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Saturday, May 8, 2010

مادر در شعر پارسی‌

تکه هائی از اشعار شاعران که به مادر نسبت داده یا در مورد مادر گفته شده است در زیر می‌آیند. اگر از شاعری بیشتر از یک قطعه آمده است، قطعه‌ها با فاصله از هم جدا شده اند. لازم به تکرار است که هر قطعه نمونهٔ کوتاهی‌ از اشعار بلندتر هستند

Saturday, May 1, 2010

روز کارگر

بیشتر از یک قرن و دو دهه از اولین روز کارگر (با حدود ۳۰۰۰۰۰ شرکت کننده) در آمریکا می‌گذرد. جالب است که سه کشور در دنیا روز دیگری را بجای اول ماه مه به عنوان روز کارگر انتخاب کردند، و یکی‌ از این کشورها آمریکا است

Friday, April 30, 2010

May Day

Over a century and two decades have passed since the very first Labor Day in the US (with about 300,000 participants), on May 1, 1886. Incidentally, there are three countries which chose a different day instead of May 1st to represent Labor Day, one of which is the US.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

مغالطه

  برای اینکه بدانیم خلط گفتار (مغالطه) چیست، نخست باید تعریفی از مناظره داشته باشیم

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Your Private Information Is Public Now!

          Our privacy is in jeopardy! Your images are recorded in 95% of cross sections of major cities. You can receive a scanned copy of your own picture at any major retail store you shop. If your boss is not constantly on your shoulder, perhaps there is a closed captioned camera in your office! Look at some funny and interesting images on some e-mails you receive. How many of them are as a result of candid or hidden cameras without the subjects knowing about it? These are all for fun and entertainment, or we may say they are necessary and they do not harm anyone. However, have you ever received a traffic ticket in the mail that shows your pictures (front, back, and sideways) along with a ticket for the red light you crossed? Do you see how clear those pictures are?!

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Fallacies

          In order to understand what a fallacy is, one must understand what an argument is. Very briefly, an argument consists of one or more premises and one conclusion. A premise is a statement (a sentence that is either true or false) that is offered in support of the claim being made, which is the conclusion (which is also a sentence that is either true or false).

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Zarathustra

Due to lack sufficient documentation, the exact date of Zarathustra’s birth is not clear. After the Arab invasion, almost all the existing written words were destroyed by the invaders. Therefore, historians have to base their search on relics of the past, antiquities, and any remaining documents written afterwards. However, as of yet they have not come up with an unanimous date. Some historians relate Zarathustra’s appearance to the fourth millennium BC, but the majority of the researchers record his birth in the middle of the sixth hundred BC, and his death to have occurred in 583 BC. The place of his birth is supposed to be either in the present state of Azerbaijan (Athropaten), or in south-east of Iran. They believe that he was killed on the steps of a temple in the city of Balkh, on 583 BC.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

زرتشت

به دلیل نداشتن مدارکِ کافی‌، تاریخِ دقیقِ ظهورِ زرتشت مشخص نیست. در دورهٔ اسلامی و زمانی‌ که ایران مورد حملهٔ تازیان قرار گرفت، هر چه کتاب بود سوزانده شد. بنا براین پژوهشگران با توجه به آثار تاریخی‌ و با استناد به مدارکی که سالهای بعد تاریخ نگاری شد، بررسی کرده و هنوز هم در مورد زرتشت اتفاق آرائ ندارند. بعضی معتقدند که زرتشت به چهار هزار سال پیش متعلق است، ولی‌ اکثر محققین اعتقاد دارند که زرتشت در اواسط قرن ششم پیش از میلاد به دنیا آمد و در سال 583 قبل از میلاد بر روی پله‌های معبد بلخ به قتل رسید. محّلِ تولد زرتشت به قولی‌ در آذرآبادگان فعلی‌ (اثروپاتن) و به قولی‌ دیگر در جنوب شرقی‌ ایران بوده است

