Postscript

It deserves this postscript, since almost a month to write what comes, the author of the text on the Concept of History Walter Benjamin (2005), and also conducted the translation from German into our language of the Thesis Benjamin, Bolivar Echeverria, a compatriot of ours, born in Riobamba (Ecuador) in 1941, died June 5, 2010, coinciding with one of the flagship national holidays: the liberal revolution.

In honor of a famous Ecuadorian intellectual, dedicate the following lines, to whom he dedicated his life to philosophy. Work translated and important philosophical works, cultural and economic; more, their contribution is known, from the Latin American soil, the so-called Critical Theory of Frankfurt.

Echeverria’s work is extensive and of high quality, but do not share many of his ideas, this does not mean we can not make a fitting tribute to a work not for its brevity is less important.

Is there a Jewish Historical Materialism?

An Introduction Necessary

We can not go to the subject matter, we call the Jewish Historical Materialism, if we remember that the history of mankind has witnessed a brutal way, as several people who have thought and thought is chosen by a God or Gods, had or should rule the world.

To not go very far, we quote first, some polytheism , because they all believed destined to rule the world, we find the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and so on.

And the monotheisms chosen , like Judaism, Christianity, Islam … until the Aryan Nazi fascism of Hitler.

Finally, with this example we note that the chosen people, have hovered permanently over the world.

One of the assumptions chosen people, the Jews , they faced persecution and exile for hundreds of years. The first Jewish diaspora began in 586 BC when Nebuchadnezzar II conquered the Kingdom of Judah and the Jewish leaders brought to Babylon. In 516 BC Cyrus II the Great , Persian, conquered the Babylonians and allowed the Jews to return to the land of Israel. In 70 AD Titus , Roman, was a second exile to destroy the Jewish Second Temple. And later, with the revolt of Bar Kochba were spread throughout the Roman Empire, and over the years, spread around the world. There was also, among many others, the dispersion Spanish, on call Sephardic Diaspora in the same year of the alleged discovery of America, or rather cover-up.

One of the Judaisms Intellectuals

The restoration of Eretz Yisrael, or Zion (the land of Israel), as a promised land, has been a goal of the Jews, since the beginning of the diaspora. What came to fruition only in 1948 after the Second World War, that since 1947 the United Nations divided in two, what had been Palestinian land and recognized the State of Israel by the UN. This historical event, it also meant the most egregious Palestinian genocide in history.

The constitution of the State of Israel, did not see Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), who as a Jew-German, had lived with the most exalted enthusiasm. However, many of his colleagues, saw the “historical fact”.

The so-called Frankfurt School , shelter and home to several neo-Marxists of all kinds, who questioned the orthodox Marxism of the USSR, ie Marxism-Leninism and socialist construction of Stalin. These authors have tried to unify different theories into one, so best credit cards as to minimize the differences between them. Its ostensible purpose was to renew Marxist theory with an appreciation of interdisciplinary and philosophical . But such an extreme is reached, which would connect to Kant and Marx, Freud Psychoanalysis and Marxism, and a host of new changes to it with the philosophy of Hegel. Currently, the so-called second generation of the Frankfurt School, Max Weber has included within the network opaque and eclectic.

For the Jewish origin of the members of the school, conmináronse to regroup in other countries to save his life, it was this or support the grill cremation in the Nazi Holocaust. But not everyone got such luck.

Some of the representatives of the first generation were: Felix Weil (1898-1975, Argentine-Jewish), Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), Jürgen Habermas ( 1929) and so on., that except the first, are Jewish Germans.

The second generation includes the second-Jürgen Habermas only survivor of the previous generation, Claus Offe, Oskar hcg drops Negt, Alfred Schmidt and Albrecht Wellmer, the most important. (Muñoz, 2009)

Walter Benjamin [1] , a close associate of that school, gathers in his view, the more “subtle” mix, historical materialism to Jewish tradition . Such a relatedness to read Benjamin Echeverria and we only source of looked International Jew by Henry Ford.

Critical to the text “Introduction: Walter Benjamin, the Jewish condition and the policy of” Bolívar Echeverría

Echeverria made ​​a presentation of the document T. Adorno   on the Philosophy of History , which is also called Theses on History , published in 1942 in Los Angeles. Echeverria, come on saying that Benjamin, committed suicide by harassment fascist, but practice the option of the Nazi-Fascists murdered him. For Benjamin’s behavior we stick rather the first option.

The text wow gold made ​​between 1939-1940, in the midst of war, sent him to Gretel Adorno, sister of the former, who would later publish them. Benjamin lines, intended to “build a ‘ theoretical framework ‘used to support this critical history of the genesis of modern society [2] …. ” Tried to capture the fact that, in the passages of Paris , because that city should be the subject-object of the new historical materialist account.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German Jew, portrays Benjamin as a person with bad terms with his father, bad with academic life, a person who does not get along with the world, although he had many money problems remained in instability, an “active helplessness” says Echeverria, whose suicide, rather, seems to me, confirms a personality schizoid .

