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The 101 stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Parenthood will touch your heart, make you laugh, and remind you why there is no better job than being a parent! Parenting – it’s a tough job, but also the best. Filled with anecdotes and advice from parents raising children of all ages, this book will uplift, inspire, and encourage you. Other parents, just like you, share their personal stories about all the joys, and the trials, of raising children.
You’ll find comfort, inspiration, and wisdom in these 101 daily Christian devotions to help you through tough times and trials in your life, including illness, grief, financial problems, family issues, and much more. These devotional stories, complete with scripture and prayers, will introduce you to the personal experiences of people who have gone through tough times and found new faith, joy, and strength, affirming God’s unconditional love and His wisdom. You’ll feel re-energized and ready to face each day.
Millennial movements have had a significant impact on history and lie behind many artistic and scientific views of the world. 'The End that Does' tracks the interplay of the arts, sciences, and millennial imagination across 3000 years. The volume presents essays ranging across the study of ancient ritualistic sacrifice, utopian technology and the American millennial dream, science fiction, and the apocalypse of the tabloids. The End that Does will be invaluable to any student or scholar interested in the history of millennialism.
Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of William Rule who was born 21 February 1800 in Hallrule, Roxburghshire, Scotland. He was the son of John Rule. William married Jean Wood ca. 1828 and lived in Hounam, Roxburghshire, Scotland. They immigrated to America and came to Madrid Township, St. Lawrence Co., New York ca. 1837. William and Jean settled in DeWitt, Iowa sometime prior to the year 1875. They were the parents of four children. Descendants lived in Iowa, Illinois, Washington, Nebraska and elsewhere.
“Within the pages of Uncertain Suffering it becomes all too clear that race, class, and age converge to define a powerful triple blow that guarantees both subtle and outrageously obvious health disparities. Rouse moves gracefully from the subjective pain of adolescent patients in crisis, to the compassionate yet distanced professionalism of health care specialists, to the level of national policy, revealing a clinical world fraught with contradictions over how best to treat black, and, all too often, underclass children in pain. Uncertain Suffering will make a big splash within anthropology.”—Lesley Sharp, Barnard College “Uncertain Suffering will have a unique place in medical anthropology, public health scholarship, and the social sciences of health. It involves a layered and deeply philosophical approach to the limits of the role/ responsibility of modern American medicine to address the suffering of African American patients.”—Rayna Rapp, New York University
Citizens and Paupers explores this contentious history by analyzing and comparing three major programs: the Freedmen's Bureau, the Works Progress Administration, and the present-day system of workfare that arose in the 1990s. Each of these overhauls of the welfare state created new groups of clients, new policies for aiding them, and new disputes over citizenship--conflicts that were entangled in racial politics and of urgent concern for social activists.-.
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