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Authors: Ligia Machado Pardo

Considerations about the female gender constitute a permanent reference in the work of Gabriel García Márquez. He appreciates women as a creative, emancipatory force, capable of overcoming and actively contributing to the transformation of society. He recognizes women as a warrior, builder of equity, intelligent and aware that the sacrifice for freedom is not a matter exclusively for men. It demands the presence of men and women with a determined attitude to preserve life, and it is evident that their struggle in this regard is untiring. The ideas of this intellectual are also aligned with that practical humanist tradition that has characterized the most progressive trajectory in the history of Latin American thought, through the centuries.

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Authors: Dailet Naila Soriano García, Magda Céspedes Hernández

Beginning in the last years of the last century a great interest in the study of the work of the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño has been observed in specialized literature critics. The author's untimely death was not a trigger for this interest, but it was an important factor. His literature delves into the fundamental problems of being Latin American, the fear of dictatorships and the cyclical nature of history, the split to which the subject is submitted in the act of migration. Thus, this paper will highlight the main characteristics of Roberto Bolaño's short stories, the motives through which his represented subjects travel: exiles, writers who suffer from anonymity, anonymous writers in exile. Similarly, emphasis is placed on the work of several critics who have had Roberto Bolaño and his literature as the fundamental axis in their studies.

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Authors: Aliney Santos Gallardo, Arlen Nuñez Lamar

Due to the complex sociocultural diversity of the Caribbean countries, studies on this area have traditionally been fragmented approaches, without the interest of reflecting on the Caribbean as a geocultural region. However, during the last decades some investigations have assumed diverse methodological positions that show a concern for the essence of the area, beyond the differences between the countries that comprise it. The experience of the island condition is perceived as a constant on which it has been widely reflected, although rarely from a perspective that summarizes the multiplicity of its forms of expression. This research aims to review the literature on the main critical positions related to the sociocultural experience of the Caribbean insularity, its meeting points and disagreements.

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Authors: Yeni Hechavarría Urquiaga

Discourse is useful to express ideas; at the same time, it is essential to identify others’ ideologies. This research paper is aimed precisely at identifying ideological positions expressed in the poetic discourse of Maya Angelou. Dimensional discourse analysis is used to carry out the analysis presented. The reader will find different criteria to addressdiscourse analysis, including Charaudeau’s, Van Dijk’s, Curbeira’s among others. Those criteria served as basis for the accomplishment of this paper. This was the first approach to poetic discourse in our Group of Semantic, Ideographic and Discourse Studies of the School of Foreign Languages of the University of Havana, centering the analyses on the implicit valuating utterances with ideological content.

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Authors: Johanset Orihuela León, Leonel Pérez Orozco

This article provides a record of noteworthy climatic events occurred on the Habana-Matanzas region between 1692 and 1876. This record was extracted from detailed primary and historiographical documentation, plus meteorological data from modern climatic scientific literature, in search of a relationship between the adverse effects of events such as hurricanes, ENSO events, local storms, drought and floods on human conditions, in the area around the Matanzas Bay. We corroborate that climate played a significant role in the urbanistic and socioeconomic development of Matanzas since its foundation in 1693, but more considerably during the second half of the 18th and early 19th century. The integration of climatology to historical research provides, although limitedly, inferences on meteorological conditions that are not available from document evidence, and thus allowing for generalized reconstruction of conditions which marked local history.

20-27

Authors: Armando Infante del Sol, Nilda Ibarra López

This article aims to contribute to updating the historical analysis related to the unitary process to the insurrectionary struggle developed in the central region between 1952-1958. Historical elements are provided to explain the strategic importance of the central region of the country both for the army of the tyranny and for the rebels. Furthermore, the arguments that facilitate the understanding of the difficulties presented are explained. The ideological characteristics of anti-communism are defined in the region and the political interests of the revolutionary organizations that operate in the studied area are highlighted. It is concluded that sectarianism with an anti-communist base in the center of the country from 1952 to 1958 exceeded tactical positions and transcended towards the strategic because of its class and ideological spectrum.

