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September 2023

STORYTELLING IN LANGUAGE CLASSES

Elias TemboPause for a second. Close your eyes and try to refresh your childhood memories. Where did you tend to listen to stories? Who told or read you the stories? How did you react to the stories? Now that you are older, have you read or told stories as an adult? …

HAVE WE OUTGROWN OUR GODS?

Clay Zasman This article examines whether humanity is ready to move on from religion. As a growing number of people are turning away from organised religion, a correlation can be seen in nations that provide their citizens with high economic, political and existential stability. Security in society may well be a key factor …

Surrounded by fear

Kristýna Kuchařová Fear seems to be an epidemic in our society. We fear beginnings, we fear endings. We fear change, we fear staying stuck. We fear success, we fear failure. We fear living, we fear dying. We all fear something, and the truth is, most of us are controlled by …

Do we need myths and legends nowadays?

Martin Kaše When you were a small child, your parents probably read you fairy tales. Many of us were raised on stories from the famous Grimm’s Fairy Tales collection, or modifications to it. Some of us cannot imagine our childhood without Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales or Jan Werich’s Fimfarum collection. …

Spiralkampagnen: How did Denmark control the birth rate in Greenland?

Nela Kolčáková Spiralkampagnen: How did Denmark control the birth rate in Greenland? Recently, numerous women in Greenland have come forward to complain about being fitted with an intrauterine device (IUD) without their consent or knowledge. The Greenlandic and Danish governments have decided to launch a two-year investigation into the matter.In order …