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In 1968, in a remark as wise as it is learned, Professor George Clark wrote of The Battle of Maldon that “what the poet does not create does not exist even if history inspires his poem.” Readers of the poem have been mulling this over for forty years. The historical information the poem affords us has been subject, in some degree, to alteration by imagination, to the formulae of verse, and to t...

The purpose of this study was to enhance the ability of an institution to provide biology major students the best opportunity to succeed. Grades are universally measured variables. Regardless of different instructors teaching the same course in different sections, the final course grade is combined for all the sections representing one course. This study reflects the differences in students as ...

Gunkel challenges Mowinckel's contention that Psalm 15 is connected with the annual festival of the enthronement of Yahweh. While Gunkel disputes Mowinckel's assertion that this psalm's usage can be pin-pointed to a specific event on the Israelite calendar, I question the "presupposed worship service" that causes this psalm to be read as a liturgical entrance psalm. Gunkel himself says, "The re...

Twenty 17 th century metrical psalms (ten in Welsh and ten in Scottish Gaelic) were used to investigate the suitability of the Zipf-Alekseev function for modelling verse lengths in these Celtic languages. Good fits were obtained for both languages; however, the parameter c was always negligible, hence future work might consider using the simple power function, if this proves to be the case more...

The science of versification and analysis of verse in Sanskrit is governed by rules of metre or chandas. Such metre-wise classification of verses has numerous uses for scholars and researchers alike, such as in the study of poets and their style of Sanskrit poetical works. This paper presents a comprehensive computational scheme and set of algorithms to identify the metre of verses given as San...

one of the practices, particularly important in shi'ism is to pay khums.somesunnites believe there is merely one verse in quran concerning khums; thus itisnot so important. this single verse includes the spoils of war, not business profitand trade as shiites believe in it. but shiites criticize sunnites argument asfollows: 1- firstly, there is more than one quranic verse regarding it, seco...