Moors

(noun)

The Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during the Middle Ages, who initially were Berber and Arab peoples of North African descent.

Related Terms

Examples of Moors in the following topics:

  • Sculpture

    • Brâncuşi's impact, through his vocabulary of reduction and abstraction, is seen throughout the 1930s and 1940s, exemplified by artists including Gaston Lachaise , Sir Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore , Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Julio González, Pablo Serrano, and Jacques Lipchitz.

  • About this author and acknowledgements

    • Very special thanks to the Academic Reviewer: Debbi D Brock, William and Kay Moore Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management, Berea College.

  • Homeschooling

    • Moore conducted four federally funded analyses of more than 8,000 early childhood studies, from which they published their original findings in Better Late Than Early, 1975.
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    • Moore conducted four federally funded analyses of more than 8,000 early childhood studies.

  • Cognitive Apprenticeship

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  • Challenges of Reciprocal Teaching

    • One strategy to help alleviate this situation is tape-assisted reciprocal teaching (Le Fevre, Moore, and Wilkinson, 2003).

  • References

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  • The Functionalist Perspective: Motivating Qualified People

    • The Davis-Moore hypothesis, advanced by Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E.
    • Moore in a paper published in 1945, is a central claim within the structural functionalist paradigm, and purports that the unequal distribution of rewards serves a purpose in society.

  • The Law of Unintended Consequences

    • Charles Moore, an American oceanographer, in 1997 discovered an enormous stew of trash, estimated at nearly 100 million tons, floating in the Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and Hawaii.

  • References

    • Moore, P. (2000, February).Primary school children's interaction with library media.Teacher Librarian, 27(3), 7-11.

  • Introduction to the Waste-First Rule

    • A team of employees at DuPont's Edge Moor, Delaware, plant established a goal of zero waste and in the process developed a new iron-rich co-product from a former waste stream.