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But He Did Not Commit Incest…!” A Comparative Analysis Of Utenzi Wa Nyakiiru Kibi And Oedipus Rex, Angelus Mnenuka

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Human beings share commonalities, many of which are intricately woven into literature. Literary works allow individuals to explore and gain insights into diverse cultures and ideas across spatiotemporal contexts. Against this backdrop, this study compared two literary works, Oedipus Rex (Sophocles, 1992) and Utenzi wa Nyakiiru Kibi [‘Epic of Nyakiiru-Kibi’] (Mulokozi, 1997), to gain insight into the two societies from which the stories are derived. Using Aarne and Thompson’s (1961) classification of the Oedipus story, the study finds that Utenzi wa Nyakiiru Kibi qualifies as an Oedipal story as it meets several Oedipal narrative motifs in the Oedipus story. The …

Puppy Love And [Information] Play: An Intersection Of Theatre, Queer Kink, And Consent, Emily Kitchens

Faculty Articles

This note from the field centers on a nexus of queer kink subcultures and consent-based intimacy work in theatre. I report, investigate and wrangle with the process of incorporating queer kink aesthetics into the production of Love and Information by Caryl Churchill I directed at KSU February 2023. What I have learned and hope to demonstrate throughout the paper, is that queer kink subcultures are often paradigmatic examples of communities built on consent, and we as performing arts practitioners can more visibly expand the margins of our cultural competency dialogues to not only include them but look to them as …

Writing With Ai: University Students’ Use Of Chatgpt, Nikola Crcek, Jakob Patekar

Articles

Background: ChatGPT, a chatbot based on a large language model, captured global attention toward the end of 2022. With its potential to generate comprehensive texts of a variety of genres based on a string of straightforward prompts, it was soon perceived as a threat by many in various fields, including – and in particular – education. Schools across the world began banning its use as instructors started to receive suspiciously well-written essays and assignments from their students.

Aim: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of use of ChatGPT among university students for written assignments, explore the ways students utilize …

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Hydroclimatic Assessment Of The Wadi Nabaa Basin Using The (Cn-Scs) Method, Jasim Wihoah Shati Aljayshi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The research dealt with the Hydroclimatic assessment of the Wadi Nabaa Basin, in the desert of Muthanna Governorate, based on the American Soil Conservation-Curve Scheduling Model (SCS-CN) and indicative of soil and land cover classification for the purpose of quantitative assessment of surface runoff by analyzing satellite and climatic data and the digital elevation model and using the (GIS) program. For the purpose of extracting the required data, performing calculations, extracting some of the hydrological characteristics of the basin, and showing the results in the form of objective tables and maps.

The Repercussions Of Information Pollution On The Intellectual Security Of The Youth Of The Eastern Province In The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia, Omaima Kamal Al-Din Hassan Jawish, Afnan Abed Salama

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Information pollution is one of the topics of great importance as one of the threats to the intellectual security of society, by virtue of its link to knowledge and its issues in all areas of life from culture, education, education, security and others, so the issue of information pollution and its discussion has become an urgent necessity that no two disagree on. Hence, this study came as an attempt to reveal the repercussions of information pollution on the intellectual security of young people. The importance of the study stems from the fact that it discusses a topic characterized by a …

Investigating Power In Golding's 'Lord Of The Flies': A Stylistic Consideration, Salam Abbas Mahmood, Zamaan Tawfeeq Abdul-Hassan

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

"Lord of the files" is considered one of the famous fictions that treated the topics of psychology, power, and social relations. The current study, by adopting an aspect of Halliday's "Systemic Functional Linguistics" theory, investigates the ideological conception of different groups in relation to the notions of power, powerlessness, and fear. This is done by showing how power is represented in what each group feels and thinks towards the other. The analysis contributes to the character’s full understanding. The study also includes an analysis procedure namely the verb process elements of analysis, which the characters simplify about strength (power) and …

The Impact Of The Gradual Activities Strategy On Achievement And The Development Of Information Awareness Among Second Grade Students In The Social Subject, Buthaina Karim Atshan Al-Hamdani

