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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Octavio"”.
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Aguila o sol? A Riffaterrian analysis of the prose poems of Octavio Paz
This dissertation is an analysis of Octavio Paz's ques Aguila o sol? (1951), a collection of three books of surrealistic prose poems to which critics have paid little attention. The methodology employed is the model Michael Riffaterre presented in Semiotics of Poetry. Chapter 1 contains historical …
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Octavio: A Distributed System for the Sensing, Storing, and Retrieval of Piano Playing Data
MIT has a wealth of pianos spread across its campus. These instruments are owned by various groups and MIT organizations. Every day, students, faculty, and extended members of the MIT community play and practice with them. However, there currently exists no available data on their usage. This …
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The Mexican's quest viewed through the eyes of Octavio Paz in El laberinto de la soledad
Although the purpose of this study is to concentrate on an analysis of Paz’s book of essays, El laberinto de la soledad, published in 1950 and revised and expanded in 1959, this writer feels that it would be in order to give a summary-listing of his poetry and other works. The reader will thus not …
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Hindu and Buddhist Mysticism: The Still Point in The Turning Worlds of T. S. Eliot and Octavio Paz
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T13:49:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7709033.pdf: 12934304 bytes, checksum: 99bf6b64ff634853591aba5c8fbafefb (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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Other Grounds for Dignity: Ideas from India in the Philosophies of Twentieth-Century Latin American Writers
… Meireles (Brazil), Miguel Serrano (Chile) and Octavio Paz (Mexico), all of whom engaged deeply with ideas from India. The tradition of philosophical liberalism, derived from eighteenth century European tradition and found in Latin American criollo tradition, tends to put the reasoning …
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Juba II, rey de Mauritania: traducción y comentario de sus fragmentos
… el mundo romano en los albores del Principado de Octavio Augusto, el estudio en detalle de su faceta intelectual contribuye a afianzar y revalorizar al monarca mauritano como una autoridad entre los antiguos, lo cual motivó que sus libros, perdidos en su mayor parte, se conservaran por transmisión …
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Poetics of Revelation: Communities of the Literary Oracular in Transatlantic Modernism
… mediation in “visionary” poetics from Mexico (Octavio Paz), Spain (María Zambrano), and Bolivia (Jaime Saenz). I set forth a theoretical model (“the literary oracular”) which permits the conflict of poetic revelation to articulate its unity in literary modernism through a critique of …
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Anti-Racist Pedagogy: A Practical Means of Building Bonds Between Marginalized Students and Instructors in the Composition Classroom
… this thesis is inspired by Charise Pimentel and Octavio Pimentel’s dream of building coalitions with marginalized students, Steven Alvarez’s framework for academic biliteracy, and Marcos del Hierro’s advocacy for incorporating discussions about contentious social issues in the classroom. This …
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Lazer e cidade na Porto Alegre do início do século XX: institucionalização da recreação pública
… público, durante o governo do Intendente Dr. Octavio Rocha, sobre a importância da recreação e do esporte para mocidade, como prevenção da delinqüência e um meio de qualificar a sociedade. Pesquisando a Recreação Pública de Porto Alegre, através de um resgate histórico, que privilegia a …
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Retextualized transculturations: The emergence of La Malinche as figure in Chicana literature
… reaction to the misogynistic representations of Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes, Malintzin/Malinche, widely considered mother of the mestizo people as well as traitor and whore, became a pivotal center of attention for many Chicana writers. Symbolically, she is the embodiment of the violence …
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Word and image : Patrick Cullinan and Judith Mason's Selected Poems 1961-1994 : a case for the special edition artist's book
… Elaine Scarry, Claude Gandelman, Wendy Steiner, Octavio Paz and George Steiner.
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Beyond market failures : irrigation, the state, and non-traditional agricultures in Northeast Brazil
This dissertation analyzes the role of the state in the economic transformation of three regions of irrigated agriculture in the San Francisco River Basin in Northeast Brazil. It focuses on understanding the reasons why only one of these three regions (Petrolina-Juazeiro) successfully turned into a …
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Ground holding strategies for air traffic control under uncertainty
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1991.
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Learning from collective experience : successful small farmer associations in northeast Brazil
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Measurement of the Effectiveness of a Decision Support System for Blending Control of Large Scale Coal Mines
Large opencast coal mines require a complex infrastructure to fulfill production demand and quality values. The distinct specifications required by each customer are achieved by blending adjustments. There is limited control in variability. With only partial information available, operation …
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Predicción de arribos y programación de turnos en una estación de servicio
La programación de turnos en estaciones de servicio consiste en la asignación de horarios de trabajo rotativos al personal de manera tal que pueda atenderse al público de la mejor manera posible. Ésta es una tarea que influye directamente en los costos y en la calidad de atención de las estaciones …
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Mecanismos estructurales del volcanismo paleozóico en la región alcudiense
Desde hace tiempo, se indicaba que, en la zona de Almadén, existía una relación espacial y temporal entre volcanismo y mineralización cinabrífera. Los fenoménos volcánicos no suelen ser episodios aislados, mostrandose aliniados, de acuerdo con la teoría de la tectónica de placas, a lo largo de los …
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Theological Higher Education in Cuba: A Case Study of the Eastern Cuba Baptist Theological Seminary
This research attempted to provide a comprehensive overview of the Eastern Cuba Baptist Theological Seminary within the context of theological education in Cuba and the Cuban Revolution. Three major purposes directed this research. The first one was historical: to document and evaluate the rise, …
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