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Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is the first book-length project to focus specifically on the ways that patriarchal decline and post-feminist ideology are portrayed in popular American horror films of the twenty-first century. Through analyses of such films as Orphan, Insidious, and Carrie, Kimberly Jackson reveals how the destruction of male figures and depictions of female monstrosity in twenty-first-century horror cinema suggest that contemporary American culture finds itself at a cultural standstill between a post-patriarchal society and post-feminist ideology.

Drifting so far away from her dreams, she stands in a hole behind a tall wall. As the eyes of an insect walked toward her, keeping her from escaping from her position, she screams to be released but the webs are keeping her from speaking. Who could defeat this image that is keeping Annette captured in a place of full of torments, abduction, and fears. After all the wrong turns Annette made in her life she still found herself slipping in the same ditches again. She would think that she was stronger in the flesh after falling in the arms of a man, Annette found herself not so strong in her faith, between her and the Lord. The decision that Annette made was not a positive one; she allowed herself to lose all contacts from the Lord. She only needed someone to save her from having a nervious brake down; Having a brake down, she had a let down. The man that she fell in the arms with of only left her dealing with his secret demons. After being in the trenches for months and months, she was surrounded by huge spiders. They held her without notice, she couldn't be released until she had the strength to defeat them. She was blinded to the realization that of her problems lie in her low self-esteem and not knowing who she really was in the Lord. Annette searched within herself to find out that the emptiness that she was feeling in her life was; it was a void of darkness because she couldn’t replace sex with love. The love that she needed was the Lord, and the emptiness that she felt in her heart was a inner cry. Unfortunately she weren't able to conceive again, Annette is the mother of many nations.

Through a wide spectrum of horror sub-genres, this book examines how the current state of horror reflects the anxieties in Western culture. Horror films bring them to a mass audience and offer new figures for the nameless faceless 'antagonist' that plagues us and provides material with which to build a different understanding of ourselves.

Kimberly Shankman has written the first full-length study of the political thought of early American statesman Henry Clay. In Compromise and the Constitution, Shankman seeks to understand Clay's approach to republican statesmanship by carefully considering the context in which he developed and articulated his programs and policy prescriptions. Because Clay was policy-oriented and very seldom addressed politics from a theoretical perspective, there has been a tendency to dismiss him as motivated primarily, if not exclusively, by expedience and ambition. Shankman demonstrates, however, that Clay's reticence about first principles was in fact an integral part of his conception of an appropriate republican politics: one based on prudence, interest, and compromise rather than on principle, passion, and adamancy. This book is crucial reading for scholars of American history, early American political thought, and the Constitution.

Starting from February 8, 2017, 4:14 pm (to be exact). As it was the beginning "of a new journey. "Now" on the right path headed to her destiny. When a day never passes by, she's not reminded of Friday, July 2nd, 1976, around 2 pm. A very hot summer day on the pier under the steel bridge. As a result of what happened that day, beneath the steel bridge her life would never be the same. Just like the element Steele God has created me strong and able to endure and be placed under challenging circumstances not to be destroyed but built last and to become victorious. It's not about the Lipstick is a story about how a young girl's life went from tragedy to triumph, how the enemy tried to kill her, but now she dwells in Zion. In a time frame of over forty years, God has begun to shift me from tears to joy. In this heartfelt compelling story will you begin to understand regardless of the worst thing that can happen there is always hope to dream and to soar above the trauma into the land of triumphant.

Jackson reveals what's going on in the mind of God in the 21st-century era of happenings concerning America and the church. This edition addresses God's judgments upon a nation that continues to ignore him and adopts heathen practices rooted in the ancient traditions of Babylon, Egypt, Rome, and Greece.

Since the mid-twentieth century, the U.S. military's reserve components have shifted from primarily a strategic force to today's operational force composed of both part-time and full-time members. The aftermath of the attacks on September 11, 2001, led to an increase in the demand for U.S. military forces to project U.S. power around the globe and to the emergence of the reserve components as an operational force. However, there is inherent tension and contradiction in the operational force construct, for it insists on having reserve components-which are, by definition, a part-time force to be held in "reserve"-that are also ready for conflict at any time. The authors analyze how statutes, personnel policies, and resource policies constrain how Air Reserve Component (ARC) personnel are utilized to perform frequent or long-term active component operational requirements; suggest potential changes that would make accessing the ARC more efficient; and suggest specific strategic solutions for an operational ARC. The researchers used a mixed methodology consisting of focused legal and policy reviews, informational discussions with senior U.S. Air Force leaders, and an analysis of U.S. Air Force personnel data.

While all U.S. military services have strived to achieve greater total force integration and a stronger total force culture across their active and reserve components, significant impediments limit the achievement of these objectives. Thus, the issue continues to capture the attention of policymakers who seek ways to overcome these impediments and facilitate greater integration. This priority has been addressed most recently by national commissions addressing the future of both the Army and the Air Force. While each of these sets of proposals provides ideas for enhancing integration and providing a greater total force culture, the proposals are neither complete nor fully reflective of all potentially relevant policies and practices. Further, the policy prescriptions are service specific and do not reflect broader insights that cut across services. Last, none of these efforts clearly define the desired purpose and end state for integration against which integration initiatives can be evaluated. For these reasons, a more comprehensive analysis is needed of policies and practices that can contribute to the ultimate objective of improving total force integration and achieving a total force culture. The objective of this study is to provide insights on policies that can foster cross-component integration and incentives for cross-component service that contribute to the most effective total force possible and benefit individual service members, as well as both the active and reserve components. The focus of this report is on factors that can increase cross-component knowledge and awareness, which contribute to achieving the larger goal of cross-component integration.

The report examines the cultural characteristics, primary institutional goals, and competitive strategies exhibited by the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and U.S. Special Operations Command.

The subsequent achievement of selfhood is then based on the interplay of individual and community identities. Connor suggests that the distinctiveness of African-American women's experiences and writings can transcend their immediate communities and be brought to bear on women's experiences in general, making their individual stories more accessible and meaningful to the whole of humankind.