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	Definition of Mirror from dictionary.net
		Mirror carp (Zo["o]l.), a domesticated variety of the carp, having only three or fur rows of very large scales side.
		Mirror writing, a manner or form of backward writing, making manuscript resembling in slant and order of letters the reflection of ordinary writing in a mirror.
		The substitution of this manner of writing for the common manner is a symptom of some kinds of nervous disease.
	www.dictionary.net /mirror (165 words)

	As in a mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mirror writing is nearly always accomplished with the left hand, and is often produced by healthy individuals, although sometimes it denotes neurological disease and may be associated with stammering or dyslexia.
		As a rule, mirror writing by right-handed people is the sequel of a right hemiplegia which has persuaded them to resort to the left hand.
		Acquired mirror writing most commonly is the result of a cerebrovascular lesion, usually located in the left hemisphere, but does not necessarily denote a pathological state.
	www.pjonline.com /Editorial/20000226/comment/mirror.html (309 words)

	News in Science - Mirror writing: my genes made me do it - 02/06/2004
		The ability to write backwards in the form of mirror writing is probably inherited, Australian research suggests.
		Mirror writing is the ability to write from right to left, reversing each letter so that when the script is held to a mirror, it appears normal.
		Jackson said mirror writing may not have anything to do with language centres per se, but rather be linked to the way the motor system was being activated.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s1119739.htm (611 words)

	Oceanic - Around Town Hawaii - Leisure - Reviews - Debbie Jenae, Handwriting Analyst, Handwriting @ Work - Mirror ...
		Mirror writing is formed by writing from right to left and reversed so that the result appears normal when reflected in a mirror.
		One subject recalls that at the age of 15, while writing poetry in a café, she found that writing in reverse image "was a way to keep her writing private" and still be part of the scene.
		Some mirror writing is normal in children first learning to write and is usually self-corrected in a short period of time.
	www.hawaii.rr.com /leisure/reviews/handwriting/2002-04_mirrorwriting.htm (1289 words)

	Mirror writing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most common modern usage of mirror writing can be found on the front of ambulances, where the word "AMBULANCE" is often written in very large mirrored text, so that drivers see the word the right way around in their rear-view mirror.
		Approximately 1 in 6500 people in the population inherited the ability of mirror writing and half of their children also inherited the ability.
		You can also create mirror writing by holding a piece of paper to your forehead, standing infront of a mirror, and writing on the paper while looking in the mirror.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mirror_writing (381 words)

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		Writing response papers gives you an opportunity to begin to explore your interests at some length, and they are excellent preliminary writing: the ideas that you explore in your response papers can be developed at greater length in the essays that you write for the course, or in the literacy narrative.
		You may write a letter that addresses a theme or issue that the novel presents, either directly or implicitly, as a means to highlight that issue, or as a means to argue with it.
		These writing assignments will serve to prompt our class discussions, to supplement our class discussions, to give you a method of addressing the novels that is more "creative," and, perhaps more important, they will ask you to step outside of your own personal perspective and try to understand the views of others.
	www.albany.edu /faculty/dn4377/aeng105z/Assignments.html (3714 words)

	Mirror Symmetry/Mirror Images
		Then have them turn the mirror (not their head) so they can see the person next to them, then turn the mirror so they can see the ceiling, then their shoes, then a poster on the wall, etc. Ask the students to look at the geometric figure sheet.
		At this point, ask the students to find all of the lines of symmetry (the cut where one part of the figure is the mirror image of the other part) of all of the figures on the sheet.
		Have the students arrange the mirrors so they can see exactly four images, and check the angle, then five images, and check the angle, then six images, and check the angle, then eight images, and check the angle, then ten images, and check the angle.
	www.iit.edu /~smile/ph9517.html (662 words)

	Mirror image - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In geometry, the mirror image of an object or two-dimensional figure is the virtual image formed by reflection in a plane mirror; it is of the same size as the original object, yet different, unless the object or figure has reflection symmetry (also known in the terminology of modern physics as a P-symmetry).
		If the mirrors have vertical edges then the left edge of the field of view is the plane through the right edge of the first mirror and the edge of the second mirror which is on the right when looked at directly, but on the left in the mirror image.
		Since the plane of the mirror in which one looks directly is beyond that of the other mirror, one always looks at an oblique angle, and the translation just mentioned has not only a component away from the observer, but also one in a perpendicular direction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mirror_image (841 words)

	Cerebral
		Mirror writing, which is almost always the product of the left hand, can be conscious or unintended, involve whole sentences or just single letters and be the product of normal as well as diseased or damaged brains.
		Mirror writing has been associated with various chronic neurological disorders such as dyslexia, stammering and other perceptual problems and has been seen in retarded persons, many of who are left handed.
		From observations of mirror movements (synkinesis) in the limbs of children it is theorized that parallel mirror activities are present initially in almost all children.
	www.stanford.edu /~mgorman/essays/Tom/Cere.html (2648 words)

