Well-dressed Role Models

Well-dressed Role Models
Author: Gale Eaton
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780810851948

This study provides a qualitative exploration of juvenile biographies of women, a genre defined here as a book dealing with the whole or partial life of an individual and reviewed as nonfiction for readers in elementary, middle, or junior high school. Beginning with a survey of juvenile material on Elizabeth Tudor published in England and the United States between 1852 and 2002, author Gale Eaton scrutinizes thirty-four books--juvenile biographies, histories, and collected biographies--for trends in both content and rhetoric. Well-Dressed Role Models: The Portrayal of Women in Biographies for Children then goes on to look at close readings of books published in the United States in the years 1946, 1971, and 1996 and presents a penetrating analysis of a genre that serves the needs of youth. The findings of this study include the fact that juvenile biographies make role models out of women who, in many cases, never would have become famous by following all the rules for good girls. By choice of subject and emphasis, their authors dress the life stories of real women in the appropriate values of new generations. Three appendixes providing annotated book lists for each of the three years analyzed conclude this study.

Dressing the Man

Dressing the Man
Author: Alan Flusser
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2002-10-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0060191449

Dressing the Man is the definitive guide to what men need to know in order to dress well and look stylish without becoming fashion victims. Alan Flusser's name is synonymous with taste and style. With his new book, he combines his encyclopedic knowledge of men's clothes with his signature wit and elegance to address the fundamental paradox of modern men's fashion: Why, after men today have spent more money on clothes than in any other period of history, are there fewer well-dressed men than at any time ever before? According to Flusser, dressing well is not all that difficult, the real challenge lies in being able to acquire the right personalized instruction. Dressing well pivots on two pillars -- proportion and color. Flusser believes that "Permanent Fashionability," both his promise and goal for the reader, starts by being accountable to a personal set of physical trademarks and not to any kind of random, seasonally served-up collection of fashion flashes. Unlike fashion, which is obliged to change each season, the face's shape, the neck's height, the shoulder's width, the arm's length, the torso's structure, and the foot's size remain fairly constant over time. Once a man learns how to adapt the fundamentals of permanent fashion to his physique and complexion, he's halfway home. Taking the reader through each major clothing classification step-by-step, this user-friendly guide helps you apply your own specifics to a series of dressing options, from business casual and formalwear to pattern-on-pattern coordination, or how to choose the most flattering clothing silhouette for your body type and shirt collar for your face. A man's physical traits represent his individual road map, and the quickest route toward forging an enduring style of dress is through exposure to the legendary practitioners of this rare masculine art. Flusser has assembled the largest andmost diverse collection of stylishly mantled men ever found in one book. Many never-before-seen vintage photographs from the era of Cary Grant, Tyrone Power, and Fred Astaire are employed to help illustrate the range and diversity of authentic men's fashion. Dressing the Man's sheer magnitude of options will enable the reader to expand both the grammar and verbiage of his permanent-fashion vocabulary. For those men hoping to find sartorial fulfillment somewhere down the road, tethering their journey to the mind-set of permanent fashion will deliver them earlier rather than later in life.

Teaching on Target

Teaching on Target
Author: Daniel C. Elliott
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2005-03-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483361403

Hit the target of excellence and empower yourself to be a truly effective teacher! Aspiring, new, and veteran teachers will appreciate this strong collection of the best teaching practices for effectively reaching learners at all levels. Tied to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, this easy-to-use guide targets comprehensive and trustworthy resources that emphasize the essentials of good teaching. Filled with handy resources and ideas for every teaching situation, Elliott′s book also exemplifies how best to combine strategies into your personal "blended" model. Elliott applies a four-step framework to each teaching model and strategy to ease implementation in the classroom: Plan: Outlines the stages and crucial elements of the model in action Structure: Describes student and teacher roles and relationships Teacher/Learner Interaction: Demonstrates how the teacher can effectively work with learners Outcomes: Describes how both instructional and nurturing outcomes are achieved by leading learners in certain directions Teaching on Target is the guide for today′s creative teachers, empowering them to apply these components artfully to achieve maximum learning outcomes while becoming the most effective instructor of the classrooms in which they serve.

Skinside Out

Skinside Out
Author: Elton Xavier Tinsley M.D.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2020-03-04
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1728365465

Beauty is powerful. Beauty is physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual. Beauty is obtainable. Skinside Out recognizes that every culture defines for itself what beauty is. Each contributor represents a different culture and cultural perspective. The book was written for those that care for women and those that women care for. It is a valuable reference for health care professionals, salon professionals, doctor moms and regular people. Skinside Out was written for you. Skinside Out is 50 topics covered in 50 chapters. The book answers questions, dispels myths and provides insight to cultural differences, old wives tales differ among Black and Hispanic grandmothers. The German family beauty secrets may be quite different from Asian family traditions. The final chapter, Chapter 51, Sex is for Women explains the science that relates beauty to sex and offers everyone another level.

