España Essays

UNIVERSITATEA DIN CRAIOVA FACULTATEA DE LITERE MASTER: STUDII DE LIMBĂ ENGLEZĂ ŞI LITERATURI ANGLO-AMERICANE MODUL: LIMBĂ LUCRARE DE DISERTAŢIE COORDONATOR ŞTIINŢIFIC: Lector-Univ. Dr. ANA-MARIA TRANTESCU ABSOLVENT: MIHAELA HOPÎRTEAN CRAIOVA, 2015 UNIVERSITATEA DIN CRAIOVA FACULTATEA DE LITERE MASTER: STUDII DE LIMBĂ ENGLEZĂ ŞI LITERATURI ANGLO-AMERICANE

Viña Concha y Toro is a wine producer in Chile, which is the largest exporter in Latin America, with a head office in Santiago. Moreover, Concha y Toro is considered as one of the ten largest wine producers in the world (2008 Viña Concha y Toro Annual Report, 2008). Concha y Toro owns 52 vineyards in Chile, 8 vineyards in Argentina, and 15 vineyards in the USA. The company operates in 145 counties around the world and it has 11 Distribution centers and 2 sales offices (2014 Viña Concha y Toro Annual

The artwork that I chose for my discussion is La Plaza de España. Foreign and domestic tourists flock to this breathtaking building located in Maria Luisa Park in Seville, Spain. The architect Aníbal González crafted this building, illuminating the beauty of what Seville could offer the world. Aníbal González was a Spanish architect born in 1876 in Seville. During his life, he had designed numerous buildings throughout Seville and Madrid such as the Archeological Museum of Seville, Pabellón Real

are crucial for us to pinpoint in order to get the full picture of their role in society. Professor Espana pointed out that she looks up to the brilliant Katherine Johnson, an African American woman who, along with her fellow human computer friend’s broke barriers while working at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the Space Race. Throughout the life of Professor Espana, she unknowingly embodies the character Katherine Johnson in the film “Hidden Figures” by her outstanding

The honors college consists of very interesting teachers. I ended up choosing a teacher who is related to my major and who I have the highest grade in. Professor Espana who teaches College algebra gave me a lot of information pertaining to the honors college and herself. She has an amazing personality especially when it comes to teaching. She really cares about her students and know that they are capable of big opportunities. This is honestly my first time interview a teacher. It really didn’t feel

“Orgulloso de Ser Latino” campaign is a great example for this. Other examples include the Movistar “#GraciasCostaRica” commercial in which the company invited/paid the Costa Rican football players to surprise people at their houses, and the McDonald’s Espana “Llega McDelivery de la mano de ‘Mack’” ad in which Maverick “MACK” Viñales, a Grand Prix motorcycle racer delivers food to a fan of Grand Prix motorcycle racing and demonstrates the McDelivery slogan, which is “Te llevamos buenos momentos a

S. Hispanics know it as their language on the street and in their houses. You can hear it on almost every street of almost any major city in the U.S. these days. As the people from Spain celebrate the national day of Spain, the Fiesta Nacional de España, on the 12th of October, the issue of the use of Spanglish awakens. Spanglish is the combination of the Spanish language with the English language. As the Hispanic immigrants mingle with the English-speaking majority, they very often switch between

Additionally, I watched the three-part Spanish documentary series España dividida: La Guerra Civil en color (“Spain Divided: The Civil War in Color”) to experience a visual portrayal of the war’s story. Along with other books, radio interviews, and reference sources, various other primary documents—from the telegram ordering

In the national level, like Florentino Rodao argues in his short article “Japonizar España”1, the Spanish, who like the rest of Europe had an exotic and somewhat barbaric image of Japan, changed their view to the extent of proposing a “japonisation” of Spain as the only solution to modernise the country. On an international level, at the

which was a former province of the Roman empire, if you translate the word “Hispania” from Latin into English you get the word Spain, this is because this is where the name of the country came from, and the Spanish name for the country Spain is “España” (Dictionary.com, 2016). So the term Hispanic generally means things related to Spain,

