Competing
with Information Technology (Skype VS Vonage)
Статья
посвящена сравнительному анализу SkypeVSVonage
The modern
world cannot exist without modern technologies. Internet is one of them. It
penetrated our life many years ago; however its influence upon every sphere of
our life does not even lessen, but becomes stronger and stronger every day.
Internet connected people. It gave us the opportunity to communicate regardless
of many kilometers that separate them. Such applets as Skype and Vonage occupy
an outstanding place among the technologies that changes the world. This
article is dedicated to them. The importance of studying it is indisputable as
they continue to influence our life in new aspects. The aim of this article is
to study the way how Skype and Vonage use information and communication
technologies to compete with each other.
Socrates
occupies a foundational place in the world history. However in spite of this
fact, he left no notes after him (Socrates). His ideas became known only due to
the notes of his students. Among these works Plato’s "The Apology” occupies an
outstanding place. It he whom we are obliged for almost everything we know
about Socrates today.
Socrates
spoke of God this way: he did not know whether he existed or not, but knew that
his thoughts were all over around them. Soul and consciousness are primary for
him, nature is secondary. He considered that if a person knew his own soul, it
would help to know God and to approach him. Human reasonabless is the major
proof of God’s existence.
В статье рассказывается о
малярии, её происхождении и способах лечения
We live in the XXI century. However, there are diseases that are still
present in our life, such as malaria. Ever year about 1500 cases of malaria are
registered in the USA (Malaria and Travelers). Malaria is among several most
frequent diseases that wait for the travelers during their trips (Sabo, 2008). Malaria
is the infectious disease caused by malarial plasmodium. It is characterized by
periodic attacks of a fever, liver and spleen increase, an anemia. Malaria
distribution is limited by an area of carriers - mosquitoes of sort Anopheles
and an ambient temperature providing end of development of the activator in an
organism of a mosquito, i.e. 64 ° northern and 33 ° southern latitude; the disease
is extended in the countries of Africa, South East Asia and the South America.
Статья
посвящена историческому развитию науки психопатологии
Abnormal
psychology is an integral part of psychology. It studies abnormal behavior,
makes attempts to understand the abnormal and then take appropriate measures in
order to change it. The concept of abnormal behavior changed in the course of
time from individual to individual, from culture to culture. Today the meaning
of "abnormal” is connected with mental disorders. Abnormal psychology is aimed
to help people who cannot adapt in the society and function normally among
other people. This may occur due to genetics, physical conditioning, social
interactions, reasoning and learning (Scum doctor.com). During the whole period
of human development people tried to understand the reasons of what was
perceived as abnormal behavior and therefore to change it. Three were three
main reasons of abnormality: biological, supernatural and psychological.
Статья
посвящена явлению возрастной дискриминации в обществе
и проблемам со здоровьем,
которые могут быть вызваны этой дискриминацией
All
societies use gender and age to classify their members. American people have
developed "a set of prejudices and discriminations against our elders that may
be unequaled by any other society” (Palmore 1999 p. 4). The modern society has
acquired a negative attitude towards older individuals. This negative attitude towards
older generation is reflected in such spheres of modern life as media, language
and humor. For instance, such a phrase as "don’t be an old fuddy-duddy” denotes
that old people are treated as physically defective and "incompetent” (Woolf
1998). Or, for example, the whole industry of the greeting cards business is
"built around "over the hill” theme” (Nelson 2002 p. ix). The message of those
cards portrayed as humorous is rather simple. The essence of it is an intention
and undesirability to get older. Older people are usually given unflattering
characteristics. They are considered to be of little value, even a burden of
society; they are slow to accept changes and are often politically
conservative. Besides, the majority of older people are interpersonally and
economically dependent. And in addition to these features of older generation,
many people consider them to be "slow, deaf or stupid, non-sexual and alienated”
(SOA Watch 2010). Both men and women can feel prejudiced attitude, but women
usually suffer it to a greater extent more than men (Lukas 2010). This negative
attitude towards older people is called ageism. That is "a form of
discrimination which is based on someone's chronological age” (Smith 2010).
Ageism may concern a representative of any age group. However, it mainly refers
to older people.
Статья посвящена проблеме повышения стоимости обучения в университетах Канады
The issue of
tuition fee in the universities of Canada is a very burning one as Canadians
are really concerned about it. The problem is that in Quebec, for instance, the
present tuition freeze may be revoked. Payment for education may be raised.
Another issue of great importance is who is to pay for students’ education:
students themselves, their parents or the government.
