Some noted appearances of the animal in literature include the short story Pigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler is a tale of bureaucratic incompetence ; two guinea pigs held at a train station breed unchecked while humans argue as to whether they are " pigs " for the purpose of determining freight charges.

* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Noel Streatfeild, The Circus Is Coming

The British Museum Is Falling Down ( 1965 ) is a comic novel by British author David Lodge about a 25-year-old poverty-stricken student of English literature who, rather than work on his thesis ( entitled " The Structure of Long Sentences in Three Modern English Novels ") in the reading room of the British Museum, is time and again distracted from his work and who gets into all kinds of trouble instead.

By forcing us into a dramatic awareness of language, literature refreshes these habitual responses and renders objects more perceptible ( Eagleton ' What Is Literature ').

) Ms. Hough asked Professor Wimsatt a question that still resonates today: " Is literature taught in complete isolation from its author, Mr. Wimsatt -- don't you consider the person who wrote it?

She suggests that these writers consider the following questions when framing their papers: What conclusions from my study would be relevant and novel to land managers and scientists working in other ecosystems and socio-economic contexts ?, What is the geographic scope of the literature I am citing ?, To which ecological and socio-economic systems do my world view and results apply ?, Is my study sufficiently well replicated to generalize my results ?, and Are my conclusions supported by my data and, conversely, are all my data necessary to support my conclusions ?.

In his What Is literature ?, Sartre wrote, " On the one hand, the literary object has no substance but the reader's subjectivity.

Tillinghast has published ten books of poetry as well as three non-fiction books: Damaged Grandeur, a critical memoir of the poet Robert Lowell, with whom he studied as a graduate student at Harvard University in the mid-1960s ; Poetry and What Is Real ( 2004 ), a selection of his critical writings about poetry ; and Finding Ireland: a Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture ( 2008 ), an introduction to the country through its literature, architecture, history, and art.

A seminal article entitled, " Is Biology Destiny: Birth Weight and Life Chances " ( with Neil G. Bennett, American Sociological Review 1999 ) and his second book, which emerged from this and related pieces, The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances ( with Kate Strully and Neil G. Bennett, 2003 ) showed the importance of birth weight and prenatal health to later socioeconomic outcomes, reversing the typical way sociologists viewed the health-economics relationship and anticipated a robust research literature on early life health conditions as they affect later socioeconomic processes and outcomes.

In this personal literature, Bulosan argued that despite of the suffering and abuses he experienced America was an unfinished “ ideal in which everyone must invest (…) time and energy, (…) this outlook leaves us with a feeling of hope for the future instead of bitter defeat .” According to Carlos P. Romulo when he was interviewed by The New York Times, Bulosan wrote America Is in the Heart with “ bitterness ” in his heart and blood yet with the purpose of contributing “ something toward the final fulfillment of America ”.

America Is in the Heart serves as a piece of activist literature.

Ironically, it is Bulosan ’ s success and America Is in the Heart ’ s dominance in the study of Filipino-American literature that may have a greater impact of then his actual words.

* Is it literature written by Africans, literature that depicts the African experience?

However, Geza Ottlik's The Quest and The Way It Is advanced readers ' awareness of card play, particularly in the areas of elopement and squeeze play, well beyond levels previously discussed in the bridge literature.

Is defeat final?

Is our only hope that the good fascists defeat the bad fascists?

Is it not the task of philosophy to see what intelligible meaning can be assigned to the most sacred canons in social science??

Continuing Heinlein's speculation about unorthodox social and family structures, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress introduces the idea of a " line marriage ".

Following Gaye's death, several of Gaye's social commentary songs that had been unreleased including " The World Is Rated X " and " Where Are We Going " started showing up in compilation albums.

Hacking observes that his 1995 simplistic dismissal of the concept actually revealed to many readers the outrageous implications of the theorists: Is child abuse a real evil, or a social construct, asked Hacking?

Is the organization still a useful entity / thing / concept, or has the social / political environment changed so much that what we now call " organization " is so different from the organization of even a few decades ago that it cannot be usefully tagged with the same word – " organization "?

) He wrote several books, among them his passionate defense of World War I conscientious objectors, Is Conscience a Crime ?, and his statement of the 1960s social democratic consensus, Socialism Re-examined.

University of Texas economist James K. Galbraith has alleged that Stossel in his September 1999 special, Is America # 1 ?, used an out of context clip of Galbraith to convey the notion that Galbraith advocated the adoption by Europe of the free market economics practiced by the United States, when in fact, Galbraith actually advocated that Europe adopt some of the United States ' social benefit transfer mechanisms such as Social Security, which is the economically opposite view.

* Is Amazon going to challenge Zynga in social games?

The Daily Telegraph quoted Nicholas Carr, former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review and the author of The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains, as saying that email exploits a basic human instinct to search for new information, causing people to become addicted to " mindlessly pressing levers in the hope of receiving a pellet of social or intellectual nourishment ".

* English As It Is Broken: The citizen-journalism and social networking site, STOMP collaborated with SGEM to provide an English Language Panel which answers readers ' questions regarding the English language in the local context on a daily basis.

Is it taking us to communism ; or to the affluent suburbs, nicely rounded out with social overhead capital ; to destruction ; to the moon ; or where?

) Is a world wide underground community working towards social justice, equality, animal welfare and in support of environmental groups and principles.

