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Se plantea de manera simple la solución a un simple caso de conflicto entre trabajadores y una minera que está a punto de estallar en una huelga.
la solución se plantea a través de dos métodos: Harvard y un método propio usando dinámica de sistemas.

We will die one day, sooner or later. Traditionally, we approach death from a stoic perspective (Gawande, 2014, p.170). Dead bodies are covered up and quickly whisked away as if there is a shameful connotation affiliated with viewing them. The bereaved, who hide their grief to the point that no one would guess anything had happened, receive social praise. Philippe Ariès delivered a series of lectures at Johns Hopkins in 1973. He pointed out that at the start of the 1930s, there had been a cultural shift regarding how Western societies viewed death. “Death,” he wrote, “would become shameful and forbidden.” (Didion, 2006, p.45) We can attribute this dismissal of grieving in public based on contemporary trends. This epicurean philosophy dictates that we must enjoy ourselves conscientiously, without disturbing others amidst their similarly hedonistic world. Mourning without shame is perceived as disgraceful and self-indulgent. (Didion, 2006, p.45)

This critical essay explores the concept of fairytales, specifically "The Tale of the Three Brothers," in the Harry Potter series. While many scholars focus solely on the Harry Potter series, Beedle the Bard's "The Tale of The Three Brothers" plays a pivotal part in the series; both for the characters and the reader. This paper investigates the behaviors behind "The Tale of The Three Brothers" and how the characters, such as Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort, react to this timeworn wizarding tale.

Prominent Americans had significant amount of influence in the implementation and outcome of Hitler's eugenic policies. Many of these were the product of Ivy League education, and in turn, Hitler's formidable propaganda machine was quite happy to have the public approval of America's finest scientists, doctors, and journalists. Harvard professors and graduates were by far the most influential. Prominent Harvard graduates sat as Judges in Hitler's eugenic courts. Harvard graduates and lecturers were part of the administration at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Prominent Harvard professors and students formed the immigration restriction lobby that was instrumental in keeping Jewish refugees from reaching U.S. shores. Prestigious Harvard alumni used their influence to help whitewash the Third Reich's racial policies, and by extension to keep the murders a contested "rumor" until the end of the war. - Partially derived from "From a 'Race of Masters' to a 'Master Race': 1948 to 1848" by A.E. Samaan - www.RaceOfMasters.com

Christopher Buck, Alain Locke: Faith and Philosophy. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 2005. Pub date: July 3, 2005. ISBN-13: 978-1890688387. ISBN-10: 189068838X. L

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REVIEWS
•  Derik Smith. World Order 38.3 (2006/2007): 42–48. (Published in 2008.): ”Christopher Buck’s recent book, Alain Locke: Faith and Philosophy, is a welcome addition to the literature on early twentieth-century American and African American culture. But, perhaps more important, Buck’s study is a significant contribution to scholarship on the history of the Bahá’í Faith in the United States. … Any future study of Locke must necessarily make its way through Christopher Buck’s Alain Locke: Faith and Philosophy. The scholar forcefully proves his thesis that, in Locke’s thinking, philosophy and religious belief operated as synergistic terms. He has shown that the Bahá’í Faith was integral to Locke’s life and ideology. …  Yet, after reading Buck’s work, it is difficult to imagine Locke the philosopher rapt in prayer. Of course, this is not a shortcoming of the book. Rather it is an indication that, while he may have wanted to portray a more pious figure, Buck maintains the vow he made in his introduction to Alain Locke: Faith and Philosophy “to constrain any grandiose claims on Locke as a Bahá’í.”

• M. Anthony Fitchue. Journal of African American History 92.1 (Winter 2007): 131–133: “But the jewels in this book are unmistakable. … Clearly, Buck has given voice to the men and women who not only put the Baha’i faith first in their lives, but also left key documents, personal letters, notes, and memoranda related to the life of philosopher Alain LeRoy Locke for future researchers to ponder and use for years to come.”

• William P. Collins. Insights (Library of Congress Professional Association Newsletter) 38.1–3 (Jan–Oct 2006): 10–12: “Both of these books [Lights of the Spirit and Alain Locke: Faith and Philosophy] go a long way toward correcting the historians’ failure to note the important role played by the Bahá’í Faith and prominent African-American Bahá’ís in the struggle for racial equality in the United States.”

Title. Psychosocial treatments for people with co-occurring severe mental illness and substance misuse: systematic review.Aim.  This study is a report of a systematic review to assess current evidence for the efficacy of psychosocial interventions for reducing substance use, as well as improving mental state and encouraging treatment retention, among people with dual diagnosis.Background.  Substance misuse by people with a severe mental illness is common and of concern because of its many adverse consequences and lack of evidence for effective psychosocial interventions.Data sources.  Several electronic databases were searched to identify studies published between January 1990 and February 2008. Additional searches were conducted by means of reference lists and contact with authors.Review methods.  Results from studies using meta-analysis, randomized and non-randomized trials assessing any psychosocial intervention for people with a severe mental illness and substance misuse were included.Results.  Fifty-four studies were included: one systematic review with meta-analysis, 30 randomized controlled trials and 23 non-experimental studies. Although some inconsistencies were apparent, results showed that motivational interviewing had the most quality evidence for reducing substance use over the short term and, when combined with cognitive behavioural therapy, improvements in mental state were also apparent. Cognitive behavioural therapy alone showed little consistent support. Support was found for long-term integrated residential programmes; however, the evidence is of lesser quality. Contingency management shows promise, but there were few studies assessing this intervention.Conclusion.  These results indicate the importance of motivational interviewing in psychiatric settings for the reduction of substance use, at least in the short term. Further quality research should target particular diagnoses and substance use, as some interventions may work better for some subgroups.

