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19maj

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Społeczeństwo

Poland in the lead – but where?

Poland has lately ranked top in many European ranking – the question is, is it something to be proud of? The ‘good change’ might not be so good after all. Here are some rankings the government-controlled media might not show you. Fastest autocratizing country in the world The report ‘Autocratization Turns Viral’ conducted by Varieties of Democracy placed Poland on the 1st place. The report measured how much countries’ positions as democratic states fell in the last 10 years. Not surprisingly, experts noted that the biggest blows to Polish democracy occurred after 2015. They came in form of erosion of rule of law as well as attack on the judiciary system and the media. Because of that, Poland preceded such countries as Hungary, Turkey, and Bolivia that also made their way into the Top...

How the COVID-19 pandemic affects gender equality.

29kwi

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How the COVID-19 pandemic affects gender equality.

Doubtlessly, the pandemic has affected our lives on several levels. Aside from job and income insecurity or travel and meeting constraints, it has been understood that the persisting circumstances also impact the fundamental aspects of the society. Among them, gender equality has been recognised as a factor at substantial risk of regress. The World Economic Forum (WEF), the United Nations (UN), and other international organisations have agreed that the coronavirus pandemic is a major challenge for progress in the area of gender equality and women’s empowerment. Increased domestic violence There are many layers to the issue. The one that has been already recognised at the early stages of the pandemic was increased domestic violence against women after lockdowns were introduced na...

The history of Italian influence on cuisine in Poland

22kwi

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Historia, Najlepsze

The history of Italian influence on cuisine in Poland

Italy and Poland may not be close to each other geographically, but distances are no limits for good tastes. The beginning of the history of Italian food in Poland is hard to determine. Most people, when asked, will with no hesitation say one name: Bona Sforza. This Polish queen, wife of Sigismund I the Old, was indeed Italian – Milanian to be exact. Before moving to Poland to become a queen, she lived as a princess in the South of Italy – in Bari. She was a very educated woman, with big ambitions, so upon coming to Poland, she quickly started to engage in all kinds of intrigues and businesses. Her great success in managing property brought her unprecedented wealth, making her, arguably, the richest woman in Polish history. Italian lifestyle of Bona Sforza Bona wasn’t ver...

10 rewolucyjnych czołgów XX wieku – FILM

3kwi

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Historia, Najlepsze

10 rewolucyjnych czołgów XX wieku – FILM

XX wiek dał początek czołgom – maszynom, które zmieniły charakter wojny. W trakcie wojen, a także między nimi, postęp technologiczny był bardzo szybki, więc kolejne pojazdy korzystały z nowszych i bardziej zaawansowanych technologii. Po II Wojnie Światowej, która była złotą erą dla rozwoju czołgów, postęp znacząco nie zwolnił, więc rozwój pojazdów opancerzonych przynosił kolejne owoce w postaci nowych rozwiązań, które miały zapewnić przewagę nad czołgami przeciwników. Franciszek Niecz, MYP2(ic) Projekt został wykonany w ramach szkolnego programu tutoringowego.

30mar

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Najlepsze, Nauka

Is there life on Mars?

In order to celebrate the fact that Perseverance reached the Red Planet, I decided to write the overview of us, Terrestrians and our history with Mars. The NASA Mars Exploration Program currently has five operating missions on the Red Planet, all with the same goal: answer question “Is there life on Mars?”. But let’s start from the very beginning, shall we? God of War It is hard to say when was the first time that Mars was recorded as a wandering object on the night sky, but it is known that by 1534 BCE ancient Egyptian astronomers already knew about its retrograde motion. Later, Babylonian scientists would regularly record the position of the planet, and thus make systematic observations of its behavior. They even developed some arithmetic techniques to predict the futu...

