Ojo Essays

  • Pablo Neruda

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    Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda, a quien llamamos en el escalafón consular de Chile Ricardo Reyes, nos nació en la tierra de Parral, a medio llano central en el año 1904, al que siempre contaremos como de natividades verídicas. La ciudad de Temuco lo tiene por suyo y alega el derecho de haberle dado las infancias que "imprimen carácter" en la crianza poética. Estudió letras en nuestro Instituto Pedagógico de Santiago y no se convención de la vocación docente, común en los chilenos. Algún ministro que

  • El Secreto De Sus Ojos, directed by Juan Jose Campanella

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    History usually forces itself into the present in Juan Jose Campanella’s film “El Secreto De Sus Ojos” (The Secret in Their Eyes). Although it was filmed in 2009, the story is an attempted memorization of the violent reality in 1970-1980s Argentina, an era in which the country was rapidly sinking into military rule-ship. Campanella offers flashbacks into Argentina’s dark days, a period where violence homicide, rape and injustices ruled. Through memory, the film narrate a era in which it was impossible

  • Tacil Con Los Ojos Cerrados Analysis

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    Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados is a comedy-drama Spanish film produced in Spain by director and screenwriter David Treuba. The film has a Spanish star-studded list of actors and actresses that include: Javier Camara, Natalia de Molina, and Fransesc Colomer. With a release year of 2013, the film is fairly recent and has won a total of 6 Goya Awards for categories like best supporting actress and best film. Although I thoroughly enjoyed this award-winning film as a whole, as a non-Spanish individual

  • Analysis Of The Film Te Doy Mis Ojos

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    Film Critique (individual work) The movie Te doy mis ojos (Take My Eyes) is a Spanish romantic drama created by Icíar Bollaín in 2003. The movie was highly lauded for the emotional truths of its portrayal of domestic violence, and the internal conflicts of the character, it wins seven Goya Awards in 2004, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Lead Actor, Best Lead Actress, and Best Supporting Actress and also nominated for the Ariel Award in 2005 in the category Best Iberoamerican Film. The

  • Case Study Of Jackson Company Stock Repurchasing Companies

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    investment results or the decisions of financing, ways of disseminating data to investors and the variance among the owners of other security ranks and company stockholders. Jackson Company repurchasing poses different impacts in the industry market (Ojo, 2012). Most of its tax savings are created from giving out cash using share repurchases in line with paying dividends. In analyzing the above argument, when getting total hard cash in a fixed payout, company taxes are minimized leading to the increase

  • The Importance Of Organizational Culture

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    sets them apart from employees from another organization (Ojo, 2009 ; Luneneburg, 2011). Ehtesham, Muhammad and Muhammad (2011), also stated that organizational culture can be characterized as common values and principal of an organization. These principles then become a guideline in approaching any organization issues that occurs. More often, organizational culture is seen as the bridge that bonds or holds an organization strongly (Ojo, 2009). Culture is also used as a benchmark on how effective

  • Susto In Latino Culture

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    Susto “Susto” is a term used in Latino culture to represent a “fright” illness sustained after a traumatic experience. When this fright occurs, it is believed that the alma, or soul, leaves the body of the person involved. Although it is not a clinically recognized illness or disorder by western medicine, it is considered a folk illness originating in places such as Central America, Bolivia Peru, and other Latino migrants who live in America today. This fright is considered more common in females

  • Functional And Dysfunctional Conflict

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    many challenges and threats in the rapidly changing and highly competitive global environment , one of these challenges is organisational conflict. Conflict is an inevitable and normal phenomenon between individuals and groups in each organization (OJO and ABOLADE,no date). There is growing recognition of the importance of conflict in the organization (Garcia-Prieto, Bellard, and Schneider, 2003) . According to Hocker and Wilmot in 1995,quoted by Henry(2008),said that not all conflicts can be easily

  • Political Oppression In Christopher Bruce's Ghost Dances

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    Christopher Bruce, a famous contemporary choreographer, is known for his human rights themes in his dances, which emerge naturally as a reflection of his own concerns. ‘Ghost Dances’, one of his most well-known pieces, is a response to the political oppression in South America, specifically the reign of Chilean dictator Pinochet. Bruce said of his dance that; “I made this ballet for the innocent people of South America, who from the time of the Spanish Conquests have been continuously devastated

  • Christopher Bruce Ghost Dancers

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    be evaluated how Christopher Bruce achieved the intent of communicating the Pinochet regime and political oppression. This performance is performed in 7 sections, this essay will be analysing section 1 (Ojos Azules) section 2 (HuajraA ‘folk lament’) and section 5 (Mis Llamitas). In Section 1 Ojos Azules Christopher

