Between 1967 and 1986, the Albanian government built an estimated 750,000 small medium-sized military bunkers for defense purposes. These concrete constructions were spread across country’s territory, with many concentrated along borders beaches, in cities, near key industries, strategic points, transportation infrastructure. Long symbols of communist regime, after it collapsed 1991, lost their...

As contemporary wordsmiths and new-generation copywriters, Social Media Influencers (henceforth SMIs) are inherently germane to critical sociolinguistics. Interested in wider cultural discourses about forms of ‘independent’ language work, this paper examines English-language news media representations SMIs. The empirical focus my analysis is a dataset 143 stories collected from major ‘broadshee...

A prospective longitudinal design was employed to ascertain whether different types of behavioral inhibition (i.e., traditional, peer-social) were stable from toddler to preschool age, and whether inhibited temperament and/or parenting style would predict children's subsequent social and behavioral problems. At Time 1, 108 toddlers (54 males, 54 females) and their mothers were observed in the T...

There is considerable irony in the current search for the causes of the rapid political changes sweeping the communist world after 1988. In retrospect, it is not hard to single out a number of macrosocietal trends that led eventually to regime change: economic stagnation and consumer deprivation, deeply eroded commitment to official ideology and the growth of widespread cynicism, the corruption...

In this article, I’ll outline the phenomenon of ‘cosmic wellness’ which is now visible across on- and offline spaces that promote health well-being products practices to women. Cosmic wellness a broad constellation media, discourse, imagery, materials foods (including crystals, dust herbs) produced primarily by white, wealthy On one hand, cosmic can be read as digital food culture offers health...

this paper focuses on a number of american stories which helped educate people and bring about legal or social change. there are many stories which caused major or minor legal and political change, particularly, in the united states. some of them are written by herman melville, harriet beecher stowe, upton sinclair and sidney kingsley. after the publication of white jacket by melville the novel...