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Specialty Definition: Dewey

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Refer to:

• Persons:
  • George Dewey, United States Naval officer who attained fame in the Spanish-American War; also referred to as Commodore Dewey, then Admiral Dewey, and as Dewey, the Hero of Manila.
  • John Dewey - philosopher
  • Thomas E. Dewey - a Governor of New York and unsuccessful candidate for President of the United States
  • A. Peter Dewey - first American victim of Vietnam war
  • Melvil Dewey, who devised the Dewey Decimal Classification for libraries

• Places:
  • Dewey, Arizona
  • Dewey, Wisconsin
  • Dewey County, Oklahoma
  • Dewey County, South Dakota

• Other Deweys:
  • Huey Dewey and Louie - Donald Duck's Nephews
  • The Dewey Decimal Classification by Melvil Dewey

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Dewey Decimal Classification

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The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC, also called the Dewey Decimal System) is a system of library classification developed by Melvil Dewey (1851-1931) in 1876, and since greatly modified and expanded in the course of twenty major revisions.

Strictly numerical in its basic arrangement, DDC is a broadly faceted rather then purely enumerative classification, in that it combines elements from different parts of the schedule to construct a number representing the subject content (often combining two subject elements with linking numbers and geographical and temporal elements) and form of an item rather than drawing upon a list containing each classmark and its meaning.

Except for general works and fiction, works are classified principally by subject, with extensions for subject relationships, place, time or type of material, producing classification numbers of not less than three digits but otherwise of indeterminate length with a decimal point before the fourth digit, where present (e.g. 330 for economy + 94 for Europe = 330.94 European economy; 973 for United States + 005 form division for periodicals - 973.005, periodicals concerning the United States generally); classmarks are to be read as numbers, in the order: 050, 220, 330.973, 331 etc. Any letter should be read as preceding any number that might have occupied the same character position, so "330.94 A" would come before 330.943. The system uses ten main classes, which are then further subdivided.

DDC is commonly used in public and school libraries throughout the world, and especially the U.S. The schedule contains marked geographical biases derived from its 19th century origins: Northern Africa for instance occupies all of 961-965, the rest of the continent only 966-969. It is still more biased towards Christianity against other religions, the former covering all of 200-289, while all others get only 290-299 to share. Recent versions permit another religion to be placed in 200-289, with Christianity relegated to 290-299, but this is mainly used by libraries operated by non-Christian religious groups, especially Jewish ones.

DDC's numbers formed the basis of the more expressive but complex Universal Decimal Classification, which combines the basic Dewey numbers with selected punctuation marks (comma, colon, parentheses etc.). Despite its frequent revision, DDC is widely considered theoretically inferior to other more modern systems which make freer use of alphabetical characters to produce shorter classmarks for concepts of equal complexity, though it continues to offer a more expressive format than the simpler enumerative alphanumeric Library of Congress classification developed shortly afterward.

Some of the contents of Wikipedia have been organized along the lines of the DDC and the classification scheme can be browsed at Wikipedia:Dewey Decimal System.

Ownership

The Online Computer Library Center acquired the rights to the Dewey Decimal System when it bought Forest Press in 1988. This includes a trademark right. The OCLC classifies new books and maintains the classification system. In 2003 the OCLC sued the Library Hotel for trademark infringement.

External Link

OCLC's page on the Dewey Decimal System: http://www.oclc.org/dewey/default.htm

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Dewey, Burnett County, Wisconsin

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Dewey is a town located in Burnett County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 565.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 95.5 km² (36.9 mi²). 94.0 km² (36.3 mi²) of it is land and 1.4 km² (0.6 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.49% water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are 565 people, 209 households, and 164 families residing in the town. The population density is 6.0/km² (15.6/mi²). There are 303 housing units at an average density of 3.2/km² (8.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 89.38% White, 0.00% African American, 10.09% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.53% from two or more races. 1.42% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 209 households out of which 29.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.5% are married couples living together, 6.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 21.5% are non-families. 17.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.70 and the average family size is 3.04. In the town the population is spread out with 27.6% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 22.7% from 25 to 44, 28.3% from 45 to 64, and 13.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 40 years. For every 100 females there are 98.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 101.5 males. The median income for a household in the town is $28,917, and the median income for a family is $30,625. Males have a median income of $27,917 versus $23,750 for females. The per capita income for the town is $15,399. 13.1% of the population and 10.5% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 12.8% are under the age of 18 and 25.7% are 65 or older.

