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JANUARY -MARCH 2017 International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies ISSN 2356-5926 Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Hassen ZRIBA Volume 3 Issue 4 WWW. IJHCS . COM Volume 3 Issue 4 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND March 2017 CULTURAL STUDIES ISSN 2356-5926 Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Dr. Hassen Zriba Najoua Chalbi *Emeritus Professor Ralph Grillo *Dr. Syed Zamanat Abbas University of Sussex, UK Salman Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia *Professor Muhammad Asif *Dr. Santosh Kumar Behera Riphah International University, Pakistan Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, India *Professor Sadok Bouhlila *Dr. P. Prayer Elmo Raj Northern Borders University, Saudi Arabia Pachaiyappa's College, India *Professor Pacha Malyadri *Omid Akhavan Osmania University, Andhra Pradesh, India Imam Ali University, Iran *Haron Bouras *Loredana Terec-Vlad Mohamed Cherif Messadia University, Souk- Ștefan cel Mare University, Romania Ahras Algeria *Professor Jason L. Powell *Dr. Shama Adams University of Chester, UK Curtin University, Australia *Professor Ali H. Raddaoui *Mansour Amini University of Wyoming, USA The Gulf College, Oman *Dr. Mohamed El-Kamel Bakari *Mohd AB Malek Bin MD Shah University of King Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabia Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia *Dr. Solange Barros *Mark B. Ulla Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil Father Saturnino Urios University, Philipinnes *Dr. Salah Belhassen * Anouar Bennani University of Gafsa, Tunisia University of Sfax, Tunisia *Dr. Nodhar Hammami Ben Fradj *Shuv Raj Rana Bhat University of Kairouan, Tunisia Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal *Dr. Arbind Kumar Choudhary *Erika Ashley Couto Rangachahi College, Majuli ,Assam, India University of Concordia, Canada *Dr. Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi *Md. Amir Hossain University of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi, India IBAIS University, Bangladesh *Dr. Baliram Namdev Gaikwad * Dr. Elvan Mutlu University of Mumbai, India University of Kent, UK *Dr. Abdullah Gharbavi *Syed S. Uddin-Ahmed Payame Noor University, Iran St. John's University, USA http://www.ijhcs.com/index.php/ijhcs/index Page I Volume 3 Issue 4 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND March 2017 CULTURAL STUDIES ISSN 2356-5926 *Dr. Al Sayed Mohamed Aly Ismail * Mansour Amini Bin Abdualziz University, Saudi Arabia The Gulf College, Oman *Dr. Nidhi Kesari * Nick J. Sciullo University of Delhi, India Georgia State University, USA *Dr. Raghvendra Kumar * Nizar Zouidi LNCT Group of College Jabalpur, India University of Mannouba, Tunisia *Dr. Salima Lejri *Logan Cochrane University of Tunis, Tunisia University of British Columbia, Canada *Dr. Chuka Fred Ononye *Shataw Naseri Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, University of Shahid Beheshti in Iran Nigeria *Dr. Mohammed Salah Bouomrani *Manoj Kr. Mukherjee University of Gafsa, Tunisia Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India *Dr. Mahdi Zarai *Javed Akhter University of Gafsa, Tunisia University of Balochistan Quetta Balochistan, Pakistan http://www.ijhcs.com/index.php/ijhcs/index Page II Volume 3 Issue 4 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND March 2017 CULTURAL STUDIES ISSN 2356-5926 Table of Contents Editorial……………………………………………………………………………………....…….V 1) The Rise of Indian Americans’ Identity in Zitkala Sa’s “Impressions of an Indian Childhood” and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” Hala Abdel Razzaq A. Jum’ah, Kifah (Moh’d Khair) Ali Al Omari……..…………………..1-16 2) Feminine Diasporic Consciousness in the Arab-American Poetry after 11 September 2001 Reham Mohammed Abu Zaid…………………………………………………………………..17-36 3) The Impact of Comprehensive Banking Implementation on the Empowerment of Human Resources in the Branches of Tejarat Bank (Case Study: Tehran Branch Management Employee) Roxana Behrouz Aghdam………………………………………………………………………37-53 4) Overlapping of Feminisim and Postcolonialism in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura and R.K. Narayan’s Waiting for the Mahatma Nedal Al-Mousa…………………………………………………………………………...……..54-63 5) Contentment in Islam: A Marker of Happiness, Richness, Self-Sufficiency, and Tranquility Nazmi Al-Shalabi……………………………………………………………….……………..64-75 6) Phonetics features of the Modern Standard Arabic word (MSAW) Salah Belqacim Belhassen……………………………………………..…………………..……76-88 7) The European Union in the British national press: a questionable objectivity Mohamed Elabed………………………………………………………………………………89-103 8) Un)Representations of the Subaltern in Three Victorian Novels Hend Hamed Ezzeldin………………………………………………………………………..104-115 9) Investigating the Necessity of ICT Usage in Teaching Business English at Tertiary Level: The Higher Institute of Human Sciences Medenine as a Case study Nesrine Hamdani……………………………………………………………………….