history: Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? Anita Rau Badami, 2010-03-05 Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Anita Rau Badami's acclaimed novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? chronicles the stories of three women, linked in love and tragedy, over a span of fifty years, sweeping from the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 to the explosion of Air India flight 182 off the coast of Ireland in 1985. Alive with Badami's warmth and humanity, and brimming with the daily sights and sounds of both Canada and India, this novel brilliantly conveys the tumultuous effects of the past on new immigrants, and the ways in which memory and myth, the personal and the political, become heartrendingly connected. |
do you hear what i hear history: You are what You Hear Harry Witchel, 2010 Pondering the musicality of everything from bird songs to the language he calls motherese, Dr. Witchel illustrates the power of music and addresses the questions: Why do we have music? What does music do to our emotions? Can animals hear and understand music? What does music do to your brain? Why do people listen to sad music? Why do some people like classical but others only like heavy metal? Is there some essential feature to all music?You Are What You Hearis an erudite and entertaining study that is unique in many ways. No other book has thoroughly elaborated the connection between music and social territory in humans, although in other music-making species scientists have shown this connection to be clear-cut. Given the wealth of scientific evidence and historical narratives presented inYou Are What You Hear, an intellectual investigation of this avenue is long overdue. Written by a psychobiologist, the work straddles hard science and psychology, approaching music from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. Successfully bridging these strands of evidence,You Are What You Hearelucidates the significance of territory not only in music but in daily life. This lively and engaging book will have a broad appeal — not only to the general public, but to students interested in the relationship between music and culture. Anyone from seventeen to ninety-seven will have the potential to gain something from this book. |
do you hear what i hear history: When God Speaks...Will You Hear? Kerusso, 2016-02-29 Lost. Lonely. Desperate. Abused. Broken and shattered. Forgotten and overlooked. Sinful and ashamed. No one seeks such places in life, but all find them. Some find some of them. The truly unfortunate find all of them. Who reaches out to such people at such times in their lives? Who speaks to them to call them out of the darkness and lead them into the light? God does. Every person has a story. It is the story of their lives that knows joy, as well as sorrow and pain, as well as celebration. No two stories are exactly alike, but they are all similar. What all life stories have in common is that God speaks in all of them. He calls out to all people to show them the way out of their pain and misery. They need only to listen and follow his voice. Love. Hope. Self-worth. Healing. Acceptance and companionship. Being remembered and valued. Forgiven and pure. God has a way of rewriting life stories, anyone’s, even yours. Enter into the middle of a story that unfolds in unexpected places. Enter into story after story, and perhaps you will understand your own story and how God is speaking to you. |
do you hear what i hear history: Napoleon In Germany, Louisa of Prussia and Her Times; A Historical Novel Louise Mühlbach, 2023-02-11 Reproduction of the original. |
do you hear what i hear history: A History of England Markham, 1867 |
do you hear what i hear history: Can You Hear Me Now? Jake Moran, 2014-04-22 This book is a disarming look into one mans faith journey that will penetrate your heart and infiltrate your concept of God, whatever that currently is, to show the unmistakable, the famous Yahweh, Elohim, Jehovah, El Shaddaithe presence of the Almighty Godstill alive and at work today in the life of one very ordinary man. The author shares the rawness of his journey with Christ through one of his lifes great valleys and winds up following God eight thousand miles from homeonly to find that God was up to more than he could have imagined. His story tugs at the heart of obedience in the small things, what it means to surrender your life to Christ, and what God might wind up doing with that through the process. |
do you hear what i hear history: Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia Peter Schmitz, 2024-11-30 A collection of stories and fascinating facets of theater history in Philadelphia. From the founding of The Walnut Street Theatre and the beginning of the American circus to the world premiere performance of Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman, and from censorship and opposition to riots and deadly fires, this engaging collection of short, focused narratives introduces the reader to the often overlooked and frequently underappreciated topic of the history of theater in Philadelphia, and offer a new way of approaching the wider history of this unique and important American city. The stories are populated by some of the many notable visitors to the city’s theaters, including Oscar Wilde, Edmund Kean, John Wilkes Booth, Sarah Bernhardt, Ayn Rand, Tennessee Williams, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Muhammad Ali, Paul Robeson and Joseph Papp; and the stories of heroes of local theater including Edwin Forrest, Pearl Bailey, Molly Picon, and Charles Fuller and Kevin Bacon. Also putting in appearances are the mostly forgotten, but no less fascinating Annie Kemp Bowler “the Original Stalacta,” May Manning Lillile the Quaker Cowgirl, and tennis champion William (“Big Bill”) Tilden. All together, these lively and vivid stories—many of them little-known or unexplored—serve to form a larger narrative of the role that theater has played, and continues to play, in shaping and reflecting the texture of life in an American city. |
