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THE TOPOLOGICAL SPACE IN GOD`S MIND

Author(s): Walter Gomide / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: topological and metaphysical situation; God`s Mind; thinking; creativity;

In this article, I try to develop my thesis presented in the first volume of the IJTPS, according to whichthe possible worlds constitute "points" in the Mind of God. From this infinity of points which are possibleworlds, the Divine Logos chooses the best of possible worlds - according to the Leibzian thesis -, and thischosen possible world must pass, through the action of the Divine Logos (the metaphysical causation),from the status of dimensionless point to the mathematical continuum that structure the physicalmathematicalWorld. However, before being recognized as a mathematical structure capable of being thebackground of the physical phenomena, the mathematical continuum that emerges from the best possiblepossible world passes through its stage of pure topological space situated in the Divine Logos, and it isthis topological and metaphysical situation that will be covered here in this article.

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THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

Author(s): Victoria Verdeş / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: education; personality; development; man; knowledge;

The aim of this study is to explain the role of education individual development and progress and toexplain the dynamic relationships among these concepts. The education aims at forming a personality inaccordance with the objective requirements of the society, but also of the individual. Like any socialphenomenon, education has implicitly a historical character. It has evolved with society, evolving andchanging according to the transformations that take place within the society. The relationship betweeneducation and society in a healthy way explain the highly dynamic structure of education process.

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TEACHING ENGLISH COLLOCATIONS AS MARKS OF LINGUSITIC AND CULTURAL IDENTITY

Author(s): Antoanela Marta Mardar / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: collocational competence; communicative competence; cultural identity;

Starting from the general view that collocations represent one of the most important tools that speakers can use in communication in order to manifest their linguistic and cultural identity, the present paper aims at demonstrating that teaching collocations should not be limited to highlighting their linguistic specificity, but should also take into consideration pointing out their cultural markedness. Moreover, since collocations are agreed to be restricted according to the context in which they are used, teachers should consider gradually moving from practicing collocations in general contexts to practicing collocations in specific contexts meant to raise the learners’ awareness of the various identities they may acquire when using such fixed lexical patterns. If emphasis is laid on both the linguistic and cultural specificity of collocations and on the possibility of using them according to a certain identity which is envisaged, learners may become more aware of how important the correct and appropriate use of collocations is in both their native language and in any foreign language they might learn. As a result, learners are likely to pay more attention to collocations, to use them more correctly, thus developing their native and foreign language - collocational competence.

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INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION - DEVELOPING PRESENTATION SKILLS

Author(s): Carmen Opriţ-Maftei / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: presentation skills; public speaking skills; intercultural communication skills;

This endeavour is part of a broader project, which will materialize in a students’ book. It is designed in anattempt to help them improve their communication, presentation and public speaking skills on the onehand, and to enhance their self-esteem and confidence on the other, thus boosting their marketabilitywhen they leave school and enter the workforce. The present paper introduces the rationale and themethodology used in teaching the structure, rules and strategies of effective oral presentations to nonnativeESP students in general and Business English students in particular. Subsumed under the categoryof important professional skills, presentation skills are regarded as a prerequisite of the present-dayworking environment in addition to hard skills and formal qualifications. A good command of Englishand an excellent ability of expressing the desired message or presenting a view or an idea clearly,concisely and confidently increases considerably students’ chances for future employment.

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THEISM AND METHODOLOGICAL NATURALISM,

Author(s): John R. Gilhooly / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: Methodological Naturalism; Theism; Occasionalism; Induction;

No theist should hold that scientific accounts of the world are (or could be) comprehensively true becauseof the nature of methodological naturalism and induction. First, periods of so-called normal science treatregnant theories as true, but induction about the history of science tells us that we have little reason to beconfident that these judgments are in fact true. Hence, induction about the history of science countsagainst our ability to claim that contemporary theories produced by induction are true. But, that is selfdefeating.Second, no theist can avoid the specter of occasionalism. Suppose an apple falls on your head.The naturalistic account of what happened is that certain constants and spatial relations made it the casethat the apple struck you in the head. The miraculous account might be that God himself was the agentthat struck you with the apple. To the observer, it might be the case that there is no empirical differencebetween the two circumstances. Methodological naturalism does not have the power to show that thesecond account is false even though it is forced to conclude that the first account is true. But, that isarbitrary. So, while methodological naturalism is problematic for the naturalist, it is even more so for thetheist.

