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Matthew Henry: The Bible, Prayer, and Piety – A Tercentenary Celebration
No full textThe summer of 2014 marked the tercentenary of the death of Matthew Henry (1662–1714), a leading figure among early eighteenth-century Dissenters and author of the six-volume Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (1707–1714/25). This monumental work, which by 1855 had already been published in twenty-five different editions, attempted a peculiarly practical approach to the biblical text and continues to be widely used and readily accessible even today in both print and online versions. The theme of foreign (or ‘strange’) wives and Israelite intermarriage is one which occurs throughout the Hebrew Bible and, accordingly, throughout Matthew Henry’s commentary upon it. Where it appears, the practice of intermarriage is characterized by Henry as (at best) unwise and (at worst) a very real threat to both social and religious cohesion. This essay explores how Henry deals with the issue of ‘strange wives’, why he believes they continue to pose a threat, and (in view of the overall intention of his commentary) what ‘practical observations’ he offers to his reader as a result. In doing so it is argued that Henry’s commentary traces a thematic thread from the ante-diluvian age to the post-exilic period of calamities resulting from mixed marriages between ‘professors of religion’ and their ‘strange wives’
Matthew Young Interview, 30 November 2009
No full textMattew Young discusses the educational and social impact of his work with the American Cultural Garden. A teacher at Hawken School, Young describes the role that students have played and continue to play in this particular garden. Young details the scientific and educational programs that his garden promotes, describes how they are influencing urban gardening, and how they are introducing students to a variety of issues surrounding the urban environment. Young contextualizes the role of the American garden with other gardens while describing the broader influence and significance of the cultural gardens in general
Matthew Young Interview, 30 November 2009
No full textMattew Young discusses the educational and social impact of his work with the American Cultural Garden. A teacher at Hawken School, Young describes the role that students have played and continue to play in this particular garden. Young details the scientific and educational programs that his garden promotes, describes how they are influencing urban gardening, and how they are introducing students to a variety of issues surrounding the urban environment. Young contextualizes the role of the American garden with other gardens while describing the broader influence and significance of the cultural gardens in general
Citation expectations: are they realized? Study of the Matthew index for Russian papers published abroad
No full textWe consider the "Matthew effect" in the citation process which leads to reallocation (or misallocation) of the citations received by scientific papers within the same journals. The case when such reallocation correlates with a country where an author works is investigated. Russian papers in chemistry and physics published abroad were examined. We found that in both disciplines in about 60% of journals Russian papers are cited less than average ones. However, if we consider each discipline as a whole, citedness of a Russian paper in physics will be on the average level, while chemistry publications receive about 16% citations less than one may expect from the citedness of the journals where they appear. Moreover, Russian chemistry papers mostly become undercited in the leading journals of the field. Characteristics of a "Matthew index" indicator and its significance for scientometric studies are also discussed
Matthew Baker - My Mountain Heroes
No full textMatthew Baker is a Macon County, NC author and rural mail carrier. Put them together, and you have a couple of great books… “My Mountain Granny” and “My Mountain Heroes.” When he is traveling throughout the mountains delivering mail, he meets and interviews many senior citizens who tell him stories that go back to another time and another century. Listen now to a young man who cares about what he calls the “Greatest Generation.
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
Letter From Matthew Arnold to Smith
No full textabstract: Concerning Arnold's request for financial help from the Literary Fund for a talented young poet, who has submitted a petition.Curator's Note: Handwritten note on recto reads: " Poet. Head Master of Rugby. Mathew Arnold Heller Coll- Removed from Arnold, Matthew Poems Macmillan, 1885 ADC.Creation Date Details: Undated range is the author's lifespan.Provenance: From the Heller Collection
Data and Code to Replicate Perez, Fox, and McClure "Unequal State Support of Religion: On Resentment, Equality, and the Separation of Religion and State" (2017)
No full textThe upload contains 7 files:
1. A README file (.txt) containing instructions for replicating the entire project, as well as the necessary syntax to run the models in STATA.
2. A R markdown script (.rmd) that contains the code necessary to run the preliminary data cleaning and manipulation process.
3. A PDF copy of the replication and extension paper.
4. The dataset received from the author ("Replication data.dta") in STATA 13 format.
5. The Religion and State Minorities dataset module, necessary for crafting the new variables for extension.
6. The dataset created at the end of the data manipulation process, entitled "Extension_data.dta" (2018-04-27
[Ballarat's young people get into the spirit of welcoming Queen Elizabeth II, Friday 24th March 2000] [picture] /
No full textCondition: good.; Title devised by cataloguer based on information from acquisition file number 204/20/00164.; Part of the collection of photographs about the visit of Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II to Ballarat in March 2000 by Matthew Sleeth
An Interview with Matthew Kaiser on Competition and Play
No full textAn Interview with Matthew Kaiser on Competition and Play, by Sean Scanlan. Matthew Kaiser, the author of The World in Play: Portraits of a Victorian Concept (Stanford UP, 2012) says that “[c]ompetition is the disease from which modern life suffers,” and that “[c]ompetition is the only cure” for this suffering. This contradictory pairing seems to get at the heart of his thesis: play, as a totalizing, umbrella-like concept, emanates from a host of philosophical, political, and scientific work produced by Victorians who posed many of their ideas of play in sports metaphors, competitive logics, and narratives of struggle. Kaiser goes beyond the dichotomy of competition and play/competition or play, by stating “I’m interested in the totalizing potential of both concepts, the way that play, or competition for that matter, swallows the world whole, becomes in the minds of so many people, the organizing principle of reality, whether of culture or nature or consciousness, or of all three.
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