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What makes a perfect date? Is it candlelight, soft music, or butterflies in your stomach? Or is it really much more; something beyond Hollywood that surpasses the stereotypical classic date? In their book "The Perfect Date," Joshua and Kerry Williams explore this question and present some surprising new ideas. They share their amazing, true testimony of how God allowed them to pattern their relationship after the most romantic love story ever told, that of Isaac and Rebekah (Genesis 24). Like the Old Testament couple they agreed to marry having never seen or spoken to one another. Braving the odds Joshua and Kerry decided to take the leap and allow God to work His plan, His own way in their lives. Now they invite readers to share with them the adventure of discovering God''s purpose for true love. Read how the Lord miraculously brought them together and how they overcame the desire to date, making room for God''s handiwork. Unique in every way "The Perfect Date" delivers a powerful message of hope found only through the cross. It''s a message of self-sacrifice, trust, honesty, and love. It''s a bible story told with conviction and truth. "The Perfect Date" presents the following topics: * What really is dating? * Where does one find true love? * What role does courtship play today? * How can a person overcome sexual desires? * How does God define true love? Tapping into such subjects as, no dating, waiting on God, and matters of the heart, Joshua and Kerry share straight-forward, no-nonsense answers for these questions and more. This book paints a powerful picture of holiness, grace, and love.

This dissertation explores the mutual imbrication of race and animality in Kenyan and Tanzanian politics and performance from the 1910s through to the 1990s. It is a cultural history of the non-human under conditions of colonial governmentality and its afterlives. I argue that animal bodies, both actual and figural, were central to the cultural and political project of British colonialism in Africa – and in particular eastern Africa, which continues to be imagined in many circles as both “safari country” and the “cradle of humankind.” I build on extensive archival research to suggest that artistic and scientific activity in colonial Kenya, from the amateur and professional theatre to the natural-historical research conducted at the Coryndon Memorial Museum, helped to define a category of sub-political being that I call “the animal subaltern.” The animal subaltern is a concatenation of all forms of animal life lived below the horizon of “the human.” During the colonial period, this included the wildlife of eastern Africa, the pre-human hominids whose fossilized remains paleoanthropologists like Louis Leakey unearthed, and “natives,” whose political subjectivity the colonial state was determined to suppress. I argue that the forced contiguity of these variously inflected forms of life had a pervasive, if uneven, racializing effect: all of these beings became black. In the post- Second World War struggle for political, cultural and economic independence in eastern Africa, members of the animal subaltern contested their exclusion from the category of the human. I read the work of the Kenyan writer and intellectual Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the Tanzanian playwright Ebrahim Hussein as important interventions into this unfolding struggle and its implications for the postcolonial future of their communities. Finally, I consider the environmental activism of Kenya’s “Rhino Man,” Michael Werikhe, whose performative blurring of the distinction between human and animal in the 1980s and 1990s helped to inaugurate a new model of interspecies solidarity that continues to play itself out to this day.

Hangtown is a novel-in-stories centered on a small town in the Northern California foothills. Set immediately after the death of a prominent town citizen, this book explores the effect of history and legacy upon the former gold-mining hub and its inhabitants, through the lens of men and women struggling to survive a modern world that has left Hangtown, and all of them, far behind.

Balloons for all the animals of Australia!

A Week of Suicide(s) follows the non-fictional accounts of Josh.A college student grappling with his sexual assault, gender identity,and mental health. The diaries are written in a poetic narrativestructure giving an unfiltered insight into an individual coming intohis own strengths and facing his own demons, and at times succumbingto them. Heartbreakingly honest and unflinching in its portrayal of the effects sexual assault can have on the human psyche and Josh as a nonfictional character serves as the backdrop for current events as well as serving as a queer voice that is hardly represented in such aunique, heartbreaking, honest, and uplifting way. The narrative thensegues into poetic insights on what it means to live your personaltruths and the costs that comes with that. The costs I''m alluding toare personal friendships, relationships with family, and at timesshunning one''s own spirituality. This is a story of loss, forgiveness,and at time apathy. The poetic nature of the pieces is helped by thefact that at times they seem to be in no real chronological orderwhich gives the reader an insight into the haphazard nature ofpersonal growth and that sometimes to come full circle isn''t so much afeeling as it is a tiny facet of success in life. The pieces arewritten to be interpreted as both introspective and a socialcommentary on our character''s surroundings as he navigates hissituations in his own unique way. The lovelyfact of this story is that its both its own contained personaladmission while at the same time remaining accessible to many readerssearching for solace in understanding much like Josh is as he writes.

This lesson plan is developed for 9th grade earth science classrooms, but can be scaled up or down. Students will explore how marine sediments serve as a history book for geologic activity. They will collect mock cores and developing conclusions about earth history.