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field and American
After all, the field is large, difficult to define and seldom taught properly to American undergraduates.
There can be no doubt that the American Catholic accomplishment in the field of higher education is most impressive: our European brethren never cease to marvel at the number and the size of our colleges and universities.
The American Sociology Association ( ASA ) acknowledges Public sociology saying, " The intrinsic scientific, policy, and public relevance of this field of investigation in helping to construct ' good societies ' is unquestionable " (" Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity ".
In 1989, a group of European and American scholars in the field of anthropology established the European Association of Social Anthropologists ( EASA ) which serves as a major professional organization for anthropologists working in Europe.
The field was pioneered by staff of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, men such as John Wesley Powell and Frank Hamilton Cushing.
* 1915 – James Elliott, American track and field coach ( d. 1981 )
Perhaps the easiest way to envisage an acre is as a rectangle measuring 88 yards by 55 yards ( of 880 yards by of 880 yards ), about the size of a standard American football field.
To be more exact, one acre is 90. 75 percent of a long by wide American football field ( without the end zones ).
The area of one acre ( red ) superposed on an American football field ( green ) and association football ( soccer ) pitch ( blue ).
In North America, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Library of Congress worked through the offices of traditional music collectors Robert Winslow Gordon, Alan Lomax and others to capture as much North American field material as possible.
Until his return from Mexico in 1930 Whorf had been entirely an autodidact in linguistic theory and field methodology, yet he had already made a name for himself in Middle American linguistics.
The diversity of systems and phenomena available for study makes condensed matter physics the most active field of contemporary physics: one third of all American physicists identify themselves as condensed matter physicists, and The Division of Condensed Matter Physics ( DCMP ) is the largest division of the American Physical Society.
Columbia alumni have made an indelible mark in the field of American poetry and literature, with such people as Jack Kerouac, one of the pioneers of the Beat Generation, and Langston Hughes, a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance, having both attended the university.
The confusion may stem from the fact that Major League Baseball did decide that, should the Cubs make it to the World Series, the American League winner would have home field advantage unless the Cubs hosted home games at an alternate site since the Cubs home field of Wrigley Field did not yet have lights.
These regiments, which rarely took the field as complete organizations, served throughout the American Indian Wars through the close of the frontier in the 1890s.
Alston entered the pre-architectural program only to lose interest upon seeing the lack of success many African American architects had in the field.
Chet's recordings of " Malaguena " inspired a new generation of Flamenco guitarists ; the classical guitar selections included on almost all his albums were, for many American artists working in the field today, the first classical guitar they ever heard.
In addition to the traditional American team sports ( football, basketball, baseball, and ice hockey ), Dartmouth competes at the varsity level in many other sports including track and field, sailing, tennis, rowing, soccer, skiing, and lacrosse.
Other notable graduates of Dalhousie includes Donald O. Hebb, who helped advanced the field of neuropsychology, and Kathryn D. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space.
* 1881 – Howard Valentine, American track and field athlete ( d. 1932 )
In both American and Canadian football, one method of scoring a field goal or extra point is by drop kicking the football through the goal.
This first experience with Native American languages in the field was closely overseen by Boas, who was particularly interested in having Sapir gathering ethnological information for the Bureau.
* Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History-Over 160, 000 objects from Pacific, North American, African, Asian ethnographic collections with images and detailed description, linked to the original catalogue pages, field notebooks, and photographs are available online.

field and fiction
Initially selling over 75, 000 copies, it became the first hardcover best-seller ever in the science fiction field.
Although this field remains largely confined to science fiction, the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life makes the question of alien language a credible topic for scientific and philosophical speculation.
In science fiction, a large number of the practitioners and other professionals in the field, not only writers but editors and publishers, traditionally have themselves come from and participate in science fiction fandom, from Ray Bradbury to Harlan Ellison to Patrick Neilsen Hayden to Toni Weisskopf ; and the " fan " vs. " pro " dualism does not exist in the way it does in the media entertainment industry.
