The paper deals with the contemporary American playwright, Kenneth Bernard,
and his Theatre of the Ridiculous. This theatre, which originated in the 1960s and
1970s, aims at undermining dramatic and social conventions, and political,
psychological, sexual, and cultural categories. It makes use of mass culture
entertainment in America (television, popular songs, old movies, the circus) in its
attempt to make us recognize the world as “ridiculous,” a world which is both
brutal and farcically trivial and insignificant, a world of ruthless powers, of freaks,
clowns, and victims, of hysteria and absence of truth, a world, as Bernard describes it,
“without hope, mercy, history, or any saving sociology or ideology.

يدور هذا البحث حول جمع الالفاظ التي تتعلق بعناصر الطبيعة السماويّة وظواهرها في ديوان محمد مصطفى الماحيّ, وترتيبها في حقول دَلاليّة على وفق دراسة معجمية, تناولت فيها الالفاظ التي تتعلّق بعناصر الطبيعة السماويّة وظواهرها, فكان الهدف من هذه الدراسة هو دراسة الألفاظ التي ترتبط دَلالتها بمفهوم عام يجمعها حقل دلاليّ واحد كجمع الفاظ (السماء،والقمر، والبدر، والنجم، والكوكب), تحت مفهوم (عناصر السماوية وظواهرها الطب

يدور هذا البحث حول جمع الالفاظ التي تتعلق بأعضاء جسم الانسان في ديوان محمد مصطفى الماحيّ, وترتيبها في حقول دَلاليّة على وفق دراسة معجمية, تناولت فيها الالفاظ التي تتعلّق بأعضاء جسم الانسان, فكان الهدف من هذه الدراسة هو دراسة الألفاظ التي ترتبط دَلالتها بمفهوم عام يجمعها حقل دلاليّ واحد كجمع الفاظ (الرأس, والعين, والانف), تحت مفهوم (أعضاء الانسان) وبيان العلاقات الدَلاليّة بين هذه الالفاظ, كــ (الترادف والمشترك

The intensification of competition in the business environment has forced research organizations to develop marketing dynamics that help them to sense and conceptualize market opportunities and uncertainties. Then, the marketing capabilities of the organization are restructured and developed according to mechanisms such as speed, timing, and frequency of application. The problem of most organizations is their lack of interest in capabilities  Marketing dynamics, which represent the most important factor in enhancing their marketing performance, so the objective of the research is to identify the most important capabilities that banks should pay attention to and evaluate their role in determining the strategic direction of th

Background: Preoperative radiographical assessment of the maxillofacial lesions is of a great importance in guiding the surgeon during surgical procedure in reducing post-operative complications. This study highlighted the application of CBCT scan in the assessment of maxillofacial cystic and cystic like lesions as a part of advanced radiology Materials and methods: A total of 20 patients (15 males and 5 females) participated in this prospective study. CBCT scan (Kodak 9500 CBCT) with (DICOM) software utilized to perform scanning to all patients in order to assess lesion extension, morphological features and it’s relation to the adjacent vital structures. Results: In this study, the total cystic and cystic like lesions involving the

Galantamine was isolated from the bulb part of Narcissus jonquilla L. plant cultivated in Iraq. The compound was identified by different chemical analysis like: Fourier Transforms Infrared spectra (FTIR), High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and mass spectroscopy and 1H-NMR.

The present study included the collection of fresh samples of species of genus Oxalis and examined the anatomical characteristics of the stem, scape, petiole, leaf and pedicel

   The species Bostrichus capucinus  (L.) (Coleoptera:Bostrichidae) was reported as a new record for Iraq. Diagnostic characters and some information are given .

The quality of groundwater should be improved by keeping safe water sources from contaminants in protective way by doing regular measuring and checkup before it supplied for usage. Private Wells do not receive the same services that wells supplying the public do. Well owners are responsible for protecting their drinking water. This work was carried out in Badra city, Iraq from December 2017 to May 2018, six wells water were investigated to determine the general characteristics of wells as well as studying the effect of environmental factors on the quality of water. The average of six wells were eleven parameters that is out of permissible limits were EC, Sal., Alk., TH, TDS, Na, Ca, Cl, SO₄, Fe, Zn (4402-5183 /cm, 2.76-3.9 ppt