This book chronicles the development of electronic literacies through the stories of individuals with varying backgrounds and skills. Authors Cynthia L. Selfe and Gail E. Hawisher employ these stories to begin tracing technological literacy as it has emerged over the last few decades within the United States. They selected 20 case studies from the corpus of more than 350 people who participated in interviews or completed a technological literacy questionnaire during six years of their stud...

Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these shifts—addressing more expansive understandings of where, how, and with whom we research, teach, and partner. This book examines these shifts, locating them within socio-economic trends within a...

Change Your Words, Change Your WorldThere are hundreds of books, workshops, and classes that teach us how to communicate effectively with others, but very few of us pay attention to how we speak to ourselves.Best-selling author and communication expert Cynthia Kane believes this is a problem, and she is sounding the alarm! Kane writes that there is an unreported epidemic of negative self-talk in our culture today.Many of us speak to ourselves in demeaning and hurtfu...

What is self-love? We can think of it as a desire to give our own well-being a level of importance and respect. If you love yourself, you have regard for yourself. It's about treating yourself as well as you would treat anyone you love.But most of us have been conditioned to believe that we should put ourselves last. We do this under the guise of caring about others or modesty. However, this is very self-defeating. You can't do as much for others when you don't make yourself a prio...

Some stories are not simply told. They are carried through years, through grief, and through the small, determined acts that keep a family standing when life falls apart. In 'Cultivating Pearls: A Mother's Journey Through Trauma,' Cynthia Harrison opens the door to her private world of resilience, recounting a life shaped by abandonment, hardship, and an unrelenting commitment to her children. From the quiet wounds of a turbulent childhood to the day her son's life changed forever after a ...

The major secret beneath the art of squirting, gushing orgasms for every woman. How can you release juices from your genitals if your body does not contain those liquids? Here's the recipe for filling those dry and empty spaces and how to teach yourself and your lover to enjoy the art of squirting orgasms. First, the recipe, second you get step-by-step instructions and third; a bit of erotica to keep the flow going.For all women seeking an alternative orgasm for themselves, or othe...

Some stories are not simply told. They are carried through years, through grief, and through the small, determined acts that keep a family standing when life falls apart. In ‘Cultivating Pearls: A Mother’s Journey Through Trauma,’ Cynthia Harrison opens the door to her private world of resilience, recounting a life shaped by abandonment, hardship, and an unrelenting commitment to her children. From the quiet wounds of a turbulent childhood to the day her son’s life changed forever after a ...

Provides the instructors of introductory technical communication courses with a set of resources for their classrooms.

Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment, but powerful socializing agents that shape and reflect the world and our role in it. Television and the Self: Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation brings together a diverse grou...

"Cynthia's Revels: The Fountain of Self-Love" by Ben Jonson is a satirical play that delves into the world of courtly flattery, vanity, and self-indulgence. The court of Queen Cynthia (a representation of Queen Elizabeth I) is populated by characters representing various vices and follies. The central character, Crites, is a young courtier who seeks self-improvement through the Fountain of Self-Love. Through witty dialogues and sharp humor, Jonson critiques the artificiality of courtly lif...

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Learning to think positive and end negative emotions through meditation doesn't have to be difficult.With this 30 minute guided meditation accompanied by an ambient soundtrack, thinking positive and healing negative emotions from the past is as easy as pressing play.Throughout this audiobook, you will be guided from start to finish. We will begin with your current state of negativity and bring you to a relaxed state of calm awareness, where you will be able to push all of t...