...Professor Elizabeth Moreno Evan 101-C02 18 February 2015 Testimony Paper In today’s culture you have so many different stories and testimonies of how people came to Christianity. Some people are what you may called born in the pew, they came to know Christ at a relatively young age, others who weren’t raised in church came to the know Lord later in life, and those who are born again have recommitted their hearts to the Lord. Being raised and born into a pastor’s home, I was born in the pew and have known of the Lord my entire life. It was not until I was ten years old that I chose to commit my heart to Him and follow and serve Him in a more intimate way. Up until that point I went to church I would say all the Christian things and acted the Christian way, because that was how I was raised. When a counselor at a Christian children’s summer camp explained to me it didn’t matter that I was born into Christianity, but that I must accept Christ in my heart and acknowledge His sacrifice of giving up His son, Jesus, for me, and ultimately choose salvation for myself not because of my circumstances. That day I decided to accept His gift and that is where my relationship with the Lord begins. Since then I have stumbled at times, have had struggles, and relied on Christ’s Grace to forgive me of my sins. I have and still am learning that no Christian is perfect and that we are sinners saved by grace and not works. That our relationship, bond, and testimony with the Lord is ever growing...
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...C. Drayton Evan 101-C05 LUC February 24, 2013 Testimony Paper My life before I came to Christ I did not grow up in a Christian home, but had the opportunity to attend church. I had to walk many miles to go to church. God was my close friend as a child. I could not explain how, but he was. As a teenager I spent many days and nights praying asking, “God to help me get away from my parents, because they were abusing me”. God didn’t answer my prayers so I just stopped believing in him. I could not understand how a God that’s so loving and caring would allow someone to hurt his child. How I came to see my need for Christ One night I was going to a party with one a friend. When I was sitting in her vehicle, God spoke to me saying, it was time for me to let go of the hurt and pain I was carrying for so many years. It felt like I was carrying the weight of the world on my back. I tried to get rid of the pain by smoking and drinking. God further said, “I have work for you to do, and many things to show you.” I thought I was losing my mind, and wanted to drop off the face of the earth. Circumstances surrounding your conversion One Sunday morning I was driving passing a church that my Grandmother attended. I walked through the doors because I really needed help. I was tired of the pain I was carrying all those years, disappointments, drinking, sleeping around with man. I wanted God to love me, and hold me in his arms so tight. I remember asking God to forgive...
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...Tenisha Harrell Evan 101 November 7, 2011 Testimony Paper Part ONE – My life before I came to Christ. Before I became to know God for myself I was very much in the world. Although, I was very quiet, and conscious, I did explore a lot with boys especially with oral sex. Just because I thought everyone was doing it and I didn’t want to lose my virginity. I also drank alcohol without my grandparents knowing I had boy’s over when they weren’t home I just was doing what I thought all the kids my age were doing rebelling. It’s crazy that I even acted this way because I did grow up in a church home my grandmother took us to church all the time sunday’s, wednesdays, whenever there was a church function. Even though I was aware of God and knew about all he had done I was not aware of my sinful nature. Part TWO – How I came to see my need for Chris? They way I became to know Christ was I went to teen church at my now church home Bethany Baptist Church. My youth pastor was teaching on sin and what sin is in today’s world it just felt like he was talking directly towards me. Then when he came down the aisle and looked at me in the row something just came over me and I just started to cry I knew at that moment I needed God in my life and it was time for a change. Part THREE – Circumstances surrounding your conversion? After I went to the alter to give God my life a lady came to me and she took me to the back of the sanctuary and explained to me about coming back to Christ, and...
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...Christian Meulemans EVAN 101-B04 LUO 8-28-2012 Testimony Paper Part ONE – My life before I came to Christ. My life before Christ was quiet simple; I was consumed with myself, only carried about myself and what I wanted to do with my life in whatever way I saw fit. I had no time for God or His word. Part TWO – How I came to a cognitive knowledge of Who Jesus is and what He did for me. Throughout my life I had heard off and on the gospel of Christ Jesus but never really took it to heart, sure I wanted to be saved from hell but that was it. The true understand did not occur until I started to read the bible on my own around late May of 2005. This is why I believe faith was truly triggered in my mind and heart which lead me to an understand of my wickedness before God Almighty. Part THREE – Circumstances surrounding your conversion. It was about an eighth month process which began around Oct 2004 leading to June 17th of 2005 of the Lord God dealing with me daily, especially with His Holy Spirit. I had a few dreams that really shook me up and lead me to daily engage with my thoughts concerning if I was truly a Christian as I had always thought I was. Almost every day my mind was bombarded with thoughts like, “If you are really a Christian then why do you not, pray? Why don’t you ever read the bible? Why have I been experiencing these dreams and in the dreams? If I am really a Christian then why don’t I live like one?” After wrestling with these questions for such a long time...
