Great Love Research Articles

Exploring the Transformative Aftereffects of Religious Experiences on Pilgrims Along the Camino de Santiago in Spain.

This study examines religious experiences (REs) and their transformative aftereffects (TAs) among pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago. Analyzing 32 travelogue testimonies and survey data from 501 participants, it identifies three key dimensions of post-RE transformations: heightened Unity and Love, a strong commitment to the Apostolic Mission, and expanded Spirituality, Wisdom, and Detachment. Pilgrims report a shift toward greater love, unity with nature, and sharing insights, as well as increased spirituality and reduced materialism. The study finds significant correlations between TAs and individuals prioritizing their relationship with God and regular religious practices, highlighting REs' impact on societal values and beliefs.

Description as a Fiction-Writing Mode Between Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield and Naguib Mahfouz’s Midaq Alley: A Comparative Study

Comparative literature expounds on the areas of convergence in literature and reproduces the cultural similarities between East and West, demonstrating its results in guiding literary and intellectual renewal movements. Arabic literature takes advantage of the works of literature of other nations and is always keen to develop and enrich its awareness and culture. As the novel is a celebrated genre used in the comparative literature area, the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, well-known as the Dickens of Egypt, is one of the key poles of the international Arab novel. Mahfouz's novels and short stories convey Cairo, the capital of Egypt, its neighborhoods, inhabitants, and groceries to the home of every reader. The images and representations of Cairo drawn by Mahfouz are compared to the masters of English literature, namely Charles Dickens who significantly impacted Mahfouz's writings, especially his great love for describing and depicting everything his eyes see. With appropriating a comparative study of Dickens’s and Mahfouz’s selected works, this paper examines the concept of “description as a fiction-writing mode” as reflected in two literary works—Dickens’s David Copperfield (1850) and Mahfouz’s Midaq Alley (1947) following the School of Comparative Literature based on the principle of similarity in its study and analysis of literary works.

KARL ORFF AND SHINICHI SUZUKI ON THE IMPORTANCE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC EDUCATION

In this article the authors consider pedagogical concepts of Karl Orff (Germany) and Shinichi Suzuki (Japan), regarding music education of young children. As is known, they dedicated their lives to the musical and aesthetic education of children and made an invaluable contribution in world music pedagogy. Leading scientists and researchers highly rate their activities. The article presents an analysis of scientific sources, brief biographical data and information. In particular, it is reveals that the creative atmosphere in his family influenced the becoming of K. Orff as a composer, musician and teacher. The desire for improvisation, composing music, poems and stories, staging theatrical performances became the core that contributed to the emergence of an integral system of music-aesthetic education of children called «Orff-pedagogy». Its basic principle defined by the concept of «learning-doing creating». Various types of musical activities, on which he relied in his work, aimed to emotional-creative and moral-aesthetic education of the younger generation.The uniqueness of Suzuki's method emphasized by the necessity of forming creative activity in the process of musical-performance activity, in particular, in playing the violin, from the earliest childhood. The materials of the article also allow us to understand that Suzuki's "method of talent education" implies: reliance on the belief, regardless of the child's capabilities, that every child has musical abilities; manifestation of the teacher's love for young performers; training them to creative labor; joint work of the teacher and parents in the musical education of children; manifestation of care and mutual assistance.In spite of the fact that K. Orff and S. Suzuki are representatives of different ethnic groups, cultures and traditions, but their pedagogical views have much in common. This is, above all, the manifestation of great love for children, the desire to bring them up to be creatively active not only in the process of communicating with music, but also in their relationship with the world around.

