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Dr. Makas enjoyed a career in education that spanned more than 40 years and included being a University of Michigan-Flint professor, a public school teacher, an administrator, and a consultant for failing schools in the areas of curriculum and accreditation through her company Curriculum Connections, LLC. Dr. Makas earned degrees from Western Michigan University, Central Michigan University, and Saginaw Valley State University. She obtained her doctorate in educational leadership from Oakland University. Dr. Makas wrote A Young Man on the Front Line: Lessons of War from her late father's perspective by compiling the stories he told while she was growing up, along with his battlefield journal entries that chronicled both the tragic and amusing stories of his World War II experience. U.S. Army Sergeant Chris Makas fought on the front line of the Southern Invasion of Germany in 1944 as part of Company B, 255th Regiment, 1st Battalion, 63rd Infantry Division. After helping to liberate Germany and the concentration camp at Landsberg from the Nazis, he returned to Detroit in 1946 to marry and raise three children. She authored two educational books: From Mandate to Achievement (Corwin, 2010) and Career Pathways: Preparing Students for Life co-authored with Pam Ill (Corwin, 2004). Elaine is very proud of her four sons: Mark (Rochelle), Benjamin, Jacob, and Samuel; and her three grandchildren: Sarah, Ethan, and Joshua. She enjoys life with Fred List and engaging in writing, oil painting, nature, horseback riding, and traveling. I wrote this book to pay tribute to my dad's life and story, says Dr. Makas, who lives in Frankenmuth, Michigan. I think young people, millennials and Baby Boomers alike, will enjoy becoming fellow travelers with my father on his journey of war, trauma, adaptation, and self-acceptance while contemplating universal lessons of war. Writing his story during her battle with cancer strengthened her to endure grueling treatments that resulted in remission. Dr. Makas hopes that middle and high school social studies and English teachers will use the book to help young people understand how World War II helped shape our world today.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtkins, Elizabeth Ann:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Elizabeth Ann Atkins is Co-Creator of Two Sisters Writing \u0026amp; Publishing, an Emmy Award nominated TV show host, a journalist, book coach, inspirational speaker, certified meditation teacher, a fitness enthusiast, and author of 33 books. Elizabeth has a master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in English Literature from the University of Michigan. She loves to help people cultivate their book ideas into a published format to share with readers everywhere! Her memoir-God's Answer Is Know: Lessons From a Spiritual Life-chronicles her life story and shares her spiritual awakening, along with tools anyone can use to deepen their connection to the Divine and live a more joyous, healthy, peaceful, prosperous, and influential life. Elizabeth co-hosts the Emmy Award nominated MI Healthy Mind, a weekly TV show that aims to shatter stigmas around mental illness and addiction. All episodes are at MIHealthyMind.com The Oprah Winfrey Show featured Elizabeth as a guest to celebrate her 100-pound weight loss and lifestyle as a health and fitness enthusiast. Elizabeth and her sister Catherine M. Greenspan co-created Two Sisters Writing \u0026amp; Publishing, which: publishes their books; provides ghostwriting, publishing, and book coaching services; and hosts monthly writing contests and the Two Sisters Writing Club; and showcases their blog, A Tale of Two Sisters. 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We began working on it in response to the outrage we felt over the Access Hollywood Tape, in which Trump openly admitted that he randomly assaulted women. While previous presidential candidates' campaigns had been derailed when sex scandals were reported by the press (Gary Hart, for example), Trump seemingly faced no consequences, even when multiple accusations of physical molestation and rape were made against him. His election and imperviousness to charges of assault seemed to signal a new step in the normalization of rape culture. That while lamentable, sexual harassment and assault didn't really matter in the political arena. Or at least had no public service consequences for perpetrators. It was in this climate that we began soliciting stories, poems, essays and nonfiction pieces about the assault and attempted assault that is a striking aspect of so many women's psychosexual histories. The original working title of the book was \"Rape Escapes\" because the pieces we solicited focused on deflection, escape and survival. We renamed the volume \"Trigger Warnings\" to set a different tone and to reflect the fact that so many of the pieces-workshopped and developed in public readings-required trigger warnings to the audience. As we worked on the book, sexual harassment, rape, and the brutalization of women continued to serially dominate the news cycle. Even though Trump himself remained immune to prosecution, other powerful men-many in the media industry-were fired or resigned in the face of the newly emergent #MeToo Movement's revelations. Every time we sponsored public readings of contributions to this volume, audience members would approach us to say that they, too, had a story, and ask if we were we still accepting submissions. We were also asked why we felt the need to tell such painful stories. \"Because of Maya Angelou,\" we invariably said. Angelou was raped when quite young and lost the ability to speak for 5 years. When she finally recovered her voice, she found she had a lot to say. Her wonderful autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is banned in many schools because of its frank and graphic depiction of rape. People frequently asked Angelou why she'd felt the need to describe the assault in such detail. Her response comes very close to our purpose in compiling this volume. She habitually said that she wanted people to understand the complexities of rape, and that she hoped any rape survivor reading her work would be able to move beyond blaming herself, open her own cage, and fly free. We hold the same wish for our readers, and recommend they read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as a companion volume. All but one of the pieces in this anthology were authored by writers who belong to The Writers Guild at Bloomington, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting written and spoken word in Bloomington, Indiana and its environs. Most of us are published writers and all of us have other careers. Ruth Novaczek, the author of the Introductory piece in the book, is a London-based filmmaker and artist. We contacted her when she posted an earlier version of this story on her Facebook page. It was such a strong piece, we thought it would be perfect as a kind of thematic introduction. \"Rape-escapes,\" she wrote when she sent us permission to use her story, \"are a good way to show that every young woman has probably had one, and we're the lucky ones.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cephalopod Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50402935996690,"sku":"9798885961936","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4ae0f1ce-324e-44b5-aba1-d47a7d028608.jpg?v=1740411880"}],"url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/collections\/survival-biography-books.oembed","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}