	Julian Baggini: This article is in mirror writing \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		There are some who say that Leonardo da Vinci only used mirror writing because he was left-handed, and writing backwards made it easier to avoid smudging the ink.
		Mirror writing is thus the perfect medium for the works of someone destined to be seen as humankind's ultimate genius.
		Simply by writing backwards, Leonardo was able to rebury the knowledge he had uncovered, to make unknown again what he came to know, and so to preserve the esoteric element in all his work.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,,1753765,00.html (445 words)

	ZOOM . activities . sci . Mirror Messages \| PBS Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mirror writing makes a great secret code because the message looks really different in the mirror than it does in real life.
		When I did the mirror message on my little sister, she got very upset when she didnt know how to read it but she got the hang of it.
		First write the message normally, then u flip the message from left to right and then u flip the paper to the other side and u have the message.
	pbskids.org /zoom/activities/sci/mirrormessages.html (1168 words)

	Leonardo DaVinci
		Leonardo wrote in small notebooks using his left-hand and a technique of mirror writing (text is written from right to left).
		He was left-handed and in those days of writing with pen and ink this was a particular disadvantage; as your hand crossed the page it would smudge the still wet text.
		In the age of Leonardo, people were naturally superstitious and children were normally forced to write using their right hands, so it is unusual to find someone from this period who was so openly a south-paw.
	www.lairweb.org.nz /leonardo/mirror.html (307 words)

	Phonetic Picture-Writing: Frequent Questions
		Writing downwards was more practical with most tools (writing by drawing), but the reasons given above are more important.
		Normally, with the word "phonetic picture-writing", we mean both, the writing and the speech defined by it.
		They differ in the basic principle (letter writing, syllable writing, position writing) and in signs, sounds, attachment of sounds to signs, dictionary (often, to portray a thing, more than one good ideogram is possible), maybe also in grammar.
	members.aol.com /leonheinz/english-lautbildschrift/fragen.htm (1097 words)

	Re: Mirror-Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I think that it has to deal with the mirror position of the hand muscles and with some abbility of the brain to send the same sequence of nerve impulses to the left hand instead to the right.
		This is because I also can not read mirror writings so while writing my brain can not correct the written shape so it is better to switch it off :-).
		One way to do this is just not to look at the paper while writing, but it is difficult for some people to accomplish it.
	allpsych.com /forums/students/_students/000001cd.htm (308 words)

	Handedness Research Institute \| Teaching Left-Handers to Write
		Teaching a child to write with his or her left hand is not just the opposite from teaching how to write right-handed.
		The most important factors are: the position of the writing paper, the position of the arm and wrist, and the grip on the writing instrument.
		Mirror writing is writing left-to-write languages (like English) backwards AND also reversing the letters so that the writing only appears normal when held up to a mirror and the reflection viewed (see Figure 3).
	handedness.org /action/leftwrite.html (1531 words)

	Montreal Mirror : Books : Writing Life: Celebrated Canadian and International Authors on Writing and Life
		If you’re interested in the subject of what it’s like to make a life and a living from writing, both books are full of great advice, anecdotes, bitterness and solace.
		The writers in Writing Life appear alphabetically, ranging from Margaret Atwood and Russell Banks all the way down to Marilynne Robinson and Jane Urquhart.
		This seems mostly because she can no longer balance the task of writing with the demands of an adoring public who keep the phone incessantly ringing.
	www.montrealmirror.com /2006/071306/books.html (606 words)

	Mirror Writing
		Mirror writing is writing left to right languages (like English) backwards.
		It can also mean that children reverse the letters so that the writing only appears normal when held up to a mirror..
		If a left-handed child has a tendency to mirror write, the teacher can help him or her overcome this by making sure the child always begins writing on the left side of the page.
	www.brainydays.co.uk /left-handed/mirror-left-handed-handwriting.htm (202 words)

	Mirror, Mirror Writing Contest - Win a Copy of It's My Body
		Mirror, if you are my reality, then I want to live in the land of make-believe.
		Therefore, ultimately, when we as women are looking into the mirror, we are really looking into the eyes of the man we may love, seeking constant approval to try to portray an image that can never really be achieved on a daily basis.
		Mirror, mirror, was it love when I would lose myself in your reflective pool for hours, scrutinizing every fleshy inch, every pore, every muscle, every freckle and pimple and hair?
	members.shaw.ca /boldbooks/contest.htm (3396 words)

