Despite All Adversities

Despite All Adversities
Author: Andrés Lema-Hincapié
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2015-10-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1438459114

Provides sophisticated theoretical approaches to Latin American cinema and sexual culture. Despite All Adversities examines a representative selection of notable queer films by Spanish America’s most important directors since the 1950s. Each chapter focuses on a single film and offers rich and thoughtful new interpretations by a prominent scholar. The book explores films from across the region, including Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s and Juan Carlos Tabío’s Fresa y chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate, 1993), Marcelo Piñeyro’s Plata quemada (Burnt Money, 2000), Barbet Schroeder’s La Virgen de los Sicarios (Our Lady of the Assassins, 2000), Lucía Puenzo’s XXY (XXY, 2007), Francisco J. Lombardi’s No se lo digas a nadie (Don’t Tell Anyone, 1998), Arturo Ripstein’s El lugar sin límites (Hell Without Limits, 1978), among others. A survey of recent lesbian-themed Mexican films is also included.

Despite All Adversities

Despite All Adversities
Author: Andrés Lema-Hincapié
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2015-10-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1438459122

2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Despite All Adversities examines a representative selection of notable queer films by Spanish America's most important directors since the 1950s. Each chapter focuses on a single film and offers rich and thoughtful new interpretations by a prominent scholar. The book explores films from across the region, including Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's and Juan Carlos Tabío's Fresa y chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate, 1993), Marcelo Piñeyro's Plata quemada (Burnt Money, 2000), Barbet Schroeder's La Virgen de los Sicarios (Our Lady of the Assassins, 2000), Lucía Puenzo's XXY (XXY, 2007), Francisco J. Lombardi's No se lo digas a nadie (Don't Tell Anyone, 1998), Arturo Ripstein's El lugar sin límites (Hell Without Limits, 1978), among others. A survey of recent lesbian-themed Mexican films is also included.

Rise up Against All Odds

Rise up Against All Odds
Author: Thandi Boshoma
Publisher: Partridge Africa
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2017-01-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1482877139

Everybody suffers adversities; Superheroes bounce back. Rise Up Against All Odds arouses you to reclaim the Superhero in you during the turbulence of adversities. Adversities make us feel like it is the end of the road and leave us discouraged, confused, shocked, defeated, hopeless, deprived, rejected, depleted, petrified, disempowered, betrayed, humiliated, undignified, destitute, insecure, wiped-out, powerless, frustrated and depressed. The book applies the BRAVE system, which is an acronym for Boldness, Resilience, Authenticity, Vision, Enthusiasm to help you navigate and deal with adversities. It equips you to face the headwinds of adversities while remaining solidly grounded applying Boldness. It enables you to emerge stronger and powerful applying Resilience. It teaches you to become true to yourself and your purpose despite the prevailing circumstances applying Authenticity. It navigates you to limitless possibilities to carve a trajectory of success for yourself applying Vision. No matter how gusty the intensity of your adversity, the book will energise and propel you to reach greater heights applying Enthusiasm. The book compels you to defy the odds and use your adversities to advance. Instead of seeing adversities as obstacles, you will view them as springboards to leap off to a world of abundance. You will learn how to rewrite your lifes storyline using your adversities to create a life with new meaning of richness, greatness, prosperity, liveliness, worthiness, empowerment, confidence, and fulfilment.

Wisdom: The Collected Articles of Norman Whybray

Wisdom: The Collected Articles of Norman Whybray
Author: Margaret Barker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1351872656

This collection of articles confirms Norman Whybray's place as one of the foremost contributors to scholarship on wisdom literature in the last three decades of the twentieth century. A former President of the Society for Old Testament Study, and winner of the British Academy's Burkitt Medal, Whybray wrote extensively on Proverbs and Ecclesiastes and his interests extended to Job, Ben Sira, and wider areas of concern such as the relationship of wisdom to other Old Testament books and genres. Including a Foreword by David Clines and an Introduction by Katharine J. Dell, this collection brings together for the first time all of Norman Whybray's articles in this subject, thus not only inspiring afresh, but also providing a useful resource for scholars interested in that enigmatic group of writings that make up the wisdom literature of the Old Testament.

