Laboratory experiments suggest that individuals are reluctant to ask others to leave them alone unless aspects of the situation support their doing so and that some modes of making the request are more comfortable than others. The present study produced similar findings and also extended our understanding of privacy processes. Some 42 school administrators completed a questionnaire about their ...

CARNIVAL VS. LENT: THE CARNIVALIZATION OF FAMILY IMAGE IN GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ’S DEATH AND FUNERAL MAMMA GRANDE ONE HUNDRED YEARS SOLITUDE This article presents a socio-critical analysis of the family image in two works by Gabriel García Márquez: short story Death and Funeral Mamma Grande novel One Hundred Years Solitude. In literary cosmos Macondo, social microstructure that is at center aro...

One begins the journey [of life] light of heart going along gaily with many companions . . . these change . . . and the number gets fewer, the road gets narrower, and at last one is all alone, it is dark and quiet—will any voice speak out of the silence? Will any hand stretch out of the solitude, will any light shine out of the darkness? . . . Parts of me seem to atrophy as I go on—is that the ...