Catalan Literature: From Medieval Times to the 20th Century
Linguistic Foundations
Vowel System: 8 sounds. According to Toni, unstressed vowels are mentioned and neutralization occurs. Reduced vowels. Jaw: A diphthong grows. Umlaut: Pronounced for the sake of those who break and diphthongize. Open or closed and stressed. Then open: Ring diphthongs. Growing: Those who use ‘qua’ or ‘quo’ and /u/ between vowels and word, transcribe it like /j/ or /w/. Cases of non-neutralization: Adverbs ending in ‘-ment’, groups ‘ae’ or ‘ea’, and compound words.
Narrative Structures
Linear
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Villa Savoye: Le Corbusier’s Architectural Revolution
Contextualization
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Identification of Villa Savoye
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The Renaissance (14th to 17th Centuries)
Key Characteristics:
- Revival of classical ideals.
- Emphasis on humanism, realism, and perspective.
- Technical
Fungi: Characteristics, Classification, and Uses
Order of Characters for Identification in Fungi
The following characteristics are used to identify fungi:
- Gross appearance of the colony
- Type of hyphae
- Placement of sporophores
- Presence of sterigmata (sporangiophore or conidiophore) and their order
- Shape, size, and distribution of spores
- Presence or absence of rhizoids. Occur only in non-septate fungal hyphae. For example: Rhizopus, Rhizomucor, Absidia
- Practice biochemical identification tests.
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Baroque Painting
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Types of Publics
General public: Linked to public opinion, assumes that everyone is part of that entity.
Voting public: The electorate is the public that expresses its opinion on public affairs by voting for a candidate.
Attentive public: Made up of informed people who follow media.
Active public: Made up of people whose commitment to public affairs leads them to participate in both organizations and political parties.
Perspectives
- Collective (sociological model): Opinion is understood as a supra-individual