Bio jednom jedan čovjek koji je živio u kući od kamena. Međutim, njegova kuća nikad nije bila dovršena, jer mu je nedostajao još jedan kamen pa da gradnja bude okončana. Tako je na jednom zidu ostao otvor kroz koji je puhao vjetar, uvlačila se hladnoća, peklo sunce, ali i koji mu je služio da kroz njega promatra zbivanja u svijetu.
More...Keywords: pravo na život; eutanazija; potpomognuto samoubojstvo
U radu autorica razmatra pravo na život, pravo na dostojanstvenu smrt i sudjelovanje u samoubojstvu iz perspektive kaznenog prava i medicinskih propisa koji reguliraju ovu problematiku, iznose određena poredbenopravna rješenja, predlažući de lege ferenda izmjene u kaznenim zakonima u Bosni i Hercegovini.
More...Poštovani suradnici i čitatelji! Na početku nove školske, akademske i stvarateljske godine, pred vama će se naći novi broj časopisa Motrišta - časopisa za kulturu, znanost i društvena pitanja. Moguće je da će vas iznenaditi njegov novi grafički dizajn i promjena u osobi glavnoga i odgovornog urednika. I jedno i drugo stvar je dogovora unutar Matice hrvatske, Ogranka Mostar. Na početku svoga mandata odlučio sam vam uputiti nekoliko riječi i pozvati na daljnju svestranu suradnju.
More...Sve se odvilo kao da se nije odvilo, ali posljedice su bile tu. Sve se odvilo kao da se odvilo, ali ni traga nije bilo uzroku. Središte događaja bilo je pred palačom pravde, kako se uvriježilo nazivati sve građevine u kojima pravosudna vlast dijeli pravdu, a ova se nalazila u središtu grada; uokvirena vodoskocima, platanama, tramvajima i neumorno navirućim ljudima.
More...Keywords: Halloween; vještica; Kelti; druidi; demonološke predaje; kršćanstvo
U posljednje se vrijeme sve češće raspravlja o prazniku s kojim naši preci nisu upoznati, a koji prodire ne samo u Hrvatsku, nego i u ostale europske zemlje. Budući da se svekolika javnost zadovoljava formom, ne ispitujući sadržaj, predmet je rada Halloween (Noć vještica) u tradicijskoj kulturi. Cilj je rada - objasniti termin Halloweena i kontekstualizirati ga, tj. promotriti u vremenu i prostoru. Imajući na umu zadani cilj istraživanja, neophodna je korelacija te svečanosti s poganstvom, ali i kršćanstvom. Naglasak je istraživanja na povijesti i značenju praznika, demonološkim bićima, posebice vješticama, starim Keltima i njihovu svećenstvu, druidima, te relaciji sadržaja praznika s učenjima Biblije i značenjima blagdana štovanih u Hrvatskoj i u svijetu, Svima svetima i Dušnim danom, a s kojima je njegovo značenje u proturječju.
More...Keywords: Brotnjo; povijesni izvori; naselja; crkva sv. Jurja
Srednjovjekovna povijest Brotnja slabo je poznata, a izvori, do sada poznati, za njezino osvjetljavanje vrlo su oskudni. No, zanimanja za istraživanje ovoga područja povjesničarima nije nedostajalo. Iznoseći rezultate dosadašnjih istraživanja, cilj je rada ukazati na probleme rješavanja nekih pitanja iz srednjovjekovne povijesti ovoga područja kao što su ubikacija pojedinih toponima te crkve sv. Jurja koji se spominju u povijesnim vrelima.
More...Chronicle of cultural events in Mostar April-August 2015
More...Hommage to Krešimir Šego by various authors
More...Na jednostavno pitanje - Je li ganga tuga ili veselje?, odgovori pjevača, slušača ili lokalnih ljubitelja toga pjevanja, jako variraju. Neki kažu da nije ni jedno niti drugo i da ne inducira nikakve emocije. Drugi kažu da je ganga veselje, a neki će opet reći - ganga je oboje! Neki će reći - nešto treće! - ovisno o tomu što riječi pjesme kažu... Ako su mišljenja različita i mnogobrojna, je li to zato što su emotivne reakcije jako individualizirane? Ili zato što sugovornici ne gledaju na gangu iz istoga kuta? Ovise li odgovori o profilu slušača (povremeni slušač, zaljubljenik u gangu, veliki znalac, pjevač...)? Ovisi li to o osobnom dojmu, kontekstu, interpretaciji pjevača, o svojstvenom glazbenom karakteru gange ili ima još drugih čimbenika?