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...Introduction Would you ever admit to committing a crime that you didn’t actually commit? Of course not, says common sense. Naturally, it is difficult to understand why anyone would confess to a crime they didn’t commit. However, false confessions are one the leading causes of wrongful convictions.1 As the Supreme Court of Canada noted in R v. Oickle, innocent people are induced to make false confessions more frequently than those unacquainted with the phenomenon might expect.2 In North America, we can trace the existence of false confessions back to the Salem Witch Trials, where a number of women were persecuted for witchcraft on the basis of confessions that were obtained through torture and threats.3 More recent false confessions have been obtained under psychological duress and not with torture or threats of physical harm.4 Nevertheless, with the developments in law and policies in place to control interrogation methods, false confessions continue to persist.5 This begs the question, are interrogation methods solely responsible for false confessions, or does some of the responsibility fall on the confessor? Scholars and social scientists agree, that it is not solely harsh interrogation tactics that lead to false confessions but it is the combination of these tactics with psychological factors such as, intelligence and personality, which contribute to the likelihood of a suspect providing a false confession.6 While there are currently solutions for avoiding false confessions...
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...Introduction This Integrative Paper is an attempt by the researcher to assess about the conflicts between the elders and the youth of the Church of Nazarene, Bhandup. This research surveys the Existing Conflict Management Models in the Church and its relevancy for the Conflicts of the Church of Nazarene, Bhandup This Integrative Paper examines the causes and the impact of the Conflicts on the spiritual, economical and relational side members involved in the conflicts. Finally, this Integrative Paper attempts to develop a new and relevant Conflict Management Model considering the causes and the impact of the Conflicts for the awesome ministry of the Church of Nazarene, Bhandup. Statement of the Problem Conflicts are the cause of difference in the personalities of the people. The thinking of people differs from each other. The church always faces the problem of Conflict Management because of the difference of opinions between the church elders and the youth. The Church of Nazarene Bhandup (West), Mumbai is also facing the problem today of conflict management for the youth and the elders of the church. There are certain reasons for the conflicts which are prevailing in the church from long time. These conflicts have resulted in the youth being irregular to the church. There are long term conflicts among the church elders and the youth of the church. The conflicts among the youth and the elders of the church have resulted in the decline of the interest of the youth in the church...
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...J O I N T C E N T E R AEI-BROOKINGS JOINT CENTER FOR REGULATORY STUDIES The Antitrust Economics of Two-sided Markets David S. Evans Related Publication 02-13 September 2002 David Evans is Senior Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting. The author is extremely grateful to Howard Chang, George Priest, Jean-Charles Rochet, Richard Schmalensee, and Jean Tirole for many helpful comments and suggestions and Irina Danilkina, Anne Layne-Farrar, Daniel Garcia Swartz, Bryan Martin-Keating, Nese Nasif, and Bernard Reddy for their many contributions to the research upon which article is based. The author has worked for a number of companies in the two-sided markets discussed in this paper including Bloomberg, Microsoft, and Visa. © David S. Evans 2002. Abstract “Two-sided” markets have two different groups of customers that businesses have to get on board to succeed—there is a “chicken-and-egg” problem that needs to be solved. These industries range from dating clubs (men and women), to video game consoles (game developers and users), to credit cards (cardholders and merchants), and to operating system software (application developers and users). They include some of the most important industries in the economy. Two-sided firms behave in ways that seem surprising from the vantage point of traditional industries, but in ways that seem like plain common sense once one understands the business problems they must solve. Prices do not and prices cannot follow marginal costs...
