THE Chinese province of Fujian has been feeling a bit left out. While the Pearl River delta to the south and the Yangtze delta to the north have boomed, subtropical Fujian has prospered too, but not quite so impressively. Every time the central government picks a new area for...
1.Introduction At the end of the 20th century, Europe has a multitude of significations. It means a large market and a competitive and stimulator factor, capable of generating prosperity and technologic innovation.It means a society model based on individual rights that generated such...
Classifying Shakespeares Comic Heroes Shakespeare drew so many different comic heroes that to try to classify them would be an impossible task however for the sake of economy we can consider most Shakespeares comic heroes would fit into any of the three following groupings, that...
Paradise Lost is about Adam and Eve--how they came to be created and how they came to lose their place in the Garden of Eden, also called Paradise. It's the same story you find in the first pages of Genesis, expanded by Milton into a very long, detailed, narrative poem. It also includes...
Ireland is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth largest island in the world. It lies to the northwest of Continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland, separated by the Irish Sea, is the island of Great Britain....
Introduction The concept of sustainable development has emerged in the seventies due to the general concern about the global environment, as a result of pollution and an increasing usage of sources for raw materials and energy. Sustainability means the rearrangement of technological,...
Introduction On 25 February 1941 Amsterdam was seized by a general strike in protest against the persecution of the Jews. One day afterwards the strike spread to the Zaanstreek (Zaan-area), Kennemerland (Haarlem and Velsen), Hilversum, Utrecht and Weesp. In Amsterdam public transport...
Slang ... an attempt of common humanity to escape from bald literalism, and express itself illimitably ... the wholesome fermentation or eructation of those processes eternally active in language, by which froth and specks are thrown up, mostly to pass away, though occasionally to...
Introduction The sociolinguistic condition known as diglossia has attracted wide attention since the publication of Ferguson's seminal article (1959). Despite its occurrence in many non-western contexts, it is not simply a phenomenon of exotic third-world cultures, but characterizes a...
Introduction In this report we aim to bring together new theoretical work on gender from feminist linguistics with new theorizing of linguistic politeness. We’ll try to clear some theoretical space for thinking about both the terms gender and politeness, and thus much of the paper is...
1831 – Beginning of the Road The parliamentary history in Romania starts in 1831, when, in Wallachia, a constitutional document was adopted, named The Organic Regulations, implemented, a year later, in Moldavia too. The organic regulations set the fundations for the parliamentary...
Ruins of Damecuta On the north-western promontory of the island, draped over the capes of Vetereto and Arcera, there is another Roman imperial villa called "Damecuta", name of uncertain provenance that also indicates the whole headland's area and the pinewoods. Standing in a solitary,...
Tourism in Piatra-Neamt The city of Piatra-Neamt is the administrative center of Neamt county and is situated in central-East Romania, between Eastern Carpathian Mountains and the sub-carpathian zone. It is a land really quaint, surrounded by afforested hills lower than 1000 meters...
Introduction Horia: „During the recent housing boom, if a house went on the market, the seller would get a dozen bids right away” said an American real-estate agent. „Today, however, that’s all changed. Although prices have softend slightly bidding wars are now a thing of the past and...