The projection of colonialization and interculturalism throughout symbols in Forster's novel 'A passage to India'

Imperialism emerged in the late 19th century. Europe's supremacy in various areas of life which led to the view that Europe is above other parts of the world that are uncivilized and culturally fell behind, and that needed to be civilized. This attitude lead to negative phenomena such as racism - contesting the rights of other races and colonialism - conquering territories inhabitated by people of other cultures. The world seen from an imperialist perspective was most often the one colonized by Europe, postcolonial research has critized the way in which European colonial powers (especially England and France) created values of subordinate cultures and established relations between center and margins. However, the notion of discursive domination is spread quickly to all relations between colonizers and colonized, which is why this second group includes all gender and ethic groups that did not have cultural independece, but were marginalized and subjected to institutional repression. As different cultural minorities began to form resistance to agressive political, gender, and racial domination, postcolonialism also represents a disagreement with the passivity towards cultural supremacy which is symbolized in empires that no longer even existed. The novel A Passage to India represents Forster's interests in Indian culture, which was colonized by Great Britain. A Passage to India is an exploration of the spiritual and cultural contrast of the two cultures of East and West.

Media culture in modern society

The importance of media culture in contemporary society is extremely large because it shapes a modern man life, the creation of political attitudes and social behavior of individuals. The products of media culture, paintings, sounds and performances are increasingly organizing free time of a contemporary man, shaping his thinking and identity. Based on the content of radio, television, film, and new media technologies, a person creates an image of himself, his own potentials, values, success, as well as his own affiliation, a certain class, race, nationality, and thus media culture has a remarkable social significance. A number of relevant authors state that media culture shapes people's perceptions of the world, the value system, morality, good and evil. Worldwide, the contents of the media culture today constitute a general culture and are seen as the basis for new forms of global culture. A complex spectrum of actions that make media, primarily radio television, film, and media of modern technologies, creates the need for a more precise definition of the term media culture, bearing in mind its breadth and complexity. In this context, the main goal of this paper is to define the concept of media culture, in order to better understand all aspects, as well as the complexity of the whole that this term implies. Media culture is determined by the terms which provide an insight into a better understanding of this term, and in this paper they are given considerable attention. D. Kelner in the Media Culture section points to the following important determinants: a wide range of media resources that form an integral part of the media culture; performances created by the combination of picture and sound; creation of features and symbols of contemporary social life; media culture as a high technology culture (techno-culture); the relation between media culture and society; theory of media and cultures.

Students' perception of the International University of Novi Pazar on the exchange and transfer of knowledge through information technology

A characteristic of modern society in the last few decades is the increasingly powerful exchange and transfer of knowledge through information technologies that offer tools for the production, creation, collection, organization, use and storage of knowledge and information. The research was conducted among students of the International University of Novi Pazar, with indicators that indicate the degree of understanding and use of computers and the development of information literacy, after which young people should understand and rationally use information and communication technologies. Students provided answers to questions such as: how to access information and how to evaluate information in a youth support process related to research processes that enable young people to find, download and make relevance assessments, Everyday use of computer-aided technologies by young people also generates larger amounts of information that are difficult to manage. So, young people have a large amount of important information that needs to be recognized on the one hand, and understood on the other, and finally situated in a harmonious relationship, so for them, in computer and IT terms, complex tasks are set, such as how to choose the right technology and how to manage that information. Information management refers, among other things, to the ability of young people to take responsibility, fundamentally for the process of planning, organizing, coordinating and controlling.

Critical reception of Russell's 'History of western philosophy' and 'Wisdom of the West'

In this paper, the author critically considers the reception of one of the greatest thinkers of modern Western civilization, Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), analyzing his epochal works "History of Western Philosophy", "Wisdom of the West" and other writings. In addition to his other works in logic, mathematics and other scientific disciplines, I paid special attention to the political and legal dimension.

Crime of insurance fraud in criminal legislation of the Republic of Serbia and neighbour countries

The paper deals with the criminal offense of insurance fraud by analyzing the current provisions of the criminal legislation of the Republic of Serbia and countries in the region. From the neighbour countries, the author analyzes the provisions of the criminal legislation of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina regarding the prescribing of the criminal offense of insurance fraud. The aim of the paper is to point out different models of incrimination of this specific form of fraudulent behavior. In addition to comparative legal analysis, the author points out the types and forms of this criminal act, offering at the end of the paper suggestions for improving the activity in the field, counteracting this socially negative phenomenon.

