Although sociolinguists have performed a valuable service in challenging folk theories about African American English (AAE), they also have unwittingly participated in the construction of sociolinguistic folklore about variation and change in AAE. Several examples of sociolinguistic myths are presented, including the supraregional myth, the change myth, and the social stratification myth. Data ...

Rudyard Kipling was enchanted by the Sussex landscape surrounding his house, Bateman’s. Many of stories and poems are set in this landscape, draw on its rich history, archaeology, folklore. In paper we examine Kipling’s 1917 poem The Land, which weaves together strands archaeology nationalist origin mythology. Land is story a single field, colonial landowners from Roman Britain to present, gene...

ferdowsi's shahname (one of the most valuable literary works in iran and in the world) can be studied from different viewpoints. this important literary work can be analyzed from various dimensions including literature, sociology, mythology and elements of the story. one quite new aspect which can lay the ground for research in shahnameh and can be very useful and give great results to us ...

From Ancient Greece to Hollywood, Medusa has been a global narrative. This article explores poetry and storytelling through the historical literary legacy of Medusa; it argues for her importance in feminist history continued relevance our post-MeToo world. While seemingly straightforward tale, Medusa's story female dynamics, power against patriarchal forces, ultimate defense male gaze. paper sh...

“....In science, conventional wisdom is difficult to overturn. After more than 20 years some implications of plate tectonics have yet to be fully appreciated by isotope geochemists... and by geologists and geophysicists who have followed their lead.” “ A myth is an invented tale, often to explain some natural phenomenon... which sometimes acquires the status of dogma... without a sound logical ...

The present study sought to explore the impact of story maps and audio podcasts as scaffolds on oral proficiency of Iranian EFL learners. The quasi-experimental study was launched with 36 EFL undergraduates in three groups by adopting a counterbalanced 3  3 Latin squared design. All participants were indiscriminately, but in a specified order, exposed to the three treatment conditions of story ...

We address three common misconceptions about capability-based systems: the Equivalence Myth (access control list systems and capability systems are formally equivalent), the Confinement Myth (capability systems cannot enforce confinement), and the Irrevocability Myth (capability-based access cannot be revoked). The Equivalence Myth obscures the benefits of capabilities as compared to access con...

Scientific theories tell us something about the material world. They are means by which we can both explain and predict aspects of reality. They are not the only form of explanation: myth, story telling and religion also explain things, but with more limited predictive power. A theory which makes no predictions is never scientific, whilst one whose predictions have now been invalidated has forf...

Set in an unspecified time in the future, this medical thriller takes the readers through a wondrous journey of time. The narrative is suffused with science, myth, nihilism, philosophy and superstition. The book is based on the life of the Nobel Prize winning scientist, Sir Ronald Ross, who did a breakthrough research on malaria in 1989. It is an attempt to rewrite the story of Ronald Ross’s di...

83.2 Key Management Myths .................................................... 1070 Myth 1: A Key Qualifies as “Randomly Generated” If One or More Persons Create the Key Components from Their Imagination † Myth 2: An “Authorized” Person Can Create or Enter Cryptographic Keys without Compromising a Key † Myth 3: Requiring a Second Person to Supervise or Observe the Key Entry Process Is Dual Cont...