In the year 2004, on the 4th of December a plebiscite was organized in Hungary, in which the citizens were asked to express their opinion regarding some important matters, by answering two questions with yes or no. The first question referred to a purely internal problem, the privatization of the public health institutions. The second one created much more conflicts and quarrels, as it regarded the citizenship of the Hungarians living outside of Hungary.
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Keywords: EDUKACJA – TECHNIKA – INFORMATYKA
EDUKACJA – TECHNIKA – INFORMATYKA
More...Keywords: social support; stress; alcohol-related disorders; alcoholism
As stated in many studies, addiction comes from the person’s life and problems and it represents a strategy of solving a failure or a painful situation. In this study we tried to underline the existence of significant differences between individuals diagnosed with alcohol dependence and non-alcoholic individuals, concerning the role of the social support, the perception of stress and social support and the associations between these variables and an increased vulnerability towards alcohol dependence as a response to mental stress. Data were gathered using Social Readjustment Rating Scale, Recent Life Events Scale, Perceived Stress Scale and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support. The outcomes of this study show that the alcoholic subjects experience a higher level of perceived stress and, having a low level of social support, they are more prone to maintain the alcohol addiction behaviors.
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Keywords: Witold Gombrowicz; Witold Gombrowicz's “Ivona Princess of Burgundia”; Gombrowicz's “History”
The author uses the methodological tools as gender studies, queer theory, psychoanalysis, and post-structuralism (J. Butler, J. Kristeva, R. Barthes) to interpret Witold Gombrowicz’s two dramas. In this view, “Ivona Princess of Burgundia” and “History” prove to be the cultural distance analysis presented in the dramatic form which reveals its plight, normativeness, and identity claims. The dramatist puts on the social processes of identity creation which stem from a series of exclusions of what is regarded as standing out of norm. Gombrowicz nonetheless is not confined to show that the sex, generally seen as something primal, innate and invariable, is a mere cultural construct and discursive form. Rather, he suggests a possibility of subversive conversion of identity forms and alternative forms of self-creation and experience.
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Keywords: The Catholic Newspaper
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Keywords: dictionary; bibliography; writer; work; reader; dicţionar; bibliografie; scriitor; lucrare; cititor
The volume with the upper title has appeared in special circumstances recently at the Publishing house ,,Vasile Goldis” University Press and it’s co-ordinated by the Professor Doctor Iulian Negrila ,having as contributors ,the Professor Vasile Man and Professor Bianca Negrila. The writers argument that this volume comes to complete the first edition of Arădean writers of the Dictionary which has appeared in 1997.The intention of the authors was to popularize the Aradean writers because ,,in the town from the Mureş, it’s been united with the effort of the many writers a truly literary movement…”
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Keywords: Chrisitan name; tradition; fashion; anthroponimy; diaspora; : nume de botez; tradiţie; modă; antroponimie
This paper analyzes the inter-connection between fashion and tradition focusing on a special aspect of the Romanians who live in France – the Christian names of the new born in Diaspora. Our research has as a focal point the flexibility to the new conditions and investigates the manner the Romanians respect their tradition or adapt (even in baptizing their children with French names) to the new country. After an investigation in the Romanian community in Paris, our conclusion is that what can be depicting as modernity in the Christian names in Romania, in Diaspora is seen as tradition.
More...Keywords: literary critics; reviewers; literaturecentrism; criticism versus literary research; demystification
Marta Petreu’s confessions share the qualities of her literature. She writes industriously and in a flow of elegance. Her expressivity leaves the readers with the impression that they may continue, on their own, what her texts started to tell them. She is also that kind of author who inspires confidence in an unfluctuating way. Unlike her poetry and prose well received, Marta Petreu’s essays have started from thorough documentation and reached a stage of demystification which seems to have caused much distress allegedly to anyone.