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Dewey, Oklahoma

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Dewey is a city located in Washington County, Oklahoma. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 3,179.

Geography

Dewey is located at 36°47'46" North, 95°56'10" West (36.796106, -95.936102)¹. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.6 km² (2.5 mi²). 6.6 km² (2.5 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are 3,179 people, 1,298 households, and 869 families residing in the city. The population density is 483.2/km² (1,252.2/mi²). There are 1,457 housing units at an average density of 221.5/km² (573.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 78.64% White, 2.17% African American, 11.01% Native American, 0.06% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 1.67% from other races, and 6.45% from two or more races. 3.30% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 1,298 households out of which 30.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.4% are married couples living together, 13.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 33.0% are non-families. 30.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 15.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.37 and the average family size is 2.91. In the city the population is spread out with 25.5% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 21.7% from 45 to 64, and 19.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 87.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 82.5 males. The median income for a household in the city is $27,225, and the median income for a family is $35,844. Males have a median income of $28,309 versus $20,052 for females. The per capita income for the city is $15,429. 16.5% of the population and 13.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 24.1% are under the age of 18 and 11.9% are 65 or older.

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Dewey, Portage County, Wisconsin

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Dewey is a town located in Portage County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 975.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 121.8 km² (47.0 mi²). 117.3 km² (45.3 mi²) of it is land and 4.5 km² (1.7 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 3.70% water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are 975 people, 356 households, and 271 families residing in the town. The population density is 8.3/km² (21.5/mi²). There are 378 housing units at an average density of 3.2/km² (8.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 99.08% White, 0.10% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.62% from other races, and 0.21% from two or more races. 0.92% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 356 households out of which 34.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.5% are married couples living together, 3.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 23.6% are non-families. 18.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 5.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.74 and the average family size is 3.15. In the town the population is spread out with 24.3% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 31.4% from 25 to 44, 25.9% from 45 to 64, and 9.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 37 years. For every 100 females there are 107.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 113.3 males. The median income for a household in the town is $50,391, and the median income for a family is $60,294. Males have a median income of $37,132 versus $23,889 for females. The per capita income for the town is $24,623. 6.9% of the population and 2.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 11.6% are under the age of 18 and 1.0% are 65 or older.

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Dewey, Rusk County, Wisconsin

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Dewey is a town located in Rusk County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 523.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 88.2 km² (34.0 mi²). 80.4 km² (31.0 mi²) of it is land and 7.8 km² (3.0 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 8.87% water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are 523 people, 209 households, and 155 families residing in the town. The population density is 6.5/km² (16.9/mi²). There are 277 housing units at an average density of 3.4/km² (8.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 99.24% White, 0.00% African American, 0.19% Native American, 0.19% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.38% from two or more races. 0.19% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 209 households out of which 27.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.2% are married couples living together, 6.7% have a female householder with no husband present, and 25.4% are non-families. 23.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 12.4% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.50 and the average family size is 2.94. In the town the population is spread out with 25.4% under the age of 18, 4.2% from 18 to 24, 22.8% from 25 to 44, 27.3% from 45 to 64, and 20.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 43 years. For every 100 females there are 101.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 100.0 males. The median income for a household in the town is $38,056, and the median income for a family is $42,292. Males have a median income of $30,938 versus $25,917 for females. The per capita income for the town is $18,740. 7.7% of the population and 4.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 7.6% are under the age of 18 and 16.2% are 65 or older.

