Writing most likely began as a consequence of political expansion in ancient cultures, which needed reliable means for transmitting information, maintaining financial accounts, keeping historical records, and similar activities.

Writing most likely began as a consequence of political expansion in ancient cultures, which needed reliable means for transmitting information, maintaining financial accounts, keeping historical records, and similar activities.

Writing, the virial expansion can be written in closed form as

Writing in 1845, in his book Chromatics, George Field notes ( perhaps erroneously ) that Sir Joshua Reynolds gives the ratio 2: 1 as a rule for the proportion of warm to cold colors in a painting, and attributes to Smith the expansion of that rule to all proportions in painting:

Writing in 1933, Charles Fenner suggested that it was likely that the " actual origin of the bunyip myth lies in the fact that from time to time seals have made their way up the ... Murray and Darling ( Rivers )".

Writing in Cosmos, journalist Wilson da Silva reacted to Greenpeace's destruction of a genetically modified wheat crop in Ginninderra as another sign that the organization has " lost its way " and had degenerated into a " sad, dogmatic, reactionary phalanx of anti-science zealots who care not for evidence, but for publicity ".

Writing SMILES for substituted rings in this way can make them more human-readable.

Writing a good business plan can ’ t guarantee success, but it can go a long way toward reducing the odds of failure.

Writing in Variety, Todd McCarthy said the cast ensemble " could not be better "; he praised Spacey's " handling of innuendo, subtle sarcasm and blunt talk " and the way he imbued Lester with " genuine feeling ".

; Re-entrancy: Writing code in such a way that it can be partially executed by a thread, reexecuted by the same thread or simultaneously executed by another thread and still correctly complete the original execution.

Writing this way, the author must omit many ordinary words.

Sheldon Richman, editor of the libertarian journal, The Freeman, also sees the IMF imposing “ corporatist-flavored ‘ neoliberalism ’ on the troubled countries of the world .” The policies of spending cuts coupled with tax increases give “ real market reform a bad name and set back the cause of genuine liberalism .” Paternalistic supranational bureaucrats foster “ long-term dependency, perpetual indebtedness, moral hazard, and politicization, while discrediting market reform and forestalling revolutionary liberal change .” Free market economist Richard M. Salsman goes further and argues the IMF “ is a destructive, crisis-generating global welfare agency that should be abolished .” “ In return for bailouts, countries must enact such measures as new taxes, high interest rates, nationalizations, deportations, and price controls .” Writing in Forbes, E. D. Kain sees the IMF as " paving the way for international corporations entrance into various developing nations " and creating dependency.

In 1952 Strauss published Persecution and the Art of Writing, commonly understood to advance the argument that some philosophers write in such a way as to avoid persecution by political or religious authorities.

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.

Writing for The Washington Post, Jerry Doolittle thought that Bond is " still irresistible to women, still handsome in a menacing way, still charming.

" Writing in The Spectator in 2006, author and journalist Leo McKinstry described her as " the high priestess of Tory sleaze ," whose actions helped to " undermine the reputation of the Conservative party in the 1990s and pave the way for the arrival of Tony Blair.

Writing in An t-Oglach ( Free State Army monthly ), March, 1931, he wrote “ I set to work and … succeeded in convincing a majority of the Committee of the necessity of our giving way for the moment .” When Clarke was told about Hobson ’ s exertions, and that the decision to accept Redmond ’ s nominees would not have been possible but for Hobson, he nearly broke down.

Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

Writing in this “ fusion language ,” which is an American language with Asian tones and accents, or rhythm, is a way that Kingston brings together Chinese and Western experiences.

Creative Writing programs are typically available to writers from the high school level all the way through graduate school.

He describes his stance on the writing process, saying “ Writing is a way to end up thinking something you couldn ’ t have started out thinking .” According to Elbow, the best way to accomplish this is a series of drafts which come together to produce an emerging “ center of gravity ” that then translates into the main focus on the work.

Writing for GameSpot, Doug Radcliffe argued that Decay was " impressive ", praising the design of puzzles required players to work together, as well as the way in which the ranking system discouraged players from competing against each other.

Writing our way into shared understanding: Collaborative autobiographical writing in the qualitative methods class.

Writing in 1989 he also argued that Perestroika and Glasnost were merely Soviet propaganda tools, drawing among other on KGB-defector Anatoliy Golitsyn's New Lies for Old, which in 1984 predicted the collapse of communism as a way of seducing the West.

Writing after the war, Edward Porter Alexander stated: " Indeed, it is almost tragic the way in which he became the scapegoat of this occasion.

Writing of Hildebrand's support for Nolte, Mommsen declared that: “ Hildebrand ’ s polemic clearly suggests that he barely considered the consequences of making Nolte ’ s constructs the centrepiece of a modern German conservatism that is very anxious to relativize the National Socialist experience and to find the way back to a putative historically “ normal situation ”.

Writing in 1944, the liberal Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek said of the change in political attitudes that had occurred since the Great War: " Perhaps nothing shows this change more clearly than that, while there is no lack of sympathetic treatment of Bismarck in contemporary English literature, the name of Gladstone is rarely mentioned by the younger generation without a sneer over his Victorian morality and naive utopianism ".

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.