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This research aims to know the effect of the strategy of graded activities on achievement and the development of information awareness for the students of the second grade average in the social subject, and to achieve the goal of the research, the researcher followed the experimental design with partial control of the experimental and control groups as a design for the research. Affiliated to the province of Najaf, and the researcher randomly chose (Al-Mustafa School for Boys), which includes five divisions for the second intermediate grade, and the researcher randomly chose Division (A) to represent the control group, while Division …

The Impact Of The Local Evironment On The Development Of The Tribes Of The Omani Coast Before The Discovery Of Oil, Hussain Kamil Jabir Al Shaher

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The Omani coast is one of the most important regions of the Arabian Gulf in terms of location. The coastal population is a group of tribes. was the main feature of the division of tribes.

Geopolitical Dimensions Of Drug Crimes In Iraq The Political Dimension As A Model, Maher Haider Naeem, Lateef Kamel Klewe

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

There is a political dimension to the spread of drug crimes in Iraq represented by the weakening of the Iraqi political system, by targeting its population strength on which it relies in its economic and security movement, through the intervention and sponsorship of other countries and the superpowers for that, not to mention the use of these crimes in the processes of political competition by striking the grassroots The Jamahiriya to the various political parties, in addition to financing terrorist operations inside Iraq, all this in order to strike the national belief of the Iraqi people, by destabilizing the human …

Wind Erosion Processes And The Resulting Landforms In The Umm Al-Khilan Area, Aseel S. Abdul Mohsen Al-Mashalawi, Safir Jasim Hussein

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Wind plays a major role in influencing the appearance and landforms of the desert, through the processes of wind erosion represented by the processes of winnowing and wind erosion, as well as its role wind sedimentation in the study area. The measurement of wind pressure strength was measured to show the size of wind deflation, and it became clear that the monthly rates of wind pressure strength in the study area start with a gradual rise starting from the month of March, which amounted to (0.70, 1.47) kg/m2 according to NASA and Rafha data, respectively, to reach its peak in …

Iterability And The Original In The Arts Of Modernity And Beyond, Hussein Shaker Qassim

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Research and exploration in the Iterability of and the original necessitate searching for them in the plastic field, given that the history of art in its entirety from the past to the present moment has become a field rich in achievements. Therefore, an artist must, in order to have his individuality, identity and a clear imprint, must draw from the past and the products of artists, but in a way A different employment, and this is not disputed by both, so the artist’s only option was to return to the past and rediscover the past, so the tagged research sheds …

Artificial Intelligence Applications In Worships Performed By A Proxy In The Light Of Islamic Jurisprudence, Hayat Abdullah Mohamad Almutlaq

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Using applications of artificial intelligence in worships performed by a proxy is one of the most important issues especially it concerns the person's worship and its organized rulings. In this study, the researcher utilized the scientific method in extrapolating legitimists’ views in this issue, depending on authentic sources of the research and directly attributing scientists’ texts and views from their books.

Education Of Baghdadi Women (1878-1958), Haider Attia Kazem

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This research deals with the developments that occurred in the women’s education movement in Iraq during the Ottoman era and its development during the period of the royal era, specifically the education of Baghdadi women and the keenness of the people and society in general for women’s education and their acquisition of basic skills in science and knowledge. The research attempted to shed light as much as possible on the stages of this development and the spread of schools in Baghdad and its distribution between a relatively small number of government and private or private schools for non-Muslim religious sects …

The Role Of New Zealand Nurses In The First World War 1914 -1918, Sabreen Hamza Abdel Amir Ganbar, Hassan Attia Abdullah

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

After the outbreak of World War I, men volunteered to go to the battlefield and participate in the war, so women saw it as their duty towards the British Empire to volunteer for war as well, and to practice the profession of nursing for the sake of their children, and accordingly the Women’s Elite Organization (Daughters of the Empire) and the New Zealand Nurses Organization were formed and the Nursing Service was formed in the New Zealand army and headed by Hester McClain, and even nurses of Maori origin asked to join.

