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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Historical Dynamics Of Modernizm: A Critical Perspective]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[In recent decades, the modernism and modern socio-political analysis has been subjected to  criticism in many respects. The ideas of the global, post-modern and post-industrial societies  attempted to legimitize themselves over the criticism of the modern approach towards the  economic, social, political and philosophical parameters of modern version. Due to the fact  that the institutions, models, matrixes pertaining with the modern realm faded away one after  the other, challenging and confrontation with modernizm was popularized. Nevertheless,  many critical series of analysis remained as deficient, abortive and defective studies because  many researchers had not adequate information and awareness about the dynamics of the  modernism which was shaping the main character of modernism. Yet modernism just as the  other movements of thought was directly relevant, related and bound to the time and space  which produce them. In the light of this understanding, we attempted to elaborate the main  historical dymanics and the socio-political ground which the modernizm had been created.  We hope that this study demonstrates the intrinsic and essential trajectory which the modernism followed within the dark labyrinth of history in order to meet the expectations of  alternative models of societies as an harbinger.  Keywords: Modernism, modernisation, modern fallacy, social change, individualism,  Eurocentrism, colonialism, rationalism]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1138]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/677">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Hydro-energy Potential in Bosnia and Necessity for SIA Researches: A Comparative Study with Turkey]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Energy sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the few which has got a prospect for a potential of economic development in the country. Currently, electricity is one of the items for export in the country which can be regarded as a strategic sector regarding the country’s tiny economic structure. Almost half of the electricity is produced by hydroelectric power plants (HEPP).    Currently total renewable water resources per capita in Bosnia are almost 9000 cubic meters, which means the highest in Europe. Since country’s topography is dominated by Dinaric Alps, it generates an advantage for hydroelectric potential. However, Bosnia and Herzegovina is using only 38% of country’s hydroelectric potential and both government bodies and economists agree that investing in HEPPs would one of the prescriptions for country’s poor economical situation while the energy-lacking countries in the region are ready-customers. Federal Ministry of Energy, Mining and Industry of Bosnia and Herzegovina projects that an investment of 5963 million Euros is required to construct new HEPPs. The projects are envisioned not only to make a considerable surplus to GDP of the country, but also would boom the economy of the country which has a population of 4 million inhabitants.    On the other side, recently various outcomes of HEPP’s are being widely discussed referring to political, environmental and social and cultural impacts of the projects, not only by NGO’s, environmental activists and such, but also by national governments, international organizations and by international finance institutions who give credit for large scale development projects. In this respect, not only EIAs (Environmental Impact Assessments) but also SIAs (Social Impact Assessments) are required for “correct” projects.This paper will discuss the necessity for SIAs in B&amp;H for HEPPs looking from the point of view that the country has a fragile and fragmented political and social/cultural system. Relying on the experience on different SIA projects in Turkey (namely; Pervari HEPP, İncir HEPP, Tirebolu HEPP, Simav JEPP, Kargı HEPP) the paper will try to make a comparative analysis and figure out the dynamics and obstacles for SIAs in B&amp;H.    Keywords: Social Impact Assessment, Hydro-energy, Anthropology, Bosnia.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04-24]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2475]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[THE IMAGE OF GOD IN G. M. HOPKINS’ S SONNETS]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Gerard Manley Hopkins is a Victorian poet who became popular in the twentieth century, after the posthumous publication of his poems in 1918. He was born into an Anglo-Catholic family with artistic leanings, but during his university days he joined the famous Oxford Movement and converted to Catholicism in 1866. In 1868 he became a Jesuit priest and dedicated the rest of his life to God and the church. Upon becoming a priest, Hopkins decided to burn all of his poems, believing that this kind of work was not appropriate for his new profession. However, seven years later he realised that poetry could be used as a tool for praising God and justifying his ways, so he began writing again. The predominant topic of his poems is the connection between God and nature, which he saw as another manifestation of God. He invented the term “inscape”, which he defined as a specific quality that makes every person, object or emotion unique; and another term, “instress”, which is our perception or recognition of this uniqueness of the world. In his opinion, the beauty of the Universe lies in its variety, and it comes from God because he manifests himself differently in all of us. The aim of this paper will be to analyse the images of God that Hopkins uses in his three famous sonnets: “God’s Grandeur”, “The Windhover”, and “Pied Beauty”.    Keywords: God, instress, inscape, variety, nature.