Mario Garefo’s film The Man Who Fed His Shadow was awarded first place in the
IAFOR FilmAsia Open Film Competition 2013 in the under twenty minutes fiction
category, as well as the competition’s Grand Prize. The following interview…
Anshul Tiwari’s film Rosario was awarded first prize in the IAFOR FilmAsia Open Film Competition
2012 in the under twenty minutes documentary category. The following interview was recorded in
Singapore on 15 February 2013.
Literature is a powerful medium for examining justice, judgment, and society’s
treatment of humankind. “Does justice have a dark side?” Many pieces of literature
show the dark side of man’s justice, such as Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter,…
Novices find it difficult to learn programming. In order to write a program, they have
to learn the basic concepts of programming along with the syntax and semantics of a
programming language. One of the important tasks in programming is debugging.…
Our research fit into social representations’ framework (Moscovici, 1961), defined by
Jodelet (1997) as “modalities of practical thought orientated towards the
communication, comprehension and control of the social, material and…
Southeast Asia is home to various cultural communities beset with war and conflict.
Peace building efforts in the islands have been raised to a certain level of intensity.
With the hopes to avoid war and conflict, initiatives toward achieving peace…
Religion plays a vitally important role among the people of Myanmar. In this paper, I will use
the name “Myanmar” as a country name and “Burma” for the ethnic Barma people. “Burma”
was the country name before the military government…
Recognized as a great anti-slavery narrative, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 19 century novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin is often seen as more of a historical document today. Yet the way several of Stowe’s characters such as Mrs. Bird, Ophelia, and Uncle Tom…
Natural disasters, which strike without warning and leaves limited scope of
preparedness, is a potentially traumatic event that is collectively experienced with
severe consequences. With its high news values, natural disasters gain attention of…
The role of culture in a field as vast as applied linguistics is so pronounced and vital
that even a highly selective overview might not be sufficient to be comprehensive.
What follows might be a synoptic account of the role of culture in the realm…