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Chomsky's contribution to the study of language has, over the last
four decades, been enormous, and has exerted a powerful influence
throughout the other cognitive sciences. Language is, arguably, an
even more distinctively human characteristic than intelligence, and
the thousands of different human languages are, according to
Chomsy, cut to the same general pattern. This pattern is
determined, he claims, by innate structuring principles which only
human beings possess. Chomsky's search for the universal in
language has revitalized the question of the relationship between
language and mind, and has provided a powerful new tool, generative
grammar, for students of language.
Embodying the aims of the new curriculum for Wales, and forming
part of the Humanities Area of Learning and Experience, Curriculum
for Wales: Geography for 11-14 years will help you plan your
curriculum, offering 18 chapters packed full of geographical
resources, including maps, charts, diagrams and data. >>
Build students' curiosity about the world around them - how it
developed, what it is like now, and what it could be like in the
future by helping you develop an enquiry-based approach to
learning. >> Explore geography at a local, national and
global scale and foster students' sense of cynefin with a focus on
Wales and its place on the wider world. >> Develop core
geographical skills with fieldwork enquiries embedded into the
context of topics, encouraging students to investigate their local
area. >> Support teachers in planning and assessment with
suggested learning objectives. >> Help students to consider
topics in the context of their own lives and the local area in
which they live with regular 'My place' activities. >>
Encourage students to think about the impact of human actions in
their local area, on Wales and the world, to develop ethical
informed citizens. >> Choose from crucial content areas
including: weather and climate; ecosystems; landscapes and national
parks; rural and urban places; sport and culture; climate change;
disease; global consumers and more.
Motivate pupils to develop their geographical skills, knowledge and
understanding as they become engaged and accomplished geographers,
ready for the demands of GCSE. Specifically designed to provide a
solid foundation for the 2016 GCSE specifications, this Student
Book takes an enquiry-based approach to learning within each unit
and lesson. - Easily and cost-effectively implement a new KS3
scheme of work: this coherent single-book course covers the latest
National Curriculum content, providing 150 ready-made lessons that
can be used flexibly for a two or three-year KS3 - Build and
improve the geographical knowledge and skills that pupils need:
every double-page spread represents a lesson, with rich
geographical data and place contexts for pupils to interpret,
analyse andevaluate - Lay firm foundations for GCSE: key
vocabulary, command words and concepts are introduced gradually,
preparing pupils for the content and question types they will
encounter at GCSE, with a particular focus on analysis and
evaluation questions - Effectively assess, measure and demonstrate
progress: formative assessments throughout each lesson and
summative end-of-unit reviews include questions that show whether
pupils are 'working towards', 'meeting' or 'exceeding' expectations
- Encourage pupils to check and drive their own progress: learning
objectives and end-of-unit learning outcomes help pupils reflect on
their learning and make connections between key concepts and skills
throughout the course
One of the most consistent features of Christian life has been the
extensive use of the biblical texts in sermons; to evangelise, to
educate, to edify, to exhort, and even to terrify those who heard
them. Yet, surprisingly little scholarly attention has focused on
the dynamics at work as these texts were taken by preachers and
transformed into the largely aural experience encountered by their
audience. Pre-formed and performed thus, scripture was communicated
and made relevant through the use of the sermonic form to audiences
inhabiting a broad range of socio-historical settings, including
those whose social status or illiteracy might otherwise have
completely precluded any access to biblical texts. In this volume,
case-studies of biblical reception within and through preaching
have been taken from two millennia of homilies, with each being
examined to see how the text-preacher-audience dynamic has
influenced the interpretation, understanding and impact of the
Bible. Examples include Paul, Origen, Chrysostom, Augustine,
Hildegard of Bingen, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Aimee Semple McPherson and Chris Brain.
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he
lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot
brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an
anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go
disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves
to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's
fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising
interrelations.
Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed,
this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a
comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which
describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a
"monstrous town," a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and
butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the
UK, imperialism, and Conrad's narrative techniques.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country is a collection of
interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi - an area
with a long and fascinating civil rights history. The product of
more than twenty-five years of work by the Hill Country Project,
this volume examines a revolutionary period in American history
through the voices of farmers, teachers, sharecroppers, and
students. No other rural farming county in the American South has
yet been afforded such a deep dive into its civil rights
experiences and their legacies. These accumulated stories truly
capture life before, during, and after the movement. The authors'
approach places the region's history in context and reveals
everyday struggles. African American residents of Benton County had
been organizing since the 1930s. Citizens formed a local chapter of
the NAACP in the 1940s and '50s. One of the first Mississippi
counties to get a federal registrar under the 1965 Voting Rights
Act, Benton achieved the highest per capita total of African
American registered voters in Mississippi. Locals produced a
regular, clandestinely distributed newsletter, the Benton County
Freedom Train. In addition to documenting this previously
unrecorded history, personal narratives capture pivotal moments of
individual lives and lend insight into the human cost and the
long-term effects of social movements. Benton County residents
explain the events that shaped their lives and ultimately, in their
own humble way, helped shape the trajectory of America. Through
these first-person stories and with dozens of captivating photos
covering more than a century's worth of history, the volume
presents a vivid picture of a people and a region still striving
for the prize of equality and justice.
In this collection, John Lyons mines more deeply the rich vein of
childhood memories and experiences of Trinidad and Tobago, where he
grew up.
