![]() ![]() The bill does not name which acts are acceptable to turn down. ![]() But the bill opens the door for doctors to turn down any procedure if it goes against their conscience. This year’s legislation defines a conscience objection as something based on a “sincerely held religious, moral, or ethical belief.”īetween state and federal law, Florida medical providers already have conscience protections when it comes to providing abortions and prescribing contraception. This is the final week of Florida’s legislative session.Ī similar bill was put forward last year but died in committee meetings. A House vote is expected later this week. The bill passed the Senate on Friday on a 28-11 vote. Joel Rudman, R-Navarre, said in an earlier committee meeting that “there’s nothing in this bill that legalizes discrimination.” Tracie Davis, D-Jacksonville.īut sponsors pushed back, arguing that doctors deserve religious protection. ![]() “This bill screams, reeks of discrimination,” said Sen. ![]() Part of the bill explicitly outlines that it does not allow someone to opt out of providing service because of someone’s “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” Attempts by Democrats to broaden that to include such things as disability, gender identity, sexuality and marital status failed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Civil War (1861-1865) was an epic period in the American experience. His simple explanation told the story: "We gained nothing but glory, and lost our bravest men." James must have wondered how he could possibly describe this enormous loss to his loved ones. The Confederacy lost the Battle of Gettysburg and never again, in a major action, was able to fight on Union soil. But in less than an hour, one-half of the men who marched with him became casualties. James and his comrades believed that the fate of the Confederacy hung on their efforts. ![]() He explained that on July 3 his unit had been ordered to march about one mile over open, slightly undulating farmland toward a battle-hardened Union army that was defending its own northern soil. James of the 11th Virginia Infantry, Confederate States of America, sat down to write a letter to his family telling them of his experiences at the Battle of Gettysburg. This lesson is part of the National Park Service’s Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) program. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our genes contain a history of infectious disease showing us our ancestors survived or were able to cope with the disease better than others. ![]()
![]() It has nothing to do with reality - what is really going to happen.īut if you find written on the tablet of your heart the truth that there is a Creator God, and that you are made to have a relationship with him, and that what separates you from whales and dolphins and chimpanzees is not mutations and chemicals, but personhood in the image of God, then you probably will lie awake at night and think about eternity - because, as Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, “God has put eternity in man’s heart.”Īnd if, like millions of others, you have met Jesus Christ in the pages of the Bible and have been persuaded that he is worthy of your trust, then you do not have to be unsure about what is coming when you die. Your opinion would be that this series is irrelevant. You feel nothing, know nothing, have no consciousness. ![]() If you can make the leap of faith in the full-blown creed of evolution that grips the minds of many modern people, then you will believe that what happens to you when you die is no more significant than what happens to a tree when it dies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Everything was so intriguing & gripping from the mysteries, to the key, the underground tunnels, & more. I loved the secondary mystery we slowly learn about concerning her moms past & her death, & of course absolutely loved the main mystery with the water, the mystery attacker, etc. ![]() I love the way she “changes channel”, can flip through her “memory filing cabinets”, so to speak lol, with her photographic memory. I love that she has a wardrobe of disguises too. She definitely isn’t afraid to take risks. She has a need for adventure, & a love for investigating. She is smart, resourceful, sneaky, charming, calculating, imaginative, kind, brave, & so much more.not to mention interesting & highly entertaining. She is named after THE Agatha lol, & she definitely lives up to the name. But just who can she trust when no one is quite who they seem…Agatha is a PHENOMENAL MC. With a scholarship to the prestigious St Regis School, a cottage in the middle of Hyde Park, a room full of beloved sleuthing novels, & a secret key that gives her access to a whole hidden side of London, Agatha is perfectly poised to solve the mystery of what’s going on. And nothing gets bigger than saving the City of London from some strange goings-on. Agatha Oddlow has been a detective for as long as she can remember – she’s just been waiting for her first big case. ![]() Meet 13 year-old Agatha Oddly – a bold, determined heroine. Such a great detective mystery MG, & I love the way this was done. ![]() ![]() It continues to New York, where we follow Marnell’s amphetamine-fueled rise from intern to editor through the beauty departments of NYLON, Teen Vogue, Glamour, and Lucky. ![]() It begins at a posh New England prep school-and with a prescription for the Attention Deficit Disorder medication Ritalin. This is a tale of self-loathing, self-sabotage, and yes, self-tanner. ![]() She was also a “doctor shopper” who manipulated Upper East Side psychiatrists for pills, pills, and more pills a lonely bulimic who spent hundreds of dollars a week on binge foods a promiscuous party girl who danced barefoot on banquets a weepy and hallucination-prone insomniac who would take anything- anything-to sleep. From the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a “vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic” ( The New York Times) memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs.Īt twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America-and that’s all most people knew about her. ![]() ![]() While the CCA and its infamous stamp of approval have been history for over a decade, the stigma that inspired its creation is still alive and well. While some publishers rejected the Comics Code by going "underground," the CCA regulated the content of mainstream comics for nearly six decades until it was discontinued in 2011. Fearing that the federal government would begin regulating comics, the industry adopted a form of internalized censorship through the Comics Code Authority, which drafted a strict set of borderline-puritanical guidelines that comics would have to follow to be sold in most stores. Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency launched an investigation into the comic book industry, with several prominent figures from the industry being called for questioning by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver. ![]() Inspired by Wertham's sensational accusations, the U.S. ![]() While Wertham's research would later be discredited, the release of Seduction of the Innocent ignited a nationwide moral panic that drove several cities to outlaw the creation and ownership of comics and led to public book burnings. Fredrick Wertham, a renowned child psychologist from New York, wrote and published Seduction of the Innocent, which claimed that comics not only desensitized children to violence but were also the leading cause of the spike in juvenile delinquency that had been plaguing the post-war United States. ![]() The growing public resentment for comic books eventually hit a harsh crescendo in the mid-1950s when Dr. ![]() ![]() His first poems and prose pieces appeared in the Smith Academy Record in 1905, the year of his graduation. Louis, where he became a Unitarian minister, but the New England connection was closely maintained-especially, during Eliot's youth, through the family's summer home on the Atlantic coastEliot attended Miss Locke's Primary School and Smith Academy in St. William Greenleaf Eliot, the poet's paternal grandfather, had, after his graduation from Harvard in the 1830s, moved to St. ![]() Both parents were descended from families that had emigrated from England to Massachusetts in the seventeenth century. Louis, Missouri, the seventh and last child of Henry Ware Eliot, a brick manufacturer, and Charlotte (Stearns) Eliot, who was active in social reform and was herself a not-untalented poet. Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September 26, 1888, in St. ![]() ![]() ![]() Beside Mr Kempe from the 17th century, this story involves both a 20th-century resident of the cottage and the history of the surrounding countryside. Arnold, a Victorian boy who experienced the ghost before JamesĪn interest in history, the passage of time and local change is a running theme in the work of Penelope Lively and can be seen in many of her books.Mrs Verity, an old lady whom Thomas Kempe accuses of being a witch.Bert, the local handyman who tries to deal with the poltergeist.Thomas Kempe, the poltergeist who troubles James.Lively won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon the boy makes acquaintance with the eponymous Thomas Kempe, ghost of a 17th-century resident sorcerer who intends to stay. Set in present-day Oxfordshire, it features a boy and his modern family who are new in their English village, and seem beset by a poltergeist. The Ghost of Thomas Kempe is a low fantasy novel for children by Penelope Lively, first published by Heinemann in 1973 with illustrations by Anthony Maitland. ![]() ![]() Once you finish it, go back and read whatever you want. ![]() If you are not planning to read it, stop too, I encourage you to do so. If you haven't read yet "Hopscotch" and you are thinking of doing it, stop here, do not continue reading. ![]() With this way of reading, what Julio Cortázar intended was represent the chaos, the chance of life and the indisputable relationship between what is created and the hand of the artist who makes it. His loose sequence structure allows different readings, and therefore different interpretations. "Hopscotch", published in 1963, is a fundamental reference of Hispanic American literature. ![]() Those of us who have already gone through that, have obligatorily read "Hopscotch" in our young days and then we have read it again (surely there are many of us, I include myself) a few years later, we have realized not only the importance of this book in the history of literature but also in how different it is from the majority. The youngest who read this article are sure you are thinking about "Hopscotch", the fundamental work of Julio CortazarLike that "tostón" book that Literature teachers send at some point in the institute. ![]() |