“Personal Hygiene Practices of Elderly Among Lambani Community”

“Personal Hygiene Practices of Elderly Among Lambani Community”
Author: Dr. Arunkumar Jadhav
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2018-08-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1387962108

The concept of 'Elderly' is a normal, inevitable and universal phenomenon in the life of every individual irrespective of caste, gender, race, ethnicity, society or culture. The individual, who has born on this earth, has to grow and become old during some point of his life. Elderly period or phase is a multidimensional phenomenon which includes the changes in the various aspects of human life like biological, psychological and sociological. And elderly (old age) is a critical phase in the life of individual as much as similar to childhood or adolescence.

Having It All?

Having It All?
Author: Veronica Chambers
Publisher: Broadway Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2004-01-13
Genre: African American women
ISBN: 076791239X

A behind-the-scenes look into the lives of successful middle- and upper-middle class African American women, the groundbreaking HAVING IT ALL? is sure to spark discussions from cocktail parties to boardrooms. In a single generation, black women have made extraordinary strides academically, professionally, and financially. They’ve entered the workplace at a far greater rate than white women; increased their enrollment in law schools and graduate programs by 120 per¢ and many are now running top companies, or in some cases, the country. Isn’t that enough? Not necessarily. With sharp insight, award-winning journalist Veronica Chambers explores the challenges and stereotypes she and other African American women continue to endure, and answers the question most often posed to her: What does success mean for black women? Twenty-first century black women draw their inspiration from a wide range of sources: Claire Huxtable to Audrey Hepburn, snowboarding to basketball, Gloria Steinem to bell hooks. They choose what they like. Yet they are misunderstood by mainstream America and lack an accurate portrayal in the media of their lives. HAVING IT ALL? interweaves the thoughts and reflections of more than fifty women who occupy this territory. The voices range from Thelma Golden, chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, to a Silicon Valley executive, to medical and legal professionals, and stay-at-home “mocha moms.” Successful black women today want it all: marriage, motherhood, engaging work, and prosperity. The difference is that they come to the table with the strength, courage and wisdom of black women ancestors who-did-it-all, even when they didn’t-have-it-all. What has gone so undocumented by the media is that modern black women are coming up with creative, satisfying answers to the juggling act that all women face. Veronica Chambers chronicles this topic for the first time in her absorbing, riveting and groundbreaking book HAVING IT ALL?

Role Models

Role Models
Author: John Waters
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2010-05-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1429944579

Role Models is a personal invitation into one of the most unique, perverse, and hilarious artistic minds of our time. From the incomparable John Waters, a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich—and happily horrify readers everywhere. Role Models is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities—some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to the playwright Tennessee Williams; from the atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair to the insane martyr Saint Catherine of Siena; from the English novelist Denton Welch to the timelessly appealing singer Johnny Mathis—these are the extreme figures who helped the author form his own brand of neurotic happiness.

Priestess In A Desert Night

Priestess In A Desert Night
Author: Paul Rizzo
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2022-04-04
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 163710197X

Priestess in a Desert Night is a drama that begins on a desert night, when Sam and Justin pull into a roadside tavern In El Paso, Texas. Sam decides to go for a walk in the immediate surroundings of the tavern. The moonlight gives Sam enough light to stroll about and eye the desert floor and its dwellers. Justin, Sam's buddy, heads into the tavern to get a table. The foreshadowing is on display as Sam eyes a desert owl large in stature. The owl waits for its evening prey to slither along. The owl eventually is attacked by hawks, and Sam encounters the owl's demise. The owl's final resting place is, in part, a foreshadowing of a present danger. The desert is the soul and stage of this story. The priestess is an old story of a Navajo woman, presented to Sam by Becky, a lady he meets by chance in the tavern. The story of the Navajo priestess runs concurrently with this drama. The tale of the Navajo priestess is the crux or bridge of this story. The priestess of days gone by has fatalistic importance to this novel. She, the early priestess, was captured by Spanish soldiers; and she, White Sun, escaped and returned to her tribe. The elders had dismissed her. She had to go into the desert for days, and if she survived, she could rejoin her people. What happens to White Sun in her trial has bearing hundreds of years later to the fate of Sam and Becky and an American hero, Virginia, a Navajo descendant, who is instrumental in this drama concerning Sam, Becky, Justin, Connie, and Uncle Jack--ordinary Americans fighting to keep their farms.

The Face of Fashion

The Face of Fashion
Author: Jennifer Craik
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134940556

First Published in 2004. "The Face of Fashion" is a study of fashion and the body which aims to establish the relations between codes and systems of clothing and the conduct of everyday life. Jennifer Craik questions the trickle-down theory that fashion is dictated by elite designers and opinion leaders with evidence of a trickle-up effect from sub-cultures, mass consumer behaviour and everyday bricolage of fashion items. The text addresses the neglected area of men's fashion, as well as women's fashion, within a broad examination of the role of fashion in gender identity. The argument is developed through a number of key agencies and processes: consumerism and everyday fashion; the iconization of the body through fashion models and photography; the use of cosmetics to "make-up" the body; the nexus between fashion and gender; the changing fashions in underwear and swimwear as maps of the revealed body. These topics are approached from an interdisciplinary perspective that treats fashion systems as ethnographic traces of the cultural projection of the body.