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Mitch: The forgotten hero of T. Williams's a streetcar named desire

Published in: Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies

Jan 20, 2022

Abdul Salam Alnamer

This study aims to demonstrate the significant role Mitch (Harold Mitchel) assumes in Tennessee Williams' most prominent play: A Streetcar Named Desire. It focuses on Mitch's outstanding contribution to the development of the play, to its thematic concerns, and to its depth and richness. It also highlights the crucial part he plays, which has always been underestimated in favour of Stanley Kowalski, in the tragic conclusion of the play and the fate of its heroine, Blanche DuBois. In juxtaposing...


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A Hypothesis on Rationalizing Decisions by Constructing Personal Realities

Published in: Int. J. of Economics and Business Research

Jan 12, 2022

/ Mahmoud Askari / Ghaleb El Refae

In this paper, we propose a hypothetical model to show how people construct their realities, and how they subjectively rationalize their decisions and actions. We hypothesize that when making individual decisions, what matters is the reality as perceived by individual decision makers, regardless of the objective or subjective approach to reality. The paper attempts to study the link between perceived reality (subjective reality), and how people rationalize their decisions and actions. The pap...


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Degemination in Emirati Pidgin Arabic: A Sociolinguistic Perspective

Published in: Languages

Jan 05, 2022

Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh Abdul-Salam Al-Namer Sulafa Alnamer

This study examines the production of geminates in Emirati Pidgin Arabic (EPA) spoken by blue-collar workers in the United Arab Emirates. A simple naming test was designed to test the production of geminates to determine whether the EPA speakers would produce a geminated or degeminated phoneme. Following that, a semi-structured interview was conducted with a subset of the study cohort to obtain the participants’ own explanation of where they degeminated the consonants. Our findings suggest that...


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