Post-Franco Theatre

In the multiple realms and layers that comprise the contemporary Spanish theatrical landscape, “crisis” would seem to be the word that most often lingers in the air, as though it were a common mantra, ready to roll off the tongue of so many theatre professionals with such enormous ease, and even enthusiasm, that one is prompted to wonder whether it might indeed be a miracle that the contemporary technological revolution – coupled with perpetual quandaries concerning public and private funding for the arts – had not by now brought an end to the evolution of the oldest of live arts, or, at the very least, an end to drama as we know it

Nurses' perceptions of aids and obstacles to the provision of optimal end of life care in ICU

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Analysis of the benthic infauna from Bahia de San Quintin, Baja California, with emphasis on its use in impact assessment studies

An ecological analysis of benthic polychaete assemblages is presented. Samples were collected at ll stations in July, September and December 1981, and February and May 1982. Thirty-nine species in 21 families of polychaetes were identified. Spatial variations may be due to microhabitats and/or the intrinsic biology of the species. The abundance increased in spring because of reproduction and recruitment. The values of the Shannon diversity index were as high as 3.1 and 0.9 for evenness. Clusters among stations could not be identified which may have been because of the dominance of five species (Exogone occidentalis, Pseudopolydora kempi, Scoloplos acmeceps, Prionospio heterobranchia and Neanthes arenaceodentata) and the relative abundance of secondary species. The abundance, number of species and evenness were not significant (p > > 0.05) when correlated with the content of organic matter and sediment particle size. The log-normal distributions of individuals among species did not detect pollution-induced changes in the community. The benthic community in Bahía de San Quintín was found to be at or near equilibrium which may be the result of a relatively high resilience to disturbance. A qualitative assessment of the possible impact of domestic sewage on the infauna and an outline for the ecological management of the bay are presented

Benito Pérez Galdós

In Galdós\u27 time, the tensions between such diverse phenomena as coins and credit, free trade and protectionist tariffs, factory work and domestic economy, masculine and feminine, and private and public exacerbated friction among peoples—those of pueblo and rural origins, whose voices rasped and whose bright colors raked the eye, and a nascent, insecure bourgeosie who, fearful of the masses, strove to imitate the aristocracy. Old and new converged also with the question of suffrage and citizenship to aggravate social malaise and political upheavals—Carlist wars, palace intrigues, the Revolution of 1868 and overthrow of Queen Isabel, the brief reign of Amadeo of Savoy, the aborted First Republic and the Bourbon Restoration (1875-1885), which reached Spain from England in the imported person of Alfonso XII. These turbulent events undergird the cultural, historical, and political events of the novels by Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920) to be discussed in this chapter. Galdós is the author of seventy-seven novels, twenty-six original plays, and numerous occasional pieces, written between 1867 and 1920. These divide into two main categories: the historical and the contemporary social novels, now more appropriately described as novels of modernity The forty-six historical novels, called Episodios nacionales, make up five series, each consisting of ten interconnected novels, except the fifth series, left unfinished. The thirty-one novels of modernity, published between 1870 and 1915, also divide into two groups: Novelas de la primera época ( Novels of the Early Period, 1870–1879) and Las novelas de la serie contemporánea ( The Contemporary Social Novels, 1881–1915). The novels of the early period comprise Galdós\u27 first attempts at novel writing, as well as four so-called thesis novels : Doña Perfecta (1876), the sequel Gloria (1876–1877), Marianela (1878), and La familia de León Roch ( The Family of León Roch, 1878–1879). The next group of novels represents what Galdós called his segunda manera —his second style, a different kind of writing ... a more sophisticated and varied mode of narrative presentation