A Critical Look at Immigration’s Role in the U.S. Computer Industry

300: Cultural Stereotypes and War against Barbarism

During the era of Bush administration and post-September 11th anti-terrorism discourse, the movie 300 was one of the best exemplar of a close relationship between Hollywood pop culture products and the neo-conservatives’ political discourse of nationalism. From my point of view, 300 is not an example of outstanding artistic films, but a film that more than any other film contains an Iranophobic...

The United States National Security Strategy under Bush and Obama: Continuity and Change

The foreign policy of states determines the way they behave in the international arena. Accurate analysis of official foreign policy documents of a country is helpful in that it shows what the international priorities of a country are at specific periods. This article reviews the U.S. National Security Strategy documents published in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2015 from the perspective of the percept...

The Circulation Migration of the Skilled and Economic Development - Migration, Trade, and Development: Proceedings of a conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, October 6, 2006

Although there is much discussion of immigration’s impact on the U.S. domestic economy, there is also renewed interest in immigration’s effects on low-income, sending countries. However, in this latter discussion, there is an under-appreciation of two important features. First, a significant proportion of the skill residing in low-income countries is produced in high-income countries. Four coun...

A Critical Look at World English Textbook Evaluation and Its Effects on EFL Pre-intermediate Iranian Learners' Speaking Skill

This research was designed to look at World English textbook evaluation and its effects on EFL pre-intermediate Iranian learners' speaking skill. Thirty male students were selected randomly in Eshtehard language school. They took a pre-test as a proficiency test first to determine their proficiency. To gain this aim, a language proficiency test, i.e., Nelson test was given to the total particip...

Letter to Editor: A Brief Look at Nursing Investment Based on the Slogan of the International Council of Nurses in 2018