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...THE LIBYAN ASSET FREEZE AND ITS APPLICATION TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENT DEPOSITS IN OVERSEAS BRANCHES OF UNITED STATES BANKS: LIBYAN ARAB FOREIGN BANK v. BANKERS TRUST CO. Corinne R. Rutzke* INTRODUCTION United States asset freezes are political weapons invoked in response to international crises.' Traditionally, United States asset freezes have blocked foreign government assets within the jurisdiction of the United States.2 Following the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, however, United States peacetime asset freezes have attempted to block dollar-denomi4 nated accounts3 held in foreign brancheS of United States banks.5 An important legal issue associated with the use of peacetime blocking * J.D. Candidate, 1988, Washington College of Law, The American University. 1. OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL, BLOCKED FOREIGN ASSETS IN THE UNITED STATES 1, 3 (1985) TREASURY PAMPHLET]. Historically, the blocking control orders, promulgated pursuant to section 5(b) of the Trading with the Enemy Act, authorized the President to regulate or prohibit any property transaction involving a foreign country or national during wartime. Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, 50 U.S.C. app. § 5(b)(1)(B) (1982). Following the entry of the People's Republic of China into the Korean War in 1950, President Truman blocked Chinese and North Korean property within the jurisdiction of the United States. The Management of Blocked Foreign Assets in the United States, 12 INT'L CURRENCY Rzv. 37, 38 (No. 6 1980). Expanding...
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...corruption and stupendous wastage of scarce resources. All attempts by successive regimes to nip the problem in the bud have failed. With the benefit of hindsight, virtually all the Nigerian leaders who have come in as physicians have left office as patients. What factors precipitate political corruption and why has corruption become endemic and intractable in Nigeria? The paper interrogates corruption in Nigeria through the prisms of Clientelism, Prebendalism, Patrimonialism, Neopatrimonialism, Soft State thesis and the theory of Two Publics. The article contends that these theories for a very long time have not only provided credible theoretical frameworks for the understanding of the development tragedy in Africa in general but also of the pandemic and seemingly insoluble problem of political corruption in Nigeria in particular. However, as a point of departure, the paper argues that rather than fattening the primordial public, the ‘robberies’ that have taken place at the civic public have further pauperized the primordial public, if fattening in this sense is taken to mean social and economic development. The paper further provides some...
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...INTRODUCTION Much of the literature about the liberation struggle in the South-East Lowveld has documented different counter strategies by the RSF but propaganda as one of the strategy has been partially covered. The study focuses on Rhodesia Front government’s propaganda as a counter insurgency strategy to the guerrilla activities. Propaganda is the control of public opinion. There are three types of propaganda that is white, grey and black propaganda. White propaganda is the dissemination of the truth to someone’s advantage, grey propaganda is the mixture of lies and truth and black propaganda consists of largely but not total lies. All these types were exploited upon implementation of propaganda at different levels through different tactics. Psychological operations which were executed as forms of propaganda involved planned use of communication through words, symbols and actions to influence the behaviour of the targeted audiences and achieve set objectives. The government’s use of propaganda warfare was prompted by a number of reasons which ranged from economic, political, social and military factors. It is worth noting here that, the tempo and conduct of the war varied from one locality to the other depending on the terrain and proximity to strategical areas like borders, transport networks and close to government’s administrative offices. The study is presented in three chapters. The first chapter outlines the reasons for the introduction of propaganda warfare in Chilonga...
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...undertakes its work within three main thematic programs: International Criminal Justice; Female Genital Mutilation; and Middle East and North Africa Democracy, including specific work on Iraq. NPWJ is a Member of the TRP Senate, a Member of the Steering Committee of the NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court and the Italian civil society partner in the Democracy Assistance Dialogue. This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of No Peace Without Justice and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union. Overall editing of this report was done by Alison Smith. The draft report was prepared by Sylvia de Bertodano, Joanna Evans, Nicole Fritz and Michael Gibb. Design and production by Rebus, Paris Alison Smith is the Legal Counsel and Coordinator of the International Criminal Justice Program of No Peace Without Justice and was NPWJ’s Country Director in Sierra Leone. She served as the...
