Journal of The College of Education

Due to industrialization, modern man who was exploited and persecuted, became devoid of human feelings. He started to act just like animals with the capability of physical strength without intellectual thinking.
The research analyses the main character in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape who wants to regain his identity. The research also deals with O'Neill's employment of expressionistic techniques like symbols, distorted language, costumes and monologues to expose Yank's sufferings as he rejects enslavement in the age of machines that deprives him of his identity.

Metathesis is one of the prominent phenomena in some languages like English, Standard and colloquial Arabic and in the Semitic ones. It is available in the literatures of those languages. The aim of the study is to provide a solid theoretical background of metathesis in English and Arabic, and to understand it clearly in both languages in terms of contrastive points of view. The procedure of the study is that it is a descriptive contrastive study of metathesis in English and Arabic dealing with its etymology, sources, grammatical categories, rules, types, reasons, different points of view on metathesis, etc. A contrastive picture of metathesis in both languages is then given. The study data are taken from British and American dialects, and Standard Arabic and its dialects (Iraqi, Jordanian, Syrian, Makkan, Sudanese, Morrocan and Cairene). The findings of the study emphasize that the two languages are similar to each other in terms of metathesis definition and the problem of treating it, but they are different in terms of etymology, sources, rules, types, reasons and whether the form is original or metathetic. This study tries to abridge the gap in the current literature of contrastive studies in English and Arabic. The study consists of four sections, and ends with a list of references and two appendixes.

Some critics believe that Paul Laurence Dunbar, the African American poet, does not concentrate in his writing on his race or blackness but rather he concentrates on his nationality as an American poet. It is true that Dunbar tried hard to achieve this aim during his life time but he found it impossible to transcend completely the influence of his race on his poetry.
A considered reading of some of Dunbar\'s poems affirms his loyalty to the black race and his pride in its achievements, as well as his righteous anger over racial injustice.