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Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Aesthetics of Sensuality
No full textABSTRACT\ud
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ\ud
AND THE AESTHETICS OF\ud
SENSUALITY\ud
by\ud
?? Mike Giuffrida 2011\ud
Master of Arts in English\ud
California State University, Chico\ud
Summer 2011\ud
My thesis consists of five sections: the introduction and overview; the aesthetics of structure and style; the aesthetics of character; sexual aesthetics; and the conclusion. In the first section of my thesis I offer both an overview of the issues focusing the thesis and also discuss key definitions and limitations. I also mention how the typical treatments of Garcia Marquez???s work are limiting. The term ???magical realism,??? often used to describe Garcia Marquez as a writer as well as his Latin American contemporaries, not only strait-jackets appreciations of his work but also devalues that entire body of work. In the second section I will discuss the way Garcia Marquez uses structure to reiterate the themes in his stories. In this section I review three books that are connected by a unique and distinguished style of structure. Before I analyze the books in this section, I offer a brief theoretical perspective. This foundation applies to all subsequent sections of the thesis. Section three illustrates how Garcia Marquez uses\ud
character to demonstrate the complex hybridity of Latin American history and culture. Finally I discuss in the fourth chapter, the sexual aesthetic in Garcia Marquez???s work, and why and how it arced from earlier to later writings. This thesis aspires to offer the reader of Garcia Marquez a new way to approach his novels and stories. It also further enhances the contemporary criticism of his work.CSU, Chic
Impacto profesional y personal en las jóvenes mujeres participantes del programa de formación de escuelas gastronómicas de MANQ'A en El Alto, La Paz, Bolivia: Estudio de caso
No full textTreball final de Màster Universitari en Igualtat i Gènere en l'Àmbit Públic i Privat (Pla de 2013). Codi: SRM044. Curs acadèmic 2020/2021Actualmente el mercado laboral boliviano presenta desafíos para los y las jóvenes. Al
desempleo, precariedad laboral, la inestabilidad, la informalidad y el subempleo se le
suman ahora los efectos de la pandemia del COVID-19: la caída de los ingresos, el
cierre y precaria supervivencia de la pequeña y mediana empresa, así como la
interrupción de la formación educativa y profesional, formal e informal, entre otros
aspectos que limitan la cotidianidad de muchos chicos y chicas jóvenes.
Ante este escenario, que ha disparado las vulnerabilidades de la población joven, urge
saber qué puede funcionar y qué impacto tienen los programas de formación para
facilitar su transición al mundo laboral. El presente estudio de caso, se ha focalizado en
conocer el impacto que tiene el curso técnico básico de la formación gastronómica de
MANQ’A en la vida personal y profesional de las mujeres jóvenes de El Alto, Bolivia. En
los resultados obtenidos, se observaron cambios en la vida personal y profesional de las
participantes. En lo personal, las chicas reportaron tener mayor resiliencia y confianza
para tejer sus proyectos de vida, mejoras en los hábitos alimenticios y en su relación
con los demás y, en el ámbito profesional, mayor inserción laboral y continuación en la
formación profesional
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ AND THE GREAT COLOMBIA
No full textHalf a century has passed since Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel “One Hundred
years of Solitude” was published and became famous around the world.
The author of the novel, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, remains the titan of
Colombian literature.
He was born in the town Aracataca, department of Magdalena, Colombia.
Garcia Marquez wrote most of his publications about Colombia, despite living
most of his time in Mexico and Europe. He began as a journalist in the 1950s.
He also worked as a foreign correspondent. After many years criticizing the
public affairs and the Colombian government, he was forced into exile. In
these pages I examine his childhood and the influences that his family members
in Aracataca had on him.
As a journalist he had the quality of deep observation of everyday life. In his
writings he mixed myths, dreams and reality. He invented the magic realism
genre according to the critics.
In 2012, Garcia Marquez’ brother revealed that the novelist was sick and diagnosed
with dementia. He died in 2014 of pneumonia in Mexico.
If one is looking for a good understanding of Garcia’s world, then it is not a bad
idea to go to Cartagena and visit the famous isolated colonial town of Mompox
*Mompos* a modern-day Macondo that will lead the reader to the spirit of the
novel and the world of the author.
