Industrialization in Vizcaya: Late 19th-Early 20th Century

Industrialization in Vizcaya: Late 19th and Early 20th Century

This is an extract from the novel El Intruso, focusing on the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its author is Blasco Ibáñez, a Valencian writer deeply engaged with politics. He was a naturalistic author known for his vivid descriptions of workers’ living conditions. This first-level text was written in 1904.

The Rise of Industry in Vizcaya

This period marked the beginning of industrialization in Vizcaya, which commenced after the end

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Baroque Literature: Paradox, Contrasts, and Society

Baroque Literature: Paradox and Social Reflection

What in the Renaissance was a vision of the world as contingent and varied disappears. It looks like tensions between opposites that are not resolved. The balance that we see is unstable, and any variation may be disastrous. The universe is much more dynamic. Therefore, human experience is a bundle of contradictions. There will be a theological-type vitalism, but on the other side, creating tension, it is dominated by sensory and physical vitality.

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Understanding Culture: Elements, Competence, and Iceberg Model

Culture Defined

Culture encompasses aspects of life shared by a group of people, including:

  • Values, norms, expectations, manners, attitudes, beliefs
  • Age, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation
  • Language, history, geography, customs, rituals
  • Food, clothing, music, literature, art, religion
  • Education and literacy, occupation, income, social class and status, leisure activities
  • Communication patterns, ways of life, roles, time
  • Information transmitted from generation to generation

Elements of Culture

Key components

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Understanding Terrorism: Threats, Definitions, and Responses

The Threat of International Terrorism

  • Very unlikely, not massively consequential.
  • Suggested to even ignore it completely, go about daily lives as usual; to do otherwise would give in to the terrorist goal to provoke and strike fear.
  • Despite this, the threat of terrorism – or its perception – thus owes itself far more to the subjective emotions and fear of politics and uncertainty – particularly by citizens of the developed world.
  • Fears can be amplified and preyed on by terrorists and the media,
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The Frankfurt School: Critical Theory and Habermas’ Philosophy

The Frankfurt School

The Frankfurt School emerged in 1923 when a group of German scientists and intellectuals with Marxist leanings met to conduct sociological research aimed at countering positivist, neopositivist, scientistic, and empiricist theories. The goal was to highlight the shortcomings of these theories and address how advanced technological society and its technical achievements, instead of liberating human beings, had spawned ideological and technical elements that contributed to their

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Understanding Public Sector Organizations and Executive Functions

Public Sector Organizations: An Overview

Public sector organizations encompass the state’s institutions, representing the different powers and government authorities of the executive branch.

Integration of the Public Sector

The integration of the public sector consists of national institutions directed by the central government. These institutions are located at the territorial or regional level, within provinces or municipalities, such as State Departments.

The Executive Branch

The executive branch

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