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    Clash between romantics political aspirations & philosophy of art and aesthetics
    (Research Journal of English Language and Literature, 2016) Rida Sarfraz; Sadia Riaz
    The paper extensively studies the philosophy of art and aesthetics with reference to the Romantics’ Poetry. The paper aims at exploring the English Romantics’ rapturous refuge of imaginative experience for the creation of Plato’s inspired ideal world and their flight away from stark reality. The paper unravels the ways in which Romantic poetry, especially, of William Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, bears marks of prevalent socio-politico condition. The study scrutinizes the tug of war between the Romantic aesthetics of “art for art’s sake” with its God-like dreamland of imagination and the Romantics’ pragmatic political ethos which causes the split. Consequently, the gnawing gap is created in the Romantic soul where both the world of reality and the imagination battle to conquer. The paper aims to shed light on such Romantic fissure, it is divided into four portions: the first part deals with the Romantic aesthetics, the second section highlights their political ethos mirroring in the Romantics’ poems, the third portion studies the underlying connection between the Romantic aesthetics and the Romantics’ political aspirations and the fourth part brings out the inherent contradictions between the two. This is a qualitative study based upon hermeneutic theory of in depth artistic analysis. The paper concludes the two contradictory traits: one, their desire to remain intact with the current political situations that breed political aspiration thus forming a part of this world of reality. And secondly their desire for mystical experiences and flight into the world of imagination, which according to the Romantics is more real than this reality, through their poetry. These two traits become antagonistic because the world of imagination also constructs an ideal world where every individual is happy. In other words it creates a utopia that stands in sharp contrast with the political aspirations because it lacks pragmatism. The paper is contextualized in Romantics’ Poetry for a better comprehension of the schema of art and aesthetics.
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    Phonological analysis of nick names in Punjabi
    (Language In India, 2016) Faiza Abid; Naheed Ashfaq; Aisha Niazi
    This paper relates to the study of nicknames in Punjabi language .it help us to understand about the transitions of syllable from name to nick names. The names are categorized depending upon the number of syllables in name and the characteristics of first syllable. In this paper only those nicknames are focused which have connection with the names, however passing a comment is also one of the convention of nicknames that directly have no connection with the names.
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    The role of positive and negative reinforcement in motivating student learning.
    (Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies., 2016) Aasma Bibi; Faiza Abid
    This study aims to examine the impact of reinforcement in motivating student learning. Participants in the study were English teachers teaching at Garrison Boys High school Girja Chock Lahore Cantt and English teachers at Government Islamia Girls High School Baghbanpura Lahore in 2012 to 2013 academic year; a total of fourteen people. The study design uses a mixed method approach: semi-structured interviews and close-ended questionnaires were used for data collection. Findings of the study showed that reinforcement has a great and long lasting impact on learning of the students.