Freedom to Forget

Freedom to Forget
Author: Dan Willis
Publisher: Whitaker House
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2007-06-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 160374648X

How can we move forward when tormenting memories of past hurts constantly consume us? Through humor and true stories, Dan Willis shows the way to complete forgiveness and healing. You can… Learn how your past affects your future Forgive those who have hurt you Break free from destructive behaviors Heal past hurts once and for all Overcome family dysfunction Enjoy a life of blessings, joy, and peace Experience a deep healing so that you will be able to truly forgive, forget the pain, and no longer be a hostage of the past anymore!

A Primer for Forgetting

A Primer for Forgetting
Author: Lewis Hyde
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2019-06-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0374710147

“One of our true superstars of nonfiction” (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche. We live in a culture that prizes memory—how much we can store, the quality of what’s preserved, how we might better document and retain the moments of our life while fighting off the nightmare of losing all that we have experienced. But what if forgetfulness were seen not as something to fear—be it in the form of illness or simple absentmindedness—but rather as a blessing, a balm, a path to peace and rebirth? A Primer for Forgetting is a remarkable experiment in scholarship, autobiography, and social criticism by the author of the classics The Gift and Trickster Makes This World. It forges a new vision of forgetfulness by assembling fragments of art and writing from the ancient world to the modern, weighing the potential boons forgetfulness might offer the present moment as a creative and political force. It also turns inward, using the author’s own life and memory as a canvas upon which to extol the virtues of a concept too long taken as an evil. Drawing material from Hesiod to Jorge Luis Borges to Elizabeth Bishop to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, from myths and legends to very real and recent traumas both personal and historical, A Primer for Forgetting is a unique and remarkable synthesis that only Lewis Hyde could have produced.

September 11 We Will Never Forget

September 11 We Will Never Forget
Author: Peter Benoit
Publisher: Scholastic
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
ISBN: 9780531265659

The Terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, are one of the greatest disasters in U.S. history. Read about the events leading up to these horrific attacks and find out how they have shaped our nation today. Inside you will find out: Why the terrorists wanted to attack the United States; How people from around the country came together to aid victims of the attacks; And how new laws and government agencies have changed life in the United States since the attacks. Cornerstones of FreedomTM brings history to life by capturing the dramatic and defining moments. America history with engaging text primary source materials historical photographs. Book jacket.

Freedom of Self Forgetfulness

Freedom of Self Forgetfulness
Author: Timothy J. Keller
Publisher: 10 Publishing
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Christian life
ISBN: 9781906173418

What are the marks of a supernaturally changed heart? This is one of the questions the Apostle Paul addresses as he writes to the church in Corinth. He's not after some superficial outward tinkering, but instead a deep rooted, life altering change that takes place on the inside. In an age where pleasing people, puffing up your ego and building your resume are seen as the methods to make it, the Apostle Paul calls us to find true rest in blessed self forgetfulness. In this short and punchy book, best selling author Timothy Keller, shows that gospel humility means we can stop connecting every experience, every conversation with ourselves and can thus be free from self condemnation. A truly gospel humble person is not a self hating person or a self loving person, but a self forgetful person. This freedom can be yours...

Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing

Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Tin House Books
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1947793004

Ursula K. Le Guin discusses her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry?both her process and her philosophy?with all the wisdom, profundity, and rigor we expect from one of the great writers of the last century. When the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of science fiction, they just might have undersold her legacy. It’s hard to look at her vast body of work?novels and stories across multiple genres, poems, translations, essays, speeches, and criticism?and see anything but one of our greatest writers, period. In a series of interviews with David Naimon (Between the Covers), Le Guin discusses craft, aesthetics, and philosophy in her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction respectively. The discussions provide ample advice and guidance for writers of every level, but also give Le Guin a chance to to sound off on some of her favorite subjects: the genre wars, the patriarchy, the natural world, and what, in her opinion, makes for great writing. With excerpts from her own books and those that she looked to for inspiration, this volume is a treat for Le Guin’s longtime readers, a perfect introduction for those first approaching her writing, and a tribute to her incredible life and work.

The Paradoxes of Freedom

The Paradoxes of Freedom
Author: Sidney Hook
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0520347285

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.

Freedom for the Thought That We Hate

Freedom for the Thought That We Hate
Author: Anthony Lewis
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 1458758389

More than any other people on earth, we Americans are free to say and write what we think. The press can air the secrets of government, the corporate boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. This extraordinary freedom results not from America’s culture of tolerance, but from fourteen words in the constitution: the free expression clauses of the First Amendment.InFreedom for the Thought That We Hate, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Lewis describes how our free-speech rights were created in five distinct areas—political speech, artistic expression, libel, commercial speech, and unusual forms of expression such as T-shirts and campaign spending. It is a story of hard choices, heroic judges, and the fascinating and eccentric defendants who forced the legal system to come face to face with one of America’s great founding ideas.

On the Other Side of Freedom

On the Other Side of Freedom
Author: DeRay Mckesson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0525560335

"On the Other Side of Freedom reveals the mind and motivations of a young man who has risen to the fore of millennial activism through study, discipline, and conviction. His belief in a world that can be made better, one act at a time, powers his narratives and opens up a view on the costs, consequences, and rewards of leading a movement."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Named one of the best books of the year by NPR and Esquire Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award From the internationally recognized civil rights activist/organizer and host of the podcast Pod Save the People, a meditation on resistance, justice, and freedom, and an intimate portrait of a movement from the front lines. In August 2014, twenty-nine-year-old activist DeRay Mckesson stood with hundreds of others on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to push a message of justice and accountability. These protests, and others like them in cities across the country, resulted in the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, in his first book, Mckesson lays down the intellectual, pragmatic, and political framework for a new liberation movement. Continuing a conversation about activism, resistance, and justice that embraces our nation's complex history, he dissects how deliberate oppression persists, how racial injustice strips our lives of promise, and how technology has added a new dimension to mass action and social change. He argues that our best efforts to combat injustice have been stunted by the belief that racism's wounds are history, and suggests that intellectual purity has curtailed optimistic realism. The book offers a new framework and language for understanding the nature of oppression. With it, we can begin charting a course to dismantle the obvious and subtle structures that limit freedom. Honest, courageous, and imaginative, On the Other Side of Freedom is a work brimming with hope. Drawing from his own experiences as an activist, organizer, educator, and public official, Mckesson exhorts all Americans to work to dismantle the legacy of racism and to imagine the best of what is possible. Honoring the voices of a new generation of activists, On the Other Side of Freedom is a visionary's call to take responsibility for imagining, and then building, the world we want to live in.

Unraveling Freedom

Unraveling Freedom
Author: Ann Bausum
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2010-11-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1426307284

In 1915, the United States experienced the 9/11 of its time. A German torpedo sank the Lusitania killing nearly 2,000 innocent passengers. The ensuing hysteria helped draw the United States into World War I—the bitter, brutal conflict that became known as the Great War and the War to End All Wars. But as U.S. troops fought to make the world safe for democracy abroad, our own government eroded freedoms at home, especially for German-Americans. Free speech was no longer an operating principle of American democracy. Award-winning author Ann Bausum asks, just where do Americans draw the line of justice in times of war? Drawing thought-provoking parallels with President Wilson’s government and other wartime administrations, from FDR to George W. Bush, Bausum’s analysis has plenty of history lessons for the world today. Her exhaustive research turns up astonishing first-person stories and rare images, and the full-color design is fresh and stunning. The result is a gripping book that is well-positioned for the run-up to the World War I centennial. National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources. Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.

FORGIVING WHEN YOU CAN't FORGET: Releasing Fear and Trauma from Your Past So You Can Have Freedom in Your Future

FORGIVING WHEN YOU CAN't FORGET: Releasing Fear and Trauma from Your Past So You Can Have Freedom in Your Future
Author: Carolyn Hickman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2021-05-27
Genre:
ISBN:

How to forgive the unforgivable and stop suffering because of what other people have done to you, even when you can't forget. Have you ever felt like you have been stuck in a vicious cycle of unresolved pain, hoping that it would just get better with time? That after days, weeks, months, or even years the pain is still there consuming your every thought, emotion, and reaction which is robbing you from time in your life you won't ever get back again? In her most vulnerable writing yet, Carolyn reveals her unimaginable journey of not only losing her mother but losing almost everyone she had ever known all at the very same time through a series of painful events that left her breathless, betrayed, and broken. However, even in the most challenging and darkest of days, she discovered how to let go of the pain and resentment gracefully and overcome the resistance to forgive the people not willing to make things right or say "sorry." In this book you will discover: What it truly takes to move on gracefully in your life when others refuse to change and you are left without an apology The most life-altering thing you can do to escape the agony of your trauma once and for all The single most powerful thing you can do to heal your trauma that no one is talking about Why you needed to go through the pain + why it is actually a good thing What you can do today to start smiling again tomorrow The secrets behind why you have not been able to speak your truth The biggest culprit that's been hijacking your emotions from day one Two life-changing practices that will heal your pain + start rebuilding your life in just one week According to the National Council For Behavioral Health, "70% of adults in the U.S. have experienced some type of traumatic event at least once in their lives and of those, 20% will go on to developing PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Don't let this be you. You have the power in your hands to change the outcome of your life, despite the cards you've been dealt with. This one-of-a-kind therapeutic insight will allow you to heal, forgive and breathe again even if you can't forget what happened to you. Forgiveness isn't for them, it's for you. If you want to finally make peace with the pain, let go + start living your best life then scroll up and click the "Add to Cart" button.