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Connecting the Dots

Author : Jake Owensby
Publisher : WestBow Press
Release Date : 2012-06-29
ISBN 10 : 9781449757960
Pages : 136 pages
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Download Connecting the Dots book PDF by Jake Owensby and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your life matters, and it matters on an infinite and eternal scale. That may sound like a bold claim. Maybe you spend most of your day behind a desk or chauffeuring children or repeating one of a thousand ordinary routines. Nothing about your daily life seems world-changing or history-making to you. A life-crushing loss or a humiliating setback may leave you feeling that your world is irreparably broken. Chronic illness or a stalled career may have you wondering whether you have anything truly significant to offer. You may have reached the pinnacle of success, and now you find yourself wondering, “Is this all that there is?” Nevertheless, your life matters. That is the core message of Christian hope. This book is devoted to helping its readers not only to understand the concept of hope, but more importantly to draw upon hope as the powerful force that inspires our daily lives. Christian hope is far more than wishful thinking or a positive attitude. Optimism in all its forms places its bets on what we humans can accomplish. By contrast, hope is rooted in what Christ has already achieved on the cross and what God promises to accomplish for us in the future. God connects the dots of our lives.

Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture

Author : Sharon Crasnow
Publisher : Lexington Books
Release Date : 2012-12-06
ISBN 10 : 9780739172254
Pages : 210 pages
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Download Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture book PDF by Sharon Crasnow and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eight essays contained in this book explore the portrayal of women, and various philosophical responses to that portrayal in contemporary post-civil rights society. They bring feminist voices to the conversation about gender and attests to the importance of feminist critique in what is sometimes claimed to be a post-feminist era.

Uproarious

Author : Cynthia Willett
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2019-11-05
ISBN 10 : 9781452962221
Pages : 224 pages
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Download Uproarious book PDF by Cynthia Willett and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical new approach to humor, where traditional targets become its agents Humor is often dismissed as cruel ridicule or harmless fun. But what if laughter is a vital force to channel rage against patriarchy, Islamophobia, or mass incarceration? To create moments of empathy and dialogue between Black Lives Matter and the police? These and other such questions are at the heart of this powerful reassessment of humor. Placing theorists in conversation with comedians, Uproarious offers a full-frontal approach to the very foundation of comedy and its profound political impact. Here Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett address the four major theories of humor—superiority, relief, incongruity, and social play—through the lens of feminist and game-changing comics such as Wanda Sykes, Margaret Cho, Hannah Gadsby, Hari Kondabolu, and Tig Notaro. They take a radical and holistic approach to the understanding of humor, particularly of humor deployed by those from groups long relegated to the margins, and propose a powerful new understanding of humor as a force that can engender politically progressive social movements. Drawing on a range of cross-disciplinary sources, from philosophies and histories of humor to the psychology and physiology of laughter to animal studies, Uproarious offers a richer understanding of the political and cathartic potential of humor. A major new contribution to a wider dialogue on comedy, Uproarious grounds for us explorations of outsider humor and our golden age of feminist comics—showing that when women, prisoners, even animals, laugh back, comedy along with belly laughs forge new identities and alter the political climate.

Holy Mischief

Author : Mindy Makant
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2019-09-23
ISBN 10 : 9781532649226
Pages : 136 pages
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Download Holy Mischief book PDF by Mindy Makant and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ELCA has been ordaining women for fifty years. Mindy Makant interviews eighty-five female pastors across the Southeast about their lives as women in ministry in a culture that has been slow to embrace them. This book is their story.

Bossypants

Author : Tina Fey
Publisher : Reagan Arthur Books
Release Date : 2011-04-05
ISBN 10 : 0316056863
Pages : 277 pages
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Download Bossypants book PDF by Tina Fey and published by Reagan Arthur Books. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The breakout star of Saturday Night Live and Thirty Rock gives a humorous account of her life, as well as behind-the-scenes stories from her hit shows. 1 million first printing.

Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers

Author : Sabrina Fuchs Abrams
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2017-11-09
ISBN 10 : 9783319567297
Pages : 263 pages
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Download Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers book PDF by Sabrina Fuchs Abrams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the first to focus on the transgressive and transformative power of American female humorists. It explores the work of authors and comediennes such as Carolyn Wells, Lucille Clifton, Mary McCarthy, Lynne Tillman, Constance Rourke, Roz Chast, Amy Schumer and Samantha Bee, and the ways in which their humor challenges gendered norms and assumptions through the use of irony, satire, parody, and wit. The chapters draw from the experiences of women from a variety of racial, class, and gender identities and encompass a variety of genres and comedic forms including poetry, fiction, prose, autobiography, graphic memoir, comedic performance, and new media. Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers will appeal to a general educated readership as well as to those interested in women’s and gender studies, humor studies, urban studies, American literature and cultural studies, and media studies.

Hysterical!

Author : Linda Mizejewski
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2017-12-06
ISBN 10 : 9781477314548
Pages : 469 pages
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Download Hysterical! book PDF by Linda Mizejewski and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Koppelman Award Winner: “A juicy read for those who love the many ways female comics use their art to question the patriarchy.” —Bust Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are killing it nightly on American stages and screens, smashing the tired stereotype that women aren’t funny. But today’s funny women didn’t come out of nowhere. Fay Tincher’s daredevil stunts, Mae West’s linebacker walk, Lucille Ball’s manic slapstick, Carol Burnett’s athletic pratfalls, Ellen DeGeneres’s tomboy pranks, Whoopi Goldberg’s sly twinkle, and Tina Fey’s acerbic wit all paved the way for contemporary unruly women, whose comedy upends the norms and ideals of women’s bodies and behaviors. Hysterical! Women in American Comedy delivers a lively survey of women comics from the stars of the silent cinema up through the multimedia presences of Tina Fey and Lena Dunham. This anthology of original essays includes contributions by the field’s leading authorities, introducing a new framework for women’s comedy that analyzes the implications of hysterical laughter and hysterically funny performances. Expanding on previous studies of comedians such as Mae West, Moms Mabley, and Margaret Cho, and offering the first scholarly work on comedy pioneers Mabel Normand, Fay Tincher, and Carol Burnett, the contributors explore such topics as racial/ethnic/sexual identity, celebrity, stardom, censorship, auteurism, cuteness, and postfeminism across multiple media. Situated within the main currents of gender and queer studies, as well as American studies and feminist media scholarship, Hysterical! masterfully demonstrates that hysteria—women acting out and acting up—is a provocative, empowering model for women’s comedy. “An invaluable collection and a great read.” ?Journal of Popular Culture Winner of a Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies, Popular and American Culture Associations (PACA), 2017

The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy

Author : Rick DesRochers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2014-07-31
ISBN 10 : 9781441161932
Pages : 176 pages
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Download The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy book PDF by Rick DesRochers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy examines how contemporary writer/performers are influenced by the comedic vaudevillians of the early 20th century. By tracing the history and legacy of the vaudeville era and performance acts, like the Marx Brothers and The Three Keatons, and moving through the silent and early sound films of the early 1930s, the author looks at how comic writer/performers continue to sell a brand of themselves as a form of social commentary in order to confront and dispel stereotypes of race, class, and gender. The first study to explore contemporary popular comic culture and its influence on American society from this unique perspective, Rick DesRochers analyzes stand-up and improvisational comedy writing/performing in the work of Larry David, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and Dave Chappelle. He grounds these choices by examining their evolution as they developed signature characters and sketches for their respective shows Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, The Colbert Report, and Chappelle's Show.

Handling the Truth

Author : Beth Kephart
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2013-08-06
ISBN 10 : 9781101620182
Pages : 224 pages
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Download Handling the Truth book PDF by Beth Kephart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares inspiration and practical advice for writing a memoir. Writing memoir is a deeply personal, and consequential, undertaking. As the acclaimed author of five memoirs spanning significant turning points in her life, Beth Kephart has been both blessed and bruised by the genre. In Handling the Truth, she thinks out loud about the form—on how it gets made, on what it means to make it, on the searing language of truth, on the thin line between remembering and imagining, and, finally, on the rights of memoirists. Drawing on proven writing lessons and classic examples, on the work of her students and on her own memories of weather, landscape, color, and love, Kephart probes the wrenching and essential questions that lie at the heart of memoir. A beautifully written work in its own right, Handling the Truth is Kephart’s memoir-writing guide for those who read or seek to write the truth.