The unfinished work of Benjamin, is, says Echeverria, a collective failure , because in it, there was a world and a time to complete an entire project. Is the writing, he says, a sense of defeat and outrage after the Munich Pact (1938) and the Covenant Ribbentrop-Molotov (1939) . In the first the UK, France, Italy granted the incorporation of the Sudetenland to Germany, who had Czechoslovak citizenship, but deliberately absent the treaty, which they approached the USSR, the second a compact non-aggression that was fulfilled by Hitler’s expansionist aims since invaded the USSR in 1941, a year after the death of Benjamin, a situation that does not mention Echeverria, whereas it does say, is that the West gave in to the Reich, and interests of the Russian Revolution became the interests of the Russian Empire. Echeverria is a neglect not to review the history and tie the two agreements, and further, not to clarify that the USSR took on his defense of Czechoslovakia, which was initially allied with England and France.

Benjamin criticizes expressed Echeverría, the theoretical foundations of communist discourse of the nineteenth century, Marxism, which was known at that time as the theory of Social Democracy, because the struggle is first performed against the monarchy, which attracted a democratic struggle the bourgeois republic, but the Communists did not intend at all, stay there, but to advance to socialism. Because socialism or communism has ended up being a failure, according to the interpretation of Echeverría, Benjamin, tried to make a different socialist discourse “really and truly historical materialist discourse appropriate to the time of the decline of modernity [ 3] capitalism. “(Echeverría, 2008) , this speech is “untimely” and has no real political practice. It is a political speech and hypothetical future communists, socialists or anarchists, raises, something which, not without reason, since we are a malaise, for there is no difference Echeverría communism and anarchism, or does not care to mention.

Criticizes Western Marxism and East European Stalinist outlined in the heterodoxy, with people like Karl Korsch (1886-1961) German Communist initially went to a Hegelianism, Karl Wittfogel (1896-1986) German American first, and then communist a fierce anti-communist, Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) another subsidiary of a German Jewish Marxist Hegelian and linked more to the theology of Thomas Muenzer coming to the philosophy of concrete utopias, and the already mentioned Horkheimer. The suspect in the case of the interpretation of Echeverria, is that it puts great Berthold Brecht (1898-1956) next to these eclectic, which is quite makers of the confusion that has, as he clung to the orthodox theory rather and apostates, just look for a button received the Stalin Prize in 1955. And to be fair, perhaps this vision Echeverria gives permanent Brecht criticism to the German Democratic Republic, which as evidenced by history, was right.

In addition, states that “the doctrine of” communism “is more Stalinist auto insurance quotes than a specific configuration of an ideological phenomenon …” and that Marxism was applied decreased until 1989, said Echeverria. Another major confusion Echeverría, which equates to the ideology that kept Stalin, with the season complete revision of the Marxist-Leninist principles to be the father and Khrushchev, upsetting to Gorbachev, who with his Jewish and his eclectic well have been part of the Frankfurt School.

The western European culture, continuous, is an imaginary structure, since only a few inhabit it, more of a universal consumerism, a coin, there is no such universal identity, and you want to open a predominance of England, France and Germany. Cultures were given back. The dream of European culture began in the s. Century with the lights, which would eventually disappear in the Second World War, according to the author, so that the twentieth century would be a century of Darkness, because modern capitalism tried to tread the path of National Socialism.

Cosmopolitan Europe was a dream pushed mainly by the Jewish intelligentsia, since according to George Steiner, the Jews do not need another area that the book, the writing, which is why they wanted to join a new class society: the European . Jewish identity is nomadic, have the ability to move between other codes, the integration CrossFit Denver of the European Jewish population is clearly shown.

Benjamin wants to reconcile the Jewish culture, with the tendency of the West and the messianic utopianism. It is proposed to “… introduce a correction radical messianic utopianism of revolutionary socialism itself: out of hiding to ‘dwarf theology’ which is the secret of the efficiency discourse of dialectical materialism.” This quote really scares me is not understanding, almost nothing or nothing himself, the vitality of Marxism, the theoretical proposal of emancipation, reduced to a mere messianism.

The Western utopianism, believes, thinks it is in an imperfect world and inauthentic, so you want to put in place, a perfect and authentic. This perfect world is the possibility of the real world, is in power, as Aristotle would say. The messianic , feel guilty for breaking the harmony of its previous world with original sin, and wait for the time you reach the redemption, so that the doors open again, of Paradise, is a return to the past. The first calls for a change of substances, according to a territory, the second by the forms, return to somewhere you will recover.

This judge, the only revolutionary theory to the time of the crisis of capitalist modernity is linked to the messianic utopianism.

Echeverria speculated that Benjamin’s theory can take place now, because government help the illusory political activity, both traditional and transnational States post-modern capitalism, have no authority, no legitimacy, no government.

Annoyed by the thesis of Benjamin

The thesis I, in summary says that the “puppet” of historical materialism can fight anyone if you put your collection of theology, as if the dwarf theology was allegedly behind the puppet robot: the Turkish Kempelen [4] . Benjamin is almost insane, as the Science of History, dialectical materialism, must keep within it the Science of God: theology. Philosophical Materialism scene brought to God, for the words of Feuerbach: Homo Deus Homini , and now has to apologize! In another mouse with the cheese.

II outlines the thesis that the idea of ​​happiness lies the redemption, he wants to return to the past. Review: Benjamin nostalgia for the children taken out of Paradise, who wish to return home. The mystical is the summit of Benjamin.

