This paper elucidate an empirical research methodology and data gathering experience among primigravida and multigravida women of reproductive age in Edo South, Nigeria. The study adopted a mixed research method comprising of both quantitative and qualitative research methods. The questionnaire served as the quantitative instrument while focused group discussion and in-depth interview were used as qualitative instruments of data collection. The sample size of 1108 respondents was statistically derived using the Taro Yamane statistical formula. The fieldwork experience and data gathering were encircled with lots of challenges ranging from language barrier to request for compensation and negative perception on the essence of the study. Despite these challenges, the lesson learned during the course of the fieldwork has been expository and have further strengthened the researchers skills and knowledge. Hence, scholars are encouraged to document their fieldwork experience in other to enlighten the populace on sociological research practices.

The aim behind this study is investigate how EFL learners in Algeria and Jordan use repair strategies (namely selfinitiated repair and repetition) to handle communication breakdown. The study delves in two major issues: why and how EFL learners introduce and use repair strategies in their oral discourse. As far as the sample of this study is concerned, it consisted of 20 participants divided equally between the two nationalities. The participants were university students majoring in English (EFL learners) attending Mustapha Stambouli University (Algeria) and the University of Jordan respectively. Data were collected using recording as participants were required to give a small talk about their future expectations using the English language. Using the conversation analysis (CA) framework, results revealed that both groups used repair strategies as a way to overcome their communication breakdown to keep the conversation going. While both groups used self-initiated repair and repetition, Algerian EFL learners used significantly more repair strategies than Jordanians. It is important to mention that self-initiated repair was used at higher rates by the two groups unlike repetition. Such study could be used as way to raise awareness for the importance of teaching these repair strategies for non-native’s in order to help them handle the inventible communication troubles

Semantic changes as well as semantic innovation are the focus interest of many scholars nowadays. The choice of words in particular situations to soften the utterance, and avoid or limit embarrassment is generally referred to as euphemism. Thus, due to the complex linguistic, cultural and social situations in Algeria, this study investigates the use of euphemism amongst Algerian males and females. The population of the study consisted of 30 Algerian PhD students at the level of the University of Jordan (15 males/15females). The sample was presented with a discourse completion task to depict different types of euphemistic strategies in both formal and informal situations, and to test whether there are any similarities and differences between males and females. The finding of the study revealed the use of different strategies amongst both genders, where females clearly outnumbered their male counterparts as far as euphemistic strategies are concerned. Females used 8 different strategies namely: understatement, metaphor, implication, loan words and onomatopoeia. Male on the other side used limited euphemistic strategies, where implication, understatement and metaphor were the dominant strategies, mainly in formal situations. Furthermore, results of the study suggest that the choice of euphemistic strategies is deeply associated with the degree of formality, where both males and females manage to increase euphemistic strategies in formal situations compared to informal ones. To conclude, this gender-based study explains the semantic change as far as euphemism is concerned and offers clear insights on the preferences of each gender in using euphemistic strategies depending on the degree of formality.

The present study has an analysis youths mind and activities on Social media and its influence in the day by their life’s in the North-eastern part of Nagaland in India. Nagaland has witnessed a steep growth in the number of internet users in the past few years. With such increased internet access in Nagaland, use of social media services such as the social networking sites has been on the rise among college students in Dimapur. These days the Internet is connecting youth’s life in 24X7 in the week. The daily presence of infants is designed with their Smart phones, conversation and writing with their friends and peers through consistent media and gadgets. There are numerous informal organizations prevalently utilized by the Nagaland individuals which are WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tik-Tok, Snap talk and Instagram and so on. In Nagaland, the students utilize those online networking part of time in their regular day to day existence. The main objectives of this study, to examine the impact of internet based life in young people’s regular daily existence. The researcher has utilized the Quantitative Research Methodology, analyze and interpret the various types of numerical data acquired from a specific number of respondents. Especially, the Descriptive Method is used by the researcher for this study and Non-Random sampling method used for data collocation in various colleges and university in Dimapur, Nagaland. The researcher has taken this point to discover and to break down that how the social media have a crash in the life of adolescents particularly in the schools and colleges in Nagaland which has 61 Schools partnered to Nagaland University. Students invested more energy in the online informal community than they spent for their examinations. A large portion of the youth spent further than three to six hours in Social media and once in a while they sit late night or rise promptly toward the beginning of the day just to take part in Social media.

Thessaloniki, the capital city of Greek Macedonia, is currently a large city, economically dominant in Northern Greece, and the most important cultural centre in the Southern Balkans. A comparison to Athens reveals significant differences on the economic and cultural levels, in spite of the city being called “co-capital”, by analogy to the byzantine title of “Symvasileuousa” attributed to Thessaloniki with regard to Constantinople during the Byzantine period. Art in Thessaloniki presents certain characteristics which set it apart from the capital of the modern Greek state, and historians often refer to the “School of Thessaloniki”, a reference to the introvert nature of its art (literature and visual arts). The city’s proximity to Mount Athos and its rich cultural heritage has bestowed upon the artists in Thessaloniki a particular spirituality and a tendency towards abstractionism. On the other hand, Thessaloniki was liberated 90 years later than Athens and other parts of the country, and this deprived the city from an early connection to the West. Another restraining factor has been the military dictatorship imposed on the country in 1967 which lasted for seven years and has been a critical factor for the belated entrance of new modernist ideas in Greece. May of 1968 has been a social and cultural phenomenon but has had minimal influence on domestic art. Metamodernism has been a phenomenon which has been minimally present in the field of visual arts. Nevertheless, artists, such as Giorgos Lazongas, Yorgos Tsakiris, and Dimitris Xonoglou, professors of visual arts in various schools of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, are included among those who have demonstrated an admirable ability to adapt to the new reality.

School Meal Programme is an expensive venture that requires massive investment over the years. The programme’s cost has continually grown year by year, thus necessitating a Perception Study of School Meals Programme in The Gambia. This study assesses the perception and opinions of beneficiaries of the existing programme with a view of justifying a rationale for a continuation of the programme and for a smooth transitioning for more government involvement. We conducted a Focus Group Discussion FGD to elicit relevant information from various participants across The Gambia. From the opinions and perceptions of the participants, a common theme is that beneficiaries of school meal programme derive benefit in the form improvements in health conditions, nutrition, cognition and class performance. The household benefits from income savings by reducing household’s budget on daily food expenditures and medical bills as a result of the improved health condition of their child. By extension, the community also benefits from the programme through free lunches to the pupils, food security, better health and savings on health and food expenditures.