...Assessed Essay In what ways can the representation of the family in Nada be read as a microcosm of Spanish society in the immediate post-Civil War era? Carmén Laforet's first novel, “Nada” is set in the war torn city of 1940's Barcelona, and depicts the aspiration of a young woman arriving to the city. This protagonist, Andrea, has her dreams quickly shattered as she witnesses, from the shadows, the chaos and mental and physical torment within the house. The novel is loosely based on Laforet's own experiences, her circumstances are very similar to that of Andrea; in the novel Andrea expects to find joy and love within her grandparents house in Barcelona, as she lived there as a child, however her hopes of this are quickly shattered,“cuando yo era la única nieta pasé alli las temporadas más excitantes de mi vida infantíl...¿todo esto podíá estar tan lejano?” (p22) Even though, taken literally, the narrator is reminiscing over earlier, happier times spent in the house, it echoes memories of Spain in general before the Civil War. Laforet herself was born in Barcelona and both Andrea and Laforet moved away as children and returned during the early 1940's in their late teens to study at the University of Barcelona. From this, Laforet experienced the struggles of post-war Spanish society first hand and evidence of this pervades the novel, drawing a picture of the times, which are not only represented in the city, but almost metaphorically in the household in which the majority...
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...America to live with her son's family after their strong suggestion. The point of view this story is written in is third person; as an outsider telling the events. Mrs. Dutta, being the main protagonist in the story, is struggling to adapt to her new life in America. The biggest change that Mrs. Dutta is struggling with is being a housewife stereotype. The most interesting thing about Mrs. Dutta is the subplot containing her flashbacks back home and the conversations between herself and Mrs. Basu. Being such a round character, Mrs. Dutta shows a lot of progression at the end of the story by finally admitting to her friend Mrs. Basu and to herself that she is not happy. Why Literature Blog The argumentative essay Why Literature? by Mario Vargas Llosa is an impressive and lengthy recount of the importance of literature in society, history, and the basis of all knowledge. Llosa’s words are filled with anguish as well as ardor. Through an array of topics ranging from statistics...
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...competitive edge in every aspect .Knowledge of foreign language is important for those working in business, communication and nearly every other career track .Nevertheless, for the young generation in future it will be mandatory for the career enhancement. Recent study shows Chinese, Spanish, Japanese and German are going to be the dominant languages of 21st century. Chinese and Spanish are the first and the second most spoken language in the world. Interestingly, Spanish is the second language in America. It is spoken in Mexico, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and Guatemala among few and in South America except Brazil. It is a language rich in literature and culture. Eminent writers like Miguel Cervantes, Garcia Lorca, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mario Vargas LLosa have contributed significantly to the Spanish literature as well as the world literature. Most of...
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...El ocaso de los tréboles | | | | Antonio García Sansigre aconseja a los ejecutivos mantener una actitud permanente de fortaleza ante la debilidad y no como algo fruto de una circunstancia que el tiempo ayude a difuminar. El gurú sueco de los negocios Alexander Bard dice que las grandes marcas son una combinación de visibilidad y credibilidad. De nada sirve tener una si no tienes la otra. Exitosas son aquellas que combinan ambas. El mundo de la gestión empresarial no es ajeno a esta ley y la nueva generación de hombres del management disfruta de una posición que sus predecesores no tuvieron. El consumo masivo de libros de fácil digestión ha abierto esta puerta. Muchos exponentes de la nueva generación del management lo están aprovechando bien y han sabido sacar el máximo partido de la visibilidad y el prestigio. Los actuales autores de cuentos o “cuentistas” van a verse estrangulados por su propia soga: por un lado, deben seguir siendo best-sellers, y cuanto más best-seller se es, más ramplón y superficial se convierte su pensamiento. Ese círculo vicioso atenaza la consideración personal del autor. Por ello, la nueva generación de autores de management, por naturaleza inclinada al libro sencillo que entra tan rápido como sale, tendrá que publicar libros más sesudos. En el fondo subyace una realidad: “Quiero ser como José Antonio Marina”. El...
