in carrying out research in mythology and literary works in the world, we see some works in which the subject matter is a combat between close relatives; especially father and son. these stories are in different forms like myth, tragedy, epic, fiction and religious narratives but they are close together in structure and basic plot and have special features peculiar to them. but, what's the...

BACKGROUND Cycling is important for health, transport, environmental and economic reasons. Newspaper reporting of cycling reflects and can influence public and policy maker attitudes towards resource allocation for cycling and cycling infrastructure, yet such coverage has not been systematically examined. METHODS The Factiva electronic news archive was searched for articles referring to cycli...

This paper describes the deployment of residential broadband networks by relating two parallel but contrasting stories. Story 1 considers network providers’ search for a killer application to drive demand for broadband networks, while Story 2 suggests that consumers have already found a killer application in e-mail and basic connectivity. It appears that residential broadband networks are curre...

Case-based teaching systems, like good human teachers, tell stories in order to help students learn. A case-based teaching system engages a student in a challenging task and monitors his actions looking for opportunities to tell stories that will assist the learning process. In order to produce stories at the appropriate moment, a casebased teaching system must have a library of stories that ar...

In this paper, we present Sam, an embodied conversational storyteller who tells stories interactively with children. Sam was designed to appear as a peer to preschool children, but to tell stories in a developmentally advanced way in order to model narrative skills important for literacy. Literacy learning learning how to read and write, begins long before children enter school. One of the key ...

as bothepic and history express some stories of the past, their existing similaritiesand dissimilarities and their relation have attracted the attention of scholars.these two kinds of stories have been so similar that previous experts could notdistinguish the historical events from epics. in shāhnāme, as an excellent samplewhich iranians consider as their pre-islamic history until the last qaja...

Stories provide a common thread that can help unite cultures and bridge across the cultural gap… The presented article deals with benefits of using storytelling in classroom. This method teaching is rather captive it has really good drive among students. constructed on shared experience famous storyteller teacher-trainer Michael Berman. We often give stories to our students read, but how do we ...

When we hear a story, do we naturally imagine the visual scene being described? Do the representations derived in the course of normal language comprehension interact with visual perception broadly? For example, might understanding language change how we interpret visual scenes, even when the visual scenes are unrelated to the linguistic content? In our study, people interpreted an ambiguous im...