Thesis III: “… only a redeemed mankind has been re citable his past …” (Benjamin, 2008), these points are addressed in the order of the day of reckoning. Review: In this regard I must say that paradise never existed before, and historical consciousness is one of the virtues of our age, so if we talk in Marxism, redemption is only metaphorically comparable to the revolution that has nothing to do with theology.

Thesis IV: The class struggle must not be merely material but also spiritual. Review: The spiritual never stop to consider in Marxism, but as synonymous with the fulfillment of the aspirations in knowledge and human culture, not as the heavenly spirit.

Thesis V: Resume in the phrase of G. Keller “The truth can not escape us” (Benjamin, 2008) and reliving the past in the image of this. Review: In this still present the stink of the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Thesis VI: Hope in the past, relying as the Messiah, is what has to catch historical materialism. Review: The Logos becomes the Myth.

Thesis VII: The historian has to forget to generate empathy, as it always has been the winner, because history is a history of winning that keeps repeating. The goods and culture in general is not only fatigue of genius but of servitude. Review: This thesis is one of the most progressive in the sea eclectic Benjamin.

Thesis VIII: Benjamin, makes a play on words: the “state of exception”, that is the de facto state is the state of the “rule” we must fight for the true state of emergency. Review: I could have specified that the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, in other words, changes its form of government, but remains dictatorship.

Thesis IX: History is back at the past and the storm of progress drag it into the future. Review: progress does not lead to the story, without more, to the future, the story has to judge the events, and the guilty be punished live and be remembered as heroes.

Thesis X: Not so clearly refers to the socialist leaders, who allegedly betrayed their ideals against fascism. Politicians have a blind faith in progress, rely on their masses, insertion into an uncontrollable apparatus. Precludes a clear idea about the story. Review: It refers to agreements or treaties that we mentioned above, the second is a bit incomprehensible, but I gather that tries to challenge the Soviet state and type of warlord forms of dictatorships of the time.

Thesis XI: conformism affects the economic and political tactics of Social Democracy. The Germans thought that the work is the source of all wealth and culture, but Marx said in the Critique of the Gotha Program that whoever owns only their labor power is bound to be slave owners. Show progress with regard to nature, but not the setbacks of the society, and the technocratic fascism. It is a vulgar Marxism. The work is before help exploit nature’s creations bear asleep. Review: Man and nature are an equation in which there should be no exploitation but mutual correspondence. The technocracy is an essential branch of imperialism.

Thesis XII: The historical subject is the proletariat and the last enslaved class that will release on behalf of all generations overdue. Review: More memory makes a laudatory of Blanqui (1805-1881), who criticized Marx for Putschs that I wanted to take power without the organization of the masses and no armed insurrection.

Thesis XIII: The Social progress prompted dogmatic endless and unstoppable. Review: obvious question any notion of progress in general.

Thesis XIV: The origin is the goal, Kraus cited as Rome thought Robespiere revolutionary France. It is assumed that this is the dialectical leap. Review: is a schematic and non-scientific approach, the memory is not the same conditions.

Thesis XV: the revolutionary classes make jumping the continuum of history. Calendars are monuments to historical consciousness.

Thesis XVI: The historical materialist can not abstain from this concept in which there is a representation of the past. And own forces to blow up the contnuum.

Thesis XVII: historicism leads to a universal history, no theoretical framework, and an accumulation of events. Materialist historiography is built and stops at the thought of a place that crystallized as a monad, causing a shock. Compare to the opportunity messianic revolutionary with a fall. Review: is imbued with Hegel, Leibniz, and theology.

Thesis XVIII: The classless society is an idea not an ideal infinite. Like the revolutionary opportunity can not wait forever but we have to analyze the situation. Entering this site is messianic. Review: classless society is a society unattainable, if not a utopia. And the opportunity is not a messianic revolutionary. Here one should distinguish between revolutionary situation and what Benjamin considered revolutionary opportunity.

Thesis XIX: The time of humanity on the planet has been very short, and the summary of this is the model of Messianic time.

A: In the “now time” are the chips of Messianic time. A historical fact to consider that can pass through millennia.

B: The Jews were forbidden to look into the future, and with Thor and reminisced about his last prayer, without which the future is homogeneous and empty every second could enter the messiah.

Conclusion

As criticism of the latter view and in conclusion, I believe the Eretz Yisrael desire, in the words of Benjamin, tail become reality as historical materialism, more or less as in the refrain of “Who snuggles a good tree, good shade shelters him “and it is to know that the Jews, a certain social class, managed offshore consolidated several European countries and America already have over their own country and one of the more sophisticated weaponry. Frankfurt Proposals and the author in question have no place outside the academic office, but so far with the recycling of the XXI century socialism, who stays up late and mixes disparate ideas, such as doing credit to its founders. Out various philosophies of Kant wanted it accurately reflect “their way”, but had to be made into new philosophical systems. The Frankfurt School and the author in question, they have done something similar with respect to Marxism.

