Writing near the beginning of the third century, he wrote that the Reds were dedicated to Mars, the Whites to the Zephyrs, the Greens to Mother Earth or spring, and the Blues to the sky and sea or autumn.

Writing in 1549, Dean Monro stated: " At the north end of Raarsay, be half myle of sea frae it, layes ane ile callit Ronay, mair then a myle in lengthe, full of wood and heddir, with ane havin for heiland galeys in the middis of it, and the same havein is guyed for fostering of theives, ruggairs, and reivairs, till a nail, upon the peilling and spulzeing of poure pepill.

Writing in 1900, Father Joseph Brucker hypothesized that Jews came to China from India by a sea route during the Song dynasty between 960 and 1126.

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ), a large four-part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice, violin and ensemble.

* Writing to Vermeer ( 1997 – 99 ) ( libretto by Peter Greenaway ) Opera for 2 children's voices, 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, female chorus, orchestra ( 7 winds, 2 horns, 2 trumpets + bass trumpet, 2 harps, 2 electric guitars, cimbalom, 2 pianos, on-stage harpsichord, 2 percussion, minimum 22 strings ), CD ( music by Michel van der Aa )

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ) a large four part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice and ensemble.

* Pearson Test of English Academic ( PTE Academic ), a Pearson product, measure Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening as well as Grammar, Oral Fluency, Pronunciation, Spelling, Vocabular and Written Discourse.

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 ).

" Reconstructing Oral Tradition: Souleymane Kanté ’ s Approach to Writing Mande History ".

Writing and literacy in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, Volume 3 of Studies in written language and literacy.

Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols ( known as a writing system ).

Writing about the usage of the term " ethnic " in the ordinary language of Great Britain and the United States, in 1977 Wallman noted that

Writing in 2005, the New York Times language columnist William Safire attributed the term ( in its modern usage ) to conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan, who wrote on June 1, 2003: I have a new term for those on the fringes of the religious right who have used the Gospels to perpetuate their own aspirations for power, control and oppression: Christianists.

In introducing her Wellek Lecture, subsequently published as Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Derrida referred to her as the greatest living writer in his language ( French ).

In Writing Degree Zero ( 1953 ), Barthes argues that conventions inform both language and style, rendering neither purely creative.

Writing in Pennsylvania German can be a difficult task, and there is no spelling standard for the language whatsoever.

Writing systems for the Ubykh language have been proposed, but there has never been a standard written form.

* Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy, an online guide to the crafting of SF and fantasy, covering fundamentals of turning ideas into stories, creating believable characters, language and style, workshopping, etc.

Writing the compiler sources entirely in the programming language the compiler is supposed to translate, makes the following approach, better known as compiler bootstrapping, feasible on the target machine:

** Writing need not be limited to words in a natural or even formal language.

Writing in German was a way for him to think back and remember his parents, particularly his mother, from whom he had learned the language.

In her book, Redefining the Subject: Sites of Play in Canadian Women's Writing, Charlotte Sturgess suggests that Brand employs a language — in the short story collection Sans Souci ( 1988 ) and the novel In Another Place, Not Here ( 1996 ), in particular —" through which identity emerges as a mobile, thus discursive, construct.

Writing in The New York Times, Andrew Johnston praised Svankmajer's artistry, stating " while his films are rife with cultural and scientific allusions, his unusual imagery possesses an accessibility that feels anchored in the shared language of the subconscious, making his films equally rewarding to the culturally hyperliterate and to those who simply enjoy visual stimulation.

Writing an evaluation function for this language is a simple exercise ; however, more complex transformations also become feasible.

He goes on to say that “ the flow of town and history, of the Japanese people and the cannery, especially of the river and language, are more securely rooted in place and concentrated in the writing consciousness than in any other of her books .” And according to www. athabascau. ca, Net Work: Selected Writing is “ a selection of poetry spanning from Frames of a Story ( 1968 ) to What Matters ( 1980 ) is an excellent cross-section of her early poetry .” It is through these pieces and earlier pieces that Marlatt ’ s feminist theory begins to emerge.

Organizations that have endorsed plain language include the Legal Writing Institute, the Canadian Bar Association, and the Canadian Bankers Association.

The Plain Writing Act of 2010, signed into law on October 13, 2010, requires US federal agencies to use plain language in every covered document that the agency issues or substantially revises, and to train its employees in plain language.

