It's time to think

2020 ◽  
pp. 84-87
Author(s):  
G. Muradov

The article expresses the author’s personal view of the current situation in the world and contains an appeal to today's youth to protect the truth about the most terrible war of the twentieth century, about the great feat of the people.

Author(s):  
Alan L. Mittleman

This chapter reconstructs the meanings of holiness from representative texts of the Jewish tradition. The discussion is anchored on two claims. First, biblical thought does not divide the world into a neat dualism of sacred and profane. Second, the Bible and subsequent Judaism conceive of holiness in three different ways: holiness sometimes refers to a property, holiness indicates a status, and holiness is a value or project. These three characteristics of holiness are examined in detail using the Bible. The chapter is primarily concerned with the ideas of the holiness of the people of Israel and the holiness of the Land of Israel. It considers the sacred/profane dichotomy by focusing on the views of twentieth-century scholars such as Emile Durkheim, Rudolf Otto, and Mircea Eliade. It also explores holiness and purity as they relate to God before concluding with an analysis of holiness in ancient and medieval rabbinic Judaism.


2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 625-640
Author(s):  
Marija Šajkaš

We cannot educate our children in the spirit of cosmopolitism, but instruct them to love their homeland instead. We have to put the big ideology in their little heads.Danilo Ž. Marković, Serbian Minister of Education in a speech to school managers of the Banat district, Daily Borba, 19 March 1993The words people use reflect their view of the world. In totalitarian societies the primary goal of a regime's language is to influence public opinion. A closer inspection of the most exploited phrases in Serbian public discourse in the period of the late 1980s until 2000 reveals a strong presence of propagandistic language. Thus, it can be argued that the consequences of Slobodan Milošević's politics are visible not only in the devastation of the people and the country but also in the sphere of Serbian public discourse. It is not only that his politics influenced the language. Rather, it is precisely because of the rich and diversified propaganda language of the regime that Slobodan Milošević's was able to maintain his firm grip on power in Serbia for 13 years.


2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Xuejun Liu ◽  
Weili Ma ◽  
Liping Mo

<p>Multicultural nursing refers to the discussion and analysis of nations with different cultures in the world. It focuses on the research of different traditional lifestyles, the cognition to health and disease, and people’s belief and value, and takes advantage of this knowledge for general and different nursing to the people of different nations. In the medical progress, patient with religion belief has different demands on the aspects of diet, custom, privacy and religion activities, etc. This paper summarizes the significance of the implementation of multicultural nursing to patient with religion beliefs and current situation of the development of religion nursing at home and abroad as following.</p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Mekhriniso Kilicheva ◽  

In the current situation the problem of loneliness, which is becoming a global issue among the people of the world, the fact that the motif of "loneliness" has risen to the level of a separate motif of literature attracts the attention of literary critics. In this regard, it is important to reveal the socio-psychological basis of the factors of human loneliness. This article discusses the psychological underpinnings of loneliness motif inEnglish author Jean Rhys’s novel “The Wide Sargasso Sea”. The impact of loneliness on the psyche of the protagonists and the resulting tragedy of the protagonist, who became insane and put an end to her life, is analyzed


Conspiracy theories are not fringe ideas, tucked away in society’s dark corners. Conspiracy theories are everywhere, and like other ideas they have consequences. When people believe conspiracy theories they may act on them. In democracies, conspiracy theories can drive majorities to make horrible decisions. Conspiracy beliefs can conversely encourage political abstention: if one believes the system is rigged, they will be less willing to take part. Conspiracy theories form the basis of some people’s medical decisions. For a select few, conspiracy theories are instructions to fight fire with fire, to use violence. There is no time in recorded history without conspiracy theories. Whether we are examining accounts of ancient Rome, medieval Europe, or twentieth-century America, conspiracy theories have inspired millions to take action. Scares, panics, purges, and bloodshed have sometimes been the result. Conspiracy theorizing is an enduring part of politics. Despite this, researchers and journalists continually struggle to understand the phenomenon. Why do people believe conspiracy theories? What are their effects on politics and society? How do conspiracy theories differ across the world? What should be done about conspiracy theories? Are we currently living through the conspiracy theory renaissance?