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do you hear what i hear history: America! Can You Hear God Calling? Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire Deborah Mitford, 2010 What will become of America? America! Can You Hear God Calling? is a prophetic wakeup call that will take you on a journey. You will discover America's destiny as you travel back in time and capture a glimpse of the faith and heart of the noble men and women who contributed to making our nation so great and prosperous. Your journey will lead you through the slow, steady decline into the condition we have found ourselves in today. You will see how seeds sown many years ago have influenced us and opened the door for the greatest challenges to our freedom that we have ever faced. America is at a crossroad. God has been trying to capture our attention for years. He longs to place us on a path that will lead us to Him. He has sent prophets to warn us and preachers to woo us. They are crying out, Come back, America! Wake up and return to your first love! If we continue on the path we're on, destruction and devastation are certain. But what will happen if we heed this call from the heart of God? Reader Comments: I truly believe this book couldn't have come at a better time; God chose Deborah to bring it forth for such a time as this! This book is going to touch many lives. Pamela Bankston, Prophetess At a time when voices and forces are trying to rewrite American history and change the face of America, this much-needed read will jump-start our passion for God's heart for this nation and the people in it. R.T. Lewis, Pastor This book packs a punch, with timely exhortations to the nation and to the church. If only we can hear the Lord calling, and respond... Ellen Mathews, Author |
do you hear what i hear history: Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas Ace Collins, 2010-05-04 Behind the Christmas songs we love to sing lie fascinating stories that will enrich your holiday celebration. Taking you inside the nativity of over thirty favorite songs and carols, Ace Collins introduces you to people you’ve never met, stories you’ve never heard, and meanings you’d never have imagined. The next time you and your family sing God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, you’ll have a new understanding of its message and popular roots. You’ll discover how Angels from the Realms of Glory, with its sublime lyrics and profound theology, helped usher in a quiet revolution in worship. You’ll learn the strange history of the haunting and powerful O Holy Night, including the song’s surprising place in the history of modern communications. And you’ll step inside the life of Mark Lowry and find out how he came to pen the words to the contemporary classic Mary, Did You Know?Still other songs such as O Come, O Come, Emmanuel trace back to mysterious origins--to ninth-century monks, nameless clergy, and unknown commoners of ages past. Joining hands with such modern favorites as White Christmas and The Christmas Song, they are part of the legacy of inspiration, faith, tears, love, and spiritual joy that is Christmas. From the rollicking appeal of Jingle Bells to the tranquil beauty of Silent Night, the great songs of Christmas contain messages of peace, hope, and truth. Each in its own way expresses a facet of God’s heart and celebrates the birth of his greatest gift to the world--Jesus, the most wonderful Christmas Song of all. |
do you hear what i hear history: The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: Catherine, a story. Men's wives. The Bedford-Row conspiracy William Makepeace Thackeray, 1885 |
do you hear what i hear history: The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 2022-11-13 The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Rights, is a book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1754). The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate. Rousseau asserts that only the people, who are sovereign, have that all-powerful right. Emile, or On Education is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau considered it to be the best and most important of all his writings. Due to a section of the book entitled Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar, Emile was banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762, the year of its first publication. During the French Revolution, Emile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. |
