Por María Virtudes Núñez Fidalgo. Listín Diario
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Trabajando con el periódico en el aula. El mejor lugar para leer el periódico es el salón de clase.
¿Que es un ''stalker''? Un “stalker” se caracteriza por sentir inseguridad social, baja autoestima, celos y morbosidad.
¿Cuál es el perfil de un ‘stalker’?
AVERIGUA LO QUE HACEN LOS DEMÁS POR LAS REDES SOCIALES Y SE OBSESIONAN HASTA EL PUNTO DE CONVERTIRSE EN ACOSADORES.
Siempre habrá que reconocer que las redes sociales han establecido una nueva forma de comunicarse y de acercar a todo el que está lejos sin importar la distancia que exista. Pero también hay que destacar que en esa modernidad comunicativa ha nacido el “stalker”, una persona que vigila y en algunos casos se convierte en un acosador online.
El tecnólogo Hipólito Delgado define al “stalker” como una persona que sigue a otras para hacerles daño.
Asegura que es fácil descubrir en las redes sociales un “stalker” si se tienen pendiente a todas las personas que están agregadas en las cuentas personales.
“Si ves que una persona te empieza a seguirte en varias redes sociales al mismo tiempo, es un indicio de que quiere saber sobre ti, y más si son en redes sociales muy personales como Facebook o Foursquare”, señala Delgado.
Para luchar contra un “stalker”, Delgado recomienda no dar acceso a las redes sociales personales a desconocidos y mantener el nivel de privacidad al máximo en cada una de ellas. De esta manera, se le hace más difícil acosar a este tipo de personas.
Es importante tener pendiente que un “stalker” no tiene sexo ni condiciones, es decir, puede ser hombre o mujer, amigo o desconocido.
Si se siente amenazado de alguna manera por un “stalker”, Delgado aconseja denunciarlo a la justicia.
“En nuestro país existe el Departamento de Investigación de Crímenes y Delitos de Alta Tecnología (Dicat) que atiende casos de este tipo y mucha gente no lo sabe”, dice.
De acuerdo con un reportaje publicado a principios de este año en el portal culturizando.com, las características psicológicas para reconocer a un “stalker” son el humor, ansiedad, desórdenes mentales por el abuso de psicofármacos, baja autoestima, inseguridad social, narcisismo, muchos celos y morbosidad.
Controle sus cuentas
En las redes sociales hay que tener cuidado con las informaciones que se publican.
Es importante tener privacidad, ya que no se sabe quién esté persiguiendo todos sus pasos. En ese sentido, lo más recomendable es: no agregue a nadie que no conozca a su lista de amigos; su cuenta de Facebook manténgala privada y procure que sus informaciones sólo las puedan ver sus amigos; no le tenga confianza a las personas que solo conoce por las redes, ni les dé información personal.
By Coralis Orbe. Listín Diario
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Monday, September 3, 2012
What Is Spirit Week?
Spirit week promotes school spirit
If you see a bunch of students wearing crazy hats out or Hawaiian shirts in the middle of winter, you may be witnessing the school celebration of Spirit Week. High school homecoming week is a popular time for Spirit Week, but it can be held any time throughout the year. The celebration works with all ages, from elementary through high school, as long as you keep the themes simple for the younger kids.
If you see a bunch of students wearing crazy hats out or Hawaiian shirts in the middle of winter, you may be witnessing the school celebration of Spirit Week. High school homecoming week is a popular time for Spirit Week, but it can be held any time throughout the year. The celebration works with all ages, from elementary through high school, as long as you keep the themes simple for the younger kids.
What would high school be without the weekly pep rally where the student body is assembled in the gym with the goal or pumping up school spirit? Often these weeks come with various games and contests intended to get students to have more pride in their school.
- Air-Band Competition
Something that always seems to work well with the students is an air-band competition that can be held at lunch all throughout the week. An air band consists of several students who put together a lip-synced routine to a popular song. Start on Monday and have only Freshmen entrants. On Tuesday, have sophomores perform, followed by the Juniors on Wednesday and the Seniors on Thursday. At the pep assembly on Friday, have the winners of each class perform for the whole school and have them vote on a winner by applause. The winning band can be presented with some award and perhaps get free admission to the football or basketball game that evening.
Art Contest
- Spirit art contest
At the pep assembly, you can have a “Spirit Art Contest.” Each class has to put forth a team of five. Teams will be supplied with a pack of markers and a giant sheet of paper hanging on one of the gym’s walls. The team gets 5 to 7 minutes to create a piece of art that has something to do with school spirit. Again, the whole school gets to vote on the art project they like the best, with the winning artists getting a prize. Also, the class that won the art contest gets bragging rights for the rest of the day.
- Beat Your Rival
For homecoming week, have the players wear their jerseys and cheerleaders wear their uniforms on game day. Give one cheerleader and one football player a prize with instructions to give them out at a certain time. In the morning, announce to the student body that one player and cheerleader has a prize which they will be giving out at some point in the day, but only to a student who tells them to “Beat (rival school)” (For example, if your school was playing North High in the homecoming game, students would have to tell them to “Beat North.”) At Homecoming that night, announce who had the prize, who won the prize, and what the prize was. This way, you have students boosting the morale of the players all day which helps to foster a feeling of school spirit.
- Spirit Contests
Spirit contests allow the students to show off their best school attitude, and get others around them excited about the game. You can have students compete in a face or body painting game, allowing them to compete for the best design. You can also have them come up with cheers for the game or participate in banner-painting contests. Have them show their spirit in the most inventive way possible, and award the winners with simple prizes.
- Team Competitions
Bring out a group of juniors and a group of seniors at your spirit assembly. Set them through a number of fun or silly competitions. You can use events like a tug-of-war rope pull, a water balloon tossing contest, an egg carrying contest or a simple obstacle course. Have the students wear blindfolds and force them to complete tasks, or have a quiz or school trivia show.
Bring out a group of juniors and a group of seniors at your spirit assembly. Set them through a number of fun or silly competitions. You can use events like a tug-of-war rope pull, a water balloon tossing contest, an egg carrying contest or a simple obstacle course. Have the students wear blindfolds and force them to complete tasks, or have a quiz or school trivia show.
- Spirit Court
Like homecoming or prom court, spirit court allows you to have a competition for students of both genders and at every grade level. Have the student body vote before the assembly on the student court. Call out the group of winning students at the assembly. Then let the remaining student body cheer for the winners on the floor of the assembly. Have the court show off their spirit in the best way possible.
Like homecoming or prom court, spirit court allows you to have a competition for students of both genders and at every grade level. Have the student body vote before the assembly on the student court. Call out the group of winning students at the assembly. Then let the remaining student body cheer for the winners on the floor of the assembly. Have the court show off their spirit in the best way possible.
- Spirit Week
Instead of just having a few hours of games at a spirit assembly, some schools incorporate spirit weeks. These feature five days full of events and often culminate at a week-end assembly before the big game. During spirit weeks you can have each class level dress in different school colors one day, the next day you can have a karaoke contest in the commons during lunch, and the next you can have a fun sumo wrestling contest with fake costumes and fat suits. Award a winning class (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior) for each event and award prizes at the assembly.
Ryn Gargulinski is a writer, artist and performer whose journalism career began in 1991. Credits include two illustrated books, "Bony Yoga" and "Rats Incredible"; fitness, animal, crime, general news and features for various publications; and several awards. She holds a Master of Arts in English literature and folklore and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in creative writing with a French minor from Brooklyn College. By Ryn Gargulinski, eHow Contributor.
Instead of just having a few hours of games at a spirit assembly, some schools incorporate spirit weeks. These feature five days full of events and often culminate at a week-end assembly before the big game. During spirit weeks you can have each class level dress in different school colors one day, the next day you can have a karaoke contest in the commons during lunch, and the next you can have a fun sumo wrestling contest with fake costumes and fat suits. Award a winning class (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior) for each event and award prizes at the assembly.
Ryn Gargulinski is a writer, artist and performer whose journalism career began in 1991. Credits include two illustrated books, "Bony Yoga" and "Rats Incredible"; fitness, animal, crime, general news and features for various publications; and several awards. She holds a Master of Arts in English literature and folklore and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in creative writing with a French minor from Brooklyn College. By Ryn Gargulinski, eHow Contributor.
R.L. Cultrona is a San Diego native and a graduate of San Diego State University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in theater, television and film with a minor in communications and political science. She began writing online instructional articles in June 2009. By R.L. Cultrona, eHow Contributor, last updated July 14, 2012
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Jennifer Benka: Poetry in Motion
Jennifer Benka, the new Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets, is queer, political, and has pretty awesome taste in music. Having served as Managing Director of Poets & Writers for almost a decade and, most recently, as the National Director of Development and Marketing for 826 National, she’s also an accomplished writer in her own right. She holds a BA in Journalism from Marquette University, an MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from The New School, and is the author of two books of poetry: Pinko (Hanging Loose Press) and A Box of Longing With Fifty Drawers (Soft Skull Press). Lambda Literary had the chance to ask her some questions just after her official start at the Academy.