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THE SACRED AS A PRIORI ELEMENT IN THE “STRUCTURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS”

Author(s): Ion Cordoneanu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: sacred; Dasein; a priori; real – reality; unifying principle;

In this paper, I attempt to interpret one of the fundamental theses of phenomenology of religion, whichstates that “the sacred is part of the structure of consciousness” (Eliade). For archaic man, something canbe acknowledged as real only if it possesses the determination of sacred. The category of sacred is, infact, the determination that gives the possibility of something to be acknowledged as real. Eliade’sconcept of sacred can be understood through the categories of reality (Kant) and being (Heidegger). Withthis starting point, we can consider that the cognitive science undertaking of religion cannot ignore whatphenomenology of religion ultimately claims in reference to the sacred: it is a unifying principle and anobjective reality.

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AN EXISTENTIAL MODEL FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SAINT MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR

Author(s): Gina Luminița Scarlat / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: existence; theological model; philosophical perspectives; Aristotelian terms;

By taking a brief look at the history of human thinking, we find that people are constantly preoccupied byexistence. From the perspective of cosmological models, one can even speak of their philosophical andscientific history. In Greek theology, Saint Maximus the Confessor is the author of an existential modelthat integrates both the cosmological and the anthropological dimensions. Its particularity consists of thefact that it describes the fundamental stages of existence in terms that are found in the Platonic andAristotelian philosophies. This vision is permeated by the pre-Christian Greek philosophical tradition inwhich Saint Maximus found elements compatible to Christianity. His existential model is based on theChristian revelation expressed in philosophical and theological concepts, with an obvious tendency forobjectivity. The three coordinates of Saint Maximus’ existential model are existence - the good existence– the eternal existence. The fundamental concepts of Saint Maximus’ existential model that determine thequality of the human way of living are nature, power, energy, movement, and free will. More specifically,the way in which the formation of good habits is described by reference to the rationale of humanexistence reflects a hermeneutical capacity that synthesizes Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics and Christianethics. For this reason, Saint Maximus’ existential model can be a reflection base for contemporaryphilosophy and anthropology.

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FAMOUS CRIMINAL PHRASES: LIBERTÉ, ÉGALITÉ, FRATERNITÉ

Author(s): Ivan Ivlampie / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: freedom; equality; republic; revolution; crime;

The history of mankind has recorded numerous proverbial phrases of great cultural significance. Thepresent study aims to highlight some of them by focusing on phrases with socio-political significance. Byenumerating some of them, we will retain only one for further discussion, considering the example chosenenlightening for our intention of carrying out a much broader study. From the ancient divide et impera orthe mediaeval limpieza de sangre, under the scrutiny of the Inquisition pyres, moving on, to the modernage, to find phrases such as liberté, égalité, fraternité, arbeit macht frei, что де́лать?, or time is money.Beyond the universal “loudness” of these phrases, they conceal discrimination and crimes againsthumanity and, at the same time, speak volumes of the character of the peoples from which they emanated.In order to illustrate these theses, the present paper will focus on the phrase Freedom, Fraternity, Equality.

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FROM PHENOMENON TO REPRESENTATION. PHYSICAL SPACE AND LOGICAL SPACE– TRANSCENDENTAL COMPLEMENTS

Author(s): Iulian GRIGORIU / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: Wittgenstein; reprezentationism; mathematics; logical space; phase space; grammatical space;

In this article I propose to investigate the mechanism by which we represent a certain phenomenon, howwe fit into similar phenomena, whether this representation is unique, unitary, which philosophical andlogico-ontological resources intervene in such situations. Graphical, formal, logical, conceptualexpression in the field of knowledge is not unique, but reflects a certain natural connection between thephenomenon and its form of representation, which is why we use the term representationism. It is properto mathematics, physics, logic, sociology, psychology and other disciplines. The relativization of therepresentative framework of science and implicitly of mathematics is very visible in Wittgenstein's work.There are several opinions under discussion on the theoretical model followed by the Austrianphilosopher from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to his later writings. But they all gain unity in the lightof the concept of representationism that I support. In this article, I want to stop only at the physicalisticfiliation of reprezentaţionism, expressed by the connection between the Space of phases in physics andLogical Space (conceived by Wittgenstein). This connection is one of a transcendental possibility: asspace and time are a priori intuitions (not concepts, not empirical results), intuitions that underlie thecoordinates of physics, the same transcendental contact I have with the existential coordinates of truth ("itexists" and "does not exist": "truth" and "false") that are logically and ontologically coordinates. Here wehave in mind the fusion of Space of phases in physics (Hertz, Boltzmann) and the Wittgenstein LogicalSpace that prefigures the same author's Grammatical Space, as a move from Kantian transcendentalism toconstructivism and conventionalism.

