Author : Steve Moreland
Publisher : Success Publishing, LLC
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2019-03-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781970073027
Failure and mistakes can be painful but they can also teach us valuable lessons. In this must-read anthology, Steve Moreland along with several other top authors talk about their journey through success.
Author : James Mbele
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 2019-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781970073119
Have you ever asked yourself why some people live a luxurious life and why they attract almost all their heart's desires, while others barely make it? It's a question James Mbele used to ask himself while growing up. In this must-ready anthology, James Mbele, along with several other authors share their journey to success. James Mbele's career in sales and marketing spans various companies in Africa and abroad. He earned his chartered marketer certification from the UK's Chartered Institute of Marketing, applying his expertise for more than seven successful years as an entrepreneur in the direct sales and network marketing industry. From humble beginnings in Kenya, James Mbele's enormous potential and willingness to help others was first recognized by his high school principal, Father O'Toole. To this day, he's remained true to his philanthropic calling to inspire others to rise to their highest potential. Rising quickly in this global arena and traveling to more than fifty countries to speak and motivate others, his service above and beyond the call of duty has been rewarded with numerous accolades. His visionary leadership has mentored many around him to experience massive success in business and life.
Author : Gary Scott Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199830703
Does heaven exist? If so, what is it like? And how does one get in? Throughout history, painters, poets, philosophers, pastors, and many ordinary people have pondered these questions. Perhaps no other topic captures the popular imagination quite like heaven. Gary Scott Smith examines how Americans from the Puritans to the present have imagined heaven. He argues that whether Americans have perceived heaven as reality or fantasy, as God's home or a human invention, as a source of inspiration and comfort or an opiate that distracts from earthly life, or as a place of worship or a perpetual playground has varied largely according to the spirit of the age. In the colonial era, conceptions of heaven focused primarily on the glory of God. For the Victorians, heaven was a warm, comfortable home where people would live forever with their family and friends. Today, heaven is often less distinctively Christian and more of a celestial entertainment center or a paradise where everyone can reach his full potential. Drawing on an astounding array of sources, including works of art, music, sociology, psychology, folklore, liturgy, sermons, poetry, fiction, jokes, and devotional books, Smith paints a sweeping, provocative portrait of what Americans-from Jonathan Edwards to Mitch Albom-have thought about heaven.
Author : Kelly Ritter
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1603296042
Beyond Fitting In interrogates how the cultural capital and lived experiences of first-generation college students inform literacy studies and the writing-centered classroom. Essays, written by scholar-teachers in the field of rhetoric and composition, discuss best practices for teaching first-generation students in writing classrooms, centers, programs, and other environments. The collection considers how first-gen students of different demographics interact with and affect literacy instruction in a variety of public and private, rural and urban schools offering two- or four-year programs, including Hispanic-serving institutions, historically Black colleges and universities, and public research universities. By exploring the experiences of students, teachers, writing program administrators, and writing center directors, the volume gives readers an inside view of the practices and structures that shape the literacy of first-generation students.
Author : James W. Sire
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 083089649X
In this accessible and engaging work, veteran apologist Jim Sire gives us eyes to see the signs all around us that point to the specific truth of God in Christ. Sire focuses on the power of good literature—even from those who deny the existence of God—to enable us to perceive and testify to God's reality in ways that rational argument alone cannot.
Author : Wes Moore
Publisher : One World
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0385528205
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the governor of Maryland, the “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his. In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore. Wes just couldn’t shake off the unsettling coincidence, or the inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper. After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt, and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been haunting him: Who are you? How did this happen? That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that have lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes discovered that the other Wes had had a life not unlike his own: Both had had difficult childhoods, both were fatherless; they’d hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them to astonishingly different destinies. Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world.
Author : J. P. Moreland
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310597218
Bracing and honest, Finding Quiet will validate the experiences of believers with mental illness, remind them they are not alone, and provide reassurance they can not only survive but thrive again. In May 2003 prominent philosopher, author, and professor J. P. Moreland awoke in the middle of the night to a severe panic attack. Though often anxious by temperament and upbringing, Moreland had never experienced such an incident before. Thus began an extended battle with debilitating anxiety and depression. More than a decade later, Moreland continues to manage mental illness. Yet along the way he's moved from shame and despair to vulnerability and hope. In Finding Quiet Moreland comes alongside fellow sufferers with encouragement and practical, hard-won advice. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, nearly 20 percent of Americans suffer from mental illness, and people in the pews are not immune. Moreland explores the spiritual and physical aspects of mental illness, pointing readers toward sound sources of information, treatment, and recovery.
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Publisher : Bethany House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
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ISBN : 076420856X
Author :
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Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Springs (Mechanism)
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Author : Eli Meyerhoff
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1452960224
A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-making Higher education is at an impasse. Black Lives Matter and #MeToo show that racism and sexism remain pervasive on campus, while student and faculty movements fight to reverse increased tuition, student debt, corporatization, and adjunctification. Commentators typically frame these issues as crises for an otherwise optimal mode of intellectual and professional development. In Beyond Education, Eli Meyerhoff instead sees this impasse as inherent to universities, as sites of intersecting political struggles over resources for studying. Meyerhoff argues that the predominant mode of study, education, is only one among many alternatives and that it must be deromanticized in order to recognize it as a colonial-capitalist institution. He traces how key elements of education—the vertical trajectory of individualized development, its role in preparing people to participate in governance through a pedagogical mode of accounting, and dichotomous figures of educational waste (the “dropout”) and value (the “graduate”)—emerged from histories of struggles in opposition to alternative modes of study bound up with different modes of world-making. Through interviews with participants in contemporary university struggles and embedded research with an anarchist free university, Beyond Education paves new avenues for achieving the aims of an “alter-university” movement to put novel modes of study into practice. Taking inspiration from Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and Indigenous resurgence projects, it charts a new course for movements within, against, and beyond the university as we know it.