Cuenca, Thursday May 6, 2006 [1] Some of the works of Benjamin are: Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels ( The Origin of German Tragic Drama , 1928 ); Einbahnstraße ( One-way street , 1928 ), Das im Zeitalter seiner Kunstwerk technischen Reproduzierbarkeit ( The work of virility ex art in an denver injury attorney age of technical reproducibility , 1936 ) um Kindheit neunzehnhundert Berliner ( on children in Berlin in 1900 , 1950 , published posthumously); Geschichtsphilosophische Thesen ( Theses on the Philosophy of History , 1959 , published posthumously); The task of the translator (translation Marzán Carlos Trujillo, Jorge Marcos Hernandez, included in Laguna: Journal of Philosophy , 1994 ,).
[2] Emphasis added.

[3] Ibid.

[4]   Johan Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734-1804), writer, inventor, chess, Hungarian advising the court of Vienna, claimed to have built a chess automaton “The Turk”, which was a farce. A glass cockpit so disguised to conceal within them a dwarf, an expert chess player, and could handle a manikin as if it will automatically move the chips that robot. (Wikipedia, 2010)

 

aruki Murakami now dare the dystopian genre in a book that goes beyond the literary product to become a leader in sales phenomenon

 

1Q84 (books 1 and 2)
Haruki Murakami
Editorial Tusquets, 2011
744 pages / ISBN 978-84-8383-314-8
With a huge promotion Tusquets, 1Q84 is one of the books of the year 2011. Published two years ago in its original language, was led tv reviews a new avalanche in the unanimity of a devoted audience and critique very receptive.

Its title comes from, of course, a reference to the renowned unsubtle work of George Orwell . After many forays into strange characters and a universe hostile environments blotting with magic and the paranormal, 1Q84 is the repetition of formulas already seen in Kafka on the shore and the end of a ruthless world and Wonderland . Two books in one, we move from one setting to another alternative, each more intriguing and comfortable in their rarity.

In the world murakamiano , all speak as if they had five university degrees, all have a vast and exquisite musical taste, and references to countless cultural paradigms. On this occasion, we have Aomame, which begins committing murder, and his act, entirely professional, is justified because the victim was a bad person. After sleeping with an executive because his bald head resembles that of Sean Connery, and is considering how bored he speaks, is it enough to deserve to be killed the same way?

On the other hand, the protagonist of the parallel story is I have a math teacher who is responsible for making up a novel called The chrysalis of the air . I have a weak individual, beset by an editor before has the availability of a firefighter. However, he feels safe on his staff, inmate sexual consciousness and overly reflective attitude that protects it from seeming chaos of their surroundings.

No personally share the immense enthusiasm that has caused widespread 1Q84 . That has its virtues, is undeniable, and his dialogue sometimes catch the reader to forget that it has a life, is something that is beyond question. However, we will miss a more personal voice, more evocative and tender as that Murakami has given us another cut in works such electric cigarette as Norwegian Wood or wild sheep hunting . His narration, extremely analytical and sometimes off, may be appropriate for the atmosphere that raises, but not to provide an experience of the same magnitude as that Murakami has accustomed us in and numerous occasions (and hence its fame and recognition).

1Q84 is a book designed to please and engage with a domain of the frame above the average, in the same way that a sense of déjà vu to certain characters and situations (for several years we have been reading him) could be annoying.

Books Rafael Ballester Añón

Rafael Ballester Anon, Spanish poet and writer, born in Valencia in 1951. From his early youth interested in humanistic knowledge applied to the press, cinema and the most advanced media, studied in the University of Valencia, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in audiovisual languages.

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Book of the flaps (backs of book anthology) anthology backs of book chosen as a standard of literary quality, capacity and admirable suggestion economy of means. Its purpose is to reveal the genre perhaps less visible and, paradoxically, more read, the backs.

Guide to view and analyze: Some Like It Hot The collection of texts guides for viewing and analyzing film is an educational project Nau Llibres publishers and Octahedron, which aims to provide a case analysis, rigorous and thorough fundamental film history of cinema. The clear and didactic language of these guidelines allows adaptation to different educational levels from secondary education and baccalaureate to the Vocational Training Communication and Audiovisual Studies Degree in Audiovisual Communication, Advertising, Journalism, Fine Arts, Art History and Philology, as well as an easy understanding of the texts studied film for film lovers in general.

Another of the books of Rafael Ballester Añón: Generation Of Valencia 36: Anthology Encyclopedia scripts Construction Manual

Blood of the steps below

As has always been, as we are and we intend to see things happen and you just say to God, we do not look they are dressed, or hostility or apathy that we have, why is the blood of those who once were “bad” or not appropriate nor in the story, diabetes and foot ulcers longest of all, neither I nor anyone change the tendency to slip back into the clutches of giant, despite that disappointment, how we fought for lengths of light, whose dark shade most for men and for himself he has condemned to live with the decision to bow, I never imagined the prison of my existence for the folly of that is reflected in everyone I see same or different or perhaps less obvious, but there it is.

And if we look around we realize that we all need something. That’s because we are lacking in spirit and will to boot once and for all the roots of hell supposedly a veteran awareness as well or those things common or something.

We hit every time we hear the voice of motion, which causes a change in us all, comes a different person than what you actually want to be, and whether high praise on all these bodies is returning empty to write writing again and again. Only songs that fill or dominate those who are dominated by what goes on because of the voice, and the paradoxes do not end up falling but they are there, we are stupid or blind, we see the only solution and we turn, and you are problems.

