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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Parenthesis (rhetoric) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		See parenthesis for an account of the rhetorical concept from which the name of the punctuation mark is derived.
		While a parenthesis need not be written enclosed by the curved brackets called parentheses, their use principally around rhetorical parentheses has made the punctuation marks the only common use for the term in most contexts.
		Dorothy's powerful silver slippers (they were changed to ruby only in the film) and their superiority to the golden yellow brick road, perhaps the most dangerous route in American literature, reflect the intense political rhetoric of the era.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Parenthesis-%28rhetoric%29 (496 words)

	parenthesis definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		Parentheses are used around text that adds extra information to what has gone before: She was suffering from rubella (German measles);The noun "dessert" (with a double "s") is pronounced the same as the verb "desert";a protest against GM (genetically modified) crops.
		Note that there should be no punctuation directly before the opening parenthesis in such cases.
		Parentheses are also used around optional or alternative material: Please write your forename(s) in full, or to separate something, e.g., a number or symbol, from the surrounding text: I disagree with the proposal, (a) because it is too expensive, and (b) because it is unlikely to be effective in the long term.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861723802 (298 words)

	Parenthesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Parenthesis, which is based in the city's Canal Basin, picked up four gongs - called the Midlands Fresh Awards - for creative design work it carried out on...
		In the written interim report, the figures in parenthesis refer to the corresponding period in the previous year.
		By extension, the word parentheses, seldom used in the singular, has come to refer to the round brackets in which a parenthesis is enclosed in writing.
	www.wikiverse.org /parenthesis (226 words)

	parenthesis - definition by dict.die.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		parenthesis n 1: either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material 2: a message that departs from the main subject [syn: digression, aside, excursus, divagation]
		A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it.
		Note: Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by commas are logically parenthetical.
	dict.die.net /parenthesis (171 words)

	Parenthesis: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Last of the band was Parenthesis, short, bowlegged, with a face tanned...slaps upon shoulder and back.
		Both In Parenthesis and The Anathemata are dense, allusive...
		The remainder of the book is a history of Gods care of the Jews from the beginning, with a long parenthesis on the natural origin of idolatry and its folly.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/parenthesis.jsp?l=P&p=1 (1430 words)

	5. Objetivity in parenthesis
		I shall speak as a biologist, and as such I shall use the criterion of validation of scientific statements to validate what I say, accepting that everything that takes place is brought forth by the observer in his or her praxis of living as a primary experiential condition, and that any explanation is secondary.
		The assumption of objectivity, objectivity without parenthesis, entails the assumption that existence is indpendent of the observer, that there is an independent domain of existence, the universum, that is the ultimate reference for the validation of any explanation.
		With objectivity without parenthesis things, entities, exist with independency of the observer that distinguishes them, and it is the independent existence of things (entities, ideas) that specifies the truth.
	www.inteco.cl /articulos/004/doc_ing4.htm (720 words)

	Landscapes of David Jones
		Furthermore, it was only through his experiment with the verbal medium of In Parenthesis, and the development of an allegorical sensibility through the seventh and final part of the poem, that would lead him to the discovery of how to portray the ultimate communion and unity with nature through his works.
		She is also first allegorical figure to spring to life in Jones' poetry or visual art, a breakthrough figure appearing at the end of a poem shot through with allusions and suggestions of the historical and mythical, but never before resurrecting the historical and the divine in the flesh.
		The soldier, featureless, unadorned, an everyman archetype of war, is half-submerged, half-emerging from the chaotic background, the crucified position suggesting the loss of life, and immortality in memory of such a sacrifice, in much the same way as icons of Christ's sacrifice.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/dresch/djpaper.html (5700 words)

	English grammar lesson - Parenthesis
		Parenthesis can be shown using two brackets, two commas or two dashes - the choice is yours.
		A parenthesis is separated from the rest of the sentence by commas, dashes or brackets (all called parentheses).
		When a parenthesis is the same thing as whatever it follows, it is called "parenthesis in apposition".
	www.grammar-monster.com /lessons/parenthesis_lessons.htm (475 words)

	In Parenthesis - David Jones
		In Parenthesis deals with things David Jones "saw, felt, and was part of" between December 1915 and the summer of 1916.
		From "the unnamable nostalgia of depots" to the point where "solid things dissolve, and vapours ape substantiality" in the nightmare of the battle Jones beautifully conveys the atmosphere of the time and feel of that experience.
		When In Parenthesis is widely enough known --as it will be in time -- it will no doubt undergo the same sort of detective analysis and exegesis as the later work of James Joyce and the Cantos of Ezra Pound.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/jonesd/inparent.htm (934 words)

	ORDER OF OPERATIONS
		Expressions in parenthesis are treated as one number and must be calculated first.
		The next parenthesis to be calculated is 7 - 20 + 2 x 5 = 7 - 20 + 10 = - 13 + 10 = - 3.
		The parenthesis instruct you to simplify the expression within the parenthesis before you proceed.
	www.sosmath.com /algebra/fraction/frac3/frac39/frac39.html (386 words)

