Bøger af Michael Middleton

Retirement is an outdated concept. As more and more people expect to live longer too many do so in a sense of dread that they may never get to live the life they had once dreamed of. Don't Retire Rejuvenate offers readers not only hope for a later life filled with a sense of purpose but practical ways to bring this to life.As science and especially medicine increases the chances of adding 30 healthy years to our lives planning how best to use this extra time is of critical importance to our mental well being and our ability to contribute to wider society.Don't Retire Rejuvenate seeks to address ways in which it is possible to develop a more fulfilling and enjoyable future with a better balance between work and play.

"White Girl In A Black World" is a story about Snowe Blaque, a white All American New York City girl from a wealthy family who gets a small taste of what it's like to grow up living in one of New Jersey's toughest inner city ghettos. Engaged to be married and striving into the New Year to fulfill her dream of becoming a top fashion designer, Snowy and her small entourage of friends, stops for nothing and no one when it comes to partying, having fun and getting ready for their participation in this year's Fashion Week Extravaganza. When her chauffeur of many years suddenly dies, she is then assigned Markus Worthy, a black driver who has worked for his company a few years, and who also moonlights as a male escort with a few of his friends. Their striving sex for dollars business is very secretly well known to a very few wealthy businessmen's wives choosing to get even for their husband's bad deeds and infidelities. Markus now has to somehow manage driving his new client Snowe, as well as taking care of his many female clients who uses his Boy Toy services. Despite Snowy's family's racist past, she and Markus form a special bond through their daily travels and late night party adventures. Things take a turn towards danger when Snowy finds herself in the middle of the hood and nearly a witness to a murder. All is not lost as Markus shows Snowy how things go down on the other side of what she has known all her life, which makes Snowy begins to question if can a spoiled rich white girl really understand what it's like to be black and growing up poor and living in the ghetto?

Increasingly, rhetorical scholars are using fieldwork and other ethnographic, performance, and qualitative methods to access, document, and analyze forms of everyday in situ rhetoric rather than using already documented texts. In this book, the authors argue that participatory critical rhetoric, as an approach to in situ rhetoric, is a theoretically, methodologically, and praxiologically robust approach to critical rhetorical studies. This book addresses how participatory critical rhetoric furthers understanding of the significant role that rhetoric plays in everyday life through expanding the archive of rhetorical practices and texts, emplacing rhetorical critics in direct conversation with rhetors and audiences at the moment of rhetorical invention, and highlighting marginalized voices that might otherwise go unnoticed. This book organizes the theoretical and methodological foundations of participatory critical rhetoric through four vectors that enhance conventional rhetorical approaches: 1) the political commitments of the critic; 2) rhetorical reflexivity and the role of the embodied critic; 3) emplaced rhetoric and the interplay between the field, text, and context; and 4) multiperspectival judgment that is informed by direct participation with rhetors and audiences. In addition to laying the groundwork and advocating for the approach, Participatory Critical Rhetoric also offers significant contributions to rhetorical theory and criticism more broadly by revisiting the field's understanding of core topics such as role of the critic, text/context, audience, rhetorical effect, and the purpose of criticism. Further, it enhances theoretical conversations about material rhetoric, place/space, affect, intersectional rhetoric, embodiment, and rhetorical reflexivity.