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  Titles Of Honour - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The proud title of " count of the stable," once, borne by the highest official of the Byzantine court, is now associated in the public mind 1 The papal chancery, however, seems early to have established definite rules.
Some titles again are derived from mere ideas of precedence, like that of "prince" (q.v.), which may be described as the generic sovereign title; the Spanish title of " grandee " (q.v.); or that of " master " (q.v.), which as a title of honour survives in Scotland.
Among titles of honour, finally, may be reckoned honorary degrees bestowed by universities, the pope, and in England by the archbishop of Canterbury.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Titles_Of_Honour   (3701 words)

  
 Royal and noble styles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Styles represent the fashion by which monarchs and noblemen are or were properly addressed.
The nobility and all related styles were abolished with the Weimar Constitution of 1919, but are sometimes used socially.
Peerage, Styles and titles of peers in the United Kingdom
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_and_noble_styles   (795 words)

  
 A Glossary of European Noble, Princely, Royal and Imperial Titles
There are some titles in the United Kingdom (e.g., the Irish peerage, when the peer lacks another English, Scots or UK title) which do not permit one to sit in the House of Lords; thus, in Scotland, the distinction of a "Lord of Parliament".
It was one of the titles of the Roman Emperor.
The Austrian Habsburgs, accustomed to being imperial, assumed the title of Emperor of Austria in 1804.
www.heraldica.org /faqs/titlefaq.htm   (7157 words)

  
 The role of peers in the socialization of gender-related social interaction styles Sex Roles: A Journal of Research - ...
One way to conceptualize social interaction style is to consider an individual's motivations, or goals, for social interactions and his or her actual behaviors, or communicative habits, when interacting.
She notes that peer interactions are segregated by gender starting as young as 3 years old and continuing through age 11.
The main purpose of this study, therefore, was to investigate whether children act as agents of socialization by rewarding gender-consistent styles and punishing or extinguishing gender-inconsistent styles among peers.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2294/is_n3-4_v39/ai_21227864   (856 words)

  
 Noble Titles - References for Romance Fiction by Carolyn Jewel
Dukes, the title of the highest rank next to that of the princes of the royal blood, is the third in antiquity in England as a title of honor and dignity....
The presence of a Christian name after the title Lord is in itself evidence that the bearer of the title is not a nobleman, not a peer, and also that he is a younger son of a duke or marquess.
The title was originally sold by James I, who invented it for the purpose of raising money by its sale to quell a rebellion in Ulster; whence all baronets bear the red hand of Ulster in their shields of arms.
www.carolynjewel.com /references/rgw.shtml   (1101 words)

  
 Academic titles and the martial arts
During the early ‘50s and ‘60s, it was apparently enough for one to be ranked as shodan or nidan to garner the respect of peers.
In their attempt to shroud themselves in a smoke screen of professionalism, though, many are now adopting academic titles, such as “doctor” or “professor,” or even adding “Ph.D.” to the end of their names, often based on “honorary” degrees awarded by rather dubious institutions.
Considering the multitude of styles and the diversity of opinions regarding acceptable behavior, it is highly improbable the martial arts will ever implement self-regulating standards like the movie or media industries.
www.e-budokai.com /articles/titles.htm   (1025 words)

  
 Communication Studies 174
this non-verbal communication style differs from generation to generation, but there seems to be a concensus that public space of the individual interferes with much of the personal space or "personal bubble".
This example illustrates how pervasive the Chinese-American emphasis on respect is. The last specific communication style of the Chinese-American culture that we will discuss is the tendency for individuals to be more conservative in their communication.
When dealing with the paralinguistic aspect of their communication style, one must become tolerant of the animation and volume of the voice.
cfds.sjsu.edu /professors/Varona_new/commstyles.html   (1000 words)

  
 SLAM! Sports - Wrestling - A.J. Styles
A week after losing the X Division title, Styles and Lynn lost the tag team titles when the belts were held up after a title defence against Ron Killings and Jeff Jarrett.
On June 4th, two days after Styles came up short in a "King of the Mountain Match" that saw Jarrett regain the World title, Styles became the number one contender to the X Division title and on June 9th, defeated Frankie Kazarian to regain the championship.
The third title reign was short-lived, however, as Styles dropped the title a month later to Raven during a King of the Mountain match at Slammiversary.
slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Wrestling/Bios/styles-aj.html   (1453 words)

  
 Indio Trails by raulrsalinas
These are a few of the honorific titles of East Austin's version of Allen Ginsburg, otherwise known as raúlrsalinas.
It is not surprising that his poetics stem from Beat poetry, which emulated Jazz in its fusion of diverse political, cultural and social elements and styles.
Some critics might look at this and dismiss it all as an amalgam of mismatched topics and styles, but the poet is exquisitely conscious of his selection of these disparate elements, and that awareness is what makes all the difference.
www.wingspress.com /Titles/Indio_Trails.html   (1636 words)