What would you say is the guiding mission of the Academy of American Poets?
The mission of the Academy of American Poets is to support poets in the U.S. at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. The organization accomplishes this by administering nearly 200 College Prizes to budding poets at schools across the country as well as seven major awards for poets—from a first-book prize through a lifetime achievement award. Our website Poets.org is full of excellent biographical information about poets, thousands of poems, and offers an Online Poetry Classroom, which provides free poetry lesson plans and other tools for teachers. The site also houses the Poetry Audio Archive, a collection of nearly 500 recordings dating back to the 1960s of poets reading their work. And, in April 1996, the Academy launched what is now the largest literary celebration in the world, National Poetry Month.
Do you see yourself expanding on that mission?
I think we will be innovating new ways to deliver on that mission. The Academy of American Poets was founded by a visionary 23-year-old woman, Marie Bullock, who believed that poetry was underappreciated in the U.S. and that poets here should have more opportunities to be celebrated for their art. That was 78 years ago, and while the Academy has been the leading organization during the past seven decades advocating for poetry to have a meaningful location in American culture, it’s clear we must continue to make this case.
Given the long history of queer writers, and queer poets in particular, it feels quite vital to have a queer woman as the Academy’s new Executive Director. Can you speak a bit to the relationship between poetry and queerness for you personally?
This is obviously a subject that deserves much more than I might offer here. But, I am reminded in this moment of something Minnie Bruce Pratt said at a National Outwrite Conference in the early 1990s. She noted that (and I am paraphrasing from memory) “queer” descended etymologically from an idea of “outsider.” She suggested poetry, too, has had outsider status and that we gain a particular sensitivity living and creating at the margins. And this is true of course for LGBT writers and also writers of color and working class writers. One has, perhaps, a different relationship to language when it has been used to isolate and divide one’s community, to oppress, or enforce powerlessness.
I am personally interested in exploring the possibilities of poetry—to counter rhetoric, reinvigorate language, and uplift the material of the everyday. To help us understand ourselves by translating and communicating experience and deep emotion. To help us envision new ways of being and new worlds. To say what has been unsaid. I’m interested in poetry as a means to transfer knowledge and as a place to conceptualize freedom, as well as beauty.
How do you think your work as a poet informs your work as an administrator?
I have always been dually serious about my creative life and my work in nonprofit management. I feel absolutely fortunate to be working at an organization that speaks to both of my passions and to get up in the morning to go serve poetry. Being a part of the poetry community personally as a writer and an events organizer has given me an appreciation of the breadth of our community. Adrienne Rich, in a 2006 interview with the Guardian, said, “There is no universal Poetry, anyway, only poetries and poetics, and the streaming, intertwining histories to which they belong.” I am looking forward to meeting and working with poets, readers, and educators working in and celebrating the range of our art form.
What book had the greatest influence on you as a young poet?
Emily Dickinson’s Complete Poems.
–and any current influences?
I have recently returned but yet one more time to Muriel Rukeyser’s collection of essays The Life of Poetry (Paris Press), which offers insight into the resistance to poetry in the U.S. and also articulates an aspirational case for the art form. Simply put, Rukeyser believes people want poetry. She writes: “We wish to be told, in the most memorable way, what we have been meaning all along.”
I read broadly and, fortunately, as I step into this job, the diversity of the Academy’s Chancellors speaks to my interests: Victor Hernández Cruz, Toi Derricotte, Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, Lyn Hejinian, Juan Felipe Herrera, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Ron Padgett, Carl Phillips, Marie Ponsot, Arthur Sze, and Anne Waldman.
Of the Academy’s current programming (Poem-A-Day, National Poetry Month, Poets Forum, etc.), what’s your favorite?
I think all of the Academy’s programs present unique and very interesting opportunities to learn more about and engage with poetry. On October 18 – 20 we will be holding our annual Poets Forum in New York City. The event explores contemporary poetry and features panel discussions, readings, and walking tours. And if you’re interested in starting your day off creatively, you might consider signing up for our Poem-A-Day feature, which delivers a provocative and inspiring poem to your inbox every morning.
Taken from:
http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/08/20/jennifer-benka-poetry-in-motion/
Internet ayuda a un adolescente a inventar el detector de cáncer más eficaz.
El dispositivo es cientos de veces más efectivo y barato que sus análogos.
Un adolescente estadounidense de 15 años ha creado un detector de diferentes tipos de cáncer con la ayuda de los buscadores de la Red global.
El invento del joven Jack Andraka es capaz de detectar el cáncer de páncreas, de ovarios y de pulmón en sus fases iniciales. Es 168 veces más rápido, 400 veces más sensible y 26.000 veces más barato que sus análogos.
El detector de Andraka determina la presencia de las células malignas a través de la sangre del paciente. Pequeñas cantidades de sangre se colocan en una lámina de prueba que es conectada a dos electrodos, que detectan la presencia o la ausencia del cáncer.
El adolescente afirma que no habría podido crear su invento sin la ayuda de Internet. Así, por ejemplo, Jack utilizó el buscador de Google para encontrar informes científicos sobre diferentes tipos de cáncer y analizar las estadísticas y otro tipo de información para poder desarrollar sus ideas e implementarlas.
El interés del joven por los problemas de la detección temprana del cáncer surgió por circunstancias personales: varios familiares suyos han contraído esta enfermedad.
En mayo de este año el invento de Andraka fue elegido como el proyecto ganador de la Feria Internacional de Ciencia e Ingeniería de Intel y supuso un premio de 75.000 dólares para el joven. Actualmente el adolescente sigue desarrollando sus investigaciones sobre el cáncer en la Universidad Johns Hopkins de Baltimore, en Estados Unidos.
Tomado de:
http://actualidad.rt.com/ciencias/view/52029-internet-ayuda-adolescente-inventar-detector-cancer-eficaz
Jose Saramago. Claraboya
Lisboa, 1952.Una mañana invernal de mediados del siglo pasado, que se vislumbra como cualquier otra. Un bloque de vecinos, de los muchos levantados en cada barriada, en una ciudad que bien podría ser la de cualquiera. Empieza un nuevo día, uno de tantos, y los vecinos se apresuran a sus trabajos, se desperezan en sus camas, se acicalan en sus baños o se afanan en sus cocinas. En apariencia, nada parece advertir al lector de que, lentamente y casi de puntillas, está a punto de dejar de contemplar la fachada de este anodino vecindario, de atravesar el umbral de la puerta del edificio, de adentrarse –a través de esa claraboya que da luz y título a la novela– en cada casa, en cada vida, y de espiar las frustraciones, anhelos, nostalgias, ilusiones, miedos, alegrías y tristezas de unas gentes que, por corrientes, resultan universales.
Un conmovedor microcosmos que tiene como telón de fondo la dictadura de Salazar, la más longeva de Europa; como música ambiental la
Tercera Sinfonía de Beethoven, la Marcha Fúnebre de Chopin, La danza de los muertos de Honegger, el fado portugués; como autores de cabecera a Shakespeare, Diderot, Eça de Queirós. Y una pregunta de Fernando Pessoa que flota en el denso, tantas veces enrarecido ambiente que lo envuelve: « ¿Deberemos ser todos casados, fútiles, tributables?».
Esto es, en esencia, Claraboya, la obra que José Saramago escribió hace más de sesenta años, entre los cuarenta y cincuenta del pasado siglo, y cuyo manuscrito entregó a una editorial portuguesa en 1953.
Pero, ¿por qué ahora esta publicación?, ¿cómo es posible que Claraboya siguiera inédita 60 años después? La historia resulta tan conmovedora y asombrosa que bien podría haber sido argumento de una de las novelas que el Nobel portugués regaló a los lectores a lo largo de su vida.
Pilar del Río, presidenta de la Fundación José Saramago y traductora de su obra, cuenta en el prólogo de Claraboya –titulado El libro perdido y hallado en el tiempo– que una mañana de 1989 Saramago recibió una llamada de la editorial para informarle de que el manuscrito había sido encontrado en una mudanza de sus instalaciones y que considerarían un honor publicarlo entonces. "Obrigado, ahora no", respondió el autor. Ese mismo día recuperó su novela y tuvo, por fin, una respuesta por parte de la editorial a la que le había confiado el original de Claraboya, "la que le fue negada cuarenta y siete años atrás, cuando tenía treinta y uno y todos los sueños a punto. Aquella actitud de la editorial le sumió en un silencio doloroso, imborrable y de décadas", explica del Río. No en vano, no volvió a escribir hasta veinte años después.
Aunque sus más cercanos intentaron convencer a Saramago de que publicara Claraboya, "donde ya se observaba lo que después acabaría desarrollando plenamente: su propia narrativa", una vez recuperada, el autor decidió que no se editaría mientras viviera.
