‘romanticism’ and ‘romantic’ are among the most controversial terms in literature. most readers, when encountering these words, would think of the well-known period of romanticism of the first three decades of the nineteenth century and the great six english poets known as ‘the big six’ of this period. however, romanticism does not belong to certain artists in a special period; one may seek ele...

One of the barriers in implementing energy efficiency projects in residential buildings is financing limitation. Financing of such projects requires more complex financial structure due to their multilateral nature and can be done through capital market. In this study we introduce some financial instrument for financing of energy efficiency projects in the context of Iran capital market by them...

the significance of the study of deixis was then mentioned. the purpose of the present study from the outset was to provide a comprehensive overview of all kinds of deixis in persian, describing and defining each in true while considering them structurally and semantically. chapter two consisted of two main parts. a review of the english studies in this respect, besides presenting persian liter...

this thesis is an evaluation of poetry of sylvia plath (1932- 1963) and forough farrokhzad (1935-1967) using feminist approach and finds the positive concepts of hope, reason and strength through feminine images in their poetry. plath and farrokhzad are from different cultures and different countries but they share the same concepts and themes in their poetry. by applying feminist theory to the...

the debate whether esp teachers need to have knowledge of the specialized field they are teaching has been an issue in the literature over the last two decades. the aim of conducting this study was to explore iranian learners’ and instructors’ beliefs and attitudes concerning the role of specialized knowledge in teaching esp classes. a seventeen item questionnaire was administered to 400 esp le...

Given the importance of labor market in Iranian economy and considering this market is suffering from disequilibrium circumstances, this paper attempts to examine the level of labor rigidity according to the labor market characteristics and product market structure. The theoretical literature of our study is based on the approaches of Aghion et al. (2008) and Fedderke et al. (2000), applied to ...

Today, operational agility have been identified as one of the vital necessities for the competitive activity of organizations in turbulent environments.Given the critical role of operational agility in turbulent competitive environment, this concept has attracted attention of many researchers of management science in recent years.So how to achieve this important capability for organizations is...

in fact this study is concerned with the relationship between the variation in thematice structure and the comprehension of spoken language. so the study focused on the following questions: 1. is there any relationship between thematic structure and the comprehension of spoken language? 2. which of the themes would have greated thematic force and be easier for the subjects to comprehend? accord...

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...