Wywiad z Katarzyną Ramotowską, fotografką przyrody i przewodniczką po Biebrzy, nagrodzoną tytułem „Przewodnik Roku 2011”

9mar

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Ekologia, Najlepsze

Wywiad z Katarzyną Ramotowską, fotografką przyrody i przewodniczką po Biebrzy, nagrodzoną tytułem „Przewodnik Roku 2011”

Jan Dobkowski: Dlaczego wybrała Pani akurat Biebrzę? Katarzyna Ramotowska: Trudno mi znaleźć jednoznaczną odpowiedź, bo jest ich kilka. Po pierwsze, od dziecka byłam mocno zafascynowana przyrodą, ale nie wiedziałam, w jakim rejonie chciałabym realizować swoje zainteresowania. Nie miałam też świadomości, że urodziłam się u źródeł Biebrzy i tam się wychowałam, a właściwie wychowały mnie biebrzańskie bagna. Siedem lat mieszkałam u dziadków i nie widywałam się z innymi dziećmi, ale przez ten czas obcowałam z przyrodą mokradeł. A jednak to, że potem wróciłam nad Biebrzę, było zbiegiem okoliczności. Kiedy zaczęłam studia w Białymstoku, okazało się, że mój uniwersytet ma swoją stację terenową w Gugnach nad Biebrzą. To właśnie tutaj, w to bogactwo przyrodnicze, trafiłam na pierwszym ro...

How the feminist movement in the 1960s in the US excluded Black women from fighting for equality

7mar

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Najlepsze, Społeczeństwo

How the feminist movement in the 1960s in the US excluded Black women from fighting for equality

Women’s Rights Movement, also called the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM), was part of the “second wave” of feminism and a historically crucial social act. Unlike first-wave feminism, which involved suffragettes fighting for women’s legal rights such as the right to vote (as late as in the late 19th to early 20th century), the Women’s Liberation Movement is often regarded as ‘diverse’ because of the wide range of different aspects of women’s lives that were brought up by it. Second-wave feminists Second-wave feminists demanded equality in the areas of politics, work, the family, and sexuality, in opposition to prevailing social attitudes which favoured traditional gender roles in every one of these fields. Even though the end of World War II allowed for the service sector to de...

2mar

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Najlepsze, Społeczeństwo

QAnon – the elites are eating children, again

Evil elites, child murders, satan worshipping and magical life-lengthening methods have always been present in conspiracies. As early as the middle ages people have believed in blood libel, a conspiracy that accused Jews of murdering non-Jewish children in order to use their blood for religious rituals. Recently the QAnon conspiracy is gaining popularity, partly because of the involvement of its followers in the attack on the capitol. What are the contemporary faces of those centuries-old conspiracies? What is QAnon? QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory. Its followers believe that “the elites”, which most often means the media, the government or the rich, run the world. Sounds familiar and not shocking at all. However, QAnon’s most important belief is that those elites eng...

Capitol Riots – white supremacists challenge to America

20sty

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Najlepsze, Społeczeństwo

Capitol Riots – white supremacists challenge to America

The coup d’état attempt at the Capitol was a display of White privilege we should have seen coming. On January the 6th, 2021, soon after we have enthusiastically welcomed the new year and the United States have welcomed their new government lead by elect-president Joe Biden and vice-president Kamala Harris, events unfolded which put the security of American democracy in question. During a session of Congress certifying Joe Biden’s electoral victory, a group of pro-Trump rioters, armed with guns and bearing the infamous Stars and Bars, stormed into the Capitol in order to block Biden’s win. “We just saw an attempted coup d’etat. Blame Trump. Blame his Republican enablers.” writes Eugene Robinson for The Washington Post. Attempted coup d’état On footages run across soci...

Women rights in El Salvador – 30 years in prison for miscarriage

20sty

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Najlepsze, Społeczeństwo

Women rights in El Salvador – 30 years in prison for miscarriage

Considering the latest events in Poland, it would be valuable to stop and wonder, where our country is heading. On 22 October, the Constitutional Court deemed abortion in case of severe fetus defects unconstitutional. Some politicians also declared that they would fight for further limitations, that is to illegalize abortion in case of rape. It was definitely not the first time someone tried to vastly limit women’s bodily autonomy. In 2016, women all over Poland took to the streets to protest against a citizens’ bill initiative ‘Zatrzymaj aborcję’ (eng. Stop the abortion). In times when the politics steadily shift towards restraining women’s body sovereignty, people should look at countries where this has already happened. Harsh abortion law In 1998, El Salvador has changed i...