Assassination: A brief exegesis

Andrea Rassell exegesis

Assassination of President

1330 Attending college, without the right to vote, I had little or no interest in national politics (or state or local, for that matter). In the fall of 1960, John Kennedy arrived in Dayton to give a morning campaign speech from the courthouse steps. Cutting classes, I zigzagged through the crowd to watch and hear Kennedy speak to everyone, regardless of age, race, religion, or gender. That spe...

Leader Assassination and Economic Growth

This paper studies whether national leadership shocks affect a country’s economic growth. Jones and Olken [2005] find that national leaders’ accidental death affects growth. In subsequent work, Jones and Olken [2009] find that different outcomes of assassination attempts, successful attempts versus unsuccessful ones, matter for countries’ institutions. This paper considers whether the outcome o...

The ‘birth-and-assassination’ Process

A new variant of a branching process is introduced, with sufficient conditions for it to persist and to die out. The model is applied to discuss the asymptotic stability of a new type of queuing process.

Exegesis of Psalm 62

The most basic and fundamental element of the psalms is their: expression of continual total and exclusive trust in God. This element is most fully expressed in Psalm 62. This psalm, as well as Psalms 4, 16, 27 and 131, is a psalm of trust. Each expresses the same firm hope in God's ability to help his faithful ones become "more than conquerors." Several scholars argue that the psalms of trust ...