...Resilience and Spirituality In: Philosophy and Psychology Resilience and Spirituality Abstract Through the course of researching and writing the paper some very interesting things about resilience and spirituality have been observed. While one would assume that a person that exhibits great faith would be very resilient, that is not always the case. Resilience comes from an inner strength that can be magnified by a strong faith. In order for a person to truly have a high level of resilience, they must also have a strong faith. That faith does not have to be in God but it does have to be a faith in something that you believe with protect you and see you through life’s trials. While a belief in something other than God many help a person in the short term, it will ultimately fail them as everything falls short of the Lord. What is Resilience? Simply defined, resilience is the ability bounce back or recoil after being mashed, twisted, or bent. This is a fitting definition as I know that when I have been faced with trauma, I often felt mashed, twisted, or bent. It is such a simple word with a simple meaning but putting into action can often feel almost impossible. Putting this into action requires strength. A person needs to have a strong resolve and a strong faith in order to bounce back in the face of trauma. We are faced with some sort of trauma on an almost daily basis (Maddi, 2013). From the moment we are born we are participating...
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...2012 BRAZIL Unemployment Shadae L. Gardner 2012 BRAZIL Unemployment Shadae L. Gardner Brazilian unemployment affected young Brazilians the most by increasing the unemployment rate 2.3 times higher than usual. It will be less developed job skills and work experience for these young adults. Following a rate of steady decline, the youth unemployment rate rose 0.5 percent points to 18.5 percent average in 2009 while the total unemployment rate raised 0.2 percent average in 2009. By sector, the largest decrease in employment occurred in manufacturing due to a sharp fall in industrial production (12.5 per cent), mainly in export-oriented industries. Paid employment in the sector declined 5.3 per cent in 2009 while working hours contracted slightly (0.3 per cent) and real wages rose 2.5 per cent. At the total economy level, over 94,000 jobs were created during the first three quarters of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008. Employment growth by sector was highest in public administration, education and health (130,400 jobs created), followed by financial and business services (19,100) and construction (16,300). In addition to job losses in manufacturing, net job losses totaled 104,600 in utilities and 14,700 in wholesale and retail trade. In the third quarter of 2009, employment continued to decline in utilities (2.4 per cent) and wholesale and retail trade (0.16 per cent), albeit at a slower pace. Conversely, job growth continued to expand in public administration...
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...progress, but it then dawned on me that my first class of four crying kids only had two now, and the little girl who used to be scared of putting her head under water now could. Although the progress was small, it was there. I was doing it! All my hard work was slowly paying off! Eventually, my classes became the classes I dreamed about. I had kids who were excited to learn their strokes, moms who thanked me, and no crying children. Every morning excitement ran through my veins. I no longer had doubts about my job. It became more of a joy than a job! It wasn't until after finishing my first teaching shift that I no longer saw myself as resilient. I saw myself as powerless, useless, and a terrible teacher. Little did I know that I was show resilence the entire time. I was not an atrocious teacher, but rather the opposite, I was vigorous and determined to learn! Not only did I teach, but I also grew. I should not have viewed the situation as an opportunity to quit, but rather as an opportunity to grow by developing stamina and purposefulness. It was a chance for me to face adversity and overcome it. Word count=1176 ...
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...Session 1: 10 essential elements of class Be Cool, calm, control Negative motivations always reveals itself Do not let another person influence your acts Responsibility: Accept responsibility for yourself and for others when they are not ready Make it look easy People in class don't like to see anyone uncomfortable. Regard problems as opportunities In every bad news- Respond by “excellent” - find positive opportunities hidden in every disaster. Self Interest: Appearance Gaining affection confirms respect You are not obliged to teach people of their mistakes , just listen and respond with class Commitment to yourself: Don't: Criticize, condemn , complain Create feelings of appreciation and gratitude. Do it out of positive self interest. To show positive feelings you should look good; smile and laughing is even better. Session 2: Everybody looks the same on paper, and people are afraid to present themselves as innovators; hence innovation is becoming a lost art. Need inspiration: How you see yourself: Work, Education, Relations Being qualified is not good enough, business leadership is based on two things: 1) vision 2) technical competence It is hard to find the two in one person Research shows 3 things that goes into someones mind when meeting someone for the first time: 1) assesment of newcomer's intelligence and education, best not to be in the two extremes...