Taking its title from a traditional dish of Trinidad and Tobago,
this cookbook is at once a cultural history and a unique mix of
easy-to-follow recipes, art, poems, stories, and anecdotes. The
recipes reflect a fusion of the many nationalities that have shaped
Trinidad, offering dishes that range from homey, traditional fare
to new, experimental entrees. Following the principles of his
artistic practice--whereby the knowledge of and respect for
materials and their uses are paramount as a basis for
investigation--the author creatively explores easily available
ingredients and enhances them with the subtle use of herbs and
spices to create distinctive dishes, making this a serious
contribution to the ever-growing reputation of Caribbean
gastronomy.
This is a new release of the original 1952 edition.
In a previous study on technology for stabilization and
reconstructions operations, hereafter SRO(I), the authors1
evaluated current stabilization and reconstruction (S&R)
operations requirements and identified for Dr. Tom Killion, the
Army Science and Technology (S&T) Executive, areas in which
Army capabilities could be improved with advanced technologies.
Stabilization and reconstruction operations establish, retain, and
exploit security and control over areas, populations, and resources
to employ military capabilities to restore essential services and
facilitate the reestablishment of civil order and authority.2 They
involve both coercive and cooperative actions and occur before,
during, and after offensive and defensive operations.
Darwin's theory of evolution remains controversial, even though
most scientists, philosophers, and even theologians accept it, in
some form. The controversy erupts when the theory is used to try to
explain everything and to deny the role of a Creator or a purpose
to life. It is then that philosophers and theologians cry, "Foul!."
This paper reviews the technology forecast assessments of the
Strategic Technologies for the Army of the Twenty-First Century
(STAR21) study conducted for the Army by the National Research
Council in the early 1990s. The review in this paper was requested
by the Army Chief Scientist, Dr. Tom Killion. The goal for STAR21
was "to assist the Army in improving its ability to incorporate
advanced technologies into its weapons, equipment, and doctrine."1
The objectives were to: identify the advanced technologies most
likely to be important to ground warfare in the next century,
suggest strategies for developing the full potential of these
technologies, and project implications for force structure and
strategy for the technology changes."
An important challenge for the Department of Defense (DOD) science
and technology (S&T) programs is to avoid technological
surprise resulting from the exponential increase in the pace of
discovery and change in S&T worldwide. The nature of the
military threat is also changing, resulting in new military
requirements, some of which can be met by technology. Proper
shaping of the S&T portfolio requires predicting and matching
these two factors well into the future. Some examples of
technologies which have radically affected the battlefield include
the Global Positioning System coupled with inexpensive hand held
receivers, the microprocessor revolution which has placed the power
of the Internet and satellite communications into the hands of
soldiers in the field, new sensing capabilities such as night
vision, the use of unmanned vehicles, and composite materials for
armor and armaments. Some of these new technologies came from
military S&T, some from commercial developments and still
others from a synthesis of the two sectors; but all were based on
advances in the underlying sciences. Clearly, leaders and planners
in military S&T must keep abreast of such developments and look
ahead as best they can.
The urge to remain militarily strong has long been a driver of
technological advancement. This interplay between strength and
technology, so evident in America's global military reach, has for
decades prompted U.S. defense planners to engage in technology
forecasting. Analysis of emerging technologies was, and is, vital
to making wise defense investments. Among the preeminent examples
of such analysis are the studies undertaken by Theodore von Karman
just after the Second World War. The von Karman reports represent
an exhaustive review of science and technology related to the
military services. His analysis projected the importance of
unmanned aircraft, advanced jet propulsion, allweather sensors, and
target seeking missiles. While it is important to assess the needs
and challenges of the future, understanding past military
technological successes can be equally important to defense science
and technology (S&T) investment and management. To complement
the above efforts and the many other technology forecasts too
numerous to mention, this study is the first in a series that will
examine some of the key factors that have led to meaningful
technology generation and ultimate incorporation into the U.S.
weapons systems we see in the field today. Included here are such
factors as where the technical work was performed, funding
source(s) for the effort, collaboration between government and
non-government laboratories, and management style. This series of
studies will focus only on Army weapons systems, beginning with the
mainstay of the Army's armor force, the Abrams tank. Analysis of
other Army systems, such as the Apache helicopter and the Javelin
and Stinger missiles, will follow. The results of all studies will
be compiled in a wrap-up report that will focus on the implications
of the findings for today's S&T environment. We begin the paper
by briefly reviewing a project that served as a source of
inspiration for this study: Project Hindsight, a 1969 Defense
Department (DOD) report. Hindsight was an in-depth study sponsored
by the Director of Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E)
that provided some insights into the development of approximately
20 weapons systems across the DOD spectrum. Following the review of
Hindsight, we present a short history of U.S. battle tanks as well
as a summary of events leading up to the Army decision to replace
the M60 Patton tank with the Abrams tank. This is followed by a
description of the methodology used to gather key data on the
development of the Abrams. The information is broken out by topic
area (armament related subjects; armor and other survivability
related subjects; engine and drive system; vetronics, C4ISR and
fire control) and presented in terms of critical technology events
(CTEs). CTEs are ideas, concepts, models, and analyses, including
key technical and managerial decisions that have had a major impact
on the development of a specific weapons system. CTEs can occur at
any point in the system's life cycle, from basic research, to
advanced development, to testing and evaluation, to product
improvements. The final portion of the paper presents the
concluding remarks and findings based on the CTEs that characterize
the Abrams tank's development. The CTEs are noted in the left
margin throughout the report. They are summarized in Appendix B.
CTEs are numbered only for ease of reference; there is no
hierarchical or chronological significance to their order. While
the link between high-tech weapons systems and battlefield success
is often readily apparent, the geneses of and processes associated
with CTEs often are not. CTEs depend on several important factors,
including effective management, adequate funding, establishment of
clear priorities, fostering of proper technical competencies, and
leveraging of the resources of the private sector and academia.
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