![]() ![]() Obama, too, projects absolute ease in the presidency. ![]() Jan 2009 – Humour, love and friendship – the Obamas share a joke in a lift on inauguration night The room they are in – the Blue Room – is opulently decorated with gold stars, Empire-style furniture, and a portrait of some grand national father who holds a white handkerchief in his white hand. Here are three African Americans in the White House. The meeting was also a celebration of Black History Month – and Souza’s picture manages to be both intimate and historic. In Pete Souza’s official White House photograph of their get-together, President Barack Obama cracks a delicious smile as the first lady dances with McLaurin, who was invited to visit the White House in recognition of community work she has done for decades in the US capital. In the week Trump’s xenophobic bid to be the Republican presidential candidate began to look unstoppable, the man whose Americanness he has questioned was meeting 106-year-old Virginia McLaurin. ![]() In Washington DC, civilisation still existed. In Las Vegas the casinos were humming with a hell-yes tide that was about to sweep the manic Donald Trump to his most pumped-up victory yet. ![]()
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The archives of many a late author, from Margaret Wise Brown (Four Fur Feet) to Sylvia Plath (The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit), often yield unpublished manuscripts. ![]() ![]() ![]() You come to know God by your experience as you obey and God works through you.You must make major adjustments to your life to join God’s work.God’s invitation always involves a crisis of faith for you.God speaks by the Holy Spirit through: the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal this.God invites you to become involved in His work.God pursues a love relationship with you. ![]() There are 7 “steps” that Blackaby proposes for knowing God’s will: “I invite you to interact with God throughout the reading of this book so He can reveal to you the ways He wants you to apply these principles in your own life, ministry, and church.” Blackaby’s goal in writing the book is expressed as such: Experiencing God remains popular even after it was first written 30 years ago. Blackaby is a Southern Baptist pastor and the main author of the book Experiencing God as well as its related “family of Bible studies” (which also include study guides, an Experiencing God Study Bible, a devotional journal, and, of course, a youth edition). ![]() ![]() ![]() “A far more frightening work than any of the nightmare novels of George Orwell. You can read this before Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes written by Jacques Ellul which was published in 1962–. Brief Summary of Book: Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes by Jacques Ellul ![]() ![]() This is so important because the enemy will capitalize. “Be angry, and yet do not sin do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity” (Ephesians 4:26-27). So, anyone who has harbored anger in his or her hearts against someone is guilty of committing murder. “Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him” (1 John 3:15). YAHshua says, “You have heard that the ancients were told, ‘You shall not commit murder’ and “Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court…” (Matthew 5:21-22). “If a man takes the life of any human being, he shall surely be put to death” (Leviticus 24:17). ![]() "Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man” (Genesis 9:6). ![]() ![]() Essence is not just anything said in its own right. Let us next study essence: what a thing is said to be in its own right.įirst, we need to rule some things out. Yet substance is supposed to be separable (identifiable, distinct) and a "this."Īlso, if form is prior to matter in a compound, we can rule out the compound (as candidate for subject) just as much as the matter.Ĭh. But this means matter has nothing definite or specifiable about it. ![]() unacceptable? Matter is the underlying thing everything else, such as quantity, quality, etc., is predicated of it. However: this is an inadequate answer to the question, what is substance? The subject may be the matter, the form, or the compound (bronze, shape of a horse, a bronze statue of a horse). What is subject? It seems most of all to be substance: other things are said of it, and it is not said of other things. There are four main candidates for substance: essence, universal, genus, and subject. We can ask many questions here: which things are substances? Are there non-perceptible substances?Ĭh. The most evident examples of substances are bodies, perhaps the simple bodies, and/or the limits/surfaces of bodies. Substance is primary: in nature, in account (definition), and in knowledge.