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وفاة الفنان هيثم أحمد زكي بسبب هبوط في الدزرة الدموية. أعلنت بوابة الأهرام وفات الفنان المصري هيثم أحمد زكي الابن الوحيد للفنان المصري أحمد زكي. وفاة هيثم أح...

#هيثم أحمد زكي

Mirka !... Mirka !... Mirka !... Le premier appel, lancé d’une voix rude, témoignait déjà d’une certaine impatience ; le second se fit irrité, le troisième revêtit une intonation menaçante. Mais personne n’y répondit. Et la vieille servante, ses gros sourcils blancs furieusement froncés, rentra dans sa cuisine en grommelant : – Encore à courir, cette mauvaise bohémienne ! Attends un peu, je te recevrai comme il convient, tout à l’heure ! Cependant, la voix d’Aglaja était fort bien parvenue aux oreilles de la destinataire. Mais la petite tête brune de Mirka avait répondu à l’appel par un mouvement de défi, et le maigre petit corps vêtu de vieux vêtements déteints s’était enfoncé plus commodément encore dans le trou creusé du hêtre centenaire où Mirka avait élu domicile.

"Reasoning" is defined as: "The act, process or art of exercising the faculty of reason; the act or faculty of employing reason in argument; argumentation, ratiocination; reasoning power; disputation, discussion, argumentation." Stewart says: "The word reason itself is far from being precise in its meaning. In common and popular discourse it denotes that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong, and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends." By the employment of the reasoning faculties of the mind we compare objects presented to the mind as percepts or concepts, taking up the "raw materials" of thought and weaving them into more complex and elaborate mental fabrics which we call abstract and general ideas of truth. Brooks says: "It is the thinking power of the mind; the faculty which gives us what has been called thought-knowledge, in[Pg 10] distinction from sense-knowledge. It may be regarded as the mental architect among the faculties; it transforms the material furnished by the senses ... into new products, and thus builds up the temples of science and philosophy." The last-mentioned authority adds: "Its products are twofold, ideas and thoughts. An idea is a mental product which when expressed in words does not give a proposition; a thought is a mental product which embraces the relation of two or more ideas. The ideas of the understanding are of two general classes; abstract ideas and general ideas. The thoughts are also of two general classes; those pertaining to contingent truth and those pertaining to necessary truth. In contingent truth, we have facts, or immediate judgments, and general truths including laws and causes, derived from particular facts; in necessary truth we have axioms, or self-evident truths, and the truths derived from them by reasoning, called theorems."

#logic #thinking #strategy #reason

In the preparation of this little work the writer has kept one end in view, viz.: To make it serviceable for those for whom it is intended, that is, for those who have neither the time nor the opportunity, the learning nor the inclination, to peruse elaborate and abstruse treatises on Rhetoric, Grammar, and Composition. To them such works are as gold enclosed in chests of steel and locked beyond power of opening. This book has no pretension about it whatever,—it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric, expatiating on the dogmas of style, nor a Grammar full of arbitrary rules and exceptions. It is merely an effort to help ordinary, everyday people to express themselves in ordinary, everyday language, in a proper manner. Some broad rules are laid down, the observance of which will enable the reader to keep within the pale of propriety in oral and written language. Many idiomatic words and expressions, peculiar to the language, have been given, besides which a number of the common mistakes and pitfalls have been placed before the reader so that he may know and avoid them. The writer has to acknowledge his indebtedness to no one in particular, but to all in general who have ever written on the subject. The little book goes forth—a finger-post on the road of language pointing in the right direction. It is hoped that they who go according to its index will arrive at the goal of correct speaking and writing.

