Arts and Social Sciences Journal

This study explores the Vietnamese postmodern literature. Nguyen Huy Thiep is one of the famous Vietnamese writers. He always tries his best to reform short stories. By the time, postmodern theory hadn’t appeared in Vietnam. But the renovation 1986 gave Vietnamese writers many good conditions. Thiep’s talent had been sighted and his writings had become a phenomenon. Chaos is one of the key concepts of postmodernism. Researchers use it as a core criterion to distinguish the postmodern sense of modernity. This feature is easily seen in any postmodern literary works. While many writers present chaos through the structure and imagery, Nguyen Huy Thiep has shown chaos at once in the titles of two of his short stories: “The General Retires” and “Without a King”. In those he helps us to know a chaos from the family to the society.

This is a study on talk as an instrument of data collection for qualitative research. Talk plays a significant role in the lives of most of the people in the world. The study group of this particular research also use talk as s noteworthy aspect of their life. A large body of data was collected from live talk of casual and non-casual speech events. These talks range from marked and more serious formal talks to casual and carefree non-marked talks collected from real language used by the community in question. Talk appears as a ‘chunk’ or in a form of discourse. Hence different discourses of casual and non-casual live talks were collected for the purpose of this study. The particular places for data collection were kutaber, Kombolcha, Wogdi, Haik, Woldiya, and Dessie. A large corpus of live talks was collected from 2012 to 2015. The data were recorded, transcribed, coded and used for the purpose of this study. Both the means and the end appeared to be ‘Talk’. Talk of people uncovers thought, action and knowledge expressed through language. Through the casual talk of people, their thought, action, language and knowledge is revealed, produced, and reproduced. Access to real life talk of people gives information about what they think, do, use their language for and their knowledge to sustain their life. Access to talk of people gives almost everything there is to know about the people. Talk produces people’s thought, action, knowledge and language and people’s thoughts, actions, knowledge and language, in turn, reproduce talk. Hence, ‘Talk’ was proved to be an important data collection tool for qualitative research.

The world experienced great scientific and technological changes at the end of the 20th century. Since the importance of information, many scientists presented Information Society related theories. By developing ICTs and increasing importance of information World Summit on Information Society (WSIS, a pair of United Nationssponsored conferences about Information and communication, held in Geneva in 2003. The present study aims to study history of Information Society, WSIS and United Kingdom measures regarding on Information Society and WSIS agendas. Also the researcher considers future priorities of the UK in the field of Information Society.

An enormous earthquake strikes the Nepal on 12 May 2015 with a series of aftershocks that causes thousands of deaths demolish and collapse houses. Similarly, it directly affects the daily life of people in terms of survival. However, the most important thing observed, and experienced by the Nepali people just after the earthquake was “Togetherness” because, it bond the people from diverse community with different religion and culture. That was the unique character shown by Nepali people during the post-earthquake days and was the strength of the Nepali people for a cohesive society. It encourages people to unite, gather at a place, interact and co-operate each other, share the feelings, eat and enjoy together, utilize locally available materials like a living in a joint family with members. That also helps the people to prevent from the fear of the aftershocks and hard life living with psychological tension as well as easy and jointly cope with the worst situation occurred by an earthquake. Finally, Nepali people learned and realized that they are rich in diversity with different ethnicity, culture, and religion. They have their own local knowledge system for survival via managing locally available resources that are vital for coping with disaster and make them resilience to construct and sustain cohesive and secure society. Therefore, togetherness they experience during the crisis should be continued and replicated in normal situation as well.

This article discusses to what extent the “West” has been successful in reshaping the Russian identity after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The article aims to acquaint the reader with various issues and challenges in dealing with the western effect on the Russian culture, such as the misunderstanding of the western culture by the Russian youth, and also how the recent relationship between Russia and the “West” has again changed the western impact on the formation of the culture and identity of the Russia’s recent generation.

Rural youth outmigration from densely populated agricultural areas is a common phenomenon in Ethiopia. The purpose of this study is to assess the impacts of youth outmigration on the socioeconomic and demographic behavior of migrant-sending households using survey data and in-depth interviews. The findings revealed that remittances are considered important by the migrant-sending households to enhance asset formation, increase levels of income and consumption, improve debt repayment position, and augment family member’s education and medication. The study further underscored the positive impacts of youth rural outmigration in improving humanenvironment relations through fertility reduction and easing population pressure, and mitigation of harmful traditional practices.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the importance of individual differences in short term memory capacity (STM) for learning from film (digitized video) and analogue text in a natural learning environment. The results are based on a survey of 396 students on Bachelor's level (military cadets, teachers college and psychology majors). A short-term memory test battery was developed to measure different types and capacities of several individuals simultaneously in a classroom environment Alpha. Respondents were divided into two groups, one receiving a film presentation and one reading an analogue text (the film narrative). The subject matter was the formation of the Norwegian nation in the tenth and eleventh century (history subject at high school/college level). A knowledge test measuring the total learning outcome as well as details and interconnection (understandings/ context) was developed. In total, the results showed that texts gave the best learning outcome. Both film and text had an increased learning outcome for details and understandings in correlation with increased STM capacity, with the largest increase from low to medium capacity. Progressive capacity (successive) matters more than multicapacity (processing a lot concurrently). Non-verbal intelligence (Raven/RAPM) has an underlying general importance, but less important than the total STM capacity. Different types of capacity are more important than others depending on the presentation form and learning content. Visual sensory memory capacity for learning details in text was one of the types most clearly associated with learning outcome. This was explained by code-switching (representation transformation) during processing of information.

The World is full of festivals, cultures and traditions which are formed due to their past experiences and believes, in some areas their culture resembles with festivals. In South India a region of people specially celebrate festival for environment, as it is a major living source to the living beings, the region is newly emerged as a state in India. This paper aims to give small review of the festival as a culture in that region.