the present article is an attempt to review the syrian short storyfrom the period between 1931 to 1947 and its development. syrian short stories in this period are affected by cultural, political and historical events.

The topic of this paper is an investigation into how architecture may hold the capacity to recognize the reconciliation of man and his world; working from the premise that this is possible within a world view devoid of a transcendental mythos, and lacking a theological or cosmological apriori. Within this ‘mythless present’, we are faced with the paradox of modernism: man’s infinite ability for...

Abstract In his Old English grammar , A. Campbell put forward theory of accentuation, according to which disyllabic words like Bēowulf and ǣniġ receive a half-stress only if made trisyllabic by the addition an inflection (as in Bēowulfes or ǣniġra ), provided middle syllable is heavy. J. Bliss tacitly rejected Campbell’s analysis when he postulated existence metrical type 3B2, rare rhythmical p...

In this paper a simple model of a three story building with inclined first-story columns has presented. The stories are supposed to be rigid and are connected to axially rigid mass less columns by elasto-plastic rotational springs and linear rotational dampers. The considered model is subjected to horizontal component of fault normal pulse with different magnitudes and the governed nonlinear di...