![]() The general community, in civil life, includes not only the strong and healthy, but also the defective, the weak, and the sick, the blind, the halt, the consumptive, the rheumatic, the immature in childhood, and the exhausted and decrepit in age. None but those of perfect form, complete in all their organization and functions, and free from every defect or disease, are intended to be admitted. This is usually regarded in the original creation of an army. ![]() In order, then, to have a strong and effective army, it is necessary not only to have a sufficient number of men, but that each one of these should have in himself the greatest amount of force, the fullest health and energy the human body can present. The weakness of any part, however small, diminishes, to that extent, the force of the whole and the increase of power in any part adds so much to the total strength. No army can be strong, however numerous its soldiers, if they are weak nor is it completely strong, unless every member is in full vigor. ![]() THE power and efficiency of an army consist in the amount of the power and efficiency of its elements, in the health, strength, and energy of its members. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In addition, he was invited to speak at the prestigious TEDx stage at Christ University to present his talk Follow Your Confusion.Īmidst the uncertainties of this amazing, terrible, magical, horrible, yet beautiful, life, as he puts it, Akif Kichloo writes of love, grief, healing and self care, posting a couple of poems weekly to his various social media pages with a huge following of avid readers and poetry lovers from all over the world. A beautifully soulful compilation of writings on the healing and determination of the human spirit. His poems have appeared in Palette Poetry, Glass, Fly Paper Magazine, Obra / Artifact, Sheraza, Nightingale & Sparrow, Homology Lit, Kissing Dynamite, Verse of Silence, and more. Akif Kichloos 'The Feeling May Remain' is truly an amazing collection of poetry encompassing the wisdom, spirituality and inspiration Akif expresses so eloquently in his poetry. ![]() A graduate of JU, Akif holds a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery.Īkif Kichloo started writing at an early age, having contributed for publications like The Huffington Post and The Wire. Akif Kichloo is a Poet, Doctor of Medicine by profession, and Author of three full length poetry collections: Falling Through Love (Andrews Mcmeel Publishing, 2019), Poems That Lose (Read Out Loud Publishing, 2017) & The Feeling May Remain (Read Out Loud Publishing, 2016). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When I met Charles Koch in 2015, he told me the same thing that he tells everyone who will listen. And barely anyone can name what products they sell. How did the Koch brothers get so rich? After all, they didn’t invent something like the iPad or the Tesla. What isn’t obvious about Koch Industries is the reason for all this success. Charles and David Koch, who own most of the company, have a combined net worth that is greater than that of Bill Gates or Warren Buffett. Koch makes the kind of products that people can’t live without - gasoline, fertilizer, clothing, building materials - and it makes stunning profits doing so. The company’s annual sales are larger than that of Facebook, Goldman Sachs and U.S. There is no question that Koch Industries is successful. This question dogged me for several years as I reported a book about Koch Industries. ![]() ![]() Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awardsįinalist for the US National Book Award for Fiction The million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, by the author of To Paradise and The People in the Trees, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. It's one of those books that stays with you forever.' 'I'm not exaggerating when I say this novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. Hanya Yanagihara’s novel is an astonishing and ambitious chronicle of queer life in America. ![]() ![]() He was nineteen.įor the next thirteen years he wrote fiction at night and weekends, working in many advertising agencies in Melbourne, London and Sydney.Īfter four novels had been written and rejected The Fat Man in History - a short story collection - was published in 1974. He was then employed by an advertising agency where he began to receive his literary education, meeting Faulkner, Joyce, Kerouac and other writers he had previously been unaware of. In 1961 he studied science for a single unsuccessful year at Monash University. He was a student there between 19 - after Rupert Murdoch had graduated and before Prince Charles arrived. 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Drawing on hot button topics and real-life case studies, and delving into the history of offensive terms, a vivid picture of modern discrimination in language emerges. ![]() Each chapter addresses a different area of prejudice: race and ethnicity gender identity sexuality religion health and disability physical appearance and age. This book sheds light on the derogatory phrases, insults, slurs, stereotypes, tropes, and more that make up linguistic discrimination. ![]() On the Offensive I’m not a racist, but … You look good, for your age … She was asking for it … You’re crazy … That’s so gay … Have you ever wondered why certain language has the power to offend? It is often difficult to recognize the veiled racism, sexism, ageism (and other -isms) that hide in our everyday discourse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tiana, too, is an integral part of this process, but the villain who wrecked her Family is ready with firebombs. 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