Five Decades: Poems 1925 - 1970 is a bilingual collection of poetry by Pablo Neruda, the early 1970’s Nobel Prize winner who influenced a lot of . His love poems are environmentally instructive, and his political poems are the work of a man, and brutally intelligent as he was informative. Ben Belitt has drawn the 138 collections of poems in Five Decades from all of Neruda's. However, I have only read from Neruda’s major writings including the following: the “Residence on Earth”, “General Song,” “Elemental

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts, some experts said that poe was high on Neuroticism, Neuroticism is one of the big-five high order personality traits, the person with high Neuroticism are more likely to get moody, angry, anxiety, worry, fear, loneliness, jealousy, guilt, depressed mood. This is in my opinion why poe writes about horror, murder and other gothic themes. Gustavo Adolfo Becquer was born in Seville in 1836, at the age 21 Becquer is infected by tuberculosis

Señor or the Kings Day, on the 6th of January, the date in which most of the Spanish people exchange Christmas gifts; the 14th of January, the Holy Friday; May 1st, Workers Day; August 15th, Assunción de la Virgen; October 12th, Fiesta Nacional de España; November 1st, All Saints; December 6th, Constitution Day; and December 8th, Immaculate Conception Day. This proves me that national holidays in Catalonia are very different to than the holidays in Spain. Also that Catalonia’s people have different

Development of biotechnology in pharmaceutical industry provides benefits for both patients and firms. On one hand patients prosper ability to achieve much safer and specific treatment due to advanced biotechnological drugs which leads to better quality of life. Innovations in pharmaceutical industry plays critical role in improving total health in society. On the other hand pharmaceutical firms benefits from entering biotechnological industry by increasing market share and profitability and decreasing

Bernal Diaz del Castillo Bernal Diaz was born in 1492 or 1498 to Maria Diaz Rejón and Francisco Diaz del Castillo, a regidor (council member) of the town of Medina del Campo, in Castilla y León. The family was distinguished but not wealthy. In 1514, Bernal went to seek his fortune in America with Pedrarias Dávila (Pedro Árias de Ávila), Bishop Fonseca's newly appointed governor of Castilla del Oro. A cruel and unscrupulous schemer, Pedrarias excelled at extorting riches by torturing native rulers

THE FATHER, THE SON, AND LA CHINGADA: THE TRINITY OF THE CONQUEST ‘Lo Mexicano’ is a phrase-turned-concept in 20th century Mexican philosophy. The term literally translates to “the Mexican,” however, it is also used to superficially describe the identity of the Mexican individual. The notion came about after the revolution; the phrase was meant to emphasize and unite Mexico as an independent people. Today, the phrase is understood as an all encompassing term for “mexicanness,” or that which makes

Introduction: Any effective organization, dynamic association, or a created nation needs an incredible and a great leader that conveyed the fire of that starry-eyed focus on that the supporters trusted in it, and attempt to attain it in genuine by discovering the science that let him finished the objective of the group. Our leader in this report is the hair-raising man of Stamford bridge the special one Jose Mourinho one of the best leaders in the world of soccer, his energy and request to deal

Physiology of Skeletal Muscles L. D.G. Valerio, C. M. Villegas, R. H. Vito, L. R. Zamora Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, University of Santo Tomas, España, Manila, Philippines Keywords Skeletal Muscles, Twitch, Kymograph, Fatigue, Ringer’s solution Summary The experiment was conducted to be able to determine the effect of graded response, load, pules, frequency, tetanus and muscles fatigue on the contraction of the muscle, specifically the gastrocnemius, by doing the procedures

From 1902 to 1923 Alfonso XIII (13) was in charge if Spain. Alfonso had very little respect for the three different branches of government (Legislative, Judicial and Executive) and in return it caused turmoil in the country. In 1923 Spain gave into the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, and Rivera became the new leader of Spain with the consent of the King. The dictatorship of Primo de Rivera lasted from 1923 to 1930. While Rivera was in office he declared a state of war and the abolishment of

Nearly fifty years later Bernal Diaz del Castillo began writing his remembrances of that time as The Conquest of New Spain as he lived in Guatemala retired (Brown 2000). The book had the original title of Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España and was written to establish the correct facts of what happened in