This study analyses six political cartoons selected based on their relevance to current Iraqi political issues, specifically the period between 2005 and 2015, from American online newspapers (calgecartooms.com). The selection criteria included the cartoons' satirical elements, visual rhetoric, and their ability to engage with themes such as power dynamics, social issues, and public opinion. It sheds light on how these cartoons can function as mediators of meanings between the cartoonists and the readers. The data is examined using multimodal discourse analysis (MDA), which combines language study with the analysis of other visual elements, like colors, gestures, and images, to understand meaning (O’Halloran et al., 2011). The Visual Socia
... Show Moreهدف البحث إلى إعداد منهاج بأسلوب تدريبات البلايومترک على الأسطح المائلة لتلائم متطلبات لعبة کرة االطائرة , فضلا عن التعرف على تأثير المنهاج في تطوير القوة الخاصة للإطراف السفلى بکرة الطائرة استعمل المنهج التجريبي على عينة من لاعبي المدرسة التخصصية الشباب بالکرة الطائرة والبالغ عددهم (14) لاعب، وبعد التأکد من تجانس عينة البحث في متغيرات (الطول والوزن والعمر الزمني), تم تقسيم العينة إلى مجموعتين تجريبية وضابط
... Show MoreThe paper attempts to find out the elements of picaresque novel in selected English and Iraqi novels. It studies these elements in Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews and Adil Abduljabbar’s Arzal Hamad Al-Salim. The paper is divided into four sections. The first is an introduction to the picaresque novel. It gives a definition, a historical background, and the elements of the genre. The second section studies Fielding’s novel focusing on the elements of this type of novel and how it affects the story itself. The paper follows the novel from the beginning to the end showing these elements. The third is dedicated to Abduljabbar’s novel and how the elements of picaresque genre appear in the novel and play an important role in its developm
... Show MoreColonialism as a movement was very popular in Europe more than two centuries before. It aimed at controlling and exploiting several countries in Africa and Asia in addition to imposing their power and control on uninhabited islands. It received adherence and criticism as well. There also appeared activists and nations who stood against it and its practices. English novels discussed this notion greatly by pointing out the bad practices of the colonizers and how the colonized received them. This paper explores two narrative fictions that tackle the different aspects of the term. While Defoe, in Robinson Crusoe (1719), shows a colonial European figure who expresses his superiority, Wells, in “The Country of the Blind” (1904), deconstructs
... Show MoreHedging is a linguistic avoidance of full commitment or precision. It is the use of a vague language. The main objectives of this study are to
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