Author: John Escott
Publisher: Monarch Books of Canada
ISBN: 9780435277673
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Richard R. Day
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521568293
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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This comprehensive examination of extensive reading shows how reading large quantities of books and other materials can provide students with essential practice in learning to read and help them develop a positive attitude towards reading, which is sometimes missed in second language classes. The authors first examine the cognitive and affective nature of reading and then offer a wealth of practical advice for implementing extensive reading with second language learners. Suggestions are provided for integrating extensive reading into the curriculum, establishing a library, selecting reading materials, and keeping records for purposes of evaluation. The text also describes a wide variety of classroom activities to supplement individualized silent reading. The information will be useful both for pre-service teachers and for teachers and administrators who want to improve the teaching of reading in their second language programs.

Author: Starr Goode
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1620555964
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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Traces the origins of the Sheela na gig from Medieval times to Paleolithic cave art • Reveals the sacred display of the vulva to be a universal archetype and the most enduring image of creativity throughout the world • Provides meditations on the Sheelas the author encountered in Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales, allowing readers to commune with the power of these icons • Includes more than 150 photographs and illustrations from around the world For millennia, the human imagination has been devoted to the Goddess, so it is hardly a surprise to find images of supernatural females like Sheela na gigs adorning sacred and secular architecture throughout Ireland, England, Wales, and Scotland. Appearing on rural churches, castles, bridges, holy wells, tombs, and standing stones, these powerful images of a figure fearlessly displaying her vulva embody the power of the Dark Goddess over the mysteries of sex, life, death, and rebirth. Exploring the art and myth of the Sheela na gig from Celtic and Classical times back to Paleolithic cave art, Starr Goode shows how the Sheela embraces a conundrum of opposites: she clearly offers up her ripe sex yet emanates a repelling menace from the upper half of her hag-like body. Through more than 150 photographs, the author shows how the Sheela is a goddess with the power to renew, a folk deity used to help women survive childbirth, and, as a guardian of doorways and castle walls, a liminal entity representing the gateway to the divine. She explains how these powerful images survived eradication during the rise of Christianity and retained their preeminent positions on sacred sites, including medieval churches. The author provides meditations on the individual Sheelas she encountered during her 25 years of research, allowing readers to commune with these icons and feel the power they emanate. Exploring comparable figures such as Baubo, Medusa, the Neolithic Frog Goddess, and vulva depictions in cave art, she reveals the female sacred display to be a universal archetype, the most enduring image of creativity throughout history, and illustrates how cultures from Africa and Ecuador to India and Australia possess similar images depicting goddesses parting their thighs to reveal sacred powers. Explaining the role of the Sheela na gig in restoring the Divine Feminine, the author shows the Sheela to be an icon that makes visible the cycles of birth, death, and renewal all humans experience and a necessary antidote to centuries of suppression of the primal power of women, of nature, and of the imagination.

Author: Vera Jane Cook
Publisher: Indies United
ISBN: 1644563401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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Escaping from her childhood, Sheela, flees her aunt's motel where she is forced to work as a cleaning maid and provide ‘favors’ for wealthy guests and winds up in Miami in Kit Malone's fancy brothel. Beautiful and stately, Sheela becomes a high-class prostitute, a millionaire’s mistress and a Billy Rose showgirl. When she meets the love of her life in Manhattan, the charming but naive Julius Clark, life blossoms into something both frightening and titillating. But when Sheela gives birth to her daughter, Fanny, it is this shadowy and stormy relationship that alters the course of both of their destinies and defines their future.

Author: Chandan Sengupta
Publisher: Chandan Sukumar Sengupta
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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This Workbook is preared for providing supporting content and comprehensive guidance to aspirants of different examinations, such as UPSC, PSC, SSC, RRB, Bank Probationary Officer’s Examination and other competitive examinations conducted by different boards of studies. Basic framework of the syllabus is taken up from the content areas rescribed by Central Board of Secondary Educations for English Communicative Programmes. It will be equally helpful for teachers and other assciates having passion of providing quality guidance along with time tested practice materials. Equal strength is provided on both grammar rules and communication skills. Some of the fundamentals are duly incorporated to make the content area a balanced one for the fellow aspirants. Incorporation of some of the basic tempplates are avoided for keeping the volume of this workbook in limit. One can take support of any of the grammar and comprehension handbook for gaining mastery in all such basic formats. This workbook will imply focus on the higher levels of English Grammar and Compositions. It is duly recommended that one should not skip any of the content area incorporated in this workbook for confirming attainment of mastery in English in prescribed time limit. One should go on practicing regularly for increasing the pace of learning. Understanding the concept of using appropriate English is equally important for gaining enhanced pace in the field of appropriate use of English. If we try to incorporate all the basic rules of writing and speaking English in this workbook then it will become a difficult task to make them absolutely contented without repeating any section. This workbook is prepated with principal objective of providing aspirants a template of self propelled study modules which will equip them differently. Importance is equally implied on both practical as well as traditional ways of communication that people adopt in modern society. It is also evident from our regular survey that people prefer using conventional ways of speaking and writing to bring easiness in delivering concepts and propositions. We will also point out several other technical briefings along with the worksheets for making the concept easy to understand.

Author: Sheela Kalchuri Fenster with David Fenster
Publisher: Meher Nazar Publications
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 809

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Sheela's father Bhau Kalchuri joined Meher Baba as one of the mandali in 1953. Four years later, Baba called Sheela and her family to live in his near proximity. The Kalchuris had many opportunities to be in the Beloved's presence, and Sheela's first-person account paints a vivid, intimate portrait of life near Meher Baba, from the perspective of a child and teenager.

Author: Bhau Kalchuri
Publisher: Meher Nazar Publications
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1275

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The biography of the Avatar of the Age Meher Baba updated as of 22 October 2024

Author: California (State).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Author: Max Evans
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826335861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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First published in 1999, Faraway Blue is based on the real-life exploits of Sergeant Moses Williams, former slave, Civil War veteran, and Buffalo Soldier in the Ninth Cavalry Regiment. Included in Moses's story are four women and two men representing the ethnic groups and economic levels found in the late 1800s American Southwest. At the story's opening, Williams's cavalry unit has one assignment: kill Apaches in the "faraway blue" mountains of southwestern New Mexico Territory, also known as the Black Range. As a fighter in the white man's campaign to obliterate the Indians and take over their lands, Williams finds a nemesis in Nana, an old Warm Springs Apache warrior who is a tactical genius. Nana leads his small band of followers to repeatedly strike area mining camps and settlements. Both men know they must meet before the end of the war and a maddening cat-and-mouse pursuit ensues. ; Williams is sustained by his love for Sheela Jones, a mulatto whom he wants to marry when the army will allow it. But Sheela's love for him guides her to take an immense risk just as Williams and Nana ride out to settle their score. "Evans paints marvelous word pictures of a land and people he knows extremely well." - Booklist "As always with Evans, written with a good sense of the times and place." - Kirkus

Author: Rachna Kheria, Sarin Mathur, Sireesha Kadiyala,Vidhi Kheria
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1636067301
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Variety is the spice of life… We present to you an anthology of short stories to celebrate various memories and experiences, both real and imagined - sweet, savoury, tangy and quintessentially umami - in life. The Masala Box is an offering of four authors who hail from diverse backgrounds. Together they present an array of narratives, exploring a humanity in a way that touches the heart and makes it experience the very spice of life. PROCEEDS OF THE BOOK GO TOWARDS CHARITY