In spite of
all the intentions of Canadian government to raise the tuition fee, various
polls show that the majority of the Canadian population believes that students
pay too much (McSorley A25). Moreover, people also want the government to
provide free university education for those who cannot afford it. It is obvious
that Canadians do not want students pay higher fees. And no wonder why. Not
every family has the opportunity to pay university the tuition fee. In case it
raises only families with income above $100,000 will be able to afford it
(Watson A14). Despite various argues in this respect, whether high or low,
tuition fee affects higher educational establishments’ enrolment rates.
According to the Statistics Canada’s Youth in Transition Survey, 70% of those
students who faced some problems entering a university reported money problem
(McSorley A25).
It may be
difficult to believe but football is several hundred years old. Many people
believe that England is the motherland of football. However, this fact is far
from being true. There were games that resemble football in Ancient East
(China, Egypt), Ancient Greece, Rome, and later in France, Italy and England.
The game with the ball was more or less popular in ancient Greece in the 4th
century BC. Greek people used legs and arms to play it. Later Romans adopted
this game; however their variant of football was crueler and tougher. Exactly
due to the Roman conquerors football became popular on the British Isles, the
territory of the modern United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. The native
population of the Isles (the Britons) liked the game very much. They even
learned to play this game better than Romans. However, as Romans left the
British Isles in the 5th century, the game left with them. Still
football remained popular among the Europeans especially in Italy.
Статья
посвящена творчеству испанского режиссёра Педро Альмодовара
Pedro
Almodóvar, the Spanish film-maker, has always been considered in Hollywood to
be a "woman’s director” (Maddison 2000). This definition actually connoted
latent homosexuality and female-identified melodrama. However, this
characteristic of Almodóvar’s works seems a little bit superfluous, as his
films are best known for the mixture of reality and fiction, extraordinary
messages and unique plots.
Fiction and
reality go together in the films by Pedro Almodóvar. Sometimes it is next to
impossible to differentiate between them, to decide what comes from real life
and what was the play of director’s imagination. One thing is true for sure:
all films by Pedro Almodóvar are united by the same central issue: the question
of identity (Marsh 2006). He engages this issue in many different ways from the
earliest work "Pepi, Luci, Bom y las otras chicas del montón” (1980) to his
most recent film "Volver (Return)” (2006). This is a key feature of Pedro
Almodóvar and it is consistently depicted through the motif of writing. He
writes reality into existence and thereby changes it through fiction. Thus, the
film-maker interrogates all forms of subject formation and subjectivity. The
films of Pedro Almodóvar abound in "characters who adopt multiple pseudonyms,
the repeated images of typewriters, the information transmitted through found
notes, the eerie presence of ghostwriters” (Marsh 2006).
Статья
посвящена проблеме развода, его причинам и последствиям
When two
people marry each other they usually do not think about such end of their
family as divorce. Unfortunately, a lot of couples decide not to live together
and therefore break their marriage off. Divorce is a phenomenon opposite to
marriage. Divorce is "the legal breakup of marriage” (Divorce). Divorce is a
very stressful situation, because it is a rather major life change. Thus, all
members of the family usually suffer and it appears to be very difficult to
cope with the situation. Divorce usually affects finances, household jobs,
living arrangements, schedules and many other spheres of human life. The
situation becomes more complicated if there are children in the family. They
may be affected really deep and it is usually they who suffer from their parents’
divorce more than the others.
Literary
analysis of "Sister Carrie” by Theodore Dreiser
Литературный
анализ романа «Сестра Керри» Теодора Драйзера
Theodor
Dreiser wrote his novel "Sister Carrie” in 1900. This novel became a very
successful debut of him. Besides he laid down all the major themes that were
also reflected in his following novels.
"Sister
Carrie” was called the typical American novel. The main characters and their
stories illustrated the influence that the changes in the economic situation in
the country made upon American society and culture. Caroline Meeber is one of
the thousands of men and women who were seeking for any job in hard economic
situation caused by the economic boom. She is introduced into a novel in an
unusual way. She has no history and we know nothing about her former life.
Статья
посвящена размышлениям Сократа и Протагора о добродетели
Two great philosophers Socrates and Protagoras are
outstanding figures that belong to the Ancient classical period. Both of them
spoke a lot about virtue, its essence and properties. Protagoras mentions
virtue in the general sense of the word, besides he enumerates separate virtues
such as justice, good sense and piety. Socrates defines virtue as knowledge.
Socrates pays a lot of attention to the essence and the origin of some virtues.
