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A fresh twist on 24 classic poems, these visual interpretations by
comic artist Julian Peters will change the way you see the world.
This stunning anthology of favorite poems visually interpreted by
comic artist Julian Peters breathes new life into some of the
greatest English-language poets of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. These are poems that can change the way we see the
world, and encountering them in graphic form promises to change the
way we read the poems. In an age of increasingly visual
communication, this format helps unlock the world of poetry and
literature for a new generation of reluctant readers and visual
learners. Grouping unexpected pairings of poems around themes such
as family, identity, creativity, time, mortality, and nature, Poems
to See By will also help young readers see themselves differently.
A valuable teaching aid appropriate for middle school, high school,
and college use, the collection includes favorites from the Western
canon already taught in countless English classes. Includes poems
by Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Carl Sandburg, Maya Angelou,
Seamus Heaney, e. e. cummings, Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas,
Christina Rossetti, William Wordsworth, William Ernest Henley,
Robert Hayden, Edgar Allan Poe, W. H. Auden, Thomas Hardy, Percy
Bysshe Shelley, John Philip Johnson, W. B. Yeats, Gerard Manley
Hopkins, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Tess Gallagher, Ezra Pound, and
Siegfried Sassoon.
No matter who wins the next election, Caesar will remain Caesar,
doing some good and some bad. But Christians report to a different
king. This issue starts with a provocation. In his opening letter,
editor Peter Mommsen suggests Christians are too excited about the
wrong politics: "Questions of public justice should matter deeply
to Christians. We dare not be indifferent about securing healthcare
for all and ending interventionist wars; we must seek to reduce
abortions and strengthen families. When an election comes, we
should pray and then, perhaps, lend our support to a candidate we
judge may, on balance, advance social righteousness. But if the
early Christians and the Anabaptists are right, this isn't the
politics that matters most. And so, as a matter of faithfulness, we
should question how much it deserves of our passion and time. Our
allegiance belongs elsewhere." In contrast to an election campaign,
this politics may feel grittier and less glamorous. This issue of
Plough Quarterly explores what this alternate vision of faithful
Christian witness in the political sphere might look like. You'll
find articles on: What two leading political theorists of left and
right agree on What persecution taught Anabaptists about politics
The Bruderhof's interactions with the state Tolstoy's case against
making war more humane How some Christians read Romans 13 under
fascism
Your job is not your vocation. Everyone hungers for work that has
meaning and purpose. But what gives work meaning? Vocation, or
"calling," is the answer Protestant Christianity offers: each
person is called by God to serve the common good in a particular
line of work. Your vocation, evidently, might be almost anything:
as a nurse, a wilderness guide, a calligrapher, a missionary, an
activist, a venture capitalist, a politician, an executioner...
Yet, as Will Willimon writes in this issue, the New Testament knows
only one form of vocation: discipleship. And discipleship is far
more likely to mean leaving father and mother, houses and land,
than it is to mean embracing one's identity as a fisherman or tax
collector. This issue of Plough focuses on people who lived their
lives with that sense of vocation. Such a life demands
self-sacrifice and a willingness to recognize one's own supposed
strengths as weaknesses, as it did for the Canadian philosopher
Jean Vanier. It involves a lifelong commitment to a flesh-and-blood
church, as Coptic Archbishop Angaelos describes. It may even
require a readiness to give up one's life, as it did for Annalena
Tonelli, an Italian humanitarian who pioneered the treatment of
tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa. But as these stories also
testify, it brings a gladness deeper than any self-chosen path.
Also in this issue: - Scott Beauchamp on mercenaries - Nathan
Schneider on cryptocurrencies - Stephanie Saldana on Syrian refugee
art - Peter Biles on loneliness at college - Phil Christman on
Bible translation - Michael Brendan Dougherty on fatherhood -
Insights on vocation from C. S. Lewis, Therese of Lisieux, Mother
Teresa, Eberhard Arnold, Dorothy Sayers, Jean Vanier, and Gerard
Manley Hopkins - poetry by Devon Balwit and Carl Sandburg - reviews
of books by Robert Alter, Edwidge Danticat, Matthew D. Hockenos,
Amy Waldman, and Jeremy Courtney - art and photography by Pola
Rader, Dean Mitchell, Mark Freear, Timothy Jones, Pawel Filipczak,
Mary Pal, Harley Manifold, Sami Lalu Jahola, Marc Chagall, and
Russell Bain. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture
for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings
you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to
help you put Jesus' message into practice and find common cause
with others.
