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Practicing a religion for its own sake can make a person self-reliant and thus increase
one’s happiness and resilience. Conversely, following a religion for ends other than
the religion itself can lead to strong beliefs in fate and destiny,…

In his homily on October 17, 2013, Pope Francis set a new tone for opposition to the
ideological position generally referred to as the “religious right” in US politics in
particular, referring to moralizing ideologies as indicating that someone…

The behavior of teachers in the achievement of educational goals has invisible
complement known as teacher beliefs. In science education, the teachers’ beliefs are
not left out in leading the students to have a strong belief of succeeding in…

The return to scale constitutes a significant investment index in the determination of
the quantum of resources that are deployed in investment decision on workers’
continuing professional development. Such investment decision is always…

From a sociointeractional perspective of discourse, this research aims at investigating
the written narrative of a student of English and Portuguese Teaching Practicum from
a Letters undergraduate Course at UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de…

The role of culture in a field as vast as applied linguistics is so pronounced and vital
that even a highly selective overview might not be sufficient to be comprehensive.
What follows might be a synoptic account of the role of culture in the realm…

This research examines the mass communication discourse on Japanese hate speech
incidents and briefly skeches the related arguments. The analysis seeks to offer insights
into the recent backlash against minorities. The incidents appears to be the…

The world is gradually shrinking that at the press of a button events happening in farflung

part of the earth could be followed live via cable network. Globalization or
capitalist penetration of every economy is the new phenomenon.…

Literature is a powerful medium for examining justice, judgment, and society’s
treatment of humankind. “Does justice have a dark side?” Many pieces of literature
show the dark side of man’s justice, such as Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter,…

This essay examines the ways in which Henry used poetics and performances to
establish the iconography of his court and the relevance, within this context, of
Henry’s specific choice of Katherine as queen to preside over his chivalric…