Fine Art Philosophy For (Bul Kli) And (Khawan Miru), Mona Saad Algarni

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This research deals with the fine art in the works of (Bul Kli) and Khawan Miru in order to identify the characteristics and artistic features of the works of both artists and to stand on the philosophical values ​​in the fine art of their works, and monitoring the artistic properties of these works and clarifying the features that linked the content of their works with the characteristics of children’s art in terms of expressing the artistic properties, the fine art features and the human experience, and transferring human discourse away from everything that is familiar in a realistic way to …

Rules Of Decency And General Taste In Litigation, Sajjad Abdulhussein Dawood Harba

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The rules of decency and public decency in litigation are a set of principles and actions that the parties participating in the judicial process must adhere to, represented by mutual respect and professionalism. The parties must deal with each other honestly and transparently and there must be adherence to the laws and rules and avoid defamation and distortion. Therefore, all of these rules enhance professional reputation and integrity in the litigation process and enhance confidence in the judicial system in order to achieve fully justice. These rules must be followed, whether by the judge and his assistants, or by the …

Outer Mongolia's Position On The Soviet-Chinese Division Of 1956-1969, Fatima Jassim

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The Sino-soviet schism for the period 1956-1969 produced a major rift in the Communist Bloc, especially in the continent of Asia. Countries with a communist approach had to choose between lining up with the Soviet Union or standing against it and joining China. If they chose the hostile side, they had to bear the consequences of that choice. Outer Mongolia chose to be Moscow's reliable ally, and despite the great political and economic pressure exerted by China on it, it unequivocally sided with Moscow.

Accessibility Modeling To The Main Community Service Centers Using The Fuzzy Logic In Gis / Mosul City As A Model, Mohammed Hashim Dhannoon, Omar Abdullah Ismaeel

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The research aims to assess the levels of spatial accessibility towards community service centers as destinations for the population with daily demand expressed by the amount of traffic through the paths of the street network in the city of Mosul. This is done by applying the spatial analysis methodology to the requirements of measuring ease of access using fuzzy logic to translate spatial interaction into mathematical logic, and convert its data into geographical knowledge represented by levels of saturated spread for ease of access between the very high 17.3 km2, the high 40.15 km2, the medium 62.81 km2, and the …

Means Of Making Money Online Jurisprudential Study, Haytham Muhammad Najem, Raghad Mahdi Abdul Amir

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

We aim from this study to demonstrate the jurisprudential vision of the issue of profiting from the Internet, after we sensed the prevalence of electronic commerce and its spread on a large scale, and this puts the consumer in dangers that he may be indispensable for, so there must be rationing of these matters according to the vision of Islamic law, and it has resulted. The idea of ​​this research is based on a main goal represented in defining the jurisprudential vision of profiting from the Internet in its various types and methods.

Geographical Distribution Of Workers In Social Care Units In Iraq, Athraa Abed Hamad

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This study discusses the geographical analysis of workers and social welfare units in Iraq for the year 2020. The research followed the descriptive and analytical approach and the use of the quantitative method in scientific research based on the data of the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation.

Blood Engulfs The Green Earth”: An Ecocritical Reading Of Rasha Fadhlil’S Ishtar In Baghdad And Amy Merrill’S In The Reeds, Maysoon Taher Muhi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

In recent times, ecological studies have increasingly been employed to promote environmental awareness across various disciplines and regions worldwide. This paper specifically focuses on the repercussions of war and political violence on Iraq's ecology, which has been greatly impacted by conflict. Two noteworthy plays, Ishtar in Baghdad by Iraqi writer Rasha Fadhlil and In the Reeds by American writer Amy Merrill, shed light on this topic. Both plays, which primarily center on Iraq, underscore that those who fail to appreciate and value human life cannot possibly regard nonhuman entities with reverence. Fadhlil effectively employs elements from Mesopotamian mythology to draw …

Cultural Violence In Saki’S “The Toys Of Peace” And Ahmed Al-Malik’S “The Tank”, Maha Qahtan Sulaiman

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Violence cannot be separated from human culture, civilization, and ideology. Ironically, it is society that creates the borders of legal and illegal violence. Therefore, violence is culturally relevant. This paper examines the culture of violence in Saki’s “The Toys of Peace” and Ahmed Al-Malik’s “The Tank.” The two short stories are set in entirely different backgrounds and address violence in relation to children’s and adults’ lives, respectively. The study aims to examine violence in relation to culture and man’s primitive instincts. It also addresses controlling violence through education, promoting peace, and encouraging refined codes of conduct. The paper juxtaposes violence …

