The article deals with the study of poetics S. Beckett's play “Waiting for Godot”. This original and extremely capacious is minimalistic in form. secret capacity that, through four characters, Beckett showed human race miniature, modeling main types social private relationships: type equality (i.e., self-neighbor relationship) isrepresented by friends Vladimir Estragon, inequality/dependence re...

Language is crucial for all established scientific disciplines in contemporary society, particularly epidemiology. Portuguese writer Saramago wrote All the Names, a book about the Conservatória, a gigantic registry that stores the whole life of an entire population. A parallel is made with the first social observatories that used entire populations for systematic observation, permitting the dev...

the main purpose of this paper is to clarify the concept of metaphor and its functions in education. there are two main parts in this paper: the first is to discuss the six major classic and modern theories of metaphor according to their cognitive and intellectual functions , and the second is to identify and classify the four types of figurative language including metaphor, simile, allegory an...

If much has been written of the forms of bodiliness reinforced by hospitals, less attention has been paid to the medicalization of the soul. The medical management of death institutionalizes divisions between body and soul, and matter and spirit, infusing end-of-life care with latent Christian theological presumptions. The invisibility of these presumptions is partly sustained by projecting rel...

Zombies have become ubiquitous in recent years in all media, including digital games. Zombies have no soul or consciousness, and as completely alien, post-human Other, they seem like the perfect game opponent. Yet their portrayal is always politically charged, as they have historically been used as an allegory for slavery, poverty, and consumerism, and may be read as stand-ins for threatening b...