Ancient Christian care for prisoners: first and second centuries

The Custom of Marriage Portion among Some Muslims during Both First and Second Centuries AH

As one of the components of marriage, “marriage portion” is an ancient tradition among Muslims which follows particular customs and methods. Although this custom is from those sanctified by Islamic Shari’ah, it underwent some changes. Some changes such as the amount of marriage portion and its being the right of woman herself taken as a substitution for the previous customs. This custom was sub...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

EVIDENCE FOR AN ANCIENT EARTH Radiometric Dating - A Christian Perspective

Radiometric dating--the process of determining the age of rocks from the decay of their radioactive elements-has been in widespread use for over half a century. There are over forty such techniques, each using a different radioactive element or a different way of measuring them. It has become increasingly clear that these radiometric dating techniques agree with each other and as a whole, prese...

Creation Care and the Christian

The First and Second Zagreb Indices, First and Second Zagreb Polynomials of HAC5C6C7[p,q] and HAC5C7[p,q] Nanotubes

Topological indices are numerical parameters of a molecular graph G which characterize its topology. On the other hands, computing the connectivity indices of molecular graphs is an important branch in chemical graph theory. Therefore, we compute First Zagreb index Zg   <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-Italic...