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I have been a posing coach for over 3 years now, and nothing makes me happier than helping others in this sport & seeing the progress in not only of course my clients posing as that is the goal, but also the confidence in the ladies I help. Mind-set plays such a huge roll in this sport so I also feel strongly in helping my clients develop this to, by helping them realise they can feel confident in their body, and they can bring out that sass that they want & need on the stage.
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In total across other competing history I have taken, 16 show wins to date.Elizabeth Spencer's Complicated Cartographies
Reimagining Home, the South, and Southern Literary Production
Authors: Seltzer, C..
- About this book
This book subjects the works of Elizabeth Spencer, critically acclaimed but canonically marginalized, to a study that reveals their interaction with the southern canon as they question its boundaries and remap the long-established landscapes of southern identity.
- About the authors
CATHERINE SELTZER Assistant Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, USA, specializing in American Literature and Women's Studies.
- Reviews
"Elizabeth Spencer's Complicated Cartographiesis a fine work of criticism and scholarship, masterly in its clarity, depth of insight informed by command of southern literary history and current feminist and postcolonial theory. The book is a model for the illuminating connections it makes between fiction and biography and is equally impressive in its careful tracing of Spencer's development as a southern writer in terms of her evolving conceptions of "home" and "identity" as reflected in her changing relation to the principles of the Fugitive-Agrarian writers in which her first "Mississippi" novels are grounded." - Elsa Nettles, author of Language and Gender in American Fiction: Howells, James, Wharton, and Cather.
"Catherine Seltzer s Elizabeth Spencer s Complicated Cartographies is a beautifully written, perceptive account of one of America s greatest living writers. Although born in Mississippi, Spencer refused to limit the localities of her many novels, stories and plays to that region, perhaps being most frequently recognized as the author of the located-in-Italy novella, The Light in the Piazza. As Seltzer notes in her conclusion and elsewhere, Spencer s fiction "suggests new cartographies of the southern home, those literal - in its expansion of the borders of southern experience; spiritual - in its exploration of her characters complex responses to a myriad of homes; and artistic - in its growing challenge to the expectations established by her literary mentors." As Seltzer goes on to say, more than any other Southern writer Spencer has a "gift for merging familiar and foreign terrain," thereby challenging conventional southern ideological topographies, implying that "that there is much more of southern identity to be mapped." Seltzer s insightful criticism makes her audience want to reread all of Spencer s masterful oeuvre." - Kimball King, Professor Emeritus, The University of North Carolina and one-time Chair of the Conference of Editors of Learned Journals
"Elizabeth Spencer, known most widely for her 1960 novella Light in the Piazza,published first in the New Yorker, subsequently serving as the basis for a film,and then decades later an award-winning broadway musical, has proved an elusive literary figure, difficult to categorize and contain. In this study, Catherine Seltzer skillfully charts Spencer's fifty-year career by setting it along side the changing currents of American culture." - Hubert H. McAlexander, Meigs Professor, University of Georgia
"Seltzer's discussion is enriched by her interviews with Spencer and her research in Spencer manuscript archives. Recommended." - CHOICE
Table of contents (5 chapters)
Introduction Backward Glances and Forward Thinking: Reconsidering Elizabeth Spencer
Pages 1-14
“A Sure Terrain”: Spencer’s Mississippi Novels
Pages 15-81
Exploding the Can(n)on: The Light in the Piazza
Pages 83-110
Inhabiting the Unhomely Moment in Jack of Diamonds and Other Stories
Pages 111-149
“Radical” Re-Envisionings of Home: The Night Travellers
Pages 151-173.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
- Book Title
- Elizabeth Spencer's Complicated Cartographies
- Book Subtitle
- Reimagining Home, the South, and Southern Literary Production
- Authors
- C. Seltzer
- Series Title
- American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-62339-2
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230623392
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-61764-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-38057-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 207
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Tampa Murder / Manslaughter Defense Attorney - What is the definition of murder in Florida?Not the James Bond villain, but a much more dangerous enemy, this time to Australia’s small animal life.
In May 2011, when Lake Eyre was in the midst of its last major flooding episode, my wife and I took a trip up the Oodnadatta Track. We went as far as William Creek, then out to Halligan Bay on the Lake, back to Maree and up the Birdsville Track and into south-western Queensland, following the course of the Cooper Creek and the flooding waters that were feeding into Central Australia. In May 2019, we again travelled up the Oodnadatta Track, again taking in Halligan Bay but this time including Muloorina Station at South Lake Eyre, and we noted some distinct shifts had occurred in those eight years.
In 2011, we set up in the camping ground at William Creek and to our delight, we discovered that there were small animals running around at night, and if we sprinkled crumbs of bread or biscuits on the ground they would come in numbers and hop around enthusiastically under our awning. They were brush-tailed rabbit rats (as I’ve lately discovered) and must have been present in such numbers that we, who were camped well away from the boundaries of the campground and with lights on and people moving about, still had plenty of them to observe.
Despite our interactions with these small critters, the biggest obstacle appeared to be large stalking birds that prowled the campground late at night looking to feed on them.
On our 2019 trip, I looked forward to renewing my acquaintance with these little fellas, but we could find none. Not one, no matter how many crumbs I sprinkled around. And the stalking birds were gone, too.
This mirrored our experience at Muloorina, where we camped on the long man-made billabong, which is fed by the outflow from an artesian well. This site is lush, full of plants, and as an island of food and water in a parched desert, should have been abundant with life. But aside from two brolgas which we saw fly over and handfuls of ducks paddling warily out on the water’s surface, the only signs of life were several feral cats which we saw stalking surreptitiously from tree to tree in the surrounding scrub, and occasional patches of feathers indicating where some small bird had met its end.
I suspect that the differences in animal populations which we observed were the result of the spread or growth of feral cat populations.
Feral cats are a major plague on Australian native animals. They kill tens of millions of native animals every night — note, every single night — tens of millions! They are credited with the extinction of at least 20 species of native animals and are driving factors in the decline and likely approaching extinction of as many as 140 other species. They consume any of 400 different species, including rodents, marsupials, reptiles, frogs and birds, depending on local availability, and will tackle animals up to the size of wallabies and smaller kangaroos.
The feral cat population in Australia is estimated at between an optimistic two million to six million, and the Federal Government is undertaking a program to kill off at least two million of them by dropping poisoned sausages, called Eradicat, through large areas of the country — the sausages are spread by hand or from planes. These were developed in Western Australia and contain a poison called 1080, which is sodium monofluoroacetate. They are made principally from kangaroo meat and chicken fat, seasoned with various herbs and spices to make them attractive to the cats, and laced with the 1080. The sausages’ developer, David Algar PhD, the principal research scientist for Western Australia, studied commercially sold cat food to determine the preferred flavours. This work has earned him the nickname ‘Dr Death’.
Sodium monofluoroacetate, the principal component of 1080, is a naturally occurring compound found in native Gastrolobium pea plants and can now be synthetically manufactured. As Australia’s