Romania

My life history starts with my last name - Bistritzan. Bistritzan translates to swift river because my ancestors come from an area called Bistriţa which is a mountainous region in today’s northern Romania. For many years the most I knew about my life was that my great-grandparents came to Canada and were farmers. I learned Romanian culture through my grandmother’s cooking and the few words my Mosho (grandfather) would teach me. Most of my life I thought that my family history was pretty…

Eugene Ionesco was born on November 26, 1909, in Romania. Ionesco’s parents moved to France when he was an infant, but returned to Romania when he was sixteen. Soon after this move his parents divorced. He studied French literature at the University of Bucharest. Ionesco married Rodicia Burileanu, and they had one daughter together. He wrote several unusual children's stories for their daughter. During WWII, Ionesco moved his family back to France and lived in Marseilles. After the war, they…

the opportunity of attending the Craiova School of Arts and Crafts in Romania. It is said that at the age of 18 Brancusi was able to create a violin using only the materials around him. He had also built his own phonograph, furniture and utensils. Over time, Brancusi’s art work would lead him to Paris where he we would learn and create art with Antonin Mercie and August Rodin. As famous as Brancusi would become in France and Romania, he had an overwhelming popularity in the United States.…

Even people like Akiba Drumer who were strong in their faith before the Holocaust, lose all hope and give up. Akiba is one of the prisoners that is chosen in the selection and ever since then he saw no point in living anymore. He becomes tired of trying to survive and loses reasoning of God’s ways. He starts saying that he doesn’t understand where God is and how anyone can believe “in this God of Mercy?” (Wiesel 77). Witnessing the things Akiba saw causes him to notice that there is no justice…

While the marriage rates continued to decrease, the birthrates were also impacted in Romania. In 1996, estimated birthrate was 10.2 births per 1,000 inhabitants, the lowest recorded in Romanian peacetime pg.100. These declining rates seem to come from the avoidance or delay of couples choosing to have a second child. Now women are becoming…

Doua Lumi; A Campground in the Heart of Transylvania Key words: Doua Lumi, sustainable, and community Doua Lumi Come Stay with us at Doua Lumi and experience Transylvania in a whole new way. The perfect start to a vacation in the Romanian Countryside begins at Doua Lumi, along with sustainability, it offers the amenities of staying in a hotel. The beautiful campground rests in a prime location that offers a lot of amenities such as; a pool, tent sites, chalets, showers, and close to local shops…

What was the Iron Curtain The term Iron Curtain became widely known during the cold war and was used to define the geopolitical, military, physical and ideological boundary that separated states that were members of the Warsaw Pact in Eastern Europe (Eastern Bloc) and those that were not, otherwise called The West. This boundary separated the two areas from World War II to the end of cold war and it represented the Soviet Union’s attempt to shield itself and allies from direct contact with…

for her— she danced with the finest aspects of entitlement and reagalness. After France came Romania, dance by Caitlin Coley, came to stage. Romania in the Pas de Fiancée appeared to be a strong, but feminine princess. The Princess of Romania relates to the culture of the Romanian nation in the 1800’s because the hierarchical structure gave most of their respects to the oldest of each position. Romania in the Pas de Fiancée had to appear to be strong because of her subjects believing that she…

Sitting here delayed at Tulsa International Airport, and I think to myself how this wedding came to be. J.P. was stationed at Ram stein Air Force Base in Germany when my mom had a heart attack. He wanted to be here for her so bad, but the military would not let come home. He was told he would have to change his field of work in order to get shipped back to the United States. He put in for a job transfer from a Bio-Tech (Bio-Environmental Engineer), someone who checks the purity and cleanliness…

for a color TV set by his father”. However the individuals who run these human traffic businesses have many methods on how to recruit slaves. In the Article “ 'Placing the order ': how human trafficking works in Romania” By Laura Sheahen (2015), “Many Eastern European countries like Romania are still struggling…