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Preparación De Las Niñas Mayas Para Mejorar Su Calidad De Vida, Jennifer Catino, Alejandra Colom, Marta Julia Ruiz Jan 2011

Preparación De Las Niñas Mayas Para Mejorar Su Calidad De Vida, Jennifer Catino, Alejandra Colom, Marta Julia Ruiz

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

La población de Guatemala es más pobre, menos educada, de crecimiento más acelerado y étnicamente más diversa que la mayoría de los demás países en América Latina. Las tasas de fertilidad y mortalidad infantil del país son unas de las más altas en la región. Casi la mitad de la población de Guatemala es aborigen, y más de 20 grupos étnicos mayas viven en áreas rurales aisladas, con acceso limitado a servicios básicos como agua, higiene, caminos escuelas y cuidado de la salud. Las niñas mayas son el grupo menos favorecido del país, que llevan vidas caracterizadas por una escolaridad …


La Atención Y Prevención De La Violencia En Contra De La Mujer En Guatemala: Directorio De Servicios, Diana Del Castillo, Elvia Raquec Jan 2011

La Atención Y Prevención De La Violencia En Contra De La Mujer En Guatemala: Directorio De Servicios, Diana Del Castillo, Elvia Raquec

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

La violencia contra la mujer es un grave problema de salud pública, constituye una violación de los derechos humanos y es una manifestación de extrema inequidad de género dentro de una sociedad. El problema de violencia en contra de la mujer en Guatemala es uno de los más severos en Latinoamérica. La mayoría de las víctimas son mujeres pobres de áreas rurales, jóvenes, con edades entre los 13 y 30 años. Este Directorio de proveedores de servicios y recursos para la atención y prevención de la violencia en contra de las niñas, adolescentes y mujeres se realizó como parte del …


Informe Años Dos Movil.Com: Evaluación De La Línea Final Resumen De Hallazgos Principales, Annik Sorhaindo, Xipatl Contreras, Kate S. Wilson, Sandra G. Garcia Jan 2011

Informe Años Dos Movil.Com: Evaluación De La Línea Final Resumen De Hallazgos Principales, Annik Sorhaindo, Xipatl Contreras, Kate S. Wilson, Sandra G. Garcia

Reproductive Health

This report highlights the findings of the endline evaluation of a two-year leadership project aimed at indigenous youth in Oaxaca, Mexico: Movil.com. Movil.com is a community project headed by peers and built on elements of other models. It is similar to a cascaded peer education and training model, in which nuclear leaders are trained who, in turn, train facilitators of larger groups. The Population Council office in Mexico evaluated the project at the request of the social organization that implements it, the Rosales Castellanos Women's Study Group, an NGO that has worked for more than 30 years with indigenous communities …


Lexical Development In Adult Beginning Second Language Learners, Angela Chouinard Jan 2011

Lexical Development In Adult Beginning Second Language Learners, Angela Chouinard

Honors Theses

This research tests the hypothesis that knowledge of derivational morphology facilitates vocabulary acquisition in beginning adult second language learners. Participants were mono-lingual English-speaking college students aged 18 years and older enrolled inintroductory Spanish courses. Knowledge of Spanish derivational morphology was tested through the use of a forced-choice translation task. Spanish lexical knowledge was measured by a translation task using direct translation (English word) primes and conceptual (picture) primes. A 2x2x2 mixed factor ANOVA examined the relationships between morphological knowledge (strong, moderate), error type (form-based, conceptual), and prime type (direct translation, picture). The results are consistent with the existence of a …


Sacramento, Marlena Fitzpatrick Jan 2011

Sacramento, Marlena Fitzpatrick

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Inspired by entertaining, opinionated voices with debatable, controversial messages I wrote "Sacramento." EVA RIVERA, a 32 year old Honduran poet is captured and incarcerated by the "Maduros Guerrilla" due to her controversial political activism through a network called "Las Hijas Del Maiz." After being held captive, tortured and raped, she miraculously escapes. She manages to return home, gather her belongings and cross the border, all the way to New York via Canada. FATHER MARTIN RODRIGUEZ, a 35 year old Chilean Catholic Priest has disgraced his faith by keeping a promise he made his brother on his death bed: he will …


