Modern critics often fault Alcott for not being able to financially support his family.

Modern coastal artillery ( for example, Russia's " Bereg " system ) is often self propelled, ( allowing it to avoid counter-battery fire ) and fully integrated, meaning that each battery has all of the support systems that it requires ( maintenance, targeting radar, etc.

Modern advertising was created with the innovative techniques introduced with tobacco advertising in the 1920s, most significantly with the campaigns of Edward Bernays, which is often considered the founder of modern, Madison Avenue advertising.

Modern beadwork is often used as a creative hobby to create jewelry, purses, coasters, and dozens of other crafts.

Modern boomerangs used for sport are often made from carbon fibre-reinforced plastics, thin aircraft plywood, or other high-tech materials.

Modern biotechnology is often associated with the use of genetically altered microorganisms such as E. coli or yeast for the production of substances like synthetic insulin or antibiotics.

It is because of these and other contributions that Antoine Lavoisier is often celebrated as the " Father of Modern Chemistry ".

Some Modern Orthodox leaders cooperate and work with the Conservative movement, while haredi (" Ultra-Orthodox ") Jews often eschew formal contact with Conservative Judaism, or at least its rabbinate.

Modern conservative parties often define themselves by their opposition to liberal or labour parties.

Modern citizenship is much more passive ; action is delegated to others ; citizenship is often a constraint on acting, not an impetus to act.

Modern citizenship has often been looked at as two competing underlying ideas:

Modern crossbow sights often use similar technology to modern firearm sights, such red dot sights and telescopic sights.

Modern single-panel gag cartoons, found in magazines, generally consist of a single drawing with a typeset caption positioned beneath or ( much less often ) a speech balloon.

Modern Roman Catholic churches often have a crucifix above the altar on the wall ; for the celebration of Mass, the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church requires that, " on or close to the altar there is to be a cross with a figure of Christ crucified ".

Modern cable systems are large, with a single network and headend often serving an entire metropolitan area or county.

Modern Donegal fiddle music is often played in concerts and recorded on albums.

Modern western mysticism and new age philosophy often use the term ' the Divine ' as a noun in this latter sense: a non-specific principle and / or being that gives rise to the world, and acts as the source or wellspring of life.

This conflation of case in Middle and Modern English has led most modern grammarians to discard the " accusative " and " dative " labels as obsolete, often using the term " objective " for oblique.

In Modern English, an indirect object is often expressed with a prepositional phrase of " to " or " for ".

Modern school textbooks often define separate figures called lines ( infinite ), rays ( semi-infinite ), and line segments ( of finite length ).

Samarrai, however, also advises to handle this theory with care, as Medieval and Early Modern Muslim scribes often used etymologically " fanciful roots " in order claim the most outlandish things to be of Arabian or Muslim origin.

Modern readers are more often introduced to Orwell as a novelist, particularly through his enormously successful titles Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Modern graffiti art often incorporates additional arts and technologies.

Modern harp strings are often nylon or, less often, metal ; tuning pins are also metal components.

Modern history writing requires the critical evaluation of sources, and does not accept God as a cause of events.

The technology tree is divided into four ages ( Ancient Age, Middle Ages, Industrial Age, and Modern Age ); each age requires the research of specific technologies to advance to that age.

The MLA ( Modern Language Association ) requires the superscript numbers in the main text to be placed following the punctuation in the phrase or clause the note is in reference to.

Modern computer speeds have rendered the game-speed-delay timing loops invalid, and thus the QBasic version of Nibbles requires some code changes to operate correctly on modern PCs.

Modern public health practice requires multidisciplinary teams of professionals including physicians specializing in public health / community medicine / infectious disease, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, public health nurses, medical microbiologists, environmental health officers, dental hygienists, dietitians and nutritionists, health inspectors, veterinarians, public health engineers, public health lawyers, sociologists, community development workers, communications officers, and others.

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** Modern mammals excrete urea, which requires a lot of water to keep it dissolved.

Though he is often content with his drumming remaining behind the music, “ his drumming is always part of the music's internal construction .” Modern Drummer magazine, in a 2004 interview, called DeJohnette ’ s drumming “ beyond technique .” While most of his drumming is considered free and flowing, he commented that he has to play with a lot of restraint when playing with Keith Jarrett and his trio, saying that he ’ s challenged when playing in that group “ to play with the subtlety that the music requires .” His work on the cymbals especially has been described as “ loose ,” creating an almost free tempo, and he calls himself an “ abstract thinker ” when it comes to soloing, saying that he puts “ more weight on the abstract than, ‘ What were you thinking in bar 33 ?’ I don ’ t like to think that way.

Modern voice switches now have this capability built in, yet Internet equipment almost always requires some kind of intelligent Deep Packet Inspection probe to get the job done.

