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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Latin American Languages and Societies"”.
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Reposicionamiento de identidad: Conflictos de representacion, performance y espacio en la literatura de mediados del siglo XX por tres escritoras chilenas
… Marta Brunet's:<em>Humo hacia el sur</em> (1946) and <em>Maria Nadie</em> (1957); Mercedes Valdivieso's <em>La brecha</em> (1961) and <em>La tierra que les di</em> (1963), and Maria Elena Gertner's<em>Islas en la ciudad</em> (1958) and <em>La Derrota</em> (1964). This study explores the …
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A Model for Ministry of Church Elders in the Inca Union of Seventh-Day Adventists
… elders as it is suggested in the New Testament and to construct a model for the ministry of local church elders in the Inca Union Mission.</p> <p>Method. This study was documentary and theological. The primary source was the New Testament, specifically the gospels, the book of Acts, and the …
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El narcotráfico como realidad y representación en la narrativa de Germán Castro Caycedo
… conditioned by the complex issue of drugs and drug trafficking, which were the by-products of a socio-historical process since the beginning of the 20th century. The present investigation examines journalistic articles, essays and non-fiction narrative by Castro Caycedo to study how they …
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Process of definition and development of the Haitian-Dominican borderland
<p>The borderline that currently divides the island of Hispaniola has undergone a complicated process of definition. Since colonial times, central authorities have claimed the area while contradictorily ignoring the societies that developed in the region. It was not until the first decades of the …
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"God Must Have Been a Feminist to Make Me": Writings from the Girls of El Hogar la Buena Esperanza
… Peruvian Amazon. Based on seventeen girls and over fourteen different creative writing activities, I explore how their writings reveal particular life histories in Latin America. From reimagining and re-writing stories and memories of their long departed hometowns, re-writing small-town …
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Writing the Visual in "Baroni: un viaje" and Other Recent Work by Sergio Chejfec
… extraordinary wood carvings of Virgins, saints and other figures are described in key passages. Third, as a bridge between these two parts, I reflect on the related critical discourses of ekphrasis and translation and on the task of translating <em>Baroni: un viaje</em>.</p> <p>Chejfec's …
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A Study of the Duties of the Elders of Local Seventh-day Adventist Churches in Chile: a Needs Assessment
… do not have the assistance of a resident pastor, and most of the work in the church is done by volunteer lay leaders. The highest officer of the church is the elder, who usually has no training in leadership nor in theology. What is the work of the elder of the local church? How well is he …
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Doing Good in Guatemala: Perceptions of Voluntourism in San Juan Comalapa
… in the context of a small community in the highlands of Guatemala called San Juan Comalapa. Voluntourism acts as a bridge between development aid and traditional tourism and therefore voluntourism organizations should act as both roles in the community. In this research I found that voluntourism …
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Factores Predictores de la Satisfaccion Laboral en los Docentes de las Instituciones Educativas de la APC-SUR
… teacher supervision, teacher recognition, and a fair and equitable perception predictors of work satisfaction in secondary school teachers in the South Central Peru Conference during the 2009 school year?</p> <p>Methodology. This study is exploratory, descriptive, correlational, and …
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Venezuelan Adventist University Institute: the Development of a Seventh-day Adventist Educational Institution, 1962-1999
<p><em>Problem. </em> The first and only Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) tertiary-level institution in Venezuela is Venezuelan Adventist University Institute. It was founded initially as asecondary boarding academy in 1962, began offering college level programs in 1990, was accredited by the …
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Gold, Water, and Governance: the Stakes in the Santurbán Páramo Debate
<p>Currently in Santander, Colombia, a contentious debate over the demarcation of a protective boundary of the Santurbán Páramo is underway. For the approximately 9000 páramo residents, the collateral effects of the outcome could result in dispossession of lands and livelihoods. This paper will …
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Media Literacy Education : a Case Study of the New Mexico Media Literacy Project
<p><em>Problem.</em> England and Australia are the frontrunners in the establishment of media literacy education in schools, providing performance and content standards, norm-referenced tests, and pre-service university training for a specialty in media education. Canada is also in the advanced …
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Effects of Peer & Familial Ethnic Socialization on Processes of Ethnic Identity Development in Mexican-Descent Adolescents
… (the promotion of pride, cultural knowledge and cultural traditions), and explore how family and peer (in-group and out-group peers) ethnic socialization uniquely contributes to the process of ethnic identity development in Mexican descent adolescents (N=111, M age = 14.5 years, SD = 1.2 …
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<i>Presenciar el pasado</i>: Witnessing the Spanish and Argentine Dictatorships through Film and Television
… the ways in which recent (1999–2017) films and television series ask today’s spectators to witness the 20<sup>th</sup>-century Spanish and Argentine dictatorships by analyzing these texts on both a narrative and technical level. I examine torture in the Argentine films<em> Garage Olimpo</em> …
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The Historic Inability of the Haitian Education System to Create Human Development and its Consequences
… to evaluate the role that a lack of literacy and education has played in Haiti's historic and presently low level of human development. The pedagogical philosophies of two educationists, Paolo Friere and Maurice Dartigue, are used throughout the study as lenses from which to read and interpret …
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The Claiming of Carmen de Luna
… she begins to doubt both her circumstances and her future and the future of her children during this revolutionary time. When her abusive husband whom she was forced to marry announces his plans to marry off their tween age daughters to much older men, Carmen takes matters of the family into …
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HUU-FA THESIS DAT?: A Syntactic Analysis of Possessive Jamaican Creole Possessive WH-elements
… between the Jamaican Creole expressions huu-fa and fi-huu. Jamaican Creole is a language that was born from a combination of the lexifier language English and the substrate language Twi, therefore it is reasonable to check whether the features of JC were derived from these languages. The …
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The Relationship of Family, Church, School, Peers, Media, and Adventist Culture to the Religiosity of Adventist Youth in Puerto Rico
… of the family, church, school, peers, media, and Adventist culture on the denominational loyalty, Christian commitment, and religious behavior of Adventist young people of Puerto Rico has previously been conducted. Therefore, pastors, parents, teachers, church leaders, and administrators have …
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Crops or Crafts? Changes in Land Use in the Imbabura Valley of Ecuador
<p>In rural societies where urbanization and modernization are contributing to rapid growth, changes in land use can both reflect and bring about broader changes within a community. This study seeks to investigate changes in land use in the Imbabura valley of Ecuador from the perspective of the …
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Success Stories of Students of Mexican Descent
… students in the eyes of teachers, parents, and other students.</p> <p>The participants were three high school students of Mexican descent attending an urban high school in Colorado. The research question of this study allowed the participants to tell their story of what it was like to be a …
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