august wilson is undoubtedly one of the rare black playwrights whose works have attracted streams of attention and worldwide audience. the present study aims at analyzing fences and piano lesson which are two of the most successful plays in his pittsburgh cycle from the perspective of michel foucault’s theories and ideas. studying these two plays from foucault’s perspective opens new windows in...

Apart from believe to be conflict or comfortability between nations and government, having regard to developing of Government functions, it is shown increasing of taking decisions and acts by government. These decisions and acts may both meet missions of government and provide with advance and improve for people and country, while could be caused damages and loss for some people and could re...

abstract the variables affecting the nature of reading comprehension can be classified into two general categories: reader’s variables, and text variables (alderson, 2000). despite the wave of research on vocabulary knowledge as reader’s variable, the role of this knowledge in c-test as a text-dependent test and its interaction with lexical cohesion of the test as a text feature has remained a...

The right to health and the right to treatment are some of the fundamental rights and essential needs of a society which the state is responsible for this fundamental and permanent society need as the representative of the nation. So the social man has placed the main social duties in the area of the state’s jurisdiction through the choice of the governments, and also has demanded the state to ...

abstract although music possesses some kind of power and using it has been welcome by many students in language classrooms, it seems that they take a non-serious image of the lesson while listening to songs and they may think that it is a matter of fun. the main objective of the present study was to investigate whether learning a foreign language through musical texts (songs) can have an impac...