The Responsibility of Educators in Peacekeeping

2018 ◽  
pp. 324-334
Author(s):  
Carol McPeak Brinjak
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
National Level ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Human Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Individual Perspective ◽  
The Way

In the 21st Century, the specter of catastrophic war is more threatening than ever, and yet the prospect of reducing animosity is closer to being within our reach. The causes of strife are based mostly on fear and ignorance, and education is the key to erasing these two maladies. As modern technology brings the human community closer together, it is now possible to educate all people across the globe. The focus of educators' attention must be: a) to see each member of humanity as a spiritual being; b) to recognize and emulate the purveyors of virtue; and c) to face head-on the dangerous people who stand in the way of a more God-centered universe. This chapter will explore each of these three areas from an individual perspective, as well as on a national level, and finally onto the world stage.

The image of a modern shaman. A literary example of Ida Brzezińska

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-134
Author(s):  
Angelika Moskal
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Evil Spirits ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Way

Abstract: The shaman figure is most often associated with primitive communities, inhabiting, among others Siberia. The shaman plays one of the most important roles in them - he is an intermediary between the world of people and the world of spirits. Responds to, among others for the safe passage of souls to the other side and protects her from evil spirits. However, is there room for representatives of this institution in contemporary Polish popular literature? How would they find themselves in the 21st century? The article aims to show the interpretation of the shaman on the example of Ida Brzezińska, the heroine of the books of Martyna Raduchowska. I intend to introduce the role and functions of the „shaman from the dead”, juxtaposing the way Ida works (including reading sleepy margins from a rather unusual dream catcher, carrying out souls and the consequences that await in the event of failure or making contact with the dead) with the methods described by scholars shamans. The purpose of the work is to show how much Raduchowska tried to adapt shamanism in her work by modernizing it, and how many elements she added from herself to make the story more attractive.

Records of the World Tourism Conference (English version)

1985 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Free Time ◽  
English Version ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Travel Industry ◽  
The Way

The World Tourism Conference, held in Manila from 27 September to 10 October 1980, proved that the human community is still able to think generously and clearly, and to hold a courageous vision of the future. The Conference was convened to examine a subject which would lead to modification of outmoded concepts and practices, and would induce governments as well as the travel industry to reconsider all of their activities in the tourism sector. The Manila conference was able to show the way to build for the future in a field – that of free time and leisure – which is becoming one of the important responsibilities of governments, as non-working time increases in relation to working time because of the transformations that modern society is undergoing.

TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION AND DIGITALIZATION OF HOTEL BUSINESS: OPPORTUNITIES AND PERSPECTIVES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iliya Ivanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
The World ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Digital Generation ◽  
Scientific Report ◽  
The Way

At the advent of the 21st century, digital technologies have changed the way that hotel industry brings value to tourists around the world. The aim of this scientific report is to present the opportunities and perspectives for hotel business for digital transformation, as a crucial instrument for the growth of the industry and for meeting the needs of the new digital generation of consumers. With its potential, digital transformation is reshaping the industry, giving strategic advantages to companies focused on digital transformation of the business.

scholarly journals Sensing Possibility in International Law – Concepts and Categories for the 21st Century: A Response to Fleur Johns

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 200-204
Author(s):  
Keith Culver
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
International Law ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Concepts And Categories ◽  
The World ◽  
Algorithmic Analysis ◽  
The Way

Fleur Johns raises the alarm regarding the potential for algorithmic analysis of big data to change fundamentally the way international lawyers and their allies gather and interpret facts to which international law is applied. Johns invites her readers to join her in seeking ways to save the aspirations of law on the “global plane” from these disruptive forces. In what follows I take up Johns’ invitation, in the spirit of its advancing claims “in a speculative or polemical mode,” asking the reader to withhold for a moment demands for completeness, instead joining in exploration of how the world of international law might be viewed differently if a larger version of Johns’ argument holds.

The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Salmon
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Selection Pressures ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Widespread Distribution ◽  
The World ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
The Way

Pornography and romance, at first glance they seem to be two genres that are almost polar opposites. Yet both are the products of our evolved human sexuality and both have been the subjects of a variety of authors and researchers. Particularly in the case of pornography, some have argued strongly against its very existence, charging it, its creators and consumers with many of the evils in the world (real and imagined). In the case of romance, many have been derogatory and dismissive of the writers' skills and the readers' minds. In this article, I hope to introduce a different approach to these genres, through an evolutionary lens that serves to illuminate the way in which our sexual natures combined with modern technology to create such widespread distribution and sales. Romance and pornography are both multibillion dollar industries, and their stark contrasts reflect the deep divide at the heart of male and female erotic fantasies. These differences reflect the fact that the selection pressures males and females faced in the reproductive realm over human evolutionary history were not identical.