	Mirror writing \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		I started to write and, before I knew it, Marlene was suffering from a severe attack of the noise sickness, which made her lose consciousness.
		I realised that this new chapter took place a short time before chapter one, but for the moment I left it where it was and pressed on with chapter three.
		The twists and turns of the creative process mirror the nature of the plot, a journey around a strangely distorted England.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1112209,00.html (810 words)

	Writers' Window
		Write with fluorescent pink pens that burn the eyes from a distance.
		Write everything really, really big on a beach so that it can only be read from a plane or on top of the moon.
		The mirror writing technique is one that I actually use.
	english.unitecnology.ac.nz /writers/writing.php?id=34451 (1320 words)

	Reflection Activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Hold a plane mirror, with its edge touching the board, in the path of the rays.
		Rays from points A and B travel to the mirror, where they are reflected back to your eyes.
		When the tubes are at the correct angle, the light will bounce off the mirror and down to the end of the second tube.
	www.tooter4kids.com /Light_Color/reflection_activities.htm (683 words)

	Re: Mirror-Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I need to reverse the writing to be able to read it (a necessity with writing other than my signature or address etc and with a long passage if I have forgotten exactly what the phraseology was).
		Also, the mirror writing is indistinguishable, when reverted, to my normal right hand script, give or take a deviation due to the rare practice I have with my LH).
		If I write 'from the elbow' rather than from the wrist, as when in front of a fl (or white) board, the larger writing is virtually the same apart from the reversal.
	allpsych.com /forums/students/_students/0000011f.htm (1067 words)

	Leonardo: Right to Left (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Only when he was writing something intended for other people did he write in the normal direction.
		Writing left handed from left to right was messy because the ink just put down would smear as his hand moved across it.
		Leonardo chose to write in reverse because it prevented smudging.
	www.mos.org /sln/Leonardo/LeonardoRighttoLeft.html (255 words)

	NonTROPPO: Mirror Writing...
		Mirrors have always fascinated me. Both straight and curved mirrors - they present a world to us at once familiar, and yet also highly irregular.
		The latest use of a mirror is the GOOGLE mirror.
		A mirror in internet terms is a backup copy of a web site, and google allows an interface into it’s main database to be mirrored.
	nontroppo.org /blog/archives/2002/09/10/mirror_writing.html (244 words)

	Letter Reversals, Number Reversals and Mirror Writing
		A popular theory is that letter reversals, number reversals and mirror writing are caused by a neurological deficit.
		A child with mirror writing tendencies is clearly a child who also has a problem with reading direction.
		However, in a case of mirror writing it is important for the child to build from left to right, in order to enforce the reading direction.
	www.audiblox2000.com /learning_disabilities/letter_reversals.htm (852 words)

	THE REAL LEONARDO DA VINCI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For over five hundred years, scholars have explained Leonardo's mirror writing as writing which could only be read in a mirror because he wanted to keep what he wrote secret.
		If you have ever watched a left handed person write you will see that in order to be able to read what they have written, as they write it, they "curl" their hand around what they have written.
		If the writing was being done with a pen or quill dipped in ink, the left handed writer would tend to "drag" the outside part of the hand over what was just written.
	www200.pair.com /lennyd/leonardo.htm (429 words)

	Mirror Writing - Castle of Spirits.com Ghost Story
		On the mirror, written in steam, were the words "YOU SHOULD LEAVE." I sighed, pucked up my towel and rubbed the words off.
		By the mirror was a figure,all white, with a face filled with fear,writing on the mirror in toothpaste.
		My dad bought me a new mirror, but on the 2nd night I had had it up, it "fell" off its nail and smashed.
	www.castleofspirits.com /stories06/mirrorwriting.html (844 words)

	Mirror Image Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mirror Image reserves the right to restrict, suspend and/or terminate any Party's access to Mirror Image Services if the Party is known to Mirror Image to be, or believed by Mirror Image to be, failing to comply with this AUPP.
		If Mirror Image receives, or determines that it may receive, specific complaints regarding Subscriber's activities that, Subscriber agrees to alter their use of Mirror Image Services at Mirror Image's request in what Mirror Image determines to be an appropriate period of time.
		Mirror Image, Subscribers and Affiliates may use Content called "one-pixel gifs," "clear gifs" or "Web beacons" embedded in some Web pages to allow collection of reporting information to be provided to Subscriber's regarding those End Users that have visited that page or to make cookies more effective.
	www.mirror-image.com /company/privacy_policy.asp (3306 words)

	Arch Neurol -- Abstract: Mirror Writing, Left-handedness, and Leftward Scripts, December 2004, Schott and Schott 61 ...
		This minireview concerns a new observation on mirror writing.
		mirror writing, an observation that may have implications for
		Mirror writing: neurological reflections on an unusual phenomenon
	archneur.ama-assn.org /cgi/content/abstract/61/12/1849 (145 words)

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