Research on the Effect of Successful Business People on the Society

It is known that successful business people play a crucial role in wealth creation and expenditure. This paper mainly discussed whether successful business people benefit others when making their money, when spending it, both, or neither? This paper seeks to shed light on these questions, exploring the complex relationship between wealth accumulation and societal benefits. This paper examines the extent to which wealthy individuals benefit others during the process of wealth creation and expenditure, considering both top-down and bottom-up economic perspectives. By utilizing the true situation using Top-Down and Bottom-Up perspective, this paper draws the conclusion that: On the one hand, when the successful business people have social responsibility, they use the method of making money to provide people with employment and re-employment, they have great love and universal love, and they shoulder the responsibility of the savior. On the other hand, when successful businessmen have more and more money, it will lead to the wealth of the society in the hands of a few people, affecting the reasonable development of politics and economy.

A man for all times To the 100th anniversary of the birth of academician N.S. Enikolopov

In 2024, the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding physical chemist of the XX century, Academician N.S. Enikolopov, is celebrated. The scientist had a great thirst and love for science, was a talented researcher, organizer and teacher. Its scientific school has nurtured many scientists. It is difficult to overestimate his contribution to the development of chemical science and the polymer industry. Among the most notable achievements of Nikolai Sergeevich are the detection and investigation of abnormally fast polymerization in the solid phase, the discovery of the interchain exchange reaction in the formation of heterochain polymers, etc.

MƏHƏMMƏD FÜZULİ SÖZÜNÜN QÜDRƏTİ

The Power of Muhammad Fuzuli's Words Summary M.Fuzuli is the pearl of our classical literature. His works are loved, read and will continue to be read even centuries later. The work of Fuzuli, who treats his native language with great respect and love, is not a source accessible to every human mind. To understand this source, the reader must have high taste and deep thinking. The great artist knew the value of every word he spoke and managed to lift it to the skies. It is for this reason that Fuzuli, indispensable in praising the divine beauty, stands at the top of the world's verbal art. Kay words: meaning, word art, language, artistic style, philosophy

The Influence of Referees on Romeo and Juliet

Dear Editors, It is a common situation, especially for young researchers, to receive decision letters from a journal office saying: “Major revision required - No guarantee of acceptance” or “We regret to reject.” It is said that experiencing repeated major revisions and even rejections make a researcher more mature, but what is a young researcher to do when even Dr Hwang is badly affected by this situation? [1] Then I read Kundakçı’s letter [2] and became even more pessimistic. I worried what if the referees turned into artificial intelligence and even more difficult times awaited the writers. So, I decided to write this letter, thinking that it might be interesting to discuss ideas on the subject with the metaphor of Romeo and Juliet. We all know William Shakespeare’s magnificent work Romeo and Juliet [3]. In this work, Romeo and Juliet, who fell in love with each other, failed to be patient in their plans and could not come together until they died. And a great debate has been going on for centuries: What makes their love interesting and unforgettable for all humanity is the greatness of their love or the fact that they could never unite? In fact, there is a metaphorical relationship between referees and “Romeo and Juliet”. Could it be that what determines our love for science and our desire to write scientific articles and makes it unique is that we cannot achieve success as a result of the comments of the referees? Or is it the magnitude of our love for writing that drives us to our enthusiasm for writing? Generally, it is not taught how to do peer review for scientific journals. If people have not made a special effort to learn, they learn the role of the referee from their own experiences or from studies previously published in the journal. This is actually a situation that may cause some problems in the standardization of the work done. Since the editors will reach a decision based on the recommendations of the referees, the qualifications of the referees and their scientific article evaluation behavior patterns become decisive in this regard. Since referees are also writers and are not free from all the prejudices of the age, they must act independently of all positive or negative influences when evaluating the manuscripts [4, 5]. The publishing policies of journals (double blind or single blind, etc.) supporting this independence is the way to prevent this great love from disappearing and not growing further with new separations. In the story of Romeo and Juliette we see Count Paris who tries to separate them and wants to marry Juliette, and Friar Laurence who is the wise adviser and tries to reunite them. As writers, editors or referees, we scientists perhaps have two options: to hinder this love of science, like Count Paris, or to advance the love of science, like Friar Laurence. Or in other words “to be or not to be” a scientist, that is the question. Kind Regards

Policing, surveillance capitalism and the Great British love affair with crime drama in Happy Valley

