The Voice of Witness Reader
The Voice of Witness Reader

Author: Dave Eggers

Publisher: McSweeney's

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1940450837

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For ten years, Voice of Witness has illuminated contemporary human rights crises through its remarkable oral history book series. Founded by Dave Eggers, Lola Vollen and Mimi Lok, Voice of Witness has amplified the stories of hundreds of people impacted by some of the most crucial human rights crises of our time, including men and women living under oppressive regimes in Burma, Colombia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe; public housing residents and undocumented workers in the United States; and exploited workers around the globe. This selection of narratives from these remarkable men and women is many things: an astonishing record of human rights issues in the 21st century; a testament to the resilience and courage of the most marginalized among us; and an opportunity to better the understand the world we live in through human connection and a participatory vision of history.

Reading Voices
Reading Voices

Author: Garrett Stewart

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1990-09-10

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780520070394

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"At last, a scrupulous and sustained--'earsighted'--study of that shadowy yet vital intersection of sound and sense without which literary reading remains a disembodied exercise. . . . Stewart immerses us brilliantly in the poststructural method of a 'phonemic' analysis."--Geoffrey H. Hartman, author of Saving the Text "Stunningly articulate. . . . Alongside brilliant exegeses of passsages from the major English poets, Stewart offers new and dazzling interpretations of the 'poetics of prose' in such novelists as Dickens, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The book is a tour de force, no doubt about it. In my opinion, Reading Voices will have not only a wide but a lasting reception."--Hayden White, author of Metahistory "This is exciting, virtuoso work in a playfully imaginative hermeneutic mode. Stewart's ear hears fascinating and compelling things, things which have a delightfully rich and thematically complex bearing on much larger textual issues."--Paul Fry, author of The Reach of Criticism "A truly original book. . . . The first work in years to bring together linguistically informed criticism with more philosophically oriented literary theory. The resulting vision of literature is odd, personal, passionate, even outlandish. Not only is Stewart himself and extraordinary stylist, but his work suggests a breakthrough in stylistic criticism so radical as to revitalize the entire field."--Jay Clayton, author of Romantic Vision and the Novel

Voices
Voices

Author: David Elliott

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2019-03-26

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0358049156

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"Stunning . . . elegant . . . arresting . . . supple and harrowing.” - The Wall Street Journal ★“An innovative, entrancing account of a popular figure that will appeal to fans of verse, history, and biography.” - Kirkus, starred review In poems that surprise and move readers, bestselling author David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death. Told through medieval poetic forms and in the voices of the people and objects in Joan of Arc’s life, (including her family and even the trees, clothes, cows, and candles of her childhood), Voices offers an unforgettable perspective on an extraordinary young woman. Along the way it explores timely issues such as gender, misogyny, and the peril of speaking truth to power. Before Joan of Arc became a saint, she was a girl inspired. It is that girl we come to know in Voices.

The Alaska Reader
The Alaska Reader

Author: Anne Hanley

Publisher: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13:

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More than 1.3 million people visit Alaska each year to experience its unique history, abundant wildlife, diverse cultures, and natural beauty. This book enriches that experience. Here is a collection of authentic voices, oral and written, that depicts Alaska with intelligence, integrity, and authenticity. Encompassing classic and contemporary writers and storytellersestablished and new, insiders and outsidersthis anthology includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and oral tradition. Several books that have recently gained national attention are highlighted: Seth Kantner's Ordinary Wolves, Marjo.

Job the Unfinalizable
Job the Unfinalizable

Author: Seong Whan Timothy Hyun

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-10-10

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 9004258116

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In Job the Unfinalizable, Seong Whan Timothy Hyun reads Job 1-11 through the lens of Bakhtin’s dialogism and chronotope to hear each different voice as a unique and equally weighted voice. The distinctive voices in the prologue and dialogue, Hyun argues, depict Job as the unfinalizable by working together rather than quarrelling each other. As pieces of a puzzle come together to make the whole picture, all voices in Job 1-11 though each with its own unique ideology come together to complete the picture of Job. This picture of Job offers readers a different way to read the book of Job: to find better questions rather than answers.

Reading St. Luke's Text and Theology: Pentecostal Voices
Reading St. Luke's Text and Theology: Pentecostal Voices

Author: Riku P. Tuppurainen

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-10-16

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1532619847

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Lukan narrative takes its readers into God’s story: how his salvation plan in Jesus began on the slopes of Judea and at the Sea of Galilee, ending on the hill of Calvary and the Mount of Olives, yet moving on and telling how the Spirit descended onto the Temple Mount empowering God’s people, who then began to fulfill the given mandate in the presence of the Spirit. Yet, readers of Luke-Acts, throughout the centuries, have had a meandering journey as they have tried to understand the narrative’s persuasion and Spirit-references. This book seeks to bring awareness to these challenges by some of the most respected Pentecostal biblical scholars and systematicians. Here their vigorous labor with the questions of hermeneutics and theology in relation to Lukan writings have come to fruition. These contributions have been collected as a Festschrift in honor and celebration of the career of Roger Stronstad, a Pentecostal biblical scholar whose contribution to Lukan studies have moved Pentecostal scholarship from shadows into daylight. The editor of this volume invites the readers of Lukan narrative to journey together on the road to Emmaus, as we continue to ponder the events in the past, the present, and the future.

Winning Strategies for Test Taking, Grades 3-8
Winning Strategies for Test Taking, Grades 3-8

Author: Linda Denstaedt

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2009-03-09

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1412967031

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"Arming your students with this game plan will lead to victory on test day. These well-defined writing and reading strategies will positively impact students′ scores."--Cheryl Yocum, English Language Arts Consultant Wayne RESA, MI "This book makes it easy for teachers to develop units based on their own state tests. By employing the strategies in this book, teachers will level the playing field for all students and make high-stakes test taking a game of knowledge rather than a game of chance."--Mary McConnell, School Improvement Facilitator Teach students essential skills for test taking and for lifelong learning! Winning Strategies for Test Taking provides a practical, three-week unit of test taking skills that makes the most efficient use of classroom time and uses commonsense strategies that are engaging for students in Grades 3-8. The authors′ fun approach raises the appeal of test taking and teaches effective metacognitive skills that transfer beyond the classroom into students′ lives. Full of reproducible resources such as planning guides, models, examples of think-alouds, annotated state exams, and more, this book shows how to help students excel at different types of test formats, including Reading and analyzing texts Multiple choice questions True-or-false questions Constructed response writing Writing to a prompt Meet the demands of high-stakes testing and develop students′ confidence to conquer the challenges of test taking in the classroom and decision making throughout their lives.