Le petit hameau de Saint-Géran, situé sur la baie de la Fresnaye, dans les Côtes-du-Nord, n’est habité que par quelques familles de pêcheurs. C’est dans cette pauvre bourgade que se dressait, il y a une cinquantaine d’années, la chaumière de Pierre Guilo. Depuis de longues générations, les Guilo étaient pêcheurs, et Pierre, comme ses ancêtres, vivait péniblement du produit de sa pêche. C’était un honnête homme dans toute l’acception du mot, et, bon camarade, hardi marin, toujours prêt à voler au secours des malheureux en danger sur la grande eau traîtresse, – il était aimé de ses proches et estimé du tous ceux qui le connaissaient. Vingt-cinq ans auparavant, il avait épousé Catherine, une orpheline, aînée de sept enfants, qui ne lui avait apporté en dot que sa jeunesse et son courage. Ensemble, ils vivaient, sinon aisés, du moins heureux, et la naissance attendue d’un enfant, au début de leur union, avait semblé devoir couronner leur bonheur.

#romance #fiction

It was Toby Clendon who named it "Pinchler's Dockyard "--Toby Clendon, young, handsome, and a trifle scampish, who wrote witty essays for The Satirist, slashing criticisms for The Bookworm, and dainty society verses for any journal which chose to pay for such poetical effusions. A very cruel remark to make about Mrs. Pinchler's respectable private hotel at Marsh-on-the-Sea; but then the truth is always cruel, and Mr. Clendon proved the truth of his statement in this wise-- "A dockyard is a place where broken-down ships are repaired. Man, by poetical license, is a ship on the ocean of life. Some broken-down human ships under stress of circumstance put in to Pinchler's private hotel for repair in the matter of bodily ailments. Pinchler's harbours these broken-down human ships, therefore Pinchler's is a human dockyard. Strike out the word human as redundant, and there you are, Pinchler's Dockyard." A whimsical deduction, doubtless, yet by no means void of a certain amount of truthful humour, as the guests at Pinchler's private hotel were for the most part deficient as regards physical completeness. If the lungs were healthy the liver was out of order. Granted that the head was "all there," the legs were not, unless one leg counted as two. Splendid physique, but something wrong with the internal organs. Yes, certainly a good many human ships were undergoing repair under the calculating eye of Mrs. Pinchler; and as her establishment was not healthy enough for a hotel nor sickly enough for an hospital, Toby Clendon's intermediate term "dockyard" fitted it exactly; so Pinchler's Dockyard it was called throughout Marsh-on-the-Sea.

Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driv-en rather slowly through the big thoroughfares. She sat with her feet tucked under her, and leaned against her father, who held her in his arm, as she stared out of the window at the passing people with a queer old-fashioned thoughtfulness in her big eyes. She was such a little girl that one did not expect to see such a look on her small face. It would have been an old look for a child of twelve, and Sara Crewe was only seven. The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown-up people and the world they belonged to. She felt as if she had lived a long, long time.

