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  The Shame Complex

  Brittany Forrester

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  Shame is a notoriously unpleasant emotion that almost all of us have experienced at least once in our lifetimes. Almost everyone knows what the feeling of shame is like. However, we are reluctant to disclose our shameful experiences. It is often mentioned that shame is a taboo subject. Ironically, we are ashamed of our shame. It seems much easier to say ‚I am angry/sad/nervous? than to say ‚I am sorry.” Rather than finding it liberating, there is an assumption that talking about shame is demeaning or a sign of weakness. Therefore, until recently, there has been a shortage of research, understanding, and knowledge about shame to the extent that shame and similar emotions, such as guilt, are used interchangeably in the literature. Since shame appears present in a wide variety of psychological disorders and is associated with mental health problems such as depression, social phobia, and eating disorders, it is necessary to extend our knowledge in this area and become well-equipped to deal with it their shame. The current shame theorists suggest shame is one of the so-called self-conscious emotions because it mainly involves evaluating the self. A scandal is believed to be an incapacitating emotion accompanied by the feeling of being small, inferior, and shrinking. The self, as a whole, is devalued and considered to be inadequate, incompetent, and worthless. Shame might also involve being exposed, condemned, and ridiculed.Unlike basic emotions, shame does not seem to have distinctive universal facial expressions. It is not experienced similarly in different cultures. Emotions such as shame, pride, guilt, embarrassment, envy, empathy, and jealousy are associated with a sense of self and self-awareness; hence, they belong to a family of self-conscious emotions. To experience shame, individuals need the ability to form self-representations, internalize external values, and compare and evaluate themselves. Therefore, guilt is not experienced in species with lower cognitiv

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  The Pyramid Texts

  Anonymous Anonymous

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  Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media. Narrated by Matthew Schmitz. 
  The Pyramid Texts are the oldest ancient Egyptian funerary texts, dating to the late Old Kingdom. They are the earliest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts. Written in Old Egyptian, the pyramid texts were carved onto the subterranean walls and sarcophagi of pyramids at Saqqara from the end of the Fifth Dynasty, and throughout the Sixth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom, and into the Eighth Dynasty of the First Intermediate Period. The oldest of the texts have been dated to c. 2400–2300 BC. Unlike the later Coffin Texts and Book of the Dead, the Pyramid Texts were reserved only for the pharaoh and were not illustrated. The use and occurrence of Pyramid Texts changed between the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms of Ancient Egypt. During the Old Kingdom (2686 BCE – 2181 BCE), Pyramid Texts could be found in the pyramids of kings as well as three queens, named Wedjebten, Neith, and Iput. During the Middle Kingdom (2055 BCE – 1650 BCE), Pyramid Texts were not written in the pyramids of the pharaohs, but the traditions of the pyramid spells continued to be practiced. In the New Kingdom (1550 BCE – 1070 BCE), Pyramid Texts were found on tombs of officials.

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  My Blue Book of Grammar for Class 5

  Meigha Rawat

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  A Grammar Series That Uses the Functional Approach
  
  KEY FEATURES 
  - Functional approach to grammar teaching, using exemplars to illustrate the usage before defining the structure and rules
  - Vocabulary taught through language-in-use to build the learners’ vocabulary through use rather than memorisation of rules
  - Contemporary topics to inculcate 21-century skills amongst learners
  - Use of literature to help learners understand how grammar is used in text
  - A comprehension section comprising texts from different genres so that learners may relate grammar to different types of works produced in English
  - Phonics in Grades 1 and 2 to teach the very basis of language
  - Uniquely stylised illustrations
  - Activities such as puzzles, crosswords, word grids and games to aid the facilitator in using the concept of ‘flipped classroom’
  - Periodic tests to help the learners self-assess the acquisition of concepts
  - Digital component to cater to a technology-driven classroom
  
  DESCRIPTION: 
  My Blue Book of Grammar is a course that has been conceptualized and designed keeping in mind the increasingly dynamic role of the English language in today’s world. Especially in our country, where English serves as the lingua franca, a grammar course has to offer not only an exposition of the pedagogy but also the exhibition of the utility of that pedagogy. The aim of a grammar series should be to encourage the development of competency amongst learners, even though their proficiency levels may vary. While the level of exposure to English of all learners may be different, a grammar series should aid in the development of a certain level of confidence amongst the learners, with the end result being that they are able to converse without hesitation in English. 
  
