Five speeches from the legendary orators Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Cicero, and Pericles.431 BCE: Pericles’ Funeral Oration is a valedictory and eulogy for the great age of Athenian democracy. Reported by Thucydides, it was given at the first annual public funeral for casualties of the Peloponnesian War. That war ended twenty-seven years later with the democratic government of Athens overthrown by an oligarchy known as The Four Hundred.324BCE: Two speeches by Alexand...

Emotion, Eulogy, & Memories is a poetry book that express emotion; and love, Don't Look At Me is a sample of emotion. Most of the time people say good thing about someone when he or she sleeps for ever, but in Eulogy I think about some great personalities who still alive such as Nelson Mandela, President Barak H. Obama, Hilary Clinton, etc. Also, I think about those who contributed to change the world like Martin L.King, Toussaint Louverture, Priest Gerard Jean Juste, and so on.

More than a century after its beginnings, modernism still has the power to shock, alienate or challenge readers. Modernist art and literature remain thought of as complex and difficult. This introduction explains in a readable, lively style how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres. Pericles Lewis offers students a survey of literature and art in England, Ireland and Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century. He also provides an ove...

The modernist period witnessed attempts to explain religious experience in non-religious terms. Such novelists as Henry James, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka found methods to describe through fiction the sorts of experiences that had traditionally been the domain of religious mystics and believers. In Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel, Pericles Lewis considers the development of modernism in the novel in relation to changing attitudes to religion. Thr...

Leadership and Church organization is a manual. It contains all information that a leader needs to develop excellent leadership. The author elaborates on different leadership types such as authoritarianism, transformational leadership, too much leadership, Moses leadership, Jethro leadership, charismatic leadership, moral leadership, democratic leadership, team leadership, and visionary leadership. He also elaborates on some other topics related to leadership and church organization such a...

A hands-on guide to working on use cases helping you ingest, analyze, and serve insightful data from IoT as well as telemetry data sources using Azure Synapse Data Explorer Free PDF included with this bookKey FeaturesAugment advanced analytics projects with your IoT and application dataExpand your existing Azure Synapse environments with unstructured dataBuild industry-level projects on integration, experimentation, and dashboarding with Azure ...

Companies have long sought to integrate existing Information Systems (IS) in order to support existing and potentially new business processes spread throughout their “territories” and possibly to collaborating organizations. A variety of designs can be used to this end, ranging from rigid point-to-point electronic data interchange (EDI) interactions to “Web auctions”. By updating older technologies, such as “Internet-enabling” EDI-based systems, companies can make their IT systems availabl...

Modernism arose in a period of accelerating globalization in the late nineteenth century. Modernist writers and artists, while often loyal to their country in times of war, aimed to rise above the national and ideological conflicts of the early twentieth century in service to a cosmopolitan ideal. This Companion explores the international aspects of literary modernism by mapping the history of the movement across Europe and within each country. The essays place the various literary traditi...

This new book reflects Derrida's latest views on the role of education and international organizations in an era of globalization. In this book, Derrida develops a notion of the global citizen that is uniquely post-Kantian. He looks especially at the changing role of UNESCO and similar organizations at a time when individual and national identities, knowledge and commerce, and human rights all are brought to world attention in new ways than they have been in the past. Following Derrida's w...

This comprehensive handbook addresses issues related to anti-discriminatory education as it relates to children, youth, young adults, families, and practitioners across a series of age groups, sectors, communities, and countries. It seeks to map a holistic interdisciplinary overview of the field examining how policies, practices, and initiatives within unique social, political, and cultural contexts have been enacted to advance anti-discriminatory education for improved equity, diversity, ...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Sciences, RCIS 2020, held in Limassol, Cyprus, during September 23-25, 2020. The conference was originally scheduled for May 2020, but the organizing committee was forced to postpone the conference due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.The scope of RCIS 2020 is summarized by the thematic areas of information systems and their engineering; user-oriented approaches;...

This book provides a clear, concise, and practical guide to understanding research, particularly for students and researchers across scientific fields. Designed to be user friendly and accessible, it requires no extensive prior knowledge of research methods, enabling readers to quickly locate relevant information and strengthen their work. Focusing on practical application, the handbook offers a comprehensive overview of essential research processes while avoiding complex theoretical discu...