Matthew Effect

Examples of Matthew Effect in the following topics:

• Conflict

  • The idea that those who have control will maintain control is called the Matthew Effect.

• Italian Painting in the Baroque Period

  • He used tenebrism and stark contrasts between partially lit figures and dark backgrounds to dramatize the effect.
  • The Calling of Saint Matthew shows Caravaggio's use of tenebrism and stark contrasts between partially lit figures and dark backgrounds to dramatize the effect.

• The "New Negro"

  • In 1916-17, Hubert Harrison and Negro league baseball star Matthew Kotleski founded the militant "New Negro Movement," which is also known as Harlem Renaissance .
  • Describe the ideal of the "New Negro" articulated by Hubert Harrison, Matthew Kotleski and Alain Locke

• Blitzkrieg

  • Despite the term blitzkrieg being coined by journalists during the Invasion of Poland of 1939, historians Matthew Cooper and J.
  • The Wehrmacht became overstretched, although winning operationally, it could not inflict a decisive defeat as the durability of the Soviet Union's manpower, resources, industrial base and aid from the Western Allies began to take effect.
  • Although effective in the early periods of the war, blitzkrieg strategy could not sustained by Germany in later years.

• Ethiopia and Eritrea

  • Da Covilhã remained in the country, but in 1507 an Armenian named Matthew was sent by the Emperor to the king of Portugal to request his aid against the Muslims.
  • In 1520, a Portuguese fleet, with Matthew on board, entered the Red Sea in compliance with this request, and an embassy from the fleet visited the Emperor, Lebna Dengel, and remained in Ethiopia for about six years.
  • It was a period in Ethiopian history when the country was divided into several regions with no effective central authority.

• HIV and AIDS

  • A report by American health expert Matthew Hanley titled "The Catholic Church and the Global AIDS Crisis" argues that cultural, religion-based changes are needed.
  • It also has very unpleasant side effects, including diarrhea, malaise, nausea and fatigue.

• The Information Age

  • The world's effective capacity to exchange information through two-way telecommunication networks was 281 petabytes of (optimally compressed) information in 1986; 471 (optimally compressed) petabytes in 1993; 2.2 (optimally compressed) exabytes in 2000; and 65 (optimally compressed) exabytes in 2007 (this is the information equivalent of 6 newspapers per person per day).
  • Film audiences watched a teenaged Matthew Broderick hacking into a government computer and starting a nuclear war in War Games, Angelina Jolie being chased by a computer genius bent on world domination in Hackers, and Sandra Bullock watching helplessly as her life is turned inside out by conspirators who manipulate her virtual identity in The Net.

• Robber Barons and the Captains of Industry

  • U.S. political and economic commentator Matthew Josephson popularized the term during the Great Depression in a 1934 book by the same title.
  • Trustees were given corporate stock certificates of various companies; by combining numerous corporations into the trust, the trustees could effectively manage and control an entire industry.

• The Social Gospel

  • Theologically, the Social Gospellers sought to operationalize the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:10): "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
  • Matthews (1867-1940) of Seattle's First Presbyterian Church was a leading city reformer, who investigated red light districts and crime scenes, denouncing corrupt politicians, businessmen, and saloon keepers.
  • Matthews was the most influential clergymen in the Pacific Northwest, and one of the most active Social Gospelers in America.

• Introduction

  • Flash animation and story written and developed by Emily Pitts, Daisy Barreto, Marly Paz and Matthew Flanders (2006).