Cinema Roads to the Platonic Image of the Cave

The aim of this article is to prove the real possibility of travelling intellectually to the Platonic image of the cave from different films. In this sense, one can speak of explicit references as in The Conformist by B. Bertolucci or in Shadowlands by R. Attenborough -if one bears in mind the Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis- or The Picture of Dorian Gray ¿if one bears in mind the well-known O. Wilde¿s novel-, but, on other occasions, although the Platonic influence cannot be proved, for instance in The Truman Show, A Room with a View or Brideshead Revisited, one can perfectly think of these films in order to guide the contemporary audiences to that Platonic image, since Plato himself affirms that it deals with an image which can be easily applied and, in first place, to his idealistic philosophy.

Els apareguts i el culte de les ànimes del Purgatori (segles XIV-XVII). Estudi i edició de textos catalans

Report for the scientific sojourn carried out at the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA), France, from 2010 to 2012. It has focused on the analysis and editing of tales of human apparitions from the other world belonging to the Catalan culture or referring to it. We have studied and edited different versions of the process of Esperança Alegre (Lleida, 1500) and the Peregrinació del Venturós Pelegrí. These medieval works have been preserved in sources of the late sixteenth century or later. We have located a manuscript of the Esperança Alegre's tale, unknown to us at the beginning of this research (Biblioteca Nacional de España, ms. 1701), which differs from the version of ms. Baluze 238 of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. The scribe of the ms. 1701 adds several paragraphs where considers the case as a diabolical phantasmagoria. About the Venturós Pelegrí, we have tried to establish firm criteria for the classification of many editions from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. We have been looking for printed books in the libràries of the world and we have made several requests for photographic reproductions, in order to classify undated editions by comparing woodcuts and other decorative elements. In the legend of Prince Charles of Viana (1421-1461), the appearances of his ghost are accompanied by rumors of his poisoning and of his sanctity. In addition, we have studied the cycles of masses for the souls in Purgatory linked to the hagiographies of St. Amadour and St. Vincent Ferrer, as well as the appearances described in L'Ànima d’Oliver of Francesc Moner, in the Carmelite chronicles of Father John of St. Joseph (1642-1718) and in some folktales collected from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. All this have allowed us to verify the evolution of certain cultural paradigms since the Middle Ages to the present.

Análisis de los residuos sólidos generados en áreas administrativas, académicas, bibliotecas y cómputos, de ciudad universitària en la UMSNH, Michoacán, México

El proyecto se enmarca dentro de Plan Ambiental Institucional (PAI) de la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH), México, en lo referente a la gestión de residuos y tiene por finalidad analizar la tipología y composición de los residuos que se generan en algunas de las áreas de Ciudad Universitaria (CU). Para esto se realizó una metodología de recogida no selectiva de residuos puerta a puerta que se estructuró en dos fases, la primera, con el objetivo de obtener toda la información sobre el número y tipo de espacios de los edificios para luego elaborar y llevar a cabo el muestreo de los residuos, y la segunda, que se centró en la captura informática y gestión de los pesos de los mismos. De los datos obtenidos se concluyó que los residuos de mayor peso muestreado fueron el papel, la materia orgánica, el cartón y el vidrio transparente, los residuos de mayor generación per cápita fueron el papel, cartucho de impresora, CD y disquete. Finalmente, se concluye que la UMSNH no da tratamiento a los residuos que al ser depositados al aire libre contaminan su medio ambiente. Reciclándolos podrían obtenerse no sólo beneficios ambientales sino también económicos, que disminuirían el costo del reciclado devolviendo los residuos al ciclo productivo.

Conocer los tsunamis: un seguro de vida = Knowing the tsunamis: an insurance of life

This monographic explain what it happened last December on Indonesia, the origin of the tsunamis, the effects on the coast, tsunami warning system, etc. To finish we want to emphasize the importance that has the knowledge of this phenomenon and the knowledge of the tsunami and earthquake safety rules. This article presents how explain risks in the classroom with examples about myths, legends, survivors’ chronicles, literature etc