As one of several books that have been recommended for 11 – 14 year old boys to encourage literacy in that demographic, The Hobbit is promoted as " the original and still the best fantasy ever written.

Public Libraries also provide free services such as preschool story times to encourage early literacy, quiet study and work areas for students and professionals, or book clubs to encourage appreciation of literature in adults.

CAR promotes family literacy by targeting third graders with a fully developed reading enrichment program to encourage children to read and reinforce programs already in place in the schools.

# In areas where oral competence in the language has been achieved in all age groups encourage literacy in the language but in a way that does not depend upon assistance from ( or goodwill of ) the state education system.

A number of Madrasas were opened to encourage literacy.

The ABA and its members support freedom of speech through the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, literacy, and programs that encourage reading.

Pearl's program, " If All of Seattle Read the Same Book " was a concept to promote literacy and to encourage community.

As part of the British project ‘ Quick Reads ’, to encourage literacy amongst adults with reading difficulties, Walters wrote a 20, 000-word novella called Chickenfeed.

New organizations such as AIR ( Agency for Inner-city Renewal ), the Trenchtown Reading Centre Jamaica, and the Trench Town Development Association, were formed to increase positive social attitudes, increase literacy and encourage government spending and development in the area.

" During her term in office, she visited schools throughout the state and frequently read to students as part of her efforts to encourage literacy and appreciation for reading among young people.

In 2002, Free founded the Free4Life Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to empowering young people in disadvantaged neighborhoods through programs that encourage literacy, financial education and creative arts.

The goal of the bookshop was to encourage engaged literacy in the capital, and also to provide an outlet for critical texts and authors.

During 1966, legislation was passed to enable and encourage the banking industry in Cayman.

Moreover, the Territory's Constitutional Commission has expressed the view that " every effort should be made ", to encourage the use of the name " Virgin Islands ".

In 1998, the Government of the Falkland Islands started a program to encourage building of private houses, the development is known as East Stanley as it developed Stanley to the East.

It will continue to be an objective of this division to encourage the acceptance of planning as a proper and continuing responsibility of local government.

The government officially lists beef and pork production and processing, fruits and nuts, dairy production, winter vegetables, and mariculture ( shrimp farming ) as the areas in which it wishes to encourage foreign investment.

The current government of the People's Republic of China is trying to encourage a form of market socialism.

Dante was a great poet, the Societa Dantesca Italiana did great work in editing and publishing a usable and affordable text, but the Divine Comedy was certainly used by the newly unified Italian government ( see History of Italy ) to encourage a more homogeneous, Tuscan-influenced dialect for the whole peninsula ( see Italian language ).

Mandarin Chinese Guoyu (" Nation-Language "), was promoted as an standard tongue, and the establishment of communications facilities ( including radio ) were used to encourage a sense of Chinese nationalism in a way that was not possible when the nation lacked an effective central government.

The government has tried with mixed success to encourage migration to newly irrigated land reclaimed from the desert.

The US has sought to encourage the progress of human rights to the country by addressing its concerns directly to the government, as well as holding seminars for better police conduct and judicial conferences with US judeges to improve the rule of law.

* Russian Enlightenment, a period in the eighteenth century in which the government in Russia began to actively encourage the proliferation of arts and sciences

In the early 1950s, the communist government forced rapid industrialization after the standard Stalinist pattern in an effort to encourage a more self-sufficient economy.

The intent of the Act was to encourage the purchase of American-made products by increasing the cost of imported goods, while raising revenue for the federal government and protecting farmers.

President Wahid's government continued to pursue democratization and to encourage renewed economic growth under challenging conditions.

The U. S. government sponsored a Mexican Repatriation program which was intended to encourage people to voluntarily move to Mexico, but thousands were deported against their will.

Rapid economic development was seen as necessary to make the railway pay, and since the African population was accustomed to subsistence rather than export agriculture, the government decided to encourage European settlement in the fertile highlands, which had small African populations.