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...Interview with a Change Agent Interviewee: Khalid Soussou, Data Security Systems In December 1992, Emirates Information Systems (EIS) completed the implementation phase of a strategic re-orientation change process, led by a new General Manager, Khalid Soussou. The outcome of the change process was a radical restructuring of the organisation involving 80% of the workforce being made redundant, a 90% change in the senior management team, and the outsourcing of the entire transportation department. Rather than being instigated in reaction to a contemporaneous event, the change was instigated because the CEO recognised that EIS’s previous growth strategy via acquisition was not sustainable, and believed significant organisational change in anticipation of increased international competition would help create a sustainable competitive advantage. Soussou’s appointment resulted directly from the CEO’s felt need for change. Soussou was essentially ‘contracted’ to review the business in order to develop and implement appropriate changes that would re-align EIS along more efficient and effective business prinicples. Consequently, the CEO became the ‘patron’ of change, and Soussou the key change agent. After a month of informal interviews with managers and employees, Soussou’s initial impressions of EIS were that they were a ‘cottage industry that achieved success through luck rather than design’. He believed the majority...
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...Ecosystem and Human Activity SIX KEY ASPECTS OF ECOSYSTEM BASED MANAGEMENT October 27, 2013 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Six Key Aspects of Ecosystem Based Management……………………………………3 Integration of ecological, social, and economic goals and recognition of humans as key components of the ecosystem………………………………………………………..............3 Consideration of Ecological Not Just Political- Boundaries………………………………5 Accounting for the Complexity of Natural Processes and Social Systems and Using an Adaptive Management Approach in the Face of Resulting Uncertainties………7 Engaging Multiple Stakeholders in a Collaborative Process to Define Problems and Find Solutions………………………………………………………..…………………….8 Incorporating Understanding of Ecosystem Processes and How Ecosystems Respond to Environmental Perturbations…………………………………………….....9 Concern with the Ecological Integrity of Coastal-marine Systems and the Sustainability of Both Human and Ecological Systems………………………………10 Conclusion ….12 References 13 Introduction Human activities on land and in the ocean are changing ecosystems and threatening their ability to provide important benefits to society, such as healthy and abundant sources of food, clean air, and fresh water. The argument that the ecosystem ought to be managed in whole ecological units based on integrative biological, physical and/or socio-economic assessments is not a new one. However the argument is gaining urgency as a result...
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...DEFINITION FROM WIKI (understand and write it yourself) In ecology, resilience is the capacity of an ecosystem to respond to a perturbation or disturbanceby resisting damage and recovering quickly. Such perturbations and disturbances can include stochastic events such as fires, flooding, windstorms, insect population explosions, and human activities such as deforestation and the introduction of exotic plant or animal species. Disturbances of sufficient magnitudeor duration can profoundly affect an ecosystem and may force an ecosystem to reach a threshold beyond which a different regime of processes and structures predominates.Human activities that adversely affect ecosystem resilience such as reduction of biodiversity, exploitation of natural resources,pollution, land-use, and anthropogenic climate change are increasingly causing regime shifts in ecosystems, often to less desirable and degraded conditions. Interdisciplinary discourse on resilience now includes consideration of the interactions of humans and ecosystems via socio-ecological systems, and the need for shift from the maximum sustainable yield paradigm to environmental management which aims to build ecological resilience through "resilience analysis, adaptive resource management, and adaptive governance". The concept of resilience in ecological systems was first introduced by the Canadian ecologist C.S. Holling in order to describe the persistence of natural systems in the face of changes in ecosystem variables...
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...LIST OF NIGERIAN SOUPS 1) AFANG SOUP 2) MIYAN TAUSE 3) OFE ONUGBU 4) IYUE MBUEL 5) ATAMA 6) OBE EFO ELEGUSI 7) OFE ACHARA 8) IKPAHIDO 9) MIYAN ZOGALE 10) OHO IGLIGI 11) EDIKANG IKONG 12) ERIMONU 13) ODU FULO 14) OFE UJUJU 15) PLASAS 16) MIYAN RIDI 17) ABAK MBAKARA 18) OFE OWERRI 19) AFIA EFERE 20) OHO OKOHO 21) EDITAN SOUP 22) IHEWEWE SOUP 23) OWO SOUP 24) OFE DI NA-WAYI 25) OBE ISHAPA 26) MIYAN SHUAKA 27) MIYAN TAPASA 28) OGBONO SOUP 29) UZIZA AND UTAZI SOUP 30) MIYAN WAKE 31) OTONG 32) EFERE USUNG UDIA 33) OBE ILASA WITH OBE ATA 34) OBE EGBULU 35) IWUK EFERE 36) OFE AKPARANTA 37) SOYA BEAN AND GROUNDNUT SOUP 38) SHIMBE LEAVES 39) OFE OTURUPA 40) SPECIAL EFO RIRO 41) GOAT MEAT PEPPER SOUP 42) MIYAN YAKWA 43) BOKONISA 44) SEAFOOD SOUP 45) MIYAN KARKASHI 46) EFERE IBABA 47) COTTON SEED SOUP 48) GBEGIRI 49) EBATU 50) BAMTA SOUP 51) OFE MPOTO OFE UGBA WITH POUNDED YAM This soup is quite popular with people from Imo State. Ugba is the Ibo word for cooked sliced oil bean seed. It is used in many food preparations. The Efik/Ibibio also use this particular ingredient in food preparation and its called “Ukana”. INGREDIENTS QUANTITES Beef ½ kg Smoked fish 1 medium size Stockfish (cooked) 4 medium size Ugu leaves 1 small bunch ...