Ahora, Alfaguara publica Claraboya, para regocijo de sus lectores en castellano, quienes también podrán constatar lo que el mismo autor señaló: que muchos aspectos de este libro, el segundo que escribió después de la publicación en 1947 de Tierra de pecado, están relacionados con su modo de ser. "¿Cómo es posible que el jovencito de veintitantos años escribiera con tanta madurez, tan seguro, que ya enunciara obsesiones literarias y dejara ver su mapa de trabajo y sentimental de una forma tan explícita? […] ¿De dónde sacó Saramago la sabiduría, la capacidad de retratar personajes con tanta sutileza y economía narrativa, de proponer situaciones anodinas y sin embargo tan profundas como universales, de transgredir de forma tan serenamente violenta?", se pregunta Pilar del Río en la introducción.
Claraboya es, sin duda, una novela de personajes. En ella están contenidos los personajes masculinos de Saramago, "esa colección de hombres de pocas palabras, solitarios, libres, que necesitan el encuentro amoroso para romper, siempre de forma momentánea, su forma concentrada e introvertida de estar en el mundo", explica su traductora. Y continúa: "También en Claraboya están las mujeres fuertes de Saramago. Cuando el autor se recrea en los personajes femeninos, la capacidad transgresora se hace más evidente y descarnada".
No es, ni mucho menos, un libro político pero sí resulta transgresor para la época en que fue escrito. Quizás por eso nunca se publicó, se dice en el prólogo: "Demasiado fuerte, demasiado arriesgado, viniendo de un autor desconocido, demasiado trabajo defenderlo ante la censura y la sociedad, para el poco provecho que aportaría. De ahí que el libro se quedara relegado, sin un sí comprometido, sin un no que pudiera comprometer en el futuro".
Sea como fuere, este es el momento en que Claraboya ve la luz, por expreso deseo de su autor, que dejó en manos de sus herederos la decisión de su publicación. Un regalo que los lectores de Saramago se merecían.
Sinopsis
Claraboya es la historia de un edificio en el que viven seis humildes familias cuyos miembros "se ven sucesivamente envueltos en un enredo", según palabras del propio autor.
Silvestre, el zapatero, se dispone a empezar una nueva jornada de trabajo mientras su mujer canturrea por la cocina; dos viejas hablan de cosas mil veces dichas al tiempo que Adriana sale a la calle, camino del trabajo, en una mañana de niebla liviana que a su hermana Isaura se le antoja llena de imprecisiones y de sueños; Justina pide a las vecinas de arriba que procuren no hacer ruido para no despertar a su iracundo marido, que duerme después de su trabajo nocturno; Anselmo se va a trabajar preocupado por su hija enferma mientras la joven se hace la dormida a ojos de su madre; la mantenida Lidia duda entre dormir y levantarse en este día que, como tantos otros, no tiene nada que hacer; Carmen manda un recado a su hijo, para disfrutar de la placentera soledad, ahora que su marido ha salido dispuesto a agotar una nueva jornada laboral.
La rutina, el vivir cotidiano, teje hilos invisibles que atrapan y relacionan a los distintos personajes en una trama, que no es otra cosa que la misma vida, donde –en palabras de Pilar del Río– "la familia no es sinónimo de hogar, sino de infierno, las apariencias tienen más fuerza que la realidad, ciertas utopías que aparecen como objetivos loables son, páginas después, descritos como relativos, donde se condenan de forma explícita los malos tratos a las mujeres o se narra con naturalidad el amor entre personas del mismo sexo, expresado con angustia personal aunque sin condena por la mirada del autor".
Amanece en Lisboa en una época marcada por la desesperanza, la necesidad, las grandes frustraciones, las pequeñas ilusiones y la nostalgia de otros tiempos que ni siquiera fueron mejores. El día no ha hecho más que comenzar…
Extractos de Claraboya
"La dos tazas de café humeaban sobre la mesa y había en la cocina un olor bueno y fresco a limpieza. Las mejillas redondas de Mariana resplandecían y todo su cuerpo obeso retemblaba y vibraba al moverse entre los fogones.
– ¡Cada vez estás más gorda, mujer!...
Y Silvestre rió. Mariana rió con él. Dos niños, sin quitar ni poner nada. Se sentaron a la mesa. Tomaron café caliente con grandes sorbos ruidosos, jugueteando. Cada uno quería vencer al otro sorbiendo."
"Silvestre dejó el zapato y asomó la cabeza fuera de la ventana. No era cotilla, pero le gustaban las vecinas del segundo, buenas clientas y buenas personas."
"Isaura dejó morir el diálogo y cerró la ventana despacio. No le disgustaba el zapatero, su aire al mismo tiempo reflexivo y risueño, pero esa mañana no se sentía con ánimo para conversaciones. Tenía un montón de camisas para acabar antes del fin de semana. De buena gana acabaría de leer la novela. Sólo le faltaban unas cincuenta páginas y estaba en el capítulo más interesante. Esos amores clandestinos, sustentados a través de mil pericias y contrariedades, la tenían prendida."
"De la escalera le llegó un ruido de escoba. Enseguida, la voz aguda de doña Carmen entonó una copla melancólica. Y al fondo, tras esos ruidos de primer plano, el zumbido perforador de una máquina de coser y los golpes secos de un martillo sobre una suela."
"A Justina no le gustaba la vecina de al lado. Le tenía rabia porque era bonita y, sobre todo, porque era una de esas mujeres mantenidas […] Pero le estaba agradecida porque le proporcionó el pretexto para romper con el marido definitivamente. Gracias a Lidia, pudo unir a sus mil razones la razón mayor."
"La velada recomenzó, ahora más apagada y silenciosa. Dos mujeres viejas y dos que ya le dan la espalda a la mocedad. El pasado para recordar, el presente para vivir, el futuro para recelar."
"Padre e hijo no se amaban, ni poco ni mucho: simplemente se veían todos los días."
"No deseaba recomenzar. No porque le gustara Paulino Morais: engañarlo no le provocaría ni sombra de remordimiento, y si no lo hacía era, sobre todo, por preservar su seguridad. Conocía demasiado a los hombres para amarlos."
"Adriana depositó el libro y poco después lo olvidaba. No apreciaba mucho los libros […] los encontraba pesados. Para contar una historia llenaban páginas y páginas y, al final, todas las historias se pueden contar en pocas palabras."
"Al salir del periódico, Caetano había tenido una aventura, una aventura inmunda, que eran las que más le gustaban. Por eso sonreía. Apreciaba las cosas buenas y se deleitaba dos veces con ellas: cuando las experimentaba y cuando las recordaba."
"–Cuando seas mayor querrás ser feliz. Por ahora no piensas en ello y lo eres precisamente por eso mismo. Cuando pienses, cuando quieras ser feliz, dejarás de serlo. Para siempre. Tal vez para siempre…"
"Según un acuerdo tácito entre los dos, cuando Rosalía se cambiaba de ropa para acostarse, Anselmo no bajaba el periódico. Hacerlo sería, en su opinión, una indignidad. La opinión de ella era que tal vez no hubiera ningún mal… Rosalía se acostó sin que el marido le viera ni la punta de los pies. Así era digno, así era decente…"
"Vivía mantenida desde hacía tres años. Le conocía los tics, la idiosincrasia, los movimientos. Y, de éstos, el que más recelaba que hiciera era, aún sentado, desabotonarse al mismo tiempo los dos tirantes. Lo hacía siempre al mismo tiempo. Lidia sabía lo que eso significaba. Ahora estaba tranquila: Paulino Morais fumaba y, mientras el puro durara, los tirantes seguirían en su sitio."
"Con un movimiento sinuoso, Isaura se acercó a la hermana. Le sentía el calor de todo el cuerpo. Despacio, una de las manos recorrió el brazo, desde la muñeca al hombro, despacio la introdujo bajo la axila cálida y húmeda, despacio se insinuó debajo del pecho. La respiración de Isaura se hizo precipitada e irregular. La mano bajó hacia el vientre, sobre el tejido leve del camisón. La hermana hizo un movimiento brusco y se quedó de espaldas."
"Algo pasó en la mirada del hombre que la chica comprendió. Ni uno ni otro apartaron la mirada. El pecho de María Claudia palpitó, los senos ondularon. Paulino sintió que los músculos de la espalda se distendían lentamente. En el pasillo sonaron los pasos de Lidia que regresaba. Cuando ella entró, Paulino reorganizaba la billetera con escrupulosa atención y María Claudia miraba la alfombra."
"¿Me quieren casado, fútil y tributable?", se preguntó Fernando Pessoa. "Es esto lo que la vida quiere de todo el mundo?", se preguntaba Abel. El sentido oculto de la vida… "Pero el sentido oculto de la vida es que la vida no tiene ningún sentido oculto". Abel conocía la poesía de Pessoa."