More...Keywords: exotic spaces; sea-journey; love; space; distance; sea-stories; departures, Radu Tudoran
A dominant feature of Radu Tudoran’s works is his permanent obsession for travelling, more exactly, for going away. The travel is not a mere entertainment. It is a perpetual initiation whose rules are established in the course of it. Radu Tudoran (1910-1992) was a novelist renowned for his gift of captivating the public. The fascination with faraway spaces is something shared not only by Radu Tudoran’s readers but also by Radu Tudoran’s fictional characters. They have the ambition of conquering space, many times paralleled with the strength one might have over one’s own being and with the capability of conquering the human heart. More than a mere setting for the plot or a neutral geographical vastness, Tudoran’s space is always encumbered with symbolic meanings. Radu Tudoran has a special talent in making space unfold before the eyes of the reader in a specific rhythm. His travel novels explore this effect. Space really enriches its senses when it gets to dwell inner experiences, either as solitude or as shared love. The three elements– space, travel, eros – make up a well-defined trio, present in many of Tudoran’ proses. For the novelist, love is subjugated by the temptation of remoteness. This renders travel to become almost every time an obstacle of erotic fulfilment. What makes this obsession of leaving even more intriguing is its fusion with the human aspiration for love, more often than not an obstacle in the way of reaching the unknown. Thus, the characters are quite often confronted with a choice that determines their destiny: to leave or to love.
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Keywords: youth; European Parliament; influence; network; tomorrow Europe
The outcome of a project financed by the European Parliament (Grant Agreement no. COMM/2009/04/0033) and of the cooperation between the “Ioan Gură de Aur” Theological Seminary, Valahia University of Târgovişte and the Archbishopric of Târgovişte, the conference entitled “The youth as an interface between the European Parliament and European citizens: how the youth can design tomorrow’s Europe?” was opened under the auspices of the ideas expressed by the European Commission in December 1998 which captures the genesis, morphology and heraldry of European citizenship: “Citizenship with a European dimension is anchored in the joint creation of a voluntary community of peoples with different cultures and different traditions - creating a democratic society that has learned to embrace diversity with sincerity as a positive opportunity, a society of openness and solidarity for all and each of us”.
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Keywords: Alasdair Macintyre; political philosophy; comunitarism
KUNA, M.: Etika a politika v perspektíve Alasdaira MacIntyra. Katolícka univerzita v Ružomberku, Ružomberok 2010. 251 s. ISBN 978-80-8084–553–7.
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Keywords: Irish charms; Irish saints; eighteenth-century charm practices; nineteenth-century charm practices; Saint Columcille; medical charms; healing charms
An examination of surviving healing charm texts originating in Ireland between 1700 and the mid-nineteenth century suggests a strong link between the contents of this corpus and a select few national saints (Columcille, Bridget, and Patrick) and international Catholic religious figures (Christ, Mary, and the Apostles). By contrast, local Irish saints, which otherwise figure so prominently in religious practices of the time, are significantly underrepresented in the Irish charm corpus of this time period. This essay looks at the long-term status of highly localized saints in religious and medical discourse, the effect of church centralization in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, and the rise of select national saints as factors in this feature of the Irish charms.
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Keywords: Review; Ekaterina Makhotina; Memories of war - war of memories; Lithuania and the Second World War;
Review of: Ekaterina Makhotina: Erinnerungen an den Krieg – Krieg der Erinnerungen. Litauen und der Zweite Weltkrieg. (Schnittstellen, Studien zum östlichen und südöstlichen Europa, Bd. 4.) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Göttingen 2017. 478 S., Ill. ISBN 978-3-525-30090-9. (€ 90,–.). Reviewed by Tomaš Nenartovič.
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Keywords: Nora Berend; The Expansion of Central Europe; Middle Ages;
Review of: The Expansion of Central Europe in the Middle Ages. Hrsg. von Nora Berend (The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500, Bd. 5.) Ashgate Variorum. Farnham u.a. 2012. XXXVI, 507 S. ISBN 978-1-4094-2245-7. (€ 166,99.). Reviewed by Eduard Mühle.
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