Others left China for a better education, but the homeland still beckoned. They pondered the relationships between East and West, tradition and modernity, national allegiance and cosmopolitan ideals. Their accomplishments and regrets have shaped the path of China's development and mapped the contours...
many of the Independents who had fought and lost drifted to the edges of the system, far from Alliance control. Out here, people struggled to get by with the most basic technologies; a ship would bring you work, a gun would help you keep it. A captain's goal was simple: find a cre...
Weis may have bent his head six inches to the side, but [Vince] clearly cleared this guy who was 7-foot-2. I had to gather myself, like: "Whoa! What just happened?" Vince Carter: I took off outside the box, and I'm looking at the rim like, "Uh-oh....
Meanwhile, God will put His protection upon 144,000 Jews who have converted to Christianity so that they can begin to preach God’s saving message to the people of the Tribulation. (Rev. 7: 3-8) At the same time, God will allow strong delusion to come over all who heard the Gospel ...
For the first time, it's also admitted the scale of the abuse - revealing it's aware of 40,000 people who say they've come to the UK and didn’t get the work they were told they would have. Our investigation in May 2023 revealed how people were coming to the ...
. . being too bruised to be touched; those of us left behind should not spend a lot of time second-guessing, wondering whether we failed in some way; and, finally, given God’s mercy, the particular anatomy of suicide, and the sensitive souls of those who fall prey to it, we should...
A soft place to fall, some poetry, some stories some random thoughts but most of all a place that I hope blesses those who stop by.Posted on August 12, 2024 · 1 Comment After all…. I’m not a kid anymore As a kid I played until the street lights came on, Sometimes All of ...
It will get easier, your dreams are not dead.” -Nikki Rowe 82. “I don’t like to be bored.”– Jeanne Willis 83. “My theory is you just have to accept what you can’t change, or don’t want to change about yourself, and surround yourselves with people who care about you for...
athletes get in the sport young, learning fast, never gassing out, crushing everyone and in the face of challenge, crumble and quit. So many times. Too many to count really. This is why hard work beats talent, take a moment to remember those who started with you and were left behind....
I know that there are people out there who would call me a sheep for having decided to get the vaccine. To them, I would say that it is because of that kind of rigid black-and-white thinking that we now find ourselves in the predicament we currently find ourselves in, not just as ...