The “Analytic” Line of the Modern Stoicism: L. Backer, W. Irvine, M. Pigliucci

2021 ◽  
Vol V (1) ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
Alexey Pavlov
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

This article is dedicated to the “analytic” line in the philosophy of modern stoicism. Modern stoicism is developed as the philosophy of life but in this relation, it is understood as not the collection of speculations around such concepts as “life”, “human” and so on but rather as the philosophy about well living. It indicates that the goal of modern stoicism is integrating the eudemonic stance in the analytic normative ethics in which this movement was raised. Modern stoics explains the applicability of stoic ethics for 21st-century people in the way that their view on the world as they think is similar to such of Hellenistic people in many respects. On the theoretical level, modern stoicism is the attempt of application of ethics of late Stoa to the contemporary naturalistic worldview constituting around the data of natural science. This task is realized by representing the ethics of Rome stoicism as a collection of certain psychological practices. By means of it, it turns out possible to represent stoic ethics as some kind of the “framework” of behavior that is potentially compatible with various worldviews. But in this advantage of modern stoicism there is its main trouble also. Cleared out from metaphysics and based on certain obvious practical premises, this framework of sensible staid behavior tells us nothing about the world and hence couldn't be used as the full-blown worldview. However, the very raising of this movement indicates the need to explicitly formulating the problem of worldview within the analytic philosophy.

scholarly journals THE INSTITUTION OF ACCOUNTING NORMALISATION IN ROMANIA – HISTORY AND PRESENT

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aristita Rotila
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
National Level ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Large Series ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
The Way

The institution of accounting normalization at a national level can essentially be as public, private and mixed. On its nature depend the way of accepting/imposing the accounting norms and also the character of these norms, character which can be more or less restrictive. The present article is a study regarding the institution of normalization of accounting in Romania from the beginning (when the process of normalizing the Romanian accounting began) to present, following its changes through two stages which have marked the evolution of our country in the second half of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century: the stage of socialism, having a centralized economy, and the stage of transition to a market economy, which started right after the 1989 Revolution. Within post-revolutionary stage, under the Ministry of Finances, the institution of accounting normalization in Romania, a mixed organism was created, which sums up a large series of “actors” interested in the accounting information and has the role of allowing those actors to involve into the process of normalization, which would let the Romanian accounting normalization pass from an exclusively public approach to a mixed one.

Playfulness and Seriousness

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Elena Shliakhovchuk
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Video Games ◽  
21St Century ◽  
New Method ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Despite the early focus on the demonizing of video games, in the 1990s some researchers suggested that video games might help in developing some useful skills and might convert in a new method of learning. At the beginning of the 21st century, researchers came to the conclusions that video games are more than a source of fun, relaxation, and distraction, but they are stages for the discourse on cultural, social, and political practices and systems that foster conceptual and critical thinking on a wide variety of issues. The 21st century gamers themselves confessed that games have an impact on the way they think, the way they learn, and the way they see the world.

scholarly journals Inside communities, outside conventions: What is at stake in doing theology?

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn J. Legge
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Common Life ◽  
Global Commons ◽  
God's Love ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

When the way to proceed is uncertain and vision is hampered, we need to make a new compass to provide orientation and direction for assessment and renewal of theological enterprise. After sketching key challenges of the postmodern global terrain for theological work and community, I offer four "points" (practices) that have power to locate and guide Christian theologies and ethics toward 21st-century negotiations of "a new global commons," shared public spaces dedicated to a less violent and more mutual common life. I contend that what is at stake for those doing theology and ethics is relating to the crises of postmodern context in ways that express and practice the bearing of God's love in the world by shaping justice in communities where domination is resisted and religious practice can be both positive and subversive.

scholarly journals The Dialogue of Arts in Romanian Contemporary Drama

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-213
Author(s):  
Laura Bilic
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Continuous Work ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Way

Abstract The beginning of the 21st century is characterized in Romania by the emerging of a new generation of playwrights. Numerous actors or people coming “off the stage” begin to write drama, so that the playwrights become authors of the texts played on the stage. Thus, the playwrights join a trend that is common in Europe, being part of a category named by Bruno Tackels “les écrivains de plateau” - the writers of the stage. Nowadays, we witness a change in the way the young artists view drama - they do not only want to change the way of writing and performing drama, but they also want to change the world they live in. The contemporary performance has gradually lost its specificity by blending itself with visual arts, dance, music, technology, becoming a project. In our modern society the artists do not look for something meant to last forever, so the work of art becomes a continuous work in progress. Therefore, a bridge is being shattered - the bridge between nowadays and posterity.

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