This essay will examine the term diversity in three aspects of the college classroom—class room racial makeup, teaching methodology and the course content. I am using my experiences with low and medium income white, non-white, and black traditional students, eighteen to twenty-five-year olds, in a public college classroom and how I teach British literature in a traditional face-to-face classroom.

Over the last few decades, in criminal proceedings, the investigators have been increasingly using forensic biometrics techniques in order to determine or verify the identity of a subject through the automated use of physiological parameters. Voice print is a particularly important technique to identify a person. The urge to utilize voice-tracking in investigations has gradually increased due to an increase in the number of devices employed for remote communication and via the Internet; consequently, techniques aimed at making the users identity anonymous have improved. This is not enough, though. Islamic terrorist acts and cyber threats are leading the state response to a retreat to unprecedented forms of crime prevention, with the main purpose of neutralizing the offense and prevent devastating damages from happening. Among the new preventive investigation techniques, forensic linguistics plays a fundamental role for intelligence bodies of governments. Despite the centrality of linguistics and forensic phonetics in criminal investigations, national legislation appears to be not very avantgarde, in spite of what happens in other countries, no regulation of phonic investigation exists, thus causing a hindrance to the procedural use of the acquired evidence. This paper provided an overview of the state of the art of repressive and preventive vocal investigations in Italy, identifying possible solutions de jure condendo.

The basis of this article is a conference presented in Marseille on April, 2nd, 2019, for the MUCEM (MUsee des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Mediterranee / MUseum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations). This paper presents a exploratory study conducted in Rennes (France), about emotions evoked by three stage illusions presented in show magic: (1) “Sawing in half” illusion, (2) “Escaping a straitjacket” illusion, (3) “Harrow” illusion. Results of a free association task show that the chosen illusions are perceived to produce different emotions, but mainly the negative ones. Results reveal, too, that the illusions evoked are differently evaluated on their perceived attractiveness and their perceived danger. Results show a link between the illusions, the perception of danger, and the fascination they generate. Propositions for future research are formulated, at different levels of analysis: individual and psychosocial.

We are aware that the phenomenon we are currently experiencing as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic is producing radical implications in terms of environmental transformations, changes in the relationship between man and nature and social relationships. These major questions are leading us once again to think big and to formulate new theories, which inevitably involve all our spheres of knowledge. One of the topics that will continue to be linked to this long, exhausting struggle against Covid 19 is that of social distancing. This is the expression around which the phase or phases revolve, which have confined all, or nearly all of us within our own four walls. Social distancing is an expression, which has been discussed in depth, and various sociological, anthropological and psychological theories have been compared since the nineteen thirties. According to Vincenzo Cesareo the concept of social distancing before Covid-19 was understood as the relational closure of an individual towards others, who are perceived and recognized as different depending on the social categories to which they can be traced. It is the result of the dynamic interlacing of factors from different dimensions in space physical, symbolic and geometric. A pandemic wipes out social and cultural categories and extends the principle of Physical geometric distancing to all of humanity without distinction. We are speaking of a space which expands in terms of linear meters and which, on the contrary, shrinks to within a telematic, virtual dimension. With Covid 19 we now know what it means to work, read. Communicate, take part in events, conferences, exhibitions, travel and carry out research within a single, infinite, fluid space. In terms of architecture and town planning, the virtual space corresponds to an annulment of the traditional, physical distances between living, work and recreation, which for Le Corbusier represented the functional and spatial categories established in the Athens Charter and which were part of the principles and rules to construct the future city. Similarly, virtual communication has seen the continual decrease in distance between public and private space, and the most appropriate place to contain different functions and spatial requirements is actually the home. First and foremost, we have been able to ascertain that the house has the potential to transform into a multi-functional space, a place where we live, work, carry out research, communicate with the world, into a place of recreation and entertainment, in a public, yet at the same time private area and, therefore, a total space, in which everything can be automated and where everything can be perfect, our bodies, objects and furnishings. Perhaps after the pandemic, our cities will consist of a group of total houses where cars will transform into perfect chauffeurs, in which materials, such as metamaterials or 3D graphene will be able to make us invisible or make us live in transparent structures made of very fine but, at the same time, extremely resistant membranes. Perhaps we will not need to design and construct public places, merely because they will be of no use, and perhaps cities of the future will only have underground department stores with long travellators and service lifts. The goods purchased will be sent directly to our homes via the lifts.

