This book provides a concise overview of the institutions of government in modern democracies, including constitutions, legislatures, heads of state and of government, variations of federalism, and electoral systems. The Institutions of Liberal Democratic States presents four excerpted chapters from Politics: An Introduction to Democratic Government, second edition.
The Children of the Night is a love story disguised as a Vampire themed suspense thriller. The new twist on the Vampire myth does not require the reader to suspend rational thought, nor undergo mental contortions to imagine people turning into bats. The book follows the events of Mr. Charles Sinclair who has been fooled into accepting a disease that prolongs life at an unimaginable cost. Mr. Sinclair is basically a decent man who by an accident of birth has found himself carrying a family curse, and a debt to humanity that could never be paid. Mr. Sinclair has all the money anyone could want, but golden jewel of peace has always been one tragedy away.
The narrative surrounding Charles Lindbergh’s life has been as varying and complex as the man himself. Once best known as an aviator—the first to complete a solo nonstop transatlantic flight—he has since become increasingly identified with his sympathies for white supremacy, eugenics, and the Nazi regime in Germany. Underexplored amid all this is Lindbergh’s spiritual life. What beliefs drove the contradictory impulses of this twentieth-century icon? An apostle of technological progress who encountered God in the wildernesses he sought to protect, an anti-Semitic opponent of US intervention in World War II who had a Jewish scripture inscribed on his gravestone, and a critic of Christianity who admired Christ, Lindbergh defies conventional categories. But spirituality undoubtedly mattered to him a great deal. Influenced by his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh—a self-described “lapsed Presbyterian” who longed to live “in grace”—and friends like Alexis Carrel (a Nobel Prize–winning surgeon, eugenicist, and Catholic mystic) and Jim Newton (an evangelical businessman), he spent much of his adult life reflecting on mortality, divinity, and metaphysics. In this short biography, Christopher Gehrz represents Lindbergh as he was, neither an adherent nor an atheist, a historical case study of an increasingly familiar contemporary phenomenon: the “spiritual but not religious.” For all his earnest curiosity, Lindbergh remained unwilling throughout his life to submit to any spiritual authority beyond himself and ultimately rejected the ordering influence of church, tradition, scripture, or creed. In the end, the man who flew solo across the Atlantic insisted on charting his own spiritual path, drawing on multiple sources in such a way that satisfied his spiritual hunger but left some of his cruelest convictions unchallenged.
The Children of the Night is a love story disguised as a Vampire themed suspense thriller. The new twist on the Vampire myth does not require the reader to suspend rational thought, nor undergo mental contortions to imagine people turning into bats. The book follows the events of Mr. Charles Sinclair who has been fooled into accepting a disease that prolongs life at an unimaginable cost. Mr. Sinclair is basically a decent man who by an accident of birth has found himself carrying a family curse, and a debt to humanity that could never be paid. Mr. Sinclair has all the money anyone could want, but golden jewel of peace has always been one tragedy away.
Just think of your father's sperm as a starting off point. A usual male produces about 100 million sperm per ejaculation. Only one of those sperm will survive the arduous journey to its terminal apex. How many sperm does a male produce in, say, an 80-year life span? No precise count is possible, since it varies with each individual, but one can roughly estimate the number to be around 500 billion or perhaps more impressive sounding as a 1/2 trillion. If your own father had five children, this would mean that just in terms of sperm, you are a 1 in a 100 billion winner! Couple this with the rarity of your mother's egg (of the nearly half million follicles where only about 400 or so will become viable) and the very fact that you are alive reading this essay is beyond any moneyed lottery you will ever enter.
This book provides a concise overview of the institutions of government in modern democracies, including constitutions, legislatures, heads of state and of government, variations of federalism, and electoral systems. The Institutions of Liberal Democratic States presents four excerpted chapters from Politics: An Introduction to Democratic Government, second edition.
Children of the MOST HIGH GOD get ready to meet your MAKER. The inevitable day of judgment is not far removed. Humble yourselves or else Eternity will be a nightmare!
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