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The unprecedented scale of the migrant crisis is appalling. It upsets us and urges us to act. Every day, desperate people tent to cross the boundaries of indifference. For specific situations, they are called refugees. Treated often as a simple problem, it is our brothers and sisters, fragile human beings who need help, and this is urgently. On a global scale, there is impressive solidarity and a genuine desire to help. At the same time, signs of impotence and overload are well known in many places. Public debate ...

Museums can be regarded as a tool that, beyond presenting sections of art and culture, have an important role to inform and connect with elements that generate tendencies at a local or general level; mentally and emotionally. They promote new ideas, new information, they promote local aspects. Museums are institutions with their own identity, leading to the creation of new phenomena in the social framework (through exhibitions and a varied type of organized events). The study is centered around those specific muse...

The paper illustrates the history of the merchant, banker and entrepreneur, Vito Di Cagno, born from an outstanding family of rich shipowners and merchants of the city of Bari, in the region of Puglia, in the Italian South, and of his extraordinary capacity for socio-economic affirmation in a promising and expansive historical phase of the economy of the southern regions that preceded the First World War, during the Giolittian era. He managed to undertake successful strategies to achieve the control of important s...

The main claim of the Cognitive Metaphor Theory (CMT), proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980), is that we not only speak and write, but also think in terms of metaphors. In his turn, the Dutch scholar Charles Forceville argues, if this is correct, alongside the verbal manifestations of the conceptual metaphors, other modes must exist to communicate these metaphors. In addition, Forceville has derived the importance of context when analysing metaphors; this has led to a considerable research into pictorial or visual...

This study investigates the relationship between art engagement and the well-being of high school students from the Czech Republic, Italy and Slovenia. The research is based on data from a questionnaire survey conducted in high schools in those three countries. Five pieces of information were gathered from the students which included: life satisfaction (happiness), self-reported physical health, weekly time spent doing artistic activities, weekly time spent reading and information concerning student’s ability to p...

The capital companies in order to carry out the activity for which they have been authorized to function have 3 categories of organs: management, administration and control. The management of the companies is carried out by the general meeting, which can be ordinary or extraordinary. The control of the companies is carried out by censors or auditors, as the case may be. The joint stock companies can be managed in a unitary system (of France origin) or in a dualistic system (of German origin). The unitary system as...

In the past few decades, in the furniture industry, the value of traditional culture has been underestimated in many countries under the process of western-centric modernisation. The process of the culture grounded competitive advantages of furniture& furnishing firms has not yet identified and still undeveloped theoretically and practically. Using the local identity (culture) to add an emotional and symbolic value to the furniture and creating marketing differentiation advantage is not yet fully recognised by aca...

The subjects of public international law are the states, as primordial subjects of international law and international intergovernmental organizations. The legal status of the individual - the natural person - within the international public law represents an important topic of discussion, both in the specialized doctrine and within the specific institutions that apply the international law. Two points of view have emerged in time: in the first opinion, legal entities are real subjects of public international law,...

The article examines the current status and prospects of development of the Russian tax system, analyzes it, considers problems and ways of its improvement. The article includes the following sections: introduction, general characteristic of tax system of Russia; elements of the tax system of Russia; prospects of development of Russian tax system. In each paragraph the essential elements of the current tax system of the state are revealed. The trends developing in the modern tax system of the Russian Federation ar...

The study has an analytical-interpretative character and brings a partial research probe of the artistic depiction of the Holocaust theme. It deals with the ways of dramatizing the most authentic and most often translated book on the topic of the Holocaust The Diary of Anne Frank. In the study we describe on the basis of theatrological and literary-scientific research actual forms of artistic interpretation of Anne Frank’s Diary in a contemporary Slovak theatre. We focus on interpretation of a classical drama thea...

Today there is an increasing interest in reviving folk festivities and outdoor celebrations. At the same time, the attempts of modern society to properly identify and understand the roots of these festivities and celebrations oftentimes resemble a costume show, or a theatrical performance with a new twist, in which once deep and meaningful traditions and rituals, with original historical and cultural significance, are lost, devoid of any meaning to a modern observer or participant. Realia more familiar to modern c...

This paper points out at the ability of music to capture and make sense of the existence of human, since music is, in its essence, the element of it. The artistic work of Roman Berger is an urgent message, the defence of values, and, the anxiety and concern for both the Truth and the state of the contemporary world. Personal experience, encounter with suffering and pain, and, attitude to eternity have all become a ubiquitous source for the feeling of life and the artistic inspiration for Roman Berger, an exception...

I have conducted a study which is an analysis of the most important laws created during the different ages of the Ancient Roman era, from 212 BC until 391 AD, relating to luxury, fashion and lifestyle matters. My work is, therefore, a survey through which I explored the Ancient Roman world of luxury by underlining the different laws created by emperors to limit luxury and opulence in Roman society which was a serious issue at the time. The methodology used for this paper is based on the reading and the investigati...