Police and crime dramas are one of the most popular forms of TV entertainment in Britain. I first show that over the course of the past few decades, policing and surveillance has become more invasive than ever before. These phenomena are strongly tied to new forms of neo-liberalism and capitalism that encourage increasingly individualistic and fragmented societies. Yet, data shows that trust in the police is high, regardless of class background: Why might this be? I turn to depictions of surveillance and policing in British crime drama, in particular, the recently highly acclaimed Happy Valley. Whilst a well-written, heart-warming and satisfying TV series, I point to several themes that illustrate how British neo-liberal societal decay, policing and surveillance culture might be apparent. Police are presented as capable of filling the void left by the neo-liberal decimation of public services and the accompanying loneliness of intense individualism in poorer towns and cities.

Joseph Fletcher on Agapeic Love: An Evaluation

Joseph Fletcher offers a Christian Situation Ethics when he affirms that belief in God and belief in God’s agape’ as the central value of ethics cannot be proven by natural reasoning but can only be held by a free action, chosen by the believer. He interprets 1 John, chapter 4: 16, especially v. 19: “We love because he first loved us,” as establishing that humans only know agapeic love because they have first known and believed in God’s agapeic love as revealed in the greatest love in the actions and teachings of Jesus. However, Bernard Haring a Catholic, 20th century German moral theologian, disagrees with that interpretation, noting that both Augustine and Aquinas hold that although God’s creative love is first in the order of being, it is not first in the order of learning. They hold that humans first experience generous human love amongst humans before they even accept that God’s creative love is first in the order of being. Also, even Karl Barth, the great Swiss Calvinist theologian, has a remarkably positive affirmation of human eros. Barth invents a new term ‘humanity’ in order to recognize the being of humans as “free, radically open, willing, spontaneous, joyful, cheerful and gregarious.” This paper will build upon the positive analysis by Augustine and Aquinas of generous human love as first in the order of learning and upon the positive evaluation of human ‘eros’ and ‘humanity’ as suggested by Barth by developing three main divisions: (1) The paper will draw upon C.S. Lewis’s distinction between need-love and gift-love and evaluate both Fletcher and Lewis himself as offering an inadequate conceptualization of human love as always tainted by need-love. (2) The paper will draw upon the moral philosophies of Aristotle and John Dewey who offer us a most positive evaluation of human love as transcending selfishness in their focus upon a person’s self-actualization in something greater than the self. (3) Finally, the paper will draw upon the reflections of the theologian Gregory Baum who was influenced by the French thinker Maurice Blondel. Blondel and Baum, then, offer a different grasp of humanity and God than the extrinsicist theology offered by Joseph Fletcher and C. S. Lewis in which God swoops in upon human nature to save humans from their sins with the Gift-love from above. Following the lead of Blondel, Baum develops an “intrincisist” grasp of human striving, not as: that of the intellect seeking deeper truth; it is, according to Blondel, the dynamics of the will seeking ever greater self-realization through continued action. It is there, in their willing, that God is present to human beings, and it is in their actions that they say Yes to the divine presence.

Danielle Steel’s Portrayal of Sibling’s Love in Comparison with Selected Works of Other Novelists

As English is a universal language and its richness in literature has contributed to its reach. English literature from the olden times has been portraying siblings love in diverse ways. The novels from the past to the present have depicted the relationship of brothers and sisters in a distinct manner. Danielle Fernande Dominique Schuelein-Steel, born on 14th August 1947 in New York City better known as Danielle Steel, is an American romantic novelist is best known for family drama. Steel’s novels have been sold more than 580 million copies worldwide and she is the eighth best selling writer of all time.Danielle Steel has been triumphant in rendering a great relationship among the siblings. This paper is an outcome of a comparison between Danielle Steel’s “No Greater Love” with Arundhathi Roy’s “The God of Small Things” and George Eliot’s “The Mill on the Floss”.