	Parenthesis - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By extension, the word parentheses, seldom used in the singular, has come to refer to the round brackets in which a parenthesis is often enclosed in writing.
		Prophecy and the church;: An examination of the claim of dispensationalists that the Christian church is a mystery parenthesis which interrupts the fulfilment...
		Lee of Lambeth;: A chapter in parenthesis in the history of the Oxford Movement
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /parenthesis.htm (316 words)

	Parenthesis -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For the round brackets used in punctuation, often called parentheses, see (An L-shaped support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf)) bracket.
		In (Study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)) rhetoric, a parenthesis (plural: parentheses; from the (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek word παρενθεσις) is (according to the (An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles) Oxford English Dictionary)
		By extension, the word parentheses, seldom used in the singular, has come to refer to the round (An L-shaped support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf)) brackets in which a parenthesis is often enclosed in writing.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/parenthesis.htm (232 words)

	Articles6
		The parenthesis or gap theory is upside down and backwards.
		The real parenthesis in the Bible is the space of time between Abraham and Christ.
		The law of Moses is the parenthesis between the promise to Abraham and the fulfillment of that promise through Christ.
	jgibbons.8m.com /Art6-Parenthesis.htm (3201 words)

	Parenthesis Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The type of parenthesis used in citations may be set using the
		The argument to this command must be one of round, curly, angle, square or none.
		If it is a requirement that different parenthesis types are required for parenthetical cites that for the year portion for a
	www.eeng.dcu.ie /local-docs/harvard-docs/node11.html (153 words)

	Parenthesis
		Parenthesis - Lars Bruzelius, 2nd September 2003 17:20
		Parenthesis - Lars Bruzelius, 2nd September 2003 17:28
		Parenthesis - Jukka K. Korpela, 2nd September 2003 20:04
	archivist.incutio.com /viewlist/css-discuss/30465 (308 words)

	[No title]
		It is thus easy to see that the distribution for C sub s in the univariate case is that of a divided by open parenthesis a plus one close parenthesis all times V tilde sub s of eta times an F(nu, 2 times (a+1)) random variable.
		For k greater than one then, apart from the a over open parenthesis a plus one close parenthesis factor, the distribution of C sub s implied by (Equation 3.4) is something like a multivariate generalization of the F distribution.
		The inverse of open parenthesis alpha plus beta over capital Y plus gamma over capital Y squared close parenthesis GVF had the lowest AIC for each age group except 0-4, for which the CPS variance formula, beta times capital Y plus gamma times capital Y squared, was best.
	www.census.gov /hhes/www/saipe/asapaper/BellOtto95.txt (3222 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Let E be a correctly built parenthesis expression (therefore E is a string belonging to X).
		The length of E is the number of single parenthesis (characters) in E. The depth D(E) of E is defined as follows:
		The number of lines in the input file is at most 20, the input may contain empty lines, which you don't need to consider.
	acm.uva.es /p/v101/10157.html (275 words)

	KEDIT Hints and Tips: Am I Blue? Parenthesis Matching Made Easy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		To find a matching parenthesis in KEDIT, simply put the cursor on a left or right parenthesis and press Shift+F3.
		The cursor will move to the corresponding right or left parenthesis, skipping over any intervening nested parentheses.
		If you are using KEDIT for Windows and are editing files in a language like C, Java, or KEXX that has syntax coloring support, parenthesis matching is even more useful, because matching parentheses are shown in color.
	www.kedit.com /hint_amiblue.html (206 words)

	(GC117R1) Porkkala Parenthesis - World's longest tunnel by Dencku
		The cache ain't child recommended because the cache is really close to the railroad and there ain't any protecting fence between the cache and the railroad.
		The parenthesis is the name of the period between 28th September 1944 and 26th January 1956, when the Porkkala area was leased to the Soviet Union as a naval base.
		During the parenthesis the Soviets forbid Finnish trains to travel trough the leased area.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=a64b4a45-68d7-4c1f-8bdb-9349e8f501c9 (520 words)

	Parenthesis to History (washingtonpost.com)
		The memorial is a parenthesis, quite literally so -- two semicircular assemblies of pillars cupping the Rainbow Pool on the invisible axis that connects the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument.
		You descend into the parenthesis from street level and the first large stone panel on your right reads: "Women who stepped up were measured as citizens of the nation, not as women.
		The centerpiece of the monument is a low curved wall, closing the top of the parenthesis, as it were, straddling the central axis of the Mall and adorned with 4,000 gold stars.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A61972-2004May27.html (909 words)

	Removing parenthesis when using String's removeAll()
		What do I have to put before a parenthesis in a string when using the removeAll() method of the String class.
		Is there an escape sequence or something I can put before the parenthesis to make it work.
		For anyone that has this issue in the future, with parenthesis you need a double backslash for the removeAll() to get it.
	forum.java.sun.com /thread.jspa?threadID=5173776 (208 words)

