to discuss my point, i have collected quite a number of articles, anthologies, and books about "wuthering heights" applying various ideas and theories to this fantastic story. hence, i have come to believe that gadamer and jauss are rightful when they claim that "the individaul human mind is the center and origin of all meaning," 3 that reading literature is a reader-oriented activity, that it ...

abstract the primary purpose of this study was to explore the actual practices and cognitions of two groups of iranian eap teachers, i.e. language teachers and content teachers, with respect to teaching reading-comprehension and vocabulary. to this end, tehran university of medical sciences which authorizes both groups of teachers to teach eap courses was selected as the context of the study s...

translation studies have become an accepted academic subject and books, journals and doctoral dissertations appear faster than one can read them all (bassnet and lefevere, 1990). but this field also brought with itself so many other issues which needed to be investigated more, in the heart of which, issues like ideology, ethics, culture, bilingualism and multilingualism. it is reported that ove...

this research concentrates on the lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, microfacies and sedimentary environment of the asmari and gachsaran formations at southwest firuzabad. the thickness of the studied section in all 608.95 meters that 220.8 meters belong to the asmari formation and 387.95 meters belong to the gachsaran formation (champe and mol members). in the study area, the asmari formation...

this ethnographic case study research was carried out in a private school setting in the context of iran. the research tried to explore the analysis and identity construction of a group of learners and teachers along with the content analysis of books on the basis of four types of commodified, political, national and narrative identities. how english language learners and teachers in an informa...

the quest for power has formed much of the world history especially in 20th and 21st centuries. oil (energy) particularly after industrial revolution has been a tool for conquest and power and has been transformed to a geopolitical issue. from a geopolitical point of view this has been the case for the last two centuries in central asia and caucasus. central asia and caucasus has always been...

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...

the present paper offers a postcolonial reading of two of the best novels by v. s. naipaul – half a life and the mimic men – in five chapters. the focus of this research is on different notions of postcolonial criticism and their application on the two novels as discussed from homi bhabha’s and frantz fanons points of view. having introduced the life and literary career of v. s. naipaul in th...

چکیده معضل چاقی به عنوان عارضه ای جدی برای زندگی بی تحرک و ماشینی، مورد توجه اغلب مراکز بهداشتی و درمانی دنیا قرار گرفته است. چاقی عامل زمینه ساز و در واقع عامل خطری برای بروز بیماری های قلبی - عروقی است که عموماً با کاهش طول عمر مورد انتظار و افزایش بیماری همراه است. هدف پژوهش حاضر تأثیر 12 هفته تمرینات ویبریشن کل بدن، تمرینات هوازی و تمرینات ترکیبی( هوازی و ویبریشن کل بدن) بر ترکیب بدنی زنان ...