…….116-137 10) Child Language Acquisition versus Second Language Learning: Any Bearing on Teaching Khawlah Rauof Khanekah………………………………………………………...…………138-147 11) Enhancing cross-cultural Communication through conceptual metaphor awareness: The case of 1st year Magister literature students at Laghouat University, Algeria (2013-2014) Sara Mechraoui-Salmi………………………………………………………………………..148-156 12) Criminological Analysis of Unveiling (hijab ) in Iran with an Emphasis on Islamic Views (Case Study: Najaf Abad, Isfahan, Iran) Mahdi Momeni, Salman Mokhtari………………………………………………………..157-169 13) Occultism and Modern Humans Uncertainty in Eliot's Four Quartets http://www.ijhcs.com/index.php/ijhcs/index Page III Volume 3 Issue 4 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND March 2017 CULTURAL STUDIES ISSN 2356-5926 Asma Jasim Muhammad…………………………………………………………………….170-178 14) Heritage of Slavery in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson Dlnya A. Muhammed, Mariwan N. Hasan……………………………………….…………179-185 15) A Female Bangladeshi’s Quest for Her New Identity in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane: A Textual Analysis Ashti Anawr Muhammed………………………………………………………………...…..186-202 16) Realism in Ibsen’s a Doll’s House: a Critical Study Ashti Anwar Muhammed, Asma Jasim Muhammad………………………………………203-216 17) Towards an Understanding of Wartime Residues Typifying Syrian Pictorial Genres: A Socio- Semiotic Perspective Latifa Neïli………………………………………………………………………...…………..217-238 18) Negative Images of Women in Some Selected Passages in the Old Testament and Its Impact on Women in the Contemporary Nigerian Society Adesanya Ibiyinka Olusola…………………………………………………………………..239-251 19) The Ugliness of War in the Perspective of the Speaking Dead in the poems of Wilfred Owen and Sherko Bekas Najat Ismael Sayakhan, Kwestan Jamal………………………………………………...….252-258 20) Prison and Freedom: Three Discourses of Prison Subculture in Soviet and Russian Literature Natalia V. Tishchenko……………………………………………………………….……….259-271 21) Teachers’ Attitude Towards Teaching Mathematics at Upper Primary Levels in Fiji’s Primary Schools: A Case Study of the Western Primary Schools Ruveni Tuimavana, Nikleshwar Datt…………………………………………………...…………….272-293 http://www.ijhcs.com/index.php/ijhcs/index Page IV Volume 3 Issue 4 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND March 2017 CULTURAL STUDIES ISSN 2356-5926 Editorial Dear Colleagues and Readers I am so glad to present Volume 3, Issue 4 of the International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies (IJHCS). The IJHCS has moved to its more advanced and technically rich website through the use of the popular Open Journal System. This, of course, reflects the depth of the work being done in our journal. The journal keeps faith in multidisciplinary perspective. Articles published in this issue, reflect different theoretical and applied concerns in humanities, cultural studies, management, linguistic studies among other disciplines. As a matter of fact, this new issue includes works of the research scholars from different countries which reflected the international nature and scope of the journal. As usual, I sincerely thank our respected authors for selecting the IJHCS, our reviewers for reviewing the selected articles for this issue and the Administrative Board for its contribution to helping the IJHCS achieve this success. Next issue will be published in June 2017 and your valuable contributions are welcome till 20 May 2017. With Best Regards, Dr. Hassen Zriba Editor-in-Chief The International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies (IJHCS) http://www.ijhcs.com/index.php/ijhcs/index Page V Volume 3 Issue 4 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND March 2017 CULTURAL STUDIES ISSN 2356-5926 The Rise of Indian Americans’ Identity in Zitkala Sa’s “Impressions of an Indian Childhood” and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” Hala Abdel Razzaq A. Jum’ah The Hashemite University/ Department of English Language and Literature, Zarqa, Jordan [email protected] Dr. Kifah (Moh’d Khair) Ali Al Omari The Hashemite University/ Department of English Language and Literature, Zarqa, Jordan [email protected] Abstract The present paper scrutinizes the seismic shifts of the Indians' identity during the twentieth century. It tends to outline the Indians' collapsing image at the end of the century, taking Zitkala Sa's "Impressions of an Indian Childhood" and Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" as sample stories to represent such shifts. Both Sa and Lahiri embody different aspects of the Indians’ identity in which the sense of originality, culture and spirituality changes. The paper dwells on the changes of these aspects from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century due to several factors such as World War I, World War II, and many other social and political developments during this century. The main argument, thus, is that the writings of the Natives transfer to depict