nationalism and modernism, and the relationship between them from the perspective of different scholars and schools of thought have always been a subject of debate. many scholars have concerned themselves with the concepts of ethnicity, nation, and nationalism and their relationship with modernism and modern age. the main controversy among scholars and schools of thought have centered on the is...

There is growing miasma in our national correspondence over the increasing heft and metabolic dysfunction of everyday Americans. The origin of this mounting poundage has many parents, not the least of which is our appetite for nutritive (read caloric) sweeteners in processed foods and beverages. The culprit derivatives taking most heat today are various formulations of added fructose. Bray et a...

Exodus or Exile: The Trope of "more life" in Louise Glück’s Poetry
 What is life poetry? One concept that trying to answer this questions a psycho-theological, messianic and vitalist category “more life,” elaborated by the Polish scholar Agata Bielik-Robson on basis Harold Bloom’s theory poetic incarnation. writings constitute link between Jewish vitalism line American poetry, which I plac...

Building on previous research examining the implications for self-regulation and decision making of construing action at varying levels of abstraction, the authors proposed that construing action in terms of its abstract purposes facilitates orienting one’s decisions toward the standards, characteristics, and goalspurposes facilitates orienting one’s decisions toward the standards, characterist...