The celebration of the 100th anniversary of the imperial military medical academy as a recognition of its special role in the development of russian medicine

The study describes the solemn celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Imperial Military Medical Academy. This celebration not only fixed the special status of the academy among the educational and medical institutions of prerevolutionary Russia but also allowed us to summarize the main results of its development and formation. For 100 years of its existence, it has turned into the largest military educational medical institution, known worldwide, and has experienced periods of ups and downs, heydays and declines, and hopes and disappointment. In 1809, shortly after its foundation, the academy was named the Imperial Military Medical Academy and was introduced into the rank of the first scientific institution of the Russian Empire. The academy reached its greatest heyday when it was part of the military Department, which generously paid for the expenses of its “offspring. ” Thanks to the care of the curators and trustees of the academy, the initiative and creative activity of its leaders in the second half of the XIX century created a wonderful complex of buildings with amphitheaters, auditoriums, classrooms, and medical Departments. More than 10 thousand military doctors had already been educated at the academy by that time. Continuous improvement of teaching and encouragement of the scientific activity of teachers and students put the academy on par with the leading scientific and educational institutions of the West, and some of its institutions nearly surpassed even the best European models. Anniversary events include laying a wreath at the grave of Emperor Paul I, assembly speeches, festive dinners, routs, and visiting the theater and remained in the memory of the participants of the celebration for a long time. During its anniversary, Russian scientists have received numerous warm and heartfelt congratulations from outstanding figures of world science. The involvement of the country’s top officials and the medical community in this celebration testifies to the great respect and love for this oldest military educational institution, the profession of a military doctor, and the recognition of the academy’s merits in the development of Russian and world medical science in helping a suffering person.

Paglalakbay ng isang bakla: An analysis of the short story “Kung sa Bawat Pagtawag ay Pagtawid sa Gubat” [Paglalakbay ng isang bakla; Pagsusuri sa maikling kwentong “Kung sa Bawat Pagtawag ay Pagtawid sa Gubat”

This research concerns the analysis of the short story “Kung sa bawat pagtawag ay pagtawid sa Gubat” written by Alec Joshua B. Paradeza, from the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards popularly known as the Palanca Awards for literature, a program gives literary honor to writers in the Philippines. The short story "Kung sa bawat pagtawag ay pagtawid sa Gubat” was awarded a third prize at Palanca Award in year 2022. It refers to the historical experience of a gay guerrilla named Ruel who has great love and was longing for his gay boyfriend Ino, who separated from him due to conflict in society, beliefs, and responsibility as a guerrilla. This research aims to describe and explore the perspective, traditions, and beliefs of the characters to share the historical event that pertains to the experience of same-sex couples. This study used a qualitative design method, where the researchers read the short story and presented the important events related to the history that it includes. The research is anchored to the theory of realism and romanticism that deeper the understanding and analysis of the researchers. This study is important to expand awareness and strengthen the conversation regarding the issues of identity, discrimination, and other people who prefer same-sex couple. This study will serve as a basis for future researchers to further cultivate the ability to understand and respect the current historical problem related to this study.

ЖЕНСКИЙ РОМАН – ЛИТЕРАТУРА, МАКУЛАТУРА И… ПСИХОЛОГИЯ

In the traditional women’s novel, as a significant genre of the impression industry, a system of views and values is very openly proclaimed, which significantly diverges from the value system of the male part of the population. The end of the twentieth century was marked by the formation of various value systems in women’s novels. Moreover, one of these value systems most likely approaches “male”, while the other is clearly close to mass culture. A traditional women’s novel is always characterized by a fairly typical set of very similar characters. They may be fatally different from each other in appearance, but they always perform the same semantic function. For example, the main character, in addition to a constant pursuer, constantly finds herself with a disinterested helper. At the same time, the personal qualities ofa man in romance novels traditionally do not matter at all. The main character, fulfilling the function of the object of the great love of the main character, however, is never an outstanding personality. Essentially, as a rule, he is not busy with anything serious in life either. At the same time, he is always financially secure and always restless. As a result, even if he is married, it will be to a bitch. But the most important thing is that an affair with him is entirely the choice and decision of the main character.

