Bücher von Rod Martin

This book is for all my fellow teachers out there who enjoy poetry and believe their students will become better writers if they keep practicing. Here are hundreds of ideas to stimulate your student's imaginations; students who are often willing to write, but don't have a clue what to write about. These ideas will give them a place to start. Poetry works well for engaging student writers because it is challenging and yet flexible. There are so many types and styles of poems they can experience. There's also a lot of leeway in terms of punctuation, idioms and slang, and how the words appear on the page.Poetry lends itself to success. Anyone can do it and it's personal; it comes from the students' experiences and emotions. It's subjective; the sort of writing to be appreciated rather than judged. The emphasis in this book is "students as poets." It's not about studying the famous poets who have gone before. It's about finding a love for expressing yourself that can last a lifetime.

12 essays on the beauty and utility of zero. "Similar to the slick vacuum of space, which has zero mass and zero density, zero remains deceptively simple. Behind the mask of nothingness there lurks a strange beast full of mystery and wonder."-Perfect Zero, Introduction. Meditation, government, miracles, religion, mathematics, science, entropy, law of attraction and more.1. The zero used in proper meditation to find perfect mental silence.2. The zero used to calibrate scientific instruments, and to measure the degree of tyranny in government.3. The zero found in the humble confidence used to perform miracles and to activate the Law of Attraction.4. The zero required to neutralize the criminal attitude of "importance."5. The zero originally found in religious disciplines, before they were corrupted by ego.6. The zero found in mathematical identities, and how the messy restrictions at this boundary condition may be clues to the nature of spirit, compared to nature.7. The zero so very much needed in science to remove the types of bias which gave us "Clovis First" dogma, the Valsequillo fiasco, the Climate-Gate emails, and other travesties of anti-science behavior.8. The zero that can help English recover from the corruption of words used in a very evil agenda discussed by the late David Rockefeller in his Memoirs.9. The zero that gives hope to life despite the ultimate demise of this physical universe through entropy.10. The zero that helps us see beyond Einstein's E = mc2.11. The zero that helps us understand why some can get the Law of Attraction to work, and why so many others, though inspired, fail to make it work.12. The zero that corrects our understanding about sophisticated concepts brought up by some of history's greatest philosophers.

More than 1,700 years of Catholic and Protestant lies have derailed Christianity. This is hard for most Christians to hear.Christ said that the way is narrow and difficult, but many of today's Christians tell us the opposite! They lie, telling us that salvation is a comfortable, easy location-that all we need do is to accept Jesus as our savior, and we're done.Christ warned us that we could lose our salvation, like the virgin brides waiting for the bridegroom's return, yet many of today's Christians tell us the opposite! They lie, telling us that salvation is permanent.The church has committed innumerable crimes against its flock:¿ Murdered countless thousands who dared to get closer to God without its permission.¿ Declared Christ to be God-a claim Jesus never made for himself, despite the clever interpretations of the Modern Pharisees.¿ Taught scripture for over a thousand years in a language the parishioners didn't even understand.¿ When an Englishman dated to translate the Bible into his own language, the church had him kidnapped and murdered.¿ Today's liberal pope suggests that atheists-blasphemers against the Holy Ghost-can get into Heaven. Nonsense! Sacrilege! Treason!¿ And the church, long ago, declared the Holy Spirit to be God, and by doing so, committed the only unforgivable sin!Why can God and Jesus forgive us for blaspheming against them, but the Holy Spirit cannot forgive us?The answer is as astounding as it is simple, and it reveals the "trinity"-a term that does not appear anywhere in the Bible-as a source of the only unforgivable sin.Trinity Treason reveals the Bible in a way no other book has ever done. This is not about fixing the meaning of scripture as the know-it-all scholars have erroneously attempted to do for nearly two thousand years. Instead, this book invites you to realize that God's Truth is never written in ink, just as 2 Corinthians 3:3-8 had warned us. The letter leads to death, while only the spirit leads to everlasting life. Truly, the meek shall inherit the Earth, because they know the dangers of pretending omniscience when it comes to scripture.

