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Lukashenka welcomes U.S. sanctions as the 'best present' he could have received.
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Top Belgrade officials split over Serbian participation in this month's Kosovo elections.
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The present paper investigates the autopresentation of Alexander of Aphrodisias as the philosopher – teacher of kings.
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The paper discusses monetary and sculptural portraits, either attributed or tentatively identified as representations of Mithridates VI Eupator. The object of analysis are their iconographical features as well as their dependence on Hellenistic royal portraitures as well as the issue of imitatio Alexandri.
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The paper traces the lives and careers of elite families of Greek descend in the Roman empire. Main focus of the paper is the family of Statilii, active in the Peloponnese in the 1st-3rd c. AD. The memebers of the family served as local officials of the highest rank and gained great influence in the province, becoming prominent representatives of the regional elite.
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The article begins with short introduction referring to the role of advisors, teachers and sages in the political life with emphasis on the changes connected with the emergence of Athenian democracy and education offered by the sophists. Athenian state offers excellent opportunities for political education, on the other hand the existence of a sage in the system based on the popular rule in the eyes of some intellectuals proves to be difficult, or impossible. Plato’s reaction on the death of Socrates results in his resigning from public activity, Isocrates however finds his own way of life in accordance with his views. He seemingly retreats from political activity, because he does not present his speeches in the assembly, still he takes part in political life by writing treatises referring to the contemporary issues. The treatises To Nicocles and To Philip prove that his interests were not limited to the Athens; he was eager to consider different political systems and believed that addressing the powerful leaders might be quite an efficient way to influence political reality. In the treatise To Nicocles he offers the general set of principles that should be obeyed by a king in order to preserve his authority and take good care of the state, the treatise To Philip comprises an appeal to the king of Macedon encouraging him to unite Greece in the crusade against Persia. In spite of obvious differences in the historical context, both works present mixture of moral idealism and political pragmatism characteristic for Isocrates, who put en effort in establishing for himself the position of political commentator and advisor. His professional activity added a new quality to the political culture of Athens, where an individual either took active part in assemblies and administration, or chose the life of a private man. Isocrates escaped this alternative and introduced a new model of an intellectual in the public sphere.
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The paper discusses Medieval interpretation of Roman legal prescription, concerning the acceptance of gifts and presents by state officials. The discussed text is the Kórnik manuscript of Digestum Vetus and the comments that it contains, both in form of text and illustrations, that pertain to the main issue debated.
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Review of the volume "Narratives 8. Narrative, culture, history", edited by Tamás Kisantal.
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Study about sport life in the Transylvanian city Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) during the period of the of the Compromise.
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Fragment from a retrospective lecture on communist censorship in Romania during Ceauşescu's reign.
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Online social networking has recently become a major mass media topic, a source of an optimistic buzz, but also the focus point of various social anxieties. In parallel with the unprecedented rise of social media use among Romanian internet users, Romanian mass media has also been devoting increasing space to the risks and opportunities presented by social networking sites. This paper investigates Romanian news media representations of online social networking, focusing on the coverage offered by two of the largest news outlets. It charts the main risks and opportunities associated with the use of these sites, with special attention to the way concerns about children's social media use are framed, the moral language the latter are cast in, and the voices framing the representation of children's online experience.
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Study about the inequalities associated with Internet use in Romania.
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Interview with contemporary Hungarian poet Márió Nemes Z., by Imre József Balázs.
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Whereas in postmodernism, being was left in a free-floating fabric of emotional intensities, in contemporary culture the existence of the self is affirmed through the network. Kazys Varnelis discusses what this means for the democratic public sphere.
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Review of "Ördögszáj" [Devil's Mouth] by contemporary Hungarian playwright István Vörös.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate several factors associated with adolescents' online-offline dating behavior (On-Off Dating), i.e. romantic encounters initiated online and transferred offline at a certain point. Due to the novelty of the topic in the Romanian context, multiple dimensions were taken into consideration. In order to move beyond the victimization perspective, this article relies mostly on the social agency theory that envisions teenagers as skilled and informed actors, who possess the technological, social and communicative competencies which enable them to distinguish between safe and unsafe situations (both online and offline). The sample consisted of 1806 subjects aged 10 to 19 who completed a self-report questionnaire administered in 101 classrooms from secondary schools and high schools in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in November 2007. Results of the analyses indicate a series of factors significantly associated with this particular practice, with some differences for boys and girls, e.g. parental monitoring, identity management (disclosure and dissimulation), exposure to unsolicited (and deliberate) sexual material and unwanted solicitations online, use of Social Networking Sites (SNS), and several psychosocial factors. Among the most important predictors, e.g. use of Instant Messaging (IM), the amount of time spent online, and positive social self-concept appear to influence both boys' and girls' decision for onlineoffline dating. Other items, like parental monitoring and exposure to sexually explicit content, showed ambivalent relation to the investigated behavior.
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Preview of the movie "The Social Network" by David Fincher, about the founding of the social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits.
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This paper has been written with the aim to present research material collected as a background to the various Home Rule Bills and eventually, the creation of the Irish Free State. Focus will be on the American aspects of Charles Stewart Parnell's political work and his connections with Irish immigrants in the United States. Indeed, Parnell was not the only prominent figure in Irish history to come from a partly American background, as Eamon De Valera immediately springs to mind. However, this American connection only highlights the fact that Irish history had not only taken place on the island of Ireland. In fact, alongside Dublin, it was New York that had acted as an exile capital of the Irish nation, especially after the large number of immigrants who arrived in the US fleeing from the Great Famine. The ever-strong nationalistic sentiment of these immigrants lead to the great amount of financial support had been provided by the Irish-American community. Any Irish leader had to be accepted and approved of not only in Ireland and Britain, but indeed, in the US as well.
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