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SOULS IN EXILE AND LOST IDENTITIES IN HOTEL DU LAC

HOTEL DU LAC’TAKİ SÜRGÜN RUHLAR VE KAYIP KİMLİKLER

Author(s): Şeyda İnceoğlu / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/2015

Keywords: Anita Brookner, flâneur, Hotel du Lac, gender, identity, alienation

In every age, women are intruded on by patriarchal society which breaks into their lives and their bodies, and so commodifies them, to be used and abused by the patriarchs as tools of the ideological male point of view. In Hotel du Lac, the protagonist Edith Hope, writer of romantic fiction under the pseudonym Vanessa Wilde, is sent to Hotel du Lac for rehabilitation since she reacts against the voices of patriarchal ideology. This study, establishing a connection between the setting and the atmosphere of the novel with that of detective fiction, will analyse Edith’s desire to be in control of her own life while ignoring patriarchal societal norms. The theory of the alienation of meaning in the detective story will be analysed in terms of the protagonist Edith Hope’s alienation both from herself and her society in which she is seen as a threat, either as a detective or a victim, who is awakened to the restoration of disembodied signs in the setting of Hotel du Lac.

The paratactic sequences and their translation

Les enchaînements paratactiques et leur traduction

Author(s): Mihaela Visky / Language(s): French / Issue: 10/2011

Keywords: traduction; parataxe; roman policier; démarche sémasiologique; démarche onomasiologique;

Les constructions paratactiques imposent une implication plus profonde du traducteur dans les phases de compréhension et de réexpression du texte. Pendant l’étape de restitution du sens dans la langue cible, le traducteur se trouve coincé entre son désir d’expliciter l’implicite et son devoir de respecter le vouloir-dire et le style de l’auteur. En guise d’illustration, nous présentons quelques exemples d’enchaînements paratactiques extraits d’un roman policier français et nous analysons et justifions les variantes de traduction retenues.

Exports and Growth in Romania – A Causal Relation?

Exports and Growth in Romania – A Causal Relation?

Author(s): Monica Ioana Pop Silaghi / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2007

Keywords: economic growth in Romania;

Is there a causal relation between exports and growth in Romania? This is the question to which in this paper we will try to answer. To separate a deterministic relation of a causal one is a very important task of the economists. A positive correlation between two phenomena does not necessarily imply the existence of a causality between them. The findings of the econometric analysis suggest that an outward-looking must be correlated with a good structure of exports in order to obtain a high level of economic growth.

Philo(logy) - great!

Filo, meserie!

Author(s): Oana Tănase / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 04+05/2001

Chapters from the novel "Filo, meserie!". Colective novel, it has "7+1" authors, a novel about the University environment, a humorous and disinhibated work.

THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE

THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE

Author(s): Monica Meruţiu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2008

For nineteen centuries the relationship between Judaism and Christianity has been tensioned, delicate and changing We are witnessing an unprecedented relationship between Christianity and Judaism, a time of historical reconciliation of the two faiths. „The Jewish problem” was in fact a European problem, because „the Jews were not only object and victim, they were also the ones through which to Europe it was presented a mirror-twisted and filled with passion in which the Europeans saw reflected their own identity problems. (Y. Yovel, Hegel, Nietzsche şi evreii. O enigmă întunecată).

Stories for Children with a Past

Povesti pentru copii cu trecut

Author(s): Radu Ciobanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 06/2014

Gender stereotypes and in-group bias in early adolescence

Gender stereotypes and in-group bias in early adolescence

Author(s): Mirela Tanasov,Monica Secui,Monica Farkas / Language(s): English / Issue: 11/2013

Keywords: gender stereotypes; gender flexibility; early adolescence; in-group bias

Adolescence is considered crucial for gender development due to major changes characterizing this period, and recent theoretical analyses and research examine the trajectory of gender role flexibility. The present study is focused on the gender stereotypes in early adolescence and on the in-group bias. One hundred and two boys and girls aged 10-14 years completed a set of measures based on Children’s Occupations, Activities and Traits Scale (Liben & Bigler, 2002) designed to reveal the gender flexibility in occupations and respectively activities domains. A second sample of 138 adolescents aged 13-14 years undertook a task designed to assess the gender stereotypes in terms of personality trait and the in-group bias, the 30 traits included being selected from Bem Sex Role Inventory (Bem, 1974). The results of our cross-sectional study indicated higher levels of gender flexibility of older participants compared to the younger ones, of girls compared to boys, and also highlighted the in-group favoritism and out-group derogation in the case of adolescents of both genders.

XVIIth century Transylvanian printings in the collections of Mures County Library

Tipărituri transilvănene din secolul al XVII-lea, în colecţiile Bibliotecii Judeţene Mureş

Author(s): Olivia Monica Avram / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2016

Keywords: old book; Transylvania; handwritten notes; Szenczi Kertész Ábráham; Debreceni Ember Pál

Research of old holdings held by public libraries might trigger surprising results as for identification of some rare printings or reconstruction of historical libraries that were held, at a certain moment, by different personalities of culture or institutions. The extensive old book holdings held by Mures County Library comprise two great collections, that from Special Collections Office. Teleki Library and that from the Culture Palace. This study presents four titles of Transylvanian old book from the latter half of XVIIth century, printed in Cluj and Sibiu by renowned typographers of the time: Szenczi Kertész Ábráham, Veresegyhazi Mihaly and Tótfalusi Kis Miklos; the authors of the works are also remarkable personalities of the culture from the XVIIth century Transylvania: György Komáromi Csipkés, Pataki István, Szathmárnémethi Samuel or Debreceni Ember Pál.

Databases. Sui-generis protection – protection beyond originality. Disregard of the public domain

Bazele de date. Protecţia sui-generis – protecţia în afara originalităţii. Desconsiderarea domeniului public

Author(s): Monica Lupaşcu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: databases; sui-generis right; copyright; lack of originality; public domain; free use; Database Directive;

This research focuses on databases are regulated under Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases. There also are multiple references to Law no.8/1996 on copyright and related rights, implementing the provisions in the aforementioned directive. The work mainly analyzes certain effects that sui-generis protection has over the public domain. The research attempts to demonstrate that the current regulation of the databases actually neglects the interests correlated to the public domain. The effect of such a legal text is that it leads to the abusive development of databases where the public domain (i.e., any unprotected piece of information, such as news, ideas, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, etc.) becomes encapsulated, making it available for certain private interests only, the access to the same being thus indirectly regulated. The paper starts by explaining the sui-generis right and its origin. Databases were first mentioned in the document “Green Paper on Copyright (1998)”, which clearly shows that database protection was developed to cover the information that cannot be protected in the scientific and industrial field. To support the opinion regarding the impact upon the public domain, the author brings certain arguments, most of them relying on the First Report regarding the Public Consultation of 2004 regarding the necessity of the sui-generis right. Certain references are made to some specific cases, such as “British Houseracing Board versus William Hill and Fixture Marketing Ldt”. The ruling of the ECJ in this case is of great relevance with regards to the support of the public access to information corresponding to restrictive environments resulting from the activity of the database developer, because, in the absence of the sui-generis right, all this information could be freely accessible and used.

Virgil Gheorghiu's Literary Activity Reflected in Securitate Archives

Virgil Gheorghiu's Literary Activity Reflected in Securitate Archives

Author(s): Iuliu-Marius Morariu / Language(s): English / Issue: 12/2018

Keywords: legionary movement; 25th Hour; Romanian exile from France; anti-communism; novels;

Using information provided by former Securitate Archives, the author tries in this research to investigate the way how the literary activity of Virgil Gheorghiu, one of the most important writers of Romanian exile from France were presented in the informative notes written by the agents of that institution. Their way of understanding his work and ideas, the errors of their perception but also other aspects are therefore emphasized there. Also, their attitude towards his anti-communist perceptions and the value of his novels is presented there together with their attempts to get closer to him using the Romanian Orthodox Patriarch Justinian Marina, his parents who were living in Neamţ county, other relatives and some of the Securitate agents, in order to convince him to visit Romania. The way how his bad relationships with the other members of the exile have influenced his image is also a topic developed in this research.

The Romanian Literary Exile, between Drama and Lucidity

Exilul literar românesc, între traumă și luciditate

Author(s): Iulian Boldea / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 05/2016

Keywords: exile; Romanian literature; drama; existentialism; Communism;

The essay aims to present the main Romanian writers who wrote most of their books in exile, during the Communist regime, the leading voices of the Romanian exile being Monica Lovinescu and Virgil Ierunca.

Moral and religious training – education students for environmental

Moral and religious training – education students for environmental

Author(s): Monica Opriş,Dorin Opriş / Language(s): English / Issue: 10/2012

Keywords: Religious Education; environmental education; teaching models; youth education;

The issue of environmental education is one of the most important issues for the contemporary world. The human relationship with the environment and especially, the human attitude towards it seemed a solved problem a century ago, but in the last decades, it has become a real provocation for more and more people, decision makers, from different backgrounds. If we refer only to the need to maintain a clean environment around us, we have already made an important step for training the young generation. However, the environmental education aims to go much further and it wants to identify viable formative models in the education of today, so students can develop their personality with an acceptable level of understanding their role and place in the created world. In this context, religious and moral formation can bring a significant support for this new aspect of education, in particular, through the arguments based on biblical texts, which you can make to students of different ages. In terms of teaching, to achieve these objectives, there is a set of principles and appropriate methods and we offer some suggestions for their emphasis and integration into current educational context. Obviously, an authentic environmental education integrates models for emphasizing the message that the nature often offers to the man in search of his own identity

