How does science affect society? A few of the contributions that science and technology have made to everyday modern life are as follows. The automobile has proven to be a practical solution to the problem of getting from place to place by providing a convenient, flexible means of transportation.
Sankofa is a word in the Twi language of Ghana that translates as Go back and get it (san - to return; ko - to go; fa - to fetch, to seek and take) and also refers to the Asante Adinkra symbol represented either with a stylized heart shape or by a bird with its head turned backwards taking an egg off its back.
Mr. Solzhenitsyn said in a letter to the Leningrad authorities that the name should be changed not to Sankt-Peterburg -- which he said was alien to the Russian language and to the Russian spirit -- but to something Russian like Svyato Petrograd -- a Russified rendering of St. Petersburg.