Nowadays, the videoconference represents a spread technology in the distant training processes but experienced also in the traditional ones, mostly in the frame of national and international projects. Taking into consideration the last type of actions, the paper emphasizes on the main aspects carried out for organizing a Meeting with European Science teachers, under the umbrella of a videoconfe...

n the recent years, the knowledge of stylistics has experienced some new branches. thanks to the recent efforts of a group of linguists, traditional stylistics has changed its branches in favour of genres, rather than the types of prose and verse. up until two decades ago, stylistics mainly focused on the form of the text, and the genres were almost ignored or overlooked. however, in the light ...

Interaction and Narrative is a chapter from Michael’s Ph.D. dissertation on Expressive AI (AI-based art and entertainment) [Mateas 2002]. A significant portion of the dissertation describes his collaborative work with Andrew Stern on the interactive drama Façade [Mateas & Stern 2004a; Mateas & Stern 2004b; Mateas and Stern 2003; Mateas and Stern 2002a; Mateas and Stern 2002b]; the purpose of th...

This paper illustrates the powerful role that drama can play in facilitating spiritual development. The opportunities offered through the experience of improvisation are examined through a detailed examination of a single drama session. The children’s engagement in and reflection upon the drama are seen as sensitive vehicles to build a sense of community, increase self knowledge, develop empath...

Following Socrates’ advice “You should learn all you can from those who know. Everyone should watch himself throughout his life, and notice what sort of meat and drink and what form of exercise suit his constitution Following Socrates’ advice “You should learn all you can from those who know. Everyone should watch himself throughout his life, an and he should regulate them in order to enjoy goo...

This paper describes “The Trial The Trail” a work of interactive drama for a projection-based virtual reality system. The project marries a virtual reality authoring system and an artificial intelligence system.

The dialogue between the model Athenian landowner Ischomachus and his wife recounted in Xenophon's Oeconomicus appears to offer a rare glimpse of the inner workings of an -ordinary Athenian household and a rare portrait of an ordinary Athenian wife. Through Ischomachus's report to Socrates of a series of conversations in which he instructed his wife in her proper activities. the dialogue provid...

abdol sabur the poet of this age is one of the best poets of egyptafter ahmad shoghi that go to north and he has different experiences in several genere such as drama and poem. he used from survivor of thought of god in his poem. that is most important characterist of his poem, and he tried to approach this - characteristic to the poem. one of the most important topics that poem of this age wit...

Abstract Socrates’ burial is dismissed as philosophically irrelevant in Phaedo 115c-e although it had previously been discussed by Plato’s older contemporaries. In Antisthenes’ Kyrsas dialogue describes a visit to tomb lover of Socrates who receives protreptic advice dream sequence while sleeping over grave. The metaphysical explanation how spiritual message was continued after death. Plato und...