The article discusses the linear cohesion regularities of the blogger’s initiating
message and the respondent’s subsequent reaction, which in the process of
forming the integral text replace each other based upon the relay principle.
Special attention is paid to the cohesive frames, which are treated as the relay
structures, revealing the sta…[Read more]

The relevance of the study is based on the fact that in sociology, the phenomenon
of mass media is included in the object-subject field of several industries:
sociology of mass media, sociology of the media means, sociology of journalism,
sociology of the Internet, and sociology of online media. The novelty of the work
is determined by the…[Read more]

The relevance of the study is determined by the question as to in which version
the environmental consciousness of a person should be considered. The novelty
of the study is determined by the possibility of not only forming ecological
awareness but also imparting environmental education in their professional
and everyday living environments.…[Read more]

The article aims to study the structure of the literary problem in the formation of
the local text substrate. The study uses the methodology of studying the language
when it changes in time and space. The article explains the basics of the
methodological support of the translation complex and the structure of its
application in private studies…[Read more]

This paper examines the framing of Kashmir conflict in the editorials of three
PakistaniEnglish newspapers, The Nation, The Nation, and Dawn during dictatorial
(Musharraf regime, 2005-2007) and the democratic regime (Zardari regime (2008-
2010). It argues that in case of conflict press conforms to the government policies,
change in governments…[Read more]

Was Swift correct that “reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired” (Letter to a Young Gentleman)? If so, what recourse is there to change attitudes especially among those who continue to fervently believe unjustified claims and act upon them in a way that affects other people? I will answer the…[Read more]

This experiment was designed to explore people’s critical, differentiating capacity between actual news and content that looks like news. Four groups of post-millennials read four versions of a news story. While the first condition included a real news story derived from a mainstream medium, the other three conditions tested three attributes of f…[Read more]

According to Manuel Davenport, “The best humorists–Mark Twain, Will Rogers, Bob Hope, and Mort Sahl–share [a] mixture of detachment and desire, eagerness to believe, and irreverence concerning the possibility of certainty. And when they become serious about their convictions–as Twain did about colonialism…they cease to be humorous”. I agree…[Read more]

Unfortunately, tragedies occur all around the world every day. It is perceived by many as particularly devastating when children are the victims of the tragedy. When these events do occur, the media is likely to cover them in part due to the innocence and vulnerability of the victims. In reading media accounts of tragedies involving children, we…[Read more]

This paper examines the collaborative project to preserve and interpret Har Hasetim, the Gladwyne Jewish Memorial Cemetery. In fall 2015, Villanova University professor Craig Bailey approached the Friends of the Cemetery, an organization affiliated with the local Beth David Reform Congregation, about jointly restoring Har Hasetim. The ensuing…[Read more]

The discovery of mirror neurons in both primates and humans has led to an enormous amount of research and speculation as to how conscious beings are able to interact so effortlessly among one another. Mirror neurons might provide an embodied basis for passive synthesis and the eventual process of further communalization through empathy, as…[Read more]

The majority of philosophers of religion, at least since Plantinga’s reply to Mackie’s logical problem of evil, agree that it is logically possible for an omnibenevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent God to exist who permits some of the evils we see in the actual world. This is conceivable essentially because of the possible world known as heaven.…[Read more]

This article publishes a new join in SAA 18 100, a letter providing crucial historical detail about the assassination of Sennacherib in 681 BC. Published in Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires no. 2 (June 2019): 88-90.

This paper provides evidence that Alphabetic Akkadian was being used in the Greek sphere of influence as an ancient authority temple language (like Latin in near modern Europe) prior to the mid-400’s BCE when the nationalistic fervor surrounding their war with the Persian empire replace it with Greek. Its Greek use is also evidenced by the 499 B…[Read more]

This note examines the use of the term “daric” in 1 Chr 29:7 for its ideological purposes, concluding that the anachronism was deployed purposely to signal resistance to imperial rule.

This chapter presents a comparative analysis of four Lebanese films in order to understand how they portray Muslim and Christian coexistence in midst of war.

This is perhaps the world’s first book in which a philosopher himself illustrates his own philosophical investigation into hard problems on time, being, solipsism, and life, in the form of “Manga.” This book was originally published in Japanese in 2013 and translated into English by Robert Chapeskie in 2021.