MONUMENT TO T. H. SHEVCHENKO IN IRPIN: TO THE HISTORY OF CREATION

The article is dedicated to the monument to Taras Shevchenko in Irpin by O. Sydoruk and B. Krylov (2017). Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko is a figure who long ago in the history of mankind became a symbol not only of genius, but also of courage, indomitability, extreme sensitivity to human grief and suffering, great love for people. This is perhaps the most respected figure in modern Ukraine and far beyond its borders. The secret of such deep respect for this unusual person who emerged from the depths of the people, his uniqueness lies in the fact that in Shevchenko's works, the soul of the Ukrainian people, passionate love for the native land – the motherland of Ukraine was embodied in a concentrated form. The greatness of Taras Hryhorovych, his importance in the struggle for freedom, for human dignity, for the development of culture, for the education of humanity is vividly highlighted in the memories of many of his contemporaries and in the statements of other prominent cultural figures. It is known that T.G. Shevchenko has the most monuments among the cultural figures of the world. Naturally, a significant part of them is located in Ukraine. The number of local communities wishing to have an image of Taras Hryhorovych is constantly growing even now, especially after Ukraine gained independence. The residents of the city of Irpen in the Kyiv region became such a community, where in August 2017 a monument (sculptural complex) appeared in the central square, in front of the city council building, in honor of the genius of the poet and artist Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko. The purpose of this article is to draw attention to one of the most successful new monuments to Taras Shevchenko in Ukraine. The work of O. Sydoruk and B. Krylov, like all the previous works of the artists, differs from the existing works on this topic by the depth of the idea, originality, skillful execution and in all its characteristics corresponds to the person for whom the monument is being created. The article contains a description of the general concept of the monument, a description and interpretation of all the main details of the composition.

Great love and selflessness－a few thoughts in the development of the Pediatric Group of the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Branch of the Chinese Medical Association

Great love and selflessness－a few thoughts in the development of the Pediatric Group of the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Branch of the Chinese Medical Association

The Search for the Perfection of Divine Love in Herman Hesse's Novel Sidharta

This article discusses Siddharta's journey in finding a teacher through long twists and turns, joys and sorrows, praise and trials one after another does not discourage him because of his great love and love for the Divine. Siddharta who is intelligent and has a perfect physical form and attitude, gets affection from his parents and is about to be dissatisfied and satisfied. His heart still has an empty space for Divine love. The figures and the environment in Siddharta as teachers, whatever comes from them, they can always learn. The protagonists move with flexible, balanced sentences, not only in everyday discourse and textual discourse. The figures with beautiful movements, so a lot of spiritual development. The characters who get control of the environment they are in. No coincidence is coincidence, making this novel appear as a profound reflection.

Redefining love: Engaging the Johannine and Akan concepts of love through dialogic hermeneutics

Both the Johannine and Akan cultures are described in scholarly literature as collectivistic communities that value love as a communal value. Nonetheless, a scholarly analysis of the Akan concept reveals that Akan proverbial tradition promotes love motivated by the expectation of reciprocation. Thus, the article aimed to provide a biblical response to these challenges for Akan Christians, who hold love as both a traditional and theological value. Consequently, the study employed Gatti’s dialogic hermeneutics because it encourages engagement between text and culture, viewing them as dialogue partners from which a call to action emanates directed at the interpreter’s context. Even though the Akan concept relates love to sacrifice, forgiveness and reciprocity, it promotes conditional love, thereby diminishing its concept of love-motivated sacrifices and reciprocity. By incarnating the concept of love that Jesus promotes and embodies in John, Akan Christians can establish a culture that reflects the community of God, proscribing conditional love and prescribing utmost and greater love – godly selfless and reciprocal love. In addition, it makes love the substratum of functional unity and interpersonal relationships. Ultimately, it makes love a divine command for the community of believers.Contribution: This article engages the Johannine and the Akan ideations of love through dialogic hermeneutics and, as such, contributes to African biblical hermeneutics and the ongoing discussions on the inculturation of the New Testament within the African context.

