 Television Is Making Literature Increasingly Irrelevant In The Modern World by Herminne Tonita -
When the television was not so spread as it is today, and when computers and the Internet had not appeared in the lives of the teenagers, we used to spend much more time reading. Literature and books were our best friends, and one of the most important ways on entertainment.
Nowadays if you ask a teenager when he has read last a book and what the book's title is, he... Date added: 15 February '07 |
 Why is literature important in our lives? by Cristina Nuta -
Having a great collection of books at home doesn't really mean that you are a person who has a passion for literature and reading. It can be a family inheritance or it can be just to impress people around you, about the fact that you are a person of culture. On the other hand, there are many persons who cannot afford buying books, because some of them are quite expensive,... Date added: 21 November '09 |
 Literature is Increasingly Irrelevant in the Modern World Due to Television by Diana-Mara Anghelina -
What would you choose, if you were sitting in front of a TV and having a book right next to the keyboard? The answer will most certainly be that you would choose the TV! The young people would absolutely provide us with this choice, but you will be surprised to find out that the older ones will at least hesitate about it. Why is it happening? Are the books not as... Date added: 11 November '09 |
 Culture Club Culture Club is a famous person.Our editors need your help to write the biography of Culture Club. If you want to contribute, please feel free to click on [edit biography] link from above and complete the fields. If you want to explain why Culture Club is famous or if you know any important piece of information and 'juicy gossip' about Culture Club which you would like to share with everyone... Date added: 21 November '08 |
The Modern Humorist The Modern Humorist is a famous person.Our editors need your help to write the biography of The Modern Humorist. If you want to contribute, please feel free to click on [edit biography] link from above and complete the fields. If you want to explain why The Modern Humorist is famous or if you know any important piece of information and 'juicy gossip' about The Modern Humorist which you would like... Date added: 21 November '08 |
Southern Culture on the Skids Southern Culture on the Skids is a famous person.Our editors need your help to write the biography of Southern Culture on the Skids. If you want to contribute, please feel free to click on [edit biography] link from above and complete the fields. If you want to explain why Southern Culture on the Skids is famous or if you know any important piece of information and 'juicy gossip' about Southern... Date added: 11 November '08 |
 Germany a Land of Culture Goethe, Bach and Beethoven – the cultural life of Germany has a long and rich tradition. Nowadays, however, names like the painter, Gerhard Richter and the director, Fatih Akin, and German hip-hop, also stand for a lively, many-faceted land of culture. The nation’s culture emanates from the peaceful and tolerant coexistence and collaboration of all who live in Germany at the present... Date added: 21 November '07 |
 Nicolae Manolescu Nicolae Manolescu was born on November 27, 1939 in Ramnicu Valcea. He is a famous Romanian academician, literary critic, editorialist, literary historic and a politician.
Biography and Career :
He finished high-school in 1956 in Sibiu and in 1962 The Faculty of Philology in Bucharest. In 1974 he becomes doctor in letters with "Titu Maiorescu's work " thesis at The University in... Date added: 18 October '06 |
 Postmodernism- Three Different Applications of the Term by Cristina Nuta -
Postmodernism names many different kinds of cultural object and phenomenon in many different ways. Among these, perhaps three different applications of the term may broadly be distinguished.
First, postmodernism designates a number of developments in the arts and culture in the second half of the twentieth century. The reference point and the point of departure for this... Date added: 08 March '07 |
 Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway (full name Ernest Miller Hemingway) was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, United States of America. He is an important American novelist, short-story writer and journalist and he won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Biography and Career :
After finishing his school, he volunteered and went to fight in Italy, in the First World War. After the war, he started... Date added: 23 October '06 |
Sean O'Faolain Sean O'Faolain (John Francis Whelan) was born on Thursday, February 22, 1900 in Cork and he was a famous novelist from Ireland of Roman Catholic religion.Life in Brief: - Being born on Feb 22, Sean was a Pisces. - his ethnicity: White.Sean O'Faolain had studied at Presentation Brothers Secondary School, Cork and then he attended the BA Modern Literature, University College Cork.Sean dated Eileen... Date added: 07 June '08 |
 Do you often read to your children? by Cristina Nuta -
I remember my childhood was a happy one. I used to spend a lot of time with my parents and we were very close one with the other. We enjoyed spending a lot of time in the parks or somewhere outside the house, and it’s a real pleasure for me to take the family album and revive those moments of happiness.
One of the things that characterises my childhood is the fact that... Date added: 07 August '07 |
 The Way To Improve Our Knowledge Through The Internet by Monique Barb -
As we all know, the Internet represents nowadays one of the most important means of communication. Its use is due to our constant need of getting new information in different fields, such as: culture and civilization, science, education. The Internet also facilitates communication between individuals, realizing virtual communities among people united by the same passions and... Date added: 07 February '07 |
 Erik Axel Karlfeldt Erik Axel Karlfeldt (birth name Erik Axel Eriksson) was born on July 20, 1864 in Karlbo, in the province of Dalarna, Sweden. He was Swedish poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously.
Biography and Career :
He spent his childhood at his family ranch.
Erik Axel Karlfeldt followed the courses of the high school in Vasteras, he had entered the University in Uppsala but he left... Date added: 23 October '06 |
 Mircea Cartarescu Mircea Cartarescu was born on June 1, 1956 in Bucharest, Romania. He is a Romanian poet, a prose writer and a publicist. He is considered by the critics the most important poet of the 1980's generation.
Biography and Career :
He graduated "Dimitrie Cantemir" high-school and the Faculty of Romanian Language and Literature (1980) with a university degree thesis about Eminescu's poetic... Date added: 20 October '06 |
 Historical Interpretations of Modernity by Cristina Nuta -
The difficulty with the 'modern' as a category of historical periodization is that its meaning changes relative to the time (and place) of the classification. We may distinguish five main stages in the development of the idea since its emergence within Western culture at around the time of the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century AD.
To begin with, the Latin... Date added: 08 March '07 |