The Power Of Eponyms: Exploring Cultural And Social Factors In Their Adoption And Popularization, Sawsan A. Qasim

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The aim of this article is to investigate eponyms, which are not just linguistic phenomena but also cultural since they demonstrate one's influence on society and history. Words formed from a person's name, such as "volt" from Alessandro Volta and "sandwich" from John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, are examples of eponyms. Eponyms can be used to honor prominent persons, such as scientists, innovators, or well-known figures. They also demonstrate how society prioritizes specific accomplishments or attributes, as in the situations of “Fahrenheit” and “Celsius,” which are named after two pioneering scientists in the field of temperature measurement. Eponyms may …

The Use Of Literature At The University Level : Observing Literature Specialists In Their Efl Classes, Mohammed Jasim Betti, Safaa Abbas Noor Al Yasiri

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Literature is always used for students to communicate with others, by sharing their thoughts and feelings about the literary text being analyzed by the literature specialists. This study observed literature specialists in their EFL classes. It addresses the following questions: Can literature be used for developing both language and literature areas, and What are the areas of language and literature developed by the use of literature?

The Social Effects Of The Corona Pandemic, With Special Reference To Iraq, A Study In Political Geography, Maan Husseen Abdullah

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The Corona pandemic is one of the most prominent geopolitical changes that occurred in Iraqi society and greatly affected the increase in social problems, which resulted in serious repercussions on society and the individual, which threatens social security and a serious indicator indicating that society is suffering from a real crisis in its societal fields, as the Corona pandemic contributed to Many of the geopolitical effects were the high rates of divorce, begging, poor social justice, as well as the increase in the rates of violence in all its forms, physical and verbal violence, crime, and unemployment. in all its …

The Role Of Heavy Industries In Determining The Directions Of The Area Expansion Of The City Of Samawah - Samawah Cement Factory As A Model, Yahia Abd Al- Hassen Flyeh

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

There are many and varied determinants of the urban expansion of the city, including natural and human ones. The city of Samawah is one of the cities whose growth is determined in certain directions and extended towards other directions. Samawah Cement Factory played a role in defining the directions of urban expansion of the city towards the southeast direction, which prompted the city to expand towards the north, northwest and south directions to compensate for the narrow space in the southeast.

Golding’S Lord Of The Flies As A Symbolic Novel, Mushtaq Awad Jabbar, Omar R. Marzah, Ali Hasan Abed

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Golding's Lord of the Flies is full of symbolism. Every object or character in this novel has a symbolic meaning. Golding uses symbolism to send his message regarding his main themes in this novel like savagery and violence through recognizable symbolic characters such as Ralph, piggy, Jack and other boys in the island. The author employs many characters in the novel to have a notable symbolic meaning, symbolism within objects like the conch shell, the glasses, the fire, shelters and rocks. Symbolism within animals like a pig; The main purpose of this article is to find out the symbolism in …

Spatial Analysis Of Autism Patients In Baghdad Governorate For The Year 2023, Daniel Mohsen Bashar

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The term autism disorder is considered relatively recent and was used at the beginning by psychologists and psychiatrists, including the Swiss psychiatrist Eigen Bleuler in 1911, when he used it to describe people who are isolated from the outside world and withdrawn from social life. As well as studying the demographic characteristics of autistic patients and studying their causes (such as genetic, hereditary, environmental, electronic devices and drugs) and methods of treatment such as treatment (behavioral, educational, family and medication) and the most important problems that suffer from the sufferers and their families. The causes of autism were studied statistically …

Approaches To The Translated Kurdish Poetic Text (Collective Space Of Repetition), Hazim Hashim Minkhi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The study revealed to us in this research, which is described as (Sarkoon Boulos ... and the prose poem, a vision and conclusion) on the most important sources of the prose poem in Sargon Boulos’s poetry, an attempt to identify the sources and merits of his poetic texts (prose) and the mechanisms employed by the poet. Between the recall of childhood and the dialogue of the ego, and between realistic and imaginary imagination, and between legend and myth, with which he supported his poetic experience and pollinated his intellectual visions with it.