So many things were born, the good the bad attacks, although not this bad without the good color of the flowers, we were able to change everything, to live with all the heart, but it was a moment that the called happiness and freedom of those who spoke the Enlightenment, it’ll take it. Neither we love in dreams or in reality, much less in a country like Colombia that stuff went into the pockets of Socrates.

 

Cellulite gives you problems? He can not stay in my underwear or bikini because it ruins your body of cellulite?

I was like you a few weeks ago. After three children, could not help but have cellulite on my body. But it was not a problem for me since I was not going to work naked. Only my husband and the kids knew about my cellulite and did not seem to mind. But after I am connected with my former classmates on a social networking site, they said they would gather in a day of camping once a month. I was so excited to be part of this meeting! But then I realized I would have to be a swimsuit if I was a day of camping, as it was summer and had sink. I had to get rid of cellulite. For weeks I was desperately seeking a solution on the net without success. I was so frustrated! After a while I found No More Cellulite could help me. As with all the pages I had previously read, I was very skeptical, but I considered it as a last resort. After performing for 4 weeks and exercise routines that I found my cellulite to disappear achieved.

 

 

Yes, cellulite can be reduced to be invisible without expensive surgery or miracles. It is simply my opinion about the book, but I really recommend it, and think about that. I hope it is useful!

 

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“Thinking Twice: A new visitor back to Like Water for Chocolate ” by Laura Esquivel

A while ago, for a deserved rest at home when I had the opportunity to enjoy my new 52-inch TV was a television program on the Food Network, with the expert cook and entertainer, Rachael Ray. She had invited Kirstie Alley to your program to talk about the new “reality show” Alley the matter of keeping the line with his new regimen, a diet promoted by Alley. For a reason that escapes me to this day why the mind, the program I remembered a scene in the book Like Water for Chocolate . Maybe it was the confusion and drama that took place in car insurance comparison the program when the stove malfunctions and wore Ray Alley 100 day loans to do evil and funny and silly. That scene made ​​me think of the confusion and madness that caused Tita, the Relevant Life Cover protagonist, Esquivel’s novel with strong feelings vent, mostly around for a love not done, through their recipes prepared daily.

I remembered that Tita was in love with a man, Pedro, who could not marry because she was the youngest. At that time, was a tradition that prohibited the marriages of the youngest daughter until the mother died. Well, it was the duty of the child to care for your mom, take care and could not marry. He had a lot of resentment, frustration and unfulfilled sexual feelings that Tita, because the lover near her, Peter, he took the decision to marry an older sister, Rosaura, and so lived together under the same roof until everything went wrong.

I decided to grab the book from an old dusty shelf. The novel, which has more than twenty years since they first published it, was to be read again by me. Yes Rachel Ray and Kirstie Alley had given me inspiration sparks to revive Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate .

They were my vacacciones and have a little more time to rest and relax during those days I read the novel in Spanish, remembering, while, I bought it in its original written form not to lose anything of significance in the story. I admit that I had no idea the first time I read the novel, I wanted to say the phrase “like water for chocolate”. Sure, I understood the words themselves, but did not understand, you may want to say that a person is angry, with great courage, that you have some sexual desire, which is dying a wish and desire to make love. Wow, I thought. It is a socio-cultural and idiomatic expression worth knowing, right?

Well, I started reading the book again in the hope a lot of fun pure romance novel and tasty. For all modes, had forgotten many of the characters and mini-themes in the story. I felt almost as if reading it for the first time.

I learned a lot of the recipes of love and pain of thwarted love, but I learned the role of family tradition in Mexican life during the early years veinte.Esquivel century describes the tense relations between the sisters and the mother and painful adherence to strict Mexican traditions.

The use, in the novel of magical realism by the author made me even more interested in the book, now, not as romance but as a tale of history and culture of Mexican tradition. The author’s use of the surreal, the magical to give emphasis to a scene or situation reminds me a lot of the works he read the famous Gabriel Garcia Marquez (and here I realize that I devia the topic a bit) of the country controversial and not well understood, Colombia. There are also routine of life in many aspet, boring, with the use of Narrative technique of magic realism and the everyday lives become much more than ordinary.

The tradition, the role and importance of food in the novel and is used as bridge to heart com, the daily struggle of women, in general, and love are not realized (until too late) are all themes in the novel. However, the issue of tradition versus delayed progress or is it modern advancement that impresses one and is as eternal.

As an independent woman, modern (so I think), am very interested in the car finance role of women in Latin American countries, especially from the pen and point of view of a writer like Esquivel. By learning and thinking more about the role of Tita, I get to think about mine, in regards to life in general, about my family obligations, etc.. Stereotypes still exist here in the U.S. of America as a passive omen, servidumbree, tolerant of womanizing and breeder of children. Like Water for Chocolate does not deny that there is such a woman, but woman has another dimension as well able to be strong, witty, intelligent, powerful, open, sexual and responsible.

I recommend that those who have read the novel, Like Water for Chocolate , experience a revival in which can be re-learn the culture and Mexican history and more, strength and fighting between the Mexican Continual career family and love. It is a universal struggle.

