Bulgarians

previous battle “old men covered with wounds, beheld their wives, hugging their children to their bloody breasts, massacred before their faces; there, their daughters, disemboweled and breathing their last after satisfying the natural wants of the Bulgarian Heroes.” (Candide 5) Through his graphic depiction of the towns destruction and of the people who were killed although they were not even fighting in the war he is attempting to bring to light all of the extra destruction and death that comes…

Macedonian and Bulgarian lands. In early Christian writings or Old Testament contains the literary version of cosmogony called the sea of Tiberias. Different churches have different beliefs for the concept of god but they all agree in the theory of cosmogony. There are two versions of the cosmogony: long version and short version. The sea of Tiberias is also discussed in the Slavic version where the earth-diver is identified with Satan. Many similar myths have been found in Romanian and…

The study was conducted in the University of Amsterdam and involved a total of 231 participants age 18 to 25 with 69% of samples were female and 78% Bulgarian nationality. Participants were assessed using the Facebook Intensity Scale to examine intensity of facebook use, Harter’s Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents to assessed self-perceived social competence and physical appearance, and five-item…

violence and attacked by police dogs against migrants. the Bulgarian government still has not responded to any of these allegations. Last month an afghan migrant was shot dead by a Bulgarian border guard after entering the country from turkey and officials said he was killed by the ricochet of a bullet fired as a warning to the migrants. UNHCR spokesman Boris Cheskhikov said the agency was "deeply shocked" by the tragedy and called o the Bulgarian authorities to commission an…

Many murderous crimes are seen throughout the novel. The novel represents the past and how those times have proved to be more violent than times are today. One of the first examples of violence seen in Candide is after Candide kisses Cunegonde and is banished then finds himself in trouble. He ended up having to choose between being flogged thirty-six times by a whole regiment or having his brains blown out with a dozen musket balls. This is an extreme example of the gore and the difference of…

The destruction of Constantinople finally happened in 1453 (p. 293). The Ottoman Empire rained cannonballs on the city and brought its walls down. On the last Monday of May in the same year, people began to gather the Hagia Sophia. A sermon was given in both Latin and Greek; the divisions that had separated the two churches of the East and West forgotten. But it was to no avail. In the end, Ottoman flags were hoisted up to celebrate their victory. At last the wheel comes full circle, from the…

Here, old men covered with wounds, beheld their wives, hugging their children to their bloody breasts, massacred before their faces; there, their daughters, disembowelled and breathing their last after having satisfied the natural wants of Bulgarian heroes; while others, half burnt in the flames, begged to be despatched. The earth was strewed with brains, arms, and legs. (Voltaire 10) The absolute decimation the town and the innocent lives it held was meant to explicitly explain Voltaire’s…

and drove on through the countryside, past golden grassy fields and green-brown trees, until we reached the Bulgarian border. When we reached the Bulgarian border we stopped and waited behind a long line of other cars and vans. Bulgaria is a member of the EU and Turkey is not so it took a long time to cross the border. Finally we crossed the border, and as soon as we were on the Bulgarian side, some border guards came over to us, looked at our van, and said, "Okay, take everything out." We…

Every World cup fills fans with joy and hopefulness that their country can do them proud and for the top countries there is an unimaginable amount of pressure to win the tournament. The World cup has seen great players like Pele, Franz Beckenbauer, Zinedine Zidane, Diego Maradona and many others grace the tournament and win the competition, but not every world cup goes according to plan as underdogs can rip up the script and ruin what was meant to happen, In this article I will be discussing…

Jews (or Judea)”, the first such that mentions the full title of King Herod.6 John the Baptist—In 2010 a team of Bulgarian archaeologists excavated a small alabaster box containing several pieces of bone from under the altar of the fourth century AD St. Ivan the Forerunner Church on Sveti Ivan, a Black Sea island off Sozopol on the Bulgarian coast, believed to be the remains of John the Baptist.6 Nearby, they discover a small tuff box bearing inscriptions in ancient…