Ideology and representation of Vlach Romanian online. Between linguistic activism and unengaged language use

Ideology and representation of Vlach Romanian online. Between linguistic activism and unengaged language use

Author(s): Annemarie Sorescu Marinković,Monica Huţanu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

Keywords: Vlachs; Vlach Romanian; internet; minority languages; Eastern Serbia;

This paper offers a brief review of the main online outlets for the variety of Romanian spoken in Eastern Serbia (Vlach Romanian), exploring the possible functions the internet plays for minority language communities in general and focusing on its role in the formation of active communities of collaborative minority language producers. We will first briefly introduce the Vlach community and their language, Vlach Romanian, and examine how it is used online by the main actors involved in the debate regarding the origin and status of their language (which we call the independentists and the reintegrationists), but also by non-engaged members of the Vlach community, who promote the active use online of this mostly oral variety. The main online initiatives we present are Paun Durlić’s website, the website of Matka Vlahilor association and the Vlasi na kvadrat Facebook page. We contend that the internet activity, both of the language activists and of the unengaged members of the community, mirrors their offline, real-world ideologies, but, at the same time, challenges the ideologies of contempt generally surrounding minority languages.

Diversity faced with cultural inequalities

Diversity faced with cultural inequalities

Author(s): Monica Geanina Coca / Language(s): English / Issue: 28/2019

Keywords: culture; intercultural communication; education; inequalities; cultural code; diversity;

As the main means of reflecting national identity, the cultural capital of a society encompasses that cumulus of values, symbols behavioral and thinking norms and aspirations as they have been accumulated and assimilated by individuals through the educational processes. Circumscribed to the so-called “cultural code”, these features can have both positive and negative effects on intercultural communication and this is precisely what we will pursue through an analysis based on a sociological inquiry by survey, conducted on a sample of Romanian and foreign students belonging to different cultural and linguistic spaces and enrolled in the preparatory year at the Ştefan cel Mare University. The paper will therefore emphasize the necessity of the thoroughgoing study of the inequalities that are generated by the subjective perception of reality and education’s role in homogenizing them.

THE ABSENCE OF PARENTS IN CHILD’S LIFE AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS PHENOMENON FOR EDUCATIONAL

THE ABSENCE OF PARENTS IN CHILD’S LIFE AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS PHENOMENON FOR EDUCATIONAL

Author(s): Corina Iurea / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: migration; divorce; abandonment; parents’ absence;

Poverty and modernisation of society increasingly brought many changes within the family. Fora better living standard of for lack of stable income, parents nowadays resort to various means to meettheir expenses and fulfil their needs. The absence of one or both parents from family life is rife today dueto the following causes: a parent or both migrate abroad for a better job, divorce, death or abandonment.The paper analyzes the effects that this phenomenon - the absence of parents in a child's life - has on theirformation as an individual.

THE “SOCIAL MEDIA TURN”. THE PUBLIC SPACE AND THE NEW VISIBILITY OF POLITICIAN WOMEN IN POST-COMMUNIST ROMANIA

LE « SOCIAL MEDIA TURN ». L’ESPACE PUBLIC ET LA NOUVELLE VISIBILITÉ DES FEMMES POLITICIENNES EN ROUMANIE POSTCOMMUNISTE

Author(s): Daniela Roventa-Frumusani,Ana Niculescu-Mizil / Language(s): French / Issue: 24/2018

Keywords: public space; Facebook; electoral campaign; women political leaders in post communist Romania;

In a semio-discursive approach, the authors first seek to put the issue of public space within the technoscape 2.0. In a second step, they propose to analyze the semio-discursive representations of women politicians and the perceptions of journalists and public about the image of women politicians during the last presidential election campaign of November 2014 The main objective is to see how are structured and perceived (by the public and the experts) the discursive and iconic constructions of the women in the last presidential campaign. In conclusion is discussed the perspective of the gender stereotypes deconstruction.

