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The objective of this study is to analyze the participants’ views on the impact of the Erasmus program on professional training and personal development of participants, highlighting the effects of the Erasmus mobility on student participants (educational level, professional, cultural, interpersonal, etc.). The participants in this study were 89 students of technical universities participating in the Erasmus mobility. The research involved a survey based on a questionnaire centered on the educational/vocational impact, cultural impact, and the relational impact of the Erasmus mobility on the personal and professional development of students/beneficiaries. The results show that an Erasmus mobility stimulate the acquisition of a social and cultural capital, acquisitions hard to gain in an otherwise normal context of life.

Nowadays, the concept of literary generation becomes functional within the specialized literary discourses as its semantic evolution enhances, on the one hand, the dynamics of the cultural paradigms and idea movements projected on the literary creations, and, on the other, the inter-relation of individual authorial ideologies to the larger family of synonymous creative spirits. Our study analyses the main contemporary theories mirroring this concept in the Romanian culture by pointing out both the overt effect of (relative) ideological submission in the dynamic field of creation, as well as the creative deviation (in) validating the abstract pattern – the basis of the theoretic construct the literary generation concept is rooted in.

This research focused on the “Aku Budak Minang”, the famous comics series published in the “Gila-Gila” magazine and was known as one of the best masterpieces of Ujang. Ibrahim Anon, with the pen name of Ujang, is considered to be one of the most popular cartoonists in Malaysia. His artworks produced significant impacts on both readers and contemporary cartoons in Malaysia. The purpose of this research will be to explore the visual language involved in Aku Budak Minang. Furthermore, the research will look closely at the Aku Budak Minang comic and to seek understanding of the minang traditions through its theme, culture, drawing style. In the analysis, this research is expected to determine whether Ujang's artworks successfully communicate the Malaysian culture to the readers through visual language, The findings of this research will indicate the social value and cultural impact during the era of 80's and 90's in Malaysia based on the point view of Ujang.

Realization of culture, history and geography in the morphological structure of British place-names is observed. New tends of the interdisciplinary approach to place-names system development, the relationship of place-names and vocabulary words, archaic Indo-European roots, universal and ethnic features of place-names are considered in complex with historical and cultural impact.