Research Question

Hi guys,

       Preparing a research is one of assignments which every student must be able to do. A good research has some parts like Introduction, Questions of the Study (Research question), Methodology, Participants, Instrument, Procedure, Data Analysis, Discussion and Conclusions.
Research question is one of most important part of a research. And also it is the main part of a research. If you have a systematic and scientific research question you will have a scientific research too. A research question has three main characteristics. Interest, Relevance and Manageability are three characteristics of a research question. After you make a research question according to these characteristics you should narrow your research question down. A research question also has several variables which are different in their types and functions.

       In this term I have a course called Research Method and I must prepare a research question as an exercise, so I did it. Here I provide my exercise and the exercise of one of my best friends and also my classmate Mr. Morteza Poursamani. We had tried to do it as good as we could. These are in PDF format. So I wish these will be useful for you.

  
Research Question By Morteza Poursamani

Research Question By Mehran Salari 

Best Wishes for You

Family Tradition

Hi Friends,

      Well I as an English student usually search and explore many English sites on the web. At one of these sites - www.americanfamilytraditions.com - I found a very nice and meaningful article which I thought it will be useful,so I provide it.In addition you can find more subjects in this site. So I hope it be pleasure for you.

Family Tradition 

      Family is forever. Family is comfortable. Family is fun. Families are loyal. This is the one place on earth where forgiveness and understanding must be abundant. This does not mean that a family should aid criminal or unethical behavior of one of its members. It does mean the family stands with that family member as he or she takes responsibility for his or her actions. Love, support, tolerance and caring must be the basis for the relationship. These things must always be there and never held back or withdrawn. They must be unconditional. Family life today is more challenging than ever but "Love will see us through".

"There's no place like home"

      Family Values are passed to our children through a variety of family activities. Family life today is also influenced by the principles and values of our surrounding society. This influence is rapidly changing and expanding as technology has enabled quick travel and communication over long distances. With the advent of the Internet the influence is global. In the end, every parent strives to instill their fundamental beliefs within their children through every possible means at their disposal.

"Family is forever."

      Families nurture future generations in their image by the sharing of Family Values. Family structure may vary but one thing remains constant in family life today: "family is forever". American History has shown that American Families pass on our proud history along with their own personal ethics to form the basis for our sense of what is right and wrong for the rest of our lives. Home is safe and familiar. It is one place in the world where we can be comfortable and be ourselves. We all expect love, support, tolerance and caring from our Family members to help us grow to our full potential. By the same token we each owe the same support to other Family members. Although children may turn from their families during adolescence, most return as adults with the principles and values they learned from their family experience. Failure to take the time to develop our sons and daughters will at some point become a lifetime regret. We have one chance to be with them while they are in the formative stages. Many families adopt individuals as sons, daughters, aunts, uncles etc. One of the most satisfying contributions we make in life is the investment of our personal time and caring in those we love. 

The Little Prince

Hi,

          In this part I provide a nice and famous story in pdf and audio (mp3) format. Surely this story is known for you this is “The Little Prince” by Antoine De Saint Exupery. It is about a young boy who comes to the earth from another planet, he faces many strange things, and so on. I suggest you to read and listen it, of course you will enjoy. 

The Little Prince.   Pdf

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The Little Prince. Mp3 

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Narrator: Richard Gere    Runtime: 45 min

CALD Dictionary

Hi guys, 

      

      In this part I`ve prepared a link to download a useful and so perfect dictionary for your cell phone. This dictionary is the combined of MS Dic viewer, Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (CALD) and also Audio Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. This is a product of Cambridge University on 2008, and it is capable to install on most versions of Nokia cell phones. But it actually designed for Nokia, S 60, V 5 (5800, N97, 5530). Surely you will enjoy it, if you download it. After downloading it, at first you must install MS Dic, then Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (CALD) and after that you must install Audio files individually and sequentially (1-6). After installing it to use the audio files, in Option select Change dictionary choose CALD. I hope enjoy it. 