The Effects Of The "Combined Method" On Spanish Language Vocabulary Acquisition In English Speaking Participants, Allan Alva Jan 2011

The Effects Of The "Combined Method" On Spanish Language Vocabulary Acquisition In English Speaking Participants, Allan Alva

Dissertations and Theses

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The Gradient Nature Of S-Lenition In Caleño Spanish, Earl K. Brown, Richard J. File-Muriel Jan 2011

The Gradient Nature Of S-Lenition In Caleño Spanish, Earl K. Brown, Richard J. File-Muriel

Faculty Publications

Whereas previous studies of Spanish s-weakening have relied on impressionistic coding, the present study examines temporal and gradient acoustic details in the production of /s/ by eight females from Cali, Colombia, during sociolinguistic interviews. We propose a metric for quantifying s-realization by employing three scalar-dependent variables: s-duration, centroid, and voicelessness. The results of linear regressions indicate that the dependent variables are significantly conditioned by local speaking rate, word position, following and preceding phonological context, stress, and lexical frequency. This study sheds light on how each independent variable influences s-realization acoustically. For example, as local speaking rate increases, duration, centroid, and …


Paradigmatic Peer-Pressure: Word-Medial, Syllable-Initial /S/ Lenition In Dominican Spanish, Earl K. Brown Jan 2011

Paradigmatic Peer-Pressure: Word-Medial, Syllable-Initial /S/ Lenition In Dominican Spanish, Earl K. Brown

Faculty Publications

Usage-based phonology (Bybee 2001, 2006, 2010), which is based on exemplar theory (Pierrehumbert 2001, 2003), proposes a memory capacity so expansive that, in theory, all tokens experienced in life could be mapped onto their respective exemplar clouds. However, if a token is similar enough to an existing one, it is simply mapped directly onto that existing token, reinforcing it in memory. This model proposes a very limited need for generative rules to produce the surface form, as the surface forms themselves are stored whole in memory and therefore can be directly accessed during production. It follows that derived words need …


New Threat To Peru's Forests And Indigenous Peoples, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A Dec 2010

New Threat To Peru's Forests And Indigenous Peoples, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo Deals With Ongoing Health, Political Problems, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Dec 2010

Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo Deals With Ongoing Health, Political Problems, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Costa Rica And Nicaragua Both Claim Willingness To Talk, But Dialog Has Yet To Start, George Rodriguez Dec 2010

Costa Rica And Nicaragua Both Claim Willingness To Talk, But Dialog Has Yet To Start, George Rodriguez

NotiCen

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Human Rights Council Makes 112 Recommendations To Honduras, Which Government Says It Has Fulfilled, Human Rights Advocate Says Not, George Rodriguez Dec 2010

Human Rights Council Makes 112 Recommendations To Honduras, Which Government Says It Has Fulfilled, Human Rights Advocate Says Not, George Rodriguez

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Supreme Court Validates Private Contracts For State-Run Oil Company Pemex, Carlos Navarro Dec 2010

Supreme Court Validates Private Contracts For State-Run Oil Company Pemex, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Poinsettia Growers In Mexico Expanding Domestic Sales, Still Not Allowed To Export To U.S. Market, Carlos Navarro Dec 2010

Poinsettia Growers In Mexico Expanding Domestic Sales, Still Not Allowed To Export To U.S. Market, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Chile President And Opposition Trade Barbs While Earthquake Victims Wait For Solutions, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar Dec 2010

Chile President And Opposition Trade Barbs While Earthquake Victims Wait For Solutions, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Bolivia Makes Clear Its Anti-Imperialism, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Dec 2010

Bolivia Makes Clear Its Anti-Imperialism, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Haiti Elections: Badly Flawed, Unlikely To Bring Any Positive Change, Charles Arthur Dec 2010

