Questing Marilyn: In Search Of My Holy Grail

Questing Marilyn: In Search Of My Holy Grail
Author: Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem M.Ed.
Publisher: Quest Publishing
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2003-11
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0973412917

Questing Marilyn: In Search of My Holy Grail, Personal Growth Through Travel, a self help memoir, shares a journey to sacred and historic sites in England and Ireland while exploring the process of how changes in thinking can result in dramatic life changes. Author, Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem M.Ed., a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist, uses her personal experiences to reveal how she applies life skills to her adventures. It is a voyage of the inner soul as she visits Stonehenge, Avebury, Glastonbury, Bath, Kilkenny, Dublin and other favourites. Reviewers applaud the book as a new kind of travel guide that tells the reader not only how to discover a foreign country but how to discover their inner spirit. Throughout her Quest, Marilyn confronts past negative teachings that have kept her from achieving her desires. When she focuses her personal energy and is true to her Self, she creates a plan that takes her to experiences that bring deep satisfaction and joy. As Marilyn's energy changes, new experiences appear in her life that reveal the natural process of personal growth. Opportunities appear in unexpected, rich, and marvellous ways. Share the surprises. Readers can believe they are travelling with Marilyn as her rich descriptions create intimacy that allows an inner sense of personal transformation. Her changes in attitude can help readers learn to transform their own sense of Self too. Order Questing Marilyn now! Available on Kindle.

Questing Marilyn

Questing Marilyn
Author: Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem
Publisher: Quest Pub
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2003
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780973412901

Questing Marilyn: In Search of My Holy Grail, Personal Growth Through Travel, a self help memoir, shares a journey to sacred and historic sites in England and Ireland while exploring the process of how changes in thinking can result in dramatic life changes. Author, Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem M.Ed., a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist, uses her personal experiences to reveal how she applies life skills to her adventures. It is a voyage of the inner soul as she visits Stonehenge, Avebury, Glastonbury, Bath, Kilkenny, Dublin and other favourites. Reviewers applaud the book as a new kind of travel guide that tells the reader not only how to discover a foreign country but how to discover their inner spirit. Throughout her Quest, Marilyn confronts past negative teachings that have kept her from achieving her desires. When she focuses her personal energy and is true to her Self, she creates a plan that takes her to experiences that bring deep satisfaction and joy. As Marilyn's energy changes, new experiences appear in her life that reveal the natural process of personal growth. Opportunities appear in unexpected, rich, and marvellous ways. Share the surprises. Readers can believe they are travelling with Marilyn as her rich descriptions create intimacy that allows an inner sense of personal transformation. Her changes in attitude can help readers learn to transform their own sense of Self too. Order Questing Marilyn now! Available on Kindle.

The Dialogic Classroom

The Dialogic Classroom
Author: National Council of Teachers of English
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1998
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

The 12 essays collected in this book suggest both practical and theoretical approaches to teaching through networked technologies. Moving beyond technology for its own sake, the book articulates a pedagogy which makes its own productive uses of emergent technologies, both inside and outside the classroom. The book models for students one possible way for teaching and learning the unknown: a dialogic strategy for teaching and learning that can be applied not only to technology-rich problems, but to a range of social issues. This approach, based on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, understands language itself as a field of creative choices, conflicts, and struggles. After a foreword by Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe, essays in the book are: (1) "Introduction" (Jeffrey R. Galin and Joan Latchaw); (2) "What Is Seen Depends on How Everybody Is Doing Everything: Using Hypertext To Teach Gertrude Stein's 'Tender Buttons'" (Dene Grigar); (3) "Voices That Let Us Hear: The Tale of the Borges Quest" (Jeffrey R. Galin and Joan Latchaw); (4) "How Much Web Would a Web Course Weave if a Web Course Would Weave Webs?" (Bruce Dobler and Harry Bloomberg); (5) "Don't Lower the River, Raise the Bridge: Preserving Standards by Improving Students' Performances" (Susanmarie Harrington and William Condon); (6) "The Seven Cs of Interactive Design" (Joan Huntley and Joan Latchaw); (7) "Computer-Mediated Communication: Making Nets Work for Writing Instruction" (Fred Kemp); (8) "Writing in the Matrix: Students Tapping the Living Database on the Computer Network" (Michael Day); (9)"Conferencing in the Contact Zone" (Theresa Henley Doerfler and Robert Davis); (10) "Rhetorical Paths and Cyber-Fields: ENFI, Hypertext, and Bakhtin" (Trent Batson); (11) "Four Designs for Electronic Writing Projects" (Tharon W. Howard); and (12) "The Future of Dialogical Teaching: Overcoming the Challenges" (Dawn Rodrigues). A 76-item glossary is attached. (RS)

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802198724

The New York Times–bestselling author’s Whitbread Prize–winning debut—“Winterson has mastered both comedy and tragedy in this rich little novel” (The Washington Post Book World). When it first appeared, Jeanette Winterson’s extraordinary debut novel received unanimous international praise, including the prestigious Whitbread Prize for best first fiction. Winterson went on to fulfill that promise, producing some of the most dazzling fiction and nonfiction of the past decade, including her celebrated memoir Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?. Now required reading in contemporary literature, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a funny, poignant exploration of a young girl’s adolescence. Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age, and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household dissolves. Jeanette’s insistence on listening to truths of her own heart and mind—and on reporting them with wit and passion—makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric, moving passage into adulthood. “If Flannery O’Connor and Rita Mae Brown had collaborated on the coming-out story of a young British girl in the 1960s, maybe they would have approached the quirky and subtle hilarity of Jeanette Winterson’s autobiographical first novel. . . . Winterson’s voice, with its idiosyncratic wit and sensitivity, is one you’ve never heard before.” —Ms. Magazine

Critical Theory Today

Critical Theory Today
Author: Lois Tyson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2012-09-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136615563

Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor or thoroughness. This new edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading.

Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World

Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World
Author: Peter Jan Margry
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9089640118

The modern pilgrimage—to sites ranging from Graceland to the veterans’ annual ride to to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to Jim Morrison’s Paris grave—is intertwined with man’s existential uncertainties in the face of a rapidly changing world. In a climate that reproduces the religious quest in seemingly secular places, it’s no longer clear exactly what the term pilgrimage infers—and Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World critiques our notions of the secular and the sacred, while commenting on the modern media’s multiplication of images that renders the modern pilgrimage a quest without an object. Using new ethnographical and theoretical approaches, this volume offers a surprising new vision on the non-secularity of the “secular” pilgrimage. "This book will be sure to stoke our intellectual fire and heat up the discussion over the highly charged topic of secular pilgrimage.”—Simon Bronner, Penn State University