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Plot

Plot

Story: Events in a piece of narration.

* Plot: The sequence of events and incidents.

- A story has not any arrangement but a plot has a specific arrangement.

- A plot may be recounted whit lesser or grater details.

 The response of mature and immature reader towards the plot:

-       The mature reader reads for revelation of character and life through the plot.

-       Immature reader reads for chiefly for plot.

Elements of plot

1.    Conflicts: Clash of actions, ideas, desires, or group of persons.

- Kinds of conflicts:  a) Man against man.

                                 b) Man against environment.

                                 c) Man against himself.

- In general conflicts may be Emotional, Mental, Moral or Physical.

Protagonist: The central character of the conflict which we have sympathy towards him or her.

Antagonist: The forces against protagonist, whether persons, things, conventions of society.

2.    Suspense: The quality in a story that makes the reader to ask:”What`s going to happen, next?

- Two ways of achieving suspense:

a)   By mystery: Unusual situation for which the reader searches for an explanation.

b)  By dilemma: A situation in which the reader must choose between two undesirable sets or actions.

3.    Surprise: When we don`t know what happens.

Surprise ending: Sudden twist that makes revelation at the end of the story.

- When surprise ending is legitimately judged by two factors:

a)   By the fairness whit which it is achieved.

b)  By the purpose that is serves.

Happy ending: The protagonist must solve his problems, defeat the villain, and win the girl, live happily ever after.

- A point: An ending, both happy and unhappy should be logical.

Artistic unity: There must be nothing irrelevant.

The Summery of ** The Telltale Heart **

** The Telltale Heart **

By Edgar Allan Poe

     This story is about a man who is so nervous or maybe he is mad. The man lives whit a reach old man. He loves the old man and also respects him. But he has a negative attitude towards one of old man`s eye. The man believes his pale blue eye is so horrible, so he decides to kill him just because his eye.

     For seven nights he went to the old man`s room with a lantern to kill him, but the old man`s eyes were closed. So he didn`t have any reason to kill him.

     On the eighth night when he went to the room the old man woke up. He waited in the dark for a long time. After passing about an hour he decided to kill him, so with a scream jumped into the room. The old man`s eyes were open. Suddenly the old man shouted once. The man dragged him to the floor and pulled the bed over him. The old man died actually he killed. The man cut him up and hid his body under the floor. There were no signs of guilt.

     At 4 o`clock three policemen came. A neighbor had heard the scream and called them. They asked for the old man, the man answered:”He is in the country right now”. They searched everywhere but they found nothing. The man brings them into the old man`s room, they sit to chat. While they were chatting the man heard a terrible noise which gradually gets louder and louder. This noise which actually was the sound of his heart forced him to admit. Also he admits and points to the old man`s corpse under the floor.

Introducing a book

      Maybe you have bought many books which are so useful and you like to suggest your friends or you are looking for a suitable gift to present your friend, well to continue please .I have bought a book which is named FOREVER THOUGHTS (افکار جاویدان) .This book includes many precious utterances of prominent figures in the world, such as Prophet Mohammad, Imam Ali, Dante, Bernard Shaw, Napoleon and many others. FOREVER THOUGHTS had collected by Mr. Ali Mokhtarnia in two parts and published by Omid Mehr Publisher in 1389. On the upper side of each page the collector labeled a phrase that is so nice and attractive – Thoughts to Think (اندیشه هایی برای تفکر) - . Unfortunately it is not in English, but it has many profits which covered this lack. So, if you are interested to learn, to use prominent figures` experiences and if you want to present a suitable gift, I suggest you buy it certainly. I will try to gradually translate each utterance and present it.

Thanks a lot.

Prophet Mohammad: “Everyone’s precious is up to his knowledge. “

The world is laughing with you

       While a person is gaping beside you, you will gape too. Latest researches show Laughing arises imitation too. To hear the sound of laughing arouses an area of the brain to laugh. Imitation has an important role in social relation. Some gestures like Sniffing, Laughing, Crying and Gaping are useful ways to create a strong social relation among a group.