do you hear what i hear history: Can You Hear Me Now? Celina Caesar-Chavannes, 2021-02-02 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING In Can You Hear Me Now?, Celina Caesar-Chavannes digs deep into her childhood and her life as a young Black woman entrepreneur and politician, and shows us that effective and humane leaders grow as much from their mistakes and vulnerabilities as from their strengths. Celina Caesar-Chavannes, already a breaker of boundaries as a Black woman in business, got into politics because she wanted to make a bigger difference in the world. But when she became the first Black person elected to represent the federal riding of Whitby, Ontario, she hadn't really thought about the fact that Ottawa wasn't designed for someone like her. Celina soon found herself both making waves and breaking down, confronting at night, alone in her Ottawa apartment, all the painful beauty of her childhood and her troubled early adult life. She paid the price for speaking out about micro-aggressions and speaking up for her community and her riding, but she also felt exhilaration and empowerment. As she writes, This is not your typical leadership book where the person is placed in a situation and miraculously comes up with the right response for the wicked problem. This is the story of me falling in love, at last, with who I am, and finding my voice in the unlikeliest of places. Both memoir and leadership book, Can You Hear Me Now? is a funny, self-aware, poignant, confessional and fierce look at how failing badly and screwing things up completely are truly more powerful lessons in how to conduct a life than extraordinary success. They build an utter honesty with yourself and others that allows you to say things nobody else dares to say--the necessary things about navigating the places that weren't built for you and holding firm to your principles. And, if you do that, you will help build a world where inclusion is real. Just as Celina is now trying to do, in all her brilliance and boldness. |
do you hear what i hear history: The History of Tom Jones Henry Fielding, 1775 |
do you hear what i hear history: Holler If You Hear Me Michael Eric Dyson, 2006-09-05 Acclaimed for his writings on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as his passionate defense of black youth culture, Michael Eric Dyson has emerged as the leading African American intellectual of his generation. Now Dyson turns his attention to one of the most enigmatic figures of the past decade: the slain hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur. Five years after his murder, Tupac remains a widely celebrated, deeply loved, and profoundly controversial icon among black youth. Viewed by many as a black James Dean, he has attained cult status partly due to the posthumous release of several albums, three movies, and a collection of poetry. But Tupac endures primarily because of the devotion of his loyal followers, who have immortalized him through tributes, letters, songs, and celebrations, many in cyberspace. Dyson helps us to understand why a twenty-five-year-old rapper, activist, poet, actor, and alleged sex offender looms even larger in death than he did in life. With his trademark skills of critical thinking and storytelling, Dyson examines Tupac's hold on black youth, assessing the ways in which different elements of his persona-thug, confused prophet, fatherless child-are both vital and destructive. At once deeply personal and sharply analytical, Dyson's book offers a wholly original way of looking at Tupac Shakur that will thrill those who already love the artist and enlighten those who want to understand him. In the tradition of jazz saxophonists John Coltrane and Charlie Parker, Dyson riffs with speed, eloquence, bawdy humor, and startling truths that have the effect of hitting you like a Mack truck.-San Francisco Examiner Such is the genius of Dyson. He flows freely from the profound to the profane, from popular culture to classical literature. -- Washington Post A major American thinker and cultural critic. -- Philadelphia Inquirer Among the young black intellectuals to emerge since the demise of the civil rights movement -- undoubtedly the most insightful and thought-provoking is Michael Eric Dyson. -- Manning Marable, Director of African American Studies, Columbia University |
do you hear what i hear history: Do You Hear what I Hear? Janice Fialka, Karen C. Mikus, 1999 A book to be used for self-reflection, personnel preparation, and parent-professional trainings.--Cover and title page. |
do you hear what i hear history: Historical Collections , 1894 |
do you hear what i hear history: Language and Cultural Practices in Communities and Schools Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, 2019-09-09 Drawing on sociocultural theories of learning, this book examines how the everyday language practices and cultural funds of knowledge of youth from non-dominant or minoritized groups can be used as centerpoints for classroom learning in ways that help all students both to sustain and expand their cultural and linguistic repertoires while developing skills that are valued in formal schooling. Bringing together a group of ethnographically grounded scholars working in diverse local contexts, this volume identifies how these language practices and cultural funds of knowledge can be used as generative points of continuity and productively expanded on in schools for successful and inclusive learning. Ideal for students and researchers in teaching, learning, language education, literacy, and multicultural education, as well as teachers at all stages of their career, this book contributes to research on culturally and linguistically sustaining practices by offering original teaching methods and a range of ways of connecting cultural competencies to learning across subject matters and disciplines. |
