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The Reed–Kellogg system was developed by Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg for teaching grammar to students through visualization. [1] It lost some support in the 1970s in the US, but has spread to Europe. [2] It is considered "traditional" in comparison to the parse trees of academic linguists. [3]
Social translucence (also referred as social awareness) is a term that was proposed by Thomas Erickson and Wendy Kellogg to refer to "design digital systems that support coherent behavior by making participants and their activities visible to one another". Social translucence represents a tool for transparency in socio-technical systems, which ...
Signed into law by President Calvin Coolidge on May 24, 1924. The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act ( Pub. L. 68–139, 43 Stat. 153, enacted May 26, 1924 ), was a federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from Eastern and ...
Seneca the Younger The Twelve Tables of Roman Law, established early in the formation of the Roman Republic, obliged citizens by law to immediately kill any "dreadfully deformed" child. [b] And so selective infanticide seems to have been comparably widespread in Ancient Rome as it had already long been in Athens. Furthermore, according to Tacitus (c. 56 – c. 120), a Roman of the Imperial ...
Socioeconomic mobility in the United States refers to the upward or downward movement of Americans from one social class or economic level to another, [ 2] through job changes, inheritance, marriage, connections, tax changes, innovation, illegal activities, hard work, lobbying, luck, health changes or other factors.
New tests done by the Environmental Working Group have found 21 oat-based cereals and snack bars popular amongst children to have "troubling levels of glyphosate." The chemical, which is the ...
American. Brainerd Kellogg (August 15, 1834 – January 9, 1920) was born in Champlain, New York. He was a Tutor (1860–1861) and Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature (1861–1868) at Middlebury College in Vermont, United States. From 1868 to 1907 he was professor at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He published a number of ...
State Socialism (German: Staatssozialismus) was a set of social programs implemented in the German Empire that were initiated by Otto von Bismarck in 1883 as remedial measures to appease the working class and detract support for socialism and the Social Democratic Party of Germany following earlier attempts to achieve the same objective through Bismarck's Anti-Socialist Laws.