"De la escena nocturna en que Justina se mostró desnuda por primera vez frente al marido, nunca se habló. Caetano por cobardía, Justina por orgullo […] Justina no sospechaba el efecto que su presencia le producía al marido. Lo veía nervioso, excitable, pero atribuía ese estado al redoblado desprecio con que la trataba […] Fue a oscuras. Al primer contacto, Justina reconoció al marido. Sumergida aún en el sueño, hizo unos movimientos confusos para defenderse. Pero él la dominó, aplastándola contra el colchón."
"No más desprecio, no más indiferencia. Ahora era odio lo que sentía. Odiaba al marido y se odiaba a sí misma. Recordaba que se había entregado con la misma furia con que él la poseía. Dio unos pasos indecisos en la cocina, como si estuviera en un laberinto. Por todas partes, puertas cerradas y caminos sin salida."
"Estoy libre, no hay duda, pero ¿para qué sirve la libertad si no tengo los medios para beneficiarme de ella? Si sigo pensando de esta manera, acabaré deseando que regresen…"
"–Abel: ¡todo lo que son sea construido sobre el amor generará odio!
–Tiene razón, amigo mío. Pero tal vez tenga que ser así durante mucho tiempo… El día en que sea posible construir sobre el amor aún no ha llegado todavía…"
Tomado de:
http://www.prisaediciones.com/uploads/ficheros/libro/dossier-prensa/201203/dossier-prensa-claraboya.pdf
Monday, August 13, 2012
Alfred Hitchcock. Biography
Synopsis
Born in London on August 13, 1899, Alfred Hitchcock worked for a short time in engineering before entering the film industry in 1920. He left for Hollywood in 1939, where his first American film, Rebecca, won an Academy Award for best picture. He created over 50 films, including the classics Rear Window, The 39 Steps and Psycho. He received the AFI's Life Achievement Award in 1979 and died in 1980.
Quotes
"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
– Alfred Hitchcock
Early Years
Born in London on August 13, 1899, A¬¬lfred Hitchcock was raised by strict, Catholic parents. He described his childhood as lonely and sheltered, partly due to his obesity. He once said that he was sent by his father to the local police station with a note asking the officer to lock him away for 10 minutes as punishment for behaving badly. He also remarked that his mother would force him to stand at the foot OF her bed for several hours as punishment (a scene alluded to in his film Psycho). This idea of being harshly treated or wrongfully accused would later be reflected in Hitchcock's films.
A Gift For Suspense
He studied engineering at St. Ignatius College in London and quickly obtained a job as a draftsman and advertising designer for the cable company Henley's. It was while working at Henley's that he began to write, submitting short articles for the in-house publication. From his very first piece, he employed themes of false accusations, conflicted emotions and twist endings with impressive skill. In 1920, Hitchcock entered the film industry with a full-time position at the Famous Players-Lasky Company designing title cards for silent films. Within a few years, he was working as an assistant director. In 1925, he directed his first film and began making the "thrillers" for which he became known the world over. His 1929 film Blackmail is said to be the first British "talkie." During the 1930s he directed such classic suspense films as The Man Who Knew Too Much and The 39 Steps.
The Hollywood Years
In 1939 Hitchcock left England for Hollywood. The first film he made there, Rebecca (1940), won an Academy Award for best picture. Some of his most famous films include Psycho, The Birds and Marnie. His works became renowned for their depictions of violence, although many of his plots merely function as decoys meant to serve as a tool for understanding complex psychological characters. His cameo appearances in his own films, as well as his interviews, film trailers and the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1962-65) made him a cultural icon. Hitchcock directed more than 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades. His lifetime partner was Alma Reville, his assistant director and his closest collaborator. Hitchcock received the AFI's Life Achievement Award in 1979 and died peacefully in his sleep on April 29, 1980, in Bel Air, California.
Sagas literarias. Los Reyes Malditos de Maurice Druoin.
Los Reyes Malditos es una serie de novelas históricas escritas por Maurice Druon y publicada entre 1955 y 1977 por Del Duca:. La saga trata de cómo Felipe IV de Francia el Hermoso fue maldecido por el gran maestre de los Caballeros Templarios, Jacobo de Molay, o Jacques de Molay, ya que este monarca francés suprimió la orden debido a que debía una gran suma de dinero a los Caballeros del Temple, por el rescate que su abuelo Luis IX había pedido a éstos para liberarse de los egipcios en la VII Cruzada. Esta serie de siete libros cuenta cómo la Dinastía Capeto se extinguió...
¡Malditos, todos malditos hasta vuestra decimo tercera generación! Maldiciendo al rey de Francia Felipe IV (Felipe I de Navarra), así como a toda su descendencia, Jacques de Molay, Gran Maestre de la Orden de los Templarios fue quemado en 1314. Durante más de medio siglo, los reyes se fueron sucediendo en el trono de Francia, rodeados de altos personajes de todo jaez como Roberto de Artois. De intrigas de palacio y muertes súbitas, de revoluciones dinásticas y luchas mortales... un gran fresco épico que vivió Francia durante algunos años negros en el transcurso de los cuales Francia se transformó profundamente saliendo de la Edad Media.
Los seis primeros volúmenes han sido objeto de una nueva edición corregida, entre 1965 y 1966.
El séptimo tomo está escrito en primera persona a diferencia de los seis anteriores. El que habla en dicho libro es el Cardenal Périgord quien se la pasa recordando hechos alrededor de los reyes Juan II el Bueno de Francia y Carlos II el Malo de Navarra. No existe practicamente ninguno de los personajes de las novelas anteriores (aun con vida) y para muchos es un libro independiente de la saga.
El académico Maurice Druon consiguió un gran éxito con esta novela cuya adaptación televisiva recuerdan muchas generaciones de teleespectadores. El serial titulado "Los reyes malditos" fue televisado en 1972, antes de la aparición del séptimo volumen, con una adaptación de los seis volúmenes precedentes de Marcel Jullian, realizada por Claude Barma. Una nueva versión, realizada por Josée Dayan y escenificada por Anne-Marie Catois, fue difundida en Francia en 2005 a través de la cadena France 2, y en Canadá, en 2006, por Radio-Canada.
Dicha versión pese a ser estelarizada por Jeanne Moreau, Tchéky Karyo y Gérard Depardieu no alcanzó la buena crítica que gozaba la primera versión.
Los libros, en su orden, son: (Disponibles en formato PDF en nuestra biblioteca)
I. El rey de Hierro. (Le Roi de fer) (1955)
II. La reina estrangulada. (La Reine étranglée) (1955)
III. Los venenos de la corona. (Les Poisons de la couronne) (1956)
IV. La ley de los varones. (La Loi des mâles) (1957)
V. La loba de Francia. (La Louve de France) (1959)
VI. La flor de Lis y el león. (Le Lis et le Lion) (1960)
VII. De cómo un rey perdió Francia. (Quand un Roi perd la France ) (1977)
Tomado de:
https://www.facebook.com/messages/100001384997598#!/pages/Libros/37509572825
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Friday, August 10, 2012
EBSCO. A small workshop to use it.
What is EBSCO?
•Online periodical database
•Thousands of up-to-date articles and essays from around the world, available at the click of a mouse.
•Can be accessed from school or home.
•Saint Joseph’s School current subscription includes this suscription to Ebsco database
•Why? Because is dedicated to find the best possible information for school research
Before starting, it is important to identify exactly what it is you are searching. EBSCO is not a database perse; rather, it is an interface that allows you to search a number of different databases at the same time. Because of its large, interdiscinplinary scope, you can use EBSCO to find journal, magazine and newspaper articles on a wide variety of subjects. EBSCO allows you to search many databases simultaneously.
- Title Search in EBSCO
In EBSCO you can search either by article title or journal name. They are very different searches, so it's important to know the difference between the two.
You should conduct an author search from the Advanced Search screen. In Ebsco, you must enter the last name first. The author's first name is optional, and you can enter just the first initial of the author's first name if that's all the information you have. Note: Your search results will be the same regardless of whether you capitalize the first letters of the author's name.
- Keyword Search: Using the Basic Search Screen
As in most database searches, a keyword search in Ebsco does not search every word inside every article indexed within the database. It only searches the information that is in the fields of each record, including the abstract. For more information about database records and fields click here to access our Library Catalog tutorial.
Ebsco's Basic Search screen automatically defaults to a keyword search, and then sorts the results in descending order by publication date, with most recent articles displayed first.
- Keyword Search: Using the Boolean Operator AND
The Boolean operator AND allows you to locate items that are about two different concepts or ideas. This type of search will help focus your topic and narrow your search results.
- Phrase Search: What is it?A phrase search is necessary when your words must be read in an exact order to accurately convey the meaning of your search. Some examples might be:
1. an historical event: desert storm
2. a geographcial location: grand canyon
3. a specific structure: empire state building
4. a proper name: Julia Roberts
- Subject Headings: What Are They?Subject Headings in a record describe the main content of that particular item. They are useful because keyword searching can sometimes retrieve records that are only slightly related to your topic.