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Authors: Alma Rosa González Morales

This text presents the discussion that Paulette Dieterlen gene-rates about the implications when addressing the issue of poverty. The concept of equality and justice is problematized, as well as the formu-lations that emerge from the field of economics. Through this journey, the intention of the article is to overcome the limitations of the universal measurement of poverty that the economy and macroeconomics entail, through a philosophical vision such as the field of ethics.

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Authors: Kirenia Chaveco Asin

In this article, an approach to ethnophilosophy is made with the intention of revealing the particular dimension that is appreciated when studying it as a new way of thinking and doing philosophy from interculturality. This implies a different, creative and innovative ap-proach to analyze the problem of the cultural identity and worldview of each nation. In the same way, emphasis is placed on recognizing this new conception of philosophy as a viable alternative to the homogenization and monopolization imposed by neoliberal globalization by proposing a respectful dialogue between different cultures. Ethnophilosophy and interculturality are also analyzed as two concepts that lead to reflection on the role of culture as a catalyst for the transition process towards social progress.

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Authors: Linet Hernández Moredo

This research goes more deeply into an aspect of Enrique José Varona, which has little been researched: his aesthetic ideas. The paper is based on two main topics. First, it focuses on humanism and its main principles, as a set of ideas which stress the human being dignity and the search of its harmonic development. Later, the paper presents the philosophical understanding of sympathy, and shows a group of ethical and aesthetic connotations of such category in the Western thinking of 18th and 19th centuries. With respect to Enrique José Varona ́s thought, some humanistic features are determined in his aesthetic ideas, related to the Western and Cuban context. The role of Varona ́s sympathy concept with his aesthetic ideas as well as their humanistic content is assessed. The relationship among aesthetic education, sympathy and ethical values is also studied.

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Authors: Mely del Rosario González Aróstegui

is work delves into the multiple struggles and resistances of Cuban women in regards to the Latin American liberation tradition, which has left an indelible mark of secular resistance against foreign domination, without losing sight of the vicissitudes of a difficult daily life to produce life, and that at times has become dramatic. This tradition of struggles and resistance, which reaches the rank of culture, is worth taking into account when it comes to consolidating a revolutionary ideology in current conditions that allows facing, with intelligence and objectivity, the numerous challenges that neoliberal globalization and crises economic situation that Cuba is going through, has especially im-posed on women. This is a theme linked to the treatment of the identity problem and aimed at the configuration of a daily action that allows the defense of the Cuban being. In this context, feminist knowledge is sustained and outlined from doubts, frustrations, difficulties that in turn leave practices that are an affirmation processes of this knowledge.

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Authors: María Karla García Campos, Eraida Campos Maura

The present paper sets out to analyze the evolution of the com-munal estate as a type of property, as well as its influence on the deve-lopment not only economic, but also socio-political in the jurisdiction of Santa Clara. This time frame is chosen since at the end of the 17th century, specifically in 1689, the town of Santa Clara was founded, separated from that of San Juan de los Remedios; as a product precisely of the fight for control of the land and its resources, with the appearance of new interest groups, as is the case under study.

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Authors: Pedro Arturo Muñoz Oramas, Gippsy Gracia Delfín

The following refectory monograph shows military relatives who integrated the family tree of the Martí family, which served as an example to the Cuban National Hero to become a soldier of ideas. Their participation in different affiliations guidelines to be followed by José Julián for what would later be the creation of the Guerra Necesaria. All carried military degrees and served stoically in the armies they served, earning decorations and relevant achievements in their lives. This result is part of a doctoral thesis where it is intended to provide students of the Universidad Central «Marta Abreu» de Las Villas with a new practical tool for Martian military thinking. The methods used were the study of documents, the logical history and the pedagogical practice.