Writing in The Times, John Russell Taylor found that, “ After a slowish beginning, which shows up the deficiencies of acting and direction, things really start hopping when a mysterious missile-like object discovered in a London excavation proves to be a relic of a prehistoric Martian attempt ( successful.

Writing music for their shows was his main activity for the following ten years.

In Writing Drama, French writer and director Yves Lavandier shows a slightly different approach.

Writing of Sigmund Mogulesko's troupe in Romania in 1884, and probably referring to the plays of Moses Horowitz and Joseph Lateiner, Moses Gaster wrote that Yiddish theatre " represents scenes from our history known by only a tiny minority, refreshing, therefore, secular memory " and " shows us our defects, which we have like all men, but not with a tendency to strike at our own immorality with a tendency towards ill will, but only with an ironic spirit that does not wound us, as we are wounded by representations on other stages, where the Jew plays a degrading role.

In conjunction with those shows, he was the co-editor of the Fall 1999 " Male / Female " issue of Aperture, featuring his interview with Madonna, which was later anthologized in Da Capo's Best Music Writing ( 2000 ).

Writing systems that indicate consonants but do not indicate most vowels ( like the Aramaic one ) or indicate them with added diacritical signs, have been called abjads by Peter T. Daniels to distinguish them from later alphabets, such as Greek, that represent vowels more systematically.

" Writing in Collier's more than 20 years earlier, Dorais ' Notre Dame teammate Knute Rockne acknowledged Cochems as the early leader in the use of the pass, observing, " One would have thought that so effective a play would have been instantly copied and become the vogue.

Writing in 1790, Bewick described it as the largest and most beautiful of the dog kind ; about 36 inches high, generally of a white or cinammon colour, somewhat like the Greyhound but more robust.

Writing in the New York Times in 1990, Richard Bernstein noted " The term ' politically correct ,' with its suggestion of Stalinist orthodoxy, is spoken more with irony and disapproval than with reverence.

Match Writing EFeds are one of the more popular options and features you roleplaying pieces of matches together with another person to create a competition of creativity and grammar.

It was much later, in the 1600s, with the increased popularity of writing, especially in the copperplate style promoted by the many printed manuals available from the ' Writing Masters ,' that quills became more pointed and flexible.

Writing 10 years later, Cubs ' shortstop Ernie Banks would call it the longest ball he'd seen hit at Wrigley Field ; according to Banks, the consensus among the Cubs was that " it must have traveled more than 500 feet ( 152. 4 m ) on its trip into Waveland Avenue.

But after finding that his book On Writing had more useful and observant things to say about the craft than any book since Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, I have gotten over my own snobbery.

Writing might include the name of the owning military unit or commander or might be more imaginative: " Take this ," " Ouch ," and even " For Pompey's backside " added insult to injury, whereas dexai (" take this " or " catch!

Writing, more particularly, refers to two things: writing as an object, the thing that is written ; and writing as a gerund, which designates the activity of writing.

Writing in 1904, journalist Clifton Johnson documented the " opprobrious " character of the word nigger, emphasizing that it was chosen in the South precisely because it was more offensive than " colored.

Writing in The Guardian on 18 October, Powell asserted that due to the Falklands War, " Britain no longer looked upon itself and the world through American spectacles " and the view was " more rational ; and it was more congenial ; for, after all, it was our own view ".

Writing in The Times Literary Supplement Philip Stead was more generous to Dr. No, although he thought that Fleming was offering " too opulent a feast " with the book, although he manages to pull this off, where " a less accomplished writer, lacking Mr. Fleming's quick descriptive gift and his powers of making his characters talk with such lucid and natural style, would never have got away with this story.

Writing pyramid-style tossups can be more difficult because the answer must have many clues, ordered from unique and obscure to giveaway, without tapering too quickly or slowly.

His series often challenge popular views of history: for example, Terry Jones ' Medieval Lives ( 2004 ) ( for which he received a 2004 Emmy nomination for " Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming ") argues that the Middle Ages was a more sophisticated period than is popularly thought, and Terry Jones ' Barbarians ( 2006 ) presents the cultural achievements of peoples conquered by the Roman Empire in a more positive light than Roman historians typically have, while criticizing the Romans as the true " barbarians " who exploited and destroyed higher civilizations.

Writing a lipogram may be a trivial task for uncommon letters like " Z ", " J ", " Q ", or " X ", but it is much more difficult for common letters like " E ", " T " or " A ".

; Lipogram: Writing that excludes one or more letters.

Writing in 1910, Peirce admits that " in almost everything I printed before the beginning of this century I more or less mixed up hypothesis and induction " and he traces the confusion of these two types of reasoning to logicians ' too " narrow and formalistic a conception of inference, as necessarily having formulated judgments from its premises.

Writing of the period 1883 – 1884, Yiddish theatre actor Jacob Adler wrote, " The further we penetrated into this Whitechapel, the more our hearts sank.

It was popular, and under the two titles of Short Writing and Tachygraphy, Shelton's book ran to more than 20 editions between 1626 and 1710.

Writing for the Spanish journal La Vanguardia, commentator Sergio Vila-Sanjuán described the first volume of Eliade's Autobiography ( covering the years 1907 to 1937 ) as " a great book ", while noting that the other main volume was " more conventional and insincere.