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A new computer application is created to use graphical representation of seismological data sets namely focal mechanism data to help seismologist to minimize complexities, recognize trends, discover data patterns and finally to develop the hypotheses. These graphical representation views are widely used by seismologist to drive information out of its long datasets. Using visual studio dot net 2012 to create a windows based software tools for focal mechanism datasets analysis using triangle diagrams. Another analysis tool is bar graph using basics of rose diagrams to plot the distribution of data frequency of each class. The third analysis tool included is a 4D plot of the distribution of earthquake events versus its depths and magnitude. A new classification of plotting double-couple earthquake focal mechanisms on the ternary diagram is defined. The application software has many advantages like automatic writing the analysis reports which contain all calculated information represented in the software graphs. This report helps for advanced processing. Automatic prototype analysis reporting can be considered as the first step (milestone) for applying expert systems in focal mechanism analysis tools. The application program interface (API) are designed to be user friendly and use interactive screens to customize the analysis. Keywords Software tools. Focal mechanism analysis. Rose diagram. Geophysical data processing. Ternary diagrams Highlights 1. Analysis tools integrated in new software for graphical representation of focal mechanism datasets. 2. Analysis tools are ternary diagrams, bar graph using basics of rose diagrams and a 4D plot of the earthquakes locations versus depths and magnitude. 3. Some advantages: automatic analysis report, user friendly and interactive screens.

This research studies the frequently used strategies by Kurdish students when they express their apology in their mother tongue. The present study tries to address two questions related as to whether the participants in questions follow the same strategies classified by Sugimotos (1997) or not, as well as the impact of gender factor on these strategies. The corpus consists of responses to Discourse Completion Test (DCT), which includes five different situations. The informants have been 30 subjects: 15 male students and 15 female students. The informants were students at college of basic education, English department, 4th stage. The DCT is written in English and informants were asked to write their responses in Kurdish. The data collected have been descriptively analyzed according to the content, frequency, and order of semantic formulas used by Sugimotos (1997). Finally, the most used strategies are translated into English also the Kurdish responses were written in English letters. In order to arrive at statistical results, the percentage of the most frequently used strategy was counted.