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“For instead of the calendrical terms Monday, Tuesday and so forth, we cheerfully offer the following surrogates. Use them freely and often, for their use honors us all.

Nowadays, the issue of drug abuse and circulation is an extremely concerning issue in Russian Federation.

In comparison to higher levels, the powers of the Shining Star Elementary School Principal are rather limited as he/she is not able to contact the agencies in charge of domestic terroristic threat directly.

If we agree with common thought of literature critics about artist’s being in all characters of his masterpiece at ones, then to figure out about John Milton’s image of God in “Paradise Lost” we first should figure out about Milton’s God.
Milton’s well known as Protestant and rather radical one. During English Civil War, which was not least of all religious, he joined the Puritans and bordered on Oliver Cromwell in his goals and methods. And nevertheless to the end of War Milton had become disappointed in Cromwell’s politic and methods and had a serious argues with Puritans about moral views, Milton stayed a confirmed Protestant.

In the second half of the 20th century, when companies had started to become bigger and bigger, people became worried about conditions in which the corporation’s production was made. It had started with groups of social activists who fought for workers’ rights, against children’s exploitation or any harm corporations and companies can cause an environment during prose of making production. So basically, they were fighting for ethical norms and lows to abide by companies.

As the world is ruled in the model of a social contract, it’s the leader of the country or the church who represents main ideas shared by its followers.

Cameroon is a republic in the west of Central Africa which borders (and usually compared) to its neighbors from the same (Central Africa) region: Nigeria, Chad, the Central Affric Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of Congo.

There she stands on the stage: a slender airy-fairy woman vested in a beautiful long dress and a draping covering her tender shoulders.

In handling conflicts, especially the ones related to the professional activity, one should look at them from different standpoints according to various models in order to diagnose the conflict correctly and single out favorable ways of its solution.

Let’s imagine I’m an artist who received the commission from the medieval church. This particular church was built in 13th century in early gothic style and now there’s 15th century already, so all-around there’re late gothic architecture and high churches in “flamboyant” style with extremely graceful and airy stone domes. Gargoyles on entering my stumpy church do not scare congregations anymore, so the church wants me to make an art object to refresh the entrance.

Benjamin’s essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” isn’t really about fascism and Hitler as a special person who had made his politic aesthetically attractive to the mass, but about the tendency, which Benjamin saw arising in culture, and fascism is discussed here mostly in the epilogue.

In the course of social, political and cultural development we have been recognizing and feeling our power, our influence on the world and everything surrounding us. Humans understand that they are capable of controlling and changing almost every aspect of life. Our “white” civilization had experienced much through the history-making us stronger and cleverer.

Kafka’s “A Hunger artist” is a short story from the collection of the same name including various short stories reflecting relations of real life and art. It is quite remarkable that...

The Song of Roland belongs to the epic poems of medieval French literature and brightly represents French folk heroic epos. The authorship is considered to belong to a poet of genius called Turold, and the issue of the poem’s origins stays unsolved to this day. The chronological frames in which the manuscript appeared are estimated to float between 1040 and 1115.
The main events of the poem take place during Charlemagne’s conquest of Spain and fighting with Muslims there. There is the only city that left standing is Saragossa headed by the king Marsilla.

The Abbasid caliphate (or the Bagdad caliphate) is a feudalistic theocratic state which existed from 750 to 1258 with the ruling dynasty of Abbasids. The state included the territory of modern Arabic countries...

Social criticism as a method of analysis studies texts in order to reveal how literary texts relate to social phenomena, ways to inscribe history into literary space. I would like to compare two novels from the point of view of sociocriticism, namely “The Loons” by Margaret Lawrence and “Medicine River” by Thomas King

The prominent Greek philosopher Socrates and the great teacher of the Chinese nation Confucius tried to solve the same issue fostered by the life itself – they endeavored to find a means to get over turmoil...

Carlos Fuentes was a prominent figure in Mexican literature and in literature on the whole. He was an artist of great talent, a word-painter on the large scale, the author of more than twenty novels, including "The Buried Mirror", "The Old Gringo,"...

Nowadays death penalty is often called capital punishment whereas a criminal is being executed on legal governmental basis. This action is treated as a punishment for a crime and is regarded as the most severe penalty.

One can hardly deny that our language may be quite ambiguous, may sound vague and metaphorical speech can often be misunderstood. Same words in different combinations may convey different sense and sometimes the initial meaning of the phrase can...