Are you more clever in Spring?

Hi Friends.

Rezy a good friend of mine has left a comment which, it contains an interesting article. So, with thanks of Rezy, I have written it here. I hope you read and enjoy it.

If you are like most people, you may think intelligence changes from season to season. You are probably sharper in the spring than you are at any other time of the yea .A scientist, Ellsworth Huntington (1876-1947), could understand from research about people in different climates that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abilities.He found that cool weather is better for creative thinking than summer heat .this does not mean that all people are less intelligent in the summer than they are during the rest of the year . However, it means that the mental abilities of most people are lower in the summer.So, spring is the best period of the year for thinking. One reason may be that in the spring people’s mental abilities are effected by the same factors that bring about great changes in all nature. Fall is the next best season, then winter. As for summer, it seems to be a good time for them to take a long vacation from thinking!

A conversation

Hi everybody. I`m so sorry, because unfortunately I couldn't update my blog for a long time. I hope I can do this more. All right in this part I provide a conversation. In this conversation I use 63 idioms which was so useful for me. I hope this part be useful for you too.

Famous Women in History

Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)

       There are many famous and effective women around the world but Emily Dickinson is one of best-known female poet in American literature forever. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830. Her father Edward Dickinson was one of best lawyer in the U.S. Emily attended in Amherst Academy and continued her studies in South Hadley near the Amherst. After graduation she began to write. She always dressed in white, was sensitive in nature and she had a secret love but she never married. Subject of her writings were: Pain and happiness of love, mysterious nature of death, the fear of war, GOD and religious belief, music and art. Her art at witting and these subjects caused she became the best female poet in American Literature. Few Dickinson`s poems published during her life, for example only 10 poems of 2000 poems of Emily Dickinson published in Civil War Journals. Two most important of Emily Dickinson`s works are: The poems of Emily Dickinson in 3 volumes and The letters of Emily Dickinson in 3 volumes. She spent most of her life in Amherst and she had only several trips to Washington and Boston. Eventually one of best-known women in Literature - Emily Dickinson- died in Amherst in May 15, 1886.

Replay to a comment

Hi my friends

Sorry for may interrupt. Unfortunately after going by the exams of last semester I could not up to date my blog. I try to do it better.

A friend of us have leaved a comment about the pilgrimage part and said:" "

Surly all of Imams or other religion leaders in any religion wanted best for people .In Islam because they were so great and effective on people`s life -also they are yet-and they had many moral principles when they had deceased their disciples built a shrine as a holy place. I think these shrines are symbols of our religion and cause our religion be alive. At the same in Christendom you can see they have one or more beautiful and majestic churches even in smallest village. Or also there are many amazing shrine in Buddhism. A holy place recalls many good beliefs and makes us comfort. Also we try to behave morally there.

In my opinion these places and the words of religion leaders have survived a religion and they are indicators of a religion. So, Today because of being many negative attitudes to Islam I believe these shrines should be. Of course I reject, using these holy places as business to make money (Today is spread around the world).

Pilgrimage

        Certainly all of us some times need to a Superior Power to help us. A power beyond a human`s power. God is Superior Power. God has created this world and is aware of things that happened in. Also God provided anything in this world to live and enjoy it. God set some rules, too that everyone must follow their. God specified some people to guide and direct people to paradise. We as Muslims believe IMAMAT as one of cornerstones of our religion. And our Imams have especial respect in front of God.

       One of these Imams that is the honor of Iranian is the eighth of them Imam Reza. Well it is my proud that I am living in Mashhad, where his holy shrine of Imam Reza is located. I went to Imam Reza holy shrine to pilgrimage and connect to Superior Power. There was so privacy. And you could smell the virtue's aroma whenever. Shortly I had a great time there and actually I could connect to Superior Power and obtained enough energy to continue my life.

       I wish you that have not ever been In Imam Reza`s holly shrine go there so soon and you that were there go again and enjoy it.