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Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies is a 1984 book by Yale sociologist Charles Perrow, which analyses complex systems from a sociological perspective.. Perrow argues that multiple and unexpected failures are built into society's complex and tightly coupled systems, and that accidents are unavoidable and cannot be designed a
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (18 January 1867 – 6 February 1916), known as Rubén Darío (US: / d ɑː ˈ r iː oʊ / dah-REE-oh, [1] [2] Spanish: [ruˈβen daˈɾi.o]), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as modernismo (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th century.
Literatura de cordel Cordel literature (from the Portuguese term, literatura de cordel , literally “string literature”, Portuguese pronunciation: [koʁˈdɛw] ) are popular and inexpensively printed booklets or pamphlets containing folk novels , poems and songs .
Year Picture Laureate Country Language(s) Citation Genre(s) 1901: Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) France French "in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect" [8]
An "old wives' tale" is a colloquial expression referring to spurious or superstitious claims.They can be said sometimes to be a type of urban legend, said to be passed down by older women to a younger generation.
Miguel Angel Asturias en la Literatura. Guatemala: Istmo. OCLC 2546463. Solares-Lavarre, Francisco (2000). "El discurso del mito: respuesta a la modernidad en Leyendas de Guatemala". In Mario Roberto Morales (ed.). Cuentos y leyendas. Madrid – París: ALLCA (Colección Archivos). pp. 675–705. Valéry, Paul (1957). "Carta de Paul Valéry a ...
The creation of the "Bluefields Indian & Caribbean University (BICU)", or Indigenous and Caribbean University of Bluefields, was founded to provide local access higher education.
Héctor Luis Delgado Román (born September 12, 1978), also known by his stage name Héctor el Father, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and pastor. He rose to fame as a member of the duo Héctor & Tito Los Bambinos .