He rises a question: "Is it possible to consider that virtue in general is an
entity and justice, good sense and piety are its constituent parts? Or are they
different definitions of one and the same quality?”.
Статья
представляет собой описание капсулы времени
и её содержимого: лучших образцов
искусства и культуры 20 века
We, people
who live in the very beginning of the 21st century greet you, the
generation of the 22nd century. We sent this message to you in order
to show you our life, to share our values with you and to remind of some things
that were very important and valuable for us.
The 20th
century was filled with different events. Some of them were terrible, sanguinary
and disastrous. Other events were happy, glad and joyful. But all of them were
meaningful and crucial for life of future generations.
Сравнительный анализ фильмов "Молчание ягнят" и "Чужой"
Cinema is
one of the most successful inventions of the 20th century. It
"presents us with a view of the action which is absolutely under the control of
the director at every moment. When the camera moves we move, when it remains
still we are still.” (Sontag 243) Various cinematic techniques can have a great
influence upon the meaning and structure of any film. The unique and diverse
combination of these techniques can make a film a real masterpiece or a mere
failure. Two films will be observed in this essay: "The Silence of the Lambs”
(1991) and "Alien” (1979). "The Silence of the Lambs” is a film directed by
Jonathan Demme. His intention was to blur the boundaries of the genre,
combining elements of serial killer horrors, women’s pictures and slasher
films. "Alien” was created by Ridley Scott. It represents a vivid example how a
horror film could become a real masterpiece. It also demonstrated how the
filmmaking can produce an effective contrast. Being a horror film, "Alien”
achieves its goal by blending different genres. First an unusual setting was
chosen. The haunted-house horror film was taken into distant, empty, cols
space. That fact made the film merge with the genre of science-fiction. Thus,
the filmmakers invited the audience to compare the picture with other films
performed in the genre of horror film before and to enjoy the new variation of
a horror picture.
Статья
посвящена анализу оперы Джакомо Пуччини «Турандот»
Since
ancient times up to the 20th century opera has undergone a lot of
changes. There are four main periods of its development. In the epoch of the
Renaissance Monteverdi made his first opera "Orfeo”. During that period most of
the opera theatres originated in Italy and the most peculiar features of opera
style were music, songs, lyrics, dances and costumes. These components made
opera a rather famous entertainment. The 17 – 18th centuries gave
the world the Baroque opera. The performance of the Baroque opera entailed
various difficulties as, for example, the imitation of ancient musical
instruments. In the end of the 18th century the classical opera
predominated. One of the greatest musicians who wrote operas in classical style
was W. Mozart. The 19th century gave the genre of opera romantic
character; and the late 19th and 20th centuries changed
opera to what we now know as modern opera. Modern opera has lost the touch of
aristocracy and royalty. The themes have also changed. Modern operas tell us
about different people, their emotions, joys and sufferings.
Learning is a complicated
process that presupposes that a living being can establish some relationships
between different events and can recognize the common features of these events.
As a result the behavior of a living being is changed under the influence of
this experience. In such spheres as education and psychology learning is known
as a process that unites environmental, emotional and cognitive experiences and
influences on enhancing and acquiring different skills, values, knowledge and
perception of the world. The process of learning is focused on everything that
happens to a living being during the learning. There are different explanations and
interpretations of every change that takes place during the process of
learning. Depending on the approach various learning theories can be
distinguished: cognitivism, constructivism and behaviorism.
(with Prince Al-Walid bin Talal bin Abdulaziz as an example)
Статья
посвящена определению лидера
на примере личности принца Аль-Валида
ибн Талала
ибн Абделя Азиз ас-Сауда
Prince
Al-Walid bin Talal bin Abdulaziz was not known by many American people until
the month anniversary of the attacks that took place on the September 11, 2001.
In fact, he was not recognizable to many people outside the Middle East and
outside the most important international business circles. Although he was not
very famous he was already a successful leader who had many supporters,
followers and admirers. By that time he has already done a lot: he had become
the sixth richest man in the world and also invested a great part of his
fortune into American Corporations. Still until October, 11, 2001 he was
someone whom the Business Week called "the most important financial kingpin
that you've never heard of” (Business Week). He donated $10 million to the
victims of the act of terror. However the Mayor of New York Rudolph Giuliani
considered the Prince’s further statement so offensive for American people that
returned the donation at once. On the first sight this act was not very wise
from the Al-Walid bin Talal’s side, as he might have become rather unpopular.
