Showing papers in "Cogent Arts & Humanities in 2019"

TL;DR: The first goal of the sustainable development goals is to terminate poverty by 2030, and the West African countries are working assiduously to achieve this goal as mentioned in this paper. But poverty remains a global challenge.

TL;DR: The question of what literature is for, if there is a purpose, has been long and complex and is still ongoing as mentioned in this paper. But it is not new, and it has not been solved.

TL;DR: In this article, the connecting fabric between gendered violence and human rights through the dire lenses of widowhood rites in Oshimili-North Local Government Area in Delta State, Nigeria is evaluated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated Iranian State TV advertisements during 2011-2016 in terms of using western or western-like signs in detergents, and found that the use of western signs was more common in detergent advertising.

TL;DR: In this paper, the dark or negative side phenomenon in the creative industries, with particular focus on art and art education in Indonesia, is analyzed, and it is the hegemony of economic consideration.

TL;DR: Power has always been an obvious presumption in planning theory as discussed by the authors, and at times it has been considered as a one-way, top-down, instrumental and rational dominance while at other times, planning theory, i...

TL;DR: The Italian Muslims represent 2.6% of the entire population and one-third of all foreigners, constituting a fragmented and pluralistic community as discussed by the authors, and they constitute a minority in Italy.

TL;DR: Mobile Learning (m-learning) is a learning method facilitated by the convenience of mobile technology has a crucial role to play in the development of quality education in Nigeria which represents the...

TL;DR: The authors compare the rhetorical models followed by the Iranian and Chinese students in developing argumentative essays, and find that students from different cultures and first languages act differently in developing essay-based arguments.

TL;DR: The authors examines the American upper-class collective identity in terms of clannishness and capitalism in Edith Wharton's novel The House of Mirth (1905) and demonstrates that the changes in the house of mirth can be traced to changes in American society.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study explores how the practice of shared reading enables readers who normally find poetry difficult to engage with, to sustain and deepen their attention, and they regard shared reading as a d...

TL;DR: In this paper, the translators as a sector in translation studies has had a dramatic increase throughout the past decade due to the needs for intercultural communication, and therefore, transla...

TL;DR: Cooperative learning is an approach of teaching and learning that roots in communicative language teaching (CLT) as discussed by the authors, and there are five elements that build up the essence of this approach and its...

TL;DR: As daughters of the gentry who rose to positions of power at the Tudor court, Kateryn Parr as the last queen of Henry VIII (r.1509−1547), Anne Stanhope as wife of Edward Seymour, Duke of So...

TL;DR: Mothers’ knowledge of child preventable diseases and factors related to maternal child care practices were found to influence child survival and from the findings the study recommends women empowerment and health education for both mothers and their spouses.

TL;DR: This paper explored how top hotels respond to customers' complaints in public space by exploring their responses to negative reviews (RNRs) through the lens of discourse genre analytically analyzes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the influence of listening to music to regain a sense of calm in a group of students after an exam, using 86 teacher-training students, made up of 86 teachers.

TL;DR: Identifying the motivating factors affecting Iranian medical ESP learners using a checklist, interview, and questionnaire suggested that students of medicine had a higher level of motivation, but their opinion regarding the factors they found motivating did not differ much from those studying nursing.

TL;DR: This article pointed out that representations of dying warriors in the Iliad, despite the impersonal, unreflective, heterodiegetic form of narration, are typically suffused with a certain pat...

TL;DR: This article used theories from the philosophy of sport literature to contextualize and make conclusions in relation to two famous matches in Fiji's soccer history: the 1982 Inter-district Championship Final and the 1982 World Cup Semi-final.

TL;DR: This paper explored how Chinese audiences evaluate a theater performance in Hong Kong and found that the audience experience is a bridge between performers and the audience in the performing arts, and that Chinese audiences were more likely to be satisfied with the performance.

TL;DR: The depiction of gender in Western media has been widely examined by researchers as discussed by the authors, and a study intends to throw light on the current representation of women in Pakistani entertainment print media. Da...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors have focused on the narrative features and cinematic techniques of Bharati Mukherjee's short story "The Management of Grief" to examine the construction of identity in "the thir...

TL;DR: For more than 400 years, the Sassanid Iran was the greatest state in Asia as discussed by the authors, and the influence of Zoroastrianism supported by Shahanshahs had immense influence on the legal principles of the state.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between EFL personality types, their learning style, and their reading fluency, using 130 male and female intermediate EF types, and found that the learning style and fluency of the EF types were related.

TL;DR: It was found that there was no significant difference between the meaning-focused input and output in terms of their effects on active and passive vocabulary learning.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the role of madness in the translated work of a Kurd translator, Mohammad Ghazi (1914-1998), who translated from 1940 to 1998.

TL;DR: For many non-western cultures, history became a linear passage of names, dates and events without any pragmatic dimension as discussed by the authors, and a vague territory under the name of traceroute was defined.

TL;DR: The influence of scientific research in art is not exclusively a contemporary phenomenon as discussed by the authors, and the Alberti model of pictorial representation based on perspective, as well as the social consideration of...

TL;DR: The authors examines recent theories of fictional characters and raises the issue of how far characters can be understood with reference to human intersubjectivity, and examines the relation between characters and human subjectivity.