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...Peru, officially the Republic of Peru is a country located on the western side of South America, whose territory borders the Pacific Ocean to the west and bounded on the north with Ecuador, northeastern Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia and southern Chile. It has a complex geography is dominated by the elevations of the Andes and the Pacific currents, which makes the climates and landscapes as widely varied as the desert coast, the highlands of the high Andes and the rainforest of the Amazon basin, all environments that shape the country as a land of great variety of natural resources. The heterogeneity of geographic and climatic rigors of the country led to the first settlers early Peruvians to the twelfth millennium B.C. to adapt by developing one of the widest range of cultural traditions, as the oldest civilization of Caral that five thousand years ago, around the production cycles of each region, many of which resulted in a regional theocratic states. In early second century B.C., states began to be played, by periods, control of the peoples of the Andes. By the sixteenth century, the later and vast domain of these states, the Inca Empire was annexed by the Spanish conquerors with the support of dissident ethnic groups to Inca. The Spanish crown had established a viceroyalty that included most of its South American colonies. In 1821 the country became independent, basing a state that was immersed in internal and external conflict periods alternating...
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...A popular chart going around shows that since 2001, college textbooks have increased in price more than 100% while recreational books have fallen in price by a little more than 1%. The consumer price index, meanwhile, has only increased about 30%. Have writing, printing, and supplying higher-education materials increased in cost so much that producers are just trying to pass on the expenses? Likely not. The fact is that consumers of college textbooks typically don't have a choice, making the demand inelastic and allowing publishers to charge prices well above what the consumer may value. While fantastic for publishers' margins, is this bubbly business sustainable? Let's analyze it. The rotating roster of publishers McGraw-Hill Education, now owned by Apollo Group (NASDAQ: APOL ) , Pearson (NYSE: PSO ) , and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt make up the three largest educational publishers. The previous owner of McGraw-Hill Education, McGraw Hill Financial (NYSE:MHFI ) , completed the sale of its textbook segment in March for $2.4 billion in cash, which it is using for share buybacks. Why did McGraw Hill want to divest from its education segment? The company's press release positions the slimmer group as "a high-growth, high-margin benchmarks, content and analytics company." And since completing the sale in March, McGraw Hill's stock has outperformed the S&P 500 by 14%. But was the segment that big of a drag? Not too much. In 2011, its education business brought in 37% of its...
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...3. What do you think are the major social problems faced by nations in the present era of globalization? When historians write of the world’s recent history, they are likely to reflect on two trends: the advance of globalization and the spread of democracy. Globalization has been the more contentious, because it has effects both good and bad, and democracy has opened space for people to protest the bad effects. So, controversies rage over the environmental, economic and social consequences of globalization. But there is another domain of globalization, that of culture and identity, which is just as controversial and even more divisive because it engages ordinary people, not just economists, government officials and political activists. Globalization has increased contacts between people and their values, ideas and ways of life in unprecedented ways. People are travelling more frequently and more widely. Television now reaches families in the deepest rural areas of China. From Brazilian music in Tokyo to African films in Bangkok, to Shakespeare in Croatia, to books on the history of the Arab world in Moscow, to the CNN world news in Amman, people revel in the diversity of the age of globalization. American coffeehouse chain Starbucks has begun selling its espresso and food items to ever-increasing number of countries and this way spreading American food habits. It is the first time in human history that virtually every individual at every level of society consciously or unconsciously...
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...Los derechos humanos son desconocidos por muchas personas en especial por la juventud. Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en la Organización de las Naciones unidas se sintió la necesidad de que todo el mundo sin distinción alguna debía de gozar de derechos y de libertades fundamentales. Si consideramos la dignidad como la base de todos los derechos y las libertades del ser humano, los derechos fueron proclamados con el propósito de ser respetados por todos, pero éstos Derechos no se cumplen en todo el mundo y las personas en verdad no los conocen. Para conocer su importancia es necesario saber que son diferentes, pero esto no significa que exista alguien inferior a otro y es por eso que hay documentos como: La Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, Los Derechos de la Mujer y Los Derechos de los Niños que respaldan los derechos como garantías que tenemos todos por el simple hecho de ser personas. En nuestros tiempos nos enfrentamos a grandes desafíos por el movimiento global y a diferentes actos crueles por individuos y grupos armados. Tenemos que resistir a la reacción contra los derechos humanos que se ha producido y cumplir con las exigencias de la justicia social a las que los gobiernos y la comunidad internacional no ha sabido responder. Algunos analistas comentan que existe un peligro real de que el desvío de los recursos y de la atención internacional hacia la “guerra contra el terror” nos impida lograr las metas que ha establecido la ONU en los diferentes...
