Geertz, perhaps the most influential of the anthropologists, contends that symbolism and meaning are central to religion: “The view of man as a symbolizing, conceptualizing, meaning-seeking animal, which has become increasingly popular both in the social sciences and in philosophy over the past several years, opens up a whole new approach not o…[Read more]

Einstein observed, “Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration of this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.” As the p…[Read more]

Stoler, Paul (2023). Some memories of lifetime through years of paintings. In: “Global Humanities and Liberal Arts”, Wang, Lawrence K. (Editor). Volume 2023, Number 6, 2023(6), June 25, 2023, 28 pages. Lenox Institute Press, MA, USA. Lenox.Institute@gmail.com; stolerpaul@gmail.com. ….. ABSTRACT: This work consists of a collection…[Read more]

This is a history of the Centre William Rappard, the first building designed to house an international organization in Geneva, and its art treasures. For nearly a century, these works of art and decorations offered by governments and institutions encouraged smooth diplomacy and fluent international negotiations in the fields of labour, trade and…[Read more]

“Every culture develops some kind of art as surely as it develops language. Some primitive cultures have no real mythology or religion, but all have some art – dance, song, design (sometimes only on tools or on the human body). Dance, above all, seems to be the oldest elaborated art….. Art is, indeed, the spearhead of human development, social…[Read more]

भारत में फासीवादी नीतियों का नौकरीपेशा मध्यम वर्ग प्रतिरोध नहीं कर रहा। हालांकि, प्रतिरोध की अधिक जिम्मेवारी उन प्राध्यापकों पर है, जो स्वयं को बुद्धिजीवी कहते हैं और जिन्हें लिखने और बोलने के लिए किंचित अधिक नैतिक और कानूनी सुविधा प्राप्त है।

सच यह है कि इनमें से अधिकांश भय से अधिक लोभ के कारण चुप हैं और चुपचाप निजाम बदलने का इंतजार कर रहे हैं…[Read more]

Writing Assessment Literacy (WAL). However, it is neglected in Iranian context. Taking the importance of academic qualification, writing proficiency and teaching experience with regard to writing assessment, the present quantitative study made attempt to investigate the effect of academic qualification, writing proficiency and teaching experience…[Read more]

Word acquisition was one of the important and essential parts for language learning. One of the learning difficulties that many L2 learners at all ages and proficiency levels face was meaningful vocabulary learning and retention as opposed to rote memorization of L2 words. Therefore, this study attempted to investigate the effectiveness of the…[Read more]

Due to subjectivity in oral assessment, much concentration has been put on obtaining a satisfactory measure of consistency among raters. However, obtaining consistency might not result in valid decisions. One matter that is at the core of both reliability and validity in oral performance is rater training. Recently, the Multifaceted Rasch…[Read more]

This paper explores the dynamics of women’s fashion marketing in advertisements and promotional materials related to Western ideas, materials or products. It will analyse published promotional visual and written texts in the interwar Bucharest press, with local or national distribution. The aim is to ascertain the degree and nature of Western w…[Read more]

BACKGROUND
The Merdeka Belajar Curriculum is a policy put out by the Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) to raise the standard of education in the country. The Merdeka Belajar curriculum aims to give schools the autonomy to tailor their curricula to their pupils’ needs and strengths. The…[Read more]

Literacy culture helps pupils learn. Students typically need help finding difficult-to-understand English reading materials, making it challenging to find the newest information, research, or even get fresh ideas.
The writers of this publication develop and translate literacy culture second-reading materials to overcome this issue. This…[Read more]

This book brings together thirteen contributors from diverse backgrounds – mean and women born in Cameroon, England, Scotland, South Africa, Zambia. What they all have in common is years of service within their respective communities, working individually and within projects and programmes, with both young people and adults to build social c…[Read more]

Chapter 10 Book Review

The author begins by saying that before he was born, he lived with his parents (of course) and ends his story 86 years later with an evanescent farewell. In the interval: a life of no importance. So why tell it? For lack of a better answer, he adduces mysterious voices in the second part of Goethe’s Faust:
We immer…[Read more]

The name of Joaquina Mayol Bazo (Málaga, 1830 – 1915) is linked to her former husband, the photographer Eugenio Lorichon, son of the legendary pioneer of photography in Spain: Enrique Lorichon. Joaquina worked as an independent photographer in Malaga from 1860 to 1865, above all, under the name of Viuda de Lorichon. / El nombre de Joaquina Ma…[Read more]

King of Brexitland * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

King of Brexitland * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA