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Matthew effects in young readers : reading comprehension and reading experience aid vocabulary development
No full textThe authors report data from a longitudinal study of the reading development of children who were assessed in the years of their 8th, 11th, 14th, and 16th birthdays. They examine the evidence for Matthew effects in reading and vocabulary between ages 8 and 11 in groups of children identified with good and poor reading comprehension at 8 years. They also investigate evidence for Matthew effects in reading and vocabulary between 8 and 16 years, in the larger sample. The poor comprehenders showed reduced growth in vocabulary compared to the good comprehenders, but not in word reading or reading comprehension ability. They also obtained lower scores on measures of out-of-school literacy. Analyses of the whole sample revealed that initial levels of reading experience and reading comprehension predicted vocabulary at ages 11, 14, and 16 after controlling for general ability and vocabulary skills when aged 8. The authors discuss these findings in relation to the influence of reading on vocabulary development
Zora Neale Hurston Author and Anthropologist
No full textLike many artists before her, Zora Neale Hurston received virtually no recognition for her work until after her death. Hurston began her career as an anthropologist, observing and documenting the tension of race relations in the American South. She strove to expose the horrific practice of "paramour rights," wherein white men sexually exploited black women in their employment. But this work and her later fiction, including the now famous Their Eyes Were Watching God, would end up in relative obscurity as her fictional portrayal of African American dialect was criticized as offensive and her political views were often less progressive than those of her contemporaries. With engaging, accessible text, this biography gives readers a fuller picture of this complicated writer and woman.Like many artists before her, Zora Neale Hurston received virtually no recognition for her work until after her death. Hurston began her career as an anthropologist, observing and documenting the tension of race relations in the American South. She strove to expose the horrific practice of "paramour rights," wherein white men sexually exploited black women in their employment. But this work and her later fiction, including the now famous Their Eyes Were Watching God, would end up in relative obscurity as her fictional portrayal of African American dialect was criticized as offensive and her political views were often less progressive than those of her contemporaries. With engaging, accessible text, this biography gives readers a fuller picture of this complicated writer and woman.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Body, time, and the others: African-American anthropology and the rewriting of ethnographic conventions in the ethnographies by Zora Neale Hurston and Katherine Dunham
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This research looks at the ethnographies Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1938) by Zora Neale Hurston focusing on representations of Time and the anthropologist’s body. Hurston was an African-American anthropologist, folklorist, and novelist who conducted research particularly between the end of the 1920s and the mid-1930s. At first, her fieldwork and writings dealt with African-American communities in Florida and Hoodoo practice in Louisiana, but she consequently expanded her field of anthropological interests to Jamaica and Haiti, which she visited between 1936 and 1937. The temporal and bodily factors in Hurston’s works are taken into consideration as coordinates of differentiation between the ethnographer and the objects of her research. In her ethnographies, the representation of the anthropologist’s body is analysed as an attempt at reducing temporal distance in ethnographical writings paralleled by the performative experience of fieldwork exemplified by Hurston’s storytelling: body, voice, and the dialogic representation of fieldwork relationships do not guarantee a portrayal of the anthropological subject on more egalitarian terms, but cast light on the influence of the anthropologist both in the practice and writing of ethnography. These elements are analysed in reference to the visualistic tradition of American anthropology as ways of organising difference and ascribing the anthropological ‘Others’ to a temporal frame characterised by bodily and cultural features perceived as ‘primitive’ and, therefore, distant from modernity. Representations and definitions of ‘primitiveness’ and ‘modernity’ not only shaped both twentieth-century American anthropology and the modernist arts (Harlem Renaissance), but also were pivotal for the creation of a modern African-American identity in its relation to African history and other black people involved in the African diaspora. In the same years in which Hurston visited Jamaica and Haiti, another African-American woman anthropologist and dancer, Katherine Dunham, conducted fieldwork in the Caribbean and started to look at it as a source of inspiration for the emerging African-American dance as recorded in her ethnographical and autobiographical account Island Possessed (1969). Therefore, Hurston’s and Dunham’s representations of Haiti are examined as points of intersection for the different discourses which both widened and complicated their understanding of what being ‘African’ and ‘American’ could mean.Isambard Research Scholarship from Brunel University and grant from Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust
Neale, Leonard (3 of 3)
No full textSermons by Leonard Neale, SJ (1746-1817). Entered 1767; served in Maryland 1773, 1783-1817. Woodstock College Archives.(11) No date. Title: Fer: 6. Parasceves. Text: Philippians 2:8. 2 pages. Imperfect: incomplete at end. (12) No date. No title. John 16:20. 8 pages. Imperfect: middle section missing and incomplete at end. Note at head (in the hand of Rev. Francis Neale): Pricella Harbert. (13) No date. Title: 2a Quad. Text: Matthew 17:4. Alternate text (A): Matthew 5:12. Alternate text (B): Matthew 13:31. 6 pages. Imperfect: middle section missing and incomplete at end. (14) No date. No title. Text: Matthew 13:30. 4 pages. Imperfect: incomplete at end. (15) No date. No title. No text. 5 pages Imperfect: incomplete at front. On keeping the lenten fast. (16) No date. No title. No text. 8 pages. Imperfect: incomplete at front and end. On the danger of relapsing into sin. (17) No date. No title. No text. 1 page. Imperfect: conclusion only. (18) No date. No title. No text. 1 page. Imperfect: conclusion only. On repentance. Notes for texts in the hand of Rev. Francis Neale on verso
Zora Neale Hurston -- Anthropologist
No full textAnother side of Florida\u27s most famous African-American author is revealed by a Zora Neale Hurston scholar
Neale, Leonard (1 of 3)
No full textSermons by Leonard Neale, SJ (1746-1817). Entered 1767; served in Maryland 1773, 1783-1817. Woodstock College Archives.(1) 1771-1772. A) Title: 2a post Epiph. Text: John 2:1. 10 pages. B) Title: Feb. 2d. Text: Luke 2:22. 2 pages. C) Title: 2a Advent. Text: Matthew 11:10. 10 pages. D) Title: 4a Adventus. Text: Luke 3:3. 1 page. Imperfect: text only. (2) 1772. A) Title: Dom 5a post Epiph. Text: Matthew 13:30. 9 pages. B) Title: Dom. Sexages. Text: Luke 8:11. 12 pages. (3) 1772. A) Title: Dom: 12a. Text: Luke 10:27. 10 pages. B) Title: Dom 17a. Text: Matthew 22:39. 10 pages. (4) 1772. A) No title. No text. 9 pages. Imperfect: incomplete at front. On fasting and abstinence. B) Title: Dom 3. Quadrag: Fer 5a post Dom 2dam. Text: Luke 16:19. 9 pages. C) Title: Dom: 5 Quadrag: vel Dom: Quinquag. Text: Hebrews 9:12. 2 pages. Imperfect: text and introduction only. (5) 1772. No title. No text. 8 pages. Imperfect: incomplete at front. On the necessity of repentance. A few emendations in the hand of Rev. Francis Neale
The Undiscovered Zora Neale Hurston
No full textIn this 1997 report, one of the biographers of Florida novelist Zora Neale Hurston revealed some newly-discovered works by the author
Zora Neale Hurston in the Turpentine Camps
No full textHarlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston collected music and oral histories in turpentine camps where working conditions were some of the harshest
Introduction
No full textThis is the substantive introduction to 'Writing Talk: interviews with writers about the creative process'. It investigates the role of writer-interview in further examining aspects of the writing process. It including the following sections: 'On these writers'; 'The virtue of interview'; 'On the creative process'; 'Uncertainty and the necessity of not knowing'; 'Image before word'; 'The author is dead, but what of the writer?' This introduction is written by the book's editor and interviewer. The interviewed writers are: Alan Ayckbourn, Iain Banks, Helen Blakeman, Louis de Bernières, Sarah Butler, Andrew Cowan, Jenny Diski, Patricia Duncker, David Edgar, Tanika Gupta, Richard Holmes, Hanif Kureishi, Bryony Lavery, Toby Litt, Kareem Mortimer, Michèle Roberts, Jane Rogers, Willy Russell and Sally Wainwright
Neale, Henry
No full textSermons by Henry Neale, SJ (1702-1748). Entered 1724, served in Maryland and Pennsylvania 1740-1748. Woodstock College Archives, except when noted.(1) 1748. Title: Ash Wednesday. Text: Genesis 3:19. 20 pages. Note at head: Feb. 1748. Philad. Note on wrapper (in the hand of Rev. G. B. Bitouzey): patuxent feby 22d 1801. (2) No date. No title. Text: Matthew 13:29. 8 pages. Notes at head: Dom. 5a.p. Epiph and (in the hand of Rev. John Williams): on Gods Patience towards Sinners. (3) No date. Title: General Judgmt. Text: Matthew 24:30. Alternate text (A): Mark 13:26. Alternate text (B): Luke 21:25. Alternate text (C): Luke 21:10-11. Alternate text (D): Luke 21:26. 12 pages. Note at head: 24a post Pentec. Maryland Province Archives. (4) No date. Title: On Faith. Text: Matthew 8:13. Alternate text (A): James 2:14. Alternate text (B): James 2:18. 46 pages. Imperfect: incomplete at end. Note at head: 3a post epiph. Separate short introduction for alternate text (B)
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