Have you lost someone so dear that you felt they left a huge space in your life? Have you been mad when someone you truly loved betrayed you? Have you ever felt that a piece of your heart is gone, because you miss someone so precious, and he or she is not in your life anymore? Has a friend from the past shown up unexpectedly and left you again with broken heart? Have you ever found it hard to let go of people you really love, and hard to forgive those who cause you pain? In this book you will read soulful essays that will make you stop and think. Think about how life is too short to not forgive those who hurt us, to spend time with our loved ones, and to show love and caring before it's too late.

The wave of popular uprisings that swept across the Arab world starting in December 2010 rattled regimes from Morocco to Oman. However, Lebanon's sectarian system proved immune to the domestic and regional pressures unleashed by the Arab Spring. How can this be explained? How has the country's political elite dealt with challenges to the system? And, finally, what lessons can other Arab states draw from Lebanon's sectarian experience? This book looks at the mix of institutional, clientelist, and discursive practices that sustain the sectarian nature of Lebanon. It exposes snapshots of an ever-expanding sectarian web that occupies substantial areas of everyday life and surveys struggles waged by opponents of the system - by women, teachers, public sector employees, students or coalitions across NGOs - and how their efforts are often sabotaged or contained by numerous systematic forces.

This book features high-quality, peer-reviewed research papers presented at the International Conference on Smart Technologies in Data Science and Communication (Smart-DSC 2019), held at Vignan's Institute of Information Technology (Autonomous), Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India on 13-14 December 2019. It includes innovative and novel contributions in the areas of data analytics, communication and soft computing.

The Collections of Chinese Award-Winning Bonsai depicts this beautiful Chinese traditional fine art in stunning form. This is the country's first book dedicated to the outstanding works of bonsai. Bonsai is created in a pot with plants, rocks, soil, water and other materials. Through creativity and horticulture, these miniature plants can be shaped into beautiful little sceneries of nature. This lovely book showcases the award-winning bonsai (including first prize, grand prize and special award) from China's nationwide bonsai exhibition and bonsai expo's more than 200 outstanding works that were appraised by experts. The book describes the beauty of each winning bonsai and provides detailed information, such as height, type of bonsai and information on the artist. Su Ben is from Tianjin, China. He started the monthly magazine China's Flower Bonsai and was the director as well as chief editor. In 1988, he founded the Chinese Bonsai Artists Association. He served as executive chairman at the First China Bonsai Conference held in 1991 in Beijing. In 1992, he served as the Executive Chairman at the China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Bonsai Symposium and at the International Chinese Bonsai Competition held in Nanjing. Zhong Jinan was born in Shanghai and has multiple interests since childhood. He likes tending flowers and plants, but loves literary, calligraphy and painting even more. In his spare time, he is obsessed with the art of bonsai. He has written many articles about the maintenance, making and appreciation of bonsai. Publisher's website: www.ChinaPODG.com/SuBenYiandZhongJinan

Have you lost someone so dear that you felt they left a huge space in your life? Have you been mad when someone you truly loved betrayed you? Have you ever felt that a piece of your heart is gone, because you miss someone so precious, and he or she is not in your life anymore? Has a friend from the past shown up unexpectedly and left you again with broken heart? Have you ever found it hard to let go of people you really love, and hard to forgive those who cause you pain? In this book you will read soulful essays that will make you stop and think. Think about how life is too short to not forgive those who hurt us, to spend time with our loved ones, and to show love and caring before it's too late.

A parable where a young driven professional learns to "Achieve without regret and sacrifice without envy." Arriving at a luxury resort, Colin Burke, a young professional, husband and father, is conflicted and unhappy. The three-day business retreat is billed as a reward for him and his colleagues but he is distracted by a basketball game, his son's season opener.... another game he'll miss. The business event unfolds unremarkably until a celebrated guest speaker and champion athlete awakens Colin's spirit. As the athlete electrifies the room, Colin remembers his own dreams and life goals and how they are not yet materializing. Desperate to think, the young professional escapes to a nearby coffee shop where along the way he helps an eccentric stranger avoid a serious accident. This chance encounter leads to a new friendship where one man pursues the future as the other works to repair the past. Over time Colin learns how to achieve world-class success and the ancient art of Placing Stones. Frustrations and angst slowly give way to realizing his true potential. Finally he begins to ... "Achieve without regret and sacrifice without envy."

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 1,0, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen, Veranstaltung: Theorien des Schonen im 18. Jahrhundert, 16 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit wird die Bedeutung der Begriffe Achtung, Gunst und Neigung untersucht werden. Ausgangspunkt stellt dabei Immanuel Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft" dar, in der diese Begriffe miteinander kontrastiert werden, um zu einer Definition des Geschmacks zu gelangen. In genau diesem Zusammenhang stellte sich die Frage, was unter Achtung, Gunst und Neigung aus der Sprachperspektive heraus verstanden werden kann, weshalb in den folgenden Kapiteln eine eingehendere Untersuchung dieser drei Begriffe stattfinden wird. Um die Bedeutungen der Begriffe aus moglichst vielen unterschiedlichen Richtungen zu beleuchten wurden verschiedene Ansatze gewahlt. Auf eine Erlauterung der Begriffe im kantischen Verstandnis folgen zunachst Annaherungen an heute gelaufige Verwendungsweise, gestutzt durch aktuelle Lexika und eigene Korpora-Stichproben, um schliesslich die Begriffe einer eingehenden etymologischen Untersuchung zu unterziehen. Das jeweilige methodische Vorgehen wird an den entsprechenden Stellen eingehender darstell

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 3, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit werden Johann Wolfgang Goethes "Die Wahlverwandtschaften" sowie Dieter Wellershoffs "Der Liebeswunsch"einer vergleichenden Analyse unterzogen. Hierbei werden zunachst die einzelnen Figuren fur sich als auch in ihren Beziehungen untersucht, um anschliessend die unterschiedlichen Erzahlstile beider Werke eingehender zu betrachte

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Linguistik, Note: 2,0, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen, 3 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Bei der sprachwissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung mit Texten spielt die Unterscheidung zwischen konzeptionell geschriebener und konzeptionell gesprochener Sprache eine grundlegende Rolle. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird zunachst das diese Unterscheidung thematisierende Modell sprachlicher Nahe und Distanz von Koch und Oesterreicher umrissen. Daran anschliessend wird als Beispiel fur die praktische Nutzung dieses Modells eine Darstellung der Monographie Textgliederung. Einheitenbildung im geschriebenen und gesprochenen Deutsch" von Stephan Stein gegeben, in der die Theorie von Koch und Oesterreicher als Basis der weitergehenden Untersuchung von Textgliederungsmitteln und Texteinheiten dient. Schliesslich wird die Monographie Grammatik aus Nahe und Distanz. Theorie und Praxis am Beispiel von Nahetexten 1650 - 2000" von Vilmos Agel und Mathilde Hennnig vorgestellt, in der das Nahe-Distanz-Modell von Koch und Oesterreicher diskutiert und auf Basis der daraus gewonnenen Erkenntnisse ein differenzierteres Modell entworfen wird. Als Grundlage dieser Arbeit dienten die beiden angesprochenen Monographien sowie der Aufsatz Schriftlichkeit und Sprache" von Peter Koch und Wulf Oesterreich