#romance

ما أحوجنا إلى أن نفهم أنفسنا أن نتأمل حياتنا

وأن نعرف عن وعي نقدي وبصيرة علمية سبيلنا

إلى النهوض وتطوير حياتنا والارتقاء بها. والشرط

الأول لهذا كله أن ندرك معنى المجتمـع مـن حـيـث

هو بنية قائمة على التكافل والتـفـاعـل والـتـضـامـن

ا(شترك أو ا(تبادل. لعل أخطر مشكلاتنا أننا نعيش

وقد استقر في وعينا الباطـن دون ظـاهـر الـقـول

أننا تجمع بشري... لا مجتمع أفراد... لا بنيـة

مترابطة. كل يرسم مصيره ومستقبله... لا مصير

المجتمع ومستقبله. وكل يتحدث عن الثقافة وعن

الذاتية الثقافية حديثا غائما معمى دون أن لك

وعيا علميا عنى الثقافة الاجتماعية وضـرورتـهـا

وأسس نشأتها وتطورها وتوارثـهـا. ثـم بـعـد هـذا

وعلى الرغم منه كل يباهي بثقافة مجهولة له تأريخا

وتأصيلا وحركة اجتماعية ومنطلقه نزعة محورية

عصبوية دون أن يدرك أو دون أن ندرك ومن ثم

نقبل تنوع الثقافات بوصفها ضـرورة اجـتـمـاعـيـة

تاريخية أساسا للتسامح وتعزيزا لدينامية التطور

الاجتماعي وضـمـانـا لـلـنـهـوض

#الثقافة #الثقافي #الفكر #الثقافة العربية #الثقافة الغربية #التاريخ

ما أحوجنا إلى أن نفهم أنفسنا أن نتأمل حياتنا وأن نعرف عن وعي نقدي وبصيرة علمية سبيلنا إلى النهوض وتطوير حياتنا والارتقاء بها. والشرط الأول لهذا كله أن ندرك معنى المجتمـع مـن حـيـث هو بنية قائمة على التكافل والتـفـاعـل والـتـضـامـن ا(شترك أو ا(تبادل. لعل أخطر مشكلاتنا أننا نعيش وقد استقر في وعينا الباطـن دون ظـاهـر الـقـول أننا تجمع بشري... لا مجتمع أفراد... لا بنيـة مترابطة. كل يرسم مصيره ومستقبله... لا مصير المجتمع ومستقبله. وكل يتحدث عن الثقافة وعن الذاتية الثقافية حديثا غائما معمى دون أن eلك وعيا علميا hعنى الثقافة الاجتماعية وضـرورتـهـا وأسس نشأتها وتطورها وتوارثـهـا. ثـم بـعـد هـذا وعلى الرغم منه كل يباهي بثقافة مجهولة له تأريخا وتأصيلا وحركة اجتماعية ومنطلقه نزعة محورية عصبوية دون أن يدرك أو دون أن ندرك ومن ثم نقبل تنوع الثقافات بوصفها ضـرورة اجـتـمـاعـيـة تاريخية أساسا للتسامح وتعزيزا لدينامية التطور الاجتماعي وضـمـانـا لـلـنـهـوض

#الثقافة #الثقافي

If this book represents your first foray into the world of making money online you may be asking yourself the question “is it really possible to earn money on the Internet?” The answer to this question is an unmitigated 'yes'. Millions of people all over the world earn part or all of their income online. I'm not just talking about big companies by the way, but individuals working from the comfort of their own homes using websites they created to earn incredible sums of money every year, in and year out. When faced with this fact you might then begin to think, “yeah but those people are probably computer geniuses who have spent all their lives behind a computer.” Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. Earning significant income using the Internet doesn't require any specific skill or a long history of becoming familiar with computers or the Internet itself. There is an incredible amount of information available to you to help you get started with your own profitable online business no matter how much or how little experience you may have. With this book, we hope to familiarize you with some of the basic information needed to get your Internet business up and running including such topics as what kind of business to choose, how to design a website, and even attracting visitors to the website once it's built. Make sure to take your time and study each section carefully because throughout the book we have provided you with detailed information and website links that will give you all the resources necessary to get started today. So what are we waiting for? Let's get started …

Fair is our lot—goodly is our heritage! (Humble ye, my people, and be fearful in your mirth!) ⁠For the Lord our God Most High ⁠He hath made the deep as dry, He hath smote for us a pathway to the ends of all the Earth!

#poetry

The Black List of Hollywood was an informal catalog that was released to Hollywood cinemas during the early Cold War, illustrating artists who were considered members or influences of the Communist Party. Those included in the list were excluded from all work in the cinema and several US theaters, leading to professional and personal extermination.This practice was part of the general climate of marauding of the days and was encouraged (indirectly but clearly) by the Commission of Anti-American Activities, a congressional body that had undertaken to curb the alleged Communist penetration of public life. It only stopped in the early 1960s, having led a large number of artists to destruction or self- extinction in Europe and Mexico....

#cinema #history of cinema #hollywood

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Rien n’a plus de charme qu’un très joli matin d’avril, entre la Madeleine et l’Opéra. Maxime Dulaure atteignait l’angle du Café de la Paix, étranger aux impressions qu’éveillait la griserie générale. Comment! songea-t-il, j’ai pu venir aussi loin sans m’en apercevoir... Et, cette fois, ce n’est pas un problème de science qui m’occupe... Ne puis-je déjà plus me défendre de songer à elle? Quoi! cette méprisable maladie me gagne donc, moi aussi, à la fin?… Amoureux, moi!... Ce serait fort!...