And for those who have read the book, and perhaps would like to see live the novel, there is a film in Spanish with Alfonso Arau English sub-titles that can be rented with the same name, Like Water for Chocolate . The film can be viewed while eating a meal that you prepare a program of the Food Network – and hopefully so interesting, exciting and mystical as the novel – not just the film – Bankruptcy but also the food.

 

Can I change the past?

 

Many people feel bound by their past. Many people have complained that they are not be changed because they have a past.

What would happen if the past could be changed? Can you imagine if you could take back that decision so much influenced your life? ¿Would build you a more pleasant past? Would it help you as a person who needs it?

Changing the past is presented as an alternative for a better present. For example could you take that job, start their studies at a certain age, investing in companies that had so much profit.

It would be like in the movie back to the future. But is it possible to change the past? Yes, it is possible and you can. In his book, I AM HAPPY, I AM RICH, ANDREW CORENTT, explains that the past can be changed through simple procedures.

Making changes in the past is possible because all the past, present and future is contained in the now. That said Buddha, Einstein said, the Bible says, and thousands of other sources.

Although many had said, had never been presented this secret to the public. Never before has anyone dared to break the silence that kept esoteric schools to enrich its members immediately. Until now.

The procedure is simple and all you need is a piece of paper and a pencil. You can set your past to take this all that you want.

Now you might get rich easy to change your past and build there (in the past), the life you want to live here and now. And everything will be automatic.

You just start and the rest will happen automatically as the author suggests, certain causes produce certain effects. Controlling for the effects (which are regularly in the past) affects the effect (which is in the present or future).

 

If you do, it means that you can choose everything in your life. The choice is yours: live the life of a saint, follow the path of the hero, enjoy a rich life.

 

This article is based on the information contained in the book I AM HAPPY, AND I AM RICO. See the author’s website at:

Translated a book is good depends on the translation itself. A book may be wonderful in their own language and horrible in the translation. Hideous in the extreme, even with a bad translation. Or, do the test with this excerpt from Christopher Paolini Brisinr:

Manuscript

The evening sun streaked the long low hills and narrow with Shadows and-far in the west-illuminated the surface of Leona Lake so That Became a rippling the horizontal bar of gold.

Text translated by Jorge Rizzo and Carol Isern

The evening sun fell on the low hills casting shadows long and narrow and far to the west, the lake’s surface illuminated Leone, which became the horizon in a golden strip rolling.

Text translated by the automatic translator

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1.1. What is strategic planning?

There are issues that have such attraction becomes somewhat seductive as with the strategy, perhaps because we associate strategist with features such as:

a) An innovative and entrepreneurial spirit

b) Ability to deal with adverse situations

c) Vision to identify the best opportunities

d) Ability to manage large projects

e) Charisma to drive change

 

 

All under the constant success, thanks to the special knowledge, skill or art that is a celebration, so it certainly seems to inquire about it to see how we can make our own.

However, it all comes down to a purely emotional, since most of the importance and interest in this subject, due to the need for a support tool to address current challenges, given the growing strong competition and the dynamics of change that exists in virtually all areas.

That is why organizations should review and adjust their strategies to compete successfully and to seize opportunities or avoid threats that time brings, and even go a step further to find a way to give rise to future desired and create innovative ways of action.

The strategic qualifier applies in many DUI Attorneys different cases and circumstances:

Long-term plans

Valuable resources

Expansion programs

Getting out of entanglements

Building Partnerships

Product Launch

Reorganization of businesses

Major Projects

Improvement Programs

Etc.

Strategic planning is a function of any director at any level of an organization, as today, management and strategic planning are vital for the success of the companies as an inappropriate strategy can create serious problems, no matter how efficient it can be a company internally.

Moreover, a company can be internally inefficient but can succeed because it uses the appropriate strategies.

 

 

An effective planning program is to provide a guide for executives in all aspects of a business to make decisions related to the goals and strategies of top management, understanding the concept of strategy as: the development and utilization of internal capacity to deal various challenges, in response or anticipation of environmental changes, such as how to compete in the market as long-term vision or the challenge is to ask what place are we? and what place we should be? .

Strategy as the link between the objectives pursued, action programs and the resources required and what is the strategy, which distinguishes it from all other types of business planning is, in a word, competitive advantage, since the sole purpose of strategic planning is to be to allow the company to obtain maximum efficiency with a sustainable advantage over its competitors.

So the concept is multidimensional strategy, which revolves around five key questions: What business should participate and how to manage the family business?, How to compete in every business? How to improve competitiveness?, What challenges are foreseen?, and What is the target image?.

We have strategic planning deals with the future of current decisions, that represents a process, a philosophy and a set of interrelated plans.

The purpose is to build a map that identifies the main lines of development of strategic thinking, for on this basis have the opportunity to make a comprehensive and orderly.

The strategic planning revolves around five key questions.

The first three questions are addressed to the issue of responsibility, considering the typical hierarchical levels of an organization (management, business unit and functional).

What business should participate and how to manage the family business?

How to compete in every business?

How to improve competitiveness?