Rather than focusing on the usual math, science, English, history booklist of required courses, Hollins requires each student to take a variety of skills classes ( Writing, Oral Communication, Quantitative Reasoning, Information Technology ) and perspectives classes ( Aesthetic Analysis, Creative Expression, Ancient and / or Medieval Worlds, Modern and / or Contemporary Worlds, Social and Cultural Diversities, Scientific Inquiry, Global Systems and Languages ).

Modern battery cases do not facilitate such repairs ; an internal fault generally requires replacement of the entire unit.

It could be argued that Modern English has joined the ranks of these languages, since negation in the indicative mood requires the use of an auxiliary verb and a distinct syntax in most cases.

Modern Unix implementations generally include a security protocol that requires a user be a member of the wheel user privileges group in order to gain superuser access to a machine by using the < tt > su </ tt > command.

`` To give up these notions required a revolution in thought '', Mr. Clark said in reminiscing about the abrupt changes in ideas he experienced when he began reading `` Organic Gardening '' And `` Modern Nutrition '' in a search for help with his problems.

His work in Early Modern European History focuses on the history of education, the history of the book and the history of reading.

Modern methods of reading palimpsests using ultraviolet light and photography are less damaging.

The MCR hosts a large number of specialists in Law and Byzantine studies, and the JCR has a high concentration of students reading the popular Modern History and PPE ( Philosophy, Politics and Economics ) degrees.

" Most Orthodox communities, including Modern Orthodox ones, however, generally do not allow women to lead the Megillah reading except in rare circumstances owing to the notion of " Kavod HaTzibbur ".

In her essay ' Modern Fiction ', Woolf praised James Joyce's Ulysses, saying of the scene in the cemetery, " on a first reading at any rate, it is difficult not to acclaim a masterpiece ".

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.

Modern aircraft instrumentation use an Air Data Computer to perform this calculation in real time and display the TAS reading directly on the EFIS.

" With the help of a professor, he conducted an online experiment and found that Comic Sans, in comparison to five other fonts ( Baskerville, Helvetica, Georgia, Trebuchet MS, and Computer Modern ), makes readers slightly less likely to believe that a statement they are reading is true.

It began to brag on its cover that it had " The Largest Circulation of Any Screen Magazine ", and Jean Harlow is seen reading a copy of Modern Screen in the 1933 film Dinner at Eight.

The novel was a selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club, and it was included in several lists of recommended reading: Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels ( 1988 ), Aurel Guillemette's The Best in Science Fiction ( 1993 ), David Pringle's Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction ( 1995 ) and the Locus Reader's Poll: Best Science Fiction Novel ( 1988 ).

On reading the book, as he later wrote in his essay " Gods Of Modern Grub Street ", Adcock said that he " recognised that there were crudities and even doggerel in it, there was also in it some of the freshest and most magical poetry to be found in modern books ".

He was educated at Modern School, New Delhi, Government College, Lahore, St. Stephen's College in Delhi and King's College, London, before reading for the Bar at the Inner Temple.

Modern electronic vacuum gauges are simpler to use, less fragile, and do not present a mercury hazard, but their reading is highly dependent on the chemical nature of the gas being measured and their calibration is unstable.

Morris, in his 1984 book History of Modern Creationism, spoke glowingly of Price's logic and writing style, and referred to reading The New Geology as " a life-changing experience for me ".

Modern scholarship on Zen has come to regard Suzuki's own reading of Zen as idiosyncratic and not grounded in traditions of Zen.

The second is the staged reading of a classical or classically-themed play, by the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance.

Modern Culture, focusing on modern arts and media and their impact on society, using the Library's comprehensive music, film, television, architecture, literature, multi-media and folklore collections, largely in the reading rooms of the Madison Building

* Early Modern Texts: Kant: Towards Perpetual Peace slightly modified for easier reading

Modern critical editions of the New Testament texts are produced by an eclectic method, where the preferred reading is determined on a case-by-case basis, from among numerous variants offered by the early manuscripts and versions.

At one point, Albarn is impressed to see a man ( Graham Coxon ) carrying a placard reading " Modern Life Is Rubbish ", the title of Blur's previous album ; on the reverse is written " End of a Century ", the title of their subsequent single from Parklife.

The novel has been included in several lists of recommended reading: Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels ( 1988 ), Locus Reader's Poll: Best Science Fiction Novel ( 1988 ), Aurel Guillemette's The Best in Science Fiction ( 1993 ) and David Pringle's Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction ( 1995 ).

Miranda July reading at Modern Times Bookstore in San Francisco

A reading, February 7, 1996 in the Modern Languages Auditorium, sponsored by The University of Arizona Poetry Center.