Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) involve long term intense social bonds between male players. Still, little is known about how masculinity constructs work as glue in these game communities. This study concerns masculine identities in applications (N=210) for community membership of a MMORPG community in Finland. Drawing on three identity dimensions (virtual, real, and p...

studying persian heroic epic verses affected by narrative tradition and shahname is one of the areas that can be analyzed from  different perspectives. samname which is considered as the last national epic in persian literature and apparently is written in late 7th century and early 8th century – if we accept to be written by khajooye kermani- is among these works which is similar to shahname f...

Playwriting guides, creative writing handbooks, and screenwriting manuals are replete with guidance as to how an author should express their themes. One common rule of thumb is that the climax where themes, characters, narrative’s result converge in terminal thematic statement. If theme established elaborated on during a film, then its film’s authors position matter through or lack thereof. As ...

Self-criticism of physicians and patient participation are the pillars of modern medical ethics and medical programmes. Patients expect risk minimisation from physicians, mostly without realising how much they could actively do themselves in this respect. But what about the willingness of German people to take risks, how high is it really at present? Direct empirical data are not available, but...

Rey/Akıl Taraftarlığı zihniyetinin temsilcilerinden Ebû Hanîfe ve İmam Mâtürîdî; fıkıhta Hanefilik itikatta Matüridiliğin oluşmasına öncülük etmiş iki önemli düşünürdür. Onlar Mürcie’nin itikadî fıkhî konulardaki görüşlerinden etkilenmiş olup dinde kolaylık, akılcılık imanda eşitlik ilkelerini düşünce sistemlerinin merkezine yerleştirmişlerdir. Muhaliflerince amelleri önemsemeyip değersizleştir...