Subject headings help standardize the words we use to describe a concept. When you search for records by these assigned subject headings, you will receive a more precise set of results.
- Limiting Your Results
In Ebsco, you can limit your search results by date, format, type, etc. Limiting by various fields will reduce your overall search results and make them more specific to your individual research needs.
- Truncation: Using Symbols to Expand your Search
Using a truncation symbol in your search terms tells the system to search for the word you enter along with any other words that have the same root. In Ebsco, the asterisk (*) is the recognized truncation symbol.
- Saving Searches: Marking Your Records
One useful feature in Ebsco is that you can save your search results. As you review your list of items, mark the articles that you think may be useful by clicking on the folder to the right of each citation.
- Saving Searches: Ebsco allows you to save records and view your search history. To save records, mark those that you need and download for printing, or save them to a disk, portable drive, or your student server space. You can also access your research summary by clicking on the "Search History/Alerts" tab at the top of your results list.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Library no es libreria. Semejanzas y diferencias.
Hoy me sucedió algo gracioso. Trabajando y haciendo una búsqueda para la clase mañana se me acercaron varios padres para saber donde vendían los uniformes y los materiales escolares. Aquello me extrañó algo pero luego me di cuenta. La venta era en la libreria del colegio, no en la biblioteca.
Durante mucho tiempo expliqué a mis alumnos la diferencia entre ambas. Ellos al principio se mostraron reacios pero luego entendieron. Así que me doy cuenta ahora que el mal es mucho más profundo. Es necesario educar y enseñar a todos niveles de nuestra sociedad. La cultura es el medidor del nivel de un pueblo, de sus logros y sus conquistas. Cuando algo tan elemental es desconocido es que el problema es muy grave en el fondo.
Aqui le muestro algunas de las diferencias que existen entre ambas. Vayan anotando.
Librería:Una librería es un establecimiento comercial o tienda que se dedica a la venta de libros. Existen librerías de todo tipo, desde pequeños locales con pocos ejemplares hasta edificios enteros que ofrecen miles de publicaciones. Las librerías pueden pertenecer a una cadena con muchas sucursales o tener un único punto de venta.
Por ejemplo: “Ya estuvo en cinco librerías pero sigo sin encontrar el nuevo libro de Michael Krepcky”, “Mi nieto trabaja en una librería del centro”, “Dos heridos en un intento de robo a una librería”.
Hay librerías generalistas que comercializan libros de diversas temáticas, mientras que otras se especializan en temas específicos. Es posible, en este sentido, encontrar librerías deportivas, librerías científicas, etc.
Las librerías también pueden vender libros usados. Estas tiendas, por lo general, se dedican a comprar ejemplares a un cierto precio para revenderlo luego a un precio mayor, ganando con la diferencia.
Las librerías virtuales, por su parte, se dedican a vender libros a través de Internet. Dichos libros pueden ser físicos (impresos) o digitales (para leer en la computadora o en dispositivos electrónicos).
En algunos países, se conoce como librería a la tienda que vende papeles, útiles escolares y diversos objetos de escritorio. En España, a estos establecimientos se los denomina papelerías: “Voy a la librería a comprar un cuaderno”.
Biblioteca: Se denomina biblioteca (término de origen griego) al lugar físico destinado al almacenamiento de una gran cantidad de libros, de diversas temáticas, destinado al uso público o privado. Dicho lugar es un espacio cultural, en donde se promueve el conocimiento y el estudio, como herramientas valiosas. Las bibliotecas suelen contener una gran cantidad de libros de distinta extensión, y referido a distintas edades (por ej.: libros infantiles), clasificados generalmente por temas (ej.: ciencias sociales, ciencias naturales, poesía, narrativa, etc.).
Las bibliotecas ya existían hace mucho tiempo atrás en la historia de la humanidad; las primeras bibliotecas fueron las de Grecia, donde se destacaron principalmente las halladas en Alejandría.
En las instituciones dedicadas a la educación, como las escuelas y universidades (tanto públicas como privadas), pueden encontrarse bibliotecas, disponibles especialmente para los alumnos, donde éstos pueden encontrar material bibliográfico útil para la realización de trabajos prácticos, y el estudio. No obstante, así como existen bibliotecas dentro de establecimientos, existen también bibliotecas que poseen un lugar físico determinado e independiente, dedicado exclusivamente al almacenamiento de material bibliográfico.
Además, gracias al avance de la tecnología, existen actualmente bibliotecas virtuales, accesibles desde Internet o presentes en una serie de CD-ROMs, que no requieren de espacio físico.
Las bibliotecas son un medio muy importante para la realización de trabajos de investigación, en los cuales se requiere una gran variedad de material bibliográfico; y para la ampliación del conocimiento y el progreso intelectual de toda sociedad.
Podemos además, encontrar otras dos acepciones a este término: se llama “biblioteca” al mueble utilizado para guardar y organizar los libros, que posee estantes; y a un conjunto considerable de libros. Este último significado es muy similar al nombrado en el principio del artículo; la diferencia radica en que no se considera al espacio físico en el cual se hallan los libros.
Tomado de:
http://sobreconceptos.com/biblioteca
Libraries and bookstores. What's the difference?
Today I received many visits in the library. Everybody was looking for the bookstore to purchase uniforms and books. Sometimes I had to explain to my students the differences between library and bookstore and they understand the reasons. But now I can see the problem. Even the older people, parents and other persons, don't know anything about it and call a place like a library a bookstore. Now I understand. We must teach everything about everything. Knowledge doesnt occupy place in our heads.
So I decided to share this article:
One of the frequent comments that people, particularly young persons, make in and about public libraries concerns the age and appearance of what is present on the shelf. Most often these complaints are about material appearing to be old and, well, not always new and current like what is available in a bookstore. It is important to understand that there are differences in the purposes and functions of a public library and a bookstore, although there is a growing blurring of distinctions between the two institutions. Both places are vastly different from the past, where they were once perceived as cold and impersonal, but now are seen as being friendly and inviting to visitors.
A library is responsible for serving the information needs of the community in which it is present, and this is a matter of serving an often diverse audience. The first thing that mosr people think about is the educational material used by children and adult students, and this is an important audience that is served. It is not the matter of school textbooks being carried, but the supplemental and additional resources as well. These include the various encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases and maps, directories, handbooks, and almanacs, as well as the works covering history, literature, drama, art and science. Frequently these are classic works that contain valid information, but are often out of print.
A bookstore is a for-profit business that is concerned with selling books and magazines, as well as various forms of media including music, DVD, and recordings of the spoken word. The inventory carried in such a business is often determined by consumer interest, and the likelihood of items being purchased. Similar to a library, there are various ways of determining what to make available to customers. Factors for analysis include records of past sales, customer feedback, and staying aware of forthcoming material and developing trends. While there is overlap between the audiences and customers served in a library and a bookstore, a bookstore usually serves a somewhat narrower audience.
The main difference between a library and a bookstore is that material belonging to the library is normally available for borrowing, free of charge, for a set period of time, after which it is to be returned. In a bookstore, the items selected are purchased outrightly from the store, and become the personal property of the customer. The goal of both places is to get people to read, and to keep them reading.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Jesse Owens Biography and Quotes - Biography.com
By Leila Taha
Jesse Owens, a record-breaking Olympic sprinter and the best athlete of his time, spent much of his life struggling with issues of race. Unlike other athletes of his era, Owens' day-to-day life was defined—and restricted—by his color. He suffered humiliating treatment even as he was revered as the most successful athlete of the day, winning four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics during Hitler's Germany. But the racism he experienced in a country on the brink of ethnic cleansing was hardly worse than what he faced back home in the United States.
For years after his athletic career winded down, Owens endured a personal struggle, leading him to prize wealth over principles as he criticized Civil Rights leaders of the late 60s. In the decade before his death, his philosophy on race relations progressed, and he finally advocated the Civil Rights Movement.
Jesse Owens was born James Clevelend Owens in Alabama in 1913, the youngest in a family of 10 children. When he was 9 years old, his parents relocated the family to Cleveland, Ohio, in search of better economic opportunity. It was there that Owens discovered his passion and talent for running. In junior high school, he met a coach whom he believed set him on the path to athletic success. Later in high school, he tied the world record for the 100-yard dash and the long jump, as well as set a new record for the 220-yard dash.
Owens attended Ohio State University, where his athletic success continued, but the racism and discrimination that was common in the 1930s became a detriment to his training and racing. Unlike his teammates, Owens was not allowed to live on campus because the university did not have housing for black students. Nor was he provided a scholarship, a privilege that would be standard for any white athlete of his caliber. When he traveled with the team to compete, he had to stay in separate hotels and eat in separate restaurants from the rest of the Ohio State track team.
