Biomass burning is the burning of living and dead vegetation which includes grasslands, forests, and agricultural lands (Levin, 1998). It is a global phenomenon and serves a multitude of purposes such as clearing of forests ...
This paper explores the speech act of complimenting among Mexican and Puerto Rican couples. The study applies Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Theory (1987) in analyzing spontaneous, face-to-face compliment giving between ...
La Celestina, as the definitive literary work of its period, portrays in microcosm the destructive forces at work within a Spanish society which was successful on the exterior but unraveling at its core as it transitioned ...
En la presente tesis se analiza la narrativa nueva-histórica del autor nicaragüense Sergio Ramírez (1942), la cual consideramos como una de las tres tendencias fundamentales de la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea ...
Miguel de Unamuno, a well-known twentieth century Spanish writer and member of the Generation of ’98, exemplified the human struggle with collective and individual identity in many of his essays, dramas and novels. As a ...
Critics of La Generación de 1898 claim that the group’s aims were purely philosophical and intellectual – thus having no practical applications for the country. However, a careful examination of the respective works by ...
This study explores the influence that determinants such as age, length of exposure, learning environment, personality, attitude, study habits, personal practice, and personal motivation have on individuals studying a ...
Proponemos en esta tesis que las novelas La muerte como efecto secundario (1997) de Ana María Shua (1951), La cresta de llión (2003) de Cristina Rivera Garza (1961) y Delirio (2004) de Laura Restrepo (1955) exhiben gestos ...
En la literatura latinoamericana existe un gran énfasis en lo social con respecto a la búsqueda utópica. Mientras la sociedad puede representar un vehículo o un obstáculo en la búsqueda utópica, a veces ésta resulta ser ...
Through the lens of ethical criticism, the ideas of the Russian cultural theorist Mikhail Bahktin, and the assertions of the Spanish psychiatrist Enrique Rojas, this thesis examines the search for values in four Latin ...
Esta tesis analiza el enlace de la condición posmoderna y el absurdo en los cuentos "Chac Mool" (1954) del mexicano Carlos Fuentes (1928), "Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes" (1972) del colombiano Gabriel García ...
En base a un acercamiento ecléctico que percibe la literatura como una expresión simbólica de crítica social, en esta tesis se considera la nostalgia como un concepto fundamental en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea, ...
The objective of this thesis consists of following the trajectory of the concept of memory in the New Chilean Narrative while employing a critical literary approach oriented toward Cultural Criticism. We analyze Lo que ...
Hay una gran variedad de literatura que examina la conexión entre la lectura y la
escritura y entre el habla y la compresión oral. Esta investigación se enfoca en examinar estrategias dirigidas a desarrollar la comunicación ...
The objective of this thesis is to examine the concept of rebellion in contemporary Latin American literature written by women. On the basis of the ideas of cultural critics Michel Foucault and Julia Kristeva, rebellion ...
In 1981 Coleman and Kay asserted a semantic prototype to define the English word lie. Hardin (2010) and Cole (1996) both replicated Coleman and Kay’s analysis in Ecuador and Saudi Arabia respectively and analyzed whether ...
This study explores the syntax of the impersonal and passive SE structures in the Spanish language and inspects how these two constructions are explained in three first and three second-year Spanish textbooks. A discussion ...