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History of Writing

The history of writing is the method of expressing language through letters and markings. The earliest writing dates back to ancient Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica. There are debates whether the development of writing originated in China or Egypt.

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What are the styles of letters?

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Styles refers to the choices that are made when creating a letter. What kind of text formatting will you use? The three main styles are Block, semi block, and modified block. This refers to how the lines appear on the page.

Block will appear with all sentences aligned with the left margin.

Semi Block can have the salutation aligned with the right margin, and the body of the message as in block.

Modified block can have the salutation and the signature line on the left, and the body of the message as in block.

There are other things to determine in the style of the letter. Do you emphasize words by using bold or italics? There are many such choices when composing a letter, capitalization, use of commas versus indentations, etc.

There are many different kind, you have to make them the way you want them. There's Italics, Bold, Bubbles, Flowers, Balloons, Cursive and more!

What is a non-indo European language?

Most of the languages of the world are not Indo-European, such as:

Hebrew

Arabic

All Chinese languages

Japanese

Swahili

Zulu

Cherokee

Navajo

Quechua

Guarani

Māori

Filipino

What is an elegy?

Elegy is the kind of poem that mourns the death of someone or something. Tennyson's In Memoriam mourns the death of his friend Arthur Hallam. Oliver Goldsmith's the Deserted Village is about the demise of a Village. Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard also is about the virtuous past of a village. There has also been 'Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog.'

Why is Chaucer important?

He was a poet who helped legitimize vernacular languages.

Which is the largest alphabet?

== The oldest and longest alphabet is the Egyptian alphabet with 45 letters. The Cambodian alphabet has 74 characters. The International Phonetic Alphabet has more: "As of 2007, there are 107 distinct letters and 56 http://www.answers.com/topic/diacritic and http://www.answers.com/topic/prosody-linguistics in the IPA proper. Occasionally symbols are added, removed, or modified by the International Phonetic Association." http://www.answers.com/topic/international-phonetic-alphabet

What is Alaskas main resource?

alaskas main resources are meat, fish and oil some people work to rub oil off the rocks in Alaska

What does tragic mean?

Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation., Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution., Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow.

What is the average amount of scenes in a play?

It depends on what time period you are talking about, and what your definition of "scene" is. To the French, a scene starts and ends when any character leaves or enters the stage, whereas to the English, a scene starts and ends when the stage is emptied and there is a change of location or time or both. Obviously most plays contain many more French scenes than English ones. Also, Elizabethan plays generally were divided into five acts, each act having between one and eight English scenes, so a play might have sixteen or more scenes. More modern plays have fewer acts and fewer scenes, often three acts which contain one or two scenes each.

What are some languages of the Indo-European languages tree?

The Related Link below shows the Indo-European languages and their development.

The most common Indo-European languages are:

Afrikaans

Bulgarian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

English

Farsi

French

German

Greek

Hindi

Icelandic

Italian

Latin

Norwegian

Polish

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Slovak

Slovenian

Spanish

Swedish

Ukrainian

Yiddish

What are the 3 major documents written in PA?

Pennsylvania was a very important part of Colonial America. Three major documents that were written in the Commonwealth are the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Gettysburg Address.

What is a work house?

A workhouse refers to factory in the Victorian era that is known for its poor working conditions. Those working in the factory were the inspiration behind the movement towards unionization.

What are two kinds of writing learned by early civilivzations writings?

According to historians, one of the two types of writings learned from early civilization is the pictographic form of writing that later evolved into cuneiform. This was common among the Sumerians. The second is hieroglyphics writings which were common in the Egyptian culture.

How did Charles Dickens books published?

Charles Dickens's books were actually published in increments. He was paid by the local newspaper by the word, which is where his style of superfluous writing came. Some of his most famous works including A Christmas Carol were published in weekly installments this way.

What is the meaning of the prefix proto?

A combining form meaning "first," "foremost," "earliest form of," used in the formation of compound words.

Why do people believe?

people are just tempted to believe things like that

Excerpted from; "Why People Believe Weird Things.""More than any other, the reason people believe weird things," says Shermer, "is because they want to. . . .It feels good. It is comforting. It is consoling." Secondly, weird beliefs offer "immediate gratification." People like weird beliefs because they are simple. Weird beliefs also satisfy the quest for significance: they satisfy our moral needs and our desire that life be meaningful. Finally, he says, people believe weird things because weird things give them hope.

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Themes in the poem the vulture by david diop?

it simply means that the poet was sick and tired about the colonial rule and wanted to end it.he wrote the poem to express his points about the sinister side of the rule

How do you use were and are in a sentence?

was is used with singular subjects, were with plural subjects. (There is no reasoning involved).

Why do people use pictures in writing?

To more clearly depict the story for those who do not have an adequate imagination. This is more commonly seen in children's books and in some old novels. Authors do not use pictures that much in adult books, however, biographies have pictures to accompany them to help tell the reader about someone's life.

Pictures in novels nowadays are being replaced by movie versions of the stories. This means that more people are simply watching the movie before they read the book, so writers are not bothering to include pictures within their novels as the reader will be referring to the movie's point of view.

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What is a 12 letter word?

Well, there are 11,417 twelve-letter words in the Scrabble dictionary. How about 100 of them?

abbreviation

abolitionist

abstractness

abstruseness

academically

acceleration

accentuation

accidentally

accomplished

accumulation

accumulative

accurateness

acoustically

acquaintance

acquiescence

adaptability

additionally

adjectivally

adjudication

administrate

admonishment

adulteration

advantageous

advisability

aerodynamics

aeronautical

affectionate

afterthought

aggressively

agribusiness

agricultural

alliteration

alliterative

alphabetical

alphanumeric

amalgamation

ambidextrous

ambivalently

amelioration

amphitheater

analytically

anarchically

anatomically

anchorperson

annihilation

announcement

annunciation

antagonistic

antediluvian

anthropology

antiabortion

antiaircraft

anticipation

anticipatory

antiparticle

antithetical

appendectomy

appendicitis

appreciation

appreciative

apprehension

apprehensive

approachable

appurtenance

architecture

aristocratic

arithmetical

articulately

articulation

artificially

artistically

asphyxiation

assimilation

astonishment

astoundingly

astrological

astronautics

astronomical

astrophysics

asymmetrical

athletically

attractively

attributable

augmentation

auspiciously

authenticate

authenticity

autonomously

availability

avariciously

bacchanalian

backbreaking

backwardness

bacteriology

bantamweight

battleground

begrudgingly

belligerence

belligerency

benefactress