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Shining Your Armour: The Lost Art of Romance
This book touts that 'In shining your armour, you'll find amny practical suggestions to strengthen the love and devotion with your wife, and not someone else. Just let that comment settle for a moment...There are many parts of this book that are laughable, however I will give you a couple of the high points.So as to get into the spirit of the book, you are asked to 'imagine'. Therefore, imagine, if you will you are a man struggling to save a failing relationship. Now, picture his partner, broken by all the things that weren't to be in her now unhappy and loveless relationship.Suggested Solutions:- Fill In the blank: write a love note with check boxes that ask "do you love me?". I always imagine the wife defiantly checking 'no' before moving to her mother's.- Report card: "your children understand how grades on a report card can impact one's self esteem...". Apart from being blatantly demeaning, I smile as I think of how a woman would feel being scored in her menial duties. Imagine the warm glow on her cheeks as her husband, whom she loathes, stands in judgment.- Say 'i love you' in a song: This suggests picking a song that you and your wife find meaning in, and then ad libbing and singing in between verses, and recording it on a cassette. Obviously ridiculous, but it is accompanied by a picture of crazed looking women with mismatched sized heads, laughing hysterically.- Queen for a day: The short version... 1. Hire a high school marching band 2. Have it march to your wife's place of work. 3. Have a friend read a declaration of your love. 4. Arrive in armor on a horse. 5. Have heralds trumpet your arrival. "When you dismount, approach your queen and kneel before her as you pledge your allegiance to her. Then let the music play on as you take your queen to the castle." Imagine the mortified look on the wife's face as her friends, speechless with shock whisper "oh my god... is that John... Oh my god". Priceless.Well, that is the best part of the first 1/3 of the book. I suggest you buy it. It is HILARIOUS. 1 star though, because it is terrible. As a schadenfreude I adore it and revel in the thought of men thinking that this is a better solution than simply being nice to their wives.
Shining Your Armour: The Lost Art of Romance
This book stinks. This author actually believes that the way to a woman's heart is to buy her trinkets, baubles, buttons and play pretties. Does he actually believe that women are so shallow? Having read his book, it's obvious who's shallow. The purpose of the book is not to help men woo their women, but to give men more creative ways to "earn" a night out with the fellas. As a woman, reading this book, I have never been so insulted. Did he ask any women to help him write his book? He would have benefited, and so would his audience, if he had simply asked women what a man can do to "be more romantic." I can assure him that rather than shower her with presents and flowers, he could treat her with as much respect as he would his buddies. Rather than meeting her on a horse at her work, embarrassing her in front of her friends, he could just treat her as an equal. Rather than just assuming that women are so frivolous that baubles and bows are all it takes to satisfy, he could simply value their worth to the point of really ASKING women what they want from men. Gabriel Vaughn is one of many men who actually think they know women more than women do. I can imagine him wearing a cape and a signet ring with his face on it!
Wisdom: An Internet-Linked Unit Study
I ordered this book as soon as it was avaialble becasue I love everything Mrs. Sampson writes. I was thrilled when the book arrived. It was just what we needed. I still can't say who learned more - me or my children. We all had a blessed time in every lesson and now have a new focus on eduction, on knowledge and on wisdom.Don't hesitate- get this book. You'll be glad you did. I already see fruit in my children's lives as a direct result from this excellent study.
Wisdom: An Internet-Linked Unit Study
We started the 'Wisdom unit study" about a month ago...my daughters are 15 and 17.Since we started using Heart of Wisdom several years ago, guess who's learned the most? That would be me!!!Yes, my girls have learned much, too, but I am mostly convinced that God brought HOW into our lives to teach me, and the Wisdom unit is no exception. It's not that I didn't learn any of what's in there before, but it is so well-organized and in-depth that I am re-learning and being added to with its content.Plus, it is so timely with all the major (and minor) decisions in our lives this year. I am working ahead in the unit on my own and so appreciating its input in my life. It is an amazing unit study and I am so thankful for its part in "our" curriculum.It has been a life-changing experience for our entire family. We spend more time together in God's Word and are growing in our understanding together! Learning Israel's history has been a tremendous benefit to understanding all of history, past, present, and future. Also, learning about our Hebrew roots has brought new life to our relationship with God through Jesus Christ. The Science units are wonderful as well, tying it all together in the creation order.I know that God orchestrated HOW becoming part of our homeschooling.
Wisdom: An Internet-Linked Unit Study
Our family LOVES the Wisdom study! It helps you understand and apply to life what the Bible says about wisdom, understanding, and knowledge. Great resource for family Bible study in the homeschool.
Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion)
Robert Entman, Professor of communication and political science at North Carolina State University, has produced a fascinating study of the US media, which is applicable to Britain's media too. Their ruling assumption is that the US state is innocent and benign.In Chapter Two, he compares the media handling of two similar events: Korean Air Lines 007, shot down by a Soviet jet in 1983, and Iran Air Flight 655, shot down by a US ship in 1988. The first was judged as a murderous attack, `wanton, brutal and deliberate', proof of Soviet moral bankruptcy, portrayed with pictures of the dead and much empathy, outrage and generalisation. The second was seen as a tragic accident, `understandable, mistaken and justified', a technical glitch, described in the passive voice, in abstract language, with no pictures, no generalisation and no blame.In Chapter Three, Entman looks at the media treatment of the US attacks on Grenada, Libya and Panama. The media presented coherently only the administration's view. Typically, CBS's anchor Dan Rather said they were "not sure exactly what was happening but knowing the teams. It was the US against Qaddafi". Entman concludes, "The analysis demonstrates how journalists served as more or less loyal conduits of U.S. government propaganda in wartime." It seems that the first rule of the US state's news management is `lie early and lie often'.In Chapter Four, Entman examines the media's `great debate' about the war on Iraq, which, it appears, was between those who wanted war at once and those who wanted war later. 71% of the Americans who appeared on camera were pro-war, just 3% against.Entman shows how the state portrays the enemy as a threat, then uses a brief `wave of patriotism' to rubbish dissent. The state pretends that it is responding to public opinion, and claims that the media reflect public opinion: both notions support the ruling pretence that the public governs. In Chapter Six, Entman disproves all these myths by showing how the US state, with media assistance, beat back the hugely popular movement for a nuclear freeze.