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Pero...Maybe, Adrian Gonzalez

Graduate School of Art Theses

Through collage, assemblage, and object making, I fit unlikely fragments that I call manchitas—stains—together. In my paintings and mixed media assemblages I incorporate references to Spanglish as un acto of making. To me, it’s like the visual work that I make: thinking in one language and speaking another, words start with English but end in Spanish. They sound like English but are Spanish or vice versa. The words look misspelled but are used in everyday conversation. Spanglish is idiosyncratic and is what I build my practice on. I collect materials around me, some I find and some I make. …

La Historia De Amor Del Violin Solito, Annie Jane Glauser

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

Un día me encontré con una compañera en la bonita ciudad de Toledo, España. Fuimos de paseo en el pueblo pequeño, buscando aventura pero sin gastar ni usar nuestro dinero. Escalamos un cierro de callejones, escalando más alto y más alto con cada paso. Llegamos a un punto en nuestro viaje donde nos encontramos en un sitio muy bonito que tenía una vista impresionante. Un poco más arriba de este sitio había una tienda. Al verlo, mi compañera de repente dijo “mira! Ese es tu tipo de tienda!” Al verlo le dije, “si, lo es. Y por eso no voy …

La Comida, Fatima Acosta

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

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Compré mucha comida de la tienda para la fiesta. Los tengo en mi coche.

Pongo los comestibles en mi cocina. De lo que compré, voy a dejar los cocos y conchas afuera del refrigerador.

Voy a hacer un cóctel y voy a necesitar los cocos para poner el cóctel. Voy a traer mis conchas para el postre. ¡Que rico!

Mi

También mirando mi comida, yo creo que es la mejor del mundo.

Quiero anunciar con un micrófono a todas que sabrosa esta mi comida.

Mi comida esta tan buena que creo que la puedo vender por un millón en …

La Vida De Las Montañas, Jackson Avery

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

Aqui está una de las piezas de arte más influentes del mundo. El artista muestra al mundo que la naturaleza, especialmene las montañas, es tan linda.

El Sol, Christina Blanchard

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

El sol

Cambia a lo largo de la historia

Era la luz más importante

Significaba los comienzos y los finales

Era un dios

Se transportaba por un caballo divino en un país

Por un pez en otro

Y por una nave divina a través del cielo

Les ayudaba con la hora

Llegó a ser el centro del universo

Para los que por fin entendieron

Sanaba

Entendimiento, percepción

Cambio

El Agua, Jessica Barker

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

Las plantas quieren que el agua sea puro. Los animales quieren que el agua satisfagan su sed. Utah quiere que el agua venga, pero Florida quiere que el agua salga. Yo quiero que el agua fuera mi hogar, pero los gatos quieren que el agua desaparezca. En total, el agua quiere que sea querido.

El Violín, Amelia Christensen

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

La palabra violín viene de una palabra de latín que significa instrumento. También, había una diosa que se llamaba Vitula, y era la diosa de gozo. Entonces, hay un verbo en latín que es vitulari que significa “estar lleno de gozo”. El violín trae mucho gozo a los demás.

Coche, Kelsey Green

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

El año estará 2095. Yo estaré volando por el cielo. Habrá los semáforos por todo. Lo estará el normal modo.

Los Auriculares, Madison Jenkins

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

Mi dueño me perdió la semana pasada. Siempre estuve ahí, pero él no podía verme. Me acosté debajo de la cama, esperando a que me recogiera. Tenía que escuchar música, mirar televisión y hablar con sus amigos, solo. No le deseo eso a mi peor enemigo.

La Pluma, Megan Johnston

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

La pluma existe para escribir. La pluma usa sus ideas para crear mundos e historias. A veces usa sus ideas para dibujar. El propósito de escribir es compartir sus ideas con el mundo por sus escritos. Escribe para hacer un cambio en el mundo. La pluma quiere ayudar a las personas a formar sus ideas para publicarlos.

La Comida, Scotty Mccubbins

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

La comida quiere estar en un plato muy extravagante. Debe ser un plato que este hecho de porcelana blanca. Debe ser un plato que esté grande para enfatizar a la comida. Es necesario que el plato sea redondo para guardar la comida. Prefiere que el plato este sobre una mesa porque no quiere estar en el piso. Y más que nada es necesario que el plato tenga que estar acompañado por alguien que va a apreciar a la comida.

Las Montañas, Hannah Lybbert

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

Por el ojo desnudo, las montañas se ven como un espectacular maravilloso, perfectamente perfecto. Hacen que el amanecer y el atardecer sean más bonitas y esconden un plétora de secretos que parece de otro planeta. Lo que no se ve es que las montañas cargan miles de años de imperfecciones. En vez de tener avergüenza de sus defectos, la montaña los desgaste con orgullo porque representan su vida que aunque es un poco agitado, es perfecto en sus ojos.