As a response to the migration crisis, Hungarian Government has chosen to securitize the issue of migration and asylum in Hungary and in the European Union as well. The paper aims to give an overview of the concept of securitization, and the normative critique of it, analyzing not only the securitizing actor and its speech, but its structural power and the dissenting voices as well. It examines, by the analysis of the relevant legal acts and secondary sources, the extraordinary measures introduced by the Hungarian Government paying a special attention to the state of crisis due to mass migration which is basically a type of special legal order, and which raises several questions and concerns at the same time. The paper comes to the conclusion that the Hungarian Government has been securitizing migration successfully through consequent communication and extraordinary measures. On one hand, it created migration as one of the biggest security threats and on the other hand government’s migration policy as one of the most successful policies precepted in Hungary according to the public opinion polls. The other conclusion is that a central role is devoted to the misuse of a sort of special legal order, namely the state of crisis due to mass migration.

Both in “disaster medicine” focused upon bioterrorism and natural events (accidents, earthquakes, etc.) much attention has been given to the importance of “first responders.” These are assumed to be trained professionals—doctors, nurses, or paramedics—dispatched to the scene to assess and then provide care prior to hospital transport. But in many cases, if not most, the true “first responder” is a citizen with or without first aid training. In both mundane cases—a cardiac event, choking, drowning, or a fall-they may with little training provide life-saving or prolonging assistance. In true mass casualty events, their role may be more critical. And yet, our colleges, high schools, and universities provide little training or guidance for the potential “citizen responder.” That, this article urges, can and should be changed.

Police service and its concomitant community relations is cardinal in ensuring public tranquility. Systematic measures and actions have been embarked upon by societies, institutions and national governments, over the years, to regulate social relations and ensure safety of its members as well as conformity to societal norms and values. Policing agents thus work in difficult and often dangerous conditions. Many serve far from home, intermittently deprived of family warmth while others are shot and killed in the line of duty. To many people, however, the institution has failed in its prima facie task of providing public security and as such, are viewed as peace predators and epitomes of unfettered corruption and abuse. This article contends that police service is quintessential to societal peace and a better assessment of police service should consider the ethics that orient the service. With the advantage of selected secondary sources and primary historical information in the main, the common notions about police service in society and the basic ethical principles and strategies that oriented the service of the West Cameroon Police (WCP) and relations with the public between 1961 and 1972 have been analysed to provide a platform for evaluating police work.

In 1939, The Wizard of Oz premiered and introduced the amazing journey and adventure of a teenage girl in the Land of Oz found somewhere over the rainbow. This story and movie helped develop imagination and creativity in the minds of generations of young children in America and around the world. Amazingly, The Wizard of Oz was also a story depicting the qualities of great leaders: vision, mentor, problem-solving, collaboration, data mastery, brain, heart, courage, inspiration, relationships, teamwork, and home. After almost a century, these same leadership qualities are supported and strengthened by leadership research and literature.If recognized and developed, the Wizard of Oz Leadership qualities would help many educational leaders reach the pinnacle of greatness. More importantly, great school leadership would help all educators and students achieve maximum success in our schools because, after all, everyone’s “heart’s desire” can be found right in their “own (school) . . . yard.”

Social media platforms are regarded as the new channels for disseminating information and communicating among the public in these recent times. Its usage is also patronized by football clubs in Ghana. This study sought to investigate the use of social media by premier football clubs. A purposive sampling technique was used to find out the extent of social media usage by four registered Ghanaian Premier Football clubs, namely, Kumasi Asante Kotoko Sporting Club, Medeama Football Club, Dreams Football Club and Inter Allies Football Club. The study also looked at the reasons for the usage of social media by the four registered Ghanaian premier football clubs and the challenges, if any, faced by these football clubs. Through a qualitative research approach, interviews were conducted to find out the extent of social media usage by the four registered Ghanaian premier league clubs. The findings indicated that all the four football clubs all understand the importance of social media as means of communication in the management of a modern Football clubs, although their understanding of social media was limited to some few roles and functions. The clubs also acknowledged the difficulties in the usage of social media as a means of communication channels such as expensive data, not having camera to take good and sharp pictures and additional cost in employing a social media administrator. The major limitation was the size of the sample used in the study.

This article examines the history and the architecture of the main railway stations in the region of western Macedonia or Greece to show the relationship between the level of economic integration at the important territory region of central and western Macedonia, during the Ottoman Empire, at the late 19th century (1890-1900). The analysis focuses on two key themes: the long term spatial evolution of the railway network and the influences to the social, economic and political life on this region.