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CHRISTIAN ETHICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Author(s): Stefan Florea / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: Christian ethics; human rights; freedom; responsibility; God;

In the present study I want to emphasize that only in a saving relationship with God we can speak of theso-called human rights, the human being and continuing to be what he is, only when he centres andstabilizes in God. From our point of view, we will analyse the relationship between human rights andChristian ethics, which common or discordant points of view exist between the two, if they are perfectlycompatible or irreconcilable. Christian ethics recognizes the revelated foundation of these rights, andplaces them at the will of the Creator and the divine in the human being. As a model of respecting humandignity, human rights and freedoms, the Church offers God-the Creator Himself, the Saviour, andPerfection of Man.

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ROMANIA IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT OF THE 1918

Author(s): Mihaela Denisia Liușnea / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: 1918; Eastern Europe; international relations; power balance; Romania;

The beginning of 1918 was difficult for the whole of Eastern Europe, as it began with a strong imbalancein the system of power balance, through the disappearance of the former Tsarist Empire following the"Russian failure of 1917", as Marshal Al. Averescu, the chaos and the expansion as a scourge ofBolshevism among the soldiers on the front, still in the Entente camp, still alongside the Romanian army,on the front of Moldova, in front of the Austro-Hungarian army. Following the military anarchy, therevolt against the Russian commanders, and even their killing, resulted in the breaking of the front, theRomanians allies being themselves assaulted, so only a chance made this state of affairs no opportunityfor the Austro-Hungarians to dismantle the Romanian state. A tough year for Romania, which had lostsome of its territory and was blackmailed to choose between a territory that had been unjustly abducted in1812 - Bessarabia and another territory that belonged to Dobrogea - was recovered in 1877. In addition,on January 13, 1918, the state of war with Soviet Russia was established. On the other hand, internationalrelations presuppose arguments and justifications as the basis of discussions and negotiations, and thesewere offered not only by history but also by the actual decisions and actions taken by the King and thecountry, by its men, the military, the people politicians and diplomats.

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THE PARTICULARITIES OF TEACHER-CHILD RELATIONSHIP THAT SUPPORTS SOCIO-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

Author(s): Camelia Voicu,Delia Voicu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: socio-emotional development; preschool education; teacher-child relationship; emotional support;

The development of preschooler`s socio-emotional skills depends, on the one hand, on the personalfactors of the child (as temperamental, motivational and even cognitive factors) and on the other hand onthe quality of the two primary social backgrounds of the child ( amily and kindergarten). Socio-emotionallearning begins in the first year of life, under the influence of parental educational practices. The impactthat family emotion socialization has on the emotional and social development of the child can beobserved and modeled in the context of formal educational actions in the kindergarten. Here, the mostimportant factor for the socio-emotional development is the relationship between the educator and thechild. Recent studies highlight the fact that socio-emotional development is favored by a complex ofcharacteristics of child-teacher interaction, known under the heading "emotional support to students".This study presents ways to investigate the quality of the educator-child relationship, carried out in thecontext of a broader research aimed at exploring the role of certain intrapersonal factors of the educatoron the socio-emotional development of the child. The presented tool was built based on the ClassroomAssessment Scoring System developed by Pianta, La Paro, & Hamre in 2008, and aimed at measuringthose characteristics of the relationship between educator and children that could especially influence thechildren socio-emotional intelligence. These characteristics are organized on several variables: theteacher's responsiveness to the child's needs (if he/she identifies and responds to these needs), an openattitude towards the child's own perspective, the absence of negativity, the assurance of the sense ofsecurity and the state of mood. The constructed instrument has a broader implication in assessing earlyeducation quality and also, in supporting a reflexive professional development.

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MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE IN SCHOOL ORGANISATION-STRATEGIES

Author(s): Gabriela Alina Anghel,Mariana DOGARU / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: motivation; school; motivational strategy; leadership motivational; coaching;

School organisation is representative as a model of motivation because of its importance in developinghumans. It is not just an organisation with specific goals, but an organisation that teaches and buildshumans style of motivation. This is the reason of that building motivation in school is a process and alesson in the same time for next generation. This paper aims to analyse the types of human motives, formsof motivation, motivation theories and types of motivations that underlie behaviour in the organization. Inthis framework were presented models of optimization strategies of motivation in the workplace, mayapply to the organization of the school. As such, were considered and described the following models:VICTORY,, ",, situational leadership" and motivation through optimization strategy,, coaching ". Theproposed models are characterized not be considered as ideal models. This assertion is based on thefollowing argument: strategies for optimizing motivation in school organization, are conditioned by theclimate and organizational culture, management style, the expectations of staff in relation to theprofession.