State Conservative Party chairman Michael Long criticized the creation of the school as social engineering, asking, “ Is there a different way to teach homosexuals?

In 1969 he released one of his best known successes, " Com ' è bella la città " (" How Beautiful the City Is "), an example of the introduction of social matters in a song.

:" Is it the purpose of the movement to try to assert sexual rights for everyone or create a political and social cult out of homosexuality ?....

CBU's Campus Activities office hosts a wide range of social and recreational events each year including Fortuna Bowl, an intramural flag football season with men's and women's teams that culminates in championship games on the campus front lawn in November, Yule, a formal dinner and night of entertainment at the Disneyland Hotel where the year ’ s Mr. & Ms. CBU are revealed and TWIRP ( The Woman Is Required to Pay ), a week-long event where female students invite male students to fun activities and events throughout the week.

Socially, Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is suggests a way of life derived from the Manu Smriti and other books of Hindu religious and social law and applied for the contemporary Western world.

Is an integrated insurance program aiming to provide social protection for SEWA members to cover their life cycle needs and the various risks they face in their lives, through an insurance organization in which they themselves are users, owners and managers of all services.

* Is constructed by a heterogeneous social community who are united by the innovation but have different roles and interests.

Alfred Eichner in Why Economics Is Not Yet a Science offers the following commentary on the discipline of economics as a social system:

The Triadic Model builds on the attribution elements of social comparison, proposing that opinions of social comparison are best considered in terms of 3 different evaluative questions: preference assessment ( i. e., “ Do I like X ?”), belief assessment ( i. e., “ Is X correct ?”), and preference prediction ( i. e., “ Will I like X ?”).

" In his introduction, journalist Carey McWilliams, who wrote a 1939 study about migrant farm labor in California ( Factories in the Field ), described America Is in the Heart as a “ social classic ” that reflected on the experiences of Filipino immigrants in America who were searching for the “ promises of a better life ”.

* Children First: What Society Must Do --- And Is Not Doing --- For Children Today ( 1994 ) is a polemic suggesting large-scale social initiatives to end child poverty and homelessness, and to enable parents to spend more time with their children.

Is it not characteristic of the greatest art that it confronts us with something we cannot clarify, demanding that the viewer respond to it in his own never-predictable way??

Is not the present world crisis a race between things we have created which can now destroy us and between populations of sufficient wisdom and character to forestall the tragedy.

" The words " Is, or Bee, or Are, and the like " add no meaning to an argument nor do derived words such as " Entity, Essence, Essentially, Essentiality ", which " are the names of nothing " but are mere " Signes " connecting " one name or attribute to another: as when we say, A man, is, a living body, wee mean not that the Man is one thing, the Living Body another, and the Is, or Being another: but that the Man, and the Living Body, is the same thing ;...." " Metaphysiques ," Hobbes says, is " far from the possibility of being understood " and is " repugnant to naturall Reason.

Premiered in 2009 at the Tribeca Film Festival, Transcendent Man documents Kurzweil's quest to reveal mankind's ultimate destiny and explores many of the ideas found in his New York Times bestselling book, The Singularity Is Near, including his concept of exponential growth, radical life expansion, and how we will transcend our biology.

That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ ; so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith .... Is the law then against the promises of God?

Is it really possible that we could harness this energy?

: Is an imaginal lamp of which we have knowledge by similitude.

After receiving an apparently affirmative answer, the man asks a series of questions including, " Is today the day we will leave Ridgeview?

; Returning territories for the sake of peace ; Institutionalizing parents with Alzheimer's disease ; Torah study vs. earning a living ; Investigating charities to which we contribute ; Telling the truth to terminal patients ; Genetic engineering ; The kashrut of veal raised on factory farms ; Is it a mitzvah to make aliyah?

" By the authority of the Court on High and by authority of the court down here, by the permission of One Who Is Everywhere and by the permission of this congregation, we hold it lawful to pray with sinners.

* The I, as a psychic individual, can only be thought in relationship to a we, which is a collective individual: the I is constituted in adopting a collective tradition, which it inherits, and in which a plurality of Is acknowledge each other ’ s existence.

* A we is also such a process ( the process of collective individuation ); the individuation of the I is always inscribed in that of the we, whereas conversely, the individuation of the we takes place only through those individuations, polemical in nature, of the Is making it up.

Is it that we grow weary?

Is it any wonder, then, that when we occasionally gave in to the temptation to pander to the masses, we almost always pulled up short?

The larger questions about the popularity of the Berenstain Bears are more troubling: Is this what we really want from children's books in the first place, a world filled with scares and neuroses and problems to be toughed out and solved?

This teaching comes from 1 Corinthians 10: 16-17 which says, " Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ?

In January 1973, when Shankly was the subject of This Is Your Life, the goal was shown and Shankly commented that " they all count and we won " before spotting old friend Joe Mercer sitting nearby and pointing out that " Joe Mercer was playing for England that day ".

Then we were working with Dave Bett at our main distributor Important on the layout for the New York City Hardcore – The Way It Is compilation and he offered to clean it up for us.

Kaku also appeared in the ABC documentary UFOs: Seeing Is Believing, in which he suggested that while he believes it is extremely unlikely that extraterrestrials have ever actually visited Earth, we must keep our minds open to the possible existence of civilizations a million years ahead of us in technology, where entirely new avenues of physics open up.