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Dewey, Wisconsin

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Dewey is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Wisconsin:
*Dewey, Burnett County, Wisconsin
*Dewey, Portage County, Wisconsin
*Dewey, Rusk County, Wisconsin

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George Dewey

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George Dewey (December 26, 1837 - January 16, 1917) was an United States Naval officer, best known for his role in the Spanish-American War.

George Dewey was born in Montpelier, Vermont and graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1858. He served as a lieutenant under Admiral David Farragut in the American Civil War, seeing action in Louisiana and along the Mississippi River. He rose to the rank of lieutenant commander in 1865.

Dewey remained in the United States Navy and in 1896 rose to the rank of Commodore. He was appointed to the command of the United States Asiatic Squadron a few weeks before the start of the Spanish-American War.

On April 27, 1898 he sailed out from China with orders to attack the Spanish at Manila Bay. He arrived at the mouth of the bay late the night of April 30, and the following morning attacked at first light. Within 6 hours on May 1 he had sunk or captured the entire Spanish Pacific fleet under Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón and silenced the shore batteries at Manila, without the loss of a single life on the American side.

News of the victory in the Battle of Manila Bay made Dewey a great hero in the United States, and Dewey was promoted to rear admiral. Dewey's swift easy victory no doubt did much to encourage the William McKinley administration in its decision to place the Philippines under American control.

Dewey aided General Wesley Merritt in taking formal possession of Manila on August 18. In the early stages of the war the Americans were greatly aided by the Filipino nationalists lead by Emilio Aguinaldo who had been attacking the Spanish by land as Dewey was attacking them by sea. Dewey and Aguinaldo at first enjoyed a cordial relationship, and Dewey wrote that the Filipinos were "intellegent" and well "capable of self-government"; however the McKinley administration soon decided otherwise, and by the start of 1899 Dewey had to theaten to shell Aguinaldo's forces to allow American troops to land in Manila. (see: History of the Philippines).

Dewey returned to America to a hero's welcome, and by act of Congress was made Admiral of the Navy in 1899. Many suggested he run for President, which he breifly considered, then decided not to run in favor of the re-election of McKinley.

Dewey officially remained an active officer of the Navy until his death, as a special honor after he passed retirement age. He published his autobiography in 1913. Admiral George Dewey died in Washington, D.C.

External link

• Dewey biography on Spanish American War Centennial Website includes links to some of Dewey's letters

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John Dewey

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John Dewey (1859-1952) was an American philosopher and teacher who greatly influenced education in the United States.

Educational Philosophy

As can be seen in his Democracy and Education Dewey attempts to at once synthesize, criticize, and expand upon the democratic educational philosophies of Rousseau and Plato. He saw Rousseau's as overemphasizing the individual and Plato's as overemphasizing the society. For Dewey, this distinction was by and large a false one; like Vygotsky, he viewed the mind and its formation as communal process. However, as evidenced in his later Experience and Nature Dewey recognizes the importance of the subjective experience of individual people in introducing revolutionary new ideas.

For Dewey, it was vitally important that education not be the teaching of mere dead fact, but that the skills and knowledge which students learned by integrated fully into their lives as citizens and human beings. At the Laboratory School which Dewey and his wife Alice ran at the University of Chicago, children learned much of their early chemistry, physics, and biology by investigating the natural processes which went into cooking breakfast--an activity they did in their classes. This practical element--learning by doing--sprang from his subscription to the philosophical school of Pragmatism. His lab school however performed so poorly that Dewey was forced to leave Chicago and his failing school in less than three years. He set up his famous Lincoln School in Manhattan where it too ultimately failed.

Dewey was essentially the foundational thinker of educational progressivism and an important progressive in general. His ideas, while quite popular, were never broadly and deeply integrated into the practices of American public schools, though some of his values and terms were widespread. Progressive education (both as espoused by Dewey, and in the more popular and inept forms of which Dewey was critical) was essentially scrapped during the Cold War, when the dominant concern in education was creating and sustaining a scientific and technological elite for military purposes.

