Fresh from Miss Muse and her Enchanted Garden Of Funny&Funky Idioms to your plates - a collection of hot, unusual and sometimes totally hilarious English idioms, metaphors, sayings and expressions . These are black diamonds of the language, carefully chosen for their beauty , brightness and fun potential. Let's not forget that the vocabulary can be a rich source of joy, creativity with the language. It will be presented as a weekly hit-parade of top ten ones .
Television now plays an
important role
in our life. Of course it influences the way people look at the world
and
share their views. There are advantages and disadvantages on
television.
Television in our country
offers us
about 18 channels so the programmes are various. We can say the same
about
British television, but in Britain there are more people who have
satellite
television. There are special channels on it: sport channel, music
channel,
news, cartoons, children's channel and even special channel for
animals.
"The family is the
ultimate source
of social inequality”. Does it still hold?
The most important element of
social
structure -social institute - is family. The family status is an index
of the
condition of society; it shows the degree of its development. Family
is a very
old social institute, which have different forms. Arguments can't stop
about
what form is more alive able and fit to traditions and national
peculiarity of
a country. In the last century Russian "slavianofils" expected the
males to
dominate in all family decisions making - a patriarchy. Other members
of the
family had to carry out his will. The role of women was to
reproduction and
upbringing the children and to run a farm. But there were a lot of
opponents
against such position.
Dehumanization is the process
whereby
opponents view each other as less than human and thus not deserving of
humane
treatment or what are generally accepted as fundamental human rights.
It is
necessary, psychologically, to so categorize the enemy if it is to be
possible
to engage in warfare or otherwise violate the generally accepted norms
of
behavior regarding one's fellow man.
Dehumanization is actually an
extension of a less intense process of developing an "enemy image" of
the
opponent. An enemy image is a stereotype - a negative
oversimplification -
which usually views the opposing group as evil, in contrast to one's
own side,
which is seen as entirely well. Enemy images are usually black and
white.
Shades of gray (meaning one's own faults or one's enemies' values) are
usually
discounted, denied, or ignored.
UNESCO defines culture as
an
"aggregate of distinctive, spiritual, material, intellectual, and
emotional
traits, which characterizes a society or a social group. It includes,
alongside with arts and literature, ways of life, basic human rights,
systems
of values, customs and traditions, and faiths". This is the definition
that
helps to articulate the concept of cultural dimension of development.
Obviously, the concept of
cultural
dimension cannot be tackled as a usual one, as long as it represents
the
fundamental reference to measure and compare the importance of other
factors.
No development or modernization will be real and sustainable unless it
makes
allowance for and turns to good account the power of culture; unless
it does
not ignore the life style, values systems, traditions, faiths, talents
and
knowledge of the human community. The decision-making persons who
neglect the
cultural dimension will be punished by the generations to come. The
famous
Romanian writer Nocolae Iorga says that "without a culture banner a
people is
not an army but a band".
Male feminist? What the devil
is that?
Isn't that a contradiction in terms? Or even an oxymoron? No! It is
not.
Feminism is the idea, and the
organized movement that supports it, that advocates political,
economic, and
social equality for both men and women - the key word being equality.
A feminist is a person who
believes in
and supports this idea. So, a male feminist is a man who believes in
equal
rights for both men and women.
To answer often thought but
unasked
questions in some men's minds, no, this does not mean that women want
to be
the same as men; they simply want equal rights, and no, a male
feminist is not
a man who wants to be a woman; he, too, is a person who simply wants
equal
rights for both sexes.
There are many young people
in our
country. Each of them has one's own point of view on their life and
their
future. There are many problems which are common for all young people.
For
Example: how to spend their free time, what to do after school,
choosing a
profession, how to deal with a girl and boy-friends and so on. There
are a lot
of programmes on TV which try to help them, but it's too little.
The problem number one of
most young
people is the problem of fathers and sons. All young people want to be
independent; they want their parents to listen to their opinion, not
to
interfere in their private life. Some parents neglect their children,
because
they can't find a common language with each other. Different
newspapers and
magazines try to solve this problem and I advise such parents to read
them.
