“Where are you?” The communicative functions of Saudi students’ text messaging

The widespread use of the mobile phone service has greatly contributed to the proliferation of text messaging, particularly among young people.The main objective of this study is to examine the communicative functions of the text messaging of young Saudi university students.Thurlow’s (2003) theoretical framework is used in this study.The study has a straightforward research question: What are the communicative functions of young Saudi students’ text messaging? 750 text messages were collected from the participants.The data collected were coded based on their communicative functions. Five main categories of communicative functions emerged from the data, namely friendship maintenance, socialization, school collaboration, coordination, and exchange of information. The findings of the present study corroborate previous findings about communicative functions in text messaging

Where Are You, Congress?: Silence Rings in Congress as Juvenile Offenders Remain in Prison for Life

Over the last decade, Supreme Court precedent has changed the way courts have sentenced juveniles in the United States. It has failed, however, to clearly establish the proper handling of cases in which juveniles are sentenced to extended periods of time in prison that equate to a de facto sentence of life in prison without parole. Congress has also remained noticeably silent on the issue. Children are not considered mature enough to vote, to drink alcohol, to serve on a jury, and yet, courts treat juvenile offenders as mature enough to pay for their crimes for the remainder of their lives. Without a clear remedy in sight, juvenile offenders face uncertain fates and unequal treatment in the justice system, both on the state and federal level. Therefore, despite residing in the same circuit, a juvenile in New Jersey, for example, will face different sentencing consequences than a juvenile in Pennsylvania for similar crimes. This note proposes a solution for Congress to start the trend by banning de facto LWOP to fully establish that children are, in fact, treated differently than adults in the United States

Catholic Relief Services 2012 Annual Report

Wherever people reach out with love to help one another, that is where God is. And through your faith, compassion and generosity, that is where you will find Catholic Relief Services. Where God is, you find expectant mothers receiving care for their unborn babies. Where God is, there are children receiving a lunch that takes them through their day and an education that fuels them for a lifetime. Where God is, there are women saving money for the first time, starting small businesses that will help their families and communities thrive. Where God is, you find farmers using irrigation and improved agricultural methods to feed their families, even when the rains are not falling. Where God is, there are meals and shelter and water provided to those who lost their homes. Where God is, you find children learning from CRS Rice Bowl, understanding what it means to be part of a family that stretches around the world. In a challenging fiscal year, your faith provided a total of $196 million in private contributions, which helped us leverage an additional$501 million from the U.S. government and other sources. This allowed CRS to serve more than 100 million people in 91 countries. In serving the common good, we also strive for uncommon excellence in our work, knowing that is what God expects of us. In fiscal year 2012, 93 percent of our expenditures went to programs that benefit poor people overseas. What you will see in these pages is that CRS has met the challenges of a tight fiscal environment and increased needs with inventiveness. You will see the commitment of colleagues with significant talents and even bigger hearts. You will see an organization for which the presence of God is real every day

Win - Win Growing Your Team Growing Your Business: ‌ A Working Guide For Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) Practitioners Seeking to Work with Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

The aims of this guide are to enable you: •To review what business success means to you, what key challenges you face, and how you are going to meet them. •To undertake a personal review, including considering what personal success means to you. •To learn from the experience of other successful businesses in the region how best to develop your staff team to enable them and your business to fulfill their potential. •To find out where you can get information and advice about taking things forward

How to protect yourself and others

Updated Aug. 11, 2022There are many ways your actions can help protect you, your household, and your community from severe illness from COVID-19. CDC\u2019s COVID-19 Community Levels provide information about the amount of severe illness in the community where you are located to help you decide when to take action to protect yourself and others.20221175

Kiev Pechersk Lavra

Few things in life can be considered to be truly beautiful. The superficial parts of life: a beautiful dress, a grand staircase, or even gorgeous fabrics for example, have no dispute in their beauty. But they are purely manmade. Then, there are those objects in life where their beauty seems to surpass all other words. As one looks out upon open seas and watches as lightening strikes the waters over and over again; there are no words to describe it. It is terrifying and yet leaves you in awe of the world around you. Looking at something like this, in a mere second of life, puts all other worries and fears in life to a silence. Suddenly, you are reminded just how insignificant you are as an individual compared to the natural elements of the Earth

