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Los niños tontos (The Foolish Children) [1] is a collection of twenty-one stories written by Ana María Matute, first published in Madrid in 1956 by Ediciones Arión.. The protagonists of the stories are children, hence the title, however it is not children's literature: themes such as death and cruelty appear in all of the stories.
Cheung, van de Vijver, and Leong (2011) suggest, however, that the Openness factor is particularly unsupported in Asian countries and that a different fifth factor is identified. [ 167 ] Sopagna Eap et al. (2008) found that European-American men scored higher than Asian-American men on extroversion, conscientiousness, and openness, while Asian ...
The Type A and Type B personality concept describes two contrasting personality types.In this hypothesis, personalities that are more competitive, highly organized, ambitious, impatient, highly aware of time management, or aggressive are labeled Type A, while more relaxed, "receptive", less "neurotic" and "frantic" personalities are labeled Type B.
Sleeping Cupid is a painting by the Italian master Caravaggio.Unlike many of Caravaggio's works, it can be dated accurately. It was commissioned for Fra Francesco dell'Antella, Florentine Secretary for Italy to Alof de Wignacourt, Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, and an old inscription on the back records that it was painted in Malta in 1608.
El Gigante Dormido (Spanish for the sleeping giant) is a mountain located in the municipality of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Its highest peak, Cerro El Gigante, rises to 3,175 feet (968 m) in elevation above sea level. [1] The mountain is famous for its distinctive shape that resembles the silhouette of a reclining man's head.
Sangue dormido (lit. ' sleeping blood ' ) is a psychological syndrome reportedly affecting Cape Verdeans and members of the Cape Verdean diaspora . The condition appears in Appendix I of the revised fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) as a culture-bound syndrome .