Awesome Dog 5000 vs. The Kitty-Cat Cyber Squad (Book 3)

Author : Justin Dean
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 2021-05-04
ISBN 10 : 9780593172834
Pages : 226 pages
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Download Awesome Dog 5000 vs. The Kitty-Cat Cyber Squad (Book 3) book PDF by Justin Dean and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heads up, DOG MAN lovers! Watch out, readers of BAD GUYS! Robotic dog AWESOME DOG 5000 is back in his third action-packed adventure! Evil Cat vs. Awesome Dog! Get ready to meet Awesome Dog's number one fan--Tina Tinkerwith. Tina's an obsessed toy designer who'll stop at NOTHING to get close to her idol, even if it means becoming a SUPERVILLAIN herself! Find out what happens when Awesome Dog and his pals face off against Tina and her army of robotic kitty toys in the AWESOMEST Awesome Dog yet! The claws are coming out to settle the age-old debate once and for all, which is better? Cats or dogs? Attention, readers! AWESOME DOG 5000 is a wild action-comedy told through a mix of text and black-and-white illustrations, with a mystery to solve at the end. Can you handle the awesomeness?

Women's Quotations for Successful Living

Author : Howard A. Levin
Publisher : SelectBooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2014-10-21
ISBN 10 : 9781590792728
Pages : 224 pages
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Download Women's Quotations for Successful Living book PDF by Howard A. Levin and published by SelectBooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women’s Quotations for Successful Living is a gift of pure inspiration. Bringing together the wisdom, humor, and love of over six hundred women, this compilation will guide, uplift, and then spur you to your greatest potential. Exalt in the messages of success, answer the call to greatness, the entreaty for passionate lives. The dedication, hard work, and perseverance of these extraordinary women will drive you to accept nothing less than your best possible existence. Women’s Quotations profits from the three unique and accomplished minds responsible for compiling and editing the eleven hundred quotations found within its pages. Caroline Lalive Carmichael, a former Olympic alpine skier, knows what it is to set goals and succeed. Business manager and professional fitness trainer Sarah Coleman’s get-up-and-go attitude motivates everyone around her. Howard Alan Levin has traveled the world as a spiritual healer and entrepreneur, and he has seen gender inequality. He knows that a balanced world needs female leaders—and the mentors and role models to inspire them. Together they have embarked on a mission to help women build their own extraordinary lives. The words of these successful women—including world leaders, actors, artists, athletes, executives, explorers, adventurers, and authors—is provided with all sources cited. This allows the reader the freedom to easily examine each quote’s origin and gather the deeper meaning available within this wider context. Allow these remarkable women to accompany you on your journey to a better you.

Pretty/Funny

Author : Linda Mizejewski
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-03-07
ISBN 10 : 9780292756939
Pages : 279 pages
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Download Pretty/Funny book PDF by Linda Mizejewski and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A totally engaging read [and] a fascinating look at the diversity and range of female comics . . . by an author who herself obviously has a sense of humor.” —Joanna E. Rapf, coeditor of The Blackwell Companion to Film Comedy Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either “pretty” or “funny.” Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and television sitcoms. But fewer women who write and perform their own comedy have become stars—and often they’ve been successful because they were willing to be funny-looking, from Fanny Brice and Phyllis Diller to Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett. Pretty/Funny focuses on Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres, the groundbreaking women comics who flout the pretty-versus-funny dynamic by targeting glamour, postfeminist girliness, the Hollywood A-list, and feminine whiteness with their wit and biting satire. Linda Mizejewski demonstrates that while these comics don’t all identify as feminists or take politically correct positions, their work on gender, sexuality, and race has a political impact. The first major study of women and humor in twenty years, Pretty/Funny makes a convincing case that women’s comedy has become a prime site for feminism to speak, talk back, and be contested in the twenty-first century.

Saturday Night Live & American TV

Author : Nick Marx
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-02
ISBN 10 : 9780253010902
Pages : 294 pages
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Download Saturday Night Live & American TV book PDF by Nick Marx and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thought-provoking and “undeniably interesting” essays on this cultural institution of comedy and what it says about our society (Booklist). Since 1975, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” has greeted late night–TV viewers looking for the best in sketch comedy and popular music. SNL is the variety show that launched the careers of countless comedians, including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Chris Farley, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Adam Sandler. Week after week, SNL has produced everything from unforgettable parodies to provocative political satire—adapting to changing times decade after decade while staying true to its original vision of performing timely topical humor. With essays that address issues ranging from race and gender to authorship and comedic performance, Saturday Night Live and American TV follows the history of this iconic show, and its place in the shifting social and media landscape of American television.

