![]() Her father was a pharmacist, while her mother pursued a bohemian lifestyle that advocated sexual freedom, vegetarianism, and explored avant garde art. What drove Gerda Lerner to dedicate 50 years to study Women and African American history?īorn Apin Vienna Austria, Gerda Lerner was raised in a household with constant dueling ideologies. Why should we study Women’s History? The easy answer is, we must see clearly. This is only when both eyes see together that we accomplish full vision and accurate depth perception.”-Gerda Lerner When we add to it the single vision of the other eye, our range vision becomes wider, but we still lack depth. When we see with one eye, our vision is limited in range and devoid of depth. ![]() “Strengthening our depth perception requires accurately seeing with both eyes. ![]()
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As of 2020, 5.97% of Moody, TX residents were born outside of the country (91 people). ![]() Moody, TX is home to a population of 1.53k people, from which 95.5% are citizens. ![]() Pakistan is edging closer to a default as political unrest sparked by the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan is set to delay an International Monetary Fund. We want to meet you and get to know you so that we can better serve you. At First National Bank, our customers are more than a number. Moody txWe have been proudly serving small communities including local businesses, farmers, and the local school districts since 1893. ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, door-knocking is viewed with suspicion, and tragically, occasionally met with violence. Now, I treasure the openness, curiosity, and sincerity of both those visitors and my dad. The visit lasted close to an hour, and soon became a regular occurrence anytime Jehovah’s Witnesses knocked. As a child, I would roll my eyes at the intrusions. They shared their faith then my dad shared his, Islam. My dad opened the door wide, smiled, and welcomed them into the living room, offering them cups of tea. I peeked out the window to find a pair of suit-clad Jehovah’s Witnesses, and promptly retreated – from what I’d heard, most people avoided them. ![]() ![]() Ding-dong! It was the mid-’90s, in my childhood home in rural central New York, where we didn’t frequently get visitors. ![]() ![]() I have to say it’s interesting working with women who are interested in helping society improve, get healthier and become safer. ![]() I’m also getting into the world of aging gracefully and gratefully and giving talks on ‘rewire and refire.’ Last month I spoke at a women’s health retreat in Costa Rica, for my 77yr old friend Maria who is a bikini competitor, a personal trainer and now an event planner. 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Caroline welcomes the return of Karen Gedney, author of “30 years behind bars,” 30 years behind bars as prison physician, mentor, guide, all around culture Doctor…shifting prison paradigm to one of healing and re-integration… ![]() ![]() ![]() From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. 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It argues that Barbour was responding to the particular circumstances facing his aristocratic audience in late fourteenth-century Scotland and using a broadly ‘chivalric’ framework of ideas to appeal to their sensibilities. This paper will explore the justifications Barbour offers for the withdrawal of allegiance, as well as the circumstances in which reconciliation is possible. Instead, shifts in loyalty are considered legitimate when characters believe that their lord is not fulfilling his responsibilities. Whilst Barbour acknowledges that providing support to an enemy constitutes treason he does not always condemn those who switch sides during the conflict as traitors. In the poem, characters change their allegiance from the Scots to the English and vice versa. This paper seeks to examine the issue of shifting loyalties in John Barbour’s Bruce, a late fourteenth-century poem recounting the life of King Robert I and his most celebrated lieutenants. ‘Their treason undid them’: Crossing the Boundary between Scottish and English in Barbour’s Bruce ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even after the “outfitter murders,” as they have been dubbed by the local press after the discovery of the two more bodies, are solved, Joe continues to investigate, uneasy with the easy explanation offered by the local police.Īs Joe digs deeper into the murders, he soon discovers that the outfitter brought more than death to his backdoor: he brought Joe an endangered species, thought to be extinct, which is now living in his woodpile. There had to be a reason that the outfitter, with whom he’s had run-ins before, chose his backyard, his woodpile to die in. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally. Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts, and the game warden–especially one like Joe who won’t take bribes or look the other way–is far from popular. ![]() ![]() Love and hate, revenge and redemption, destruction and salvation all clash in this gorgeous sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer. ![]() But is she? Sometimes, only the direst need can teach us our own depths, and Sarai, the muse of nightmares, has not yet discovered what she's capable of.Īs humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are resurrected: Where did the gods come from, and why? What was done with thousands of children born in the citadel nursery? 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Booklist, starred review 'A sequel that surpasses the original. ![]() ![]() Elin and Will arrive a few days before everyone else, but a snowstorm looms, pummeling the mountain resort. ![]() ![]() Two years later, Isaac’s fiancée Laure is working at the hotel as an assistant manager, and the pair decide to invite family and friends to Le Sommet to celebrate their engagement. His disappearance is downplayed, so as not to sour the hotel opening. In the prologue, Daniel Lemaitre, the hotel architect, is accosted by a masked assailant while leaving the unfinished hotel site. Isaac’s fiancée, Laure Strehl, works at Le Sommet, a hotel in the Swiss Alps that was built on the site of an old sanatorium where tuberculosis patients were once treated. ![]() Protagonist Elin Warner is a young police detective from the UK, who with her boyfriend Will Riley has gone to Switzerland to celebrate her brother Isaac’s engagement. ![]() |