This study aimed at infusing top-notch communication skills, among students enrolled at Effective Communication Skills course. The course is elective for all Yarmouk University specialties (viz. medicine, art, science…etc.) for the academic year 2017/2018. A descriptive analytical research design was followed by the means of a survey questionnaire administered randomly on 546 students in order to assess their repository of effective communication skills. The study reported significant impact on participants' personal traits, social and presentation skills and on their relations with the others. This effectiveness was not affected by factors of gender or academic year.
This paper examines countryside, domestic picturesque, and scenic sublimes in Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron.” It conducts an interdisciplinary eco-feminist approach to explore the coalescence of women and nature depicted in the story. The study approaches women’s exploitation and its remedial antithesis through living in nature. It applies three eco-critical concepts. The first concept is the countryside which comprises marshes, swamps, and woods. The second concept is domestic picturesque that encompass fauna and paths; and the third concept is scenic sublimes including birds, forest, and wilderness. The study demonstrates how Jewett adopts these eco-critical insights as indicatory features symbolizing the exploitation of women by male mainstream to dramatize the subtle relation between women and nature. It highlights an aspect seldom remarked on by scholars of Jewett’s story, and it discovers Jewett’s self-conscious exposition of women’s exploitation inflicted on the protagonist, Sylvia. It also identifies Jewett’s depiction of the protagonist’s settlement in the countryside to evade masculine exploitation by living close to natural elements, like animals, birds, and wilderness. The study ultimately unravels Jewett’s reinforcement of the protagonist’s feminist subjectivity via finding spiritual serenity in nature.
This paper maintains that The Women of Brewster Place is a novel that celebrates women’s communion and its impact on the fulfillment of their quest of selfhood. It explains the way the novel rejects the restrictive sense of selfhood and calls for a more inclusive selfhood merged in collective experience. Despite the fact that the seven main female characters are totally different, they have shared memories and dreams. The latter plays a central role in women’s unity and fulfillment of selfhood. Shared memories and dreams function as a healing device and a mechanism that activates their collective consciousness and enable them to challenge pain, accomplish communal alliance, and fulfill their quest of selfhood and emancipation.. The women of the novel come to understand the power of their communion stemming initially from their shared memories and dreams. They also come to understand that only a selfhood born within a communal frame can survive and challenge the cycle of abuse they are subject to. As a result, the paper concludes with asserting that the women in the novel collectively break the wall that stands for their seclusion and misery.
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