Tina Fey

Author : Melissa Raé Shofner
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2016-12-15
ISBN 10 : 9781534560345
Pages : 104 pages
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Download Tina Fey book PDF by Melissa Raé Shofner and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tina Fey, one of the most prominent women in comedy, is well known for her work on shows such as Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock. As a writer and actress, she has changed the way people see female comedians and altered the “boys club” mentality that characterized the working environment of Saturday Night Live. Readers are presented with fascinating details about Fey’s life, from the childhood experiences that inspired Mean Girls to her rise to stardom. This engaging text is enhanced with full-color photographs, detailed sidebars, and a comprehensive timeline.

El Deafo

Author : Cece Bell
Publisher : Abrams
Release Date : 2014-09-02
ISBN 10 : 9781613126219
Pages : 224 pages
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Download El Deafo book PDF by Cece Bell and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2015 Newbery Honor Book & New York Times bestseller! Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful—and very awkward—hearing aid. The Phonic Ear gives Cece the ability to hear—sometimes things she shouldn’t—but also isolates her from her classmates. She really just wants to fit in and find a true friend, someone who appreciates her as she is. After some trouble, she is finally able to harness the power of the Phonic Ear and become “El Deafo, Listener for All.” And more importantly, declare a place for herself in the world and find the friend she’s longed for.

Rhythm & Waldorf Homeschool Planning

Author : Melisa Nielsen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2017-03-12
ISBN 10 : 9781365816710
Pages : 214 pages
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Download Rhythm & Waldorf Homeschool Planning book PDF by Melisa Nielsen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-12 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiling this book made me smile. It is full of several years of parenting. As I edited this together, I relived some of the years when my children were younger. The wisdom I share here is real. It is palpable. Breathe it in. Take what resonates and set aside the rest to ponder. I hope this volume gives you tools and peace as you walk this journey. I have written to you, the mom in the trenches from experience in my own trenches. These are moments to savor and moments to learn and grow from. This mom thing isn't easy but it is worth it.

Pretend: The Complete Series

Author : Ella Miles
Publisher : Ella Miles
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Pages : 720 pages
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Download Pretend: The Complete Series book PDF by Ella Miles and published by Ella Miles. This book was released on with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete PRETEND TRILOGY in one collection! PRETEND I'M YOURS I'm a twenty-two-year-old virgin. Tonight that changes. I thought my first time had to be magical. The perfect date. The perfect place. The perfect guy. I thought I wanted to be in love. But now, I'm desperate. I'll take any guy as long as he's decent looking and treats me well, at least for the night. Turns out Mr. Perfect isn't so hard to find. He's hot, dreamy, and filthy rich. And he wants me. Sex with him is going to be better than I ever imagined. He's going to ruin me for all other guys. I know that it is just for one night, but it doesn't matter. I'm happy to get my perfect night. One night isn't enough, for either of us. Because Mr. Perfect just fake proposed to me. And he wants this proposal to last a lot longer than one night. Will you pretend to be my wife? PRETEND WE'RE OVER I’m not looking for a date. I’m definitely not looking for a husband—just one night of passion. I’m in Vegas, after all. And what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. So how did I end up with a giant rock on that finger, you ask? Your guess is as good as mine. Now I’m stuck fake married to the biggest self-centered jerk I’ve ever met. We agree to keep the charade going for six months to protect our pride and dignity. We have six months to convince everyone we aren’t meant to be. Should be easy. I’m sweet, kind, fun Millie. He’s cynical, self-absorbed, loner Sebastian. We don’t belong together. Convincing everyone we’re married is the easy part. Convincing everyone we’re over—that’s proving more difficult. Convincing myself that we’re over is proving hardest yet. I just have to remember that it was all pretend from the start. We were never together. Pretending we’re over is just going back to my life before. But what if I don’t want to keep pretending? Pretend We’re Over is a standalone fake marriage spinoff featuring Sebastian from Pretend I’m Yours. PRETEND YOU'RE HER I'm not a stalker; I just don't have a plan. At least, I don't have a good plan. But I need to speak to Boden—my child’s father. I’m in over my head and I need him to step up. But the second he spots me, he runs. I chase after him, but instead of catching Boden I run face first into a stranger’s chest. Turns out the stranger has an interesting proposition for me that might just fix all my problems. All I have to do is pretend to marry him… This is a 3 book collection of steamy, fake marriage romances.