La Relacion entre el Departamento de Estado y la Industria cinematografica de Hollywood en la era Bush (2001-2009)

Trabajo de conclusión de curso presentado al Instituto Latino-Americano de Economía, Sociedad y Política (ILAESP) de la Universidad Federal de Integración Latino-Americana, como requisito parcial para la obtención del titulo de Bacharel en Relaciones Internacionales e Integración. Orientadora: Dra. Tereza Maria Spyer. Co-orientador: Ms. Eduardo Dias Fonseca.El presente trabajo tiene por objetivo mostrar los indicios encontrados sobre la relación establecida entre el Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos y la Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA), el órgano principal que nuclea a las seis productoras de Hollywood más importantes: Walt Disney, Universal, Warner Bros., Paramount, Columbia y Fox, en los años que comprenden la presidencia del republicano George W. Bush, 2001-2009. Por medio del análisis de tres de ellas, Disney, Universal y Warner Bros., el trabajo busca reflejar cuales son algunos de los elementos encontrados que manifiestan el fuerte contacto entre ambos organismos. Teniendo como presupuestos principales a la teoría critica impulsada por Robert Cox, en donde las fuerzas tanto institucionales como ideales serán centrales, emprendemos el estudio de los elementos que Bush coloca en la agenda gubernamental, como la Ley Patriótica y la Estrategia de Seguridad Nacional en su lucha global contra el terrorismo. Analizando también por otra parte el proceso histórico vivido en la industria cinematográfica desde su creación hasta la actualidad, atravesando el sistema de estudios y su reconfiguración, así como nuevos actores que surgen para quitar protagonismo a las películas, para llegar así a la exposición de los elementos, entre los que se encuentran la censura histórica llevada a cabo por el Código Hays, el sistema de Clasificación por edades y los premios Oscars, que conseguimos vislumbrar sobre lo que entendemos como indicios en la relación histórica establecida entre el Departamento de Estado y la Industria Cinematográfica de Hollywood.The objective of the present paper is to demonstrate the indications over the established relations between the State Department of United States and the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA), main organ witch centers the most important Hollywood producers: Walt Disney, Universal, Warner Bros., Paramount, Columbia and Fox, over the years that comprehend George W. Bush’s (2001-2009) republican presidency. By the analysis of three of them, Disney, Universal and Warner Bros., this paper seeks to reflect about some of the encountered elements that manifest strong contact between these organisms. The main presuppositions are the elements in Critical Theory from Robert W. Cox., in such the institutional forces and the Ideal forces are going to be central, initiating the study of the elements that bush set on government’s agenda, such as the Patriotic Law and the National Security Strategy in his global strike on terrorism. Investigating, also, the historical process overtaken by the cinematographic industry since its creation until nowadays through the studios systems and its reconfiguration. Also new actors that emerges to take off the protagonism from the movies. To get at the elements exposition, between those we have an historical censorship undertaken by the Hays Code, the age classification system and the Oscars, as what we could perceive like evidences on the historical relation between the Department of State and Hollywood’s Cinema Industr

Narrative language abilities in adults with Down syndrome: A remote online elicitation study using the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN)

Introduction: This research represents, to the best of our knowledge, the first attempt at assessing narrative retell remotely in people with Down syndrome and will provide valuable information on the validity and feasibility of remote online assessment with this population. Most research on language abilities in Down syndrome has focused on children and adolescents, making adults an understudied population. The present research seeks to establish a baseline of functioning for narrative language abilities in adults with Down syndrome, as part of a larger research aiming to investigate possible changes associated with aging and the emergence of Alzheimer's disease in this population. Methods: We recruited 13 adolescents and young adults with Down syndrome aged 15–33 years (mean age: 21), matched to a control group of younger typically developing children aged 4–10 years (mean age: 6) on verbal Mental Age (MA). Participants completed a picture-based story retell activity from the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) and a series of standardized background measures of language and cognitive ability. Results: Our analyses focused on macrostructural indices of narrative performance, narrative length and lexical diversity. Results revealed that our participants with Down syndrome were outperformed by verbal MA-matched controls on measures of story structure and story comprehension, as well as lexical diversity. No difference was found on total number of words, indicating the groups produced comparable amounts of speech despite differences in story grammar and lexis. Discussion: We interpret the results in light of previous research on macrostructural narrative performance in adults and younger adolescents with Down syndrome. Recruitment and data collection outcomes are discussed in terms of successful strategies and possible improvements. We conclude that remote online assessment of people with Down syndrome is feasible, although considerations should be made with regards to facilitating enrolment, and task engagement. Our participants demonstrated ability to engage with the experimenters over video chat and were able to complete the activities proposed mostly independently, with minimal involvement required from caregivers. Recommendations for future remote online studies involving children and people with intellectual disabilities are discussed

FORMAÇÃO DE PROFESSORES DE LÍNGUA ESTRANGEIRA: desafios e possibilidades.

