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Review of: Wojciech Sroczyński "Selected topics of social pedagogy". Siedlce 2011, 267 pp. by: Krzysztof Dziurzyński
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Less than a week before parliamentary elections, Ministry of Culture accused of not supporting the push for a potential UNESCO site.
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Did the Polish government fire the Polish Cultural Institute in Berlin’s director for focusing too much on Jewish issues
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A rmative action was introduced to the American universities in the 1960s. The aim of this policy was to benefit the underrepresented groups, especially African Americans both in the higher education and the job market. The a rmative action was introduced to ensure equal opportunities as well as cultural diversity. The policy of Harvard University towards African Americans, Asian Americans and the other excluded groups was analyzed in this article. Moreover, the attempt to reconstruct the current debate about outcomes of the afirmative action was made. The article also tries to answer the following questions: did the a rmative action increase the number of the minority groups at Harvard University? Has the policy of equal opportunities eliminated inequalities or, on the contrary has it deepened them?
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Paweł PIJAS – Prawo – sprzeciw – sumienie (Konferencja „Klauzula sumienia w kontekście etyk zawodowych”, KUL, Lublin, 5-6 XI 2015) /// Sylwia SURDYKOWSKA – „Reorientacje” (Cykl spotkań upowszechniających wiedzę o świecie Azji i Afryki, Wydział Orientalistyczny Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego–barStudio przy Teatrze Studio, Warszawa) /// Zuzanna B. GĄDZIK – Ochrona życia – nowe wyzwania (Międzynarodowa konferencja naukowa „Wartość życia. O współczesnych kontekstach czytania encykliki św. Jana Pawła II Evangelium vitae w dwudziestą rocznicę jej ogłoszenia”, KUL, Lublin, 27 XI 2015)
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King Zog I (1895-1961), and the communist leader Enver Hoxha (1908-1985) were without doubt the most charismatic figures of the Albanian politics in the twentieth century, whose personal rule dominated the country and kept it under strict control. However, the cult of personality of the two leaders had of course their own features. They derived mainly from the specific historical periods where they lived and ruled, from the political system they represented and from the very character of the personage.
More...A.G. Dugina „Filozofia globalizmu – filozofia antyglobalizmu” (wg wystąpienia na konferencji poświęconej zagrożeniom globalnym, grudzień 2000 r., Moskwa)
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Leela Corman’s graphic novel Unterzakhn illustrates the difficulty of life at the turn of the century in New York’s Lower East Side as seen through the eyes of Jewish twins Fanya and Esther. Although the novel does not solely follow the story of the sisters, it is mainly focused on their fascinating passage from childhood to adulthood. The purpose of my paper is to analyze Corman’s graphic novel in order to illustrate how New York’s Lower East Side shaped the life of Jewish immigrants. On the one hand, I will examine the historical development of the Jewish migration and its causes. Consequently, I will explore whether Leela Corman follows the pattern of the factual past or not. On the other hand, I will focus on Corman’s graphic depiction of the streets of the Lower East Side and on her portrayal of Jewish family life. The critical sources used include Hasia R. Diner’s The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 and Joyce Antler’s “’My Yiddishe Mama’: The Multiple Faces of the Immigrant Jewish Mother.” You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother.
More...Historical Materialism and Genetic Imperialism in Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis Novels
Through a close reading of Octavia Butler’s Dawn (1987), Adulthood Rites (1988) and Imago (1989), this article examines how implicitly decolonialist science fiction is shaped by the socio-historical context of the Cold War. Writing against notions of American exceptionalism, Butler’s tacit critique of settler colonialism argues against social systems that assign value based on identity. The structure of this argument glosses Frederic Jameson’s critique of the limits of utopian structures in science fiction, mostly drawn from his critical tome Archaeologies of the Future. Butler uses characterization, particularly of the protagonists—Lilith, Akin and Jodah—in the three novels to produce a critical model for understanding the limitations and potential of narratives about alien colonization as a means of exploring the radical potential of human collaboration as a means to end identity-based oppression. The novels work in tandem to produce a unified transformative narrative that frames subjugation, difference and subjectivity as problems to be solved within a nationalizing system, which reveals how the series is complicated by the late capitalist world system into which it was published.
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Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann’s brilliant collection, Material Ecocriticism, testifies to the fruitfulness and urgency of the critical perspective opened up by the particular reticulation of influences that characterizes the project of material ecocriticism. Although the essays consider a diverse array of phenomena, all of the essays are unified by their alignment with a specific constellation of critical perspectives, and the editors’ skillful arrangement of the chapters enables the essays to coalesce into something resembling a narrative. At the same time, this adept configuration of the material also allows room for differences of perspective and emphasis.
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