The economy of the Lao Peoples ' Democratic Republic is rapidly growing, as the government began to decentralise control and encourage private enterprise in 1986.

The retaliation, which was intended to encourage a Lebanese government crackdown on Palestinian militants, instead polarized Lebanese society on the Palestinian question, deepening the divide between pro-and anti-Palestinian factions, with the Muslims leading the former grouping and Maronites primarily constituting the latter.

The French government also attempted to encourage European immigration, without much success.

Near the end of her time as governor general, Adrienne Clarkson stated: " My constitutional role has lain in what are called ' reserve powers ': making sure that there is a prime minister and a government in place, and exercising the right ' to encourage, to advise, and to warn '[...] Without really revealing any secrets, I can tell you that I have done all three.

Indeed, the Qing government did far more to encourage mobility than to discourage it.

On 2 December 2004, the government announced the pardon of 23 FARC-EP prisoners, to encourage a reciprocal move.

Multi-party governments permit wider and more diverse viewpoints in government, and encourage dominant parties to make deals with weaker parties to form winning coalitions.

Justice Sandra Day O ' Connor wrote that the federal government can encourage the states to adopt certain regulations through the spending power ( e. g. by attaching conditions to the receipt of federal funds, see South Dakota v. Dole ), or through the commerce power ( by directly pre-empting state law ).

The tendency for government is to curtail and eliminate unemployment through increases in benefits and government jobs, and to encourage the job-seeker to both consider new careers and relocation to another city.

It also urges the government to immediately terminate all subsidies, tax preferences, and investment guarantees that encourage U. S. businesses to invest in foreign property ; and to seek to collect all foreign debts owed to it.

The nail plate requires a certain amount of flexibility and moisture to encourage healthy growth.

" Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the Commission from time to time, as public convenience, interest, or necessity requires, shall -...( g ) Study new uses for radio, provide for experimental uses of frequencies, and generally encourage the larger and more effective use of radio in the public interest.

The Danish 1997 Planning Act requires that planning shall encourage a diverse mix of retail shops in small and medium-sized towns and in individual districts of large cities and ensure that retail trade uses will be placed in locations to which people have good access by walking, bicycling and public transport.

This acquisition of knowledge through Visual / Spatial, Musical / Rhythmic, and Bodily Kinesthetic intelligences requires an instructor to demonstrates, manipulate, observe, measure, and modify behavioral change in a specified direction, and to encourage the preschool child to discover that there is no distinction between learning and having fun.

This portion of the game requires the player to take actions that encourage the growth of the population, including road planning and using lightning, rain, sunlight, wind.

The proposal that altruists who support other altruists who are not their kin will encourage the evolution of altruism requires that altruists recognize and choose to support others predisposed toward altruism whom they have detected by their past altruistic behavior, not on the observation of some temporarily correlated characteristic ( e. g., altruists have green beards ).

The directive requires the Member States to encourage design and production methods that take into account the future dismantling and recovery of their products.

Given the voluntary nature of co-operatives, it requires a motivation to encourage people to participate.

Although the ban was initially criticized as " cosmetic " by the SF Weekly, which asserted that the ban has led to an increase in the use of paper bags, a practice they claim is worse for the environment, the ban also requires stores to charge a ten-cent fee for each paper bag used, to encourage consumers to use reusable shopping bags.

The United States ' Endangered Species Act requires landowners to halt any activities negatively affecting endangered species on their land, which is a disincentive for them to encourage endangered species to settle on their land in the first place.

: someone might be using neutral technology to violate copyright ( as with the photocopier in the CCH case ) is not necessarily sufficient to constitute authorization, which requires a demonstration that the defendant did "( g ) ive approval to ; sanction, permit ; favour, encourage " ( CCH, at para.

To encourage the use and implementation of demand response in the United States, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) issued Order No. 745 in March 2011, which requires a certain level of compensation for providers of economic demand response that participate in wholesale power markets.

They may also be used for milk, a job that requires human training to encourage the animal to cooperate.