  
 The Effects of Parenting Styles and Childhood Attachment Patterns on Intimate Relationships Journal of Instructional ...
This paper examines the idea that parental behavior characteristic of authoritative, authoritarian and permissive parenting styles seem to parallel the parental behavior connected with secure, avoidant, and ambivalent attachment styles.
Since it has been demonstrated that attachment styles result in an internal working model which guides intimate relationships as an adult, it is hypothesized that parenting styles which mirror the attachment pattern will also predict relationship abilities as an adult.
Those students who were securely attached to their parents scored significantly higher on tests of personal intimacy and belief in other's abilities to be intimate as opposed to those students with authoritarian or permissive parents.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCG/is_3_28/ai_79370572   (842 words)

  
 Thinking Styles Paper
Although there is wide variation in the distribution of thinking style peaks across the sample groups, taken as a whole the analysis shows that a significantly larger percentage of the sample had peaks in the idealist and pragmatist styles than would be expected, and a significantly smaller percentage had peaks in the analyst style.
A significantly lower percentage of the sample had valleys in the idealist, pragmatist, and realist thinking styles than would be expected, and a significantly higher percentage had valleys in the analyst style.
A last suggestion is to be aware of how your thinking style (or styles) shows up in a group, and how that may be particularly valuable in some group situations.
www.org-synergies.com /ThinkingStyles.htm   (7632 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: The 'ethical strategies' of novels
With her clearly motivated characters and titles like "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility," Jane Austen attracts moral philosophers "partly because she wears her ethics of reading on her sleeve," said Smith, suggesting that her novels and characters provide moral sound bites for readers.
Yet Smith cautioned against such a reading of Austen in which "the novel is dealt with only in piecemeal fashion, a character here, a conversation there, like doctors removing discrete organs from the corpse of the novel for later insertion into the healthy body of moral philosophy," she said.
"Forster himself was conscious of the connection between the style and the ethics in interesting ways," she said.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/04.17/09-zadiesmith.html   (906 words)

  
 A Professional - Style/Terminology
You will be called on to field style questions by your peers, audience, students, in conversation with the general public and the press.
A Folk dance is a style of dance that originated among ordinary people and is traditional to their culture, community, or country.
The term “cabaret belly dance” arose in the 1960’s to label the dance style performed by American dancers in the Middle Eastern nightclubs of San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.
www.orientaldancer.net /articles/a_professional_style.shtml   (1529 words)

  
 Forms of Address in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Eldest sons of Dukes, Marquesses and Earls use their fathers' highest secondary titles as courtesy titles.
Eldest daughters do not have courtesy titles; all courtesy peeresses are wives of courtesy peers.)
(Heirs-apparent and heirs-presumptive of Scottish Peers use the titles "Master" and "Mistress"; these are substantive, not courtesy titles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Styles_and_titles_of_peers   (303 words)

  
 Management Styles Journals - ManagementFirst
With over 100 titles in total, the Emerald portfolio offers complete coverage over a wide range of disciplines.
Included in your subscription is access to the online library that allows you to view the information you need whenever you need it.
Explore the concepts, models, tools and processes which companies are using to help their managers become better equipped to tackle the challenges and opportunities of change, and compare ideas and experiences with your peers in a dedicated, expert forum.
www.managementfirst.com /management_styles/journals/journals.htm   (739 words)

  
 Language Arts Titles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr.
This is the classic for teens and adults who want to improve their writing style and usage.
Activities are identified by both title and skill to teach in the Table of Contents.
www.barbsbooks.com /language.htm   (2934 words)

  
 Royal Families
As readers may recall, in March last year we published guidance on the styles, titles and heraldry of Diana, Princess of Wales (in consequence of which some major websites, such as that of CNN, hyperlinked us to their pages and brought us many extra visitors - of whom most, we hope, have bookmarked our address).
Her marriage to Charles, Prince of Wales, brought to her the title of Princess of Wales and the style of Her Royal Highness (HRH).
As she was no longer a princess the style of HRH accorded to British princesses was discontinued - or "lost" as the newspapers preferred to describe it - and, of course, she could no longer use the badge of the Prince of Wales.
www.baronage.co.uk /diana/di-arms1.html   (1432 words)

  
 PGS: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias detailed - Fletcher Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Reference Desk, located at the south-end of the Fletcher Library's 1st floor, is the shelving location for a select number of highly-used titles from the larger Reference collection.
This title "covers the history of psychology from Greek antiquity to recent developments in American cognitive psychology with a total of 107 articles by 109 authors from 15 different countries." (catalog record)
Title index for the Directory of unpublished experimental mental measures: volumes 1-7 [2001]
library.west.asu.edu /subjects/pgs/encyclopedias-detailed.html   (4805 words)

  
 Reviews for Titles by Artists/Groups: "B"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
This is an exciting release, kind of a cross between the exciting style of The Gipsy Kings and the upbeat ambient rhythms of Enigma or Mythos.
Song titles like 'Frog's Dinner,' 'Touching the Void,' 'Harvey and the Old Ones,' 'Glove Puppet' and 'I Love Baby Cheesy' (the hit!) give you an idea of what's in store, but there is truly no substitute for jumping in with both feet to feel the magic.
Jennifer has been cultivating her folk/songwriter style for years, and is very much at home with songs that remind one of the craftsmanship of Kate Wolf.
www.backroadsmusic.com /reviews/b_reviews.htm   (10577 words)