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...Inclusive Learning Guaranteed!!! (LIKE US ON FACEBOOK AND GET ALL IMPORTANT UPDATES) Category Wise Current Affairs from January 2015 to June 2015 1) Awards and Honours 2) Appointments 3) Banking and Finance 4) Indian Affairs 5) International Affairs 6) Science and Technology 7) Sports 8) Obituary Visit DayTodayGK.com for Current Affairs, General Knowledge, Current Affairs Quiz, Banking Quiz, Marketing Quiz, Science Quiz, English Quiz..etc 9) Important days observed from January to June THE MORE YOU VISIT THE MORE YOU SUCCEED All the Success for your upcoming Exams!!! Contact us at arunsathyan.day2daygk@gmail.com & prerikagupta.day2daygk@gmail.com (Feedbacks are Greatly Appreciated) Do It Now. Sometimes Later Becomes Never. Current Affairs Jan to June AWARDS AND HONOURS Name of the Award Business Person of the Year State Pre-Eminent Science and Technology Award 2015 Space Pioneer Award Award Winner Larry Page Yu Min – Nuclear Scientist ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) Team Asian Tour’s Players Player of Anirban Lahiri the Year Ballon d’Or 2014 Award Cristiano Ronaldo Governor of the Year Raghuram Rajan National e-Governance Award Vyas Samman Award 2014 Jammu and Kashmir National Tiger Conservation Authority Award Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Award Sahitya Akademi Award Periyar Tiger Reserve NSC Award for Best Electoral Practices Social Media Person of the year 2015 Giraffe Hero Award Best Indian Language Website in India Hindu Literary Prize 2014 CV Anand Martin Luther...
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...THE B L A C K SWAN The HIGHLY I mpact IM of the PROBABLE Nassim Nicholas Taleb U.S.A. $26.95 Canada $34.95 is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpre dictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9 / 1 1 . For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. A BLACK SWAN Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don't know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate oppor tunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the "impossible." For years, Taleb has studied how we fool our selves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. Now, in this reve latory book, Taleb explains everything we know about what we don't know. He offers...
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...Global and Transnational Business: Strategy and Management Second Edition Global and Transnational Business: Strategy and Management Second Edition George Stonehouse Northumbria University David Campbell University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Jim Hamill University of Strathclyde Tony Purdie Northumbria University Copyright # 2004 John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, England Telephone (þ44) 1243 779777 Email (for orders and customer service enquiries): cs-books@wiley.co.uk Visit our Home Page on www.wileyeurope.com or www.wiley.com All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except under the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP, UK, without the permission in writing of the Publisher. Requests to the Publisher should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, England, or emailed to permreq@wiley.co.uk, or faxed to (þ44) 1243 770620. This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold on the understanding that the Publisher is not engaged in rendering professional services...
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...The New Astrology by SUZANNE WHITE Copyright © 1986 Suzanne White. All rights reserved. 2 Dedication book is dedicated to my mother, Elva Louise McMullen Hoskins, who is gone from this world, but who would have been happy to share this page with my courageous kids, April Daisy White and Autumn Lee White; my brothers, George, Peter and John Hoskins; my niece Pamela Potenza; and my loyal friends Kitti Weissberger, Val Paul Pierotti, Stan Albro, Nathaniel Webster, Jean Valère Pignal, Roselyne Viéllard, Michael Armani, Joseph Stoddart, Couquite Hoffenberg, Jean Louis Besson, Mary Lee Castellani, Paula Alba, Marguerite and Paulette Ratier, Ted and Joan Zimmermann, Scott Weiss, Miekle Blossom, Ina Dellera, Gloria Jones, Marina Vann, Richard and Shiela Lukins, Tony Lees-Johnson, Jane Russell, Jerry and Barbara Littlefield, Michele and Mark Princi, Molly Friedrich, Consuelo and Dick Baehr, Linda Grey, Clarissa and Ed Watson, Francine and John Pascal, Johnny Romero, Lawrence Grant, Irma Kurtz, Gene Dye, Phyllis and Dan Elstein, Richard Klein, Irma Pride Home, Sally Helgesen, Sylvie de la Rochefoucauld, Ann Kennerly, David Barclay, John Laupheimer, Yvon Lebihan, Bernard Aubin, Dédé Laqua, Wolfgang Paul, Maria José Desa, Juliette Boisriveaud, Anne Lavaur, and all the others who so dauntlessly stuck by me when I was at my baldest and most afraid. Thanks, of course, to my loving doctors: James Gaston, Richard Cooper, Yves Decroix, Jean-Claude Durand, Michel Soussaline and...
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