В
статье рассказывается о истории создания тайного общества иллюминатов
"Man is
a god in the making. And as the mystic myths of
Egypt,on the potter's wheel,
he is being molded.
When his light shines out to lift and preserve all things,
he receives the triple crown of godhood." (Hall, 1996, p. 92)
Nowadays
there are a lot of speculations about the Illuminati society. The recent
history showed us no other secret society except masons that originated so many
rumors, guesswork, fantasies, legends and misinterpretations. People start to
believe that they are manipulated or even herded like sheep by some secret
society, elite of the world. In order to understand how the matrix of lies was
created it is necessary to view the history of the Western civilization.
Gerald
Manley Hopkins is an outstanding English poet of the 19th century,
whose works cannot be overestimated. His contribution to the world’s poetry in
particular and to the world’s art in general is immense and boundless. His
inspiration was enriched by many things, notions and concepts. Moreover the
basis for this inspiration was laid in the early childhood of the future poet. The
first influence was made by his parents, who did a lot for their son’s
commitment to the creative arts and to religion. Both religion and creative
arts were so deeply plunged into Hopkins’ life that they never left it until
the death of the poet. His mother liked books very much, so she tried to
cultivate her son’s love to books, reading and literature. His father also was
closely connected with the world of poetry as he wrote poems himself and
studied the works of other poets as well.
The company Procter
and Gamble was founded in 1837 in Cincinnati (USA) by the Englishman William
Procter and the Irishman James Gamble (Procter and Gamble - history). First the
partners simply made candles and soap, distributing their production in
Cincinnati. The validity and the perspective approach to the business allowed
them to endure civil war, unprecedented financial, economic and political
storms in the USA in the middle of the 19th century. By the end of century it
was one of the most advanced American companies.
By 1890
Procter and Gamble was already selling their production all over the country.
They were selling more than 30 various types of soap, including well-known
Ivory. The growing demand allowed the company to construct a new factory in
Kansas City, and after a while they developed the activity outside the USA (the
factory in Ontario, Canada was the first outside affiliate). By the present
time Procter and Gamble has branches already more than in 50 countries of the
world.
In 1872 the
son of the Irish immigrant fell from a horse while working at his father’s
ranch near the city of Dearborn, Michigan. That day he decided to create a
vehicle that would be more reliable, than vehicles using the force of animals.
This unhappy horseman was Henry Ford, the man who invented one of the most
popular cars in the world (Bellis).
Henry Ford
was born in Springfield, Michigan on July, 30th, 1863 (Davis, 2003). He spent
his childhood at his parents’ farm where he helped his family and attended a
village school. When he was 12 years old Henry equipped a small workshop where he
spent all his free time. Right there several years later he designed his first
steam engine. In 1879 Henry Ford moved to Detroit where he became an assistant
to a machinist. In three years Ford moved to Dearborn and next five years he
was engaged in designing and repairing steam engines. In 1891 Ford became an
engineer of the Edison Illuminating Company, and in two years he was appointed
the chief engineer of the company. The decent salary and abundance of spare
time allowed Ford to pay more attention to working out the internal combustion
engines. Ford assembled the first internal combustion engine in his kitchen. Soon
he decided to put the engine on a frame with four bicycle wheels. So in 1896 quadrocycle
appeared - a vehicle which became the first Ford’s car.
"The
Oresteian Trilogy” is a masterpiece of the prominent Greek writer Aeschylus. He
presented true dramatic characters in his trilogy. Clytemnestra is one of the
brightest characters of "The Oresteian Trilogy”. This character is interpreted
as a tool of a demon of the patrimonial damnation. She says about that herself,
besides she reminds Orestes of the call of the fate when he intends to kill
her. However that does not mean that Clytemnestra is an innocent agent of gods
and has no will of her own. On the contrary all her actions are motivated by
vital and realistic reasons. She hates her husband and her hatred is boundless.
Clytemnestra motivates it by the murder of their daughter by Agamemnon and by
his love affair with Cassandra. These arguments are obviously insincere. Thus,
Agamemnon did not want to murder their daughter and did it only for the sake of
the obedience to the will of gods. Besides love affairs could not be reproached
from the point of view of the laws of the Greek morality of those times. It is
evident that the reason of Clytemnestra’s hatred towards her husband originates
from the other sources...
