UN Resolution on Franco’s Spain: Post-WWII Diplomatic Blockade
The UN Resolution on Relations with Spain
We are faced with a legal text, a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly. The organization was recently established by the Allied nations after the end of the war (Charter of San Francisco, June 25, 1945) to achieve the maintenance of universal peace and fight for the establishment of human rights. World War II had just finished (August 1945), and the new world order of liberal democracies and the USSR sought to establish a country like Spain, which
Read MorePlato’s Theory of Knowledge: Ideas, Dialectic, and Love
Plato’s Theory of Knowledge
In the theory of knowledge, Plato was greatly influenced by his mentor Socrates, especially in his earlier writings. For Plato, knowledge is based on the duality of two worlds: the sensible (imperfect, changeable, deceptive) and that of Ideas (perfect, imperishable, eternal, immutable). The Sensible World consists of things in flux, as Heraclitus suggested, and the Intelligible World (of Ideas) is permanent and unchangeable and possesses the characteristics of the Being
Read MoreSpanish Civil War: Origins and International Impact
**The Beginning of the Conflict: From Military Revolt to Civil War**
Since the proclamation of the Republic, and since the victory of the Popular Front coalition of the left in February 1936, Spain had also been initiated in a process of democratic revolution that jeopardized the interests and privileges of the traditionally dominant forces: the agricultural and financial oligarchy, the Church, and the Army.
On July 18, 1936, a military coup that failed to mobilize popular support became a civil war
Read MoreEconomic and Social Transformation in Spain During the 1960s
Economic Factors of Development
To try to alleviate the huge imbalance of the trade balance with the exterior, incentives to foreign investment and the freezing of wages were implemented. The consequences were the reorganization of the economy and the laying of the foundations for economic growth in the subsequent decade.
Factors of Economic Development
- The liberalization of the economy allowed the country to benefit from the European economy.
- Internal and external emigration. The labor that emigrated
Geography of Spain: Landforms, Climate, and Regions
What is Geography?
Geography is the science of human relationships with the environment in which they live. We can differentiate between economic, human, and physical geography.
Cartography
Cartography is the discipline that studies and produces maps. We can differentiate between general and thematic cartography.
Projections
Projections are based on the shadows of the meridians and parallels of a sphere left on a surface and can become flat with some deformation (cylindrical, conical, azimuthal, polar,
Read MoreMedieval Agrarian Expansion and Societal Shifts
The Weight of Behavior and Social Relations
The production effort was aided by an evolution of attitudes towards work and money. The contempt that weighed on the job was being superseded by the Christian idea that, far from being merely an infamous punishment or stigma, even manual work was worthy and valuable if done with honesty. If during the Middle Ages almost all energies had to be spent to cover subsistence, the profit motive could develop long after the eleventh century. Money was becoming
Read MorePostwar Spain 1939-1959: Franco’s Regime and Economic Policies
Postwar Spain, 1939-1959: Political, Social, and Economic Issues
Political Aspects: The Consolidation of the New State
After the Civil War, Franco introduced a military dictatorship in Spain, abolishing liberal inspiration, parliamentarism, and communism.
A. The Organization of the New State
- Concentration of Power:
- Franco established a totalitarian state model, a combination of a fascist state, a military dictatorship, and an absolute monarchy without a king.
- Franco assumed all powers: Chief of State,
Masterpieces of Art History: From Baroque to Neoclassicism
Bernini’s *Apollo and Daphne*
Bernini’s *Apollo and Daphne* is a Baroque work with a mythological theme. It is a crucial piece for the study of Hellenistic sculpture. Commissioned by Cardinal Borghese for the gardens of his villa, the theme is the metamorphosis of Daphne as told in Ovid’s work. It is a Baroque sculptural group, where Bernini shows the action of Daphne culminating in full metamorphosis, a moment stopped in unstable equilibrium. Here, we see not the balance of the Renaissance but the
Read MoreUnderstanding Molecular and Cellular Cloning Techniques
Molecular Cloning
Molecular cloning is used in a wide variety of biological experiments and practical applications, ranging from fingerprinting to large-scale protein production. In practice, to amplify any sequence in a living organism, the sequence to be cloned must be linked to an origin of replication, which is a DNA sequence.
Key Steps in Molecular Cloning:
- Transfection: Introduces the formed sequence within cells.
- Selection: Selects the cells that have been successfully transfected with the new
Piaget and Van Hiele: Geometric Concept Development
Piaget’s Theory
Perception: Knowledge of objects resulting from direct contact with them.
Representation: Involves the evocation of objects in the absence of recognition. The order is as follows:
- Recognizes the ring (it has a hole, which is a topological property).
- Recognizes the circle (clearly differs from the straight sides, projective property).
- The square and finally the parallelogram (which has right angles).
The credit for reaching almost all children at age three and a half and the order to recognize
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