Nuosu proverbs

Digraphia of the Nuosu language

Software Process Proverbs

The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has developed several aids to help software organizations define, manage, and improve their software processes: The IDEALSM (initiate, diagnose, establish, act, and leverage) model for process improvement, appraisal methods that include assessments for internal process improvement and evaluations to select and monitor contractors, and the Capability Matu...

Reframing within Proverbs

For Condor web site. Many proverbs seem to convey wisdom because they help people reframe and adjust to life’s predicaments. Positive reframes, such as Every cloud has a silver lining, often draw positive implications from adverse circumstances (cf., “gain frames,” “positive reappraisals,” “emotion-focused coping”, “dispositional optimism”). In contrast, negative reframes, such as All that glit...

Does Proverbs Promise Too Much?

Introduction This essay, "Does the Book of Proverbs Promise Too Much?" is poignantly fitting in this memorial volume to Professor Hasel, who exemplified both in his life and in his scholarship the highest Christian ideals. The untimely death of one of the finest Old Testament scholars makes the Book of Proverbs' heavenly promises seem detached from earth's reality. Evangelicals confess the Book...

Reframing and Wisdom within Proverbs

Many proverbs seem to convey wisdom because they help people to reframe life’s predicaments. Positive reframes, such as Every cloud has a silver lining, often draw positive implications from adverse circumstances (cf. “positive reappraisals,” “gain frames”). In contrast, negative reframes, such as All that glitters is not gold, provide helpful warnings about difficult situations, and therefore ...