فهرست مطالب ریحانه عسکری

During the course of humankind’s mythological history, we come across many common forms of myths. These mythologies include death, creation, etc.Regardless of the origin of these myths, they share common purposes.As an example, death is considered a result of sin or enmity and while humankind chases after Immortality, he/she turns mortal as a result of sins or a curse from the gods or the evil forces.It is clear that humankind has always feared death.Death, as one of the most important sources of stress, comes in many different forms and Scharer has presented an example of it, the fear of non-existence, through word and image in her book.In her book “Death on the Apple Tree”, considering the common myth of death, the author has made an effort to present a unique point of view on life and death. In this book, death is not the outcome of sins or enmity but only a part of life. In fact, death is life itself, to the point that life is meaningless without death, as death is without life.This research has used analytical-descriptive method to study how death is reflected through text and illustrations in "Death on the Apple Tree" and to point out that the mythological side of death is only one of many representations of death. 

Determining the specifications of Passer domesticus nests was implemented from March 2009 to May 2010 in 3 parks which located in Shushtar city namely Kolah Farangi, Shahid Khedri and Darioon with 4000m2, 4.500m2 and 10000m2 areas, respectively. The majority of trees covers in these parks were Zizphus Spinachrist, Eucalyptus Camaldulensis, and Albizia Lebbeck. In this study, from 369 nests, 40 were measured in terms of nest length, width, depth, depth length, weight, height to ground and tree diameter. The results showed that the lowest length in nests and tree diameter were in Darioon park (n=16), the highest tree diameter, nest weight, and nest height to the ground were in Shahid Khedri park (n=15), and the lowest width, depth, depth length, weight and height to the ground were in Kolah Farangi park (n=9).

The birds are one of the important elements of urban parks. We identified the birds of green spaces in 9 main parks during winter and spring 2010. In these parks, there were 92 species belonging to 31 families and 9 orders. The most Shannon Wiener diversity species (3.78) was in winter in Dolat Park which showed a stable condition in this park. The most Margalef species aboundance (6.07) was in winter and in the same park. The utmost Hill species evenness (0.84) was in winter in Shahrvand Park which showing even distribution of species, and the least Hill species eveness (0.45) was in spring in Dolat Park. The two-ways ANOVA results showed there were significant differences between winter and spring seasons in Menhinich Index and Simpson and Hill Indexes for species aboundance. According to Duncen test in chance of 95% there were significant differences in evenness species point of view in these 9 parks and results showed condition was not even between studied areas and also there were differences in parks systems management