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The “First Impressions” experiment is a computer-based version of a classic study conducted by Hamilton and Gifford (1976). Basically, the original study aimed at the revealing the impact of the first impression on the perception of individuals. The researchers attempted to reveal the extent to which the first impression can affect judgments made by individuals. In their study Hamilton and Gifford arrived to the conclusion that people tend to notice two rare or distinctive events co-occur. This means that people can remain unaware of a possible co-occurrence of insignificant events, which they simply fail to notice or remember, while distinctive or rare events stay in their memory and, what is more important, they influence individuals’ judgments they make about the distinctive events as well as people involved in them. In such a context, the computer-based test is particularly noteworthy since it allows verifying the outcomes of the experiment conducted by Hamilton and Gifford and revealing whether their conclusions were correct or not. At the same time, this experiment is very important to research directly the influence of first impressions on individuals’ perception since due to new technologies, the test is available not only for professionals but also for students who study psychology and such experiments are very helpful and useful for them as they can acquire new empirical evidence of findings of other researchers, namely Hamilton and Gifford.

Today, the development of fashion industry is characterized by the growing cooperation between companies operating in different countries of the world. At the same time, leading companies of the fashion industry attempt to expand their markets and increase their market share by means of international market expansion. In this respect, Mango is one of the leading companies which has started to implement the strategy of international market expansion and such expansion became the mainstream trend in the current development of the company. As the matter of fact, in spite of the international presence of Mango in many countries of the world, its expansion policy has been just started, taking into consideration the existing plan of the company to increase substantially its presence worldwide.

Nowadays we are all aware of the fact, that the Constitution is the major document in any country. All the rights and duties of all citizens of the country are prescribed there, as well as the complete general structure of the governing forces and major policies of the state. The first Constitutions of Poland and France were signed in the same year – 1791 and had really a lot of aspects in common. At the same time the two Constitutions of Poland and France still were more different than similar to each other.

In this paper we are going to turn to the issues related to such controversial practice – as tattooing. There are various points of view regarding tattoos, some people think this is a kind of art, others state, that a human body should under no conditions be spoilt by any outside marks an so on. With the help of some historical facts, modern statistics and brief explanations of the most widely used tattoo signs we are going to prove, that tattoos can not be viewed unambiguously and thus only negatively or positively, because this is necessary to take into consideration, that tattooing is not simply a way of spoiling or improving the human body, this is also one of the communication means.
Under tattoo we usually understand a type of permanent ink mark, which is done in the skin layers, mostly for decoration purposes. This practice has a long history all over the world. Tattoos are seen as art objects or as religious signs, as types of identification or simply decoration by various peoples.

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Human beings have always strived for better life. The history of development of human society in larger terms represents a gradual evolution from a primitive social group to an extremely sophisticated form of co-existence of human beings. At the same time, the evolution of human society is often associated with the improvement of life but in the majority of cases the improvement of life turns to be quantitative rather than qualitative and it is the form that changes while the nature and basic principles of human society remain the same and in actuality have not significantly changed since the epoch of the primitive society which seems to be vanished in the past, but on a profound reflection, remains as close to the contemporary society as some think it used to be.

Oil for food scandal is a consequence of Oil-for-Food program that was developed and established in 1996 by the United Nations and Iraq. The main goal for which it had been developed was to help to improve humanitarian situation in Iraq caused by international sanctions imposed on Iraq in 1990. At that time the majority of Iraqi civilians were suffering from the lack of food, medicine and other goods of the first necessity. This happened because all of them were wrongly affected by means of international economic sanctions used to disarm Iraqi military forces of the president Saddam Hussein. Iraqi people were suffering not only from the lack of food and medicine, but also from the consequences of it – diseases and epidemics. So, the UN found the way out by establishing the Oil-for-Food program.

James Flower’s 6 stages of faith are basically an organized hierarchy of the development of moral thinking of a person in terms of faith. The key word combination within Flower’s stages is “fundamental reconceptualization” of faith which occurs throughout each of the presented stages. Flowers gradation seems to be perfectly structured according to the religious cognitive growth, nevertheless it arouses contradictive feelings.

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The recent decades of business and management strategic improvement have proved that human resource development has objectively become a major concern of both government and organizations in the today’s world of work. To analyze this phenomenon it is necessary to understand what Human Resource Development (HRD) truly is. First of all the term Human Resources has literally two main interpretations. The first one is widely used in political economy in order to substitute the word labor. So this interpretation implies the general character of the term human resources, while the second one, commonly used within the business world is used to refer to the individuals working in any business firm and coping with various personnel problems.

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International relations and politics have always been very complicated and provoked many researchers to build up a theory that could effectively and clearly explain the basic principles of international politics. Such strive for scientific explanation of international politics led to the appearance of numerous theories but, unfortunately, many of them are contradictive and practically all of them are often criticized by the opponents.

“Hands” is a short story written by Sherwood Anderson, which tells us about a lonely elderly man, who lives in a little town of State of Ohio called Winesburg. He lives alone, he doesn’t communicate with anybody but one young man, though their communication stops soon after. The author gives a thorough description of the way in which Wing Biddlebaum moves his hands while talking with the man, which from the first sight seems unimportant to the reader. But it is not so. Wing Biddlebaum’s hands are his main feature, which played a great role in his life. I’m not going to retell the story, but it’s necessary to speak about some peculiarities of it.

1. The kind of practice that we call today public relations is more the 100 years old. There were many definitions of them during their historical development. The public relations developed from press agentry and publicity. The shortest definition was formulated in the year 1988 – “Public relations helps the organization and its publics adapt mutually to each other”. Thus it brings harmony to private and public policies. Public relations serves many kinds of institutions, different businesses, trade unions, voluntary associations and groups, government agencies, foundations, schools, religious institutions and so on. To achieve their goals they have to develop relations and connection to their audience, i.e. to their members, customers, shareholders and with the whole society as well. So we could separate the following functions of public relations:

The theory of knowledge has a long history. Many famous philosophers, writers, scientists were arguing about this matter. The common main point is that knowledge presents a synthesis of perception and conception. People usually perceive something from the passing present moment. Perception is made through the sings provided by memory. As the result of perceptions we receive conceptions. They help to reveal the past and the future for the present. But these conceptions can not be absolutely true to life as they touch only our own experience and views and this way people are able to interpret only themselves for themselves. This is the easiest way and only the most unlearnt people choose it for themselves.