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To Bless Our Callings: Prayers, Poems, and Hymns to Celebrate Vocation
No full textTo Bless Our Callings: Prayers, Poems, and Hymns to Celebrate Vocation is an ecumenical collection that supports the callings of everyone within the Christian community. This valuable resource of over two hundred prayers, blessings, poems, and sacred songs from diverse Christian traditions speaks to the heart of vocation’s richness.https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/collegevilleinstitute_books/1001/thumbnail.jp
How long does savings last when retirees need more money (or less) than conventional wisdom suggests?
Get PDFPopular convention is to initially withdraw approximately 4% of the retirement savings and increase that dollar amount each year by inflation. But, what if 4% isn\u27t enough? How long will retirement funds last if a newly retired person needs 5%, 6%, or even 10%? Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) suggests that an investor only needs to choose between 2 assets, the risk free rate and an optimal risky portfolio. In this research, five U.S.-based assets are tracked from 1934 until 2015 to see how long they survived independently and in combination with one other asset. Obviously the more a person needs to withdraw from retirement assets, the more quickly the assets are depleted. This paper shows just how fast (or slow) that happens. The risk of the portfolios is also assessed and addressed
Somalis, Muslims and Education
No full textThe second panel discussion, “Somalis, Muslims and Education,” will be from 2:40-4 p.m. The panel will include co-authors Terri Rodriguez, associate professor of education at CSB/SJU, and Nihat Polat from Duquesne University; Susan Cogdill, assistant professor of music at CSB/SJU; Lauren Thoma, ELS teacher from Apollo High School in St. Cloud; Farhiya Bille, ELS paraprofessional from Apollo High School; and Kirstin Ruth Bratt from St. Cloud State University
South African Social Movements: Between Confrontation and Cooptation
No full textBook DescriptionOver the past decade, there has been an unprecedented mobilization of street protests worldwide, from the demonstrations that helped bring progressive governments to power in Latin America, to the Arab Spring, to Occupy movements in the United States and Europe, to democracy protests in China. This edited volume investigates the current status, nature and dynamics of the new politics that characterizes social movements from around the world that are part of this revolutionary wave.
Spanning case studies from Latin America, North and South Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and North America, this volume examines the varied manifestations of the current cycle of protest, which emerged from the Global South and spread to the North and highlights their interconnections – the globalized nature of these social movements. Analytically converging around Sidney Tarrow’s emphasis on protest cycles, political opportunity structures and identity, the individual chapters investigate processes such as global framing, internationalization, diffusion, scale shifts, externalizations and transnational coalition building to provide an analytic cartography of the current state of social movements as they are simultaneously globalizing while still being embedded in their respective localities.
Looking at new ways of thinking and new forms of challenging power, this comprehensive volume will be of great interest to graduates and scholars in the fields of globalization, social movements and international politics
Arithmetic: math as \u27pure\u27 and \u27applied\u27
Get PDFOne often hears mathematics classified into two categories: pure or applied, abstract or concrete, elementary or modern. We explore how arithmetic can dismantle such highly artificial distinctions. More specifically, we play with tiles and draw pictures to highlight how arithmetic can be both good mental exercise and a very useful tool for modern communication
