Keywords: TV5 and "24 heures à Bucarest" in 2002;
The TV show „ 24 heures à Bucarest “, produced by TV5 on 27-28 of April, generated passion and discussions about Romania’s image in Europe. Mircea Vasilescu reunites, in this article, some comments about this TV show. They came from almost whole Europe.
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Keywords: the Cannes Film Festival 2002;
Alex. Leo Şerban suggests that, in this year, Cannes Film Festival was not as spectacular as TV shows and large mediatization wanted to present. The films were rather boring than revolutionary, the stars rather “politically correct” than aggressive.
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Keywords: media framing; presidential election; social construction of reality.
Important media outlets from Europe and US reported on the Romanian Presidential elections and the surprise winner using similar frames: the competition between Victor Ponta and the Transylvanian German Klaus Iohannis, the other former Romanian leaders, corruption vs. justice, and the Romanian diaspora and protests. Nevertheless, cultural peculiarities marked each media discourse and its approach to the event.
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Keywords: Tatar; Azerbaijan; human rights; Baku; energy; EU; gazprom; Russia; Ukraine; Pope Francis; Albania; religion; Romania; Ponta; politics; Crimea; Bekir; Kudrin;
Plus, thugs keep a Crimean Tatar scholar from a UN conference and winter gas supplies become the subject of talks. Around the Bloc is TOL's daily digest of the important, the trivial, the tragic, the weird, and the sober from its coverage region.
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Keywords: Finland; Turkey; Sami; Kurd; minority languages in education; linguistic diversity
This paper focuses on the educational system of two states with different cultural backgrounds. On the one hand, this paper examines the current situation of Sami teaching in Finland and on the other hand, it describes the development of Kurdish education in Turkey. Through this paper I point out how education in minority languages can contribute to the maintenance of linguistic diversity in the above mentioned multilingual societies. In the multilingual Sápmi area the existing linguistic relationships are constantly changing, while the concept of linguistic diversity is redefined. In the last half decade, Turkey began taking into account the reality of multilingualism of the linguistically heterogeneous state. Today there are several possibilities to study the Kurdish language as a mother tongue.
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Keywords: art; artist; political activism; society; mediator.
The works of art, as productive forces, cannot be delimited from the social ones, therefore the work of art is subordinated to the social laws, according to the terminology set out by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. There is no conceptual dissolution between art and society and the artistic production is shaped, even in a latent way, by social production. But there is a relationship between society and art that permanently tries to balance the two forces, i.e. to mediate and to negotiate the antagonisms resulting from the dispute over hegemony. The mediator is the artist himself, the only one who has civically and artistically assumed rights and obligations. The artist is the one who decides when to place himself within or outside society and he claims his statute according to where he stands between these coordinates.
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Keywords: U.S. presidential election; Barack Obama; John McCain; Bulgarian experts; George W. Bush; Septemvriiche; presidential elections
Barack Obama and John McCain get the once-over in Bulgaria’s capital city.
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Keywords: Calin Popescu-Tariceanu; George Copos; Dan Voiculescu; Miron Mitrea; Evenimentul Zilei; Center for Legal Resources
New transparency requirements uncover the hidden wealth amassed by Romanian officials.
More...Keywords: Romanian economy; results of the fiscal reform in Romania; institution buliding and clientelism; structural deficits in Romania; current account deficit in Romania; Romanian opposition;
Economic growth in Romania and reasons;
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Keywords: Renan mystique; theology; Catholic church
The article presents the principal aspects of the life and activity of the great German mystic, Meister Eckhart. The principal terms of his mystique are analyzed and explained. The author also presents the historical context of Meister Eckhart’s life, activity and main points of his life. As research material, the author used Meister Eckhart’s preaches and the literature dedicated to this theme.
More...Keywords: communication; competence; culture; language; companies; business environment
Business communication is how you communicate in your line of work. It is also a matter of human relationships. Good business communication is a must to meet the demands of the business environment. Most of us spend a lot of time communicating our knowledge, thoughts, and ideas to others. Your communication at the workplace can make all the difference between success and failure. Communication is described by many as the single most important factor in choosing managerial level staff, yet despite this fact many people are unable to convey their thoughts and they are struggling to communicate effectively.
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Until 2011, the “Sanda Voiculescu” Department of Architectural History & Theory and Heritage Conservation (DAHTHC) at “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism (IMUAU) has published an yearbook documenting the research activity carried out by its faculty: published works, lectures, research projects, etc. The newly established journal of “Studies in History and Theory of Architecture” has also taken over this mission. The list below briefly presents the scientific activity carried out in the last two years by our faculty, along with the doctoral theses completed and defended within the Department.
More...Keywords: space/non-space, Ioan Petru Culianu’s short stories
In the volume „The Pale Parchment” by Ioan Petru Culianu, there are described some spaces favourable to communication: the exhibition, the museum, the camp, the store etc. Emphasizing the changes in the postmodern society, the author stresses the idea of individual alienation. The places favourable to communication in contemporary society are various, increased in number, improved in comfort and much promoted by mass-media. However, they seem suitable for the emigrant’s or treveller’s soul, who has left his universe willing to fit in some political, economic, spiritual new mentalities, finding clear differences in belonging and identification. The concrete individuality of the spaces described in the fantastic Culian short stories and stories creates the illusion of non-space related to non-time, as instruments of adjustment of individual conscience related to collectivity. In these creation, the laws of the ordinary world seem suspended in the hope of configuration of some solvable dilemas only at certain levels of reality.
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Comments about Eva Behring's book "Scriitori români din exil 1945-1989" - Editura Fundatiei Culturale Române. The book is an evaluation of the Romanian writers in exile. The author gives us cooridinates of the exile after 1945. There are 3 succesive waves: between '40-'50 - the exile of the intellectuals that had links with the extreme right movement or on the opposite side, the democratic writers, etc.
More...Keywords: economic costs; environmental costs; agricultural inputs; agricultural emissions; environmental impact;
This paper evaluated the effect of agricultural input (fertilizer) on carbon emission (methane and nitrous oxide) in South Africa and the likely environmental costs of such emissions. The paper applied a quantitative research design and data were from secondary sources, mainly from the archives of Index Mundi, the US EPA and the World Bank. The Pearson correlation results show that fertilizer input is related to agricultural nitrous oxide and methane emissions at a P-value of 0.027 and 0.05 respectively. This thus, confirms that fertilizer input causes an agricultural induced emission of green house gases (nitrous oxide and methane). Furthermore, findings from the estimation of potential environmental costs of methane and nitrous oxide emissions showed that these have had rising and steady environmental costs to the society, which, unfortunately is born by the society. Consequently, the study recommends agricultural related emission policy to enable farmers internalise some of the environmental costs of agricultural inputs that are born by the society, which is the socio economic costs. Such further research should determine a fair model that may be used to internalise environmental costs of agricultural inputs but to avoid consumers of agricultural produce from paying for such costs.
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