  • My Mexican Heritage

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    Both of my parents were born in Mexico. My dad was born in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, my mom raised on a ranch called Ojo De Agua near a town called Villa Guerrero in Jalisco. I have had the honor of being able to visit my parents hometowns multiple times in my life and it has been interesting to get to understand what their childhood was like. It was through accumulation of natural resources that their hometowns were first formed. Fresnillo was first formed as a city through the prospect of the minerals

  • Guatemalan Culture Essay

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    for illness are uncooked eggs. Uncooked eggs placed on the abdomen are thought to cure an upset stomach (J. Gomez, personal communication, May 25, 2017). Uncooked eggs are also thought to cure a child from mal de ojo, in English this translate to evil eye. As Carteret states, mal de ojo occurs when a person looks or admires a child and does not touch him or her (M. Carteret, para. 4, n.d.). This in turn is believed to bring sickness to the child. Symptoms include, fever, diarrhea, and stomach pains

  • A Lexical Pragmatic Analysis of Proverbs in Femi Osofisan’s Midnight Hotel.

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    This essay is a pragmatic reading of moral and socio-political decadence in Femi Osofisan’s Midnight Hotel. It does this by analyzing ten out of twenty-five proverbs deployed in the text. In analyzing the proverbs, this essay observes that each has at least an ad hoc constituent which requires semantic modulation to get at the meanings of the proverbs. This modulation is not arbitrary, but contextually negotiated until the reader reaches his optimal relevance. Wilson and Carston argue that metaphors

  • Cine Piquetero Satire

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    Alavío, Boedo Films, and Ojo Obrero find inspiration in sixties collectives like Solanas’s Cine Liberación or Raymundo Gleyzer’s (1941–1976) Cine de la Base (Cinema of the Militant Base), yet diverge from them insofar as the street is the main site for

  • Smartphones In Time Management Case Study

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    Time is delicate such that it is only important to avoid misusing it. According to Ojo and Olaniyan (2001), time is attributed to as a unique resource, scarce resource, cannot be replaced by men, time cannot accumulate like money, and that like any other resources, and time must be managed. Businessmen are found to travel all over the

  • Understanding Mexican-American Culture

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    illnesses. For example, one of the illnesses is called Mal de Ojo, or “bad eye”, and is caused when someone looks at someone else with jealousy. It is believed that this causes the person that was looked to experience fatigue and a severe headache. It is treated by “Saying a prayer while passing an egg over the victim’s body then placing the egg in a bowl under the victim’s bed overnight, or alternately, having the person who caused Mal de Ojo care for the victim (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • Importance Of Objects And Symbols In Film

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    No It’s More Than That: Analyzing the p¬¬revalence and significance of objects and symbol in films such as “El laberinto de fauno,” “Tesis” and “Te doy mis ojos” By Mac Beckwith Objects and symbols can be a lot more than what they appear in films. The actual definition of a symbol is a physical representation that stands in for another object or idea. They can hold hidden meaning that the director is trying to show without using words and obvious actions. The subtly of the objects and symbols can

  • In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

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    A beautiful, captivating, and revolutionary story, In the Time of the Butterflies, was written by Julia Alvarez and is a true account about struggle, courage, and love between four sisters, their families, and the people they encountered in their lives. This captivating story is so easy to relate to, as it’s written by a woman, about women, for women. What comes across clearly throughout the story is the Mirabal sisters’ passion for the revolution and how it overwhelmed their lives and the lives

  • Criticism Of Polygamy

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    Flora Nwapa and other earlier writers told the African woman story without an appearance of opposition to the male hegemony, “male literary critics have tended to marginalize women’s writing and to dismiss foundational While some critics like Femi Ojo-Ade claim that polygamy is part of the African culture, Ba and Emecheta counter this through their works by presenting it as an indulgence rather than a cultural necessity. Ousmane the husband of Mireille in Scarlet Song, “was grateful to his father

  • Nigerian Welfare Service Needed for Motivation and Productivity

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    2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Managers have th... ... middle of paper ... ...nt on Workers’ Welfare, Performance and Productivity. The African Symposium: An online journal of the African Educational Research Network. Vol Volume 12 (1) ,pp 142-149. • Ojo, O. (2003). Fundamentals of Research Methods. Standard Publication Lagos. • Rama satyanrayana. & Jayaprakash. R., (2012). Labour Welfare Measures In Cement Industries In India: (A Case Of KCP Limited, Cement Division, Machela Andhra Pradesh). International