The actual name of Croatia is the Republika Harvatska. Croatia is 21,831 square miles (Croatia) and is located in the Balken peninsula bordering the Adriatic Sea. The countries that border Croatia are Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro and Slovenia. Croatia is an interesting country with a unique history, and is rich with culture. Croatia has a very interesting history, its three independences. First independence was, from the Rome Empire, second independence from the…
First off what is a hero? “A hero (masculine) or heroine (feminine) is a person or main character of a literary work who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through impressive feats of ingenuity, bravery or strength, often sacrificing his or her own personal concerns for some greater good.” (“The Good Men Project”). Some people might choose Nick Carraway after reading The Great Gatsby as the hero because he is the narrator and pretty much the main character of the story, but the real hero…
understand the way justice works throughout the international community, a person must understand the history behind the system and all the reasons it came to be. The Bosnia Case was the public international case of Bosnia and Herzegovina v Serbia and Montenegro. Dr. Francis Boyle, an adviser to Alija Izetbegović, the first Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War, filed the case. A document issued by the International Court of Justice stated that, “25,000…
detail how to understand the meaning of the dream that the unconscious dreamer dreams about. Freud’s most famous phrase from this book is “The interpretation of dreams in the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind” (Freud, Montenegro). His theory states “dreams serve to preserve sleep through the (covert)…
creates symbols that overcome the censorship. (Montenegro,…
When Croatia separated from Yugoslavia on June 25, 1991, while the Croats and Muslims supported the idea of independence, the Croatian Serbs were opposed to the decision. The Serbs, instead, wanted to combine with Serbia to create a greater Serbia. In order to complete this, they began an ethnic cleansing of Croatia. An ethnic cleansing is where an ethnicity is killed off. The Serbs attacked people who were of another ethnicity, such as the Croats and Muslims. However, many became refugees and…
In the article, “Hetero Barbie?” by Mary F. Rogers describes how Barbie can be interpreted in many different ways. Barbie can be feminist and anti-feminist, the character Angela Montenegro can interpret the same. In the conversation in figure 5 Angela clearly, tries to have Dr.Temperance Brennan conformed to the norm. She tells Dr. Brennan she needs to pretend to be a girl. Insinuating that she is not your typical girl but instead…
Tapirs are large mammals that belong to the Perissodactyla order (Galetti et al. 2001). They are the only species currently present from the Pleistocene megafauna, which makes them the ideal mammal capable of dispersing large seeded fruit in Central and South America (Simpson 1980, Eisenberg 1981). Although there are currently four species of tapirs (Norman and Ashley 2000), this essay will focus on the lowland tapir, Tapirus terrestris. It is important to note that the mountain tapir, Tapirus…
As a self-proclaimed outsider, I have always been deeply fascinated with others who were raised in a culture other than the nation of their birth. I believe my status as a Nigerian born immigrant who has spent majority of life in the U.S. makes me a third culture kid (individuals raised in cultures other than his or her parents or the nation of birth), and I have struggled with coming to terms with this status for some time. While struggling with my own identity, I often wonder how others who…
constantly changing and being adapted to the present day. Also the word “particular” in the definition, demonstrates the difficulty of generalizing cultural questions. Banfield did an impressive job in finding similarities between the culture of Montenegro and the village’s political life, however, his findings are limited to that particular time and that particular group. Thus they do not answer the general…