Author: John McwhorterPublisher:
ISBN: 0738204463
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A barbed rebuttal to the conservative view that popular culture is destroying the English language.
Word On The Street
Author: John McwhorterPublisher:
ISBN: 0738204463
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A barbed rebuttal to the conservative view that popular culture is destroying the English language.
The Word on the Street
Author: Rob LaceyPublisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310922674
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
A "Bible" that talks today's language - gritty, earthy, witty - A "Bible" for those who've never read the Bible, and for those who've read it too much.
The Word on the Streets
Author: Brooks E. HefnerPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813940427
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
From the hard-boiled detective stories of Dashiell Hammett to the novels of Claude McKay, The Word on the Streets examines a group of writers whose experimentation with the vernacular argues for a rethinking of American modernism—one that cuts across traditional boundaries of class, race, and ethnicity. The dawn of the modernist era witnessed a transformation of popular writing that demonstrated an experimental practice rooted in the language of the streets. Emerging alongside more recognized strands of literary modernism, the vernacular modernism these writers exhibited lays bare the aesthetic experiments inherent in American working-class and ethnic language, forging an alternative pathway for American modernist practice. Brooks Hefner shows how writers across a variety of popular genres—from Gertrude Stein and William Faulkner to humorist Anita Loos and ethnic memoirist Anzia Yezierska—employed street slang to mount their own critique of genteel realism and its classist emphasis on dialect hierarchies, the result of which was a form of American experimental writing that resonated powerfully across the American cultural landscape of the 1910s and 1920s.
The Word On The Street
Author: Kurt BorchardPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874176379
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Just beyond Las Vegas’s neon and fantasy live thousands of homeless people, most of them men. To the millions of visitors who come to Las Vegas each year to enjoy its gambling and entertainment, the city’s homeless people are largely invisible, segregated from tourist areas because it’s “good business.” Now, through candid discussions with homeless men, analysis of news reports, and years of fieldwork, Kurt Borchard reveals the lives and desperation of men without shelter in Las Vegas. Borchard’s account offers a graphic, disturbing, and profoundly moving picture of life on Las Vegas’s streets, depicting the strategies that homeless men employ in order to survive, from the search for a safe place to sleep at night to the challenges of finding food, maintaining personal hygiene, and finding an acceptable place to rest during a long day on the street. That such misery and desperation exist in the midst of Las Vegas’s hedonistic tourist economy and booming urban development is a cruel irony, according to the author, and it threatens the city’s future as a prime tourist destination. The book will be of interest to social workers, sociologists, anthropologists, politicians, and all those concerned about changing the misery on the street.
The Word on the Street
Author: Stanley P. SaundersPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725217414
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TWO SEMINARY PROFESSORS LEAVE their classrooms and spend time among the homeless people and teach on city streets? In this unique collection of essays and sermons, Stanley P Saunders and Charles L. Campbell reflect on their encounters with the homeless folks in Atlanta and seek to discern the way of Jesus on the streets of the city. These passionate, often moving writings demonstrate the power of Scripture to shape the way we see the world, and they explore the significance of social location for exegesis, ethics, worship, and preaching. From the perspective of the street, central Christian practices such as baptism, Eucharist, and preaching come to life in new ways. Scripture takes on fresh meaning too, while ancient insights into the principalities and powers, the practice of scapegoating, and the organization of households become contemporary and immediate. Even theological themes--grace and discipleship, sin and forgiveness, crucifixion and resurrection--look different when take to the street. Accented by six powerful artworks from Christina Bray's exhibit Street Prayers/Spiritual Journeys, this book also sheds light on the problem of homelessness in America and calls the church to action. Through their reflection on personal experiences and their interpretation of biblical texts, Saunders and Campbell provide meaningful theological categories for addressing pressing social issues in the urban context, making The Word on the Street a helpful resource on the realities of poverty, race, and injustice.
Sesame Street Word on the Street Sticker Activity Book
Author: Sesame StreetPublisher: Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486330853
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On Sesame Street(R), learning is always an entertaining activity. With this pocket-sized sticker book, children can match reusable stickers to such words as mailbox, door, table, and more. Plus, there are stickers for Bert and Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, Zoe, The Count, and other characters that can be placed on the colorful street scene. Includes a total of 44 reusable stickers.
What's the Word on the Street? (Sesame Street)
Author: Jodie ShepherdPublisher: Sesame Workshop
ISBN: 1618311530
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
What's the word on the street? Find out as Elmo visits many fun places in his neighborhood and learns new words.
The Word On The Street
Author: Ray ComfortPublisher: Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN: 0768458420
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
In the midst of a godless culture, Paul did what was necessary to reach the masses with the message of everlasting life: he reasoned about Jesus in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there (Acts 17:17) and preached on Mars Hill, on the main route to the Parthenon in Athens. We too are living in the midst of a godless society, and those in the streets desperately need to hear Gods Word. If we are serious about reaching this dying world, let us emulate Jesus and the apostles and preach where sinners gather. In thirty minutes, a good open-air preacher can reach more unsaved people than the average church does in a year. If youre ready for something more exhilarating than skydiving, arguably more scary, and infinitely more productive, try preaching the gospel in public. For nearly fifty years Ray Comfort has preached the gospel in the open air and witnessed one-to-one to thousands. During those years he has learned certain biblical principles that make reaching the lost so much easier. In this publication you will find everything he learned and everything you need to know: Who should do it? Where should you go? How do you get started? What do you say? With this helpful guide, you too can follow in the footsteps of the Savior and preach the Word on the street. There is no higher calling.
The Word on the Street
Author: Paul MuldoonPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466879815
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A vibrant new collection of poems—that also double as rock songs—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet In his new book of rock lyrics, Paul Muldoon goes back to the essential meaning of the term "lyric"—a short poem sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. These words are written for music most assuredly, with half an ear to Yeats's ballad-singing porter drinkers and half to Cole Porter—and indeed, many of them double as rock songs, performed by Wayside Shrines, the Princeton-based music collective of which Muldoon is a member. Their themes are the classic themes of song: lost love, lost wars, Charlton Heston, barbed wire, pole dancers, cellulite, Hegel, elephants, Oedipus, more barbed wire, Buddy Holly, Jersey peaches, Julius Caesar, Trenton, cockatoos, and the Youngers (Bob and John and Jim and Cole). The Word on the Street is a lively addition to this Pulitzer Prize–winning poet's masterful body of work. It demonstrates, once again, that, as Richard Eder has written in the pages of The New York Times Book Review, "Paul Muldoon is a shape-shifting Proteus to readers who try to pin him down . . . Those who interrogate Muldoon's poems find themselves changing shapes each time he does."
Sesame Street What's the Word on the Street?
Author: Jodie ShepherdPublisher: Reader's Digest
ISBN: 9780794416959
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Based on the popular Sesame Street segment What's the Word on the Street?, this fun board book offers die cuts, busy scenes, and a unique layered look to create an inviting way to learn new words while reinforcing words that kids already know. Full color.