commitment to social issues of human being is a dominant theme in contemporary poetry which introduces poets to the history who make an attempt to depict social concepts and solve the problems of society. abd al-wahhab al-bayyati and mehdi akhavan sales are two prominent poets who move along this atmosphere. they live in two communities with similar social conditions. due to common beliefs and ...

brigands' life is one of jahiliyya's phenomena that is cast with ambiguity in some aspects and needs explanation. these brigands are rebels against current jahiliyya situation and strict customs in that society. they are expelled ones who were exiled by their tribes and aliens whom their parents rejected. this article on the one hand tries to focus on this phenomenon in the jahiliyya ...

Arapça metinlerinde bazı kelimeler, yer aldıkları cümlenin siyakına bağlı olarak türlü anlamlar ifade etmektedir. Bunlardan biri de şüphesiz ki din sözcüğüdür. Câhiliye devrinin ürünü olan şiirler, ait oldukları döneminin dini ve kültürel yönünü yansıtmada en önemli faktörler arasında alırlar. Diğer yandan metinlerinin gerek gramer lügat gerekse belagat fesahat açısından son derece zengin kayna...

abstract a poet, author, statesman, and eminent social figure under the ottoman empire, ma'ruf rosafi, lived in a period when ignorance, poverty, and disease had overshadowed the country. obviously, literature in late 19th century and early 20th century witnessed a rise and boom which included political, social, and cultural issues. and it was poetry that could yield positive effects in th...

The present study retested previously reported empirical evidence suggesting an iconic relation between sound and emotional meaning in poetry. To this end, we analyzed the frequency of certain phoneme classes in 48 German poems and correlated them with ratings for emotional classification. Our analyses provide evidence for a link between the emotional classification of poems (joyful vs. sad) an...

Pluralistic ignorance is a socio-psychological phenomenon that involves a systematic discrepancy between people’s private beliefs and public behavior in certain social contexts. Recently, pluralistic ignorance has gained increased attention in formal and social epistemology. But to get clear on what precisely a formal and social epistemological account of pluralistic ignorance should look like,...

Conveying scientific content with accuracy and fluency takes practice and requires deep understanding of the concepts being conveyed. This depth of knowledge comes from internalizing information and constructing it into a form that is unique and coherent to the individual. Often in science classrooms there is little or no opportunity for students to practice this type of thinking, activities th...

In a continuous opinion dynamics model using a bounded confidence assumption, individuals can only influence each other’s opinions when those opinions are sufficiently close. However, we often observe real-world cases in which opinions are very different, yet individuals feel compelled to change their ideas to conform with their peers or superiors (or in rare cases, are willing to change them v...