Self-Employed Workers: Requirements and Scope in Agriculture

Self-Employed Workers in Agriculture: Requirements and Scope

Under the Special Scheme for Self-Employed Workers, individuals will be included if they are self-employed on their own farm, over 18 years of age, and meet the following requirements:

  • Be owners of a farm and derive at least 50% of their total income from agricultural activities and other complementary sources.
  • The proportion of income deriving directly from farming of their holding is not less than 25% of their total income.
  • Working time
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Chiesa del Sacro Nome di Gesù: Architecture and Decoration

The upper cornice creates a mixtilinear, four-sided convex shape resembling a Greek cross. Pilasters and a mixtilinear cornice adorn this section.

A phased, pyramidal design is employed, matching the concave buttresses that transfer the flashlight’s stress with pilasters, joining at the top.

Towards the flashlight, three straight sides are superimposed with pilasters, enhancing movement and connecting to the buttresses that lead to the temple’s interior columns within the lantern.

The lantern, a shrine,

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Mastering ‘Me’ vs. ‘I’: Correct Pronoun Usage Explained

On March 5, Jazmine Hughes wrote in a New York Times blog:

“Recently, at an IRL party — that is, a party that takes place ‘in real life,’ as opposed to where I generally live, which is on the Internet — a guest asked a friend and I how we met.”

The sentence includes a common error I have been seeing and hearing more and more often lately.

The error is using the subject pronoun “I” when the object pronoun “me” should be used.

Even President Obama can be heard using “I” for the

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Romanticism and Realism: Key Features and Differences

Features of Romanticism

Romanticism is characterized by several key features:

  • Individualism: Art and literature become a manifestation of self, expressing personal feelings. This leads to the development of lyric poetry and music, art forms particularly suited for expressing subjectivity.
  • Irrationalism: Romanticism opposes Enlightenment rationalism, valuing emotions, dreams, and fantasies. This gives rise to modern fantasy and horror genres.
  • Defense of Liberty: Romanticism champions liberty in all areas
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Nietzsche’s Philosophy: Values, Morality, and the Superman

Nietzsche’s Life and Intellectual Context

Nietzsche was born in 1844 in Weimar, during a period of significant upheaval. The French Revolution of 1789 had ended absolute monarchy, ushering in a new era of political, economic, and social development known as liberalism. The liberal-bourgeois revolutions facilitated the transition from a stratified society to a class-based society, primarily composed of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The proletariat would soon become aware of their subjugation,

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Economic Consequences of Peace: Interwar Instability & Depression

Economic Consequences of the Peace

End of 1st Globalization: International economic disintegration (capitals, commodities & labor). End of EU hegemony (GB). Social and civil conflicts. Development of Fascism & Communism.

EU Post-WW1

After the peace treaties: Germany had to compensate the winners with reparations and the regions of Alsace & Lorraine. No more empire = Weimar Republic. War debt from the US because of the loans provided to allies. Unemployment due to the return of the soldiers.

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Understanding Truth, Reality, and Philosophical Perspectives

Truth and Reality: A Philosophical Exploration

Philosophers consider that facts and objects can be true or authentic, but propositions can also be true.

Truth of Facts

The “truth of facts” is established when we use the words “true” and “authentic.” This refers to objects and facts. Truth, in this sense, is identified with reality, authenticated against apparent reality. The pursuit of truth becomes a process of unveiling the authentic, which would otherwise remain hidden by appearances.

Truth as Propositions

This

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Valle-Inclán’s Esperpento: Distortion in Luces de Bohemia

Valle-Inclán’s Esperpento in Luces de Bohemia

Defining the Grotesque Reality

In Luces de Bohemia, Valle-Inclán clearly reflects his concept of the esperpento by distorting appearances. He presents reality through this lens; the characters adopt grotesque and even absurd demeanors, both aesthetically and ethically. These features are evident in the poet Max Estrella, who inhabits a degraded, shabby, and vulgar world governed by stupidity, arbitrariness, and profound injustice. This portrayal becomes

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Understanding Metaphysics, Ethics, and Morality: Aristotle vs. Epicurus

Metaphysics: Aristotle’s Perspective

Metaphysics: Aristotle defines philosophy as the study of first principles (that which is fundamental) and causes (found in its forms and processes).

According to Aristotle, there is no science except of the universal (speculative science), being as a being and its essential attributes. Wisdom relates to knowledge as art relates to experience. Wisdom understands the causes of why, which differs from experiential knowledge, a concept with a restricted scope.

For

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Franco’s Spain: Dictatorship, Catholicism & Opposition 1939-1959

Franco’s Regime: Fascist Dictatorship (1939-1951)

Political Level

  • Franco was the leader (Caudillo of Spain).
  • He concentrated all power in himself (no opposition parties, control of the Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS, and the army).
  • Control of the State and society.
  • Indoctrination of the population.
  • Cult of personality around Franco.
  • Control of the media.
  • After the end of World War II, the regime began to abandon its fascist traits.

Foreign Policy

  • 1939: Spain declared neutral status.
  • 1940:
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