2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (8) ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
Anh Le Thi Ngoc

Pearl S. Buck was the first American female writer (later Toni Morrison) to receive the prestigious Nobel Prize for literature in 1938. Her writing pages have created streaks of spectroscopy that have a strong, lasting effect on world literature from the 30s of the twentieth century. In particular, with Good Land, Divided Sons and Families are works in the trilogy of The House of Earth, and she received the William Dean Howells medal from the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Arts and Literature for the best writing in 1931-1935, at the same time, it also helps her name in the world. Up to the present time, nearly 70 of her compositions can still be found in isolated villages and farms in Tanzania, New Guinea, India, Colombia or in a hut in Malawi. The object of literature, after all the "land" and "the", and each writer often "freeze" a land of their own, a social class to tell, to describe and dissect. Pearl Buck chose vast country like China and the most populous in the world, rather than her native country, to "ground" his art. Despite of living in the land of China only about three decades, time only a third of the life she lived, but the land and the people here have written off the source of her career, which she wrote more works profound value. Through the land symbol in the trilogy of The Real Estate, Pearl S. Buck pointed out the organic relationship between land and people.


2004 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
VIVIEN MILLER

In February 1941, thirty male San Quentin prisoners petitioned Governor Culbert Levy Olson of California (the state's first Democrat governor in the twentieth century) to stop the execution of Eithel Leta Juanita Spinelli, “a merciless gang leader called the Duchess,” who had been convicted, along with her common-law husband and another male accomplice, of the murder of nineteen-year-old Robert Sherrard. All three defendants were sentenced to die in the gas chamber. Former San Quentin warden, Clinton T. Duffy, remembered Spinelli as “the coldest, hardest character, male or female” that he had “ever known,” and utterly lacking in “feminine appeal.” Thus the presentation of a jailhouse petition to save her from the gas chamber rather perplexed him, and he remained firm in his belief that the majority of San Quentin's inmates were unconcerned by the impending execution. Nonetheless, the petitioners argued that Spinelli should not be executed and offered to take her place either in the death chamber, or to serve out her life term in the event of a commutation of sentence. According to Duffy, the prisoners asserted “that Mrs. Spinelli's execution would be repulsive to the people of California; that no woman in her right mind could commit the crime charged to her; that the execution of a woman would hurt California in the eyes of the world; that both the law and the will of the people were against the execution; that Mrs. Spinelli, as the mother of three children, should have special consideration; that California's proud record of never having executed a woman should not be spoiled”.


Author(s):  
Anupama Shukla

Around 400 BC, Areatus -- one of Hippocrates’ pupils, proclaimed ‘epilepsy is an illness of various shapes and horrible’. Later, Areatus was also one of the people who called the disease ‘sacred’; according to them, a deity had sent a demon to possess the patient, or the patient had been cursed by the moon. The Hippocratic physicians were among the first to attempt to separate the scientific and the cultural/fictional discourses. However, even till the late nineteenth century, medical narratives were intertwined with the fictional narratives that surrounded epilepsy, and these narratives contributed significantly towards the stigma that has historically been associated with the disease. This paper will examine how medical and non-medical discourses shaped the representation of epilepsy and contributed to the cultural mythology surrounding epilepsy. In the course of this paper, the author will specifically focus on Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, in which the reader sees the author’s personal view of epilepsy, cleverly accommodated into the character of Prince Myshkin, who is surrounded by social stigmatisation. Dostoevsky suffered from epilepsy for a major part of his life, and he maintained detailed accounts of his seizures. His epilepsy had a huge influence on his writings and his perception of the world. Dostoevsky’s epilepsy has been seen as particularly relevant, since being an epileptic himself, his works provide the reader with an insight into the disease which is hard to find elsewhere.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Walayat Hussain ◽  
Muhammad Junaid ◽  
Siraj Muneer ◽  
Muhammad Qasim Khan

Web is considered one of the greatest developments of twentieth century. It provides a diverse range of applications and therefore needs different usability designs. Web usability has become a vital aspect for the success of web applications. Web usability is about fulfilling the goals and expectations of users and making their stay on the website pleasant. Web usability design includes three aspects: User Research, Web Design and Web Evaluation [1]. Today, the web design is moving from technology to users i.e. it is more user-centered than ever before. Web design must directly face users with the specific needs, and must ensure that users are pleasant to successfully complete tasks with it. [1]. In this study, we have studied the factors which affect the web readability in this part of the world. We conducted the survey in order to check how different factors play their part for the people who speak languages which are written right to left


Al-Burz ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-103
Author(s):  
Asia Sattar ◽  
Dr. Abdul Haleem Sadiq ◽  
Dr. Abida Baloch

Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry which is comprised of 5-7-5 verses. This genre of poetry has been transferred to the other languages of the globe simultaneously.  The Brahui literature also adopted this genre of poetry like the other languages of the world till the end of the twentieth century. In the Brahui literature, this genre of poetry was practiced from time to time. The Brahui Haikus, mostly the subjects like, nature, love, patriotism, culture, and the religious matters have been discussed from the last fifty years. This paper focuses the proverbs, riddles and superstitions in the Brahui Haikus to let the people know about the background of this genre.


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