Deterioration of environmental situation has become particularly noticeable from the 60-ies of the 20th century. It was the time when the media began to widely spread the message about the consequences of the DDT and other pesticides use, a sharp increase of human waste not digestible in nature in the atmosphere and the hydrosphere, the lack of material and energy resources, etc. Imbalance in nature is now a major problem of mankind. The consequences of the situation are too serious to be ignored and are able to lead to environmental disasters. The effects of anthropogenic pressures on the natural environment can be the same as the use of atomic weapons,…

To better understand the world and things, we are learning by comparing and categorizing. The categorization is therefore a basic automatic process well known to researchers. In human context, categorization tends to legitimize the categories giving them more than an existence, an essence. We categorize people and objects based on the idea that they have the same nature. It is the process of categorization that presides over the stereotypes. However, categorization is a major process of the construction of social identity. What defines the stereotype, is its consensual dimension.

What is a personality feature? Gordon Allport defined it as “neurobehavioural structure able to convert many functionally equivalent stimuli, as well as to stimulate and guide the equivalent (largely stable) form of adaptive and expressive behavior. Simply put, a personality feature is a predisposition to behave in a similar manner in a wide range of situations. For example, if someone is shy, that person will tend to remain calm and restrained in many different situations such as sitting in a classroom, taking a meal in the cafe, doing his homework in a dorm, making shopping with friends. If a person is basically good, he or she will be rather talkative…

When there is only one political party system, it can be confused with the partisan system. On the other hand, if there is more than one party, this confusion no longer exists. We can consider that there always a public and a government component, common to the various parties, but the internal component is subdivided into as many subsystems as there are parties. In the public component, the party partisans can be seen in relationship with each other as well as be linked to voters and partners. More clearly, the leaders of the various parties are connected to each other in the government component, in addition to be connected through…

You have kids? Start saving money for college. One of the best ways to pay tuition is a Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP). The only difficulty with this plan is that parents should begin saving money when children are still young, to save the money that would make a significant contribution to the cost of education. Sad truth is that we have a student not living with his parents and a student at a college or University for four years has to pay of approximately 80 000 dollars for his or her education. Apparently, many people are frightened by this prospect, because they believe that they will not be able…

Playing team sports is one of the most positive and interesting physical and a great way of recreational activity. They develop speed, agility, and endurance, as well as helping improve your mood and psyche. Any sport provides an excellent exercise and gives a man an excellent shape. Team sports are most often dominated by such exercises like running, stretching, jumping, but above all they are known for giving you a reasonable and controlled energy consumption. Individual sports can help you keep your body toned, strengthen your bone and muscle structure. However, team sports give you comprehensive training for the whole body.

Some national legislations provide their citizens with the right to keep firearm for self-defense or hunting, while in other countries citizens are fully deprived of this right.  In the United States, the right to keep and bear arms is guaranteed by the second amendment in the Constitution. Sale, possession, and use of weapon by private individuals are governed by federal gun laws. Currently, citizens of the United States have the right to keep stub-barreled and long-barreled rifled or smooth-bore weapon as well as semi-automatic weapon.

In this essay, I want to analyze at least some theses I discovered in The Art of War, the great work by the Chinese military commander, military theorist, and philosopher Sun Tzu, who lived in the 5th century BC. I considered the basic ideas, concepts, and criteria presented in the treatise, which might come in handy for a commander in his performance. This topic is relevant not only in a military environment, as the ability of units in the combat depends on commander skills, which largely determines the outcome of the battle, but also among the civilian population, as it certainly seeks safety, and the State as a whole. In…

Erotic content in the novel and statistical data on sales (a large share of buyers were married women over their thirties) were the reasons the novel was unofficially titled “mother’s porn”, which was used in the press later. The second largest audience of the novel was teenagers and female students. The plot of the novel tells us about Anastasia Steele — a shy virgin, studying literature in the North-West of the United States — who hires room together with her close friend, a fellow student Catherine “Kate” Kavanagh. A week before the graduation from the University, Anastasia replaces Kate at her request to interview a young handsome billionaire Christian Gray.…

According to statistics, every year road accidents take the life of about a million and half people. About fifty million people are injured. For each fatal case there are about twenty people receiving serious injuries, many are disabled. The number of people killed in road accidents around the world is comparable with the number of deaths from well-known infectious disease such as malaria or tuberculosis. Road traffic injuries became the leading cause of death among young people with 16-28 of age, and the second leading cause of death among children and adolescents with 5-14 of age. The increasing challenges in the field of road safety, as a result of which…