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Keywords: Education and occupation; Professional social work; Relief work; Self-dependent; Street children
Social work is a sharing and caring profession based on scientific methods. This problem solving profession makes people self-reliant and self-dependent when he/she is in any sorts of crises. Thus, it differs from relief work, social services or social welfare delivered during emergence crises. This paper examined the application of professional social work as relief work, which did not bring any change among the beneficiaries; rather it set their mind as opportunist. For this purpose, the programme sponsored by the government of India and implemented by nongovernmental organizations for rehabilitation of the street children (i.e., pavements and slums dwellers, children of sex workers, and so forth) of Metro cities like Kolkata had priority. This evaluative study assessed the progress and changes among 500 street children who were the beneficiaries for 10 years of the programme, selected according to their parental residents/occupation through stratified sampling. Interviews, case studies and group interaction were used to collect data on various aspects, i.e. personal background, education, and occupation of these children. It revealed that after almost 10 years of services, the problem of children was static. Firstly, service delivery system was as relief work. The methods of social work were not implied while the professionals were in implementation. On the other hand, the scope of monitoring and evaluation of the programme by government was suspended due to several reasons. Definitely, the politicalization in human development would be restricted. The problems of suffering would be root out and it should not be a continued process.
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Keywords: International migration; Migration networks; Rural community
Transnational migration is a vast social phenomenon that has become a valid option for many Romanians since 1989. Romania is an emigration country and the favourite destinations of its citizens are Italy and Spain. This is the context in which I present my work, which focuses on the formation of transnational migration patterns from a village in the southern region of Romania. The data were generated during field research conducted in August 2012, and the empirical material consisted of field notes and interview transcripts corresponding to recorded conversations with local migrants, authority representatives and people without migration experience. In this particular community, two patterns of migration were identified, for which variables such as ethnicity (Roma/Romanian) and religious orientation (Orthodoxy/Adventism) appear to have explanatory power. My inquiry takes as its starting point the identification of this variety of migration patterns and concentrates on analysing them in the regional and national contexts based on the scholarly framework provided by network theory. Two major differences exist between them: the time frame of living and working abroad (clearly demarcated as three months, six months or indefinite) and the nature of the work environment (departures based on a work contract between the migrant and a company located at the destination and departures accompanied by uncertainty regarding workplace concerns upon arrival). Making sense of these life strategies and their local configurations are the objectives of this paper.
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Keywords: flexicurity; flexibility; social security
The purpose of this paper is to present the main assumptions of the idea of the flexicurity and changes of forms of employment related to its implementation (including part-time employment) and to demonstrate their impact on the economic situation of employees in Germany. The study adopted two hypotheses, which have been verified by the analyses. They show that increasing the flexibility of employment forms took place in Germany at the expense of employees without ensuring the proper social security and led to the growing dissection of income and the risk of poverty among working people. Germany, so far, failed to provide proper social safety according to the demands of the flexicurity.
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Keywords: argument/discussion; monetary reform; the economic situation
The article discusses the famous dispute between Nicolas Copernicus and Justus Decius concerning the reform of the monetary in the first half sixteenth century. Against the background of the economic situation, attempted to provide both reform proposals and their estimation. In the face of worsening monetary situation tried to heal the monetary market, unfortunately try not to end up successful.
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Keywords: postal infrastructure; postal services; regulation
The aim of the article is to conduct a multidirectional evaluation of the solutions implemented in the field of the Polish postal structure's development as well as to define the role of the state as the main force influencing the direction of this development. The intention of the author is to conduct a theoretical study, i.e. to attempt to embrace a wide concept of the postal infrastructure and its features. Therefore the features concerned with technical or branch under- standing of the issue were not included. Multidimensional view of the problems is also an important scope of the paper. It results from the opinion that in the field of postal infrastructure's studies comparative research is much needed and it should aim to prove the importance of the infrastructure in the Polish economy.
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Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; labour market; work-life balance programs
Dynamic changes occurring in the Polish economy underlie the reason for which the increasingly large group of enterprises include social and environmental aspects in the scope of their activity. No equal treatment of women and men in the field of employment is one of the problems requiring interest on the side of enterprises. This article presents current situation of women in the Polish labour market and activities allowing for achieving higher level of vocational development of women within CSR.
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Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; ISO 9001; ISO 26000
The article is focused on Corporate Social Responsibility concept, this issue becoming increasingly important in business activities. To meet the limited information about practical implementation of this concept in a company, the article aims to recognize how far Corporate Social Responsibility concept is consistent with ISO 9001 requierements and to develop guidelines for its implementation by support of ISO 9001 quality system. There is presented a literature review in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility, including the ISO 26000 standard. The article provides a conceptual contribution. The main conclusion anonnces that although the ISO 9001 system does not enclose all the elements of Corporate Social Responsibility, it is an appropriat support of this concept. Relying on the ISO 9001 a company is allowed to implement it in a permanent way, avoiding to set additional subsystems and redundant departmentalization.
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