20th Century Galician Prose: A Literary Renaissance

The Irmandades da Fala and the Rise of Galician Narrative

The first third of the 20th century witnessed a flourishing of Galician prose, marked by the emergence of distinct literary groups. The Irmandades da Fala (Brotherhood of Speech), a cultural and political movement advocating for the Galician language, played a crucial role in this renaissance. Many members of the Irmandades, such as Xosé Lesta Meis, Leandro Carré Alvarellos, Xaime Quintanilla, and Armando Cotarelo Valledor, focused on writing

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20th Century Spanish & Latin American Literature: Realism & Narrative Renewal

20th Century Spanish Literature

Miguel Delibes (1920)

Early Novels and Aesthetics

Delibes debuted in 1947 with The Shadow of the Cypress is Long, a novel exploring themes of death and childhood. He followed this with The Road, which contrasts rural and urban life through a child’s awakening. The Red Leaf and Rats tackled social issues like poverty and retirement.

Five Hours with Mario

Considered Delibes’ masterpiece, Five Hours with Mario features Carmen, a middle-class woman reflecting on her deceased

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Literary Analysis: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Texts

Belles Lettres

A literary text is an artistic text, i.e., belles lettres, which is aesthetic and creates beauty and provokes emotions using words. We could define literature as writing that claims consideration based on the beauty of its form or emotional effect.

The Canonization

We can observe a high density of literary resources, such as similes, parallelisms, and ellipsis, at the microstyle level in sentences, paragraphs, or short poems. Other texts, especially narrative texts like realistic novels,

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Romanticism: A Comprehensive Overview

Romanticism

Historical Context

  • American Revolution (1776)
  • French Revolution (1789)

Romanticism emerged as a reaction to the dramatic social and living conditions of the time. Authors challenged the existing way of thinking, sparking an artistic and philosophical movement.

Who Started the Movement?

  • William Wordsworth
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

These poets, known for their ballads, played a pivotal role in the beginning of Romanticism. Civilization during this period flourished in art, culture, literature, and

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Cisco Switch Configuration for VLANs and Inter-VLAN Routing

SWITCH 2 (beta)

User Accounts and Passwords

enable secret 5 cisco
username user1 privilege 15 password 7 
username user2 privilege 15 password 7

VLAN 30 Access Ports (Port Security Enabled)

PC1

interface FastEthernet0/1
switchport mode access
switchport access vlan 30
switchport port-security
switchport port-security maximum 4
switchport port-security mac-address sticky
switchport port-security violation protect
switchport port-security mac-address sticky 0090.2B3B.4E83

Server DNS

interface FastEthernet0/
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Maritime English Vocabulary and Phrases: A Comprehensive Guide

Maritime English Vocabulary and Phrases

Multiple Choice Questions

Question 37

Choose the term that best fits the definition below: “the line used to moor the vessel to a mooring buoy”

a) buoy line

Question 38

Choose the standard phrase that is talking about an action happening at the time of speaking.

a) I am approaching buoy number 1

Question 39

Choose the standard phrase that is talking about a future action

c) I will decrease speed.

Question 44

What does the standard phrase “you must take a tug according

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