Böcker av Ann Miller

Five Brave Women was written to encourage and inspire young people of all ages. One should never be afraid to speak out against any injustice faced in life, no matter who it is perpetuated against. God has not placed in us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love and of a sound mind. (2 timothy 1:7) This means that we must speak out against all injustice wherever we see it. If someone is being bullied on the school ground by another student, politely ask the bully to stop. Let him/her know that they would not like to be treated that way. God said we should love one another and treat each other with respect. We should do unto others as we would like done unto us. (Matthew 7:12)When Moses divided God's promised inheritance among the children of Israel, no land was given to the family of Zelophedad, because he had daughters and no sons. So, the daughters of Zelophedad took a stand and petitioned Moses, asking for their father's share of the land. The sisters, in standing up for their rights, were the force behind a change in the law that protected all women. Based in scripture, Five Brave Women was inspired by the five young women described in Numbers Chapter 27; Verses 1-11. A picture book for children, it encourages females of all ages to speak up when they feel they're not being treated fairly.

This book deals with the intricate connection between the political structure of the East German government and cultural politics. Specifically, it focuses on the relationship between the government agencies and three authors. It explores the difficulties the writers encountered in the 1960s with the government of East Germany and how their works did or did not conform to the cultural policy established by the GDR regime in 1951. The government believed that it was imperative for authors and artists to adhere to the literary policy of social realism prescribed by the East German Ministry of Culture. An author's works were expected to conform to the political ideology of Marxism. The Ministry of Culture expected writers to depict the society through the glorification of Marxism. The East German cultural functionaries evaluated a piece of literature more for the author's devotion to the political doctrine than the aesthetic quality of the work. If works did not conform, the government agencies such as the Ministry of Culture could apply pressure to the authors in many forms: censorship, silencing, fines, prosecution, surveillance and, for extreme cases, expatriation.This study assesses three prominent writers of the former East Germany: Wolf Biermann, a lyricist; Christa Wolf, a novelist; and Heiner Müller, a dramatist. The analysis is based on the political content of the authors' works and how the West German and East German critics evaluated them. Government documents from German State Archives revealed the sensitive nature of the political and writer conferences of the GDR. The study analyzes how the writers' interpretation of socialism increasingly deviated from that of the East German regime. Over time, the writers chose to express themselves in a different manner and thus, encountered problems and conflicts with the Ministry of Culture.