Los ojos de una ciudad china

Text in Spanish. A collection of nine contemporary short stories by outstanding Puerto Rican authors including Pedro Juan Soto, Wilfredo Braschi, Jaime Carrero, Jose Luis Gonzalez, and Tomas Blanco.

The book studies the relation between the avant-garde and graphic humour in two critical historical periods: the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the early years of the Cuban Revolution (1959-1961). It focuses on the so-called war magazines in Spain on the Republican side (No Veas, Trincheras, and LEsquella de la Torratxa,among others) and the Francoist side (Vértice and La Ametralladora). In the part devoted to Cuba, the analysis covers the newspaper Revolución and the avant-garde humour magazine El Pitirre, which ran simultaneously to the cultural supplement Lunes de Revolución and...

Seminar paper del año 2014 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 2,7, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Materia: Kulturwissenschaften, Idioma: Español, Resumen: El presente trabajo expone la vida de Pedro Almodóvar y su papel durante la Movida Madrileña en tres partes. La primera parte resume su niñez y juventud en La Mancha y luego en Extremadura. La segunda parte demuestra su vida y su obra durante la Movida Madrileña y la última parte trata su vida y su obra después de 1985. “¿Pedro Almodóvar? ¡Qué te voy a decir! Lo adoro. Siempre he...

The EMS Translator Field Guide, Spanish Edition allows the provider to simply point to Spanish questions and explanations, rather than requiring him or her to learn the language or pronounce the words phonetically. When the provider needs to obtain more information from the patient about his or her medical condition, the provider selects a question they wish to ask from a list of queries written in English and then simply points to the corresponding question in Spanish. The Spanish-speaking patient then needs only to answer "yes" or "no" to the questions posed to him or her. The English and...