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Testimonio y autoficción en Chicas muertas
Get PDFIn the 80s, along with the return to democracy in Argentina, news of some femicides began to be heard. Sometime later, writer Selva Almada will investigate these murders and publish Dead Girls, in 2014, a story that deals not only with violence against women, but also about of social deafness, indifference, and trivialization of these crimes. However, despite this highly controversial theme, whether due to the representation of violence or its naturalization, the writing used manifests a moderate tone. That is, it remains outside of a rhetoric of denunciation or accusation. In light of this, the present study analyzes this meek tone of the work, as a resource and strategy to approach a space from which a solution against gender aggressions could emerge. In other words, an approach to women. For this purpose, reflections from the field of testimonial literature will be used, according to cultural studies (Sklodowska), autofiction (Colonna, Arfuch), and violence against women (Segato).En los años 80, junto con la vuelta a la democracia en Argentina, se empieza a tener noticias de algunos femicidios. Tiempo después, la escritora Selva Almada investiga estos asesinatos y publica, en 2014, Chicas muertas, un relato que trata no solo sobre violencia contra las mujeres, sino que también, abarca el tema de la sordera social, y banalización o indiferencia ante estos crímenes. Sin embargo, a pesar de esta temática tan polémica, ya sea por la representación de la violencia o su naturalización, la escritura que se utiliza manifiesta un tono moderado. Es decir, se mantiene al margen de una retórica de denuncia o acusación. En atención a lo cual, el presente estudio analiza este tono manso de la obra, como un recurso y estrategia de acercamiento a un espacio propicio para la búsqueda de posibles soluciones ante estas agresiones. En otras palabras, una aproximación a las mujeres. Para este efecto, se utilizarán reflexiones del campo de la literatura de testimonio, según los estudios culturales (Sklodowska), de autoficción (Colonna, Arfuch), y sobre violencia contra mujeres (Segato)
v-Palindromes: an Analogy to the Palindromes
Get PDFAround the year 2007, one of the authors, Tsai, accidentally discovered a property of the number 198 he saw on the license plate of a car. Namely, if we take 198 and its reversal 891, which have prime factorizations 198 = 2 · 32 · 11 and 891 = 34 · 11 respectively, and sum the numbers appearing in each factorization getting 2 + 3 + 2 + 11 = 18 and 3 + 4 + 11 = 18, both sums are 18. Such numbers were later named v-palindromes because they can be viewed as an analogy to the usual palindromes. In this article, we introduce the concept of a v-palindrome in base b and prove their existence for infinitely many bases. We also exhibit infinite families of v-palindromes in bases p+1 and p2+1, for each odd prime p. Finally, we collect some conjectures and problems involving v-palindromes
Obesity in Mayan Communities and the Increased Consumption of Processed Foods
Get PDFThis is a paper written by a Latin American Studies undergraduate student for the seminar class LAST495W: Native Latin Americas and Indigenismo. Their research of contemporary issues in indigenous Latin America was conducted under the direction of their faculty mentor Professor Stephen Lewis. This paper used the American Psychological Association (APA) Style, which is typical for papers in this discipline and utilizes in-text citations
An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Ballot Truncation on Ranked-Choice Electoral Outcomes
Get PDFIn ranked-choice elections voters cast preference ballots which provide a voter\u27s ranking of the candidates. The method of ranked-choice voting (RCV) chooses a winner by using voter preferences to simulate a series of runoff elections. Some jurisdictions which use RCV limit the number of candidates that voters can rank on the ballot, imposing what we term a truncation level, which is the number of candidates that voters are allowed to rank. Given fixed voter preferences, the winner of the election can change if we impose different truncation levels. We use a database of 1183 real-world ranked-choice elections to empirically analyze the potential effects of imposing different truncation levels in ranked-choice elections. Our general finding is that if the truncation level is at least three then restricting the number of candidates on the ballot rarely affects the election winner