Paso a Paso

Paso a Paso
Author: Deborah Bender
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2002
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780826328939

This book and accompanying CD are designed for health care professionals who are rusty in their speaking and listening skills or who studied Spanish for a semester or two many years ago. Hundreds of novice learners have found the handbook and CD extremely effective because, after six weeks, they are able to speak and understand short Spanish phrases and sentences in health-related environments. This handbook helps agencies and individuals respond to recently issued national standards for culturally and linguistically appropriate services in health care issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2001. If you want to learn how to communicate with Spanish-speaking clients, this book and CD are for you. The handbook is organized into a series of sixpasos, or steps, each designed to be a lesson. Eachpasopresents seven exercises or activities designed to engage the novice in learning, practicing, and using health care Spanish. The accompanying CD presents a series of dialogues that occur frequently in both administrative and clinical settings. Developed through the Spanish for Health Professionals workshops at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health, this handbook and CD follow the principles of Communicative Language Learning in which the primary emphasis is placed on speaking and listening. These materials have proven highly successful in training health professionals in Spanish and cultural competencies to improve the quality of care provided to the immigrant Latino population.

Conversaciones de Poder

Conversaciones de Poder
Author: Kora S. Nchez
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2012-01-16
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1466911956

La programación o educación básica del ser humano, generalmente, se ocupa de qué necesitamos HACER para lograr objetivos. Por ejemplo, si quieres ser inteligente, ¿tienes que ? Estudiar. Si quieres tener dinero, ¿tienes que ? Trabajar. Si quieres ser aceptado en sociedad, ¿tienes que ? Casarte y tener tu propia familia. Hacemos cosas para TENER. ¿Te suena lógico? ¿Te suena conocido? ¿Es éste el espacio de posibilidades donde te mueves? ¿Alguna vez has escuchado la frase YO SOY ? Quizá la relacionas con tu creador. Esto, indistinto de tu religión o cultura. Cuando hablamos del creador, hablamos del SER. ¿Esto te da alguna pista? ¿Será que la fuente de creación viene del ser y no del hacer? Transformación Humana plantea esta posibilidad. Para tener resultados extraordinarios, la fuente de creación está en el ser, no en el hacer.

Take Me with You

Take Me with You
Author: Carlos Frias
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2008-11-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1416594043

An evocative and unforgettable memoir from award-winning journalist Carlos Frías about his journey to Cuba where he retraces his family's history and encounters the realities of Cuba under Fidel Castro's rule. Carlos Frías, an award-winning journalist and the American-born son of Cuban exiles, grew up hearing about his parents' homeland only in parables. Their Cuba, the one they left behind four decades ago, was ethereal. It existed, for him, only in their anecdotes, and in the family that remained in Cuba—merely ghosts on the other end of a telephone. Until Fidel Castro fell ill. Sent to Cuba by his newspaper as the country began closing to foreign journalists in August 2006, Frías begins the secret journey of a lifetime—twelve days in the land of his parents. That experience led to this evocative, spectacular, and unforgettable memoir. Take Me With You is written through the unique eyes of a first-generation Cuban-American seeing the forbidden country of his ancestry for the first time. Frías provides a fresh view of Cuba, devoid of overt political commentary, focusing instead on the gritty, tangible lives of the people living in Castro's Cuba. Frías takes in the island nation of today and attempts to reconstruct what the past was like for his parents, retracing their footsteps, searching for his roots, and discovering his history. The story creates lasting and unexpected ripples within his family on both sides of the Florida Straits—and on the author himself.

Mi corazón nunca te olvidará

Mi corazón nunca te olvidará
Author: Sebastian Aranda
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2022-05-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1662455607

