This paper will concentrate firstly on American and European culture in the 19th 20th centuries to illustrate cultural context which proverbs about women were used, refer following themes: women’s work, a woman’s place is home woman makes home, man needs woman, smart then put use. The main aim of article show briefly correlation between history U.S.A. Central Eastern Europe (where German, Polis...

Siblings can slow child development, but distinguishing intrinsic from economic circumstances has been more difficult. The grants of the Oportunidades Mexican welfare program allow us to test this linkage. We investigate whether transfers increase firstborn characteristics faster than other children's characteristics, and whether the observed negative effects of being part of a larger set of si...

Citing proverbs and (famous) statements of other people can provide support, shed new perspective, and/or add humor to one’s arguments in writings or dialogs. Recommending quote for dialog or writing can be done by considering the various features of the current text called context. We present five new approaches to quote recommendation: 1) methods to adjust the matching granularity for better ...

Few Malagasy children and adults are aware of the rare and unique fauna and flora indigenous to their island-continent, including flagship lemur species. Even the Malagasy ancestral proverbs never mentioned lemurs, but these same proverbs talked about the now extinct hippopotamus. Madagascar's geography, history, and economic constraints contribute to severe biodiversity loss. Deforestation on ...