Many science fiction stories ( notably Ben Bova's Grand Tour stories ) feature detailed descriptions of how people could extract minerals from asteroids and energy from sources including orbital solar panels ( unhampered by clouds ) and the very strong magnetic field of Jupiter.
Russ, an out lesbian, was one of the most outspoken authors to challenge male dominance of the field, and is generally regarded as one of the leading feminist science fiction scholars and writers.
They went on to say that " No one ever dominated the science fiction field as Bob did in the first few years of his career .” Alexi expresses awe in Heinlein's ability to show readers a world so drastically different than the one we live in now, yet have so many similarities.
As science fiction entered popular culture, writers and fans active in the field came to associate the term with low-budget, low-tech " B-movies " and with low-quality pulp science fiction.
By the 1970s, critics within the field such as Terry Carr and Damon Knight were using sci-fi to distinguish hack-work from serious science fiction, and around 1978, Susan Wood and others introduced the pronunciation " skiffy ".
SF conventions routinely have programming on fantasy topics, and fantasy authors such as J. K. Rowling have won the highest honor within the science fiction field, the Hugo Award.
The field has grown considerably since the 1970s with the establishment of more journals, organizations, and conferences with ties to the science fiction scholarship community, and science fiction degree-granting programs such as those offered by the University of Liverpool and Kansas University.
Tom Shippey in his essay does not dispute this answer but identifies and discusses the essential differences that exists between a science fiction novel and one written outside the field.
Veteran science fiction writer Jack Williamson ( 1908 – 2006 ) when asked in 1991: " Did the Wave's emphasis on experimentalizm and its conscious efforts to make SF more ' literary ' have any kind of permanent effects on the field?
Since 2009 the Solstice Award which may be posthumous recognizes lifetime contributions to the science fiction and fantasy field.
Trilogy can be credited with popularizing the genre of conspiracy fiction, a field later mined by authors like Umberto Eco ( Foucault's Pendulum ) and Dan Brown ( Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol ), comic book writers like Alan Moore ( V for Vendetta, Watchmen ), Dave Sim ( Cerebus ) and Grant Morrison ( The Invisibles ), and screenwriters like Chris Carter ( The X-Files ) and Damon Lindelof ( Lost ).
In addition to standard humor, parody, spoof, and pastiche have had a long tradition within the field of crime fiction.
Paul Williams picked a concert performance by Khan for inclusion in his 2000 book The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: a ' top-40 ' list, in which he devotes a chapter each to what he considers the top 40 artistic achievements of the 20th century in any field ( including art, movies, music, fiction, non-fiction, science-fiction ).
The exploding popularity of science fiction films led to an exponential development in the field of special effects, and George Pal became the producer of several popular special effects-laden films.
In the field of fiction the major figure in the second half of the twentieth century was Emyr Humphreys ( 1919 ).
At its peak, Galaxy greatly influenced the science fiction field.
A number of well-respected writers in the science fiction field contributed scripts to the series ( mostly in the first and second seasons ), including Larry Niven, Theodore Sturgeon, Ben Bova, and Norman Spinrad, and a number of people involved with Star Trek, such as Dorothy " D. C ." Fontana, Walter Koenig, and David Gerrold.
Anonymity is directly related to the concept of obscurantism or pseudonymity, where an artist or group attempts to remain anonymous, for various reasons, not limited to: adding an element of mystique to themselves and / or their work, attempting to avoid what is known as the " cult of personality " or hero worship, where the charisma, good looks, wealth and / or other unrelated or mildly related aspects of the person ( s ) is the main reason for interest in their work, rather than the work itself ; also the ability to break into a field or area of interest normally dominated by males, such as James Tiptree, Jr, the famous science fiction author who was actually a woman named Alice Bradley Sheldon, as seems to also be the case with JT LeRoy.

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