This study is an attempt to investigate the conceptual metaphor of UP and DOWN commonly used in Iraqi community. Some of the metaphorical expressions in Iraqi colloquial Arabicarewidely used by Iraqi speakers in everyday language. Ithas been analyzed by following the cognitive theory of metaphor (Lakoff& Johnson,1980).The study indicates that the Iraqi speakerexperiences more of the metaphorical expressions of UP and DOWN to referto many of the abstract concepts that shape his/her impression of everyday life situations.

Meaning letters in Arabic are characterized by the diversity and abundance of their linguistic material, and are also distinguished by their large number and types, to the point that some of them have reached a hundred letters confined to five categories

هدف البحث الى الكشف عن فاعلية استراتيجية المماثلة في تحصيل مادة الكيمياء والذكاء الانفعالي لطلاب الصف الخامس العلمي الاحيائي. وتكونت عينة البحث من (28 ) طالبا من طلبة الصف الخامس العلمي الاحيائي في اعدادية الشاكرين للبنين, التابعة لمديرية تربية بغداد – الكرخ الثانية, موزعين بين شعبتين بالتساوي, شعبة (أ) وهي المجموعة الضابطة التي درست على وفق الطريقة الاعتيادية, وشعبة ( ب) وهي المجموعة التجريبية والتي درست على و

The current study aims at investigating the effect of cooperative learning (Jigsaw) on motivation of female students. Department of kindergarten to learn Human biology. This is of be dove through verification of the hypothesis that there is no significant difference at the 0.05 level between the motivation of experiment of group subjects who study according to (Jigsaw) cooperative learning and that of the control group subjects who study traditionally.
The study is limited to female students al the first year-Department of kindergarten college of Education for women university of Baghdad during the academic year 2007-2008.
An experiment of design of partial control and post-test for two groups is used. The experiment groups consist

     The scientific and technological developments and their practical applications in all fields of life in general and in the education field in specific have led to the emergence of variables in the educational structure, teaching methods and in education in their modern form which is consistent in its entirety with    the spirit of the age. We today live the age of knowledge increase full of wide ranging scientific and technological developments. Thus life demands human capabilities of a special kind able to develop and innovate. Here the increasing significance emerges for taking care of the human powers through educational systems much different from those current traditional systems.  System

The printing designer's creative thinking is a deliberate  mental process based on specific skills that stimulate the motivation of  the student to learn and call for  new information for the investigation and research to discover the problems and attitudes and through reformulating the experience in new patterns depending on the active imagination and the flexible scientific thinking through providing the largest number possible  of various unfamiliar  printing design models, and testing their suitability and then readjusting the results with the availability of  suitable educational, learning and academic atmosphere.

The designer's creative thinking depends on main skills. Fluency skill is to put t

الملخص:- يهدف البحث الى معرفة اثر استراتيجية المنطقة ذات الاهمية في تحصيل مادة الكيمياء عند طالبات الصف الثاني المتوسط، ولتحقيق هدف البحث تم صياغة الفرضية الصفرية الاتية :- - لا يوجد فرق ذو دلالة احصائية عند مستوى دلالة (0.05 ) بين متوسط درجات طالبات المجموعة التجريبية اللاتي يدرسن وفقا لاستراتيجية المنطقة ذات الاهمية ومتوسط درجات طالبات المجموعة الضابطة اللاتي يدرسن وفق الطريقة الاعتيادية في تحصيل مادة الكيمي

This paper critically looks at the studies that investigated the Social Network Sites in the Arab region asking whether they made a practical addition to the field of information and communication sciences or not. The study tried to lift the ambiguity of the variety of names, as well as the most important theoretical and methodological approaches used by these studies highlighting its scientific limitations. The research discussed the most important concepts used by these studies such as Interactivity, Citizen Journalism, Public Sphere, and Social Capital and showed the problems of using them because each concept comes out of a specific view to these websites. The importation of these concepts from a cultural and social context to an Ara

The researches to discover useful ways to represent the agents and agent-based
systems are continuous. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a visual modeling language
used for software and non software modeling systems. The aim of this paper is: using UML
class diagram to design treasury pharmaceuticals agent and explain its internal action. The
diagram explains the movement of the agent among other nodes to achieve user's requests
(external) after it takes them. The paper shows that it is easy to model the practical systems by
using agent UML when they are used in a complex environment.