The Arab Gulf

The present study aims at examining the acoustic properties of English pure vowels produced by native and non-native speakers in clear and conversational speech (henceforth CLR and CNV speech respectively). This study concentrates on the most important aspects of acoustic phonetic research, acoustic analysis, vowel intelligibility, sex-related differences, as well as comparing clear to conversational speech. It is hypothesized that the acoustic properties of English pure vowels in conversational speech are different from those in clear speech. Moreover, the strategies employed by non-native speakers, as far as exhibiting the acoustic properties of the vowels involved in both styles, are different from those of native speakers. The researchers have followed the precise procedures presented by some investigators, particularly those procedures followed by Ferguson and Port (2002) as far as the work on speech styles and vowel intelligibility is concerned. Two recording sessions are conducted for both groups of talkers and all recordings were saved and analysed using Praat, which is a free scientific, authentic, and academic software for doing phonetics by computer. The results revealed that all talkers produced the vowels with longer durations, higher values of F0, greater values of pitch range, and larger vowel space areas in clear than in conversational speech. Most female talkers produced higher values than males for the four acoustic measures. The findings of the experiment have shown that native and non-native speakers differ in the strategies they employ, and that clear speech is more intelligible than conversational speech.

Foreign policy is geopolitical behavior by the state in its international relations, the formulation of foreign policy can not be a guarantor of national goals and the preservation of state sovereignty and stability with out taking into geographical variables of that state as the works of those variables guide foreign policy to them .
In Yemen , foreign policy , affected number of geographical factors of nature and human , the physical factors that deal with the properties of geographic location and survey extension of the study area and its natural resources .

Arab Emirates come a long way in the renewable energy investment,especially in the field of solar energy due to the availability of intensity projection of the solar radiation throughout the year,the supreme council for energy adopted plans to invest these vital energy for different purposes,the United Arab Emirates succeeded in being a base for the world renewable energy (Irina – ERENA.The research discusses the developments in solar energy investment In the United Arab Emirates through a number of studies which it's outcomes and recommendation produced research hypothesis( an ideal climate is available in the UAE to invest in solar energy for different purposes which provides opportunities to achieve the success of this investment).

This study focuses on investigating what strategies advanced Basra learners of English as a foreign language employ to express refusals in English. It addresses two questions related as to whether the participations in question follow the same English strategies classified by Beebe and others. (1990) or not, as well as the impact of the gender factor on these strategies. The study has made use of a modified written discourse completion test (DCT) comprising of eight situations. The participants are required to provide written data to express their refusals to these situations. The data gathered have been descriptively analyzed according to the content, frequency and order of semantic formulas used by Beebe et al. (ibid). In order to arrive at statistical results, the percentage of the most frequently used strategies was counted. The findings indicate that advanced Basra learners tend to use more expressions of regret followed by excuses/ reasons/ explanations. Most often, they have avoided refusal with “no” except in few cases where it is, also, followed by excuses or explanations. With the exceptions of some differences and variances, it has been found that the strategies used by female participants were not very much different from those followed by the males.

At first glance the reader finds the book of Al.Heiwan a book that includes a purely scientific information on animal and its related, but the reader and browser of the book finds it comprised of scientific , religious , literary and social information- reflects the Abbasid era in which he lived and the eras that proceeded it . In each page the reader can find a poem and Quranic verse on its side , Al-Hadith and the wonderfull wisdom , a cerbic humor and intelligent commentary beside the myths and tales express.
Al-Jahidh did not leave any opportunity, he moved from animal world to human by bringing news, poems, and all that link him to the subject of animal , he kept the feature of the writer, and blending approach between serious and joking .

This research tackles the social sides of Kuwait life before the discovery of Oil , It discusses the migration of Ottob tribes and other immigrants who fled Arab Peuinsuala because of terrorist movements.
The research falls into sections including the introduction, Kuwaiti woman life, kuwaiti life aspects , and teaching which was limited to the reading and memorizing of Holy Quran.

This search specialize with the principles of elastic art elements of the Kuwaiti painter ( Ferida EL.Baksami ) in her exhibition which held in Kuwait in 2008 . The research incluede four main parts, the first contain search's problem , usefulness ,purpose , local and temporal area's search, the second divided in to two groups , ( 1 ) take care of ornament of Islamic art , symbolism in the popular arabic paint . ( 2 ) take car of contemporary view of Kuwait local heritage , collage technicality , ( c.v ) of the artist . Third part incluede search's practicals , choosing (five ) pattern of paint , and depending descriptive manner to analysis them . Fourth part include effects and conclusions such as :
1-Linking contemporary arab paint with its history by the abstract concept, avoid copying ( imitation ) , be directed to thinking and pure beautiful but in different method .
2-Depending contemporary arab art on popular heritage, strengthing the drama action with new things , linking it with ancient popular beliefs .
3- Simple works are the bases of practical arts .

The pages presents one of the ( Kuwaiti ) poets whose poetry is prolific. His poetry represents Kuwait environment and the literary development which is attendant to the fast economic as well as the developmental transformations of that environment this research presents what is considered the best in the life of the poet ( Mohammed Fayez Ali Al-Fayez ) and then the depiction of the days as well as the crucial transformations . The research elaborates the best characteristics of Al-Fayez poetry the researcher studied the artistic features via the lexical dictionary , and the poets unperceived work, studying the semantic structure and the lexical dictionary , and the poets unrecorded work studying of the components of the vivid images of Al-Fayez poetry for they have the mythological features and other features.

Rhythm is the most important elements that the Poetry based on ,it subjects directly to the psychological status of the creator , based or this the poem " strange on the Gulf " selected as a sample from which rhythmic dimensional knowledge of poetic expprience can be seen. Providing a smantic field based on bilateral alienation and nostalgia where the grief , refraction and loss feelings interwined, that is the Poetic image which controls the poem from its beginning till its end . The layout Pattrens embodied the Poetic Suffering and dimension represmtion of the text Semantic content.

Oil represents an important source of energy, since its discovery commercially at the beginning of the last century because of the flexibility that it enjoys and its many uses. The research aims to shed light on the evolution of production and consumption and the main oil reserves and the comparison between oil as a source of energy and alternative energy sources and its impact on the evolution of oil future prices.