When one reflects about Mozambique’s representative democracy one cannot but wonder what is responsible for the inability of democracy to translate into development for the people. Why is democracy in Mozambique encountering so many troubles- insurgencies, corruption, ethnic rivalry, political assassination, among others? How come rather than solving so many social ills, it seems to be aggravating them? These are the major questions that sparked the reflections poured into this paper. Two factors are identified as being responsible for the inability of Mozambique’s representative democracy to engender the promotion of the common good in the country. The first is colonialism. The second is the nature of politics in Mozambique. The colonial contribution, it is argued, is that it shaped Mozambique into a country where, ultimately, politics is devoid of morality. It also made the Mozambican populace to perceive the government of the country as being alien in nature, and one that should be cheated. The nature of politics, as it is, is indicted as not creating an enabling environment for democracy to thrive. In the final analysis, what needs to be done, we conclude, is the re-examination of the principles informing governance and the relationship of the citizens with the state in order to provide a better footing for democracy in Mozambique.

The concept of human nature has over the years been problematic. From the Aristotelian-Thomistic view, the human person is distinguished from any other being because of his rational nature. This view has been challenged today from different angles. The reasons for the challenge vary but the central question remains: who is the human person? What is human nature? The answer to this fundamental question provokes other areas or fields of enquiry. Today more than ever before the scientific explanation of the distinctive characteristic of the human person is interesting. Graeme Finlay in his article “The Emergence of Human Distinctiveness; The Genetic Story,” clearly demonstrates that the DNA can scientifically tell us more about human nature. We are firmly rooted in the biological world. Our gene can provide the substrate for all that we are. This article attempts to affirm this view but states that this perspective in insufficient in establishing the reality about the human person.

This article initiates a reflection on the porosity of socio-economic constraints and its tension between intercultural diversities in the building sector, illustrated by a field study with ten or so neo-Aquitaine SMEs. How do the dozen SMEs apprehend the combination of intercultural feelings with their socio-economic responsibility? Interculturalities constitute a management constraint, in what are they a source of tension or wealth? What can make the link between the same and the not the same, not to make them all the same, but to conjugate them? Business culture, because of its intra dimension, can play this trait-union role. This raises the impact of the role of the (socio-educational) habitus of SME managers in the conduct of their business (ies). Habitus gives, in effect, the impulse - facilitating or preventing - to do something, in particular otherwise. The building sector highlights its long tradition of integrating diverse and even vulnerable populations. Ten years after the financial crisis, there is a high level of job vulnerability in this sector. We are in this sector of activity, notably faced with difficulties in the working conditions of the teams which have worsened with the retirement of a number of business leaders.

Literature is a productive skill that reflects on the norms of society, ethos of culture, values, beliefs and traditions. It has enabled vast numbers of the population to learn about historical events and the happenings of modern day. Simultaneously, literature can inspire the masses to delve into their imaginations, learn and reflect on one’s self and others. We can reflect on reality through literature but also view it as a piece of art, or a door to explore new ideas. It has been a method of conveying messages to other individuals throughout the world, through a language that is currently understood within society. The aim of this study is to examine the current trends of literature and how its outlook approaches have shaped the future of English literature. This study was conducted by means of a systematic literature review via a guided literature search. Results have identified current trends in modern day literature are vast particularly, through using internet connected devised to facilitate global connection. It can influence social injustices, genocidal conquests or even political turmoil allowing exposure to multiple perspectives. New trends are replacing the linear, solitary and closed reading with the internet, e-book and social media causing a transformation in the way literature is written, perceived and read. Current trends like ‘6-word novel’, blogs and hypertext are also discussed. This study has deduced that literature has been revolutionized as a result of globalization and the internet with is a strong relationship between literature and societal influence.

This paper uses a Foucauldian discourse analysis lens to examine the discourse, cybernetic mapping and spatial and temporal reach of William Commanda and his informal bridge building Circle of All Nations global eco peace community and queries its relevance to academic study of environmental and social justice relational issues during this age of the Anthropocene, and times of climate change, extreme weather, unprecedented extinction of species, systemic and overt racism, violence, global pandemic and social upheaval across the globe. It explores the nature and relevance of his discourse, inclusive of the Seven Fires Prophecy, which anticipated times of unprecedented global crisis embedded in the ancient mnemonic Wampum Belt of the 1400s. William Commanda was born in 1913, on the eve of the First World War; it is ironic that the Isaias hurricane, tornadoes and flooding were unleashed on August 3, 2020, nine years after his death, in a world on fire at multiple levels, and one hurtling on an evolutionary trajectory of unforeseeable change and challenge.