  
 Flaco Jimenez
The bulk is from the record of the same name made in 1985, with Toby Torres on bajo sexto and harmony vocals, the running time being boosted over the hour by selections from the 1979 release `El Sonido De San Antonio,' featuring Fred Ojeda, Oscar Tellez and other names familiar to Flaco followers.
The sound is warm and relaxed, there's a nicely varied collection of regional styles including redovas, boleros and huapangos amidst the standard polka/waltz fare, and the playing is excellent with some risk-taking accordeon contemporisations.
As usual Arhoolie show their peers the way home with their exhaustive sleeve notes, and if you wish to own one Flaco Jiménez album from the traditional end of his considerable range, you won't go wrong with this one.”
www.arhoolie.com /titles/318.shtml   (248 words)

  
 Filmtracks: Sneakers (James Horner)
James Horner was at a point in his career when he produced several blockbuster scores that, despite immense popularity, had gained him little praise from critics and his peers.
It should be mentioned that Horner must hold this score in high esteem, because he would eventually tap its experimental rhythms for his greatest hits over the next years.
The key-shifting introduction in the title cue is the eventual basis for the standout title cues in Bicentennial Man and A Beautiful Mind, and especially the vocals in the latter.
www.filmtracks.com /titles/sneakers.html?page=print   (737 words)

  
 Resource: The Art of Teaching the Arts: A Workshop for High School Teachers
Arts teachers develop relationships with community members and organizations by bringing artists into the classroom, taking students beyond school walls, and asking students to draw inspiration from the voices of their community.
In this session, participants see a guest choreographer who challenges the students with her working style and expectations.
A dance teacher critiques original choreography by a student and asks her peers to participate in the process; this feedback helps the student deepen the impact of her work.
www.learner.org /resources/series202.html   (1108 words)

  
 EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - Question on Medieval Titles and Etiquette
A good general purpose and older style is to refer to a king as 'Sire', since they are often the fount of all titles and thus 'father of the nation'.
However as the practise grew of higher nobles acquiring multiple titles (a Duke might also be an Earl, a Viscount and have two separate Baronies for example), then there developed the tradition of the father letting his younger sones inherit one of these titles during his lifetime, provided they are junior to his own.
This is why (though the reasons are slightly different*), that Queen Elizabth's husband was craeted Duke of Edinburgh, her eldest son is Prince of Wales, Duke of Lancaster and Cornwall, and her other sons are the Duke of York and Earl of Wessex.
www.enworld.org /showthread.php?t=53106   (542 words)

  
 Books/Reading Lists - Readers Advisory - Palm Beach County Library System
The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.
The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing.
An award for the best work of fiction by an American author as judged by three of their peers.
www.pbclibrary.org /read-booklists.htm   (769 words)

  
 Mascot and cheerleaders win summer camp titles (09-12-96)
The mascots were judged on a point system, with scores coming from five different events involving field walks, two-minute skits and a visit to a local pre-school in New Brunswick, N.J. YoUDee also received the Leadership Award, an honor voted on by peers.
At the UCA Cheerleading Camp, the University of Delaware cheerleading squad finished first in the Division I level for all three competitions entered: "Cheer," "Sideline" and "Fight Song." Delaware's rivals included Penn, Rhode Island and Villanova.
YoUDee and the cheerleaders showed their winning styles at the Fightin' Blue Hens football home opener vs. Lehigh, Sept. 7.
www.udel.edu /PR/UpDate/97/2/20.html   (197 words)

  
 Anatomy of Word: Create a table of contents using defined styles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A style tells Word a little about your text: the font, the size, the orientation (left, right or centered) and much more.
To change a style, just place your insertion point in the paragraph to which you want to assign the style and choose the style from the styles list.
The Heading 1 style is used for the main title, while I've used the Heading 2 and Heading 3 styles to denote lesser categories.
articles.techrepublic.com.com /5100-10877_11-6073365.html?part=rss&...   (1639 words)

  
 The Church in Antioch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Antioch churches are characterized by a willingness to operate outside of the Jerusalem model.
Antioch churches are open to brothers and sisters of all backgrounds, styles, personalities, and races.
Since Antioch leadership teams are willing to function as peers, they can leave their titles at the door when it is necessary.
cda.morris.umn.edu /~mcccm/antioch.html   (177 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: Works by and about M.P. Shiel
Spenser here delves into the philosophical contradictions of Shiel's writing: his seemingly rampant racism and twisted ideas of eugenics, which seem out of line with his search for scientific truth, a benevolent God, and the betterment of mankind.
Georges Dodds is a research scientist in vegetable crop physiology, who for close to 25 years has read and collected close to 2000 titles of predominantly pre-1950 science-fiction and fantasy, both in English and French.
He writes columns on early imaginative literature for WARP, the newsletter/fanzine of the Montreal Science Fiction and Fantasy Association and maintains a site reflecting his tastes in imaginative literature.
www.sfsite.com /06b/mpw130.htm   (2501 words)

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