Las Alarmas De Fuego, Zachary Rose

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

La alarma de fuego iba en el centro de turísticas de las islas de Galápagos. Esperaba, porque siempre estaba lista para alertar a la gente de una emergencia. La alarma detectó humo y soñó la alarma para salvar a todas las personas.

La Luna, Zachary Swensen

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

La luna ha formado una lista de lugares que quisiera visitar en la Tierra. El primer lugar se llama el lago Titcaca. La luna ha querido visitar este lugar porque es el lago más cercano a la luna por estar en las altas montañas de Bolivia. Durante el curso de la vida de la luna, ha visto muchas cosas extrañas que han pasado en este lago.

Perspectivas Verdaderas: La Cámara, Jj Snow

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

Desde la creación de la imagen ha existido una relación de amor entre las cameras Y la belleza. Las cameras siempre han gustado tomar fotos inspiradoras Y provocantes. Han querido ser la mejor que puedan ser. Han usado varios elementos para hacer la imagen perfecta para capturar la belleza del mundo alrededor. Han tratado de buscar la perfección.

La Moto De Motocross, Matthew Murdock

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

A mí me encantan la moto y la adrenalina, a muchos no les gusta porque esta peligrosa pero eso no es cierto, al manejear se siente tranquilo.

El Calcetín, Lindsay Carreto

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

Yo soy un calcetín que ha tenido muchas aventuras junto a mi hermano gemelo. Yo estoy muy feliz de compartir mi vida con él. Mi hermano es un gran líder y cuida mucho de mí. Nosotros somos como mejores amigos, nos contamos todo. Él es un gran apoyo en mi vida.

Service-Learning: A Translation Of Documents Into Spanish On Behalf Of Learning For All, Aidan Posey

Theses/Capstones/Creative Projects

Learning for ALL (LFA) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit based in Omaha, NE. LFA offers resources to adults in the community by offering a variety of classes in literacy, English language, and Adult Basic Education. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, much of the learning at LFA has transitioned to the online learning portal, Burlington English. However, the fact that Burlington English is presented and written in English poses a large barrier to the accessibility of online learning material. Current LFA management utilizes Google Translate to try and translate the steps to log into this platform and while a valuable tool, Google …

Kinetics For Enzymatic Conversion Of Biomass To Glucose, Jordan Broadwater

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Biofuels are a sought-after alternative for fossil fuels in today’s society. More specifically, cellulose-based biofuel is an avenue of research intending to limit waste and provide new renewable energy. Cellulose is a rigid polymer of glucose monomers that is found abundantly across different agriculture crops. However, its stability is a barrier to energy production from this source. Pretreatment followed by hydrolysis of cellulosic materials serves a potential to produce glucose to be used in biofuels in larger quantities compared to other methods. This project studied the effect microwave pretreatment and oxygenation have on hydrolysis of cellulose in Arundo Donax. Arundo …

Oer Immersive Mulitmedia Materials Project: Vr As An Agent Of Change, Alexander Isin, Jade Basilius, Johana Barrero, Angeles Fernandez-Cifuentes

Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research and Scholarship (SOARS)

OER-Immersive Multimedia Materials Project: VR as an Agent of Change Alexander Isin, Computer Science/ Spanish Major (Main researcher) Jade Basilius, Communication/ Spanish Major (Main researcher) Mentors: Johana Barrero, Ph. D., Ångeles Fernández Cifuentes, Ph. D. This project aims at the design and development of immersive instructional materials (with a focus on virtual reality) for the Spanish language, literature, and culture classroom. It specifically involves the design of an interactive 360-degree experience in Spanish about the Florida Keys Coral Reefs and their environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural impact on the community. My involvement in the project focused on the research of different …

Oer-Immersive Multimedia Materials Project, Jade Basilius

Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research and Scholarship (SOARS)

Project of Merit Winner

The goal of this project is to create a bilingual 360 virtual reality experience specifically designed to allow second language learners to maximize their cognitive abilities to learn new grammar skills while learning about pressing and pertinent global climate change issues. This learning module will allow students to experience the coral reefs from the classroom, through the 360 virtual reality experience. They will be able to explore the reefs and learn about why they are important for our future. This module has been designed and created with the Cognitive Learning Theory for the purpose of maximizing …

La Variación Sociofonológica De /Tʃ/ En Chihuahua, México, Latasha L. Valenzuela-Hernandez

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis shows us the phonological variation of the pronunciation of [tʃ] in the vernacular Spanish of Chihuahua, Mexico, which variably converts into a different pronunciation, the variant [ʃ], through the process of lenition. Although this phenomenon is observed in various countries such as Spain, Panama, Venezuela, and the United States, it remained understudied in the sociolinguistic field until now. Therefore, this investigation contributes reliable information of the psycholinguistic, phonological, and geo-linguistic characteristics that are pertinent to the production of the fricative [ʃ]. The investigation’s methodology employs semi-directed interviews with a socially stratified corpus of thirty-two speakers from Chihuahua, Mexico. …