Kath(e)rina

Kath(e)rina
Author: ByEri
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 649
Release: 2005-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1450081215

All my books are recounts of true happenings. The series: The Century Before 2000 focuses on the suffering of certain women and children of that era. Heroines, of the last Century, selected from specifc strata in society, portray normal everyday life and trials and tribulations during wartimes. For some plights began before recorded dates of political conflicts and continued in the aftermath. KATH(E)RINA realistically re-enacts in chronological order what it was like when giant-sized bombs rained from the the sky and upon impact shook or collapsed buildings, worse... trapped women, children and the aging beneath. Sometimes other women came to their rescue, sometimes they couldn't. Seldom the rescuers were trained men in their prime, (then serving in the military), they were mainly women; often mothers and children or men too old or too young for the armed services. All events in KATH(E)RINA actually took place, only her name is fictitious. I might point out that geographical orientation matter little when terror, pain, homelessness, hunger and depravation reign. What happened in Germany happened in England, in Poland, to some degree throughout Europe and Asia and to this day violence still reigns in many parts of the world. Apparently Earth's inhabitants still haven't learned yet to live peacefully on our beautiful but rapidly shrinking Planet.

When the Universe Gives You a Kick

When the Universe Gives You a Kick
Author: Mandakini Tomar
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2021-01-06
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1636069274

‘When The Universe gives you a kick’ is a self-help and transformational book for the millennials who are desperately looking to rediscover the beauty of their heart to improve the quality of their life by becoming the best version of themselves. The book will help you answer questions – • Why am I not able to find happiness in life? • How can I find the purpose of my life and overcome self-doubt? • How can I overcome bad times in life and uplift my soul? • How to be lead from darkness to light? In this refreshingly introspective book, each chapter is like a deep meditative trance wherein you will discover the beauty of your soul. It is like a lighthouse which will guide your soul to safely reach the harbour of peace and joy. The author focuses on simplistic approach of Trinity (Stop, Start and Learn) to guide you in the right direction and help you gain a new perspective in life. In addition to it each chapter contains gems of wisdom from religious texts which the millennials will find extremely assuring to transform their life magically. As you go on reading each chapter you will feel a coach guiding you to be your own saviour and create a life you will totally love. By the end of the book, you will become a more resilient person, full of love, inspired and beaming with joy treading on the path to confidence, growth and abundance. You will surely close this book with profit and an amazing spiritual insight that you didn’t choose this book but the Divine guided you to reach this book. Be the Chosen One !

Preparing for Death, Remembering the Dead

Preparing for Death, Remembering the Dead
Author: Tarald Rasmussen
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2015-04-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3647550825

Death and dying were not in the main focus of the denominational conflicts of the 16th century. However, pious literature covered these topics again and again, not only before the Reformation, but after it as well. Here, certain denominational differences are clearly visible. Partly, these differences consist in the use of genres: For example, funeral sermons are an often used genre among Lutherans, while they are much rarer in the Reformed tradition. Similar differences can be observed concerning epitaphs. In Roman Catholic areas, funeral sermons and epitaphs are common in the 16th century, too; but their religious function is often a different from the one in Lutheranism. Beyond such interdenominational differences, there are also interesting continuities and connections which the contributors of the volume analyze. For example, there is a certain continuity between 16th century Lutheran funeral sermons and the late medieval tradition of ars moriendi.The volume contains papers presented at the Second RefoRC Conference in Oslo in 2012, and is characterized by a multiconfessional and multidisciplinary approach, with contributions from Church History, Art History, Archaeology, History of Literature and Cultural History. Within a field of research dominated by specialized contributions (e.g. on ars moriendi traditions or on specific traditions of funeral monuments and funeral sermons), the broad approach of this volume may further stimulate to comparative and cross-confessional reflection.