Forces playing an active role, that is. You see a group of kids kicking a ball around in the park. Those kids were at play. “At play” implies activity, meaning those involved are active – they are playing right now. Parents under the shade of trees watching those kids play are NOT...
“Foul play” is a term Shakespeare liked. He used it three times in his plays, and what’s more, it seems that he was the first to use it in print or on the stage. Shakespeare uses “foul play” to mean something treacherous, although not necessarily murder. He uses the phrase in ...
Action-like video games, as defined in the cognitive literature, have the particularity of making heavy demands on different forms of attention in real time. Typically, these video games challenge divided attention, meaning the play requires one to track many targets moving quickly and independently...
Based on archaeological findings, Jane E. Harrison recovers the syntax of ritual and explores its profound interpretative meaning. The Hymn comprises three phases (Harrison 1912, p. 9 and following). In the first phase, the invocation, the god—originally Dionysus and later Zeus—is challenged ...
On November 22, China's National Bureau of Statistics announced the revision of its 2018 GDP upwards by 2.1 percent to 91.93 trillion yuan ($13.1 trillion), meaning it will be easier for the mainland to its reach its goal (originally set by former president Hu Jintao in ...
Moving On 6 Replies ‘The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.’–Pablo Picasso I’m one of the lucky people who landed, feet first, in the profession most perfect for themselves – teaching young children. The many years that I spent in...
On 8th March 2019, the International Women’s Day, the following appeared on Chinese social media: Wo’men’s’ da’y The insertion of apostrophes into “Women’s Day” invites a reanalysis of the phrase aswǒmen shì dàyé(我们是大爷), meaning ‘We are masters’ or ‘Women are masters...
Participants rate each item on a 7-point Likert scale from 1 (not at all) to 7 (very true), higher score meaning higher motivation. Intervention Expectation Self-report. Expectancy of training intervention on cognition, mood, efficiency and physical fitness will be assessed at post-test (T2)...
Play is a kind of life-activity that is free in the meaning of ″voluntary″. (2) Dummy or of pretending to believe, of internal purpose and of non-material benefits. Play is a kind of dummy activity that organisms...
The chemical can prevent insecurities, irritation,, cancerous development and more. The majority of these effects are detected by people too. The material encourages them to conquer unpleasant phases which can somehow or some other have adverse impacts on their health. In reality, cannabis has both...