traditionally, marriage has been regarded as the price men had to pay for sexual intercourse, and sexual intercourse as the price women had to pay for marriage. During the twentieth century this rather vulgar-minded tradition has been shattered?by two items of observation, and two of technology. It has been more and more widely observed that women are capable of enjoying sex and men of enjoying...

Iranian civilization is one of the oldest and most influential civilizations of history, and Iran as the origin of Persian civilization, has been ruled by numerous states throughout history. Some of them, while enjoying considerable glory and high level of economic and political power, have sometimes been declined and finally overthrown. Having these points in mind, the main questions are prese...

Article history: Received 25 August 2010 Received in revised form 16 December 2010 Accepted 21 January 2011 The objective of the paper is to explore narrative foreclosure as a sensitizing concept for studying the ways in which narrative identity development falters in later life. Two main characters in famous movies are contrasted to provide a better understanding of narrative foreclosure. The ...

Abstract This article aims to describe the reasons for sport participation in Brazilian adult population according gender, age and schooling level. is a cross-sectional study with data from National Household Sample Survey - 2015. The practice or not sports previous year were obtained by questionnaire predetermined answer options. All analyses performed Stata 12.1 stratified gender. prevalence ...

Thinking styles are a matter of choice in individuals’ use of their abilities. In other words, they are processes that determine individuals’ attitude towards the problems they encounter and their way of self-expression in the face of these problems. It is considered each athlete and trainer has unique ways in achieving their goals and succeeding. Starting from this, in our study we...