Also, how the success or failure, growth or decline of the organization, is also conditioned by the skill has to look ahead, to the above questions are added the following two:

What challenges are foreseen?, What is the target image? From these questions we construct a map showing the key areas or levels of strategic planning.

 

1.2. Management and Strategic Planning

A changing environment is a significant factor influencing the introduction of formal strategic planning in several companies. It is well known that for most of the latter the environment changes quickly and offers great dangers and opportunities.

Given this changing environment can be said that the time required systematic strategic planning, especially for major companies and managers to better understand the complex world in which they must cope.

Formal strategic planning introduces a new set of forces and means to make decisions in an organization, of which the most important thing will be discussed below.

Simulates the future. Strategic planning can simulate the future on paper. Simulation alternatives are reversible, unlike the decisions made ​​in real life without carefully considering future circumstances.

But the simulation has other advantages: it encourages the executive and allows you to view, evaluate and accept or rule out many alternatives, which would be impossible without it.

 

 

Apply the system approach. The systematic planning considers a company as a system composed of different subsystems, in which top management can see the company as a whole, instead of dealing with each part individually and unrelated to the other parties.

Requires the establishment of objectives. A strategic planning process will not do much if at some point down specific targets for areas such as sale used and market share.

Reveals and clarifies future opportunities and threats. An important outcome of the situation analysis is to identify opportunities and danger.

The framework for decision making across the enterprise. An effective planning program is that it provides a guide for executives in all aspects of a business to make decisions for the goals and strategies of top management.

Basis for other management functions:

Both precedes and planning is intertwined inseparably with other management functions, for example, it is obvious that planning is essential for effective control.

 

 

Measures the performance. A comprehensive plan provides a basis for measuring paintball gear performance. The performance of a business should not only be measured in quantitative financial terms, as many companies try to do. But no quantitative characteristics are also very important: for example, creativity, innovation, imagination, motivation and knowledge can be reflected in financial results.

Points strategic issues. In this way, the attention of management can focus on key issues, without having to worry about secondary factors. Of course, this represents a very valuable for better decision-making.

However, there are securities whose nature is rather behavioral and which the most outstanding are:

Communication channels. A well-organized planning system is a very useful communication network. The planning process is a means for communicating the objectives, strategies and detailed operational plans between levels of management.

Training of managers. Several companies have understood that the system of strategic planning is a process of training of managers.

Sense of participation. Strategic planning should always be accompanied by better motivation and morale on the part of managers. Today people within an organization at any level, are interested in participating in the process of making decisions in order to contribute their knowledge to the company and find opportunities to be creative. A strategic planning process can satisfy these desires. All these above points allow easy adaptation to changes by staff, which represents an attribute value to any organization.

Strategic Planning Benefits

Several quantitative studies show good results with strategic planning in areas such as sales, profits, market share, equitable distribution to shareholders, operating rates and the cost / value of the shares. It should be mentioned that the optimum productivity of an organization is not the direct result of strategic planning but the product of the wide range of managerial skills in a company. However, in general, know very efficient way to develop planning systems that are tailored to their needs, which invigorates the whole process management and enables better results, compared with companies that operate without formal planning system.

Based on the above it can be said that strategic planning is inextricably interwoven into the loom of the address, also you can not separate or different from the managerial process.

To simplify, there are two kinds of leadership: one is that which takes place at the highest levels of an organizational structure, which is called the “strategic direction” and all others who may be called “operational management”.

 

 

Strategic planning is crucial to support strategic direction. Of course that does not represent the whole process of strategic management but only a major factor in achieving it. It recognizes that strategic and operational management are closely linked, the strategic direction provides guidance, direction and boundaries for the processes. Thus, strategic planning is related to operations. However, the focus and emphasis on planning and strategic management focus more on operations strategy.

Years ago, it was the operation that he paid more attention in the direction of a typical company. One of the major problems was how to efficiently use those scarce resources to produce goods and services at prices acceptable to consumers. It was thought that to achieve this goal would be to maximize profits. Today, the efficient use of scarce resources is still a major concern of the addresses in any organization, but today, due to a turbulent environment of rapid change, the survival of an organization’s ability to adapt appropriately to this environment, both internally and externally, it is increasingly difficult.

Today, management and strategic planning are vital for the success of the companies as an inappropriate strategy can create serious problems, no matter how inefficient internally but can succeed because it uses the appropriate strategies. Therefore, the ideal position would be to have both.

Although strategic planning is of great importance in the management, not the whole of the latter, top management has other responsibilities besides planning.

There are two major forms, which should not be underestimated, to help senior managers to meet their responsibilities for strategic planning: planning in advance intuitive and formal systematic planning. In many companies there are conflicts between the two procedures, since they are involved two different thought processes. However, formal planning can not proceed without the intuition of Bins the address. If the formal planning system properly adapted to the characteristics policies can help improve the insight of the directors.

 

1.3. The strategic planning process

The planning is to say, What to Do, How to do, Where to?, Who is going to do? When it?, Is a process that points ahead each action or activity to be performed.

In itself, planning is an activity that previously given answers to the above questions related to the four basic areas of every business: production, markets, finance, and this relationship depends on the life of the company.

 

 

The main purpose of strategic planning is to identify the opportunities and dangers ahead to develop plans for either exploit or avoid them.