В статье рассказывается о влиянии развода родителей на психику ребёнка
It is
difficult to imagine a situation more terrible for a child than his or her
parents’ divorce. No matter how strongly can the parents control their
behavior, words, emotions, and the whole situation in general, a child suffers
in any case. The more troubles accompany the procedure of divorce, the more
psychological troubles it may cause. "Divorce is an intensely stressful
experience for all children, regardless of age or developmental level; many children
are inadequately prepared for the impending divorce by their parents” (Eleoff,
2003). The initial child’s reaction to his or her parents’ decision to separate
is usually as follows: a sense of vulnerability while the family is
disintegrating, the feeling of grief at a loss of the integrated family, loss
of the parent who is non-custodial, a strong feeling of powerlessness.
В статье рассказывается о влиянии психологического состояния и настроя
на успешный результат при сдаче экзамена
Taking an
exam is a very difficult time for every person. It is a rather stressful event
that may cause a person a lot of emotional and physical strain, tension and
stress. Some people pass their exams rather easily, as though playing a game.
Other people cannot stand exams, as they always feel disappointed, embarrassed
and perplexed. This may happen due to various reasons. Sometimes a person is
not prepared for his or her examination and therefore feels unsure of
everything. But there are cases when our emotional and physical state plays an
important part in our success or failure.
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
and "The Tell-Tales Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
Литературный анализ
The work by Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Yellow
Wallpaper” and the work by Edgar Allan Poe "The Tell-Tale Heart” represent the
genre of a short story. In literary terms both these stories look back to the
tradition practiced by Edgar Allan Poe – the tradition of the psychological
horror tale. Both stories are told from the point of view of an insane author
who disclaims being insane and tries to persuade other people and a reader that
everything is quite opposite.
Глобальное информационное общество и внешняя политика
России
Проблема инфраструктуры
Развитие информационной
инфраструктуры не является прямой задачей МИД, однако специфика
внешнеполитической деятельности требует учета при создании информационных
сетей. Успешность информационного обеспечения внешней политики в значительной
степени определяется техническими возможностями подразделений МИД по
обеспечению доступа к информационным сетям, формированию и распространению
контента. Здесь важную роль играет грамотная постановка задач информационного
обеспечения и определение необходимого объема технических (и соответственно
финансовых) ресурсов для их решения.
The global information societyand the foreign policy of Russia
The Problem of infrastructure
Informative
infrastructure development is not a
direct problem of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, however the specificity of
foreign policy activity demands control in creation of information networks.
Success of the dataware of foreign policy is substantially defined by
technical possibilities of the branches of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on
providing the access to information networks, formation and content
distribution. In this case, the important role is played by the competent
statement of problems of information supply and the definition of the
necessary volume of technical (and accordingly financial) resources for their
solving.
"Two billion
cars: driving toward sustainability” by Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon is a
book that covers a lot of important and very acute issues. This book is
dedicated to cars: every page of it is filled with information that deals with
nothing else, but cars only. The book covers the whole history and gives the
profound overview of the global auto industry. It tells the reader the true
love story of cars and its owners, reveals secrets and mysteries connected with
America’s love affair with various and diverse cars. The authors of the book
that describes two billion cars pay attention to serious problems that appeared
as a result of human’s love and worship of the most popular vehicle for modern
people. Billions of cars in the world do not only make the life of their owners
comfortable and pleasant, but they also cause much harm to nature and to the
entire world. These problems rose in the past decades as the number of cars
increased considerably only within the last twenty years. It is mainly due to
the extensive growth of China and India. As a result, the greenhouse effect
became a more serious ecological problem than it used to be earlier. These
problems are illuminated by the authors of the book, besides some possible
decisions are suggested.
Фрагмент статьи, посвящённой личности Альберта Эйнштейна и его трудам
Albert
Einstein is a man who made a lot in his life. His deeds and inventions changed
the world and gave many people the new vision of the universe. He is an
outstanding figure of the 20th century and there are not many people
who can compare with him in the significance and importance of the inventions
done during his life. He was a philosopher, a theoretical physicist, an author
of many works. He is widely regarded to be one of the most influential and
famous intellectuals and scientists of all times. He received the Nobel Prize
in Physics, as it was stated "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and
especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect" (Nobelprize.org).
His
contributions to physics are numerous. Among them there are the general and
special theories of relativity, the first post-Newtonian expansion, development
of relativistic cosmology, elaborating of the theories on deflection of light
by gravity and gravitational lensing, the fluctuation dissipation theorem that
referred to the Brownian movements of molecules, the wave-particle duality, the
photon theory, the zero-point energy concept, the quantum theory of atomic
motion in solids, the quantum theory of a monatomic gas and the semi classical
version of Schrödinger equation. Albert Einstein published about 450 scientific
and non-scientific works during his life and all of them are appreciated
nowadays.