VIRGIL GHEORGHIU’S WAR NOTES REFLECTED IN SECURITATE DOCUMENTS

VIRGIL GHEORGHIU’S WAR NOTES REFLECTED IN SECURITATE DOCUMENTS

Author(s): Iuliu-Marius Morariu / Language(s): English / Issue: 6/2020

Keywords: Securitate; Nazist; Legionary Movement; Anti-Semite; scandal; Romanian exile from France;

Using unpublished information from Securitate Archive (where there are kept six dossiers on Virgil Gheorghiu’s name, all of them containing information regarding his family, life activity, preferences, friends, his relationship with the Romanian Orthodox Church and its head, Patriarch Justinian Marina and other relevant aspects that could be used in a certain moment to convince him to cooperate with Bucharest regime), this research brings into attention Virgil Gheorghiu’s war notes, published during the Second World War in the books: The banks of Dniester are burning, I fought in Crimeea and With the submarine at the siege of Sevastopol (containing his impressions from the battlefield, interviews or descriptions of certain episodes lived by him), that will also influence his life in Paris and the one as a writer in Romanian French diaspora. Fragments of those books, chosen by Virgil Ierunca, translated into French language and cutted out from the context will make Gabriel Marcel (who foreworded his masterpiece, The 25th Hour) and all his friends and supporters to consider him as a Nazist and an anti-Semite (nobody took into attention at that time the fact that he married a Jew lady). Noticing the impact of this book in the French space, we have tried to see there how they were seen by Securitate Agents and if they can be found in their information reports.

Quarantine humour as a coping mechanism. A centennial “dialogue”

Quarantine humour as a coping mechanism. A centennial “dialogue”

Author(s): Stanca Măda,Monica Gomoescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

Keywords: quarantine humour; coping mechanism; cartoons; Spanish flu; Covid-19;

Quarantine humour functions as a coping mechanism transcending a time lapse of one century between the 1918-1919 Spanish influenza pandemics and the 2020 Covid-19 ongoing crisis. The study aims at observing the main concerns related to the infections and their consequences for both the individuals and the societies. The paper focuses on the analysis of fifteen cartoons, six of them published in a newspaper in 1918-1919 and the rest in 2020 online media and social networks. The findings support the idea that pandemic humour is used not only for coping with the fear of death or illness, but also with coping with more mundane issues such as lack of commodities, losing one’s job, beauty concerns, online schooling or the lack of implication in solving the crisis on behalf of the authorities.

EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING METHODS USED IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY OF EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY OF MADRID, SPAIN

EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING METHODS USED IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY OF EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY OF MADRID, SPAIN

Author(s): Leila Bardasuc,Jose Luis Martinez Rubio,Nicusor Marcel Udrea,Monica Delia Domnica / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Keywords: creativity development; innovative teaching; practical activities; teaching methods;

The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of various teaching methods used in higher education and the perception of the students regarding these methods. In order to determine the possible ways to obtain strategic advantages and benefit from the strengths, the university has to know what drives foreign students in choosing a certain study program, even if it is outside their country of origin. At the same time, knowing the disadvantages that prevent them from doing so, helps the university include ways to correct the weaknesses or to offer solutions to them. The students, participating in this research, are enrolled at the European University in Madrid, from different study programs and degrees (license, master and doctoral programs) and were asked to answer a questionnaire about the use of teaching methods, about their perceptions upon effective teaching and the reasons that have determined them to choose to follow a study program. The results were in favor of a higher use of projects, group activities and case studies during classes and seminars at the European University of Madrid and of using new technologies in the educational system (e-learning, simulations, use of intranet, and activities in laboratories). As a primer characteristic searched for when choosing a study program, the students mentioned practice, mainly for developing abilities useful for applying for a job as soon as possible.It is, therefore, important to analyze the teaching methods and this research helps us understand how students see the teaching process and which are the methods that help them to better understand and to be more active during classes.

The Romanian Orthodox Church in the Diaspora in Father Virgil Gheorghiu's Viewpoint

Biserica Ortodoxă Română din diaspora în viziunea Părintelui Virgil Gheorghiu

Author(s): Maxim (Iuliu-Marius) Morariu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 3/2021

Keywords: diaspora;French exile; Romanians; Visarion Puiu; Romanian Securitate;preaching;

Using his writings, but also the documents provided by the Romanian Securitate Archives or the monographs, studies and articles dedicated to him, the author of the present research tries there to emphasize the way how the Romanian Orthodox from Paris is understood by the notorious writer and priest Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu. Translated in 40 languages and screened with Anthony Queen as a main character (The 25th Hour, 1967), he is for sure one of the most important voices of the Romanian culture from the 20th century and it is one of the thinkers that are still investigated and discovered nowadays. For this reason, we have tried to emphasize an important aspect of his work and activity and to show how, using his skills as a priest, he will present and preserve the Romanian spirituality in exile, how he managed to create relationships with the most important representatives of other Churches and in the same time, how he used his writer skills in order to promote his Church or to prevent the attempts of the Romanian Securitate to discredit it.