Es una historia romántica que habla de la depresión, de un joven que cruza su camino con una chica que es invisible para los demás. A partir de ahí, ella se vuelve el mayor misterio a resolver para él. En su intento por volverla a hacer visible, él comienza a arriesgar varios aspectos de su vida, incluyendo su propia cordura; mientras ella es olvidada por todos aquellos que la quieren, incluyendo su propia madre. Así que él se ve forzado a descifrar los secretos de su pasado, antes de que él también la olvide. Es una historia fácil de leer, la cual te atrapará, conforme vas conociendo, poco a poco, a los personajes, y vas viviendo, junto con ellos, cada uno de las experiencias y aventuras que tienen en su día a día, antes de llegar al día 100. A pesar de que es una historia ficticia, en ella se encuentran plasmadas experiencias de dolor, alegría y tristeza de personas reales. Por ello es una historia recomendable para jóvenes y adultos, ya que los jóvenes nos encontramos en este momento de nuestras vidas donde la depresión es algo que vivimos día a día Mientras que también sirve para que los padres entiendan y reconozcan que, muchas veces, los problemas emocionales de sus hijos pueden ser provocados desde la niñez, por familiares o, incluso, por los propios padres. Y que lo único que necesitan los jóvenes es alguien que los escuche y los quiera cuando su mundo se derrumba.

The Social Semiotics of Populism

The Social Semiotics of Populism
Author: Sebastián Moreno Barreneche
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2023-01-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350205419

The concept of 'populism' is currently used by scholars, the media and political actors to refer to multiple and disparate manifestations and phenomena from across both the left and the right ends of the political spectrum. As a result, it defies neat definition, as scholarship on the topic has shown over the last 50 years. In this book, Sebastián Moreno Barreneche approaches populism from a semiotic perspective and argues that it constitutes a specific social discourse grounded on a distinctive narrative structure that is brought to life by political actors that are labelled 'populist'. Conceiving of populism as a mode of semiotic production that is based on a conception of the social space as divided into two groups, 'the People' and 'the Other', this book uses semiotic theory to make sense of this political phenomenon. Exploring how the categories of 'the People' and 'the Other' are discursively constructed by populist political actors through the use of semiotic resources, the ways in which meaning emerges through the oppositions between imagined collective actors is explained. Drawing on examples from Europe, North America and South America, The Social Semiotics of Populism presents a systematic semiotic approach to this multifaceted political concept and bridges semiotic theory and populism studies in an original manner.

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Total Pages: 60
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How Tia Lola Ended Up Starting Over

How Tia Lola Ended Up Starting Over
Author: Julia Alvarez
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375899952

Welcome to Tia Lola's bed and breakfast! With the help of her niece and nephew and the three Sword Sisters, Tía Lola is opening the doors of Colonel Charlebois' grand old Vermont house to visitors from all over. But Tía Lola and the children soon realize that running a B & B isn't as easy they had initially thought--especially when it appears that someone is out to sabotage them! Will Tía Lola and the kids discover who's behind the plot to make their B & B fail? And will Tía Lola's family and friends be able to plan her a surprise birthday party in her own B & B without her finding out? The last book in the Tía Lola Stories

Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

Teaching Translation from Spanish to English
Author: Allison Beeby Lonsdale
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN: 077660399X

While many professional translators believe the ability to translate is a gift that one either has or does not have, Allison Beeby Lonsdale questions this view. In her innovative book, Beeby Lonsdale demonstrates how teachers can guide their students by showing them how insights from communication theory, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and semiotics can illuminate the translation process. Using Spanish to English translation as her example, she presents the basic principles of translation through 29 teaching units, which are prefaced by objectives, tasks, and commentaries for the teacher, and through 48 task sheets, which show how to present the material to students. Published in English.

L grimas negras

L grimas negras
Author: Natitxu Arbulo
Publisher: Palibrio
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2013-09-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1463348282

Isabel una joven madre, una manana fria de invierno decide abandonar a su familia, para trasladarse a una ciudad desconocida, bajo el mandato de una Orden religiosa. En ese delirio arrastra a sus dos hijos, Javier de ocho anos y Katherine de seis. Es la historia de una lucha encarnizada de una nina que no tuvo, ninez, infancia, adolescencia y juventud. A traves de los anos empieza a luchar contra esa dictadura Politica religiosa. El conseguir una pequena libertad, le costo el mas alto precio que se puede pagar. Con su esfuerzo llega a lo mas alto, a vivir una vida de lujo, llena de suenos, pero eso no la lleva a alcanzar la libertad, ni la felicidad. Seguira buscando y la vida le ira ensenando, como se puede sobrevivir a la adversidad, sin peder la esperanza de encontrar el camino a la libertad y la felicidad.