Статья посвящена истории борьбы афро-американцев за свободу и независимость
The life of
the Afro-American population has always been hard. For two centuries they have
been oppressed, suffered hardships and privations. They constantly struggled
for their rights, independence and liberty. That struggle continued up to the
XX century. A great migration of approximately 5 million of Afro-Americans from
the South of the country to the North and West of the USA in the years 1910 –
1960 became a push to the civil rights movements. That happened because the
status of the Black population began to change rapidly: having no rights to
vote in the South, they got these rights in the North. The victory of the
Democrats in 1936 and the strong influence of the Roosevelt’s New Deal made
Afro-Americans switch from the Republicans. The March on Washington Movement in
1940 of several black civil rights groups made President Roosevelt set up a
Fair Employment Practices Committee that provided blacks with working places
during the WWII. And from that time Afro-Americans started to struggle for
their civil rights even more obstinately. The civil rights movement began in
1954 with the Montgomery bus boycott when a woman refused to surrender her seat
to a white passenger. This boycott lasted for a year. In 1956 the Supreme Court
passed a decision that it was a manifestation of race discrimination and
therefore it was considered an unconstitutional action. Years before there were
some conflicts about the problem of school admittance, as black population was
deprived of this privilege. In 1957 the president of Arkansas NAACP provided
the legal strategy that allowed nine black students to enter a school.
The first president
of the USA was George Washington (1732-1799). Besides he was the
commander-in-chief of the Continental army of colonists in the War for the
Independence (1775-1783). He supported preservation of neutrality by the United
States concerning rivalry between the European powers.
In 1774-1775 George
Washington was one of the representatives of Virginia in the Continental
congress. In June 1775 he was unanimously selected the commander-in-chief of
the Continental army. He headed the Army throughout the whole War for the
Independence.
Washington’s popularity
and indisputable authority caused his election on the post of the president of
the country. He became the president on April, 30th, 1789.
Washington did not participate in pre-election struggle, and waited in Mount
Vernon. The members of the elective board chosen in states in the beginning of
January, 1789, voted unanimously for Washington as president. The second place
by quantity of voices was occupied by John Adams who became the vice-president.
One of the most popular and famous genres of music is
salsa. It comes from Puerto Rico. Salsa got a very strong influence of
vibrating and energetic black music from the African continent. Salsa resembles
mambo to a certain extent. It actually originated from mambo having become the
independent musical genre. Nowadays the name of the genre denotes a rhythm, but
originally it was a genre derived from Cuban rhythms such as Chachacha, Son and
Mambo. The present salsa corresponds to a music style. This modern genre plays
Cuban rhythms, such a Son, Guaracha, Son Montuno and Guaguanco. In this respect
Johnny Pacheco – a man who is considered to have shown salsa to New York –
claims that salsa has always had Cuban origin and has always been its native
music.
Rumba is
one the music genres that originated in Cuba. The Latin America gave life to
many popular musical genres and rumba is probably one of the most famous ones among
them. The term originated from the Spanish word that means "party”. This term
describes the energetic and lively rhythms that are adored by many people, not
only Latin. It became the mixture of the musical motives of African people who
came to the Caribbean region and the Spanish inhabitants of the Latin America.
There are several types of rumba: Cuban rumba (a musical style that resulted in
both music and dance), the Rumba dance proper, Flamenco Rumba (it is also known
as the music of gypsies, or Rumba Gitana) and African rumba (the rumba that
became the source for the Latin rumba; it originates from Congo). Rumba has
always been a folk music and later a folk dance.
The Myers-Briggs
Personality Assessment & The Rorschach
Apperception tests
Фрагмент статьи, посвящённой изучению личности с помощью
типологии Майерс-Бриггс и тестов Роршаха
Nowadays people started to speak a lot about
personality. It happens because almost everyone understands that knowing
yourself and knowing other people can help them in many spheres of our life.
Our personality is still a mystery but there have been a lot of scientists that
were interested in studying it, and have succeeded to some extent. And of
course the mystery of human personality could not have missed the attention of
psychologists – people who probably know about us a little bit more than other people.