I examine Santa Marta city, Mompos, and other places that Garcia loved. The
scheme of his work as it appears in “One Hundred years of Solitude” and the
main characters, reflect to some degree the very history of Colombia and the
idiosyncrasies of its people.departmental bulletin pape
A domain adaptation method for text classification based on self-adjusted training approach
No full textInformation grows rapidly everyday, most of this information is kept in digital
text documents, web-pages, posts on social networks, blogs, e-mails [39],
electronic books [17], and scientific publications [28]. Organizing and categorizing
all this text information automatically results helpful for many
tasks. Supervised learning is the most successful approach for automatic
text classification. Supervised learning assumes that the training and test
set come from the same distribution. Sometimes there are not labeled data
available on the target domain, instead we have a labeled data set from
a similar or related domain that we can use as auxiliary domain. Despite
domains are similar, their feature space and the distribution are different,
hence the performance of a supervised classifier demeans. This situation is
called the domain adaptation problem. The domain adaptation algorithms
are designed to narrow the gap between the target domain distribution and
the auxiliary domain distribution. The semi-supervised technique of selftraining
allows to iteratively enrich the training test with data from the test
set. Using self-training for domain adaptation presents some challenges in
the text classification scenario; first, the feature space changes on each iteration
because new vocabulary is transferred from the target domain to the
training set, second, a way to select the more confidently labeled instances
is needed, because adding wrong labeled instances to the training set will
affect the model. Many of the methods addressing this problem need user
defined parameters like the number of instances selected per iteration or the
stop criteria. Tuning these parameters into a real problem is another problem
by itself. On this work we propose a self-adjusting training approach
method, which is able to adapt itself to the new distributions obtained on
a self-training process. This method integrates some strategies to adjust its
own settings each iteration. The proposed method obtains good results on
the thematic cross-domain text classification task, it reduces the error rate
in 65.13% on average from the supervised learning approach on the testing
dataset. It also was tested in the cross-domain sentiment analysis, reducing
the error rate by 15.62% on average from the supervised learning approach
on the testing dataset. The performance obtained in the evaluation of the
proposed method is competitive with other state of the art methods
Luis Arranz Marquez, Don Diego Colón, almirante, virrey y gobernador de las Indias, t. I
No full textMahn-Lot Marianne. Luis Arranz Marquez, Don Diego Colón, almirante, virrey y gobernador de las Indias, t. I. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 41ᵉ année, N. 2, 1986. pp. 464-466
Luis Arranz Marquez, Don Diego Colón, almirante, virrey y gobernador de las Indias, t. I
No full textMahn-Lot Marianne. Luis Arranz Marquez, Don Diego Colón, almirante, virrey y gobernador de las Indias, t. I. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 41ᵉ année, N. 2, 1986. pp. 464-466
Disseminating Cochrane evidence to the public health workforce via author-led webinars
No full text<b>Title</b>\ud
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- Disseminating Cochrane evidence to the public health workforce via author-led webinars\ud
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<b>Background</b> \ud
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- <u><a href="http://www.healthevidence.org/">Health Evidence™</a></u> is a free searchable repository, of 4,500+ quality-appraised public health relevant reviews, including nearly 700 Cochrane reviews. Author-led webinars is one knowledge translation strategy to disseminate the findings of Cochrane reviews.\ud
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<b>Objectives</b>\ud
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- (i) Disseminate the findings of Cochrane reviews via webinars\ud
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- (ii) Evaluate the impact of Cochrane author-led webinars \ud
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<b>Methods</b>\ud
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- Webinars are 60-90 minutes in length and include: an overview of the principles of evidence-informed decision making (15mins), a presentation of the findings by the review author (30mins), and a Q&A period (30mins). Webconferencing software monitors participant registration, attendance, engagement, poll responses, and questions. Standard polling questions are asked throughout each session to assess familiarity with and use of systematic reviews, as well as familiarity and agreement with session-specific review findings.\ud
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<b>Results</b>\ud
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- Since January 2015 Health Evidence™ has hosted six Cochrane author-led webinars. Webinar participants include: nurses, health promoters, physicians, dietitians, and knowledge brokers. On average, participants in each session were attentive and engaged 68.8% of the time. Google Analytics reflect an average 572% increase in users accessing the Cochrane review featured in each webinar on the day of the session compared to average daily access the month prior. On average, each session attracted 177 registrants, of which approximately half joined on the session date. Poll response data reveal 59.6% attendees use systematic reviews to inform their practice. Data collected pre/post on participant’s knowledge of the effectiveness of an intervention, suggest that webinars are an effective way to influence participant’s knowledge about intervention effectiveness (participant knowledge improved 10-31.8%, measured via pre/post poll questions). During the Q&A period, attendees submitted 5-12 questions per session.\ud
Conclusion: Webinars are an interactive and effective mechanism for promoting public health relevant Cochrane evidence to decision makers. Data from webinars highlight a high level of interest and engagement with Cochrane author-led sessions
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
When the (Web)master Becomes the Student: Usability Testing in the Classroom
No full textPublished by and copyright by the Association of College & Research LibrariesSeveral months ago, a colleague of mine told me the following words: ???You???re not an instruction librarian. . . . but you will be called upon to teach a few (or more) freshmen-level library instruction sessions at the library.??? At the time, I didn???t really pay attention. I mean, I am the Web services librarian, not an instruction librarian. I was sure I wouldn???t be asked to teach??? at least not a lot. My colleague???s words proved to be more prophetic than I could have imagined, especially at the start of the Fall 2010 semester
Does digitalization in higher education help to bridge the gap between academia and industry? An application to COVID-19
No full textThere are three different types of activities performed in higher education institutions that, taken together, form the components of a trilemma in higher education. These include traditional academic activities (research and teaching) and those that aim to transfer knowledge beyond academia (industry-oriented activities). The increased use of digital technology that has resulted from the replacement of face-to-face encounters with digital interactions, or digitalization, is leading to transformations in higher education and is affecting the trilemma; universities face new challenges, and opportunities are emerging. Drawing on lessons learnt from COVID-19, the author explores whether digitalization is helping to bridge the gap between academia and industry.Laura Marquez-Ramo
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