adaptation of the lord of the rings is considered by many to be among the greatest, most successful and at the same time most popular of the above mentioned trend so far. it is my intention to look at the success and popularity of this epic fantasy in the light of the 9/11 attacks and the war on terror context of g. w. bush’s aura. in so doing i aim at bringing into the light the determining fa...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship of quality of life in school with academic self-concept, psychological well-being, and academic eagerness. This is a descriptive correlation study. The statistical population of the study was all secondary high school students in Zehak. 323 students entered the study by stratified random sampling method. Data collection instruments we...

the poor orientation of the restaurants toward the information technology has yet many unsolved issues in regards to the customers. one of these problems which lead the appeal list of later, and have a negative impact on the prestige of the restaurant is the case when the later does not respond on time to the customers’ needs, and which causes their dissatisfaction. this issue is really sensiti...

the present research was an attempt to see how quranic lexical collocations were translated into english by two professional translators namely, abdullah yusuf(2005), and muhammad s. shakir(2012). the study attempted qualitatively to shed light on how translators dealt with quranic lexical collocations when transferring them to the target language based on the newmark(1988) model , and quantit...

Background and Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of social welfare in the relationship between psychological capital and marital intimacy of married students. Method: Descriptive-correlation method is used. The statistical population in this study was male and female students of Gachsaran University of Science and Education affiliated to the Ministry of Scien...

Abstract Background & Aims of the Study: According to the high prevalence of mental problems of infertility in infertile women, and the necessity of identifying their mental statuses to carry out interventions in order to help them, the present study aims a comparative study of psychological well-being, meta-emotion, and resiliency in fertile and infertile women. Materials & Methods: This study...

abstract in written mode of language, metadiscourse markers are used commonly to help writers in general and academic writers in particular to produce coherent and professional texts. the purpose of the present study was to compare introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics articles regarding their use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers based on the model pro...

during the process of reading, sometimes learners use ineffective and inefficient strategies and some factors may influence their use of strategies. perhaps critical thinking is one of these factors. this study aims to identify those categories of reading strategies that are mostly used by iranian efl learners and to see if there is any significant relationship between the critical thinking abi...