Identity marks in the poetic worlds of Zaim Azemović and Faiz Softić

The paper deals with the poetic features of Zaim Azemović (1935 - 2015) i Faiz Softić (1958), the contemporary Sandžak poets, writers, publicists, essayists, critiques and researchers of folklore who have given the original poetic discourse to Sandzak-Bosniak and the entire Bosniak literature with their works, whereby enriching these literary traditions with new thematic-motive material and peculiar language expression. Zaim and Faiz shaped their artistic worlds with classic methodological acts, but also with modernistic literary and artistic techniques. Using the interpretative approach, in this paper we comparatively observe their most significant poetic accomplishments, basing the research on the hypothesis that identity mark significantly influenced the poetics of these two notable Sandžak poets. The richness and diversity of the opus of these two Sandžak and Bosniak poets, visible influences they left and are leaving on the contemporary literary messengers, and the esthetic qualities of their creativity, are the main incentive for choosing the authors and the corpus of works that are the subject of our research.

Hodonimy of the Montenegrin Polimlje

In this project, the author is giving a retrospective of hodonimy and it`s motivation in the Montenegrin Polimlje. Hodonyms are very important elements of historical development, changes, cultural and lingual processes and entire development of civilization. Abouth 232 hodonyms, wich give us the true picture of cultural athmosphere in this area, were written in the Montenegrin Polimlje. As the bearers of certain symbols, hodonyms represent different social, political and cultural pictures, as well as social frames. Hodonyms in the Montenegrin Polimlje are connected with some very important people from this area and with magnificient geographic items.

Relationship between time perspectives, socioedograpsic variables and life satisfaction

The problem of this research is to examine the relationship between dominant time perspectives, sociodemographic variables and life satisfaction.The aim of this research is to examine the possibility of successfully predicting life satisfaction by six dimensions of time orientation (positive past, negative past, hedonistic present, fatalistic present, positive future, negative future), gender, age and socioeconomic status. The sample included 136 respondents aged 18 to 60 years. The dimensions of the time perspective were operationalised by short version of Zimbardo's 18-item questionnaire. The construct of life satisfaction is operationalised by a scale whose authors are Diener et al. (1985). The assumed model, which includes six dimensions of time perspective, gender, age, and socioeconomic status, can explain 36% of the variance in life satisfaction. According to the results of the research, socioeconomic status, negative orientation towards the past, gender, fatalistic orientation towards the present and negative orientation towards future significantly contribute to the explanation of the variance of life satisfaction. Negative aspects of time orientation are (according to the research results) better predictors of life satisfaction than positive ones, because they include a depressive position, enslavement to failures and frustration, endless recycling of a bad past, feeling like a passive actor unable to change anything, belief that games are pre-set and that only negative outcomes are possible, which leads to strengthening of maladaptive patterns of thought and behavior, lack of will, withdrawal from life struggles. The outcome is a failure and dissatisfaction with life, which intensifies depressive rumors and leads to an even more negative view of oneself, one's own experience and possible chances in the future.

Contemporary linguistics of English language

The paper examines the influence of modern linguistics and the consequences of language reflection on both English language and global philology. A comparative analysis of preferences and lacks of traditional and modern linguistics represent a common view of the progress and the needs of the language. The paper aims to highlight several recent studies of modern linguists in the field of English linguistics such as Chomsky, Sapir, Halliday and Bloomfield as the representative of English speaking grammarians. Modern linguistics, as a set of different variations, raises the question of how and why language changes over time. It possibly may represent the basis for research on contemporary linguistics as a turning point for language change in the future, as well as the impact of society on language, change and universals.

Facebook groups as a tool in high education

The modern age is characterized by the Internet era, the rapid development of technology and new means of communication and education, including social networks. The aim of this paper is to examine the degree of utilization of Facebook in higher education by students, and educational tools within the network. The first part of the paper refers to definition of key terms in relation to the subject matter of the research, chapters on the social network Facebook in function of education and Facebook groups in education. This section also presents interpretations of previous researches, from published scientific papers and books, on the use of the Facebook social network in high education. The second part presents the research conducted for the purposes of this paper, which showed that a group of surveyed students from the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš use Facebook for educational purposes through Facebook groups. Finally, the results that led to the conclusion are summarized.