They proved that our personality has a very strong impact on everything that
happens to us. There are a lot of people around us so our personality
influences our relations with other people. The way we feel about them, the way
we behave ourselves with them and the way we build our relations are defined by
various and unique features of our characters. That is why some people can
easily establish relations with anyone they want, and there are people who
cannot even ask a stranger the time. Our personality also influences the way we
try to cognize the world, the way we learn new things. Some people do it easily
and with great pleasure, but someone can hardly imagine himself or herself
learning something new at will, not under compulsion. We also choose
professions according to our personality. One person likes active job and
communication with many people; others prefer to stay at home and avoid any
possible contact. Sometimes people can hardly explain this or that inclination
but personality can act subconsciously. It also depends on our personality
whether we have a chance to be promoted or not, whether we can built good
relations with our partners and therefore make a strong team and bring a great
profit to the company we work at, or not…
Литературный анализ трагедии Уильяма Шекспира "Отелло"
The plays
of William Shakespeare have not lost their currency even after five centuries.
This happens due to some reasons. The most important of them is that he
skillfully depicted all the characters of his tragedies, not only the main
ones, but minor characters as well. The character of Emilia in "Othello” is a
very bright example.
Emilia is
one of the characters in "Othello” by W. Shakespeare who differs from the other
characters by honesty, sincerity and fairness. She is very quiet, taciturn and
even uncommunicative. When Desdemona introduces her, she emphasizes that Emilia
"has no speech”. Iago confirms that idea a little bit further: "She puts her tongue a little
in her heart and chides with thinking”. Emilia really does not seem to be a
chatter-box. But if a woman is taciturn that means in no way that she has
nothing to say. She may not want to speak much on unimportant topics but if
something bothers her, Emilia is able to make a speech. When her husband Iago
confirms that Desdemona was unfaithful to Othello, she burns with indignation
and makes a speech in order to protect her mistress from groundless
accusations.
Orthodoxy is one of the world’s
religions. About 225 million people belong to this religion and of course it
greatly influences the life of many people.Due to the fact that this religion is widespread all over the world
there are various discrepancies in its essence. Unfortunately Orthodoxy is not
as united as many people would like it to be. As a matter of fact, Eastern
Orthodoxy and Western Orthodoxy have different approaches to various aspects of
people’s life. It especially concerns such notions as sin and salvation. Thus,
for example, Western Orthodoxy treats sin as a crime, a violation of a law.
Фрагмент статьи посвящён сравнению учения Иисуса Христа и пророка Мухаммеда
Jesus
Christ and Mohammed are two outstanding figures in the world culture. They are
the founders of two world religions: Christianity and Islam correspondingly. Both
of them are worshiped in their own faiths and both of them are treated in a
different way by their religions. Nevertheless the significance of these
figures and the importance of their actions cannot be overestimated.
Jesus
Christ is the central figure of Christianity. He is the messiah predicted in
the Old Testament. The principal sources that contain information about his life
are considered to be the four Gospels. His birth became the realization of the
prophecy about the Messiah. Jesus was born after the Immaculate Conception by
the Virgin Mary. He was born in the town of Bethlehem. There is not much
information about his life up to the age of thirty. At this age he was baptized
by John the Baptist; then Jesus left for the desert for forty days and after
that started his service and began to deliver his sermons. Jesus Christ proved
his teaching by various miracles, so he was renowned for being a prophet and a
healer, in spite of the fact that he claimed himself to be the Son of God. His
last days are known as the Passion of Christ. He was betrayed, imprisoned, tortured
and at last crucified. Three days later he rose from the dead and ascended into
Heaven. Jesus Christ was born approximately in the beginning of the 1 century
AD and died in the 30th.
Deepa Mehta
is an Indian-born film director who lives and works in Canada. In 2005 her film
"Water” was released. "Water” is the third and the last part of her Element’s
trilogy. The trilogy consists of three films: "Fire” (1996), "Earth” (1998) and
"Water” (2005). All three films are dedicated to India: its history, culture,
religion and the problems that arise in the country and in the society
particularly due to different reasons. "Water”, the last part of the trilogy,
concentrates on the social state of a woman in Indian society, especially on
the social position of a widow. The film tells us about a small eight-year-old
girl who was unlucky to become a widow at the very beginning of her life. Life
of widows is not only difficult, it is also rather unfair. She cannot live with
her parents.
The utopian novel "Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887” was written by Edward
Bellamy and first saw the world in 1888. It exited the whole world that did not
expect anything of this kind. It was impossible to find anyone who did not read
or even did not hear about it. It depicted the ideal society of the XX century
where everyone had the opportunity to realize his or her personality and
therefore was extremely happy.
But we are the people who face this "ideal” life from Bellamy’s point of
view. We have seen the century that Edward Bellamy could only imagine so we can
really judge whether his ideas of the perfect society where every citizen is
totally free were positive or not.
