SNOWBALL VS. SNOWMAN: A DYSTOPIAN BRIDGE BETWEEN GEORGE ORWELL’S ANIMAL FARM AND MARGARET ATWOOD’S ORYX & CRAKE

Tainted Food and the Icarus Complex: Psychoanalysing Consumer Discontent from Oyster Middens to Oryx and Crake

In hyper-modern society, food has become a source of endemic discontent. Many food products are seen as ‘tainted’; literally, figuratively or both. A psychoanalytic approach, I will argue, may help us to come to terms with our alimentary predicaments. What I envision is a ‘depth ethics’ (the moral equivalent of a ‘depth psychology’) focusing on some of the latent tensions, conflicts and ambigui...

on the relationship between actual vs. perceived difficulties of a text and iranian efl learners reading anxiety

abstract this study examines the relationship between reading anxiety and difficulty of texts as well as the relationship between reading anxiety and students perceived difficulty of the texts. since difficulty is a relative concept, i limited its definition by sticking to the readability formula. we also took students perceived difficulty levels into account. therefore, in the present study, ...

Building the bridge between animal movement and population dynamics.

While the mechanistic links between animal movement and population dynamics are ecologically obvious, it is much less clear when knowledge of animal movement is a prerequisite for understanding and predicting population dynamics. GPS and other technologies enable detailed tracking of animal location concurrently with acquisition of landscape data and information on individual physiology. These ...

Intergenerational Learning Program: A Bridge between Generations

One of the goals of education can be considered the transfer of knowledge, skills, competencies, wisdom, norms and values between generations. Intergenerational learning program provide this goal and opportunities for lifelong learning and sharing knowledge and experience between generations. This review aimed to investigate the benefits of this program for the children and older adult and its ...

Economics and Farm Animal Welfare