Jones writes that across America, “churches are now eclipsed architecturally and culturally by commercial centers” (p. 6). What are the most noteworthy buildings in your town or area, and why? What can architecture tell us about a community’s priorities? Is it important to you for churches or other religious buildings to be prominent and visible in your community? 2. According to Jones, over the course of the twentieth century, white mainline Protestants and white evangelical Protestants developed two opposing worldviews. What were their worldviews, and in what ways did they differ? Do you think the divide still persists among white American Protestants today? 3. Jones notes that white Catholics were never fully part of what he calls “White Christian America.” What is Jones suggesting by making this distinction? Why do you think there is less Protestant-Catholic conflict today compared to the past? 4. In this chapter, Jones describes a world where, until recently, White Christian America was “the cultural pivot around which the country turned.” Today, he writes, “it’s no longer possible to believe that White Christian America sets the tone for the country’s culture as a whole” (p. 39). Do you believe the United States is a Christian nation? Do you believe it was ever a Christian nation?

Nine Suggestions on How to Get the Most Out of This Book 1. If you wish to get the most out of this book, there is one indispensable requirement, one essential infinitely more important than any rule or technique. Unless you have this one fundamental requisite, a thousand rules on how to study will avail little, And if you do have this cardinal endowment, then you can achieve wonders without reading any suggestions for getting the most out of a book. What is this magic requirement? Just this: a deep, driving desire to learn, a vigorous determination to increase your ability to deal with people. How can you develop such an urge? By constantly reminding yourself how important these principles are to you. Picture to yourself how their mastery will aid you in leading a richer, fuller, happier and more fulfilling life. Say to yourself over and over: "My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.” 2. Read each chapter rapidly at first to get a bird's-eye view of it. You will probably be tempted then to rush on to the next one. But don’t—unless you are reading merely for entertainment. But if you are reading because you want to increase your skill in human relations, then go back and reread each chapter thoroughly. In the long run, this will mean saving time and getting results. 3. Stop frequently in your reading to think over what you are reading. Ask yourself just how and when you can apply each suggestion. 4. Read with a crayon, pencil, pen, magic marker or highlighter in your hand. When you come across a suggestion that you feel you can use, draw a line beside it. If it is a four-star suggestion, then underscore every sentence or highlight it, or mark it with “****.” Marking and underscoring a book makes it more interesting, and far easier to review rapidly. 5. I knew a woman who had been office manager for a large insurance concern for fifteen years. Every month, she read all the insurance contracts her company had issued that month. Yes, she read many of the same contracts over month after month, year after year. Why? Because experience had taught her that that was the only way she could keep their provisions clearly in mind

#freinds #influence

L'enterrement vivant est une action consistant à mettre en terre une personne encore vivante. Indépendamment des ensevelissements accidentels provoqués par des catastrophes ou des cataclysmes, des personnes peuvent être involontairement mises en bière et inhumées vivantes à la suite d'une tragique erreur de diagnostic de leur décès. On regroupe dans cette catégorie les personnes qui ont été enfermées vivantes dans un cercueil ou déposées dans une morgue et dont le réveil a été heureusement constaté avant leur enterrement. Il peut également s'agir d'un supplice mortel, particulièrement cruel, principalement réservé aux femmes au Moyen Âge lorsque d'autres méthodes d'exécution étaient jugés impudiques. La méthode peut également être employée au cours de massacres commis pendant des conflits ou individuellement par des meurtriers. L'enfouissement peut aussi être volontaire, la mort n'étant pas le but recherché. C'est le cas lorsque des illusionnistes, yogis ou fakirs cherchent à réaliser des performances physiques, ou que l'on tente de faire croire à un décès.

#enterement #mort #tragique

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