This article focuses on Polish science fiction of the 70’s and 80’s in the 20th century. It seeks to present the way the writers used artistic strategies for creating the parable of the Polish political reality. The analyses of the vision of the presented world refer to the works by Janusz A. Zajdel, Wiktor Żwikiewicz, Marek Oramus and Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński.
The purpose of this article is to depict the history of the junior school number V in Lvov. The first period under the Austrian reign was tough time, but teachers were allowed to use Polish language. When Poland was reconstituted, the school was not sieged but it sustained damage during First World War. In spite of difficulties, the school developed. The teaching staff had professional qualifications and the secondary school kept a high level of education all the time. Numerous well-known people like Leopold Staff attended this school.
Nowadays The Vampire is considered to be an unsuccessful work of W. S. Reymont; however, the writer’s contemporaries appreciated it. The value of this novel is that reflects the cultural atmosphere of the epoch, the ideological and religious anxiety and the interest in paranormal phenomena. 52
In the context of Frank Furedi’s essay Where have all the intellectuals gone. Confronting 21st century philistinism, the article About “reform” of Polish school from 1999 elaborates the problem of influence of disruptive transformations in Western culture on education of Polish people. It portrays which way Western policy on inclusion of pandering the masses tastes, depart from searches by the means of sense, rejection of knowledge, cultural relativism and the banality worship have impact on the reform of Polish school and Polish studies.
The purpose of this article is proposing of development state-owned secondary schools for men in Lvov from 1772 to 1914. First of all we should remember that this city was incorporated into the Austrian Empire during the First Partition of Poland and it was the capital of the largest part of Austria named the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. Despite of the fact, that gymnasiums were under strange power, they were a breeding ground for Polish intelligentsia, especially during the autonomy period. We should preserve a memory of them, because numerous well-known and famous people graduated from those schools who were reconstituted the Republic of Poland.
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