Haiti Elections: Badly Flawed, Unlikely To Bring Any Positive Change, Charles Arthur

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli's Agenda Marches On Unfazed By Opposition, Sean Mattson Dec 2010

Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli's Agenda Marches On Unfazed By Opposition, Sean Mattson

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Report Suggests That U.S. Immigration Agency Overestimated Deportation Numbers To Sway Funding Decision, Carlos Navarro Dec 2010

Report Suggests That U.S. Immigration Agency Overestimated Deportation Numbers To Sway Funding Decision, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Leaked Diplomatic Cables Show Strong Concerns About President Felipe Calderã³N’S Campaign Against Drug-Trafficking Organizations, Carlos Navarro Dec 2010

Leaked Diplomatic Cables Show Strong Concerns About President Felipe Calderã³N’S Campaign Against Drug-Trafficking Organizations, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Death Of Former President Nã©Stor Kirchner Brings Political Turmoil, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Dec 2010

Death Of Former President Nã©Stor Kirchner Brings Political Turmoil, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Ecuadoran Government Attempts To Reform Autonomous And Corrupt Police, Luis ÁNgel Saavedra Dec 2010

Ecuadoran Government Attempts To Reform Autonomous And Corrupt Police, Luis ÁNgel Saavedra

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Deadly Blaze Underscores Crisis In El Salvador's Prison System, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar Dec 2010

Deadly Blaze Underscores Crisis In El Salvador's Prison System, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Verdict In Forced-Disappearance Case Sets Precedent In Fight Against Impunity, Louisa Reynolds Dec 2010

Verdict In Forced-Disappearance Case Sets Precedent In Fight Against Impunity, Louisa Reynolds

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Mexican Companies Increasing Direct Investments In Us, Carlos Navarro Dec 2010

Mexican Companies Increasing Direct Investments In Us, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Teaching Spanish To Beginning Spanish Students, Amy Baldini Dec 2010

Teaching Spanish To Beginning Spanish Students, Amy Baldini

World Languages and Cultures

During my time in college and studying abroad, I have developed a passion for languages.  As a result, I plan on teaching Spanish in High School.  Therefore, my senior project will involve tutoring beginning-level Cal Poly students in Spanish and evaluating the difficulties that students encounter while learning a second language.  I will tutor for a minimum of 30 hours and complete a write-up which summarizes my experience.  In this write up, I discuss the tutoring sessions and the different obstacles and successes I encounter.  I will also discuss what tutors must consider when tutoring students.  I will outline my …


Unesco Recognizes Mexican Cuisine As Cultural Heritage Of Humanity, Carlos Navarro Dec 2010

Unesco Recognizes Mexican Cuisine As Cultural Heritage Of Humanity, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


As Agroexports Increase In Peru, So Does Labor Exploitation, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A Nov 2010

As Agroexports Increase In Peru, So Does Labor Exploitation, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


A Survey Of Utah Spanish Teachers Regarding The Instruction Of Heritage Language Students Of Spanish, Sara Lynn Wilkinson Nov 2010

A Survey Of Utah Spanish Teachers Regarding The Instruction Of Heritage Language Students Of Spanish, Sara Lynn Wilkinson

Theses and Dissertations

It is imperative that educators understand the current state of heritage language education because many locations have experienced large increases in their heritage language populations in recent years. This study reports on the findings of a statewide survey of secondary Spanish teachers in Utah regarding the instruction of Spanish heritage language students. Their perspectives give insight into Spanish Heritage Language (SHL) education in both traditional Spanish foreign language and heritage language classes. The information gathered describes the availability of specialized courses, the prevalence of SHL students in Spanish classes, and these students' backgrounds. It also describes the characteristics of Spanish …


Weary And Still Wary, Chile's Mapuche Hunger Strikers End Perilous Protest, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar Nov 2010

Weary And Still Wary, Chile's Mapuche Hunger Strikers End Perilous Protest, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiSur

No abstract provided.