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Health Of Venezuelan President Hugo Chã¡Vez Clouds Elections, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Jun 2012

Health Of Venezuelan President Hugo Chã¡Vez Clouds Elections, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Enhancing Listening And Spoken Skills In Spanish Connected Speech For Anglophones, Elena Paz Vizcaya Jun 2012

Enhancing Listening And Spoken Skills In Spanish Connected Speech For Anglophones, Elena Paz Vizcaya

Doctoral

Native speech is directed towards native listeners, not designed for comprehension and analysis by language learners. Speed of delivery, or economy of effort, produces a speech signal to which the native listener can assign the correct words. There are no discrete words in the speech signal itself therefore there is often a linguistic barrier in dealing with the local spoken language.
The creation, development and application of the Dynamic Spanish Speech Corpus (DSSC) facilitated an empirically-based appreciation of speaking speed and prosody as obstacles to intelligibility for learners of Spanish. “Duologues”, natural, relaxed dialogues recorded in such a manner that …


Mac's Fiesta: A Foreign Language Game For The Sifteo Platform, Karina Cordon Jun 2012

Mac's Fiesta: A Foreign Language Game For The Sifteo Platform, Karina Cordon

Computer Engineering

Mac’s Fiesta is a Spanish learning game designed on the Sifteo gaming platform for children ages four and up. The Sifteo gaming platform provides a new way of interacting with computers by giving users a set of tangible and interactive cubes. Each Sifteo cube has a clickable colored screen and can sense motion and adjacent blocks. Games on this platform are designed to encourage the development of core thinking skills. This project aims to explore how Sifteo cubes can be used for language learning as well as observe how effective they are as educational tools.


Mapa Provisonal De La Literatura Hispanoamericana De Entre Siglo (Xx-Xxi): Una Mirada Al Camino Literario Actual, Claudia Lorena Márquez-Reséndiz Jun 2012

Mapa Provisonal De La Literatura Hispanoamericana De Entre Siglo (Xx-Xxi): Una Mirada Al Camino Literario Actual, Claudia Lorena Márquez-Reséndiz

Dissertations

Globalization has dramatically transformed many aspects of our life. Media and technology have advanced significantly in the last two decades. At the same time, migration has increased at an unprecedented pace. Literature reflects and expresses the social, economic, political and cultural factors that are occurring at any given time. My dissertation focuses on a novelistic production of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. This body of literature carries within a particular structure of feeling that has emerged in our global era.

In chapter one, I undertake the reading of three novels that discuss and question the concept of "national" …


Scarcity Of Funds Poses Risk For Haiti's Post-Quake Humanitarian Operations And For Sudden Disaster Response, George Rodrã­Guez May 2012

Scarcity Of Funds Poses Risk For Haiti's Post-Quake Humanitarian Operations And For Sudden Disaster Response, George Rodrã­Guez

NotiCen

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Danilo Medina Wins Dominican Republic's Presidential Election, Crosby Girã³N May 2012

Danilo Medina Wins Dominican Republic's Presidential Election, Crosby Girã³N

NotiCen

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High-Level Corruption Cases Add Drama To Presidential Campaign, Carlos Navarro May 2012

High-Level Corruption Cases Add Drama To Presidential Campaign, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Huichol Indians Gain Protected Status For Sacred Lands In San Luis Potosã­, Carlos Navarro May 2012

Huichol Indians Gain Protected Status For Sacred Lands In San Luis Potosã­, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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U.S. Praises Brazil, Offers Technology Transfer For Fighter-Jet Purchase, Andrã©S Gaudã­N May 2012

U.S. Praises Brazil, Offers Technology Transfer For Fighter-Jet Purchase, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Tensions Continue Between Colombia's Past, Present Presidents, Andrã©S Gaudã­N May 2012

Tensions Continue Between Colombia's Past, Present Presidents, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Honduran Land-Ownership Struggle Increasing, Campesinos More Aware Of Rights, Landowners More Aggressive, George Rodrã­Guez May 2012

Honduran Land-Ownership Struggle Increasing, Campesinos More Aware Of Rights, Landowners More Aggressive, George Rodrã­Guez

NotiCen

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Cubans Long For Migratory Reforms To Provide Greater Freedom Of Movement To And From Island, Daniel Vã¡Zquez May 2012

Cubans Long For Migratory Reforms To Provide Greater Freedom Of Movement To And From Island, Daniel Vã¡Zquez

NotiCen

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University Students Organize Massive Protests Against Presidential Candidate Enrique Peã±A Nieto And Pri, Carlos Navarro May 2012

University Students Organize Massive Protests Against Presidential Candidate Enrique Peã±A Nieto And Pri, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Fire Season Off To Bad Start, But Less Severe Than Last Year, Carlos Navarro May 2012

Fire Season Off To Bad Start, But Less Severe Than Last Year, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Bolivian Government Renationalizes Spanish Electric Company, Andrã©S Gaudã­N May 2012

Bolivian Government Renationalizes Spanish Electric Company, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

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Uruguayans Living Abroad Still Unable To Vote In National Elections, Andrã©S Gaudã­N May 2012