	Lesson Plans: Do Parenthesis really change the outcome? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		So many students put their faith into it, but do not clearly understand how to use it, or understand the simple fact that it is only a word processor.
		Step 2: Pass out The Use of Parenthesis on the TI Wksht or use as a note and have the students work the process given.
		Assessment or evaluation: The Use of Parenthesis on the TI wksht as well as future assignments where this skill is to be needed.
	utopia.utexas.edu /lesson_plans/2005/gallo_parenthesis_TI83.php (473 words)

	Amazon.com: parenthesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Prophecy and the church;: An examination of the claim of dispensationalists that the Christian church is a mystery parenthesis which interrupts the fulfilment...
		Parenthesis by Jacques Lemarchand (Unknown Binding - 1947)
		In Parenthesis by David; with an introduction by T. Eliot Jones (Unknown Binding - 1961)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=parenthesis&index=blended&page=1 (479 words)

	[No title]
		The regression model for medians of 4-person families employs 3 predictor variables: a) X sub s 4 1 equals one, to correspond to a constant term in the model.
		The combination of the direct sample estimate for 4- person families, Y hat sub s 4, with the regression estimate for 4-person families, Y hat sub REG comma s 4, is a feature that has appeared in other small domain estimation models based on empirical Bayes procedures.
		The methodology is in fact multivariate, in using further information present in Y hat sub s c and Y hat sub open parenthesis REG comma s c close parenthesis to estimate medians for 4- person families.
	www.census.gov /hhes/www/saipe/asapaper/FayTrain95.txt (2951 words)

	Dashes. Fowler, H. W. 1908. The King's English
		The use of a parenthesis being to insert, without damage to the rest of the sentence, something that is of theoretically minor importance, it is necessary that we should be able simply to remove the two dashes or brackets with everything enclosed by them, and after their removal find the sentence complete and rightly punctuated.
		It seems natural to suppose that the double-dash parenthesis is thus accounted for: the construction started with a single dash; but as it was often necessary to revert to the main construction, the second dash was resorted to as a declaration that the close time, or state of siege, was over.
		It may be added that it is extremely rare for the parenthesis to belong to the last part, and therefore for the stop to be rightly placed before it.
	www.bartelby.com /116/404.html (2928 words)

	Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		To get the middle term (the x term, which in this case is - x), first multiply the first term in the first parenthesis (x) by the last term in the second parenthesis (-4) (we can call these terms the OUTSIDE terms because they are the outside terms of the two parentheses).
		Then multiply the last term in the first parenthesis (3) by the first term in the second parenthesis (x) (we can call the terms in the second parenthesis the INSIDE terms because they are the inside terms of the two parentheses).
		You know that the last term is found by multiplying the last two numbers in each parenthesis together.
	mathforum.org /dr.math/problems/melissa1.17.98.html (950 words)

	Devotional - 96-10-22 - The Great Parenthesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Apostle's note, in a parenthesis, where he fingers the cause.
		I think it argues that Pauls thoughts were full of the grace that God had given him.
		This very little sentence, a parenthesis, is the very heart of the gospel.
	www.cfdevotionals.org /devpages/de961022.htm (489 words)

	Punctuation : PARENTHESIS / LousyWriter.com teaches you how to write better and how to write correctly
		Marks of Parenthesis are used to separate expressions inserted in the body of a sentence, which are illustrative of the meaning, but have no essential connection with the sentence, and could be done without.
		In reports of speeches marks of parenthesis are used to denote interpolations of approval or disapproval by the audience: "The masses must not submit to the tyranny of the classes (hear, hear), we must show the trust magnates (groans), that they cannot ride rough-shod over our dearest rights (cheers);" "If the gentleman from Ohio (Mr.
		When a parenthesis is inserted in the sentence where no comma is required, no point should be used before either parenthesis.
	www.lousywriter.com /punctuation_parenthesis.php (380 words)

	PARENTHESIS TO HISTORY
		The bad news is that for all its attempted monumentality, the memorial is deeply inadequate -- a busy vacuity, hollow to the core.
		You descend into the parenthesis from street level and the first large stone panel on your right reads: "Women who stepped up were measured as citizens of the nation, not as women.
		The gold star, of course, was given to those who had lost a son in the war.
	www.benadorassociates.com /pf.php?id=4707 (775 words)

	BUG: L1027 Error When Object File Name Includes a Parenthesis
		If the object module has a left parenthesis as the first character of its name and a character other than a right parenthesis as the last character.
		Therefore, if a left (or right) parenthesis appears immediately before (or after) the name of an object module, LINK expects a matching right (or left) parenthesis immediately after (or before) the name.
		If a left or right parenthesis is embedded in the name of a file, no error occurs.
	support.microsoft.com /kb/63624 (388 words)

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