"In this essay I wish to celebrate Widener Library for being anything but an English-only library-for being a library of international scope serving a local community of internationally-oriented students, teachers, and scholars. In glorifying this dimension of the library I admit to motives both broadly political and narrowly personal. The political motivation relates to the current debates about cultures in the United States. In a paradox, many of us profess to be more interested than ever in diversity, when in fact the diverse cultures to which we seem to turn are almost solely subcultures within American culture (hyphenated American cultures); and very seldom do the debates entail any attention to languages other than English, with the possible exception of Spanish. While proclaiming a commitment to difference, students in the United States are gaining mastery of other languages at the lowest rate since before Sputnik. Had the country not in the past few decades absorbed vast numbers of immigrants who were not native English speakers and their children who often achieve bilingualism, the ability of our citizenry to engage with diverse cultures in other languages-and I for one assume that full engagement with other cultures is impossible without knowing their languages-would be even more shamefully limited. The drop in the study of languages and the turning of our eyes inward to a narrowly domestic diversity have coincided with developments in international politics that have disrupted forever priorities and polarities that for decades guided the study of foreign cultures and languages. During the Cold War, Russian commanded paramount attention among the Slavic languages. Now its importance has diminished, while that of languages such as Polish and Czech (to say nothing of the South Slavic languages spoken in the Balkans) has risen. Similarly, whole areas of the world about whose cultures and politics we had no reason to be concerned have suddenly arrested our attention, perhaps especially the former Soviet Socialist Republics of central Asia. This phenomenon has replicated itself elsewhere as well, and consequently we should be alert to far more cultures and languages than ever before; but as a nation we are not doing so..."

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Risk assessment is increasingly used to inform decisions regarding the psychiatric treatment of patients with schizophrenia and other serious mental disorders. Aims: To examine the theoretical limits of risk assessment and risk categorization as applied to a range of harms known to be associated with schizophrenia. Methods: Using known rates of suicide, homicide, self-harm, and violence in schizophrenia, a hypothetical tool with an unrealistically high level of accuracy was used to calculate the proportion of true- and false-positive risk categorizations. Results: Risk categorization incorrectly classified a large proportion of patients as being at high risk of violence toward themselves and others. Conclusion: Risk assessment and categorization have severe limitations. A large proportion of patients classified as being at high risk will not, in fact, cause or suffer any harm. Unintended consequences of inaccurate risk categorization include unwarranted detention for some patients, failure to treat others, misallocation of scarce health resources, and the stigma arising from patients’ being labeled as dangerous.

This critical essay explores the concept of blood, ethnicity, and race within the Harry Potter series. Through the lens of the Anthropology of Cinema and Ethnic Identity, this piece investigates how the wizarding world deems their people and cultural heritage through wizarding bloodlines. Muggleborn, Pureblood, Half-Blood, Squib... what does it mean to possess wizardly blood, and how does the blood that runs through one's veins separate those in wizarding society? Which wizarding blood identity reigns superior throughout the Harry Potter series? These open-ended questions are up for much debate and discussed within Harry Potter and the Battle of Blood.

Whereas our symposia are large affairs, study days are designed for smaller groups. The objective is to create an atmosphere in which words and ideas may come forth more comfortably than the dauntingly elegant formality of the Music Room sometimes permits. Dumbarton Oaks being Dumbarton Oaks, wine will also flow freely at the appropriate intervals.

Nuevas entradas para la discusión, que se suman a las de la primera entrega, "Cambio de paradigma" y "emprendimiento", y a las de la segunda entrega, "excelencia" y "aprender a aprender". "No es difícil entender, entonces, que los políticos presuman cuando han estudiado o dictado una charla en la universidad de Harvard", dicen los autores de este artículo. / Archivo Algunos lectores quizás han intuido cuáles son los modelos más importantes para este "Pequeño glosario": el Diccionario filosófico de Voltaire, el Diccionario de lugares comunes de Flaubert, el Diccionario del diablo de Bierce, las notas de Karl Kraus en su revista La antorcha, y las Mitologías de Roland Barthes. De ellos hemos aprendido la utilidad del humor y la ironía como herramienta de lucha en contra del anquilosamiento de las ideas. La primera entrada de esta entrega, dedicada a Harvard, es un ejemplo.