Jesus Christ was a master of logic. Despite numerous attempts by his enemies to trap him on the horns of a dilemma, the founder of Christianity was able to recognize their logical fallacies and to return the conversation from the dark pit of muddy thinking. This invariably left his enemies shaking their heads in awe.Rod Martin, Jr., author of #1 Weather Bestseller, Climate Basics, has tackled the difficult subject of "science vs. religion." In this deep analysis of the topic, he reveals that both fields have far more in common than most people realize. He points out their critical differences, but also exposes their similarities. In fact, Martin discovered that the primary tool of science-scientific method-can also be used on spiritual phenomena, but only by removing the flawed paradigm of skepticism. Scientific method requires that all bias be removed, yet skepticism contains the potent, negative bias of "doubt." Martin gives numerous examples of science becoming derailed by defective logic and politics.Throughout the book, Martin challenges many faulty assumptions by scientists and by the religious. His clarity can seem abrasive, at times, but no more so than was Christ to the Pharisees for their biblical literalism and legalism, or Galileo to the Catholic Church for its egoistic grip on intellectual discourse.The Truth of nature never contradicts the Truth found in scripture. As Augustine of Hippo once pointed out, if science and religion seem to disagree, then our interpretation of nature, the Bible or both is wrong.In this book, Martin also tackles questions which have plagued people for more than two thousand years. For example, Jesus told his disciples that anyone can do the miracles Christ did or even greater-that faith the size of a mustard seed (tiny) can move a mountain. He said that all we need to do is ask and we will receive. But, as Martin, points out, the trick is in how to ask. And if you have not received what you expected, then the problem is not with God, but with the person asking. After replicating miracles numerous times, just as a scientist might perform experiments in a laboratory, Martin has the data to back up his claim. After all, Jesus did not say, "Ask and sometimes you will receive," or "Ask and you will receive if God feels like it." There was no such equivocation. The obvious answer is that the person asking needs to learn something they don't already know about prayer. And Martin's book provides exactly that.

Dinosaurs, maps, travel, geology, history and climate change. Pangaea Sister Sites, the book, has it all.Pangaea gave birth to 7 modern continents and numerous islands. When it broke up, locations along those fault lines moved farther and farther apart. Pangaea Sister Sites give us a look at 71 sets of locations that were divided as much as 180 million years ago, moving from single digit miles to thousands of miles apart.Filled with more than 1,200 illustrations, including Paleomaps by professional geologist, Dr. Christopher Scotese. This book covers not only at the modern cities, towns, scientific research stations and other sites as they exist today, but also gives us a glimpse at what these sites might have been like back in the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods-when dinosaurs ruled the world.Some of the Pangaea Sister Site pairs include,¿ New York City, NY, USA-Dakhla, Western Sahara,¿ Boston, MA, USA-Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands,¿ Vancouver, BC, Canada-Cabo San Lucas, BC, Mexico,¿ Miami, FL, USA-Conakry, Guinea,¿ Cape Canaveral, FL, USA-Bissau, Guinea-Bissau,¿ Virginia Beach, VA, USA-Nouadhibou, Mauritania,¿ Fortaleza, Brazil-Lagos, Nigeria,¿ São Paulo, Brazil-Lucira, Angola,¿ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil-Lobito, Angola,¿ Recife, Brazil-Douala, Cameroon,¿ Salvador, Brazil-Port-Gentil, Gabon,¿ Buenos Aires, Argentina-Bogenfels, Namibia,¿ Antalaha, Madagascar-Mumbai, India,¿ Kolkata, India-Davis Station, Antarctica,¿ Perth, Australia-Mirny Station, Antarctica.Pangaea Sister Sites, the book, exposes very real connections between these modern locations, rekindling forgotten kinships-links to our Jurassic past.

Body movement, gesture, voice, and interaction are all essential parts of this large selection of games and exercises. Within its twelve chapters are games for getting acquainted, over fifty games on how to warm up the actor's tools, and over sixty games and exercises for improvisation and public speaking. Also included are over forty monologues, poems for dramatic presentation, and more than ten plays and scenes. This total drama book tells about how to assess theatrical performances and covers all drama terms and the essentials of a career in theatre. Each unit can stand alone-enough resource material for several semesters of study-a must-resource book for every drama library.