scholarly journals Book Review: Brian Tracy, Something for Nothing, Why We Do the Things We Do. Jaico Publishing House, Mumbai, 2009, reprint 2011, p. 245, ISBN: 9788184950564

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Mangasini Katundu
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Bright Side

In his book Tracy discusses “the something for nothing” syndrome, he answers the main question, “why we do the things we do?” The author associates what we do the things we do with what he called “human nature”, that every individual has both the “bright side” and a “dark side” of his nature, an angel and a devil. According to the author these two forces compete continually in an individual’s mind and heart and hence, they control individual’s thoughts, feelings and actions (p. 2). He reminds everyone that, real life is different from dreams; people have various sweet dreams which sometimes may not come true. Life is difficult; we need to work hard to realize our dreams.

The Dark Side of Modernity (by Jeffery C. Alexander) Book Review

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-157
Author(s):  
Gönenç Uysal
Keyword(s):  
Dark Side

Alien Internment in John Galsworthy’s ‘The Bright Side’ and ‘The Dog It was that Died’

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-61
Author(s):  
Jill Felicity Durey
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Internment Camp ◽  
Bright Side ◽  
Second World ◽  
John Galsworthy

This article illuminates two short stories by John Galsworthy through examining them with the help of his diaries and letters, a handful of unpublished letters by his nephew from an internment camp and secondary historical sources. It argues that the stories, when read in conjunction with these sources, are highly revealing about human nature during Second World War and also about Galsworthy’s prescient fears concerning a second twentieth-century world war, which he did not live to see.

Witch-hunting, Cultural Revolution and the bright side of kinship

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Deng
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Bright Side ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

Purpose Many studies on witch killings in Africa suggest that “witchcraft is the dark side of kinship.” But in Chinese history, where patriarchal clan system has been emphasized as the foundation of the society, there have been few occurrences of witch-hunting except a large-scale one in the Cultural Revolution in 1966. The purpose of this paper is to explain the above two paradoxes. Design/methodology/approach Theoretical analysis based on preference falsification problem with regard to the effect of social structure on witch-hunting is carried out. Findings There is a “bright side of kinship” due to two factors: first, it would be more difficult to pick out a person as qualitatively different in Chinese culture; second, the hierarchical trust structure embedded in the Chinese culture can help mitigate the preference falsification problem, which acts as the leverage for witch-hunting. In this sense, an important factor for the Cultural Revolution is the decline of traditional social institutions and social values after 1949. Originality/value This paper is the first to advance the two paradoxes and offer an explanation from the perspective of social structure.

scholarly journals Recenzja monografii: Р.В. Белютин, Прагмасемантические и лингвоментальные проекции немецкого спортивного дискурса, Смоленск: Издательство СмолГУ, 2019. 336 s. ISBN 978-5-88018-641-9

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Narloch
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House

Book review: Belyutin, R.V. 2019. Pragmasemantic and linguomental projections of German sports discourse. Smolensk: SmolSU Publishing House. 336 pp. ISBN 978-5-88018-641-9.

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