Albania

My childhood growing up in Albania involved the disruption of war and the failing of the Albanian government. I was born during the fall of communism in Albania in 1991. I grow up in a country surrounded by the neighboring war and genocide in Kosovo and the former Yugoslavia. I grow up listening to the news of the genocide that was taking place in the neighboring country of Kosovo. I remember seeing images of men, women, and children being killed daily. Thousands of Albanians from Kosovo were displaced during this time and my family took in one of the many displaced families. I saw first hand what it looks like to lose everything, however horrible their situation was they were full of life and happy to be alive. I didn’t know it at the time…

As I am writing this paper, I am transcended into memories of my childhood as I am climbing, for the second time already, the highest mountain of Albania; Mount Tomor. Now when I say climbing I mean mainly being in the back of a pick up truck with at least 5 other members of my family as we are covering us faces from the dirt of the unpaved roads. Why is an 8 year old going through all of this you may ask? This journey is part of a pilgrimage that occurs every year and it symbolizes the virtues…

I. HISTORY OF THE CULTURE A country located in the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe, Macedonia is a nation with roots that run deep in history. “Macedonia” is the oldest surviving name of a country in Europe. The Historic Macedonia was governed by the Roman Empire, by the Byzantine Empire, and by Turkey. In 1878, the Treaty of Stefano granted possession of the largest part of Macedonia to Bulgaria. However, Bulgaria was defeated by the Greece and Serbia in the Second Balkan War of 1913 and…

ROLE PLAY - ALBANIA LINK TO THE COUNTRIES UNDER CONSIDERATION From 1994-1992 Albania had a government structure which had characteristics features of the rule in China, Soviet Union and Germany. The country was then known as the People's Socialist Republic of China(1976-1991) and the form of government existing in the nation was Single-Party Marxist-Leninist Hoxhaist Socialistic republic under totalitarian dictatorship. Albania's rulers implemented elements of the Stalinist economic system in…

After Vodafone and Telecom Albania (formerly AMC) operated on the market for more than a decade, operating at high prices and high profits, the competition was added to the entry of Eagle Mobile (which is part of Albtelecom today) started its activity in 2001 and later on Plus Communication in June 2009. This led to a boosting of the competition between operators and the decline in profits but was accompanied by significant price cuts for consumers. AMC is present in the Albanian market since…

When visiting a different country for example, Albania. In Albania, everyone seems very welcoming and genuine to their visitors. Although not as many people do visit Albania than some other European countries, however, there’s always been a saying that American’s are usually rude and not welcoming to tourist. After visiting Albania I believe that statement is accurate. As I was leaving the gate and running off to the arrival stand to get my passport checked, the man behind the stand over heard…

The "obscure" place I chose to write about is called Fier's Ship House in Albania, and I specifically chose this location because I actually grew up going to this boat a lot with my grandmother. In Albania, you can see around 7 of these boats that have been permanently left on the shallows of the beaches just by walking down the shoreline for 20 minutes. They're very beautiful and big boats, one I specifically remember had carnival rides on it, being so young that one was my favorite so my…

“Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world”, Mishnah Sanhedrin Rescue in Albania Introduction The Holocaust was the biggest disaster in modern Jewish history, and the largest genocide in the 20th century; the Nazi regime and their allies brutally killed close to six millions innocent Jews (more than two thirds of Jewish population in Europe at that time). With Adolf Hitler’s appointment as a chancellor of Germany, life of Jews changed very significantly. Starting in…

introduced me to the man who is currently my boyfriend. There was no doubt in my mind Anthropologists use ethnography as a method of studying cultures based insight given on a first hand interaction. I am not an anthropologist by specialty, however; I will give an ethnographic description of Albania from the perspective of a man named Enea Osmann. Enea is a 22 year old junior studying computer engineering at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He was born and raised in Albania's capital,…

The movie “Wag the Dog” is an outrageous film about a fictitious Presidential Campaign, whose media staff creates a fake war with Albania, in order to get their candidate reelected as President. In their effort to create this war, the media team for the President has to break every single rule in the PRSA Code of Ethics. Although their strategies and tactics may not be the most preferable, some techniques used throughout the film can correlate with the outside world, and even the election cycle…