VOLUME 2(3) • 2014
Was Rousseau indeed right?
ABSTRACT. The opening words of Rousseau’s famous The social contract (1762) – “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Many a one believes himself the master of others, and yet he is a greater slave than they.” – sent a powerful message to the world: human beings are children of nature who..
Creativity – nature or nurture?
ABSTRACT. Creativity and the creative genius are fascinating as well as controversial topics. In spite of longitudinal research, prospective and retrospective, meant to reveal, through correlational biographical analysis and advanced statistical methods, key elements in the production and definition..
The three ages of man
ABSTRACT. The themes standing out a mile in the paintings of Nicolae Tonitza (1886-1940): childhood, youth and old age, also flowers and wars, are referred, in three collage-clusters, to Shakespeare’s seven ages of man, metaphorically outlined in As You Like It. The emphasis falls on nature rather t..
Nature, pure and simple
ABSTRACT. In Naturalist writers one will find human nature in its primitive pure form, still untainted by civilization. A disorder of some kind, pathological or psychopathological, is thus the ideal subject for experiments whose effects are as visible as can be. It is hardly surprising that the occa..
A collage-portrait of the Romanian writer as a child
ABSTRACT. The personality traits: cognitive (in “The school business”), social (in “The rebellious child saga”), motivational-affective (in “The troubled home legend”), clinical (in “The sickly child myth”) will be being watched in what follows, and they are each related to a picture that is empiric..
King of the Rats
ABSTRACT. Influenced by his childhood in a rat-infested slum, James Herbert imagined a London under the siege of ravenous and deadly vermin in search of human flesh. Keywords: James Herbert; the Rats trilogy; symbolical meaning of rats; nasty fiction; atomic war {downloads}{slider Author's contact..
The making of a composer
ABSTRACT. Béla Bartók (one of the handful names that cannot be omitted in any of the 20th century music compendia) is an interesting example of the nature/nurture blending as related to creativity. Although nature marred him with a troubled childhood, hampered by disease and the early loss of his fa..
The making of Romanian modernist poetry
ABSTRACT. The present article attempts to explore the transition of Romanian love poetry from Classicism and Romanticism towards Modernism – marked by the influence of German Expressionism and a rich folkloric legacy – as performed by a representative literary figure of interwar culture, namely Luci..
Master gears of anthropology: nature and culture
ABSTRACT. What are the laws of human evolution? How did it all start? How was it all possible? Did nature create human culture? Did culture create nature? Or, maybe, did they co-create each other? Can the environment create a human society? Does matter determine spirit? Or, maybe, the other way arou..
Nature through dental care
ABSTRACT. An evaluation of dental care in students (living in Brasov county) and also an assessment of the fluor content in drinking water (in the cities and villages of Brasov county) were made, and they suggest a change of priorities: taking special measures with a view to fluoridation, making inv..
Broken hearts
ABSTRACT. Broken hearts are usually associated with love stories and, even if they invite our empathy, they make us smile. But in cardiology they refer us to myocardial ruptures which are often deadly complications of myocardial infarctions (AMI), occurring in approximately 2% of cases (Moreno et al..
Vena cava hypoplasia VTE
ABSTRACT. Inferior vena cava (IVC) hypoplasia, some uncommon vascular anomaly due to an embryogenesis defect, can lead to the development of extensive thrombosis. We report the case of a 26 year-old woman who presented deep venous thrombosis (DVT) of the left lower limb caused by IVC hypoplasia. Abd..