The Fortress Walls Within is everyone's story. Each person's experiences are different with different backgrounds to guide our lives but ultimately all people struggle with the world around them building the walls they need to protect themselves. This is a story of one man's journey; One man's awakenings and One man's awareness that is possible for each of us. The story will appear simple at times, mysterious in other moments and will offer insights that only the reader will understand. The character in this book fights for his own destiny. Can you do the same?

Written for those who want to develop their knowledge of requirements engineering process, whether practitioners or students. Using the latest research and driven by practical experience from industry, Requirements Engineering gives useful hints to practitioners on how to write and structure requirements. It explains the importance of Systems Engineering and the creation of effective solutions to problems. It describes the underlying representations used in system modeling and introduces the UML2, and considers the relationship between requirements and modeling. Covering a generic multi-layer requirements process, the book discusses the key elements of effective requirements management. The latest version of DOORS (Version 7) - a software tool which serves as an enabler of a requirements management process - is also introduced to the reader here. Additional material and links are available at: http://www.requirementsengineering.info

The Fortress Walls Within is everyone's story. Each person's experiences are different with different backgrounds to guide our lives but ultimately all people struggle with the world around them building the walls they need to protect themselves. This is a story of one man's journey; One man's awakenings and One man's awareness that is possible for each of us. The story will appear simple at times, mysterious in other moments and will offer insights that only the reader will understand. The character in this book fights for his own destiny. Can you do the same?

The events of September 11 2001, led to profound changes in government policies and structures to confront homeland security threats. Most notably, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began operations in 2003 with key missions that included preventing terrorist attacks from occurring in the U.S., and minimising the damages from any attacks that may occur. This book examines DHS's progress in implementing its homeland security missions since it began operations; work remaining and issues affecting implementation efforts.

An Audience of One is a story about a supernatural experience of being one with God. In this spiritual journey, Ken Jackson encounters God's profound presence in his life whereas God begins to shape and mold him into the man he was purposed to be. Jackson discusses some revealing and defining moments along this journey that transformed not only his mind, but his life as well. As a truck driver, Jackson traveled the highways and byways of the country only to discover that it was all a part of God's master plan for his life. Jackson admits that though truck driving was not his career of choice, having both a Master's degree and Bachelor's degree, God was teaching and preparing him for His purpose. "Though I have a Master's degree, it is worthless once you get a decree from the Master," Jackson proclaims.

The day Ken Jackson turned his life over to Christ, he found himself disassociated from life-long friends, quit a successful career and a discontinued living life as a gay man, to become a true man of God, he shocked and bewildered many. Many were asking what was it that caused him to turn away and assumed it was because of a bad relationship, or turning 40 years old. Jackson simply responded, No, I just learned the truth and wanted to get in right standing with God. In Lost and Found, Jackson makes a point of clearing the misconceptions and the deceptions he was under when he was living in sin and comfortably existing in his iniquities. But once he started to realize God's love, his desires changed and he wanted to become more Christ-like and turn from being a sinner to becoming a saint.

This book looks at the phenomenons of aliens, ghosts, time travel and life after death. It asks the common sense questions that often lack in our secular world today. It asks religion to look at itself, along with the scientific community.

Written for those who want to develop their knowledge of requirements engineering process, whether practitioners or students. Using the latest research and driven by practical experience from industry, Requirements Engineering gives useful hints to practitioners on how to write and structure requirements. It explains the importance of Systems Engineering and the creation of effective solutions to problems. It describes the underlying representations used in system modeling and introduces the UML2, and considers the relationship between requirements and modeling. Covering a generic multi-layer requirements process, the book discusses the key elements of effective requirements management. The latest version of DOORS (Version 7) - a software tool which serves as an enabler of a requirements management process - is also introduced to the reader here. Additional material and links are available at: http://www.requirementsengineering.info

The topic of Shakespeare and religion is a perennial one, and the recent "turn to religion" in historical and literary scholarship has pushed it to the fore. Besides speculating about Shakespeare's personal religious beliefs and allegiance, historians and literary critics writing about early modern England are reexamining the religious dynamics of the period and emphasizing the ways in which old, new, and emerging religious cultures coexisted in conflicting hybrid and unstable forms.

The contributors to "Shakespeare and Religion: Early Modern and Postmodern Perspectives"deal with the topic of Shakespeare and religion from two points of view not always considered complementary--that of the historical approach to Shakespearean drama in its early modern contexts, and that of postmodern philosophy and theology. The first illuminates the culture-specific features of the plays, whereas the second emphasizes their transhistorical qualities and the relevance of the deep religious and philosophical issues surfacing in early modern culture to contemporary religious struggles and awareness.

"Religion has assumed a surprising centrality in contemporary Shakespeare studies, generating an abundance of historical insights alongside a burgeoning interest in the spiritual possibilities of the plays for us today. This collection eschews either take on the field, preferring a more comprehensive view. It brings together nearly all the people one would most want to read on the topic, and the essays are notable for their lively seriousness. Here, the topic of Shakespeare and religion is a burning brand with which to illuminate the past "and" the present. A stimulating book -- Ewan Fernie, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

""Shakespeare and Religion: Early Modern and Postmodern Perspectives" is lively, provocative, and original, and sure to occupy an important scholarly place within ongoing efforts to reinterpret religion in Shakespeare's works and world. The authors push scholarship on religion and Shakespeare past new historicism in productive, compelling directions." --Phebe Jensen, Utah State University

"This collection brings together a distinguished body of scholars to consider Shakespeare's treatment of religious issues, as read against his times and our own. its essays offer innovative, sharp, and sometimes startling revaluations of familiar texts and topics, likely to capture the interest of students as well as academic researchers. The recent 'turn to religion' in early modern literary studies, and the related move towards seeing Shakespeare as an author deeply engaged with religious matters, is powerfully exemplified in these pages." --Alison E. M. Shell, University College London

In Shakespeare and Abraham, Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeare's dramatic fascination with the story of Abraham's near sacrifice of his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Themes of child killing fill Shakespeare's early plays: Genesis 22 informed Clifford's attack on young Rutland in 3 Henry 6, Hubert's providentially thwarted murder of Arthur in King John, and Aaron the Moor's surprising decision to spare his son amidst the filial slaughters of Titus Andronicus, among others. However, the playwright's full engagement with the biblical narrative does not manifest itself exclusively in scenes involving the sacrifice of children or in verbal borrowings from the famously sparse story of Abraham. Jackson argues that the most important influence of Genesis 22 and its interpretive tradition is to be found in the conceptual framework that Shakespeare develops to explore relationships among ideas of religion, sovereignty, law, and justice. Jackson probes the Shakespearean texts from the vantage of modern theology and critical theory, while also orienting them toward the traditions concerning Abraham in Jewish, Pauline, patristic, medieval, and Reformation sources and early English drama. Consequently, the playwright's "Abrahamic explorations" become strikingly apparent in unexpected places such as the "trial" of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and the bifurcated structure of Timon of Athens. By situating Shakespeare in a complex genealogy that extends from ancient religion to postmodern philosophy, Jackson inserts Shakespeare into the larger contemporary conversation about religion in the modern world.