The strategic planning process is to formulate strategies teachers and programs. The grand strategy is defined missions, goals, objectives and basic policies, while the program strategies related to the acquisition, use and disposal of resources for specific projects such as building a new plant abroad.

Once operational plans are developed must be implemented. The implementation process covers the full range of management activities including motivation, compensation, evaluation and process control directive.

Overall, the strategic planning process begins with the establishment of organizational goals, define strategies, policies and consists of:

a) Define the business and establish a strategic mission;

b) Establish strategic objectives and performance targets;

c) Formulate a strategy to achieve the desired objectives and performance;

d) Prepare and implement the strategic plan,

e) Evaluate the results and reformulate the strategic plan and / or its application.

There is no simple standard for organizing strategic planning, which can be adapted to all companies, nor is there an organization for planning can be considered as the only and best. The factors that influence the organization of planning vary significantly between different companies.

The main factors influencing the design of planning systems.

The size of a company is an important dimension to determine the type of planning system that it can take.

The properties of a small company suggests greater inaccuracy, flexibility and informality than those of a large company. Furthermore, between these two types of companies there are considerable differences regarding the role of chief executive in planning and how to set and communicate goals, evaluates and uses the environment in planning and in the decision making, the relationship between subordinate managers (staff and senior executives and how they relate to the strategic operational plans.

In small companies the planning system can be much simpler because there are far fewer people involved and the operations are less complex than in large ones. In addition, executives of small companies often can be or are momentary pressure to solve problems so you do not have time to think about strategies. In large companies, because they have more staff, the chief executive can spend more time on issues of strategy.

The way in which major companies are organized influence the planning system, ie a company with a central organization that deals in a single business (eg insurance companies or companies in the public service). Have a relatively simpler system than those with decentralized profit centers, responsible for several different independent businesses.

 

 

The complexity of the office computer chairs environment also influences significantly in system designs. Companies face a relatively stable environment in which there is little competition, tend not to use the planning and use it if it will be formal and ritualistic.

Considering the above points of departure for formal strategic planning are:

 

1.4. Importance of objectives

One of the most important forces driving change is the image of the future to which we aspire, unfortunately force is harnessed to its full potential.

In large part this is due to the dose of mystery and romance that wears the idea of ​​a desired future, which diminishes clarity and effectiveness to the proposals.

Overall, I would expect from an organization that lacks clear objectives and whose policies are uncertain, is to drift with poor performance and lack of coordination.

To fill this gap, they often proceed to an examination of the most immediate to define what to fix or improve, leading to different operational objectives such as:

Improving product quality

Create a pleasant working environment

Refurbish a team, and so on.

In other cases, one looks outward and forward to identifying opportunities and threats that the organization should be prepared:

Meet the quantitative and qualitative changes in demand,

Monitoring the emergence of new technologies

Face new competitors, etc..

Without minimizing these kinds of purposes, it should be noted that if it comes down to an operational management or react to what the weather brings, you would expect a conservative organization is unable to conceive or major changes to boost its development, since it ignores what is looking more forward, so that from a certain perspective, these organizations continue to drift.

The vision and mission are seen as an intention for wider, where the main work is to establish what the consequences are considered valuable to define, to some extent, the type of organization would be if you could get everything we wanted .

 

1.5. Some limitations of Formal Strategic Planning.

It is natural that planning has its limitations, is not always the solution to the problem directly. This part will address some critical differences.

 

 

The environment may be different than expected. Forecasting is not an exact science, therefore, the plans are based on erroneous predictions may be wrong. Unexpected incidents governmental actions such as cancellation of a contract, a change in the activities of labor unions, a decline in economic activity or a sudden price cut by a competitor, are uncertain factors that hinder the planning process .

Internal resistance. In several companies the introduction of a formal planning system creates bias against planning that can prevent it is effective. In larger organizations, the traditional ways of performing the activities, rules and the old methods may become entrenched and will be difficult to change. The more a business grows the greater the amount of traditional relics.

Planning is expensive. To achieve effective planning in a medium sized company requires a significant effort. Also, several people will have to devote their time to this process and incur expenses for special studies and information. Therefore, planning is expensive and managers constantly must make a list of cost / benefit throughout the process. You can not apply this equation quantitatively to corporate planning, however, this factor should not be forgotten as it may incur higher costs than potential benefits.

Momentary crisis. Strategic planning is designed to bring an enterprise of a sudden crisis. If a company is about to break, the time would be devoted to strategic planning will be better spent resolving problems in the short term. However, if free iPhone 4S a company is in a temporary crisis which may exceed, strategic planning should be continued to prevent similar future crisis.

Planning is difficult. Planning is an activity that requires a high degree of imagination, analytical ability, creativity and courage to choose and commit to a certain course of action.

Completed plans limit choices. Life Insurance Quotes The plans represent obligations or should represent, and therefore limited options. Tend to reduce the initiative of several alternatives that support the plans. Although not a limitation should be noted.

Limitations imposed. planning systems may be ineffective in the following cases: when they are too ritualistic and formal when line managers in trying to delegate duties to staff, when managers apply the planning, but apparently they make decisions without consulting the plans , or when managers focus their full attention to short-term problems without taking into account the future.