Turkish National Movement
Türk Ulusal Hareketi
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Turkish National Movement
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Turkish National Movement
More...Keywords: Chamoiseau; space; identity; Mentô
The article analyses the manner in which a spatial identity is defined for the Mentô, in Patrick Chamoiseau’s novel Texaco, showing the symbolic charge that pervades, by means of stylistic devices, the description of the physical space this type of character inhabits. Upon a more thorough analysis, the space inhabited by this type of shaman or “wiseman” proves to be significant on a symbolical level: indeed, the first Mentô, the one which stands at the beginning of the quest that both heroes of the novel in turn will undertake, lives on a border – the one that separates the territory of the Plantation prison from that of the rebellious Blacks, hidden in the forests of the mountains; whereas the space inhabited by the second Mentô resembles a valley of paradise, which seems to be hiding somewhere in the interstices of reality as we know it; both spaces seem to pertain of sacrality, to be linked to a “Force”, but their secret, slowly revealed throughout the novel, proves to lie not in the way they are linked to the land, not in their defining a root like identity, but in the way they take root in the sacred speak itself (la parole sacrée).
More...Keywords: Antonioni; Lynch; Desplechin; Cinema; The Beast; Myth of the One; Duality; Rivalry; Aesthetic
The obvious allusions to the Book of Revelations in the contemporary cinema are less remarquable than the onirical alterations of this Book in the imagination of some great filmmakers, especially Michelangelo Antonioni (L’Eclisse, 1962), David Lynch (Lost Highway, 1995) and more recently Arnaud Desplechin (Un conte de Noël, 2008). There is no link between these films, but a spiritual analogy, concerning their apocalyptic symbolism, beyond the evident difference of their aesthetic. Such a symbolism concerns the violent duality, a topic of these films, which determines not only the action of the script, but the aesthetic and architecture of the film. The myth of the divine Word, or the Only One, irradiates the Book of John. And this myth finds many echoes in these films, revealing the spiritual quest of Antonioni, Lynch and Desplechin. These creators are “poets”, and many great poets, like Rimbaud, are fascinated by the myth of the Beast: mythical incarnation of illusion, and a guilty model for every artist, confronted to the real world. In many ways, these films can be read like a modern “apocalypse”…
More...Keywords: Serbia; historiography; Great War; occupation; Montenegro; Thessaloniki Front; Yugoslavia; Yugoslav Question
Serbian historiography about World War I was analyzed having in mind the historical position and role of Serbia in the area of Western Balkans, the developed themes on the ground of the origin and course of the war, and its relation to European historiography as it has been developing during the 20th century. So are formed the nine groups of main themes, with the subgroups, and identified the most important authors according to their achievements or the themes they have worked on and intellectual connections they have had with European historiography. Also are identified the main subjects which have been the object of revisionism.
More...Keywords: case; grammaticalisation; preposition; spatial
The present paper deals with morphological, semantic and syntagmatic properties of French verbs with prefix “co-“. The methodological frame deemed most adequate for their description is "lexical decomposition". Among these verbs, there is a considerable number of those which designate symmetric relations (they follow the pattern x R y –> y R x). It is further argued that another common feature of these predicates is a compulsory presence of comitative phrase in their syntactic neighbourhood. After a short glimpse over word-formation problems arising within this class of verbs, the historical mechanisms responsible for the formal discrepancy between “co-“ and the corresponding preposition “avec” (other Romance languages are more conservative; cf. it. “La data del tuo arrivo coincide con quella della mia partenza”) are carefully scrutinized. Another step is a semantic description of French verbs with prefixe “co-“. The solution reached at suggests that the meaning of almost all of them incorporates a semantic constant WITH.
More...Keywords: homeschooling; home; schooling; education; legal; achievement; check; restrain; government; special interests; natural law; parental; rights; Albania; Europe
In the years following the collapse of communism in 1991, Albania allowed greater freedom in educational choice by abolishing the government monopoly on education and allowing private schools to operate. However, it is only now, two decades after the fall of communism, that Albania is moving towards officially recognizing the most natural and fundamental option for educating its citizens – allowing parents to educate their children at home. By looking at homeschooling from the perspectives of student achievement, individual freedom, and natural rights, this paper will show that it is good and proper for Albania – and all countries worldwide – to legally recognize the natural right of parents to homeschool their children. While homeschooling is the best option for some children, it may not be the best for all children. Homeschooling should be one option alongside public schools, private schools, private tutoring, and distance-learning programs. While this article focuses on homeschooling in Albania, relying on research from North America, it contributes to the wider discussion of homeschooling policy in Europe, where policies range from homeschooling being largely illegal in nations such as Bulgaria and Germany to being freely permitted with minimal regulation in a nation such as the United Kingdom.