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Identified Flying Objects

There are stray objects in our galaxy that astronomers have identified, named, categorized, and researched; or they have hypothesized these objects’ impacts on earth or on other objects in galaxy. Since these roaming around objects, with known chemical components, are mostly recognized, I would like to call them identified flying objects. Three of the most well known of these objects are: comets, asteroids, and meteoroids.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Norooz: Festival of Life

These days, in celebration of Norooz, one notices so much commotion, as it has always been the case. Iranians living abroad plan their new year by whose house or restaurant or cabaret to attend for celebration. Those living in Iran, if young, plan how to perform Chahar Shanbeh Soori (last Tuesday night celebration before the end of the year), in order to avoid the establishment’s confrontation. Older ones are busy, as usual, in providing for the festivities. House cleaning is in order as well. Some would like to know about the origination of Norooz, especially that Norooz was recognized this year as a national Iranian holiday by the UN.

Friday, March 12, 2010

نوروز: جشن زندگی‌

این روزها به مناسبت فرا رسیدنِ نوروز، مثلِ هر سال شور و شوق زیادی به چشم خورد. ایرانیانِ خارج از کشور در فکر هستند که به کدام میهمانی یا رستوران یا کاباره بروند. ایرانیان درون مرزی اگر جوان باشند در تهیّه مقدمات چهار شنبه سوری برای مقابله با رژیم هستند. مسّن‌ترها هم طبق همیشه در تلاشِ معاش هستند، و تهیّهٔ خوراک و پوشاکِ نوروز. تمیز کردنِ خانه و محّلِ کار هم در دستورِ عمل است. بعضی‌ها هم دوست دارند بدانند نوروز از کجا آمده و تاریخچهٔ آن چیست، بخصوص که امسال در سازمان ملل نوروز به عنوان یک جشن ملّیِ ایرانی‌ ثبت شده است

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Sunday, February 28, 2010

گفتگو

گفتگو رد و بدل کردن کلام است. صحبت کردن ساده ترین نوع گفتگو است. صحبت کردن خود به انواع مختلفی‌ تقسیم میشود از جمله نطق، سخنرانی‌، مناظره، و بحث. بحث در حقیقت تبادل افکار با روش و مقررات خاصّ خود است. کاملترین نوعِ بحث، دیالکتیک است. هر کدام از موارد ذکر شده در زیر شرح داده میشود

Sunday, February 21, 2010

A Childhood Memory

My father, who passed away about 13 years ago, was once a government official in the city of Qom. He was a pious person and because of his strong religious beliefs, he would travel to religious sites and mausoleums every so often.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

خاطره پیش از انقلاب

پدر من که حدود ۱۳ سال است فوت کرده است زمانی‌ رئیس یکی‌ از ادارات قم بود. اعتقادات مذهبی‌ او بسیار قوی بود و سالها بعد که در تهران و سایر شهرها زندگی‌ میکرد برای زیارت به قبور متبرکه از جمله قم به آن نواحی سفر میکرد. هر بار به قم میرفت با دوستان قدیمش ملاقات میکرد.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Democracy

“Democracy” is driven from a Greek word. It can be broken down into two words: demos, meaning people, and kratia, meaning rule, strength, or might. Therefore, democracy means people ruling themselves. It implies that government is not a special group of trained bureaucrats, but all people participate in governing themselves.

Monday, February 8, 2010

دموکراسی

دموکراسی‌ یک لغت یونانی است که از دو واژه دموس به معنی مردم و کراتیا به معنی‌ حکومت تشکیل شده است. بنا براین دموکراسی‌ یعنی حکومت مردم بر خودشان. منظور این است که حکومت توسط تعداد خاصی‌ نیست بلکه کلیه آحاد مردم بر خود حکومت میکنند

Monday, February 1, 2010

کوه

آن قلّه که آحادِ برین بود همین بود؟
آن کوه که نمایندهٔ دین بود همین بود؟
آن قایدِ اعظم که ز آیاتِ عُظا م بود
آن کوه که نگهدارِ زمین بود همین بود؟

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Travel Diary

In my recent trip to Iran, I tried to have a conversation with every rank and age. Younger generation seems to be active in the new uprising, especially college students who have proven to be very effective in educating others. However, my conversation was mostly with the group who remembered the era before the revolution.