Ĭh. ![]() Aristotle's Metaphysics Z and H Aristotle's Metaphysicsīooks VII and VII (Z and H): Highlights Philosophy 201, Fall 1996ħ43-2993, readings are in Ancient Greek Philosophy, ed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of their own, falling on each other for a serious Gore-Tex-ripping mingling of gametes - the ''pursuit of eternity,'' biological style. ![]() By chapter's end she and Eddie are drumming up some males drumming up business,'' Deanna explains. ''Every single thing you hear in the woods right now is just nothing but. The two eye each other warily and banter about the birdsĪnd the bees. Eddie Bondo, a 28-year-old Wyoming hunter with a hatred of coyotes that borders on religion and a taste for middle-aged women with long legs and salty tongues. Everywhere you looked, something was fighting for time, for light, the kiss of pollen, a connection of sperm and egg and another chance.'' By, Deanna has found her own chance ''Here and now,'' Kingsolver writes, ''spring Wildlife biologist on the far side of 40, is patrolling the woods on Zebulon Mountain, a wild patch of southern Appalachia where she works as a ranger. ![]() As the book opens, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive Audio: Barbara Kingsolver Reads From 'Prodigal Summer'Īrbara Kingsolver's new novel is all about sex, and she doesn't waste much time on foreplay.Barbara Kingsolver's novel explores a variety of mating rituals. ![]() ![]() People sending, like, monkey emojis and stuff like that − mostly just racist remarks.” ![]() “People saying that my ‘day of the rope’ will come. “I was getting photos sent to me of, like white power,” Unieke said. “I already have complex post-traumatic stress disorder, so, logging on to all that hate is just triggering in general.”įurther north, in Sacramento, California, Unieke, a drag queen who appears at a local all-age drag show, was being bombarded in the same way. “It was distressing,” said Nygard, who identifies as agender and uses she/they pronouns. The messages poured in, telling Nygard to kill herself, sending death threats as well as “88,” a white supremacist term that stands for “Heil Hitler.” ![]() The business owner from San Diego, who co-founded Restrained Grace, a company that creates and sells jewelry, gifts and fetish gear − and whose online profile uses the term "Antifa" − suddenly started getting dozens of hate-filled direct messages on social media. Caution: This story refers to racist and homophobic language.Īnnie Nygard didn’t know what was happening. ![]() ![]() ![]() I suppose this might be that my interests in other subjects kept me occupied, or that I never 100% believed in the accuracy of astrology. ![]() ![]() Strangely enough, I never really picked up a book that goes into large detail about this particular subject. Having grown up in a culture that strongly believes in horoscopes and how they can affect how one human interacts with another, I have always been interested in astrology and its effect on relationships. The fault’s not in our stars… the solution is! – My Review – Originally published as Gary Goldschneider’s Everyday Astrology, this Quirk backlist favorite has a fresh new look, new artwork, and all the time-tested astrological advice that makes your interpersonal relationships shine. Use the power of the stars to perfect your relationships with friends, family, partners… everyone you know!ĭo you know how to live peacefully with a Taurus? Discuss money issues with a Cancer? Improve your sex life with a Scorpio? The Astrology of You and Me offers help and guidance direct from the heavens, perfect for solving every for every star-crossed situation imaginable.Ĭhapters organized by astrological sign direct you to the right tactics for dealing with everyone from friends and family to bosses and coworkers. Publisher: Quirk Books (Penguin Random House Canada)Ī physical copy of this book was kindly provided by the publisher, in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() , his receiving the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2000 and his recent feud with Michael Moore over the title of Moore's documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11 Highlights include Bradbury's collaboration with John Huston on the film Moby Dick ("I remember the day I was born," Bradbury claims in what is perhaps a sign of his genius-or of the price of access to him.) In highly readable prose, Weller surveys Bradbury's ancestors and family, his boyhood move to Hollywood, his introduction to science fiction and fantasy and his early writing attempts, which reflect the themes that pervade his more mature work: "nostalgia, loneliness, lost love, and death." If Weller places Bradbury in a pantheon occupied by Shakespeare, Melville, Dickens and Poe, he also mentions more than one extramarital affair and his hero's poor eating habits. , who was born in Waukegan, Ill., on August 22, 1920. Journalist Weller pays tribute to an American icon in this ebullient authorized biography of Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 ![]() |