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...Tema: LA DEMOCRACIA EN EL PERÙ Capítulo I : La Cultura Democrática Perú ha tenido experimentar en los años 2000 y 2001 su más reciente transición política hacia la democracia. En sentido estricto, una transición constituye un momento parcial y discreto en la transformación política de una sociedad, ella se refiere al conjunto de dialogo, arreglos y compromisos por medio de los cuales un conjunto de agestes que ejercen el poder de manera autoritaria acepta abandonarlo y dar campo libre a la instauración de un poder legítimo y a la restauración de la reglas de juego básicas de la democracia: alternancia en el gobierno, división efectiva de poder, respeto de los derechos fundamentales y vigencias de las garanticas constitucionales , se trata, pues de un proceso de negociación que conduce a un relevo den el poder y la instauración de ciertas reglas por las que dicho poder será ejercido en el futuro. La ciencia política, y en particular esa rama de ella que se ocupa de las transiciones diferencia este proceso de otro posterior en el cual el nuevo régimen conseguirá establecerse como el único juego posible en la vida política del país, la consolidación de la democracia , como se denomina a este segundo momento, constituye un proceso más largo y complejo que se orienta a la implantación de los democrático como el único régimen aliado para administrar el poder y resolver los antagonismos consustanciales toda sociedad libre Los términos transición y consolidación designan...
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...CURSO DE ESPAÑOL EXTRANJEROS Unidad modelo Virgilio Borobio s m www.sm-ele.com 0) ■ o C Evolución ELE A C T U A L e s la e v o lu c ió n d e N u e v o E LE : c o n s e rv a la c la rid a d en la e x p o s ic ió n y la p rá c tic a d e lo s c o n te n id o s y a c tu a liz a el m é to d o c o n u n a re n o v a c ió n d e s u s re c u rs o s y s o p o rte s e n to d o s lo s n iv e le s . ■ ü ELE A C T U A L ha s id o a c tu a liz a d o y c o m p le m e n ta d o c o n te x to s , c o n te n id o s y p ro p u e s ta s o rig in a le s y r ig u ro s a m e n te d id á c tic a s , c o n c e b id a s c o n s e n s ib ilid a d y re n o v a d o c o m p r o m is o p e d a g ó g ic o te n ie n d o e n c u e n ta s u g e re n c ia s d e p ro fe s o re s d e to d o el m u n d o . o < / ) L_ O Q O o £ (/) l m 'C U i T j o cu D o b le p á g in a e n la u n id a d c o n m a te ria le s c o m p le m e n ta rio s q u e in c lu y e n m á s p ro p u e s ta s d id á c tic a s d e s tin a d a s a la p rá c tic a a d ic io n a l y o p c io n a l d e la s d e s tre z a s y d e lo s c o n te n id o s lin g ü ís tic o s y fu n c io n a le s . A c o rd e al Metodología ELE A C T U A L s ig u e u n a m e to d o lo g ía c o m u n ic a tiv a d e e n s e ñ a n z a e n su tip o lo g ía d e a c tiv id a d e s p a rtie n d o d e un a c u id a d a s e c u e n c ia d id á c tic a . Marco común europeo de referencia para las lenguas. A d a p ta d o al ...
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...Part Ⅰ Questions 1-- 15 You will now hear fifteen items, each made up of a single spoken statement followed by four spoken responses. Choose the most appropriate response to the statement. 1. (a) 2. (a) 3. (a) 4. (a) 5. (a) 6. (a) 7. (a) 8. (a) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (d) (d) (d) (d) (d) (d) (d) (d) 9. (a) 10. (a) 11. (a) 12. (a) 13. (a) 14. (a) 15. (a) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (d) (d) (d) (d) (d) (d) (d) Part Ⅱ Questions 16-- 30 You will now hear fifteen conversation fragments, each made up of three spoken statements followed by four spoken responses. Choose the most appropriate response to complete the conversation. 16. (a) 17. (a) 18. (a) 19. (a) 20. (a) 21. (a) 22. (a) 23. (a) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (d) (d) (d) (d) (d) (d) (d) (d) 24. (a) 25. (a) 26. (a) 27. (a) 28. (a) 29. (a) 30. (a) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (d) (d) (d) (d) (d) (d) (d) 176 월간 TEPS 미니텝스-12.indd 176 2008-12-12 오전 9:24:10 Listening comprehension Part Ⅲ Questions 31-- 40 You will now hear ten complete conversations. For each item, you will hear a conversation and its corresponding question which will be read twice. Then you will hear four options which will be read only once. Choose the option that best answers the question. 31. (a) 32. (a) 33. (a) 34. (a) 35. (a) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) ...
