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Voltaire was born to an upper class family in the French bureaucracy. Instead of continuing in his family’s footsteps, he decided to become a writer. His controversial works led him to flee to England at a time where new intellectual ideas were being produced at a rapid rate. Upon his return to France he began writing satires against the current establishment which he found to be ridiculous. His dissent against the ruling forces in France at the time helped set up much of the background for one…

few days ago, I was attempting to buy some eggs. A simple enough task. However, I did have a problem. My neighbour, who keeps chickens, does not speak English. I speak hardly any Bulgarian. The resulting conversation consisted almost entirely of using hand gestures! Picture, if you will the scene. A somewhat bemused Bulgarian villager watching a rather embarrassed 'crazy' Englishman acting out a virtual charade depicting a chicken laying an…

Voltaire was a philosopher in the 17th century. Voltaire’s main purpose for writing the novel Candide was to get rid of the optimism theories. Voltaire wrote this during the 17th century enlightenment era when all these new ideologies and societies were changing their ways of thinking. The satire and exaggeration helped show that the theory of optimism should be demolished. Voltaire’s satire and irony was aimed at the philosophical optimism along with religion, political systems, and war. He…

Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, Bulgarian Comparative Education Society,”. If nature chooses where and who you are born to then, nature chooses everything. People tend to look and be treated like their genetic relatives but, they also take up tendencies of the people…

Study “Physical labor is healthy labor. I am not ashamed of doing anything because it’s what you have to do to grow” stated by Kalin. Kalin had a strong desire to control his fate. Kalin stumbled upon the idea of importing feta cheese to fellow Bulgarians, when he was researching transport fees of another idea he was entertaining. Nonetheless, Kalin decided to breathe the feta cheese import business. During this process he stumbled across many challenges and overcame them all. He had big dreams…

What is the name, acronym, and publication date of the assessment? This assessment is named the Childhood Autism Rating Scale-2 or CARS -2 with a publication date of 2010. 2 What is the age range for Childhood Autism Rating Scale-2 administration? This assessment has an interesting age range. It starts with a range of children age 2 and up. However, it goes on to say children both under and over the age of 6 should have an IQ of 79 or below. If this isn’t the case, they should have a…

Nadia Comaneci was an olympic gymnast in the 1970’s. She was the first women to score a perfect ten in the Olympics in 1976 when she was only 14! She was born in Onesti, Romania on November 12, 1961. She grew up in Romania in an apartment with her parents. She loved to pretend she was a gymnast with her friend, and that is where Bela Karolyi, her soon-to-be gymnastics coach. At the time, she was only six years old. Bela found her and invited her to try out at his gym. Nadia and her parents…

very well depicted in the first chapters. He is instructed by Pangloss, who he innocently believes to be “the greatest philosopher of….. the whole world.” He accepts Pangloss’s optimistic teachings as truth beyond question. After he is taken by the Bulgarians, he strays from their camp without understanding that he is not allowed to do so. Believing that all men have the free will to do as they please, he simply assumes that he is allowed to take a walk if he chooses to. Here we see that…

Cultural atrocity A Critical Review of Alan Kramer’s Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War. Kramer, Alan. Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp.483. ISBN:9780192803429 In Dynamics of Destruction, Kramer begins the book on August 28th, 1914 with German troops invading Louvain destroying the Halles University library that contains “hundreds of thousands of volumes, rare and…

different generations enjoy unlike music. Musical preferences stem from personal values. In contrast to the modern lust for a life full of carnal pleasures, in the past, it was the emotional bond between soul and mind that was favored. Two vivid Bulgarian top pop stars, shining on the sky of the musical business, Lili Ivanova and Preslava, represent these appreciations. A key contrast between these musical divas is the public image they have created for themselves. Lili Ivanova is not a media…