a majority of books and writing translated from persian literature include persian proverbs among which wisdom and advice are of high importance. these books, as we know, are translated pieces of advice and wisdom from persian and are known as “books of advice”. this paper aims at showing that these books are among the basic principles of persian literature.  having studied historical and liter...

humor is the beautiful melody of art proceeding toward the cultural sublimation of a society. delving into its related components is among the great duties of the compassionate researchers of society, because using this unique art leads to deepening of understanding the subject in the addressee’s mind and on the other hand, it would state the society’s inefficiencies with a sarcastic and bitter...

The childhood obesity epidemic has promoted many healthcare programs focused on nutritional education in order to teach correct nutrition and to promote early diagnosis and care of overweight/obese children including offering them a correct food supply. For almost 20 years, however, scientific literature has pointed out that eating disorders (ED), which typically onset during adolescence, are i...

Critical reception of the work of John Steinbeck often makes note of that author's use ofbiological and animal imagery. Early evaluations of Steinbeck's use of biological and animal metaphors concluded that the author suffered from an "obsession" with biology that minimized the significance of the human experience. Much subsequent criticism echoes these early findings. An examination of Steinbe...

similarity between cultures, languages and arts is natural. literary genres are also related to each other. it is obvious that if literary works are to be concerned with a subject or particular theme, this convergence will be further and clearer. the sacred defense literature, which is a spiritual literature, came to the fore both in poetry and prose more than other literary types. due to its c...

in the islamic civilization and our era, a lot of literary critics became famous, but we hardly ever remember the writer of alghadir, alameh abdulhussein amini, as a great literary critic. in fact he is skillful in his work and use exact meaning in his literature works. yet the writers have forgotten him as a literary critic or theyhave indicated that they forget him. in this essay, i would lik...

the relation between literature and ethics in mikhail naima’s workssardar aslani *ali ahmadi *abstractthe literature insight of mikhail naima reveals human thoughts and all his necessitieswith a truthful expression. morality, however, is a collection of principles supervising thelife process and the man’s prosperity.there is a deep relation between literature and morality in naima works ori...

The present study investigated individuals with slight, marked and extreme fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) (Ruch and Proyer 2008a). Altogether 640 individuals filled in the GELOPH<15> (Ruch and Proyer 2008b) online and 228 filled in a paper and pencil version. In both samples principal components analyses of the 15 items were computed for subgroups of individuals exceeding the cut-off p...