This paper gives in-depth understanding about the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from the Ivy League and other elite universities from across the world. As these courses are free, this led to revolutionary changes in higher education on a global scale. Along with benefits, it creates some challenges for students as well as for educators.

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are the only early Greek heroic epics to have survived the transition to writing, even though extant evidence indicates that they emerged from a thriving oral culture. Among the missing are the songs of Boeotian Thebes. Homer's Thebes examines moments in the Iliad and Odyssey where Theban characters and thematic engagements come to the fore. Rather than sifting through these appearances to reconstruct lost poems, Elton Barker and Joel Christensen argue that the Homeric poems borrow heroes from Thebes to address key ideas—about politics, time, and genre—that set out the unique superiority of these texts in performance. By using evidence from Hesiod and fragmentary sources attributed to Theban tradition, Barker and Christensen explore Homer's appropriation of Theban motifs of strife and distribution to promote his tale of the sack of Troy and the returns home. As Homer's Thebes shows, this Theban material sheds light on the exceptionality of t...

Abstract: Sometime between August and December of 1991, the Second World vanished. Global society has been divided into the First or Industrialized World, the Third or developing World, and this effervescent Second World that was identified with the communist model of development. When the Cold War officially ended and the Second World vanished, many in the West supposed that any new state freed of the yoke of Soviet domination would enthusiastically embrace the free-market economy. However, Central Asian attitudes toward both political and economic reforms did not conform to Western expectations. Even after 8 years of independence, and more than a decade after the reforms of perestroika, the Central Asian leaders still favor levels of state intervention in the economy and state provision of economic services more reminiscent of the Soviet era than of a Western market economy. Text: Obstacles to Development and Prosperity Sometime between August and December of 1991, the "Secon...

demand. The natural ebb and flow of the Nile provided a steady supply of water and nutrients to Egyptian farmers. The Fellah – the Palestinian, Jordanian, and Syrian peas-ant – although taxed and exploited by colonial rulers for centuries, managed to produce food beyond subsistence levels. Yet decades of geometric population growth push today's farmers beyond past equilibriums with soil deg-radation and water quality contamination threatening the very sustenance of people across the region. Food shortages in Egypt are manifested by a new culture of consumer hoarding, with long queues common-W ahile the Middle East is frequently in the news because of political volatility and violence, there is an underlying lack of environmental equilibrium that poses a comparable threat to regional stability. Israel's neighbors – Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine – are arid countries with limited natural carrying capacity and burgeoning populations. Providing food and employment in what were tra...

Rates of pediatric obesity have increased dramatically over the past decade. This trend is especially alarming because obesity is associated with significant medical and psychosocial consequences. It may contribute to cardiovascular, metabolic, and hepatic complications, as well as to psychiatric difficulties. The development of obesity appears to be influenced by a complex array of genetic, metabolic, and neural frameworks, along with behavior, eating habits, and physical activity. Numerous parallels exist between obesity and addictive behaviors, including genetic predisposition, personality, environmental risk factors, and common neurobiological pathways in the brain. Typical treatments for pediatric obesity include behavioral interventions targeting diet or exercise. These treatments have yielded mixed results and typically have been examined in specialty clinic populations, limiting their generalizability. There are limited medication options for overweight children and adolescents, and no approved medical intervention in children younger than 16 years old. Bariatric surgery may be an option for some adolescents, but due to the risks of surgery, it is often seen as a last resort. The parallels between addiction and obesity aid in developing novel interventions for pediatric obesity. Motivational enhancement and cognitive-behavioral strategies used in addiction treatment may prove to be beneficial.

Although the concept of cultural capital has been widely adopted in sociological studies of culture, education, and stratification, few studies have addressed the processes through which specific instantiations of cultural capital become important in particular institutional locations. This article, based on an analysis of primary documents relating to changes in admissions policies at Harvard College between 1945 and 1965, addresses the question of how nonacademic factors came to have such a significant role in undergraduate admissions at elite American universities. It argues that in relatively autonomous fields such as higher education in the mid—twentieth century United States, cultural capital is shaped not only by the relations of cultural qualities and economic classes but also through specific intra- and extra-institutional struggles within the field in question.

"In the twelfth century anthologies were the most common form in which short poems in Latin such as lyrics, epigrams, and occasional verse circulated in written form among the reading public. Since twelfth-century anthologies are not identical with their twentieth-century descendants, it would be wise to describe the genre in general before scrutinizing Houghton MS. Lat 300 in particular.

The English word anthology derives from the Greek anthologia, which means "flower-collection" or "bouquet." During the Byzantine era the Greek word became a metaphor for a collection of flowers of verse, that is, of small choice poems; the homonym anthologion was applied to hymnals. Although the Neo-Latin term florilegium is a calque of anthologia, the two are not synonyms. Whereas an anthology tends to be a conglomeration of complete texts, florilegium usually denotes wise sayings or memorable passages extracted from longer works. In the Middle Ages various metaphoric terms related to flares were used to describe such collections of extracts. Modem English uses the word excerpt, which sustains the floral imagery since it derives from a verb meaning "to pluck.""