International Journal of Literature and Arts

Volume 2, Issue 6, December 2014

  • English for Specific Academic Purposes: The Need for ICT and Reconstruction

    Yahya Dkhissi

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 6-1, December 2014
    Pages: 1-7
    Received: 14 July 2014
    Accepted: 2 September 2014
    Published: 7 October 2014
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Discourses of Militarization and Identity: Literature of Conflict
    Abstract: In most non-English speaking countries, the language is basically seen as an academic endeavor for some general or specific purposes. Teachers, academicians, syllabus designers, but not learners, are often involved in structuring, designing or promoting the curricula and teaching activities. The rationale of this paper is to integrate other contrib... Show More
  • Living in Perpetual War but Dreaming at Perpetual Peace

    Michael Orzeaţă

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 6-1, December 2014
    Pages: 8-14
    Received: 28 October 2014
    Accepted: 2 November 2014
    Published: 5 November 2014
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Discourses of Militarization and Identity: Literature of Conflict
    Abstract: The world is the arena of permanent confrontation among individuals and communities. They are pushed toward confrontation by the human beings inner nature and by their contradictory interests. Permanent struggle for money, social position, influence, resources, and territories has different forms of manifestation, from a banal quarrel to fight for ... Show More
  • Disease as Enemy: Journalistic Discourse Analysis about Dengue Fever

    Luiz Marcelo Robalinho Ferraz, Isaltina Maria de Azevedo Mello Gomes

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 6-1, December 2014
    Pages: 23-29
    Received: 20 September 2014
    Accepted: 29 November 2014
    Published: 8 January 2015
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Discourses of Militarization and Identity: Literature of Conflict
    Abstract: Dengue fever is one of the current concerns of Brazilian public health. It emerged and became well known in Brazil in the 1980s, when successive outbreaks were registered in several cities. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the media treatment given to dengue fever, a disease that is increasingly affecting Brazilian people. Starting from t... Show More
  • States of Conflict and the Idea of Pacifism in the Novel Fratricides

    Amalia-Florentina Drăgulănescu

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 6-1, December 2014
    Pages: 30-34
    Received: 31 December 2014
    Accepted: 8 January 2015
    Published: 14 January 2015
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Discourses of Militarization and Identity: Literature of Conflict
    Abstract: Father Ianaros, the main character of Nikos Kazantzakis’ Fratricides is leading a two-way battle, a real conflict with himself as well as the struggle between body and soul, torn between fascists and communists. The confusion between red and black, between life and death (bodily and spiritual) and its source that rests in the peace without peace t... Show More