Learn, Try, Repeat: Experiential Learning In Adult Second Language Acquisition Of Spanish In Higher Education, Veronica Miller

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

The purpose of this thesis is to synthesize research of experiential learning for adult Spanish learners in higher education to identify important takeaways and propose draft curriculum to improve acquisition for learners through experience-based and hands-on practices. Hopefully, this will aid in understanding, identify gaps in existing research, and better inform lesson-planning for instructors. My research does not include any comparison to other languages or other levels of education. I approach the issue through exploratory and descriptive research through open-source data retrieval by information obtained from governmental and nongovernmental resources.

Systemic Functional Linguistics And Its Application To The Study Of Academic Conference Presentations, Carolina Viera, Maite Taboada

World Languages Faculty Publications and Presentations

Academic conference presentations (CPs) offer the possibility to study both the linguistic features of academic oral language and social conventions that take place during these events (Ventola, Shalom & Thompson, 2002). Academic conferences have been understudied (Robles Garrote, 2016), especially within the theoretical framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). For this reason, researchers who investigate this topic have insufficient reference literature. This study contributes to the understanding of CPs by discussing theoretical and methodological aspects of the analysis of a corpus of 32 CPs given in Spanish in the United States to determine the generic structure or prototypical text structure …

The Island Heritage / El Patrimonio De La Isla, Susana Castillo-Rodriguez

Languages and Literatures

In 1926, Philip. J. Fisher published “The Island Heritage. Episodes from the Missionary History of Fernando Poo, West Africa. A Play for Young People”. This book has remained unknown until present. There is one copy at Archives and Special Collections, SOAS Library (London).

This play is of enormous interest not just for it has been mentioned above but also because:

1. It is a vivid narration of the settlement of Protestant missionaries in Clarence, based on historical facts and personal experience collected first hand by Philip. J. Fisher as he interviewed some of the protagonists in the play.

2. It is the …

A Computational Study In The Detection Of English–Spanish Code-Switches, Yohamy C. Polanco

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Code-switching is the linguistic phenomenon where a multilingual person alternates between two or more languages in a conversation, whether that be spoken or written. This thesis studies the automatic detection of code-switching occurring specifically between English and Spanish in two corpora.

Twitter and other social media sites have provided an abundance of linguistic data that is available to researchers to perform countless experiments. Collecting the data is fairly easy if a study is on monolingual text, but if a study requires code-switched data, this becomes a complication as APIs only accept one language as a parameter. This thesis focuses on …

Non-Vibrant Bilingual Rhotics In A Creole-Spanish Contact Scenario, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos

World Languages & Cultures Department Publications

This sociolinguistic study examines the non-vibrant rhotic realizations produced in a bilingual Spanish variety spoken by Creole-Spanish speakers in the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia. These bilingual rhotic realizations were compared with the languages in contact, the monolingual varieties, Spanish and Creole, in terms of the best acoustic predictors for discriminating between linguistic groups. A discriminant function analysis selected segmental duration and formant frequencies (F3 and F2) as the acoustic correlates with the best predicting capabilities. These acoustic predictors extracted from zero-occlusion rhotics were further contrasted between varieties revealing that the bilingual Spanish is placed in an intermediate position between …

Bilingualism And Language Attitude In Melilla (Spain), Lotfi Sayahi, Miguel Àngel Montero Alonso

Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

El Argumento Para Una Tercera Opción De Género Neutro En La Lengua Española (The Argument For A Third Gender-Neutral Option In The Spanish Language), Fiona Siobhan Bean

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

All nouns, determiners, and many adjectives in the Spanish language are grammatically designated as either masculine or feminine, and the default is always the masculine form. For example, “the tall boy” in Spanish is “el chico alto”, “the tall girl” is “la chica alta”, and if there is a group of tall children the plural form is the masculine “los chicos altos” even if there are females in the group. This binary gender division and masculine default can cause harm, however, when used in reference to women and non-binary people. This paper explores the recent movement to include a third …

Estrategias Populistas: Un Acercamiento Al Discurso Político Español Desde La Lingüística De Corpus, Alicia Juncos Zori

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

This dissertation explores populist discourse in the June 2016 Spanish election campaign through the construction and analysis of a corpus of political speeches. As a result of the economic, social, and institutional crisis that began in 2008, Spain underwent a governmental restructuring with two new parties PODEMOS (Unidas Podemos) and CIUDADANOS (C’s). This transformation breaks with the classic political model, which alternated power between PARTIDO POPULAR (Popular Party) and PSOE (The Spanish Socialist Party). In my research, I analyze discursive strategies employed by the leading Spanish political parties to discover how PODEMOS differs linguistically and discursively from other groups. …