Volume 7, Issue 2, 2010

Ayşe Sibel TürkümPages 164-170DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107211 ABSTRACT Violence, especially against children, is a very serious problem worldwide. Violence at schools is one aspect of violence against children and it occurs in the similar ways in Turkey as it does in other countries. The studies on the roles and functions of school staff reveal that there is […]

Artur LakatosPages 171-180DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107212 ABSTRACT This paper deals with the subject of self-sacrifice from an interdisciplinary perspective. Using various examples from different cultures and periods of history it will present aspects of the phenomenon of violent self-sacrifice in combat or with the occasion of suicide terrorist attacks, currents and movements familiar with these techniques through

Daniel UngureanuPages 181-187DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107213 ABSTRACT Sayyid Qutb promoted the idea of a pan-Islamic state, governed solely by the shari’a (Islamic law) as an idea whose time has come, in an era of trans-national ideologies. He argues that all contemporary societies returned to state of jahiliyya or pre-Islamic ignorance, in which authority and primacy of God

Maximiliano E. KorstanjePages 188-203DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107214 ABSTRACT Centered in the analysis of discourse over films, the present work debates the general drawing of the film IRONMAN and its connection of Muslim terrorism. Our main thesis is that globalization plays a pervasive role since at a first glance homogenizes the domination of technology, economic linkages and rationalization

Erdoğan Kaya, Nazlı GökçePages 204-220DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107215 ABSTRACT Projects conducted at primary schools are of great importance in environmental education. In this study, interviews were carried out with teachers who were the participants of particular environmental projects. This survey study is conducted through a descriptive research method, namely, semi-structured interviews. The data were analyzed descriptively. The

Omar Ibrahim Alomoush, Mohammad Abdullah MatarnehPages 223-233DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107216 ABSTRACT The current study investigates the infiltration of code-switches into Jordanian social settings. It is also to examine Jordanians’ attitudes toward the spread of code-switches in different social settings, the rationale behind the spread of code-switches, the role of media, types of code-switches and linguistic dominance. To

Constantinos MaritsasPages 234-244DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107217 ABSTRACT The problem of human language is studied in the context of the definition “civilization” on the basis of Darwin’s theory. The author defines civilization as “survival of the unfit”. The author supposes that language was invented by the men to describe their heroic deeds for the women in order to

Simona Mitroiu, Carmen RusuPages 245-256DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107218 ABSTRACT The main idea of this paper is that memories are the key elements of our identity and in order to access these elements it is sometimes necessary to use different techniques. Music is one of them and the education of the mind represents a safe direction to define

Peter S. BorkowskiPages 257-264DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107219 ABSTRACT This paper attempts to outline a model for introducing students to philosophical analysis based on presentations of the aporia by Nicholas Rescher. It is developed from the premise that philosophy is a distinct culture of its own wherever it can be identified and that such basic exercises in critical

Cristobal OrregoPages 267-271DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107220 ABSTRACT This is the latest account of the specification of actions within the Thomist tradition. The differing Thomist positions, according to the Introduction and the first chapter, are three. (1) Physicalism assigns a key role to the physical structure of the action in the determination of its moral species, with some