Watch this clip of Jesse Owens:
Jesse Owens was a very successful college track star, but where he truly earned his fame was at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The international sporting competition was rife with political controversy imposed largely by Adolf Hitler, then the German premier. Hitler’s staging of the games was largely intended to showcase white supremacy, and the very presence of a successful black athlete was a threat. And yet Owens’ Olympics performance was unlike any before it, or since. He won four gold medals and set new world records in the 200-meter race, long jump, 400-meter relay, and he tied the world record for the 100-meter dash. He had become the best athlete in the world.
His stay in Germany showed Owens that a different life was possible for him as a black man. Unlike back home in the United States, in Germany Owens trained, traveled and stayed in the same hotels as his white teammates. In the United States, Owens was asked to ride a hotel’s freight elevator to get to a reception being held in his honor.
Upon his return to the United States, Owens was faced with fresh challenges. He did not come home to the reception expected for such a winning Olympian. He was not invited to the White House and was personally insulted that he was not offered any honors by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. “After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand, or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job,” he later said.
Due to time spent training and competing at the Olympic level, Owens’ academics suffered, and he was declared ineligible to compete at the university level. He gave up on his education and began pursuing other career opportunities, from starting a Negro baseball league to opening a dry cleaning business. Three years after his Olympic success, he declared bankruptcy.
Despite his gold medals, Owens was still a student and had to pump gas during the summers to support his family. (Aug. 1, 1935)
Owens was censured for giving up on amateur athletics in pursuit of financial gain in other fields. But he argued that his hand was forced by the discriminatory policies he had faced throughout his athletic career, such as not being eligible for scholarships in college and therefore struggling to squeeze in classes between training and working to pay his way. In an interview in 1971, he addressed the criticism head on, saying, “ I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.”
His post-1936 experiences seemed to shape his philosophy about race relations in the United States. Owens believed that blacks should fight for power through economic, not political means. In 1968, when Tommie Smith and John Carlos famously gave a black power salute while receiving their medals in the Summer Games in Mexico City for the 200-meter race, Owens spoke against them.
“The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers—weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there's money inside. There's where the power lies,” Owens said at the time.
In his older age, his philosophy seemed to have developed in the opposite direction, and he spoke out in favor of the Civil Rights Movement and even criticized his own previous statements.
In 1980, Jesse Owens died of lung cancer. It is unthinkable in the modern era that any athlete, much less a runner, would be a smoker, but he was for the most of his life.
Jesse Owens, a record-breaking Olympic sprinter and the best athlete of his time, spent much of his life struggling with issues of race. Unlike other athletes of his era, Owens' day-to-day life was defined—and restricted—by his color. He suffered humiliating treatment even as he was revered as the most successful athlete of the day, winning four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics during Hitler's Germany. But the racism he experienced in a country on the brink of ethnic cleansing was hardly worse than what he faced back home in the United States.
For years after his athletic career winded down, Owens endured a personal struggle, leading him to prize wealth over principles as he criticized Civil Rights leaders of the late 60s. In the decade before his death, his philosophy on race relations progressed, and he finally advocated the Civil Rights Movement.
Jesse Owens was born James Clevelend Owens in Alabama in 1913, the youngest in a family of 10 children. When he was 9 years old, his parents relocated the family to Cleveland, Ohio, in search of better economic opportunity. It was there that Owens discovered his passion and talent for running. In junior high school, he met a coach whom he believed set him on the path to athletic success. Later in high school, he tied the world record for the 100-yard dash and the long jump, as well as set a new record for the 220-yard dash.
Owens attended Ohio State University, where his athletic success continued, but the racism and discrimination that was common in the 1930s became a detriment to his training and racing. Unlike his teammates, Owens was not allowed to live on campus because the university did not have housing for black students. Nor was he provided a scholarship, a privilege that would be standard for any white athlete of his caliber. When he traveled with the team to compete, he had to stay in separate hotels and eat in separate restaurants from the rest of the Ohio State track team.
Watch this clip of Jesse Owens:
Jesse Owens was a very successful college track star, but where he truly earned his fame was at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The international sporting competition was rife with political controversy imposed largely by Adolf Hitler, then the German premier. Hitler’s staging of the games was largely intended to showcase white supremacy, and the very presence of a successful black athlete was a threat. And yet Owens’ Olympics performance was unlike any before it, or since. He won four gold medals and set new world records in the 200-meter race, long jump, 400-meter relay, and he tied the world record for the 100-meter dash. He had become the best athlete in the world.
His stay in Germany showed Owens that a different life was possible for him as a black man. Unlike back home in the United States, in Germany Owens trained, traveled and stayed in the same hotels as his white teammates. In the United States, Owens was asked to ride a hotel’s freight elevator to get to a reception being held in his honor.
Upon his return to the United States, Owens was faced with fresh challenges. He did not come home to the reception expected for such a winning Olympian. He was not invited to the White House and was personally insulted that he was not offered any honors by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. “After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand, or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job,” he later said.
Due to time spent training and competing at the Olympic level, Owens’ academics suffered, and he was declared ineligible to compete at the university level. He gave up on his education and began pursuing other career opportunities, from starting a Negro baseball league to opening a dry cleaning business. Three years after his Olympic success, he declared bankruptcy.
Despite his gold medals, Owens was still a student and had to pump gas during the summers to support his family. (Aug. 1, 1935)
Owens was censured for giving up on amateur athletics in pursuit of financial gain in other fields. But he argued that his hand was forced by the discriminatory policies he had faced throughout his athletic career, such as not being eligible for scholarships in college and therefore struggling to squeeze in classes between training and working to pay his way. In an interview in 1971, he addressed the criticism head on, saying, “ I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.”
His post-1936 experiences seemed to shape his philosophy about race relations in the United States. Owens believed that blacks should fight for power through economic, not political means. In 1968, when Tommie Smith and John Carlos famously gave a black power salute while receiving their medals in the Summer Games in Mexico City for the 200-meter race, Owens spoke against them.
“The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers—weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there's money inside. There's where the power lies,” Owens said at the time.
In his older age, his philosophy seemed to have developed in the opposite direction, and he spoke out in favor of the Civil Rights Movement and even criticized his own previous statements.
In 1980, Jesse Owens died of lung cancer. It is unthinkable in the modern era that any athlete, much less a runner, would be a smoker, but he was for the most of his life.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Un dia en la Historia. Biografia de Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
(Praga, 1883 - Kierling, Austria, 1924) Escritor checo en lengua alemana. Nacido en el seno de una familia de comerciantes judíos, Franz Kafka se formó en un ambiente cultural alemán, y se doctoró en derecho. Pronto empezó a interesarse por la mística y la religión judías, que ejercieron sobre él una notable influencia y favorecieron su adhesión al sionismo.
Su proyecto de emigrar a Palestina se vio frustrado en 1917 al padecer los primeros síntomas de tuberculosis, que sería la causante de su muerte. A pesar de la enfermedad, de la hostilidad manifiesta de su familia hacia su vocación literaria, de sus cinco tentativas matrimoniales frustradas y de su empleo de burócrata en una compañía de seguros de Praga, Franz Kafka se dedicó intensamente a la literatura.
Su obra, que nos ha llegado en contra de su voluntad expresa, pues ordenó a su íntimo amigo y consejero literario Max Brod que, a su muerte, quemara todos sus manuscritos, constituye una de las cumbres de la literatura alemana y se cuenta entre las más influyentes e innovadoras del siglo XX.
En la línea de la Escuela de Praga, de la que es el miembro más destacado, la escritura de Kafka se caracteriza por una marcada vocación metafísica y una síntesis de absurdo, ironía y lucidez. Ese mundo de sueños, que describe paradójicamente con un realismo minucioso, ya se halla presente en su primera novela corta, Descripción de una lucha, que apareció parcialmente en la revista Hyperion, que dirigía Franz Blei.
En 1913, el editor Rowohlt accedió a publicar su primer libro, Meditaciones, que reunía extractos de su diario personal, pequeños fragmentos en prosa de una inquietud espiritual penetrante y un estilo profundamente innovador, a la vez lírico, dramático y melodioso. Sin embargo, el libro pasó desapercibido; los siguientes tampoco obtendrían ningún éxito, fuera de un círculo íntimo de amigos y admiradores incondicionales.
El estallido de la Primera Guerra Mundial y el fracaso de un noviazgo en el que había depositado todas sus esperanzas señalaron el inicio de una etapa creativa prolífica. Entre 1913 y 1919 Franz Kafka escribió El proceso, La metamorfosis y La condena y publicó El chófer, que incorporaría más adelante a su novela América, En la colonia penitenciaria y el volumen de relatos Un médico rural.
Su proyecto de emigrar a Palestina se vio frustrado en 1917 al padecer los primeros síntomas de tuberculosis, que sería la causante de su muerte. A pesar de la enfermedad, de la hostilidad manifiesta de su familia hacia su vocación literaria, de sus cinco tentativas matrimoniales frustradas y de su empleo de burócrata en una compañía de seguros de Praga, Franz Kafka se dedicó intensamente a la literatura.