Edward Bellamy claimed that the most positive feature of the Golden Age
society, created in "Looking Backward”is that everyone’s will and desires are not restricted as they were in
his own times. But it is not that vivid if we analyze the perfect Bellamy’s society
more thoroughly.
'How does audience research approach the relationship
between children and television?'
Фрагмент статьи, посвящённой вопросу влияния СМИ на детей
The problem of the
influence of television on children is much more serious that we would like it
to be. A lot of researches have shown that the influence of television and
media in general is more of negative nature than of positive. The results of
the negative influence of TV programs on children are shortening of attention
span, distorted image of a human body, growing obesity, fear and anti-social
behavior. And these are just several bad consequences of television. It would
take eternity to enumerate them all. Unfortunately the degree of expansion of
these notions if very often unlimited and, what is more, uncontrollable.
Фрагмент статьи посвящён проблеме ношения оружия в США
Gun control
in the Unites States of America is an issue highly debated in various spheres
of social and political life. Many sociologists, political scientists and other
investigators of social and political life of the country show evidences that
something must be done over gun control that has really become a national problem
of the country.But these researches
make their conclusions based on statistics, gun control attitudes, gun
ownership and other factors. But there is one more important factor that
influences gun control very much: that is media. That may seem unexpected on
the first sight, but media has a great influence on people’s attitudes toward
guns and gun control.
Gottfried
Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716) is an outstanding German philosopher and a mathematician.
He was born: July, 1, 1646 in Leipzig. His father, the professor of moral
philosophy of the University of Leipzig, died when his son was six years old. Leibniz
entered the University of Leipzig at the age of 15. He graduated in 1663,
having defended a thesis on the bachelor’s degree "On the Principle of the
Individual” (Disputatio metaphysica de principio individui). In 1663-1666 he studied
jurisprudence in Yen and published the work concerning the juridical education.
He was noticed there by baron von Boineburg and the archbishop of Mainz. The
archbishop was occupied with maintenance of peace within the boundaries of
Sacred Roman Empire, and also between Germany and its neighbors. Leibniz
plunged into archbishop’s plans. He also searched for the rational foundation
of Christian religion equally comprehensible to Protestants and Catholics.
Фрагмент статьи посвящён вопросу об эвтаназии: за и против
We do not
know what makes us come into this world. From times immemorial people
comprehended that it is much more complicated way than the process of
fecundation. Some people believe that they came into this world by God’s
desire. Skeptics look for some metaphysical reasons of our existence. Still
everybody understands that we are not born according to our own wish. Then a
problem arises: if we do not choose whether to be born or not, do we have the
right to decide whether to die or to continue our life? No world religion
permits a person to commit a suicide. Every faith punishes the lawbreaker in a
very severe way: he is not to get access to heaven ever. Still a lot of
suicides are committed every day all over the world and human society still
does not treat this action definitely. Still this is a choice made by one
person. On the other hand, what should a person do if he suffers an incurable
disease and wants to leave this world? Euthanasia is a very burning problem of
the modern society and it causes heated controversies and argues.
Virginia
Woolf is one of the brightest writers of modernity. Her works are not only
unique; they are also psychological, philosophical and very difficult to
understand. Her works are usually treated as experimental psychological novels.
It is sure to say that one of her brightest novels "Mrs Dalloway” is probably
the most difficult one. It is not easy to interpret it at all. It is very
difficult to analyze its composition (style, genre, rhythm) and the peculiarities
of its content (theme, plot, conflict, characters, idea). Using the principal
technique of her woks – the stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf tries to
imprint the process of thinking of her characters, to reproduce their slightest
feelings, thoughts, emotions. It stands to reason that the writer is not
interested in the real world. What she is really interested in is the
interpretation of the real world in the consciousness and subconsciousness. She
dismisses the real world with its problems and leaves for a better world, a
world of feelings and emotional experience, rich associations and changeable
senses. Virginia Woolf makes a reader enter the character’s inner world, but
not study the reasons that made the character do in this or that way. That
reason results in the impressionistic manner of image and style: there is no
clear form, but the text abounds in fragmentary details and features.
В статье подробно рассматривается, что такое маркетинг
Nowadays
the world market is overloaded with various products that are to be sold. Some
of them become popular very quickly and are sold immediately. They require new
and new production and therefore make the company that produced the goods
successful. Other products may never find their buyers and will only become an
unsuccessful investment for its producer. Marketing is a very important
component that may add to success of a business. It has a lot of different
strategies, all of which are aimed at attracting new customers.
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