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PresentationDallasheh, Dr. LeenaLecture delivered via webinar on November 12, 2020. Leena Dallasheh is an associate professor of history at Humboldt State University. She received her PhD in the joint History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies program at NYU. Her areas of specia . . .
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ArticleMa, XinIn this study, H. Walberg's theory of educational productivity was used to guide a confirmatory examination of the relationship between student career aspiration and factors of educational productivity, using data from the National Education Longitudi . . .
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ArticleWang, JianjunAn empirical approach is adopted in this article to explore a possible model for the prediction of students’ science achievement in China and the United States. The construction of the model was based on the ninth-grade data base from Phase 11 of the . . .
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ArticleCalhoun, GeorgeParental influence has been identified as an important factor affecting student achievement, but the variables addressed by various parent-school partnership programs vary, and lack literature support. This deficiency was ameliorated in this study thr . . .
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ArticleVivian, TimThe article presents an examination into the hagiographic depictions of the life of the 4th-century Christian desert father Paisios, also known as Bishoy. Discussion is given focusing on the saint's typological role and description as a didaskalos and . . .
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ArticleVivian, TimThe themes in the early monastic sayings and stories, some of them discussed here, are not neatly numbered and segregated as a linear presentation necessarily makes them; they’re much more like marrow and bone, bone and sinew, sinew and muscle, muscle . . .
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ArticleVivian, TimA literary criticism for the book "Cold War Letters" by Thomas Merton is presented. Topics discussed include political action informed by principles of religious and philosophical wisdom; separate religion and politics rested on a thoroughly religious . . .
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ArticleVivian, TimAbba Agathon (4th–5th c.) does not have even a cameo role in Hugh G. Evelyn White’s monumental and magisterial study of the early Christian monks of Egypt,2 William Harmless’s Desert Christians,3 or Adalbert de Vogüé’s Histoire littéraire du movemen . . .
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ArticleVivian, TimSomething like 90% of classical Greek and Roman literature is lost to us. This realization becomes acute, even heartbreaking, when we think of how very little of the little we have is by women. An exception that proves the rule is Plutarch’s “Sayings . . .
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ArticleVivian, TimThe article offers information on the metaphor and exegesis in the sayings of Amma Syncletica of Egypt. Topics discussed include dismissal of metaphor above uses metaphor; Jewish and Christian exegetes a good living, including Jesus and Paul in Bible; . . .