Su obra, que nos ha llegado en contra de su voluntad expresa, pues ordenó a su íntimo amigo y consejero literario Max Brod que, a su muerte, quemara todos sus manuscritos, constituye una de las cumbres de la literatura alemana y se cuenta entre las más influyentes e innovadoras del siglo XX.
En la línea de la Escuela de Praga, de la que es el miembro más destacado, la escritura de Kafka se caracteriza por una marcada vocación metafísica y una síntesis de absurdo, ironía y lucidez. Ese mundo de sueños, que describe paradójicamente con un realismo minucioso, ya se halla presente en su primera novela corta, Descripción de una lucha, que apareció parcialmente en la revista Hyperion, que dirigía Franz Blei.
En 1913, el editor Rowohlt accedió a publicar su primer libro, Meditaciones, que reunía extractos de su diario personal, pequeños fragmentos en prosa de una inquietud espiritual penetrante y un estilo profundamente innovador, a la vez lírico, dramático y melodioso. Sin embargo, el libro pasó desapercibido; los siguientes tampoco obtendrían ningún éxito, fuera de un círculo íntimo de amigos y admiradores incondicionales.
El estallido de la Primera Guerra Mundial y el fracaso de un noviazgo en el que había depositado todas sus esperanzas señalaron el inicio de una etapa creativa prolífica. Entre 1913 y 1919 Franz Kafka escribió El proceso, La metamorfosis y La condena y publicó El chófer, que incorporaría más adelante a su novela América, En la colonia penitenciaria y el volumen de relatos Un médico rural.
Tomado de: http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
500 visitas!!!!! Gracias a todos!!!!!
Al fin arribamos a las 500 visitas!!!!
Este blog fue creado como un sueño, como una manera de acercar más a los estudiantes a la biblioteca, una forma de atraer profesores a que sean parte de nuestro centro de información. Lejana está la epoca donde la biblioteca esperaba la vista de las personas. Ahora con tanta tecnología y dispositivos de información la gente deja de visitarnos y muchos, ignorantes al fin, predicen el fin nuestro. Nuestra principal misión es acercarnos a ustedes, no esperarlos sino atraerlos a nuestra biblioteca.
Estoy dispuesto a trabajar y seguir trabajando para que este lugar no sea olvidado. A pesar de los esfuerzos hechos para que la misma no funcione. Gracias a nuestros estudiantes y amigos seguidores aún sobrevivimos.
Esperemos que el nuevo año escolar sea mejor, que nuestra biblioteca siga recuperando el lugar que merece y que tengamos un poco más de lo que poseemos hoy, pero ya sin esperar por nadie, hagamos nosotros mismos de la biblioteca un lugar mejor.
GRACIAS A TODOS!!!!!!!!
Este blog fue creado como un sueño, como una manera de acercar más a los estudiantes a la biblioteca, una forma de atraer profesores a que sean parte de nuestro centro de información. Lejana está la epoca donde la biblioteca esperaba la vista de las personas. Ahora con tanta tecnología y dispositivos de información la gente deja de visitarnos y muchos, ignorantes al fin, predicen el fin nuestro. Nuestra principal misión es acercarnos a ustedes, no esperarlos sino atraerlos a nuestra biblioteca.
Estoy dispuesto a trabajar y seguir trabajando para que este lugar no sea olvidado. A pesar de los esfuerzos hechos para que la misma no funcione. Gracias a nuestros estudiantes y amigos seguidores aún sobrevivimos.
Esperemos que el nuevo año escolar sea mejor, que nuestra biblioteca siga recuperando el lugar que merece y que tengamos un poco más de lo que poseemos hoy, pero ya sin esperar por nadie, hagamos nosotros mismos de la biblioteca un lugar mejor.
GRACIAS A TODOS!!!!!!!!
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
A day in History. Hellen Keller
Quotes
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."
– Helen Keller
Early Life
Helen Keller was the first of two daughters born to Arthur H. Keller and Katherine Adams Keller. She also had two older stepbrothers. Keller's father had proudly served as an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The family was not particularly wealthy and earned income from their cotton plantation. Later, Arthur became the editor of a weekly local newspaper, the North Alabamian.
Keller was born with her senses of sight and hearing, and started speaking when she was just 6 months old. She started walking at the age of 1.
Loss of Sight and Hearing
In 1882, however, Keller contracted an illness—called "brain fever" by the family doctor—that produced a high body temperature. The true nature of the illness remains a mystery today, though some experts believe it might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. Within a few days after the fever broke, Keller's mother noticed that her daughter didn't show any reaction when the dinner bell was rung, or when a hand was waved in front of her face. Keller had lost both her sight and hearing. She was just 18 months old.
As Keller grew into childhood, she developed a limited method of communication with her companion, Martha Washington, the young daughter of the family cook. The two had created a type of sign language, and by the time Keller was 7, they had invented more than 60 signs to communicate with each other. But Keller had become very wild and unruly during this time. She would kick and scream when angry, and giggle uncontrollably when happy. She tormented Martha and inflicted raging tantrums on her parents. Many family relatives felt she should be institutionalized.
Educator Ann Sullivan
Looking for answers and inspiration, in 1886, Keller's mother came across a travelogue by Charles Dickens, American Notes. She read of the successful education of another deaf and blind child, Laura Bridgman, and soon dispatched Keller and her father to Baltimore, Maryland to see specialist Dr. J. Julian Chisolm. After examining Keller, Chisolm recommended that she see Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, who was working with deaf children at the time. Bell met with Keller and her parents, and suggested that they travel to the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts. There, the family met with the school's director, Michael Anaganos. He suggested Helen work with one of the institute's most recent graduates, Anne Sullivan. And so began a 49-year relationship between teacher and pupil.
In March 1887, Sullivan went to Keller's home in Alabama and immediately went to work. She began by teaching Helen finger spelling, starting with the word "doll," to help Keller understand the gift of a doll she had brought along. Other words would follow. At first, Keller was curious, then defiant, refusing to cooperate with Sullivan's instruction. When Keller did cooperate, Sullivan could tell that she wasn't making the connection between the objects and the letters spelled out in her hand. Sullivan kept working at it, forcing Helen to go through the regimen.
As Keller's frustration grew, the tantrums increased. Finally, Sullivan demanded that she and Keller be isolated from the rest of the family for a time, so that Keller could concentrate only on Sullivan's instruction. They moved to a cottage on the plantation.
In a dramatic struggle, Sullivan taught Keller the word "water"; she helped her make the connection between the object and the letters by taking Keller out to the water pump, and placing Keller's hand under the spout.
While Sullivan moved the lever to flush cool water over Keller's hand, she spelled out the word w-a-t-e-r on Helen's other hand. Keller understood and repeated the word in Sullivan's hand. She then pounded the ground, demanding to know its "letter name." Sullivan followed her, spelling out the word into her hand. Keller moved to other objects with Sullivan in tow. By nightfall, she had learned 30 words.
A Formal Education
In 1890, Keller began speech classes at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Boston. She would toil for 25 years to learn to speak so that others could understand her. From 1894 to 1896, she attended the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York City. There, she worked on improving her communication skills and studied regular academic subjects.
Around this time, Keller became determined to attend college. In 1896, she attended the Cambridge School for Young Ladies, a preparatory school for women. As her story became known to the general public, Keller began to meet famous and influential people. One of them was the writer Mark Twain, who was very impressed with her. They became friends. Twain introduced her to his friend Henry H. Rogers, a Standard Oil executive. Rogers was so impressed with Keller's talent, drive and determination that he agreed to pay for her to attend Radcliff College. There, she was accompanied by Sullivan, who sat by her side to interpret lectures and texts.
By this time, Keller had mastered several methods of communication, including touch-lip reading, Braille, speech, typing and finger-spelling. With the help of Sullivan and Sullivan's future husband, John Macy, Keller wrote her first book, The Story of My Life. It covered her transformation from childhood to 21-year-old college student. Keller graduated, cum laude, from Radcliffe in 1904, at the age of 24.
In 1905, Sullivan married John Macy, an instructor at Harvard University, a social critic and a prominent socialist. After the marriage, Sullivan continued to be Keller's guide and mentor. When Keller went to live with the Macys, they both initially gave Keller their undivided attention. Gradually, however, Anne and John became distant to each other, as Anne's devotion to Keller continued unabated. After several years, they separated, though were never divorced.
Social Activism
After college, Keller set out to learn more about the world and how she could help improve the lives of others. News of her story spread beyond Massachusetts and New England. She became a well-known celebrity and lecturer by sharing her experiences with audiences, and working on behalf of others living with disabilities. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Keller tackled social and political issues, including women's suffrage, pacifism and birth control. She testified before Congress, strongly advocating to improve the welfare of blind people. In 1915, along with renowned city planner George Kessler, she co-founded Helen Keller International to combat the causes and consequences of blindness and malnutrition. In 1920, she helped found the American Civil Liberties Union.
