Ramon Llull and the Four Chronicles: Medieval Catalan Literature
Ramon Llull: A Literary Master of Christian Doctrine
The master of the example, in his work, is primarily a teacher who wants to give lessons of Christian doctrine and behavior. To achieve this, he knows the most effective use of literary resources, including the specially highlighted example. An example is a short story that the author uses to convey a teaching to the reader.
Llull: Defender of the Established Order
The Book of Beasts is perhaps his most popular work. It is an apologue, featuring
Read MoreSpanish Civil War: A Deep Dive into the Conflict
Spanish Civil War
Opposing Sides
Initially, General Sanjurjo was the leader of the rebels. However, after his death, General Emilio Mola assumed command. Although Mola was a prominent figure, he was less influential than Francisco Franco, who had better troops.
The coup failed in major cities. The rebels controlled the north-northwest (Galicia, Old Castile, Leon, Navarra, northern Extremadura, half of Aragon, and the Asturian capital). In the south, they only held certain cities (Cadiz, Granada, Cordoba,
Read MoreMeal Planning for Diabetics: Nutrition and Dietary Insights
Methods for Planning Meals for Diabetics
Nutrition Guidelines
Nutrition guidelines are booklets that provide general guidelines for planning an adequate diet. They may contain a section for making healthy food choices, exchange lists, and images of types and quantities of food.
Menus
A menu is a description of the dishes for each day over a period of time (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks).
Exchange Lists
Exchange lists cluster food in measures that provide roughly the same number of calories and
Read MoreData Structures: Algorithms for Points, Strings, and Compression
Given points in a plane, we can construct a geometric graph. Its vertices correspond to the points, and each edge has a weight equal to the distance between its endpoints. (We might have all “n choose 2” possible edges, or maybe a sparser subset of edges.)
- The EMST (Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree): Given n points in the plane, find the lightest possible spanning tree made up of such edges.
We go over the definition (saying which edges are present), and also see a demo here: share/0326/delaunay/
- An
Product, Branding, and Pricing Strategies for Businesses
Product and Branding Strategies
What is a Product?
A product is anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use, or consumption that might satisfy a want or a need. Products include more than just tangible objects. Broadly defined, products also include:
- Services
- Events
- Persons
- Places
- Organizations
- Ideas
- Or mixtures of these
Products, Services, and Experiences
Marketing-mix planning begins with building an offering that brings value to target customers. A company’s market offering
Read MoreSpanish Poetry: 1940s to 1960s – Key Movements and Poets
Spanish Poetry: 1940s to 1960s
The Poetry of the War: The Forties Trends
- Miguel Hernandez: Formal initiatives. Topics: death, life, and love. Structure: sonnet. During the war, he wrote *Wind* (1937), with a more popular and patriotic tone. Book: *Ballad Songbook and Absences* (1938-1941) contains poems about jail.
- Entrenched Poetry: *Escorial* journals brought together poets such as Leopoldo Panero and Luis Rosales, who advocated for classical poetry. Topics: nostalgia for the empire and Spanish love
Control Engineering: Principles and History
What is Control?
It is the action or effect of deciding on the development of a process or system. It can also be understood as a way to manipulate certain variables to make them, or other variables, act in the desired way.
What is Control Engineering?
It is an interdisciplinary approach to control systems and devices. It combines areas such as electrical, electronic, mechanical, chemical, process engineering, and mathematical theory, among others.
Subdisciplines (by Type of Control)
- Open-loop control
- Closed-
Spanish Political System: Late 19th Century Power Dynamics
Distortion and Chieftaincy in Elections
When the ruling party suffered political erosion and lost the confidence of the Cortes, the monarch called the head of the opposition party to form a government. This triggered elections to secure a sufficient number of deputies to form a parliamentary majority. This era was marked by peaceful electoral corruption and the use of power by certain individuals, known as “caciques,” over society.
Caciquismo was especially prevalent in Andalusia, Galicia, and Castilla.
Read MoreUnderstanding the Accounting Cycle and its Steps
The Accounting Cycle
The accounting cycle is a series of activities that begins with a transaction and ends with the closing of the books at the end of the fiscal year. Because this process is repeated each reporting period, it is referred to as the accounting cycle and includes these major steps:
The Accounting Process
- Identify the transaction or other recognizable event.
- The transactions should have a source document such as a purchase order or invoice.
- Analyze and classify the transaction. This step
Krashen’s Hypotheses on Second Language Acquisition
Krashen’s Hypotheses on Second Language Acquisition
The Acquisition-Learning Hypothesis
The Acquisition-Learning Hypothesis is the most fundamental of all the hypotheses in Krashen’s theory and the most widely known among linguists and language practitioners. According to Krashen, there are two independent systems of second language performance: the acquired system and the learned system.
- The acquired system, or acquisition, is the product of a subconscious process very similar to the process children