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Thinking about Colin Smith’s loneliness and running I consider his condition, not like a personal one, but more like metaphorical. In literature timeline, the main hero of this story can be placed somewhere between Kamus’ existential hero from The Outsider and one from Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange.

Jews and Islamic cultural and religious traditions were the closest during the “Golden Age” – a period since early 8th century when Arabic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula took place. Until this time Jews of Spain have suffered persecutions from Roman Empire where they were considered to be not an independent ethnos, but a religious group firstly, because Jews were strange to heathenism, then to Christianity within the Roman Empire and later, under the Visigoth monarchy.

Human Services is a multi-faceted field incorporating a wide range of social disciplines aimed at improving people’s lives and increase its quality.

Hitler is commonly perceived as an ultimate evil and a madman responsible for death, misery, and suffering of millions of people.

The decline of the World War II was marked by the use of the terrible and deadly weapon that had changed the whole trajectory of the global political and social development. Nuclear weapon bringing death and devastation was applied to Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people and making Japan finally surrender (Hamner).

Being probably the most favorable defense mechanism in human psyche, sublimation has been acquiring great importance in the Western society constituting the basis for social benefit, development of culture, science and civilization itself.

Hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) is a method in the oil and gas producing industry, used to extract energy valuable substance from deep earth’s layers. Water, sand and chemical ingredient are mixed and horizontally injected into a drilled well in order to crack the shale and increase valuable substance flow. The fracking method has started to become popular in America since the late 1990s and keeps this tendency nowadays.

One of the main reasons people needs media is to get information. And of course information values more (and coasts more) when it’s new and has good quality. So I’m focusing on news side of media and on visual, digital future of journalism.

There’s no doubt that the fact that the global community functions more or less consistently is predetermined by a certain form of social and political order.

“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.