“Dostoevsky”: The biographical fantasy of Don Nigro

In his work, the modern American playwright Don Nigro frequently refers to the personalities of world spiritual culture – philosophers, artists, musicians and writers. Russian cultural personalities occupy a significant place among them, great Russian writers in particular, to some of these personalities individual plays are dedicated, while others appear in them as minor characters. Such is the play “Dostoyevsky” (2015), in which the writer’s work is inextricably linked with his biography. In this essay, we set out to analyze this synthesis of the factional and the fictional. Biographical facts and real personalities are intertwined with the characters of Dostoevsky’s works in the same artistic space in such a way that it is sometimes difficult to separate what is happening in reality from what is a figment of the artist’s imagination. As a result, a bizarre canvas is created where the biographical facts become a kind of palimpsest, on which his creativity is super-imposed. In his plays, Nigro, as a rule, is more interested in the details of his characters’ personal life than in their creative work but this play differs favorably from some others. At the same time, despite the use of a number of postmodern strategies - fragmentation, palimpsest, abundant intertextuality, carnivality, images of mirrors and labyrinths as key symbols – the playwright goes beyond the purely postmodern game and creates a psychologically convincing image of a genius writer. The playwright himself has repeatedly confessed his great love for Russian literature, and this play is another confirmation of this.

Ivan Gavrilovich Alexandrov. Pages of Life and Achievements

Academician Ivan Gavrilovich Alexandrov is an outstanding hydropower engineer, the founder of the integrated design of large hydroelectric plants and irrigation systems, the developer of the GOELRO plan, the author of original innovative ideas, which then seriously influenced further development of hydropower engineering and are still of practical importance, the creator of DneproGES. The Angarsk HPP cascade was also designed according to the developments and proposals of Ivan G. Alexandrov. A brilliant researcher, designer, economist, teacher, manager, and administrator graduated from Moscow Engineering School (now Russian University of Transport).Ivan Alexandrov was recognised worldwide as an outstanding scientist and engineer. His activities mainly fell on the most difficult years of formation of the national economy of the USSR, on the years of the first five-year plans…For many years he taught at the higher educational institutions of Leningrad and Moscow and enjoyed great love and respect among students.

THE CREATIVITY OF MASHADI AZER BUZOVNALI

Mashadi Haji Majid oghlu Azer (1870–1951) was born in the village Buzovna, in Baku, in the family of merchant. Those periods was very difficult, and Azer was obliged to help his family. His father was a merchant, after finishing from mollakhana, he had got in trade in his father's shops, sometimes had joined to his father and did the trades trips, mainly to the East. Journey with camel caravans to the Arab countries, Hindu Muslims, Iran, Anatolia and the East, led to the formation and developing of his worldview at the young age. But all this hadn't satisfied the young Azerbaijani, when he was fifteen, he had gone with his father to Petrovskport (now it is called Makhachkala), had got lessons on theology from the greatest theologian, besides knowledge of all theological sciences, he had owned Arabic-Persian and the archaic Turkish language. Azer, who already owned deep knowledge and rich information, along with great love for the wiseacre Fuzuli, also read the works of all the Eastern classics, regardless of nationality, as well as, in their native language. For example, he had read Arabic classics in Arabic, Persian artists in Persian, and poets, who grew up in Anatolia, on treatises written in Ottoman Turkish. He had got the rich information about Irfan poets and had read manuscripts of the Eastern classics. When he was seventeen, he had met Mirza Abdurrahim Talibzadeh, from Tabriz.Although, he was very young, Mirza liked Azer's excellent knowledge and high intelligence, and he had become friends with him from the first meeting. Later, their friendship was so strong that Mirza, who arrived in Baku, in 1906, visited Azer's mansions, both in Baku and Buzovna during the year, and had taken part in all meetings of the Madjmaush-Shuar (meeting of poets), which he had headed.