DOI: 10.18312/cadernounivag.v0i3.280O ensino das línguas tem se constituído, desde a sua inclusão no currículo escolar, num verdadeiro faz-de-conta, dada a ausência de professores devidamente qualificados para exercer a função competente a aprendizagem de idiomas, influindo na capacitação docente. A raiz do problema se encontra exatamente no despreparo dos professores quanto ao uso de metodologias atualizadas e adequadas à realidade do aluno. Este artigo propõe uma reflexão não apenas aos professores que já estão na prática da sala de aula, mas também àquelas que estão cursando as licenciaturas em língua estrangeira, para de incorporarem nova abordagem em relação à aquisição de uma segunda língua, fazendo um percurso histórico a partir da Leide Diretrizes e Bases (LDB).Palavras-chave: Formação de professores; Ensino de língua estrangeira.

ENSEÑAR A COMUNICARSE EN UNA LENGUA EXTRANJERA: EL TRANSCURSO DE LOS MÉTODOS

Este texto, de base bibliográfica, pretende mostrar el transcurso de los métodos de enseñanza de lengua extranjera teniendo como paño de fondo la líneahistórica. En ésta, se destaca una grande variedad de enfoques y métodos que se hanido sucediendo como consecuencia de la búsqueda de la comunicación entre lospueblos de diferentes idiomas, culturas y procesos económicos y socio-históricos. Unitermos: Lengua extranjera; Método; Enseñanza

A SURVEY ON DEVICES EXPLOITING LORA COMMUNICATION

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have experienced a large application in many fields, such as smart homes, health monitoring, environmental monitoring, and a great number of studies is present in literature. In particular, it is expected that the Internet of Things (IoT) will become increasingly pervasive in everyday life. Among different technologies, devices based on Long Range (LoRa) and LoRaWAN stand out due to their relative low cost, low power consumption and large cover range. In this survey, recent papers investigating applications of LoRa modules have been selected. The different usecases are presented with a comparison between communication parameters and results obtained

A FORMAÇÃO DE PROFESSORES DE LÍNGUA ESTRANGEIRA: DESAFIOS E POSSIBILIDADES.

Com este artigo trazemos a discussão sobre a formação de professores de Línguas Estrangeiras e o ensino destas línguas na atualidade. A base teórica apóia-se na extensa discussão sobre formação de professores, visando à prática crítico-reflexiva para o ensino de línguas. O presente estudo justifica-se principalmente pela crítica que faz à formação de meros reprodutores de técnicas de ensino, priorizando a formação reflexiva de professores de línguas estrangeira como é necessário atualizarmos da nossa formação. Refletimos também sobre a situação de nossos jovens assim como o passo por nossa educação superior. Palavra-chave: Formação de professores-ensino de língua estrangeira

Inferential abilities in Down syndrome: Examining verbal and nonverbal contributors to narrative comprehension in adolescents and adults

Language profiles of individuals with Down syndrome (DS)reveal a pattern of heterogeneous abilities, with receptive vo-cabulary exhibiting strengths over receptive grammar, and ex-pressive language lagging behind. Little is known about infer-ential abilities in this population, in either children or adults,despite inferencing playing a pivotal role in language compre-hension. Inferential abilities are particularly relevant to thesuccessful understanding of narratives, as story plots combineexplicit (factual) and implicit (inferential) information. Thisstudy investigated inferential abilities in 26 English-speakingadolescents and adults with DS (age: 13-43, M=22.9 years)compared to 23 young vocabulary-matched typical controls(age: 4-11, M=6.96 years). Inferencing was assessed througha narrative comprehension task, which targeted understandingof story characters’ goals and internal states (ISs). Participantswith DS showed poorer comprehension of inferential ques-tions, across both goals and ISs, with vocabulary level andreceptive grammar positively contributing to the comprehen-sion of inferences. Working memory showed a positive albeitnon-significant relationship with inferencing ability, while ex-ecutive functioning skills had no effect. Our results suggestthat difficulties understanding, and potentially expressing, in-ferential information relating to story characters’ goals and ISspersevere into adulthood in individuals with DS. Such difficul-ties are moderated by general verbal abilities and seem drivenby poor grammatical skills. We discuss the contributions ofverbal and nonverbal abilities to inference-making in Downsyndrome, and potential implications for future research

ENSEÑAR A COMUNICARSE EN UNA LENGUA EXTRANJERA: EL TRANSCURSO DE LOS MÉTODOS

DOI: 10.18312/cadernounivag.v0i2.270Este texto, de base bibliográfica, pretende mostrar el transcurso de los métodos de enseñanza de lengua extranjera teniendo como paño de fondo la línea histórica. En ésta, se destaca una  grande variedad de enfoques y métodos que se han ido sucediendo como consecuencia de la búsqueda de la comunicación entre los pueblos de diferentes idiomas, culturas y procesos económicos y socio-históricos.Unitermos: Lengua extranjera; Método; Enseñanza