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...Financial Markets, Insurance and Entrepreneurship in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region Draft not to be cited February 27, 2013 1. Introduction The goal of the paper is to focus on the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and particularly those of the of the South of the Mediterranean, and examine the relationship between insurance – defined as the capability of covering the cost of future harmful events-and entrepreneurship broadly defined as the capability to start independent businesses activities and possibly introduce new combinations of productive factors. The analysis is based on the distinction between uncertainty and risk that Knight unveiled (Knight, 2012) arguing that risk involves situations where a decision maker face unknown outcomes but known ex-ante probability distributions, while uncertainty is characterized by situations in which the probability distribution of a random outcome is unknown. Consequently, while risk can be covered by insurance, uncertainty normally is not. The other pillar of this research is the role of entrepreneurship; a factor that the economic literature has not considered for long time and that in the last 20 years has become the center of any strategy for economic growth in emerging and advanced economies. The discovery of the role of entrepreneurs dates back to Schumpeter (Schumpeter, 1982a) who regards entrepreneurs as the engine of economic growth. Schumpeter (Schumpeter...
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...The Cosmopolitan Society and its Enemies Ulrich Beck I N THIS article I want to discuss three questions: (1) What is a cosmopolitan sociology? (2) What is a cosmopolitan society? (3) Who are the enemies of cosmopolitan societies? What is a Cosmopolitan Sociology? Let me start by attempting to nail a pudding to the wall, that is, defining the key terms ‘globalization’ and ‘cosmopolitanization’. At the beginning of the 21st century the conditio humana cannot be understood nationally or locally but only globally. ‘Globalization’ is a non-linear, dialectic process in which the global and the local do not exist as cultural polarities but as combined and mutually implicating principles. These processes involve not only interconnections across boundaries, but transform the quality of the social and the political inside nation-state societies. This is what I define as ‘cosmopolitanization’: cosmopolitanization means internal globalization, globalization from within the national societies. This transforms everyday consciousness and identities significantly. Issues of global concern are becoming part of the everyday local experiences and the ‘moral life-worlds’ of the people. They introduce significant conflicts all over the world. To treat these profound ontological changes simply as myth relies on a superficial and unhistorical understanding of ‘globalization’, the misunderstandings of neoliberal globalism. The study of globalization and globality, cosmopolitanization and cosmopolitanism...
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...commission) George Papandreou, premier ministre de la grèce George P. Shultz, ancien secrétaire d’État, États-unis (président honoraire) Javier Solana, ancien Haut représentant de l’union européenne pour la politique étrangère et la politique de sécurité commune, espagne John Whitehead, banquier et fonctionnaire, président de la World trade center memorial Foundation, États-unis Kofi Annan, ancien Secrétaire général des nations unies, ghana Louise Arbour, ancienne Haut commissaire des Nations unies au Haut commissariat aux droits de l’homme, présidente de l’international crisis group, canada Maria Cattaui, membre du conseil d’administration de Petroplus Holdings, ancienne secrétaire générale de l’international chamber of commerce, Suisse Mario Vargas Llosa, écrivain et intellectuel, Pérou Marion Caspers-Merk, ancienne secrétaire d’État au ministère fédéral de la Santé allemand, allemagne. Michel Kazatchkine, directeur exécutif du Fonds mondial de lutte contre le sida, la tuberculose et le paludisme, France Paul...
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...lay_man Says @Cricaddict- By this point you mean that average age of population is less than 22 years or there is some typo mistake? Sorry to barge in but i could not understand this line Yes avg age of population, for yemen - 17.9, syria - 21.5, egypt - 22 or 23 yrs.. in general a very young population and umemployed, so frustration and anger.. thats why the uproar.. @layman updated.. S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research PGDM Finance Class of 2014 | CAT'11 - 99.04%le QuoteReply. Like . Share 3 cricaddict Reply #22 03:44 PM, 10 Mar '12 Limits of Foreign Direct Investment in various sectors in India :: Non-Banking Financial Com-panies (NBFC) : 100% Petroleum Refining (Private Sector) : 100% Petroleum Product Marketing : 100% Oil Exploration : 100% Petroleum Product Pipelines : 100% Housing and Real Estate : 100% Power : 100% Drugs & Pharmaceuticals : 100% Road, Highways, Ports and harbours : 100% Hotel & Tourism : 100% Electricity : 100% Pharmaceuticals : 100% Transportation infrastructure : 100% Tourism : 100% Mass transit : 100% Pollution control : 100% Mining (Mining of gold and silver and minerals other than diamonds and precious stones) : 100% Advertising : 100% Films : 100% Mass Rapid Transport Systems : 100% Pollution Control & Management : 100% Special Economic Zones : 100% Air Transport Services (Domestic Airlines) : 100% for NRIs 49% for Others Single Brand...
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