do you hear what i hear history: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (棄兒湯姆瓊斯傳) Henry Fielding, 2011-10-15 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling |
do you hear what i hear history: Slavery and Secession in America, historical and economical Thomas ELLISON (of Liverpool.), 1861 |
do you hear what i hear history: A History of Popery A watchman, 1834 |
do you hear what i hear history: When You Hear The Bugle Call Peter Griffin, 2008-04-30 When You Hear The Bugle Call subtitled, “Battling PTSD and the Unraveling of the American Conscience” is a compelling, poignant and straightforward presentation of sickness and healing, righteousness opposing wrong doing, and the eventual triumph of the human spirit despite overwhelming obstacles and barriers. This very personal account of war and its aftermath was written to benefit combat veterans agonized by severe and chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), composed by one who is living the nightmare, one of their own, a fellow warrior. In the broader scope, this account is meant to help them, and their friends and loved ones to better understand this overwhelming psychological, involuntary, and innate response to continual, life threatening situations. This book will bring them to the realization that they are not alone in their sufferings, help is as close as the nearest Veterans Administration Medical Center and any caring individual who has read and benefited from the pages of this presentation. Furthermore, it is meant to assist, comfort, understand and equally as important, accept those who gave their best to defend and protect us. It’s not only the GI I am talking about but also the police officer, the fireman, and the rescue personnel… all those who are “damned if they do and damned if they don’t!” All the brave men and women who place their lives in jeopardy, everyday, for the sake of others… for the sake of something bigger than self! This presentation addresses every symptom, obstacle or negative circumstance a PTSD victim will likely experience or encounter, and must overcome, if he or she expects some semblance of peace, love, success, respect, and dignity in their lives! Victims of terror and natural disasters will benefit from this writing as well. In my opinion there is little, if any, significant difference between combat PTSD and PTSD manifested as a result of traumatic events that occur in the “civilian” world. This work is not an ordinary, run of the mill “shoot ‘em up” military memoir! PTSD negatively impacts every interpersonal relationship! This book clearly and frankly relates, in vivid detail, how PTSD affects victims in the work place and social settings. In today’s fast paced, very competitive, high stress work-a-day world virtually every victim’s well being, employment and/or career is at risk. There are no immunities or safe harbors! This account addresses those many complex issues and more! All who read this narrative will profit from its message! Spouses, grown children, friends, relatives, employers, supervisors, human resource managers, co-workers and the general public will benefit from first hand knowledge and look with newfound compassion and understanding on those who defend(ed) their life, limbs and freedoms on a daily basis. |
do you hear what i hear history: What You See Is What You Hear Dario Martinelli, 2020-01-01 What You See Is What You Hear develops a unique model of analysis that helps students and advanced scholars alike to look at audiovisual texts from a fresh perspective. Adopting an engaging writing style, the author draws an accessible picture of the field, offering several analytical tools, historical background, and numerous case studies. Divided into five main sections, the monograph covers problems of definitions, history, and most of all analysis. The first part raises the main problems related to audiovisuality, including taxonomical and historical questions. The second part provides the bases for the understanding of audiovisual creative communication as a whole, introducing a novel theoretical model for its analysis. The next three part focus elaborate on the model in all its constituents and with plenty of case studies taken from the field of cinema, TV, music videos, advertising and other forms of audiovisuality. Methodologically, the book is informed by different paradigms of film and media studies, multimodality studies, structuralism, narratology, “auteur theory” in the broad sense, communication studies, semiotics, and the so-called “Numanities.” What You See Is What You Hear enables readers to better understand how to analyze the structure and content of diverse audiovisual texts, to discuss their different idioms, and to approach them with curiosity and critical spirit. |
do you hear what i hear history: If Today You Hear God's Voice Raymond J. Gunzel, 1991-11 If Today You Hear God's Voice analyzes prayer as a contemplative activity that brings about a transformation of consciousness, leading to a bold and unambiguous prophetic stance in the world. |
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