The future of humanity is urban. It might seem a bad move for a
magazine named after a farm tool to bring out an issue on cities.
Especially if that magazine is published by an Anabaptist community
that originated in a back-to-the-land movement and still has the
whiff of hayfield and woodlot to it. Why not stick to what you're
good at? Why jump lanes? Because the future of humanity, pretty
clearly, is urban. Urbanization is arguably the biggest change of
habitat our species has ever undergone. For anyone who cares about
the common good of humanity, then, cities need to matter. The
modern city is an electrifying concentration of creativity, energy,
and cultural dynamism. It's also still the "cauldron of unholy
loves" that Saint Augustine discovered in Carthage one and a half
millennia ago. It's the place where the cruelties of mammon, the
hubris of power, and the perversions of lust manifest themselves
most crassly. But cities have also given birth to culture and
community and to remarkable movements of revival and renewal. In
this issue, visit: - Belfast with Jenny McCartney - New York City
with James Macklin - Medellin with Adriano Cirino - Pittsburgh with
Brandon McGinley - Guatemala City with Jose Corpas - Philadelphia
with Clare Coffey - Chicago with John Thornton Jr. - Paris with
Jason Landsel You'll also find: - Insights on cities from Jane
Jacobs, Eberhard Arnold, Augustine, and Philip Britts - reviews of
books by Jonathan Foiles, Bethany McKinney Fox, J. Malcolm Garcia,
Tatiana Schlossberg, Tim Gautreaux, Philip Bess, and Frederic
Morton - art by Gail Brodholt, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Ben Ibebe,
Brian Peterson, Chota, Raphael, Gertrude Hermes, Valentino Belloni,
Tony Taj, and Aristarkh Lentulov Plough Quarterly features stories,
ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into action.
Each issue brings you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book
reviews, and art to help you put Jesus' message into practice and
find common cause with others.
The object of this book is the presentation, analysis and extension
of the Forward Improvement Iteration Algorithm (FII) published 1980
by Albrecht Irle and similar algorithms published 2006 and 2008 by
Christian Bender, Anastasia Kolodko, and John Schoenmakers and
published 2010 by E. L. Presman, as well as giving adequate
applications. The FII algorithm solves problems of optimal stopping
in discrete time by giving a lower approximation of the optimal
stopping timeand a lower bound of the Snell envelope in each
iteration step, which converge to the Snell envelope resp. optimal
stopping time.The similar algorithms mentioned above introduced
additional parameters for the special cases they treated. This book
shows that these algorithms can be put together into a single
extended FII algorithm, inheriting the additional parameters and
results. Furthermore the algorithm is transfered to the Markov
case, also inheriting reasonable additional parameters. Some
numerical applications and an investigation of the monotone case
and some best choice problem, for which already known solutions of
some special cases are extended to a general solution, are also
given.
Die theoretischen Grundlagen des optimalen Stoppens, einfache,
gemischte und randomisierte Stoppzeiten, die Mglichkeiten diese
darzustellen und die Zusammenhnge zwischen ihnen werden im ersten
Teil dieses Buches behandelt. Im zweiten Teil wird in Anlehnung an
die Arbeit "Randomized Stopping Times and American Option Pricing
with Transaction Costs" von Prasad Chalasani und Somesh Jha eine
Mglichkeit dargestellt, faire Preise fr Amerikanische Optionen bei
anfallenden proportionalen Transaktionskosten herzuleiten. Die im
ersten Teil eingefhrten Stoppzeiten werden hierzu verwendet. Einige
Beispiele, welche die auftretenden Phnomene nher erlutern und die
eingefhrten Begriffe verdeutlichen, schlieen den Teil ab. Der
dritte Teil zeigt, wie man faire Preise fr Amerikanische Optionen
ermitteln kann, wenn keine Transaktionskosten anfallen. Auch hier
werden einige Beispiele angegeben. Es ergibt sich ein Intervall von
arbitragefreien Preisen, das unter gewissen Umstnden einelementig
ist und dessen Grenzen konkret angegeben werden knnen.
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