Reconstructing Lives

Reconstructing Lives
Author: Ph. D. W McJamerson
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2016-02-11
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 168213850X

Are you a “Success Seeker” or a “Success Builder” or both? The overall purpose of this book is to take the mystery out of success so that more persons can seek it and find it. It is not only designed for the general life success of anyone but also for use in school achievement. Current classroom educators call the work in Reconstructing Lives “a dynamic package deal” for implementing rigorous and relevant curriculum. The project offers proof of the effectiveness of an organic, time-tested project that can meet the national demand for preparing college and career ready students through Common Core State Standards (CCSS). From Reconstructing Lives, a student workbook was created titled Re-Make an Icon So You Can Become One. If you are already or want to become a Success Builder then this book will provide focus and strategies in six specific areas: Did you identify, cultivate or enhance a talent or skill in someone’s life today? Did you help someone see new possibilities or set and strive to reach goals today? Did you make someone feel important, special or loved today? Did you teach someone to perform at a level of excellence today? Did you help someone gain deeper intellectual, spiritual, or emotional understanding today? Did you provide an opportunity for or destroy an obstacle to someone’s progress today?

Reconstructing lives

Reconstructing lives
Author: Vanja Kovacic
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2022-01-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1526161583

This book attempts to establish a more holistic approach to the rehabilitation of war-injured civilians, one that adjusts to the patients’ long-term needs. Kovacic not only offers an insight into the daily realities of patients during and after rehabilitation, but seeks to develop a new way to perceive, respect and involve them in health care. Based on comprehensive interviews with patients and MSF staff, as well as extended field observations, Reconstructing lives follows Syrian and Iraqi war-injured civilians in their journey to recovery. From their improvised medical treatment in their home countries, to the MSF-run hospital in Amman Jordan, to their return home, Kovacic explores how individuals attempt to pick up the pieces of their previous lives, add new elements from their treatment and travel experiences, and finally establish a new reconstructed reality. The book explores how the interaction between MSF staff and their patients contributes to the immense task of healing that awaits victims of war. The reader visits the intimate medical and domestic spaces that usually remain closed to the outside observer, spaces rich with human contact, perceptions, emotions, conflicts and reconciliations.

Take Care of the Living

Take Care of the Living
Author: Jeffrey W. McClurken
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009-08-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813928192

Take Care of the Living assesses the short- and long-term impact of the war on Confederate veteran families of all classes in Pittsylvania County and Danville, Virginia. Using letters, diaries, church minutes, and military and state records, as well as close analysis of the entire 1860 and 1870 Pittsylvania County manuscript population census, McClurken explores the consequences of the war for over three thousand Confederate soldiers and their families. The author reveals an array of strategies employed by those families to come to terms with their postwar reality, including reorganizing and reconstructing the household, turning to local churches for emotional and economic support, pleading with local elites for financial assistance or positions, sending psychologically damaged family members to a state-run asylum, and looking to the state for direct assistance in the form of replacement limbs for amputees, pensions, and even state-supported homes for old soldiers and widows. Although these strategies or institutions for reconstructing the family had their roots in existing practices, the extreme need brought on by the scope and impact of the Civil War required an expansion beyond anything previously seen. McClurken argues that this change serves as a starting point for the study of the evolution of southern welfare.

Reconstructing Lives, Recapturing Meaning

Reconstructing Lives, Recapturing Meaning
Author: Linda A. Camino
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1994
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9782884491099

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Remaking Home

Remaking Home
Author: Maja Korac
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1845459563

Rather than emphasising boundaries and territories by examining the ‘integration’ and ‘acculturation’ of the immigrant or the refugee, this book offers insights into the ideas and practices of individuals settling into new societies and cultures. It analyses their ideas of connecting and belonging; their accounts of the past, the present and the future; the interaction and networks of relations; practical strategies; and the different meanings of ‘home’ and belonging that are constructed in new sociocultural settings. The author uses empirical research to explore the experiences of refugees from the successor states of Yugoslavia, who are struggling to make a home for themselves in Amsterdam and Rome. By explaining how real people navigate through the difficulties of their displacement as well as the numerous scenarios and barriers to their emplacement, the author sheds new light on our understanding of what it is like to be a refugee.

Reconstructing Lives, Recapturing Meaning

Reconstructing Lives, Recapturing Meaning
Author: Linda A. Camino
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2005-08-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135306826

Reconstructing Lives, Recapturing Meaning presents the first systematic investigation of refugees' loss of their old identities and their efforts to construct new ones. Edited by the Chair and Vice Chair of the Committee on Refugee Issues (CORI) of the American Anthropological Association, it critically examines the interplay between cultural, ethnic, and gender constructions among resettled refugee populations. Each chapter is grounded in anthropological theory and method, and the book's framework demonstrates the relationship between the dynamics of forced migration and the ways in which ethnic and gender identities are reinvented in new socio-cultural settings. Unanimous in their perception of boundary maintenance as central to identity formation, these essays allow readers to view refugee resettlement as a creative, experimental process.

Reconstructing the Tree of Life

Reconstructing the Tree of Life
Author: Trevor R. Hodkinson
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2006-12-26
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1420009532

To document the world's diversity of species and reconstruct the tree of life we need to undertake some simple but mountainous tasks. Most importantly, we need to tackle species rich groups. We need to collect, name, and classify them, and then position them on the tree of life. We need to do this systematically across all groups of organisms and b

From Lived Experience to the Written Word

From Lived Experience to the Written Word
Author: Pamela H. Smith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2022-09-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226818241

"This book focuses on how literate artisans began to write about their discoveries starting around 1400: in other words, it explores the origins of technical writing. Artisans and artists began to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets, graphs and recipe books rather than simply pass along their knowledge in the workshop. And they tried to articulate what the new knowledge meant. The popularity of these texts coincided with the founding of a "new philosophy" that sought to investigate nature in a new way. Smith shows how this moment began in the unceasing trials of the craft workshop, and ended in the experimentation of the natural scientific laboratory. These epistemological developments have continued to the present day and still inform how we think about scientific knowledge"--

Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives

Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives
Author: Penny Summerfield
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719044618

The effects of World War II on women's sense of themselves forms the basis of this exploration of the interaction between cultural representations of men and women in World War II, and women's own narratives of their wartime lives.