Lacan and Organization

239 p.Libro ElectrónicoThe work of Jacques Lacan has become an influential source to most disciplines of the social sciences, and is now considered a standard reference in literary theory, cultural studies and political theory. While management and organization studies has traditionally been preoccupied with questions of making corporations more efficient and productive, it has also mobilized a strong and forceful critique of work, management and capitalism. It is primarily as a contribution to this tradition of critical scholarship that we can see the work of Lacan now emerging.La obra de Jacques Lacan se ha convertido en una fuente de influencia para la mayoría de las disciplinas de las ciencias sociales, y ahora se considera una referencia estándar en la teoría literaria, estudios culturales y la teoría política. Mientras que los estudios de gestión y organización ha sido tradicionalmente preocupado por las cuestiones de lo que las empresas más eficientes y productivos, sino que también ha movilizado una fuerte crítica y contundente del trabajo, la gestión y el capitalismo. Es sobre todo como una contribución a esta tradición de los estudios críticos que podemos ver la obra de Lacan surgiendo.Contributors ix Preface xiii Carl Cederström and Casper Hoedemaekers 1 Lacan and Organization: An Introduction 1 2 Lacan at Work 13 3 Symbolic Authority, Fantasmatic Enjoyment and the Spirits of Capitalism: Genealogies of Mutual Engagement 59 4 The Unbearable Weight of Happiness 101 5 For the Love of the Organization 133 6 You Are Where You Are Not: Lacan and Ideology in Contemporary Workplaces 169 7 Danger! Neurotics at Work 187 8 Lacan in Organization Studies 21

The Angels Won't Help You

The Angels Won’t Help You is a book about the uniqueness and primacy of help, particularly in relation to care, love, and caritas. It relies heavily on psychoanalytic and philosophical accounts of help and care and finds that help requires the establishment of a real relationship between persons, where help is given and received in a transitional space that is collapsed by care, unity, or love, which are mental constellations that, while profound, remain within the individuals involved. It contains reflections, memoir, and prose poetry, with an emphasis on psycho-philosophical examinations of help. In trying to understand help, especially in the ways that it is not a synonym for care, Bowker turns to diverse sources and topics, including treatments of children in a helpless world, as featured in the literature of Kathy Acker and Jerzy Kosiński, a first-person account of help in psychiatric hospitals, an analysis of the phenomenon of Japanese hikikomori (“shutting oneself in”), anxiety and helplessness, an exploration of the nature of help and helplessness in Wilfred Bion’s “Attacks on Linking,” a rethinking of trauma in light of the circuital structure of the self, and more. *** Put differently, The Angels Won’t Help You is a cruel helpless hopeless book raised in Texas roped ridden waddled clowned it developed catastrophic methods of coping. Angels’ mama split her tongue and hissed her words like silent / soldier / crisis in the torment of her sunken trailer in the summer where Angels practiced lighting cigarettes with her eyes fetching fireflies making tinctures of dead tissue becoming extraordinarily promiscuous. Angels’ nature was to hide in dark places to ride with abandon to sink in the spurs to gnash silver teeth to kick up tipped boots ruining every square dance. Angels, you make me need like a choke rope dream of being sick from head to foot. You are the petaled froth on every steep lapel. You are original and dilapidated depilatory and inflationary ovulary and delusional. O Angels, the scholars will say I failed to know you address you presage you protect you protest you, but we know the truth

Waves of Life

Abstract The focus of my project is on my mother, Selamije Ahmeti. I have used her life experiences to further understand creative women and to help me understand where my creativity stemmed from. I have accomplished this through several methods such as a questionnaire I made up where I asked her to write down her answers, casual conversations I later transcribed, deliberate conversations I later transcribed and my personal observation. This project also involves the process of self-discovery. I believe there is nothing greater than knowing who you are and what you have to offer to the world. I have found that knowing where you come from plays a big role in the development of creative personalities. My goal is to share with women around the world from my experience that every aspect of creativity is important and should be celebrated. Often, we focus on creative achievement through the means of awards and what we think of as “unreachable creativity.” However, everyone has creative potential and when we use it, we have a great impact, in so many diverse ways that need to be appreciated

Evangelical Friend, February 1971 (Vol. 4, No. 6)

Words from the Editor Pastors or preachers?--the church: a nerve-shattering organization. Page 5Anybody need a pastor? Page 5 If we lose this generation ... God is saying, \u27I have forgiven you so much; I\u27ve had such compassion on you. Shouldn\u27t you be patient with them? Have you no pity? \u27 Page 7 The church in social perspective Where are individuals who are willing to test, not just discuss, new ideas in order to strengthen the Christian testimony? Page 9 Do we have a pastoral system? We named our preachers \u27pastors\u27 ... but we have not really given pastoral leadership a chance to work. Page 10 Missionary Voice Tacna 12This month\u27s most significant developments on the fields: India 13 Is pastoral calling a vanishing art? Another article adding to this month\u27s emphasis on pastoral leadership in our churches. Page 14 \u27Let us alone!\u27 What can a Christian do to apply the power of Christ to such a staggering need-our drug abuse problem? Page 16 Regular Features Friends Write 2The Face of the World 4 Over the Teacup 14The Children\u27s Page 15 Reach and Teach 18 Books 19 ---------- Northwest Supplementhttps://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_evangelical_friend/1040/thumbnail.jp