Deweyan Pragmatism

Dewey was a second-generation pragmatist, following Charles Sanders Pierce and William James. He was not nearly so pluralist or relativist as James. He held that value was a function not of whim nor purely of social construction, but a quality inherent in events; he also held, unlike James, that experimentation (social, cultural, technological, philosophical) could be used as a relatively hard-and-fast arbiter of truth. For example, James felt that personal without "over-belief" in religious concepts used to explain common experience, human life was shallow and rather uninteresting. Dewey, in contrast, while honoring the important rule that religious institutions and practices played in human life, rejected belief in any static ideal, such as God. For Dewey, God was the method of intelligence in human life; that is to say, rigorous inquiry, or, very broadly configured, science. From the time of World War I onward, Dewey's thinking was strongly influenced by the work of F. Matthias Alexander.

Dewey has regained prominence recently in philosophy of education and in technical philosophy generally. Because of his process-oriented and sociologically conscious view of the world and knowledge, he is sometimes seen as a useful alternative to both modern and postmodern ways of thinking. Recent exponents like Richard Rorty have not always remained faithful to Dewey's original vision, but this itself is completely in keeping both with Dewey's usage of other thinkers and with his own philosophy--for Dewey, past doctrines always require reconstruction in order to remain useful for the present time.

Further Reading

• Dewey Democracy and Education Experience and Nature

Secondary Sources Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club

External links

• The Center for Dewey Studies

• http://www.alexandertechnique.com/articles/dewey

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Thomas Dewey

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Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 - March 16, 1971) was the Governor of New York (1943-1955) and the Republican candidate for the U.S. Presidency in two elections (1944 and 1948), losing both elections. He gained unwelcome notoriety in the 1948 election due to miscalculations by pollsters and the press, which projected his safe victory in that election. The Chicago Daily Tribune had gone so far as to print "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" as its post-election headline, though the election would actually be won by Harry S. Truman.

Dewey was also a New York City prosecutor during the 1930s, and in 1936, he helped in the conviction of Lucky Luciano. Mobster Dutch Schultz was reportedly killed because he was planning to assassinate Dewey, which his compatriots felt would draw too much unwanted law enforcement attention to their operations.

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	[T. Dewey Davis]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Ship's officers and crewmen pose on deck, while she was serving on the James River, Virginia, August 1864. Commander Alexander C. Rhind, ship's Commanding Officer, is at the extreme right with his foot on the ladder. Standing next to him is Assistant Surgeon Herman P. Babcock. Lieutenant George Dewey is in the right center, wearing a straw hat, directly below the end of the davit. The pivot gun is one of the ship's two 100-pounder Parrot rifles. Note Marine in the left foreground. Credit: NAVY.
	Some of the ship's officers relaxing on deck, while she was serving on the James River, Virginia, in the summer of 1864. They are (from left to right): Assistant Paymaster H. Melville Hanna; Commander Alexander C. Rhind, Commanding Officer; Assistant Surgeon Herman P. Babcock; and Lieutenant George Dewey. Note awning overhead, and windsail rigged for ventilation of the spaces below decks. Credit: NAVY.		F.D.R. and Dewey as children frightened by American voter as Jack-o-lantern. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Dewey rolling up his sleeves while GOP elephant cheers. Credit: Library of Congress.		Rep. Dewey Short, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Candidate's welcome. Thomas E. Dewey with Thomas J. Curran, Manhattan GOP leader, on return from campaign tour] / World-Telegram p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Palumbo..		Victory float, Dewey Naval Parade. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Grant's Tomb during Dewey Naval Parade. Credit: Library of Congress.		Frances B. Johnston and Admiral Dewey on the deck of the U.S.S. Olympia. Credit: Library of Congress.
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"A Dewey Morning 2" by Ginger Garvey Commentary: "Playing with my macro closeup and captured the morning dew at work in my front yard."	"Dewey Rose" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Rose sprinkled with dew."
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