The days of Model-T Fords, the Whippet car, and iceboxesa! Grist mills, aHome Comfort Ranges, a and a large copper pot on a fire outdoors for making apple buttera! Carrying water from a spring and building a fire under a big black pot for washing clothes, using homemade lye soap and a washboarda! Setting tobacco plants by hand and later ahanding it offaa! Hog killing timea! Eight grades of school in a one-room schoolhousea! On rare occasions a bag full of candy for a nickela! A newly-wed couple separated by World War IIa! Putting your name on a waiting list to buy household appliances after the wara! Asheville, North Carolina, how it was back thena! Reading of these activities and experiences may bring back memories for some and cause younger folks to be grateful for modernization.
A trio of tales about lovers who must break the barriers of time to find each other. In Davidson's "Winter's Bride, " a romance author is hurled into the 17th century, and into the arms of a handsome colonist. In Hockett's "A Cold Day in Paradise, " a newswoman goes back to the turn of the century to rescue an outlaw from the hangman's noose. in which a woman's efforts to save a town from demise from get the attention of a saloon keeper.
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This book will equip social work students with the knowledge, skills and confidence to produce first-rate written assignments. Part one focuses on the foundational skills needed to produce excellent written work. Students are taken through the core stages of working on an assignment, from planning the task and reading and note-making through to finding and evaluating sources, drafting a text, and editing and proofreading. Part two hones in on the key types of assignment students will encounter on their degree. It contains dedicated chapters on writing an essay, a reflective text, a case study analysis, a literature review, a placement report, and case notes on placement. Each chapter contains examples and activities which will help students to test their knowledge and understanding. This is an essential companion for all social work students.
A difficult learning problem for both children and artificial language learning systems is knowing what is intended to be conveyed based on what is literally said. For example, adults usually take "Some teas contain caffeine" to also convey that "Not all teas contain caffeine", an inference known as a scalar implicature. The present work investigates the role of language-specific knowledge in such inferences through three studies on scalar implicatures in American Sign Language (ASL). The first study illustrates a new experimental paradigm and compares prototypical scalar implicatures in ASL and English. The second study includes the first investigation of general use coordinators in ASL that can be interpreted as either conjunction ("and") or disjunction ("or"). This provides a test case for the role of language-specific lexical contrast in scalar implicatures, with results showing that lexically non-contrastive scales (i.e., lexical scales whose items differ in meaning but not in form) trigger less scalar implicatures than prototypical lexically contrastive scales, which are based on contrasting lexical items. In the third study, both lexically contrastive and non-contrastive scales are interpreted by deaf native signers and also deaf signers who learned ASL at later ages. Result show that later ASL learners calculated less implicatures than early learning signers, but only on the lexically contrastive scale. Together, these studies support a view that despite their context dependence, scalar implicatures are most likely to be triggered by lexical items which contrast with each other in form to create a context-independent "scale", and that there may even be advantages to learning scales early in life. The dissertation concludes with suggestions for incorporating lexical contrast into theories of implicature and for further study of the semantic/pragmatic interface in sign languages.
Would one agree that their past may have influenced their primary decisions in life? Does one wonder what life would have been like under different choices or circumstances? For the record, the author answers yes to both questions. Regardless, a person can only imagine the alternative because the future is known to God alone. In Footprints to Heaven, Kathryn takes the reader on an interesting, detailed, and eventful journey into her childhood and adult life. In addition, she mentions certain unfortunate events that had impacted her life for years. Therefore, specific details may be alarming to the reader. In spite of it all, Kathryn had developed courage, strength, and determination to overcome the adversity that tried to divert a meaningful and productive existence. The book will also divulge the author's choice to live a lesbian lifestyle, provide explanations, and hopefully answer any concerning questions for the reader. Kathryn's condensed history will invite the reader to consider a profound decision, accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of their life. The author's personal relationship with Jesus Christ is the main basis for the book. Kathryn outlines her lifesaving decision to follow Jesus Christ, the transformation and deliverance process, the free choice to live in her car for several years, and the humbleness and joy from the whole experience. Most importantly, Kathryn learned to be less independent. Instead, she has learned to depend and trust God in all things.
According to Avicenna, whatever exists, while it exists, exists of necessity. Not all beings, however, exist with the same kind of necessity. Instead, they exist either necessarily per se or necessarily per aliud. Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual: His Interpretation of Four Aristotelian Arguments explains how Avicenna uses these modal claims to show that God is the efficient as well as the final cause of an eternally existing cosmos. In particular, Celia Kathryn Hatherly shows how Avicenna uses four Aristotelian arguments to prove this very un-Aristotelian conclusion. These arguments include Aristotle's argument for the finitude of efficient causes in Metaphysics 2; his proof for the prime mover in the Physics and Metaphysics 12; his argument against the Megarians in Metaphysics 9; and his argument for the mutual entailment between the necessary and the eternal in De Caelo 1.12. Moreover, Hatherly contends, when Avicenna's versions of these arguments are correctly interpreted using his distinctive understanding of necessity and possibility, the objections raised against them by his contemporaries and modern scholars fail.
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