“naive imagination is like a dark glass that prevent the shining lights entering the heart, but when is ripe enough become a clear glass that points those lights.” (ghazali, the niche of lights, p.73) iranian philosopher and educator, abu hamid ghazali (1058-1111 a.d.) is the author of more than seventy books and essays on philosophy, education, mysticism, ethics, jurisprudence and dialectica...

©AsiaPacific MediaEducator Issue No.11 July Dec. 2001 T paper discusses some fundamental assumptions about pluralism in the Australian print media. Pluralism, the number of print media outlets available to the public, and known as structural diversity, can be considered as one of two elements of media diversity. The other is the variety of views presented by those outlets, known as content dive...

We describe a family of elements in Thompson’s group F which present a challenge to finding canonical minimal length representatives for group elements, and which show that F is not combable by geodesics. These elements have the property that there are only two possible suffixes of long lengths for geodesic paths to these elements from the identity; one is of the form g and the other of the for...

We study some combinatorial properties of the word metric of Thompson’s group F in the standard two generator finite presentation. We explore connections between the tree pair diagram representing an element w of F , its normal form in the infinite presentation, its word length, and minimal length representatives of it. We estimate word length in terms of the number and type of carets in the tr...