Robert Bringhurst has noted that Raven never actually creates anything ; he made the world by stealing, exchanging, redistributing, and generally moving things around.

A lifelong student of languages, Bringhurst has translated substantial works from Haida and Navajo, as well as classical Greek and Arabic.

Bringhurst, a talented linguist, has translated works from classical Greek, Arabic, Navajo, and most significantly, Haida.

However, what controversy Bringhurst ’ s writing has attracted is focused on this same work in Haida.

Bringhurst has been accused of academic exploitation and cultural appropriation.

Rather the opposite, Bringhurst has been defended and praised in print media.

Bringhurst studied architecture, linguistics, and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Utah.

For his part, Bringhurst believes that " culture is not genetic " and that he is paying respect to Native American languages like Haida by allowing works from those languages to be appreciated as art by as wide an audience as possible.

From the 1994 season to the present, the Aces have played their home games at historic Bringhurst Field, which was built in 1933 for the original Alexandria Aces.

The most recent ( 2012 ) Ofsted report stated " Bringhurst is a good school which places pupils ’ achievement and well-being at the centre of all it does.

Not least among these voices is Margaret Atwood, who believes that “ territorial squabbling cannot obscure the fact that Bringhurst ’ s achievement is gigantic as well as heroic ”, and that far from appropriating native voices, Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers “ restores to life two exceptional poets we ought to know ”.

In 1855, William Bringhurst led a group of 29 Mormon missionaries from Utah to the Las Vegas Valley.

The etymology of Bringhurst comes from the personal name " Bryni " derived from " bryne " ( Old English ), meaning " fire " or " flame ", combined with the word " hurst " or " hyrst " meaning " wooded hill " in Old English, related to Old Saxon, and " hurst " or " horst " in Old High German.

Bringhurst Primary School is located around half a mile from Bringhurst Village.

Bringhurst won the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence in 2005, an award which recognizes British Columbia writers who have contributed to the development of literary excellence in the Province.

The aforementioned CBC documentary was attacked in print for relying " entirely on the fallacy, convenient to the producers, that Bringhurst had not consulted with any Haida ".

In Central Alaskan Yup ' ik and the Greenlandic language, ll stands for, and in Haida ( Bringhurst orthography ) it is glottalized.

* Bringhurst, Robert ( 2000 ) A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World.

* Bringhurst, Robert.

* Bringhurst, Robert.

Epic versions of the mythology by 19th century Haida storyteller-poets Skaay and Ghandl have been translated by Robert Bringhurst, whose Story as Sharp as a Knife, a collection of their works, won the Governor General's Award.

For example, Robert Bringhurst states that we should " Set opening paragraphs flush left.

" Bringhurst explains as follows.

Robert Bringhurst is a Canadian poet, typographer and author.

All facets of Bringhurst ’ s work have been widely acclaimed.

Despite his few spirited detractors, negative attitudes towards Bringhurst have gained little if any traction in published discourse.

In reality, Bringhurst with the help of Bill Reid had spent the better part of the previous decade working with members of the Haida community.

Other members of this emerging group of “ ecopoets ” include Tim Lilburn, Dennis Lee, Roo Borson, Robert Bringhurst, and Jan Zwicky.

*" Being, Polyphony, Lyric: An Open Letter to Robert Bringhurst ", Canadian Literature, No. 156, Spring 1998

The Elements of Typographic Style is a book by Canadian typographer, poet and translator Robert Bringhurst.

Our understanding of the solar system has taught us to replace our former elaborate rituals with the appropriate action which, in this case, amounts to doing nothing.

Our experience has taught us that it pays to buy the best equipment possible, from pipes to brushes.

Long observation has taught Mason that most landscape can be reduced to three essential planes: a foreground in sharp focus -- either a light area with dark accents or a dark one with lights ; ;

Furthermore, each individual speaker has their own style of signing depending on various factors, such as where they went to school, if they were mainstreamed ( see Mainstreaming ( education )), who taught them ASL, at what age they learned ASL, and how active they are in the Deaf Community.

At the seminary, Frankel taught that Jewish law was not static, but rather has always developed in response to changing conditions.

: as the prophets from the beginning declared concerning Him, and the Lord Jesus Christ Himself has taught us, and the Creed of the holy Fathers has handed down to us.

In Greece, he encountered an Ionian theologian, who has been identified as Athenagoras of Athens ; while in the east, he was taught by an Assyrian, sometimes identified with Tatian, and a Jew, who was possibly Theophilus of Caesarea.

" It has also been implied, especially in the ' alternate future ' story Kingdom Come, that the Clark Kent persona is symbolic of the values taught to him by his wholesome Midwestern parents, the values he holds most dear: his instinctive knowledge of right and wrong that allows him to adopt his Superman persona, without being consumed by the moral implications of his actions ; Superman is the means through which he can bring this example to the world.

The new school currently has campuses in Ireland, Cairo, New Jersey, and Los Angeles, where Coptic priests-to-be and other qualified men and women are taught among other subjects Christian theology, history, the Coptic language and art – including chanting, music, iconography, and tapestry.

Today it has campuses in Alexandria, Cairo, and various dioceses throughout Egypt, as well as outside Egypt, in New Jersey, Los Angeles, Sydney, Melbourne and London, where potential clergymen and other qualified men and women are taught many subjects, among which are theology, church history, missionary studies, and Coptic language.

Jones however was the one who is generally credited with having gone much of the way towards a practical solution through his scheme of ' Cardinal Vowels ', a relatively simple system of reference vowels which for many years has been taught systematically to students within the British tradition.

Modern distance education initially relied on the development of postal services in the 19th century and has been practised at least since Isaac Pitman taught shorthand in Great Britain via correspondence in the 1840s.

Western classical education as taught from the 18th to the 19th century has missing features that inspired reformers.

In Western Christianity it has traditionally been taught, since as far back as the time of the Donatist controversy of the fourth and fifth centuries, that any bishop can consecrate any other baptised man as a bishop provided that the bishop observes the minimum requirements for the sacramental validity of the ceremony.

Nonetheless, the Orthodox accept Cyril's group as being the legitimate council because it maintained the same teaching that the church has always taught.

: History of science and technology has consistently taught us that scientific advances in basic understanding have sooner or later led to technical and industrial applications that have revolutionized our way of life.

The Catholic Church also has taught that faith and reason can and must work together, in the Papal encyclical letter issued by Pope John Paul II, Fides et Ratio (" Faith and Reason ").

In recent years flamenco has become popular all over the world and is taught in many countries: in Japan there are more academies than there are in Spain.

Whether he returns or not or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain.

Kushner has also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, taught at Clark University and the Rabbinical School of the JTS, and received six honorary doctorates.

Apollonius of Rhodes, in the Argonautica mentions that Medea was taught by Hecate, " I have mentioned to you before a certain young girl whom Hecate, daughter of Perses, has taught to work in drugs.

Since the Council of Orange II against semi-pelagianism, the Catholic Church has taught that even had man never sinned in the Garden of Eden and was sinless, he would still require God's grace to remain sinless.

With the neoplatonist Plotinus, wrote Nathaniel Alfred Boll ; " there even appears, probably for the first time in Western philosophy, idealism that had long been current in the East even at that time, for it taught … that the soul has made the world by stepping from eternity into time …".