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The report explores the current tendencies in creating copywriting texts in the Internet, as well as their similarities and differences with informal, verbal communication. The report provides a definition of the copywriting text and its functions in the media environment and studies the tendencies in the creation of written informal texts. Based on this research, can be outlined three tendencies in the creation of copywriting texts. First – a tendency towards minimizations, characterized by an elision of sounds, short sentences and abbreviations. Second – a tendency towards excess, characterized by the use of multiple figures of speech and repetitions. Third – a tendency towards uniqueness, characterized by informal language, digraphia (in Cyrillic and Latin) and extensive use of internet jargon.
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Mythological symbols are depicted on wood-carved royal doors, originating from Revival Christian churches in Southwestern Bulgaria. The emphasis is on the images of dragons. The semantics of the symbols is analyzed. Their connection with the topics of fertility and the protection of the sacred space is studied.
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The article examines the work of two artists, Emily Carr (1871 – 1945) and István Fujkin (1953), focusing on Carr’s early and mature “Indian paintings,” and Fujkin’s “Blue Owl” series, completed between 2001 and 2005. The paintings chosen from among Carr’s works are thematically linked to Klee Wyck (1940), her first fictional work describing her travels and experiences with the First Nations People in British Columbia. Though the two artists come from different cultural backgrounds, since Carr was descended from English immigrants and Fujkin is a Hungarian born in the former Yugoslavia, there are similarities in their work. Both artists depict work across time and make use of transnational imaginaries of nature and Native Canadian cultural symbols that ultimately function as a bridge between Native and western culture. Fujkin’s talent lies in his ability to “paint the music” composed and performed by Canadian Mohawk musician Robbie Robertson. Emily Carr’s paintings offer images of her visionary world that transcends cultural identities and provides an insight into nature infused with spiritual and magical elements.
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Digital communications are part of the mandatory knowledge and skills that determine the degree of readiness for professional realization today. At the same time, they are an indispensable condition for social inclusion and an increasingly distinct indicator in determining the degree of development of modern societies. The article reviews the different reference frameworks of knowledge, skills, and competences in the field of digital communications, media literacy, new communication technologies, as well as the policies of the European Union in this area. The different reference frameworks can be used as a reliable tool by educational institutions to increase media literacy in general, but also to create a mechanism for more specialized professional education in the field of communications, especially in journalism, PR, and communication management.
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Language and discourse are basic tools in political mobilization, interaction, negotiation, and legitimization. This article discusses discourse as a form of social action in the processes of politici¬zation of Romani ethnogenesis and in the construction of Romani nationhood. The main research questions focus on the political language that the International Romani Movement (IRM) has been seeking to forge (mainly in the last two decades), on the alternative frames it can provide, and its unifying potential, serving as the basis for collective national identity. This new political discourse is viewed as performing several functions: creating a sense of homogeneity, devising strategies for interaction and self-reflexivity, providing collective coping mechanisms against internal divisions or external threats, and aiming at positive representation through normative transformation. Answers are sought to questions regarding how old and new values, meanings and traditions should be embodied in the language of Romani ethnonationalism, or when dealing with taboo and sensitive issues. A multiperspectival framework has been applied to analyse interviews, field data, and selected texts from Roma policy documents, media publications, and public speeches. Conclusions have been made regarding the choice of power relations Roma resolve to engage in and the contextual factors for achieving legitimacy.
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Down syndrome can cause disorders of both cognitive abilities, but also, most often, cause a deficit in language development, and their speech and language develop later and more slowly, hence the importance of finding optimal ways to improve. The purpose of the research is the development, implementation, and validation of the effectiveness of the speech therapy intervention program structured in accordance with the Theory of Multiple Intelligences (Howard Gardner). Participants with Down syndrome in this study obtained significant improvements in the areas of language and communication assessed after receiving the systematized speech therapy intervention, based on the theory of multiple intelligences.
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Online and hybrid courses in IT-related topics have increased demand and interest for decades, but recent pandemic situation made them critical. The present paper introduces the obtained results from a survey, related to online/hybrid training, among students in engineering studies in Bulgarian universities. The results reveal some of the issues and attitudes towards programming teaching, as well as some challenges and expectations of the students regarding online programming courses according to the recent educational requirements.
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After the Bled agreements between Josip Broz Tito and Georgi Dimitrov, the cultural autonomy for the Macedonians in Pirin Macedonia began. This meant that Macedonians were allowed to study Macedonian literary language in the schools in Bulgaria. But as there was much opposition to this from Bulgaria, long negotiations between the two sides took place. Because of that, the Ministry of Education in the People’s Republic of Macedonia started to hire teachers and send them in Pirin Macedonia to work in the schools there. There were also negotiations about some problems between Central Committee of Communist Party of Macedonia and the Ministry of Education of Bulgaria. The negotiations were fruitful and the teachers started their job. Also, when the teachers were in Pirin Macedonia, every problem they had was solved with the help of the Ministry of Education of PRM.
