The son of a Lithuanian artist, Antanas Mockus was the president of the National University in Colombia before he became mayor of Bogotá in 1995. As mayor, he transformed the city into a huge classroom, not only bringing to his administration a new view of governing but also transforming the way people exercised their citizenship. Mockus resorted to a creative communicative and pedagogical effo...

The paper analyses how two private post-tsunami reconstruction initiatives in Sri Lanka mobilized well intended aid to support and assist tsunami affected families, drawing on narratives of compassion, which resulted in an inadvertent obtrusion of the moral imperatives of donors upon the lives of aid receivers. We trace the discursive terrain around goodness, kindness and compassion utilized to...

Residents in the southeastern United States would hardly describe life with the aggressive imported fire ant as peaceful coexistence. The continued spread of these insects has produced agricultural problems, changes in the ecosystem, and increasing numbers of subjects with sting sequelae, including hypersensitivity reactions, secondary infections, and rare neurologic sequelae. Evolutionary chan...

This study aims to know The Bookseller’s Notebooks intersects with Hunchback of Notre Dame and Oedipus Rex. We analyze the novelist’s proficiency at expressing contemporary human issues innovatively artistically, focusing on emotional struggle between parents children. In particular, sheds light social struggles suffered by a marginalized, despised, rejected societal group, namely illegitimate ...

The irrational use of limited network resources in conjunction with the unpredictable nature of traffic load injection in wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSN) may lead to congestion. Traditional transmission schemes were not designed for supporting prioritized QoS, especially not for guaranteeing strict QoS required by real-time services such as voice and video. To overcome these deficien...

The article is devoted to the analysis of intercultural communication as solidarity between ethnic communities in era globalization processes. Intercultural communication, being dominant and determinant modern society, acquires even greater significance connection with processes intensive migration, need for interaction peaceful coexistence large small groups formation cultural diversity societ...

As the calls for global peace and peaceful coexistence grow louder, nationalism, often tearing apart oldest largest democracies, emerges as one of formidable menaces to mankind today. It is a resurgent force in major democracies across continents. In Asia particularly Indian subcontinent, it response colonial hegemony emulation Western values. But soon assumes religious dimension. Tagore, its r...