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SCIENCE MEETING ART: VOCAL TECHNIQUE AND SPONTANEITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY ACTING

Author(s): Ioana Visalon / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: Science; Art; Vocal Technique; Spontaneity; Contemporary Acting;

In the contemporary theater, the actors needs to sound as normally and spontaneous as they do in everyday conversations. But in order to be heared by the audience in a large theater, they have to acquire voiceand speech skills. The search for an equilibrium between technique and emotional freedom is still one ofthe most important challenges that acting schools are facing. Bridging the creative, imaginative inner selfwith the skillful outer communicative one requires the most diverse contributions in an interdisciplinarydialogue combining physical disciplines like Alexander Technique or Yoga with the new insights into theworking of the mind, the body and the emotions provided by neuroscience. In the effort of shifting thecontrols from external, physical muscles to internal, emotional impulses I think that the scientificperspective offered by Antonio Damasio can give a great deal of help. The way in which this recentresearch can provide new approaches of the functioning of the human voice in the theater, a voice that isin direct contact with emotional impulses, is the main interrogation of this article.

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FAMOUS CRIMINAL PHRASES: LIMPIEZA DE SANGRE

Author(s): Ivan Ivlampie / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

Keywords: limpieza de sangre; Inquisition; racial discrimination; intolerance;

History of mankind has recorded numerous proverbial phrases of great cultural significance. There are,however, such phrases that have a different, social-political meaning. In previous studies, we havehighlighted the expressions égalité, fraternité and что делать? This study presents and analyzes thephrase limpieza de sangre. Present on the territory of the Iberian Peninsula starting with the 15th century,the purity of blood formula remains in force until 1870. In this case, we consider a form of racialdiscrimination, with systematic victims and persecutions, involving several actors: the State, the Church -through the Inquisition, the civilian population. Targeted are the ethnic groups and minorities brought tothe European peninsula by the hazard of history. Limpieza de sangre is the evil that, when projected ontothe Other, justifies crimes, banishment, forced conversions, social and professional discrimination.

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THE CONCEPT OF LIFE BETWEEN GADAMER AND RICOEUR

Author(s): Ramona Nicoleta Arieşan / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

Keywords: life; perception; mind; knowledge; understanding;

Life. Such a simple word. Yet, such powerful meanings. The purpose of this paper is to show how life isseen by two strong names that hold a leading place in our history and in our minds. It is important toknow were we are standing, what points of view we can have as guidance and how we can shift from oneto another in order to achieve the perspective that truly defines us. We might agree with what others haveto say but at the same we might be in complete denying of what they have to say. And it is more thanalright to be this way. Because it all comes down to life, as one sees it, as one perceives it, as onedescribes it, as one feels it. This life is filled with paradoxes, almost everywhere we look. But I believe,that in the end, this is the beauty of it. You can never get tired or get bored because there will always besomething else to look forward to or to try and comprehend.

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RELIGION AS THE SINGLE FOUNDATION OF SCIENCE

Author(s): Spyridon I. Kakos / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Keywords: science; science philosophy; foundations of science; religion; axioms;

For centuries, science was considered as something radically different from religion. Yet, thefoundations of true science are deeply religious in nature. This paper seeks to show how religionis the only foundation needed for the formulation of scientific theories, since it provides the coreprinciples on which the building of exact sciences is based upon. Our need to understand thecosmos and our faith in us being able to do so, are the main prerequisites for conducting science;prerequisites that are derived from our belief in us being the sons of God and, thus, being able toread His mind. From its birth on 7 March 1277 up to today, science seems to be the only logicalattitude of religious people towards the unknown cosmos.

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SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF THE ROMANIAN VILLAGE INTERWAR

Author(s): Ovidiu Soare / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Keywords: Romanian village; interwar period; Community Centres; Royal Student Teams; Social Service, population migration;

Sociological research during the interwar period was meant to be a way through which the country couldbe known better, in other words, to make the Romanian realities better known, especially throughmonographic research, initiated by sociologist D. Gusti, considered to be the starting point of theRomanian Sociological School. After the achievement of the national ideal through the Great Union of1918, a new ideal was necessary, that could complete the former. The nation was in the process of findingitself. The social problems of the country would be understood by knowing the country. All theenthusiastic forces were called forth to help to raise awareness of the nation, which were to become partof the monographic research teams: school teachers, priests, secondary teachers and professors, doctors,agronomists, mayors and praetors, members of the community centres, and even “the superior religiousand civil rulers of the Nation, cultivating an Ethics and a Politics of Truth.” This study presents someaspects of the activity of the Community Centres in the rural area, the presence of the Royal StudentTeams and the compulsoriness of the Social Service in the villages.

