Activities
[æk'tɪvəti]
Definition
(pl. ) of Activity
Inputed by Alphonso
Examples
- This means that definite coordinations of activities of the eyes in seeing and of the body and head in striking are perfected in a few trials. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We do not have to draw out or educe positive activities from a child, as some educational doctrines would have it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Compared with the vast gilded void of Mrs. Hatch's existence, the life of Lily's former friends seemed packed with ordered activities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The _cable car_ is a factor which has cut no small figure in the activities of city life. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Our conscious thoughts, observations, wishes, aversions are important, because they represent inchoate, nascent activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Economic history deals with the activities, the career, and fortunes of the common man as does no other branch of history. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The latter is the element that we breathe and which passes into the body, there to combine with the impurities resulting from the various life activities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To charge that the various activities of gardening, weaving, construction in wood, manipulation of metals, cooking, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is a sort of rough sketch for use in direction of further activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Where there is life, there are already eager and impassioned activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the midst of his activities occurred one of the most extraordinary incidents in history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The counterpart of the isolation of mind from activities dealing with objects to accomplish ends is isolation of the subject matter to be learned. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Intense loyalty to the queen mother is apparent in all their activities and arrangements. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Only through them, in the literal time sense, will the initial activities reach a satisfactory consummation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Beneath their activities what was the life of the mute multitude? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But there is a tendency to seek the cause of such aimless activities in the youth's own disposition, isolated from everything else. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Br ashear, who contributed valuable information in reference to the activities of Samuel Pierpont Langley. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The beneficent effect of their activities on the health and general welfare of the masses of the people bears witness to the sanity and worth of the culture th at prompted these activities. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Economic activities deeply influence social intercourse and political organization on one side, and reflect physical conditions on the other. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We have already noted that plasticity is the capacity to retain and carry over from prior experience factors which modify subsequent activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Moreover, the formation is not only a formation of native activities, but it takes place through them. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Many of our existing social activities, industrial and political, fall in these two classes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was impossible to believe that she had herself ever been a focus of activities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She had her own friends, her own activities, her own life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The merely practical man loses much by not knowing the backgrou nd of his activities; the mere theorist fails by mistaking the shadow for the substance. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But the notion of a spontaneous normal development of these activities is pure mythology. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- When men attempt to determine the uses to which the original activities shall be put, they interfere with a divine plan. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A man in the full swing of his activities in a gay city could not afford to linger long on Egdon Heath. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Extension of Meaning of Primary Activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Education must take the being as he is; that a particular individual has just such and such an equipment of native activities is a basic fact. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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