More...Keywords: Bibliography; Slavic studies; Bulgaria; Bulgarian Academy of sciences; library
More...Dans la mémoire des roumains, le nom du général Henri Mathias Berthelot est étroitement lié surtout à l’activité de la mission militaire française, qui a détérminé la réfection, l’entraînement et la modernisation de l’armée roumaine, après l’échec enregistré pendant la campagne de 1916. Nommé commandant de la mission, le général français fut aussi l’un des amis fidèle des roumains et un défenseur actif des intérêts roumains devant les dirigeants alliés, pendant la guerre et lors de la Conférence de paix à Paris (1919-1920). Afin d’avoir une image plus vive des réalités éthniques des régions annexées à la Roumanie, il a entrepris un voyage en Transylvanie et Banat, en décembre 1918 et janvier 1919. Partout il a été chalheureusement accueilli, ayant la possibilité de constater personnellement que l’union des deux provinces au royaume de la Roumanie était l’espression de la volonté de la population majoritaire de l’espace intracarpatique. Cette constatation l’a détérminé ensuite d’informer le gouvernement français et le commandement des alliés du caractère juste de l’union des provinces roumaines et de légitimer, aux yeux du monde entier, cet important acte historique.
More...Keywords: embodiment; grounded cognition; culture; parental practices.
One way to understand the unfolding of human development is to consider it a culturally situated phenomenon. The present paper aims to provide a grounded perspective on how culture influences human development, specifically one in which shared practices, artifacts, ways of relating, and institutions become more important than the abstract norms of a culture in shaping development. We will analyze thus how development might become grounded in culture through the specific tools, cultural tasks and bodily actions that children from a culture are exposed to via parental practices. In the end, we discuss the implications of such a perspective for studying the interaction between culture and development.
More...Excerpt from Milan Kundera´s volume of essays, which will be published in 2005 at Europa Publishing House, Budapest. Translated by Pál Réz.
More...If we juxtapose Robert Merle’s historical novel, En nos vertes années, and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s book, The Beggar and the Professor, we are struck by the fact how many details in the novel are real – in the sense that they correspond to the sources, in this case Felix Platter’s diary, as used by Le Roy Ladurie, too. Real and fictional elements mingle without difficulty in the text of the historical novel. In fact, one of the directions, in which postmodern modifies the practice of a few historians, is mixing real and fictional elements (for example: in Simon Schama’s Dead Certainties). If we examine historical and literary narratives of the counter-revolutionary revolt in Vendée in 1793, we can state that historians use the same techniques as Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac to shape their texts, and through this they direct their readers’ sympathies towards the party that they side with. While these conclusions suggest that history is closer to literature than it is usually claimed, on the example of Simon Schama’s Citizens we can see, that history is still a different type of writing: historians might feel obliged to change their original point of view under the burden of the facts that they themselves enumerate in their texts.
More...Keywords: Eugene Ionesco; Exit the King
Projection of the dramatist’s fears, Exit the King resumes the archetype of the sick king in a secular space marked by death. Under the guidance of a Buddhist guru, he learns how to die. Ionesco turns away from the literary models he had in view, though taking over from them the idea of a reconciliation with his own self, of peaceful death, in a moment when his contemporaries considered death to be a taboo topic.
More...RECENZJA Sokol B.W. , Müller U., Carpendale J.I.M., Young A.R., Iarocci G. (red.) (2010), Self and Social Regulation. Social Interaction and the Development of Social Understanding and Executive Functions. Oxford: Oxford University Press
More...Keywords: Elopement; Ego-identity; Erikson’s Psycho-social Theory of Development
Despite the fact that an elopement becomes declining marriage practice in Bosnia, there are still a significant number of women who marry this way and who are able to share their knowledge on this cultural heritage. It is not call into question that elopement has a great sociological significance for young women. After elopement the marriage gains an achieved status and the girl gets stable position in the society as married women. However, the question posed in this paper is what does elopement imply from psychological point of view? Could it be considered as a sign of integrated ego-identity or does it just reflect youthful defiance and spirit of exploration. In addressing these questions, we relied on Erikson’s work as a theoretical framework and discussed the relation of elopement and ego-identity within his psychosocial theory of development.