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BETTER CONVERSATIONS- LET’S TALK ABOUT LIFE

Author(s): Ramona Nicoleta Arieşan / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Keywords: life; people; knowledge; conversation; perception;

The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of a real conversation – something that might belacking these days. It is important to show that no matter what the context is, a conversation is what caneither make us or break us. At the end of the day the most important conversation is the one we have withus, the inner part of us. But in order to reach that level we need to make sure that our own way ofcommunication is placed on the right path, not for the others to follow but for us to be able to expresswhat we really feel or think in a given situation. Talking about life is something that emerges from withinbecause no matter how many books we read or how many people we meet, all with different lifeexperiences, what is really important is how we come to understand everything, how we form our ownvision, stick with it and then, only then, emerge into someone else’s perception about life, in general. Nomatter who you are, who you dream to be, who you were or who you are going to become, you need tomake sure that you know the real you, that when you are facing your reflection in the mirror you areproud of you, even just for being you.

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ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE EMPIRICAL IDIOSYNCRASY IN EFFICIENT COMMUNICATION OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND E-BUSINESS TERMINOLOGY

Author(s): Veronica Cocu,Carmen Opriț-Maftei / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Keywords: : computer science terminology; metaphor; compounds; non-specialist computer users;

The domain of computer science is extremely versatile and dynamic, its complexity leading to thecoinage of numerous new terms in a relatively short period of time. Their origin is, more often than not,empirical and these new terms have practical value. Moreover, they are customary and easy to remember,thus making the “science” behind the domain under scrutiny more appealing and easier to understand bynon-specialists. The present paper aims at investigating the computer science terminology from adifferent perspective; it intends to devote special attention to the words which have acquired a newmeaning, transgressing boundaries from general vocabulary to the active vocabulary of the non-specialistcomputer user. The novelty of this research lies in its focus on devising a new classification of thesewords which have their origin in the general English, thus helping non-specialist computer users to easilyunderstand and use them. Consequently, the everyday English words assimilated by the informationtechnology domain will be divided into six broad categories, i.e. standalone words, open compounds,closed or transparent compounds, compounds written as hyphenated words or that have a preposition or aconjunction as a linking element, words derived with the suffix –er, each of these encompassing aplethora of explained examples, which are very common in the aforementioned sphere.

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THE TOPOLOGICAL SPACE IN GOD`S MIND

THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

TEACHING ENGLISH COLLOCATIONS AS MARKS OF LINGUSITIC AND CULTURAL IDENTITY

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION - DEVELOPING PRESENTATION SKILLS

THEISM AND METHODOLOGICAL NATURALISM,

THE SACRED AS A PRIORI ELEMENT IN THE “STRUCTURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS”

AN EXISTENTIAL MODEL FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SAINT MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR

FAMOUS CRIMINAL PHRASES: LIBERTÉ, ÉGALITÉ, FRATERNITÉ

FROM PHENOMENON TO REPRESENTATION. PHYSICAL SPACE AND LOGICAL SPACE– TRANSCENDENTAL COMPLEMENTS

CHRISTIAN ETHICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

ROMANIA IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT OF THE 1918

THE PARTICULARITIES OF TEACHER-CHILD RELATIONSHIP THAT SUPPORTS SOCIO-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE IN SCHOOL ORGANISATION-STRATEGIES

SCIENCE MEETING ART: VOCAL TECHNIQUE AND SPONTANEITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY ACTING

FAMOUS CRIMINAL PHRASES: LIMPIEZA DE SANGRE

THE CONCEPT OF LIFE BETWEEN GADAMER AND RICOEUR

RELIGION AS THE SINGLE FOUNDATION OF SCIENCE

SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF THE ROMANIAN VILLAGE INTERWAR

BETTER CONVERSATIONS- LET’S TALK ABOUT LIFE

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE EMPIRICAL IDIOSYNCRASY IN EFFICIENT COMMUNICATION OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND E-BUSINESS TERMINOLOGY