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[3398]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/198">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The image of the Flying Dutchman inthe literature of Romanticism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The paper touches upon the peculiarities of the so called “marine theme” in Romantic art as a whole, and its central image – the Flying Dutchman, in particular. The etymology of this image, as well its numerous literary interpretations make up the subject of the research. Three key literary works of Romanticism, the ballad by S.T. Coleridge, the libretto by R. Wagner, and the novel by H. Melville, are in the spotlight of the given paper. The roots of the Flying Dutchman can be traced in the texts by Apollonius of Rhodes and Homer – their legendary books“Argonautica” and “Odyssey”respectively, as well as in the Norse mythology, in Edda  –a notorious Naglfar, the ship made of deadmen’s nails. At the Age of Discovery the story of a mysterious ship came to its final form. Being first mentioned in various European folk tales, with the course of time the plot became highly popular in late XVIII – XIX centuries. In Romantic literature the legend of the Flying Dutchman transformed into the allegoryof a man punished by Heaven for being too proud to resign himself to God’s will – a symbol of purgatory for sinners begging for mercy and forgiveness to rest in peace.    Keywords: Flying Dutchman, Romanticism, Coleridge, Wagner, Melville.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2016-04-07]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[3263]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Image of The Turk in Shakespeare’s Plays]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Key words: Images, &#039;Turks&#039;, Shakespeare, Discourse Analysis  ABSTRACT  The communality of the problem of ‘adoption’ of the ideas and the surrounding notions in a piece of literature can be solved by teaching ‘discourse analysis’ whose fundamentals can be delved into by teaching atmosphere in which a piece of literature was/is written. This paper is set out to examine the image of the Turk and Turkish material culture in Shakespeare’s play in perspective of ‘the historical background’, ‘Renaissance moulding the medium of the era’, ‘rediscovery of the ancient texts’ and ‘the history of emotions’. In order to appreciate the ‘essentia’ of what it means to be the Turk in Renaissance period, the image of the Turk is to be interrogated with the embodiment of historical background that is conflated with Ottoman Empire’s expansion into the lands long owned by the Christians.The prominent factor dominating the Rennaissance era and Reformation was the dichotomy of Catholic Church and Protestants. While unfolding the religious dichotomy, the reader should take cognition of not only the tensions within the Christianity but also the conflicts between what is known as Islam and its prophet and Christianity.It is not a coincidence that the history of emotions and religious difference are the profound motives.The play ‘Othello’ begins with the Ottomans’ preparation for intervening in Cyprus, however it is also pointed out that the Ottoman fleet changes the route to Rhodus. The feature of ‘changability’ is always associated with what is ‘negative’ in Eurocentric literature. Changeability had been associated with the mood of alterity, femininity and african (Mediterranean). Renaissance is the period when the antique (conglemoration of ancient Greek texts) texts were reopened and translated. The association of wisdom and rationality with the God Apollo (West), and the association of emotional explosion, mood, and changeability with Dionysus (East) is what the clasical texts reveal to the literate Renaissance men. All of these images and impressions can be delved into through a deep discourse analysis which should be the first aim while teaching a foreing a piece of literature to the Muslim or other types of audience who do not have/have not had the chance to intervene and breath in within the milieu of Eurocentrism.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[IBU Publishing]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-03]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1693]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Impact of Ewom in Social Media on Consumer Purchase Decisions (doi: 10.14706/icesos1716)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Abstract: Marketers define their social media platform as an essential piece to reach their consumers. The  flock of web users turning to social media to receive and convey their thoughts, opinions, and suggestions  has made social media an integral part of digital marketing. Using traditional media to advertise had  restrictions in placement and outcome while, nowadays, social media has liberated this obstacle. It has  created a platform which allows information to spread freely and at a fast pace. Using electronic word-ofmouth    in social media permits a constant connection to a vast audience. The purpose of this study is to  explore the effect of electronic word-of-mouth within the context of social media on consumer purchase  decisions. More precisely, how the familiarity of the eWOM source, the way of communication, writer’s  expertise and the popularity of a product affects the consumer&#039;s purchase decision. The data has been  gathered using quantitative research method. The sample consists of students studying in Timisoara,  Romania. The surveys were e-mailed to students’ e-mail addresses. Due to the lack of response from e-mails,  the responses were gathered using a mixture of door-to-door and online surveys methods. The questions  were answered by 200 students within a month. The results will provide the extent of impact eWOM in social  media has on the purchase decisions.     Key Words: Electronic word-of-mouth, Social media, Digital marketing, Purchase decision]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2017]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[3653]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/3321">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Impact of Expectations on International Trade: A Panel Data Analysis  in the Framework of the Gravity Model]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The objective of this paper is to investigate bilateral export flows and its  determinants between European countries from 1964 to 1972 and from 1973 to 1998 to  show how expectations affect the volume of international trade across European  countries. This study extends the gravity model of bilateral trade with population and  volatility of exchange rates. It is demonstrated that during fixed exchange rate period  volatility in exchange rates has a very large impact on bilateral trade volumes, while the  same change causes much lower decrease during floating exchange rate period.