This study was undertaken to investigate whether narratives can be used as an effective approach to increasing participants’ knowledge gains and improving learning attitudes. Sixty-eight fourth graders from Taiwan, divided into a control and an experimental group, participated in this study. The results showed that participants in both groups made good progress after the instruction; however, those in the experimental group made significantly better advancement than those of the control group. The survey also revealed that they preferred the narrative approach to traditional lecture method. They stated that in the course of writing narratives about what they felt they had learned, they tried to recall the gained knowledge, and at the same time, relate the newly-learned knowledge to their previous knowledge or life experience, before finally express this in their own words. They further mentioned after composing their narratives, they could recall more correctly what they had been taught, retain the new knowledge for a longer period of time, and clarify their comprehension, doubts, or misconceptions. The result of this study demonstrated that using narratives as a beyond task had positive effects on the acquisition of content knowledge and the improvement of language skills.

The idea of the existence of connection between the development of society and the media was expressed in the middle of the XX century by a Canadian scientist, a representative of the University of Toronto, Harold Innis. In short, the essence of the idea of Innis is that since the early stages of development the ruling elite in all countries has controlled the information. Innis\'s ideas were supported and developed by Marshall McLuhan and Walter Ong. A lot of attention to this issue is paid by our Russian scientists as well.\nSince Peter the First, power in Russia has always tried to control the production of information. Domestic printing and publishing were controlled by censorship, which became a special state institution. Only for a short time in 1917, from the February revolution till the October one, the activities of the media in Russia were carried out freely. After the Bolsheviks came to power, those media which did not support the \"new power\" were closed. Then again, almost for 70 years censorship reigned being carried out by General Directorate for Literature and the Press (Glavlit) established by the Bolsheviks.\nIn 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed. Russia adopted the \"Law on Mass Media\" which gave all citizens the right to freely produce and disseminate information and to establish any media. But \"romantic\" period in the activities of Russian media lasted only a few years. They again became dependent on major corporations and the state. Thus, the authorities regained control over the activities of Russian media.\nBut not only in Russia power strives to use the mass media for its own interests. This happens in other even older democracies. Today the abilities of the media are used by many countries as an instrument of propaganda impact on the population.\nThe author of this article based on the realities of the political processes in Russia justifies the need for state control in the sphere of information considering the onset of new challenges and threats faced by the modern state. But the state must take into account the interests of all participants in information work, providing the public with the opportunity of communication with authorities on all relevant issues.

Telepathology, the practice of pathology at a long distance, has advanced continuously since 1986. The progress of telepathology passed through four stages: Static, Dynamic, Hybrid & Whole Slide Imaging [WSI]. Both conventional and innovative surgical pathology diagnostic services are being designed and implemented as well. The trial for applying telepathology systems in the Middle East began in 1994inUnited Arab Emirates & Saudi Arabia followed by another trial in Kuwait &Jordan; in 1999 using the static telepathology technologies but both trials were markedly limited. The actual practical start began in Egypt in 2002. The Egyptian trial applied the static & dynamictechniques in a pilot project between the Italian Hospital in Cairo (NPO) and the Civico Hospital in Palermo. This project began in 2003 and continued till now. Later in 2004, centers in Venice, London and Pittsburgh participated actively inour project. During the period from 2003 till 2008, we consulted on many problematic pathological cases withthese different specialized pathological centers in Italy, UK & USA. We concluded from our experience that telepathology is a very useful and applicable tool for additional consultingon difficult pathological cases especially for emerging countries with limited resources. In view of this success we have already established our Digital PathologyUnit (DPU) in the pathology department, CairoUniversity in 2010. The application of WSI technique in teaching [for under- & post-graduate candidates] was greatly successful and encouraged us to create a huge digital pathology library which will expand our Digital Pathology & E-learning programs to cover our staff and students both in Egyptand in the longer term in the wider Eastern Mediterranean. Furthermore, we successfully used the WSI technique in telepathology for consulting a lot of cases. Nowadays we are trying to establish an intranet between Egypt and the surrounding Arabic countries to support their pathology units with insufficient number of pathologists in consulting their cases.