the importance of writing as a complex skill in applied linguistics has drawn the attention of many researchers to evaluate textbooks in order to help learners gain self-sufficiency and autonomy in the field of language use and communication. investigations have shown that developments in textbooks evaluation can promote the quality of pedagogies and consequently the learning. this study attemp...

the purpose of this study is to investigate and explore the causes of identity crisis as one of the debilitating consequences of colonial project after the withdrawal of colonial power. in order to do justice to the full-length severity of displacement that was the fruit of indentureship, v. s. naipauls west indian epic, a house for mr biswas, has been scrutinized with the main focus being the ...

Looking at the common customs in Iran, it can be understood that mourning ceremonies have been among important rituals for the Iranians. Such rituals that are rooted in Iranian traditions have been certain topics for various texts and anecdotes. Shahnameh of Ferdowsi is one of these works that has narrated these rituals and in some of the illustrated copies of this, there are illustrations with...

  What is the extension to which the act of reasoning and the standards of judgments are interrelated? The author, proposing Muslim scholars` views in the field and relying on traditions, ahadith, has concluded that firstly one has to answer the question: does the standard and expediency of Divine judgment lies in the judgment or in its object? The latter is signified, however, with view to so...

chapter one is devoted to a moderate discussion on preliminaries, according to our requirements. chapter two which is based on our work in (24) is devoted introducting weighted semigroups (s, w), and studying some famous function spaces on them, especially the relations between go (s, w) and other function speces are invesigated. in fact this chapter is a complement to (32). one of the main fea...

nowadays in trade and economic issues, prediction is proposed as the most important branch of science. existence of effective variables, caused various sectors of the economic and business executives to prefer having mechanisms which can be used in their decisions. in recent years, several advances have led to various challenges in the science of forecasting. economical managers in various fi...