  WHAT WILL YOU LEARN
  - Understand grammar concepts
  - Learn how to use different vocabulary concepts taught through language-in-use 
  - Learn 21-century skills 
  - Develop deeper understanding of and appreciation for literature
  - Have clearer pronunciation through a better understanding of phonics
  
  WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR: 
  School students of Grades 5
  
  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  GRAMMAR
  1. Gerunds, Infinitives and Participles 
  2. Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions 
  3. Sentences, Clauses and Phrases 24
  4. Correlative Conjunctions
  5. Present Perfect Form 
  6. Present Perfect Continuous Form 
  7. Past Perfect Form 
  8. Past Perfect Continuous Form 
  9. Auxiliaries and Modals 
  10. Adjectives versus Adverbs 
  11. Semicolon 
  Test Paper 1 
  VOCABULARY
  12. Adjective–Noun Collocations 
  13. Question Tags 
  14. Prefixes – mis–, dis–, un–, in–, im–, non– 
  15. Alliteration 
  16. Using Which and That in Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Clauses 
  17. Similes and Metaphors 
  18. Dictionary Entries 
  19. Idioms 
  20. Using since, for and from 
  21. Phrasal Verbs
  Test Paper 2 
  WRITING
  22. Autobiography 
  23. Essay 
  24. Book Review – Be a Critic 
  25. Article 
  26. Newspaper Report 
  27. Message 
  28. Writing a Postcard 
  29. Letter to the Editor 
  30. Narrative 
  31. Writing a Story with an Alternate Ending 
  Test Paper 3 
  COMPREHENSION
  32. The Old Man and the Sea
  33. Hercule Poirot: The Detective with a Big Moustache 
  34. The Raven 
  35. Madhubani Painting: The Art that Subverts 
  Orange Global Olympiad – English Sample Paper

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  Enslaved Native Americans and...

  D. Andrew Johnson

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  A compelling study into the history and lasting influence of enslaved Native people in early South Carolina. 
   
   
   
  In 1708, the governor of South Carolina responded to a request from London to describe the population of the colony. This response included an often-overlooked segment of the population: Native Americans, who made up one-fourth of all enslaved people in the colony. Yet it was not long before these descriptions of enslaved Native people all but disappeared from the archive. 
   
   
   
  In Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina, D. Andrew Johnson argues that Native people were crucial to the development of South Carolina's economy and culture. By meticulously scouring documentary sources and creating a database of over 15,000 mentions of enslaved people, Johnson uses a uniquely interdisciplinary approach to reconsider the history of South Carolina and center the enslaved Native people who were forced to live and work on its plantations. Johnson also employs spatial analysis and examines archaeological evidence to study Native slavery in a plantation context.

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  Erotic Adventures of a Victorian...

  Dorian Shellan

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  Christmas at Bramble Hall with his stepsister, Edith, might have been pleasant enough for Damian, but first there is to be a weekend pheasant hunt at Oatland Hall. Their hostess, Madelyn Jacobsen, is an icy lady who is true as steel to her older husband, and Edith has made a bet with her stepbrother that he will be unable to seduce the virtuous Mrs. Jacobsen before the weekend is over. If he should succeed, she will let him have her maid, Annie, as his Christmas present. 
  And there is also a pretty chamber maid at Oatland Hall who has caught Damian's eye. 
  Then, following this weekend, they will return to Bramble Hall for Christmas Eve through Boxing Day. Edith will dominate her submissive maid, but if Damian can win the bet he will also have Annie to do with as he pleases. 
  This could truly be a holiday to remember. 
  This is Victorian Christmas Erotica

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  The Benediction of Meditation -...

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

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  "The benediction of meditation - 17 November 1968 
  • We shall explore together into this life, existence, in which is included 
  relationship, love and death, not merely as a phenomenon but as something tremendously significant, to be cherished, deeply lived. Meditation is the approach to this problem of living. 
  • It is only a free mind that is capable of attention in which there is no achieving or losing or fear. It is only a quiet, attentive mind that can understand this immense problem of living. It is only the quiet, meditative mind that can come upon what is called love. 
  • What is living? 
  • The observer cannot possibly do anything about envy because he is the cause 
  and the effect. Whatever he does with regard to envy is still envy. 
  • What does it mean to die, knowing the organism comes to an end? What does it 
  mean to die psychologically, inwardly?"

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