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2009-06]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[220]]></dcterms:extent>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Economies of  Western Balkan Countries]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Globalization and integration are social phenomena that are used to  describe the diffusion and connection of production, technology and  communication throughout the world. When we talk about integration,  one of the things that comes to our minds is international trade. There are  certain benefits of this economic cooperation such as: support to  economic development and promotion of human prosperity. But, also  there are some disadventages: loss of jobs, lower wages, increase in trade  deficits etc.  The Western Balkan countries have been offered Stabilisation and  Association Agreement by European Union. The Stabilisation and  Association Agreement represents the structure of relations between the  countries of Western Balkan and European Union for the implementation  of Stabilisation and Association Process. Also, in 2006, Serbia, Albania,  Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo and  Moldova signed the Central European Free Trade Agreement. So the  objective of this study is to investigate what impact the above mentioned  free trade agreements and relations have upon the economies of West  Balkan countries. The comparison will be done among the countries of  West Balkan by analyzing macroeconmic factors (GDP growth, GDP per  capita, GDP deflator, FDI, etc). Particular focus will be on Bosnia and  Herzegovina and its standing in relation to European Union.  Beside descriptive statistics we will use time series analyses to investigate  whether the gains from free trade are higher than costs. The statistical  data that will be analysed is taken form International Trade Center and  World Trade Organization.  Keywords: Free Trade Agreement, DEFTA, Economic Growth, International  Trade]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-10]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1560]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/713">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Impact of Import and Export on Total Factor Productivity in Albania]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The import, according to the board of Albania, isn’t high but also the trade out of country is increasing day by day so both these kind of trade have a large effect on economy of Albania. Total factor of productivity which is one of most effecting elements in GDP, is shown by the technology, capital and labor, or all of the other factors that have large impact on the total factor productivity which is directly related to the situation of the overall economy in Albania taking in consideration years after ‘90s when the transition ended. This paper examines the impact of international trade on the total factor productivity in Albania. According to the results found by the analysis,it is shown that the trade is important for the improvements of economy. Trade must be followed by politics that support the balance of imports and exports. In the case of Albania, trade is becoming main component for the welfare of the economy. Also, it observes how trade in Albania effects the economic growth, focusing on the relation of the exports and productivity and also on the relation between imports and productivity. To conclude, the impact on total factor of production is positive which supports more the exports as an important factor in the increasing of the productivity and the imports that help increasing the innovation and improve the technology, effecting the economic growth also.    Keywords: Import, Export, Productivity, Economic Growth, Trade.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04-24]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2548]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[THE IMPACT OF INFORMAL EDUCATION]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Informal education exceeds formal education both in impact and duration; therefore, it is important that educators take it into consideration in their effort to improve school performance. There are numerous activities that occur in a person&#039;s everyday life and offer opportunities for informal learning, shaping the individual from the cultural, cognitive and social point of view.                                The two main sources of informal education remain the family and the mass-media. However, the quality and the quantity of the mass-media intake are directly dependent on the social, economic and educational level of the family, especially in rural areas, where the other sub-environments, friends, community and society, are less productive in terms of influence, due to the strong boundaries that isolate the individual within the nucleus family. The outcome of a limiting environment translates mainly into reduced creative capacity and communication skills, a limited vocabulary and biased information input.     Taking all these into account, I conducted a qualitative and quantitative research on students from a rural Secondary School in Romania. Firstly, I performed a number of eight activities in class with the 6th and the 8th graders. Secondly, I applied a questionnaire to the same students in order to establish whether their family environment acts as a stimulus or, on a contrary, as a limit. The findings led me to the conclusion that equal chances to education are possible only theoretically, from the perspective of the formal education. However, informal education open or closes the door to success, leaving it in the hands of the educators to try and fill the gap.   The purpose of the present paper is to shift the attention of the educators from the formal and non formal education and to deconstruct the fallacious idea that informal education, consisting of spontaneous influences, does not have a direct impact on the students in terms of knowledge and skills acquisition. Given the challenges brought upon educators by the differences in response and results of children and students with various cultural, economic and social backgrounds, the theoretical, as well as the practical approach on education have to change in order to fit to the realities of the contemporary society.     The paper contains two parts, one concerned with a general theoretical framework while the other presents a case study designed in order to establish the impact of informal influences on school performance.  The findings are to be considered as possible grounds for further research attempts on a larger national and even international scale.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[3383]]></dcterms:extent>
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