When the American Federation for the Blind was established in 1921, Keller had an effective national outlet for her efforts. She became a member in 1924, and participated in many
campaigns to raise awareness, money and support for the blind. She also joined other organizations dedicated to helping those less fortunate, including the Permanent Blind War Relief Fund (later called the American Braille Press).
Soon after she graduated from college, Keller became a member of the Socialist Party, most likely due in part to her friendship with John Macy. Between 1909 and 1921, she wrote several articles about socialism and supported Eugene Debs, a Socialist Party presidential candidate. Her series of essays on socialism, entitled "Out of the Dark," described her views on socialism and world affairs.
It was during this time that Keller first experienced public prejudice about her disabilities. For most of her life, the press had been overwhelmingly supportive of her, praising her courage and intelligence. But after she expressed her socialist views, some criticized her by calling attention to her disabilities. One newspaper, the Brooklyn Eagle, wrote that her "mistakes sprung out of the manifest limitations of her development."
Work and Influence
In 1936, Keller's beloved teacher and devoted companion, Anne Sullivan, died. She had experienced health problems for several years and, in 1932, lost her eyesight completely. A young woman named Polly Thompson, who had begun working as a secretary for Keller and Sullivan in 1914, became Keller's constant companion upon Sullivan's death.
In 1946, Keller was appointed counselor of international relations for the American Foundation of Overseas Blind. Between 1946 and 1957, she traveled to 35 countries on five continents. In 1955, at age 75, Keller embarked on the longest and most grueling trip of her life: a 40,000-mile, five-month trek across Asia. Through her many speeches and appearances, she brought inspiration and encouragement to millions of people.
Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, was used as the basis for 1957 television drama The Miracle Worker. In 1959, the story was developed into a Broadway play of the same title, starring Patty Duke as Keller and Anne Bancroft as Sullivan. The two actresses also performed those roles in the 1962 award-winning film version of the play.
Death and Legacy
Keller suffered a series of strokes in 1961, and spent the remaining years of her life at her home in Connecticut. During her lifetime, she received many honors in recognition of her accomplishments, including the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal in 1936, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964, and election to the Women's Hall of Fame in 1965. She also received honorary doctoral degrees from Temple University and Harvard University and from the universities of Glasgow, Scotland; Berlin, Germany; Delhi, India; and Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Additionally, she was named an Honorary Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland.
Keller died in her sleep on June 1, 1968, just a few weeks before her 88th birthday. During her remarkable life, Keller stood as a powerful example of how determination, hard work, and imagination can allow an individual to triumph over adversity. By overcoming difficult conditions with a great deal of persistence, she grew into a respected and world-renowned activist who labored for the betterment of others.
Taken from:
http://www.biography.com/people/helen-keller-9361967?page=1
¿Cienta o ciento? De nuestro lenguaje y otros demonios.
Siempre me ha gustado defender la pureza de mi idioma Español a pesar de los miles de cambios que durante toda su existencia ha sido ser sometido. Respeto, además, todos los criollismos o cambios en nuestra lengua debido a los aportes que cada país hace al Español por cuestiones meramente semánticas o simplemente por la riqueza que cada quien aporta al mismo.
Hace poco leía este artículo:
El señor discute con su compadre? ¿Qué te pasa compadre? ¿Cómo que ?la azúcar?? Lo correcto es ?el azúcar??. Y el otro: El que estás mal eres tú compadrito del alma? y total acaban apostando una cena y buscan a un ?experto? para que les dé la solución.
Luego resulta que el ?experto? les dice que es correcto de las dos maneras, y se frustran. Pero es que así es el lenguaje. El lenguaje es un ser vivo. Constantemente está cambiando, por lo tanto no es ni puede ser una ciencia exacta.
Pensemos en que Don Quijote decía ?trujimos? en lugar de ?trajimos? y eso no es porque Cervantes no supiera escribir. En su época así se decía. Con el tiempo el idioma evolucionó y cambió, pero no hubo nunca un decreto que dijera: A partir de mañana, ya no se va a decir ?trujimos? sino ?trajimos?.http://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/146457.html
Lo que aprendí de todo esto es que cada quien hace sus aportes y nuestro idioma es también, como yo lo veo, un ser cambiante. Pero hay ciertas normas que debemos respetar. Y este es mi caso.
Llevo viviendo en República Dominicana más de 4 años ya y bendigo y amo este país que me recibió y jamás cuestionó mis creencias religiosas y políticas para nada, algo difícil de concebir para un cubano. Por supuesto que el habla y las diferencias en cuanto a regionalismos fue grande pero poco a poco me fui habituando pues el lenguaje y su aprendizaje en cada región donde te encuentres es signo también de asimilación cultural. Pero hay una palabra que aun me choca cada vez la escucho, la palabra ''CIENTO''. Sí, ciento, de centena y lo primero que hago es buscar el significado en RAE (REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA) y encuentro esto:
ciento.
(Del lat. centum).
1. adj. Diez veces diez.
2. adj. centésimo (‖ ordinal). Número ciento. Año ciento.
3. m. Signo o conjunto de signos con que se representa el número ciento. En la pared había un ciento medio borrado.
4. m. centena (‖ conjunto de 100 unidades). Un ciento de huevos, de agujas.
En Dominicana, principalmente en el habla popular, es muy común escuchar:
Esa cerda pesó cienta una libras.
Aquello me resultó algo raro.
-¿Cienta? - Pregunté.
- Es que la cerda es hembra y hay que decir cienta pues es femenino.
Respetando lo que esa persona me dijo me quedo callado hasta que me doy cuenta que es de uso común. Pero una cosa es lo popular y otra muy distinta a que hasta incluso en programas de televisión se permita que se hable de esta forma. El canibalismo de las S y el uso incorrecto de palabras como esa en el principal medio de difusión del país solo ayuda a fomentar mas el desconocimiento y el uso indebido de nuestro lenguaje. Es de forma radical que debemos enfrentar estos males como la introducción y uso de lenguaje vulgar por parte de presentadores de programas de alto rating tanto en radio como en tv donde constantemente se descuida o no se tienen normas sobre el uso. Tal vez falta de formación, de instrucción y de otros valores que no sean solo de cara bonita o de facilidad de mal lenguaje.
Todo esto unido a un programa de Español en las escuelas que es extremadamente débil y sin enfocarse en la lectura o en la promoción de títulos que sean verdaderas obras del idioma español más la falta de interés de las políticas estatales harán que en vez de hablar, solo ladremos.
En torno al género.
1- Si el nombre en masculino termina con -o, en femenino termina con el morfema de género -a.
2- Existen excepciones como el día, el mapa y muchas palabras de origen griego que terminan en -ma y -ta son masculinas, no femeninas como el clima, el cometa, el crucigrama, el drama, el fantasma, el idioma, el panorama, el planeta, el poema, el poeta, el problema, el programa, el sistema, el telegrama, el tema.
3- Las letras del alfabeto son femeninas.
4- Los números cardinales son masculinos.
http://lenguayliteratura.org/mb/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1567&Itemid=118
Monday, June 25, 2012
"Clic y Lee". Ten acceso gratuito a libros electronicos.
SANTO DOMINGO.- A través de "Clic y Lee" el público dominicano tiene acceso gratuito a una colección de cientos de libros electrónicos, o eBooks, de ficción y no ficción, casi todos de los autores más vendidos.
Los libros están disponibles para préstamo por un período máximo de dos semanas, y el usuario puede descargarlos a su móvil, tableta, computador o laptop, según su preferencia. Este nuevo servicio manejado por el Centro de Recursos Informativos de la Embajada, ofrece una colección que incluye obras en español e inglés de autoresestadounidenses, latinoamericanos y europeos.
El rico contenido de temas de esta colección apelará al gusto de todos los amantes a la lectura, incluyendo a niños y jóvenes adultos.
"Clic y Lee" es el primer y único servicio de préstamo de libros electrónicos en el país disponible para el público en general. Sin duda este servicio de acceso gratuito a literatura electrónica contribuirá a la reducción de la brecha digital, proveerá libre acceso a la información y a la vez ofrecerá un incentivo a la lectura.
El Centro de Recursos Informativos ofrece otras dos plataformas, una con acceso a una colección especial de obras de consulta y otra a eLibraryUSA, una biblioteca virtual regional con acceso a importantes basesde datos.
Para disfrutar de "Clic y Lee" y otros recursos electrónicos, las personas sólo tienen que hacerse miembros del Centro de Recursos Informativos.
http://diariolibre.com.do/revista/2012/06/22/i341111_clic-lee-busca-incentivar-lectura-digital-gratuita.html
Enlace a Clic y Lee:
http://clic-y-lee.lib.overdrive.com/21D87319-860E-417E-87ED-6A0AA82FF489/10/964/es/Default.htm
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