* Band scores used for each language sub-skill ( Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking ).

Writing in the Galician language, after the Séculos Escuros ( lit.

Designed by the firm of Perry, Dean, Rogers and Partners, the renovation provided space for College Media Services, the Writing Center, and a language lab as well.

Writing for Desi Xpress, Yosef accused Tatchell of Islamophobia but was attacked by gay organisations for " encouraging violence against Tatchell " and for using " xenophobic " and " homophobic " language.

It is now home to the Dean's Offices of both colleges, along with the departmental offices of Writing and Rhetoric and the various modern language departments.

Writing in a pamphlet around the year 1900, Yarkovsky noted that the diurnal heating of a rotating object in space would cause it to experience a force that, while tiny, could lead to large long-term effects in the orbits of small bodies, especially meteoroids and small asteroids.

Writing in his spare time, he interviewed around sixty survivors of the disaster.

Writing around 415CE, St. Augustine of Hippo in his book City of God refers to a man " double in his upper, but single in his lower half -- having two heads, two chests, four hands, but one body and two feet like an ordinary man.

Writing in 2007, Romanian anthropologist Andrei Oişteanu recounted how, around 1984, the Securitate unsuccessfully pressured to become an agent of influence in Eliade's Chicagoan circle.

Writing in the Spring issue of RA Magazine, Nigel Billen said, " His partner, Gillian Wearing, is an RA ( as is one of his best friends, the artist Gary Hume ) ... Landy met Hume and Damien Hirst at Goldsmiths College in the mid-1980s, meeting Emin and other YBAs around the same time.

Writing all his own songs, and continuing to perform mostly outside traditional country music channels, Yoakam did many shows in rock and punk rock clubs around Los Angeles, playing with roots rock or punk rock acts like The Blasters ( Yoakam scored a small video hit with his version of their song " Long White Cadillac "), Los Lobos, and X.

The Leatherhead Drama Festival began in 2004 and is the UK's largest drama festival of its type, in which schools and drama groups from around Surrey and beyond compete each year for the Sir Michael Caine Drama Awards, the Richard Houghton Awards and New Writing Awards.

Writing sessions for Generator began around late 1990 / early 1991.

The method developed around 1888 and was introduced in his 1894 book Palmer's Guide to Business Writing.

Writing in a pamphlet around the year 1900, Yarkovsky noted that the diurnal heating of a rotating object in space would cause it to experience a force that, while tiny, could lead to large long-term effects in the orbits of small bodies, especially meteoroids and small asteroids.

The total test duration is around 2 hours and 45 minutes for Listening, Reading and Writing modules.

Writing resembling Egyptian hieroglyphics was also said to be in a band around the base of the object.

Writing around 300, one Arnobius of Numidia mentioned the existence of Christian communities in Achaia, Macedonia, and Epirus.

Writing around 330, the first great recorded Church historian Eusebius of Caesarea mentions that bishops from Epiros attended the first Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325.

Writing of a period around 1830, Brown says, " we did not hear of " Santa Claus.

Writing around AD 401, he says:

Writing in The Telegraph, Mr Hannan said of the media storm around his comments:

According to Nedra Reynolds, Professor of Writing & Rhetoric, " ethos, like postmodern subjectivity, shifts and changes over time, across texts, and around competing spaces "( Reynolds, 336 ).

An extensive treatment of ' Dickens as Sociolinguist ', in the course of which she analyses the speech of these Norfolk characters was made by Patricia Poussa in Writing in Non-Standard English In the same article Poussa makes connections between the particular variant of Norfolk dialect spoken in the Flegg area around Great Yarmouth, a place of known Viking settlement, with Scandinavian languages.

In addition to his occasional workshops, Syd Field teaches screenwriting at the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California and travels around the world giving seminars and workshops to film professionals.

Writing in around 139-161, Ptolemy in his Geography mentions the River Celnius in the North East of Scotland.

Writing around 1720, Father António Cordeiro, affirmed that the Fajãs included about 80 homes.

The International Writing Centers Association ( IWCA ) is committed to supporting writing centers from around the world, with current regional associations in Europe and proposed associations in the Middle East, South Africa, and the Far East.

Writing in The New York Times, Charles Poore reported that Bradbury " writes in a style that seems to have been nourished on the poets and fabulists of the Irish Literary Renaissance ," praising him as being " wonderfully adept at getting to the heart of his story without talking all day long about it and around it.