More...Keywords: gender differences; spatial ability; occupational choices; training effects; role models; gender stereotypes
All over the world girls are still highly underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) subjects in school, and only a small percentage of women choose occupational careers in that field. The socially-influenced gender differences in spatial abilities – particularly in the ability to rotate two- or three-dimensional objects in one’s mind – are considered as a cognitive mediator of that gender gap. This paper gives an overview of the social causes and social consequences of the gender differences in spatial abilities. It focuses on sociocultural influences, including gender stereotypes (e.g. the phenomenon of the “stereotype threat”), and the importance of role models in family and school. Furthermore, personal factors like the ability-related self-concept and the effects of experience and training are taken into consideration. The results of empirical studies are reported which reveal that mental-rotation performance is strongly influenced by gender-specific differences in spatial experiences, role models, the ability-related selfconcept and socio-economic status. Finally, the paper discusses why and how women`s perceived lack of spatial abilities might lead to gender-typical educational and occupational choices.
More...Keywords: Auguste Gauvain; Yugoslav question; France; Third Republic; Serbia; journalism; politics
Augiste Gauvain, a French journalist and publicist, French representative in international institutions and missions, a productive journalist and author--publicist whose journalist texts were written on daily basis, in detail and well founded about more or less all more important European questions, especially Balkan matters, filled some twenty volumes with his articles. He devoted a num-ber of special studies to Balkan questions, the most important being The First Balkan War, The Second Balkan War, The Greek Question, The Yugoslav Questi-on.He remained a gray spot in Serbian and other Yugoslav historiographies until the break-up of Yugoslavia, having been mentioned only couple of times. However, since new relations of conflict, enmity and misunderstanding develop ed between Serbia and France, a significant breakthrough was made in the research of the French factor in the Yugoslav project, that started to be researched as an international, European project. In connection with that, Augiste Gauvain was researched too. The first important breakthrough was made by Professor Milorad Ekmečićin his study of the French research of ethnic nature of the Yugoslavs. Professor Ekmečićstudied important, often decisive foreign factors in the creati-on of the Yugoslav idea and in military-political, social and economic shaping of the Yugoslav area, and the Serbian area within it. In the above mentioned study he researched mutual influences and links between science and politics in the French and Serbian social environment, as well as the harmony between the two sciences and cultures, and even politics, based on the unity and kinship of the Yugoslav area and the people inhabiting it. Another important breakthrough was made by Professor Dušan Batakovićwith two collections of papers on French-Serbian--Yugoslav relations during the 19 th and 20 th centuries in that he as editor and author opened many questions and topics, including the professional and ideo-logical work of Augiste Gauvain. Gauvain’s activity was successfully dealt with also in the study of Stanislav Sretenovićwho examined rather the social environment of the individuals who dealt with us within it, than the contents of their perceptions of the Balkans, analyzing diplomatic and military activities in French-Yugoslav relations. With their rich contents and dynamics Gauvain’s career and work served us to examine some of the most important elements of the new, modern view of the Balkan, Yugoslav and Serbian area in the most important period of its reorganization at the turn of the 20 th century and during the Great War of 1914- 1918. The basis of his views on the Yugoslav question, that was very complicated due to intermingled presence and interests in the Balkans, created the ideas for which the Third Republic fought, the ideas of liberal, democratic and secular society, permeated with struggle for human and civic rights, new theoretical and methodological concepts in historical science.
More...Keywords: Ethics; Minors’ Euthanasia; End-of-life Decisions Making;
Euthanasia of minors is a medical procedure regulated and implemented in Belgium and Nederland. As all Euthanasia practices it is a topic very debated, especially in the field of medical ethics. This paper aim is to identify the literature published on this topic and to delineate the main perspectives of these practices. We collected articles published between 1st of January 2014 and 1st July 2018, treating about practices of euthanasia as a protocol for minors. 73 articles were selected from a total of 292 publications. We were looking to identify, in the same time, the context of the ethical debate on the topic and possible solutions or alternative to these practices.
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