Franco’s Spain: A Deep Dive into the Dictatorship (1939-1975)

Franco’s Spain (1939-1975)

Key Aspects of the Franco Regime

1. Franco’s Ideology

Franco’s regime was military, nationalist, conservative, and deeply Catholic, staunchly opposing communism.

2. Core Features of Francoism

Franco’s dictatorship can be summarized by these main points:

  • Dictatorship: The 1931 Constitution was repealed, eliminating human rights, free elections, regional autonomy, minority languages (Catalan, Basque, Galician), and the separation of powers. Franco controlled all three branches
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Enhance Corporate Reputation & Viral Marketing Strategies

Corporate Reputation Improvement Plan

1. Tools

  • Google Alerts
  • RSS Feeds
  • Social Media Internal Search Engines
  • Search Engines: Google, Yahoo…
  • Blog Search Engines
  • Monitoring Tools: Trackur, etc.

2. Choosing Words to Monitor

  • Company Name
  • Name of Subsidiary Companies
  • Brand Name
  • Names of Products and Services
  • Company, Brand, and Product Slogans
  • Sector Name
  • Names of Partners and Shareholders
  • Names of Company Directors
  • Names of Important Employees

3. Life Cycle of an Opinion

  1. It begins with a user experience (positive or
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Catalan Literature After the Spanish Civil War: Authors & Themes

Catalan Literature After the Spanish Civil War

The political changes that began in 1939 aimed to replace all minority languages, including Catalan, with Castilian Spanish. The public use and official teaching of Catalan were banned, forcing intellectuals into exile. Some died, but most returned after 1939. Novels in Catalan slowly reappeared, though censorship continued. Works published until the early 1960s often avoided direct depictions of reality, using symbolism and myth. In the Valencian region,

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Garcilaso de la Vega and Fray Luis de León: Renaissance Poets

Garcilaso de la Vega

Garcilaso de la Vega is the poet who best embodies the new style of poetry in the Renaissance. Born in Toledo in 1501, he was a nobleman skilled in both arms and letters.

He served Emperor Charles I, which led him to travel as a diplomat and participate in various military campaigns. The inspiration for his poetry was not his wife, Elena de Zúñiga, whom he married in 1525, but a Portuguese lady named Isabel Freire. The emperor banished him to an island in the Danube, from where

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Nietzsche’s Critique: Reason, Reality, and the Will to Power

Western Criticism of Reason

Demo-heuristic function: It serves to apprehend reality; no representation is valid. This is a function of the real candle. Nietzsche is a philosopher, skeptic, and relativist. This inability of reason is due to two reasons:

  • Psychological: Reason flees the truth.
  • Rhetorical function: From this perspective, reason is a form of fantasy.

Dialectic-critical function of reason: Reason not only produces fictions but is able to examine them.

Nietzsche criticizes Platonism and Christianity

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Age of Sigmar: Grand Strategies and Battle Tactics

Grand Strategies (3PV)

Conquered in the Name of Khaine: When the battle ends, you complete this grand strategy if there is a friendly AVATAR OF KHAINE or CAULDRON OF BLOOD wholly within enemy territory.

Bloodthirsty Zealots: When the battle ends, you complete this grand strategy if all friendly units either fought at least once during the battle or have been destroyed.

Battle Tactics (2PV)

Gaining Momentum: Pick 1 enemy unit on the battlefield. You complete this battle tactic if that unit is destroyed

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Efficient Irrigation Methods and Fertilizer Use for Crop Production

Irrigation Systems for Optimal Crop Growth

The sprinkler system artificially incorporates water into the soil to meet plant needs, unlike natural rainwater, where incorporation is often less efficient.

Objective of Irrigation

The primary objective of irrigation is to maintain optimal groundwater levels and soil moisture. This is crucial for economic crop production, especially when considering the resources invested. When crops show signs of water stress, artificial irrigation becomes necessary.

Irrigation

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Nietzsche: Key Concepts, Themes, and Critique

Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx exemplify what has been called the crisis of modern consciousness. They are especially critical of the values of modernity, that is, reason, science, and progress.

Vocabulary of Nietzsche

  • Apollonian: Symbolically expresses the more orderly and rational aspects of people’s lives.
  • Body: Has primacy over thought; it is what gives us the reference points for understanding reality.
  • Dionysian: Symbolically expresses the irrational, impulsive, instinctive aspect of people.
  • Moral:
    • A
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Networking Protocols: CSMA/CD, VTP, FTP, HDLC & More

Networking Protocols Explained

CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection)

Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) is a network protocol for carrier transmission that operates in the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer. It senses or listens to whether the shared channel for transmission is busy or not, and defers transmissions until the channel is free. The collision detection technology detects collisions by sensing transmissions from other stations.

VTP

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Understanding Social Security Contribution Base Exclusions

Social Security Contribution Base Exclusions

When no municipality has stayed in the workplace longer than usual, and that constitutes the beneficiary’s residence, allowances for living expenses do not exceed the indicated amounts.

The excess over the indicated amounts must be included in the case of trading.

b) Urban transport bonuses and distance allowances, or their equivalents. The resulting excess, if any, will be computed on the basis of contribution.

c) Death benefits and payments for transfers,

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