Uruguayans Living Abroad Still Unable To Vote In National Elections, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

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Through Other I'S: Las Otras, Brenda Nettles Riojas May 2012

Through Other I'S: Las Otras, Brenda Nettles Riojas

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The “I” speaks in each of the poems presented; but whose I? The collection explores the use of personae, and gives voice to “the other” I’s/las otras, women who came before us and those who walk among us. Sometimes in English, sometimes in Spanish, sometimes the voices cross between languages. Written primarily in free verse, the poems are ordered to allow the mingling of languages from the speakers on the page. Through other eyes, some of the characters revive the past, speak from the grave. They provide a glimpse into what lies beyond the “I.” We hear the …


Two People Killed In Panama In Logging Dispute, Louisa Reynolds May 2012

Two People Killed In Panama In Logging Dispute, Louisa Reynolds

NotiCen

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Sandinista Co-Founder Tomã¡S Borge, 81, Dies In Nicaragua, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar May 2012

Sandinista Co-Founder Tomã¡S Borge, 81, Dies In Nicaragua, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiCen

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Alessandro Malaspina And The Voyage Of Disenchantment, Michael James Letzring May 2012

Alessandro Malaspina And The Voyage Of Disenchantment, Michael James Letzring

Arctic and Northern Studies

Between 1775 and 1792 the shores of what is now Alaska and British Columbia were opened to European reconnaissance by a series of mostly Spanish expeditions. The most ambitious and prestigious of the Spanish expeditions was also one of the last; the Spanish hydrographic expedition of 1789-1794 --the Viaje Politico-Cientifico Alrededor del Mundo, created and commanded by Alessandro Malaspina. The Malaspina expedition was a technical tour-de-force that was meant both materially and symbolically to assert Spain's program of reform and modernization under the Bourbon monarchs, but Malaspina's liberal Enlightenment philosophy would in the end isolate him from the absolutist monarchy …


Us Government Freezes Assets Of Sinaloa Cartel Leaders, Including Two Sons Of "El Chapo" Guzmã¡N, Carlos Navarro May 2012

Us Government Freezes Assets Of Sinaloa Cartel Leaders, Including Two Sons Of "El Chapo" Guzmã¡N, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


State-Run Oil Company Pemex, Hydrocarbons Regulator Disagree On Deepwater Drilling, Carlos Navarro May 2012

State-Run Oil Company Pemex, Hydrocarbons Regulator Disagree On Deepwater Drilling, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


The Making And Breaking Of A Language: The French And Spanish Effect Upon The Catalan Regional Language, Margaret Emilyn Cychosz May 2012

The Making And Breaking Of A Language: The French And Spanish Effect Upon The Catalan Regional Language, Margaret Emilyn Cychosz

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Almost four hundred years ago, the French and Spanish governments divided the Catalan border regions located between their respective countries. The subsequent centuries have seen the expansion and development of the Catalan language in Spain and the demise of the Catalan language in France, where it has nearly deteriorated to disuse. Is this a reflection upon the French and Spanish culture or was it simply governmental policy? If so, what did the central governments of Madrid and Paris do in the centuries following the division that resulted in this contrasting development of Catalan? What effect did the usage of Catalan …


Political And Institutional Chaos In Paraguay, Andrã©S Gaudã­N May 2012

Political And Institutional Chaos In Paraguay, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Criticism Of Inter-American Human Rights System, Luis ÁNgel Saavedra May 2012

Criticism Of Inter-American Human Rights System, Luis ÁNgel Saavedra

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


El Salvador's Government Sends General Water Law Into Legislative Pipeline, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar May 2012

El Salvador's Government Sends General Water Law Into Legislative Pipeline, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Guatemalan Workers Face Uphill Struggle In Fight For Safe Working Conditions, Louisa Reynolds May 2012

Guatemalan Workers Face Uphill Struggle In Fight For Safe Working Conditions, Louisa Reynolds

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


First Presidential Debate Marked By Attacks On Front-Runner Enrique Peã±A Nieto, Carlos Navarro May 2012

First Presidential Debate Marked By Attacks On Front-Runner Enrique Peã±A Nieto, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Mexican Congress Approves Landmark Legislation To Protect And Compensate Victims Of Organized Crime, Carlos Navarro May 2012

Mexican Congress Approves Landmark Legislation To Protect And Compensate Victims Of Organized Crime, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Latin American And Spanish Cinema Showcased In Lawrence Film Festival, Lawrence University May 2012

Latin American And Spanish Cinema Showcased In Lawrence Film Festival, Lawrence University

Press Releases

Nine international films representing seven countries will be showcased May 9-13 in Lawrence University’s first annual Latin American and Spanish Film Festival.

The theme of the festival focuses on the body and sex. All films will be shown with English subtitles and are free and open to the public.

Highlighting the festival will be a presentation by Paul Julian Smith, internationally recognized literary and film critic in Hispanic cultural studies. Smith will discuss the work of acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar in the address ” Almodóvar’s Women” Friday, May 11 at 6 p.m. in the Wriston Art Center auditorium.

Smith …