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..._______________________ CHAPTER 3 _______________________ HOLDERS IN DUE COURSE I. ACQUIRING HOLDER IN DUE COURSE STATUS If you remember the rule that a holder in due course takes free of most of the defenses the parties to the original transaction have against one another, it is easy to see why it is important to determine if the person currently possessing the instrument qualifies as a holder in due course. The basic definition is found in §3-302(a), which you should read carefully. Official Comment 4 to §3-302 makes it clear that the payee can qualify as a holder in due course in some rare situations. Normally, the payee is so involved in the underlying transaction that he or she has notice of problems affecting payment obligations, and thus cannot be a holder in due course. But the examples given in Official Comment 4 describe fact patterns where the payee is innocent of such knowledge and can therefore qualify for the protection given to holders in due course. See also Eldon’s Super Fresh Stores, Inc. v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., 296 Minn. 130, 207 N.W.2d 282, 12 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. 490 (1973), for an example of the payee as a holder in due course. 35 36 3. Holders in Due Course Subsection (c) gives a list of extraordinary transactions — creditors seizing instruments by judicial process, the sale of an inventoried business (a ‘‘bulk transaction’’), or the appointment of the administrator of an estate containing negotiable instruments — in which...
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...the United States and spread to Europe and the rest of the world. The negative consequences of this financial crisis had bitten the Egyptian economy in many fields. Egypt’s growth rate witnessed setbacks and may have posted its slowest annual growth in half a decade in 2008–2009 as the global crisis hit revenue from tourism, migrant labor remittances, the Suez Canal, export revenues, and investment. The severity of the crisis and its uncertainties demonstrated the need for urgent action to restore financial stability, lead the economic recovery and secure a sustainable future for the country. This paper therefore critically discusses the current global financial crisis and its impact on Egypt. It presents an overview of the Egyptian economy prior to the crisis, followed by an assessment of the depth and impact of the crisis on sectors of the Egyptian economy. Additionally, the paper highlights the actions taken by the Egyptian government to weather the effects of the crisis and concludes with some policy recommendations for the Egyptian economy to cope with this crisis. Financial Subprime Mortgage Crisis Causes Securitization And The Subprime Crisis What started as a mortgage crisis in the United States in the latter half of 2007 has now developed into a global economic crisis, bringing with it unprecedented labor market and social challenges...
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...------------------------------------------------- Top of Form The Rise and Fall of Enron | The rise and fall of Enron is an important, complex story. In its early days Enron did the right things for the right reason and garnered substantial credibility. Later successful operations were replaced with the illusion of successful operations. In the last phases Enron milked its credibility to sustain operations through loans. When its credibility with lenders crumbled the loan funds dried up and the corporation imploded. It is reminiscent of the old cartoon of the wily coyote who runs off a cliff. For a period of time after the coyote leaves solid ground he is suspended and tries by furious windmilling to stay suspended but eventually plummets to the ground. In Enron's case the magical period of suspension after it had left the solid ground of economically profitable operation lasted for years. The History of the Natural Gas Industry Natural gas, primarily methane, was originally an unwanted byproduct of petroleum extraction. For many years when an oil well vented gas it was simply flared; i.e., burned off. But people eventually learned the uses and virtues of natural gas and built pipelines to convey it to the cities where it took the place of coal gas for residential and industrial lighting and heating. The market for natural gas has three major types of economic units: 1. Suppliers, 2. Customers, 3. Pipeline companies. In a competitive market the fluctuations in the supply of...
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...Occasional Paper 5 The Recovery of Trust: Case studies of organisational failures and trust repair BY GRAHAM DIETZ AND NICOLE GILLESPIE Published by the Institute of Business Ethics Occasional Paper 5 Authors Dr Graham Dietz is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour at Durham University, UK. His research focuses on trust repair after organisational failures, as well as trust-building across cultures. Together with his co-author on this report, his most recent co-edited book is Organizational Trust: A cultural perspective (Cambridge University Press). Dr Nicole Gillespie is a Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her research focuses on building, repairing and measuring trust in organisations and across cultural and professional boundaries. In addition, Nicole researches in the areas of leadership, teams and employee engagement. Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the contact persons in the featured organisations for their comments on an earlier draft of this Paper. The IBE is particularly grateful to Severn Trent and BAE Systems for their support of this project. All rights reserved. To reproduce or transmit this book in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, please obtain prior permission in writing from the publisher. The Recovery of Trust: Case studies...
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