Objective of this investigation was to analyze the anthropometrical indices of the top men and women swimmers in the world for the past 50 years and to determine under which Zodiac sign they were born. Research methods: literature sources’ analysis, anthropometrics and mathematical statistics methods. Research took place during December, 2007 through February, 2008. Anthropometrical indices' data for the various national swimmers was found on the Internet. We analyzed anthropometrical indices of 88 women and 101 men. We analyzed their body height and weight indicators, calculated their body mass index, body surface area (Мартиросов, 1982) and determined under which Zodiac sign they were born. Statistical methodology was applied to the obtained data. We calculated indices’ averages, squareddeviation, averages difference reliability was determined according to T test p indicator. Obtained data shows the world‘s best females swimmers height of the past 50 years average was 173.6 ± 6.5 cm, weight was 62.6 ± 5.6 kg, body mass index 20.8 ± 1.6 kg/m², body surface area 1.79 ± 0,07 m². The beast male swimmers height was 188.7 ± 9.3 cm, weight 81.0 ± 10.4 kg, body mass index 21.54 ± 1.7 kg/m², body surface area average 2.08 ± 0,1 m². Anthropometric indicators differences were noted among the various representative members of their nations subject to their country of origin in the major swim events of the world. The tallest women were from Russia while the tallest men were from the USA. The most frequent zodiac sign for the women swimmers is Pisces while for men it is Taurus. The most frequently zodiac element for swimmers was Water.

The story of Creation of the woman in the Bible is controversial subject throughout the centuries. The history of philosophy and theology shows the development of different doctrines and teachings about this subject. In the teaching of saint pope John Paul II the very fundament of women’s dignity is actualized in the XX century. Parallel with Christian view, some aspects of Jewish approach by philosopher Emmanuel Levinas will be analyzed. The theology of the Creation proposes some answers to feminism discussions and problems.

This paper reports on a capacity-building project in higher education known as DA R E (Developing programs for Access of disadvantaged groups of people and Regions to higher Education), as viewed through the lenses of Hanan Alexander’s pedagogy of difference, Uri Bron-fenbrenner’sbioecological theory of human development, and Chris Argyris’s concept of action science. The project is funded by the European Commission’s Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency. Following a literature review, the report analyzes data drawn from documents, observations, and focus groups to explore how and why policies addressing accessibility to hi-gher education for disadvantaged groups are implemented in different international contexts. Influenced by international initiatives, DARE has provided material, conceptual, professional, and collegial resources to have an overall positive effect on advancing access to and inclusion in higher education for minorities, students with disabilities, and women. Our analysis of the case found, following Alexander, that there may be common norms, challenges, and reasons why it is desirable to affirm access to and inclusion in HE, but following Bronfenbrenner and Argyris, there are also national and institutional differences that call for distinctive policy initiatives to achieve these aims according to country, region, and individual universities and colleges.

As an element of mass culture, sport plays important social roles, creating an entire range of behavioural models. Sportspeople represent the efficiency of actions, persistence in aiming at their goals, conscientiousness, diligence and physical perfection. They are successful people and their success brings them fame, prestige and money. What are the expectations towards women’s sports? Is it about encouraging competition among an ever-growing number of women who would achieve results comparable to those of men? Or is it about gender competition, aimed at showing that the idea of fight, traditionally reserved for men, may also become women’s domain? The answer to those questions is quite simple – women want to win, too. The aims of women’s sports are exactly the same as those associated with men’s sports: achieving better and better results, crossing barriers, generating the best show possible in order to attract thousands of spectators. Apart from the morpho-functional conditions for women who practice professional sports, the psychosocial context of the phenomenon also seems to be very important. [...]

This article examines the relation of an author’s travel letters with his literary work. Travel letters are proposed as a prioritized example for the study of the formation of an “open circuit” with an author’s other oeuvres, beyond the traditional “laboratory” approach of his correspondence, according to which letters come before or after the literary work. The research is focused on Nikos Kazantzakis’s travel letters from China and Japan, written during his travel experience as a press correspondent (1935). These letters addressed to his wife have also fuelled his travel articles for the daily press Acropolis and afterwards his travelogue entitled Japan - China. A Journal of Two Voyages to the Far East and his novel entitled Rock Garden. To this corpus we could also add works in which the travel experience is treated in a rather philosophical manner, such as his piece The Saviors of God: Spiritual exercises and his epic poem The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel. In the first part through the exploitation of concepts deriving from Jacques Derrida (1987) and Gilles Deleuze (1972, 1980), the nomadism of the travel letter is examined. In this manner, a study of Kazantzakis’s travel letters and of all these texts–either originating or influenced by his travels to Asia and his interest in the Orient, is advanced as an “open circuit,” beyond any temporal and generic restrictions. In the second part, the various literary and cultural intertextual relations in his work are examined as organizing his encounters with Japanese and Chinese women in his specifically Asiatic travel experience through the archetypical “woman as Temptress” example (J. Campbell, 1949). It has been proven that a “nomadic thought” not enclosed in genres is circulated through all forms of his auctorial activity and the various correspondent forms can alternatively function as rather dynamic assemblages of his oriental travel experience.

The purpose of this essay is to identify and to put in context a number of specific contributions made by Sacrosanctum Concilium (the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy) that worked particularly in favour of women’s increased participation in the liturgy and, in a wide theological perspective, the affirmation and development of women’s baptismal dignity in the Church.

Domestic violence is a universal social phenomenon. It plagues all societies worldwide. Undoubtedly, Morocco is no exception. This phenomenon is becoming more and more epidemic; it seriously threatens and dramatically affects the very fabric of Moroccan society. Although a considerable research has been devoted to domestic violence, less attention has been paid to its repercussions and the approaches that would help to eliminate it. In Morocco, violence is overlooked rather than being acknowledged and acted against. This paper focuses on the gender dimension of domestic violence in Morocco. It underlines the blindness of the existing studies to the complex causes and effects of domestic violence in the country. The paper departs from a conviction that domestic violence is a merely criminal act that should be questioned and corrected by promoting and empowering the status of women in Moroccan society. It approaches this phenomenon from its multi-dimensional perspective in order to underline its social, cultural, legal and economic aspects and implications.

In the past, Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto (1872-1950) was one of 12 people, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, etc. who appear in some American schoolbooks. According to her obituary in the New York Times, “A Daughter of the Samurai was continuously the most successful book of non-fiction.”