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Authors: Gema Mestre Varela

This paper reflects on the writing of students in the ninth grade at the “José Martí” High School. It is part of the project «Authorship of the word-thought in children and adolescents of Santa Clara», which is in full development. A sample of written productions related to topics of daily life, cultural identity, family groups, among others is analyzed. The evaluation criteria are based on those applied by Unesco in a regional investigation whose precepts are contemplated in Contributions for the teaching of writing. In our analysis some aspects were added because it dealt with ninth grade students. The discursive dimension, the textual dimension and the legibility conventions dimension constitute nuclear elements and conductors in this study. The results achieved encourage us to continue this project.

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Authors: María Dolores Cerdeira, Leila Samira Martínez Caluff

The university student, from his or her methodological and teaching function, is in charge of creating and applying procedures and means to develop the lexical flow. One way to extend this action is through the authorship of the word, because it offers the opportunity to satisfy the needs, interests and motivations of a particular group of students. This paper specifies the characteristics of a brochure that is the product of the authorship of the word of a young university student of pedagogical training. The brochure is a cultural and linguistic contribution because the authorship of the word expresses themes related to relations of social coexistence, environmental education, respect for diversity, and defense of identity. It provides a didactic procedure for the analysis, understanding and construction of meanings. Keywords: word authorship; lexical flow; university student of pedagogical training; pedagogical training.

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Authors: Chavely Pérez Espinosa, Mercedes Garcés Pérez

This research characterizes Lisandro Otero´s style in the chronicles compiled in Avisos de ocasión. With that aim, a stylistic analysis is carried out, particularly at the syntactic level, having as a starting point the study of subordination as a process for the formation of compound sentences and discourse connectors. As the main result achieved, it is shown that Lisandro Otero portrays a style understandable to every public because, despite the high levels of subordination in some paragraphs, it prevails a clear and simple language. The appropriate use of discourse connectors; the abundance of transitive sentences in the text, that manifests the author´s intention of get as much information as possible to the readers, avoiding misinterpretations; and the prevalence of active sentences demonstrate the level achieved by the author in the exercise of journalism.

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Authors: Denise Prado González, Sandra Salomón Gregorio

The objective of this research is to analyze how metaphor and metonymy manifest in the process of forming somatic locutions in Ciego de Ávila youth speech. The metonymic and metaphorical values of the somatic locutions are identified, they were classified according to the criteria of Nissen for metonymy and of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson for metaphor, and the figurative senses attributed to these somatic locutions were recognized. This research will contribute to expand the studies on this linguistic discipline, it will contribute to a new thematic line, because there have been few works of this nature in our country. It will demonstrate the phraseological creativity of the speakers and will contribute to the characterization of the regional language variant.

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Authors: Elisaliz Oramas Torres

In the today´s world, the interpreter is characterized by three main aspects: the knowledge of the source and target languages, the knowledge of the culture of those languages and the academic training. Nowadays the interpreters are no longer self-educated as in past decades; now they develop, in educational institutions, the cognitive abilities they need to work as translators and interpreters such as good memory, concentration, intuition, speed, etc. To promote and develop these skills, we present a compilation of exercises that according to our teaching experience have turned out to be very useful in the development of the lexical competence of students of the course English language with a Second Foreign language: French.

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Authors: Sabdiel Batista Díaz

Through an in-depth process of analysis and synthesis of reports, research and publications, changes in the news consumption habits of the world’s population, which now prefers to be informed through mobile devices, are demonstrated. This represents a change in current communication models, where traditional media are not the only ones with the possibility of producing news and information, but also the recipients themselves. There are two fundamental characteristics that are now marking the way young people consume information: the social and the mobile. The former receivers have become prosumers; that is, producers and consumers of information through mobile phones. Descargas

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Authors: Erianne González Rodríguez

Regardless of the ideological differences between the Cuban Revolution and the Spain of Franco and the existence of events that happened between them, this situation did not affect the bilateral relations between these two countries. All this got expressed in the main sources of diverse nature that have been discovered from 1959 to our days. The objective of this work is to accomplish a historiographical analysis about the sources found in Cuba to study the relations between both countries, in which the method of documentary analysis performed a fundamental role. In the research, an insufficiency of sources to carry out the study has been identified.