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The mole (Talpa europea) has a long history of use as medicament beginning with rather sparse records in classical and medieval writings. The number and diversity of mole therapies expanded during early modern times. This, the first survey of mole-containing medicines in scientific medical literature, reveals that they were used to treat, amongst other ailments, rheumatism, arthritis, hernias, prolapse, leprosy, epilepsy, wounds, and a wide range of dermal, dental, ocular and aural conditions. Preparations were generally quite simple, comprising either isolated organs from the animal (liver, blood, teeth, skin) or the whole carcass, usually in the form of a pulverised ash.
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The aim of the paper is to briefly present the hygienic and sanitary conditions of life of prisoners in the prison institutions of the Principality and Kingdom of Serbia, based on preserved testimonies of prisoners, as well as literature and sources related to the Belgrade County Court, the Požarevac Penitentiary, and some other prison facilities in different periods of the 19th century, paying attention to both male and female prisoners. In this way, in the form of an overview, the work is an attempt to present how Serbian state dealt with the question of sanitary conditions and modernization in Serbian prison institutions during the previously mentioned period, with an introductory section, which refers to the institution of prisons in Europe in the 19th century, for a wider context.
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The subject of this article is the encounter of race, racism, and psychiatry in the philosophy discourse of the French philosopher Michel Foucault. Although he is admired for development of the concept of power relations, and nontraditional approach to history and philosophy, in this article focus will be on Foucault as an intellectual who was also trained and had affinity in psychology and psychiatry. In this respect, the novelty of his approach to historical roots of psychiatry and its social importance in modern times will be accessed, as well as relations between racism and psychiatry. With this article, Foucault will be presented not only as a philosopher of anti-psychiatry, but also as a representative of critical discourse of power that psychiatry has on racism and modern society. In that respect, his discourse on relations between race and psychiatry will be accessed as suitable for application in humanities, social and medical sciences.
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Palliative patients (patients suffering from an incurable disease that significantly shortens life expectancy) represent one of the most vulnerable social groups among users of the healthcare system. Due to certain poor life prognoses, comorbidities and the severity of the overall clinical picture, the care of this type of patient requires an interdisciplinary approach and the expertise of several specialists at the same time. In this sense, palliative care includes, on the one hand, medical services aimed at alleviating the suffering of palliative patients and improving their quality of life, and on the other hand, psychological support for their families in order to strengthen their resilience. Unfortunately, in periods of instability of the health system, such as the one marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, palliative care services are among those that become subject to systemic restrictions in the field of health services. The paper examines the social position of palliative care patients during the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges they and their families have encountered.
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The article examines essential aspects of the development of the media, which led to relations of interdependence with the sphere of politics. Due to their nature, the most affected by this process are the political parties, encountering increasing difficulties in their adaptation to modern conditions. The main analysis is focused on the interference of the media in some basic functions of the parties, which adversely affects the development of representative democracy.
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The article focuses on two texts by the remarkable Balkan writer, Dubravka Ugrešić, in which she introduces questions of emigration, identity, belonging to the nation, the community, as well as questions such as what it is like to be a writer writing in a small language, is there hope for the literature written in Slavic languages, how resistance makes sense in a world where the ability to adapt is everything. Among the non-hypocritical messages of Dubravka Ugrešić's novels there is one that states we must learn to live with bitterness and deceit in a world where the best thing one can hope to leave behind is but a footnote to earn his ticket to eternity . The narrator in Ugrešić's texts is the eternal emigrant crossing different worlds, an image of the unloved, lonely, space-traveling storyteller who may have nothing else but his thousand and one stories, and the exact words that might save someone
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U radu će se dati prikaz slike ,,drugih“ kroz koju se defi nišu kulturna posebnost, kulturna raznolikost i kulturna sličnost utemeljene na smjeni turske crnogorskom kulturom nakon oslobođenja Nikšića od Turaka pred Berlinski kongres 1878. (Poslije slavnih pobjeda nad turskom vojskom, na Vučjem dolu 1876. godine, u Dugi nikšićkoj i Ostroškom klancu 1877. godine, koje je slavila sva Evropa, 9. septembra 1877. godine oslobođen je Nikšić. U gradu je prije oslobođenja bilo 3.000- 4.000 stanovnika (V.Klaić, 1878., str. 93). Bilo je samo 40 hrišćanskih porodica. U selima u ravni polja i obodu bilo je 1800 starosjedilačkog stanovništva. Oslobađanjem od Turaka konačno je nestalo izolacije Nikšića i Nikšićkog kraja od široke okoline... Tada je još jednom došlo do mijenjanja skoro cjelokupnog stanovništva. Od muslimanskih porodica ostalo je svega 19. Ostali su odselili pretežno za Skadar, a kasnije za Tursku. Nikšićki kraj naseljavaju učesnici u borbama za njegovo oslobođenje.(Radojičić 1982:113)
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The text summarizes the results of a study devoted to the export of pituitary glands from Bulgaria. In the 1980s, the National Institute of Endocrinology, Gerontology and Geriatrics at the Medical Academy found itself involved in an unusual commercial exchange - the export of pituitary glands extracted from cadavers during routine autopsy in Bulgarian hospitals. Part of the currency received is used to purchase equipment and supplies for the institute's research and therapeutic activities. On the occasion of the results, Prof. Daniela Koleva from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" delivers lectures with the eloquent title "We cannot travel abroad, but at least our organs can".
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