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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"Valenzuela"”.
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Re-Appropriation of Patriarchal Female Myths in the Short Fiction of Luisa Valenzuela
"Chapter Four investigates Valenzuela's ""Si esto es la vida, yo soy Caperucita Roja"" a re-vision of the fairy tale ""Little Red Riding Hood."" I present a brief review of critical theories concluding with a feminist interpretation of this classic tale, establishing that the classical versions …
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Developing Latin American Feminist Theory: Strategies of Resistance In the Novels of Luisa Valenzuela and Sandra Cisneros
<p>Latin American literary theory has developed in the face of identity crises arising throughout its history as critics, theorists, and writers attempt to identify what is truly "Latin American" and not merely the imitation of works and importing of ideas from First World colonizing powers. Latin …
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Gendered readings and interpretation in selected short stories by Isabel Allende, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Luisa Valenzuela
… Isabel Allende, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Luisa Valenzuela can be interpreted as exercises in reading for a traditional male-identified reader. These tales often represent women in a period of transition from fulfilling old gender-typed roles to discovering new possibilities, and men who face the …
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Identidad, exilio y memoria en la narrativa de tres autoras argentinas (luisa futoransky, tununa mercado y luisa valenzuela)
… de Luisa Futoransky, Tununa Mercado y Luisa Valenzuela y la influencia del alejamiento de Argentina, afectaron sus perspectivas e identidad. Sus narrativas se posicionan en el movimiento literario posmoderno por su rompiemiento con los cánones narrativos convencionales. La metodología …
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Evaluación de siete genotipos de maiz (Zea mays L.) en cuatro localidades de Nicaragua
… y cuatro variedades criollas (Lucrecia, Maicena, Valenzuela y Colorado) en el ciclo de postrera del año 1992, con el objetivo de analizar las características agronómicas de cada uno de ellos, y comparar el rendimiento de los materiales criollos con respecto a los comerciales o mejorados y …
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Problematización de la memoria histórica: intertextualidades y transiciones políticas en Insensatez de Horacio Castellanos Moya y La dimensión desconocida de Nona Fernández
… the former Chilean intelligence agent, Andrés Valenzuela, published in the magazine Cauce (1985). This thesis first reveals how Castellanos Moya utilizes various literary strategies in combination with the libreta as a narrative element to question the privileged position of testimonio in the …
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Pláticas Liberadoras: Testimonios of Chicana/o Elders en la Comunidad de San Diego
… et al., 2019; Núñez, 1994; Sulé et al., 2021; Valenzuela, 1999). As part of the Civil Rights movement, the Chicana/o movement centers the development of CC in the vessels of subjectivities and identities figured, conceptualized, and enacted in collective and localized contexts and realities …
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Using Inquiry Learning to Shift Towards a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in Elementary Social Studies
… subtracts students of color from their learning (Valenzuela, 1999). Through a teacher inquiry community that incorporates six-week classroom-based inquiry units, structured participatory conversations, teacher interviews, and teacher artifact collection, this study argues that a shift towards …
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Wideband Channel Characterization for MIMO Scenario
… thesis verifies the suitability of the Saleh Valenzuela with Angle (SVA) model for wideband MIMO communication models. While recent wideband MIMO measurements have been obtained by switching a single transmit/receive pair over all possible antenna pair combinations, a simultaneous probing …
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Channel Probing for an Indoor Wireless Communications Channel
… configurations. The model presented by Saleh and Valenzuela, was added to by Spencer et. al., and included all three of these parameters for a 7 GHz channel. A system was built to measure these multipath parameters at 2.4 GHz for multiple locations in an indoor environment. Another system was …
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Torture, Fiction and the Repetition of Horror: Ghost-writing the Past in Algeria and Argentina
… Yacine, Assia Djebar, Julio Cortázar and Luisa Valenzuela; the films I examine most closely are the Algerian-Italian ‘docudrama’ La Bataille d’Alger and the Argentine melodrama La historia oficial. However, the thesis also addresses other non-factual portrayals of brutality, such as the Nouvelle …
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Ultra-wideband digital baseband
… of IEEE standard 802.15.3a is a modified Saleh-Valenzuela model [1] that has a root mean square duration of the impulse response from 5 to 25 ns. The maximum data rate in an UWB system depends on the signal to noise ratio and the multipath.
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From class to club : an exploration of high school civic-minded student organizations from 1996-2011 in Corpus Christi, Texas
… (Center on Education Policy, 2007; McNeil and Valenzuela, 2000). This research project seeks to understand how civic engagement opportunities were provided for, the impact of these opportunities on students and community members in Corpus Christi, Texas, during the last 15 years, and the ways …
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Audacious Corazón: a Nuanced Art of Care
… also reflected on the concept of authentic care (Valenzuela, 1999), which critically examines asset-based pedagogy in a sociopolitical context. Drawing upon these two models, the study introduces the conceptualized notion of Audacious Corazón that reimagines faculty members’ roles, prioritizing …
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The Credibility Assessment Process of Political Information on WhatsApp in Brazil
… information processing on this platform (Valenzuela et al., 2019; Valeriani & Vaccari, 2018). This study investigates the credibility assessment process of political information on WhatsApp, a central skill for individuals and a main component of information processing. Based on past …
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Rss Based Localization In A Rayleigh Fading Environment
… via extensive simulations in which the Saleh-Valenzuela model is used to generate multipath components. The simulation results indicate that for a given fixed propagation constant, resolving multipath results in improved localization accuracy and that this improvement is a non decreasing …
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Teachers' perceptions of bilingualism and bidialectalism: the effect on language arts pedagogy
… 2009; Jimenez & Teague, 2009; McCarthey, 2008; Valenzuela, 2005), none of these studies have examined teachers’ perceptions of bilinguals and bidialectals and the effects of teaching them English. This research was designed to understand how teachers’ perceptions are influenced by sociocultural …
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Latinas Negotiating Borders in Formal Education: A Deeper Spectrum Understanding of the Mestiza
… and ethnic assets (Martínez-Roldán, 2021; Valenzuela, 1999). Future research should continue uncovering the ways in which our education system and our educators influence students’ cultural and ethnic identities.
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Civil Society's Role in Democratisation: An Assessment of the Central Bolivian Labour Confederation's Role in the Political Economy of post-Neoliberal Bolivia
… Przeworski, Rueschemeyer, Stephens, Sen and Valenzuela seem more available now than in the previous two decades. Based in the literature we argue that the opportunities provided by political democracy will not lead to more substantial social democracy on their own but rather need to be …
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Cross-Cultural Narrative Inquiry into Language, Culture, and Identity Development of Three High School Female Immigrant Students and Their Mainstream Schooling Experience in Atlanta, Georgia
… of Crager (1996), He (2003), Soto (1997), and Valenzuela (1999) to critically examine the experience of these students by positioning a specific story into diverse cultural and linguistic contexts. The participants in the study were from different cultures and backgrounds, but each has faced …
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