This study investigated the effect of oral dialogue journals on communicative competence of Iranian EFL learners. Participants of this study were 80 students of two Payam-e-Noor Universities who were proved to be homogenous in the communicative competence based on TSE (Test of Spoken English) interview. The participants of one of these universities were considered as the experimental group. The...

Aztec culture flourished in the highlands of central Mexico between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, AD. As the last in a series of complex urban civilizations in Mesoamerica, the Aztecs adopted many traits and institutions from their predecessors such as the Maya and Teotihuacan. The Aztecs also devised many innovations, particularly in the realms of economics and politics. Aztec civilizat...

This paper explores the regulatory philosophies underlying the debates on privacy in e-commerce in the European Union and the United States. It offers a framework to grasp these differences and suggests that, in the ultimate, e-commerce players with transatlantic ambitions may need different organizations to deal with the EU and US

The article presents the philosophical and methodological model of the anthropological crisis caused by social and cultural transformation of the modern civilization. It analyses the essence and cause of the anomie and social orienting cultural regulatory mechanisms in the social system. The authors consider existential characteristics of the individual in the new “innovative” social space and ...

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On March 11, 2011, a large earthquake struck Japan and was followed by a series of devastating tsunamis. One of these tsunamis triggered an explosion at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. March 11 was a natural catastrophe (that civilization failed to prevent) on one hand, and a manmade catastrophe (that civilization created and made worse) on the other. The catastrophe was said to be unpre...

ilam civilization is the most important ancient and indigenous civilization of iran prior to the formation of aryan rule and the achaemenid empire. the capital of this civilization, susa, joinedurbanization in 3200 b.c. and was put aside from history in 646 b.c. by assyrian empire. one of the most significant part of this civilization was  ilamidreligion and worldview as represented in their te...