Nuestro país, el Perú cuenta con un vasto patrimonio arquitectónico, restos históricos que datan desde la época prehispánica, edificaciones con la cual hemos convivido y la que lamentablemente desde hace mucho tiempo estamos depredando y si ha sido descuidada sucede por una simple razón: no la hemos valorado en su real dimensión esto es, histórica, social, antropológica y técnica, y esta tesis trata sobre este tema. Valorar el patrimonio que poseemos los peruanos no es una tarea sencilla, sin embargo es ineludible y va en nuestro propio beneficio como sociedad ya que se logra un reencuentro con las sociedades de las cuales somos originarios, una re-conexión con nuestro pasado nos enriquece y nos da el sustento de la identidad como nación. El presente trabajo se dedica al análisis estructural de la Torre de la Basílica de la Merced en Lima, la construcción de la Torre data del año 1589, uno de los más antiguos y más significativos de la ciudad y esta investigación es un aporte para revalorar este monumento desde el punto de vista técnico, utilizando técnicas modernas de análisis estructural para evaluar su capacidad sísmica a través de todos estos años y poder predecir su comportamiento frente a los sismos que tendrá que soportar. Para el estudio del comportamiento a las solicitaciones sísmicas del monumento se hicieron modelos tridimensionales utilizando para el análisis el método de elementos finitos y se calcularon esfuerzos estáticos y dinámicos. Previamente se hizo un estudio histórico del punto de vista constructivo y sísmico cuyo análisis dio interesantes alcances acerca de las reconstrucciones y reparaciones que ha sufrido así como información acerca de su construcción y los responsables de esta, en cuanto a los grandes sismos que ha sufrido hemos recopilado información acerca de cómo se han reportado daños de los grandes terremotos del pasado en Lima. Desde el punto de vista técnico se exponen las investigaciones realizadas por prestigiosas instituciones peruanas acerca de las zonificaciones sísmicas y geomórficas, análisis de microtrepidación así como la clasificación por riesgo sísmico de la ciudad en función de las características de suelo de la ciudad de Lima. Los análisis de elementos finitos que se realizaron fueron dos: análisis estático y el análisis de superposición modal espectral, se exponen los análisis con los esfuerzos y desplazamientos encontrados y se comparan con los daños observados en la estructura de la Torre, de manera que se identifiquen los esfuerzos que los produjeron. Finalmente se formulan las observaciones, conclusiones del presente trabajo y se plantean las recomendaciones para futuras investigaciones que pudieran realizarse.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of North Texas, Dec., 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

The problem of this study was to develop a written code of policies and regulations for the efficient operation of the Merced City School District. The specific purposes of the study are as follows: (1) To provide the Board of Education and the stuff with an instrument for handling procedures, recommendations, and various problems in an objective and systematic way.; (2) To provide a reference source for the Board and the staff in interpreting actions to the public's.; (3) To bring up-to-date and codify the existing policies of the district.

The present study represents an investigation of the administration of the statutory provisions in California’s Education Code which allow pupils resident in one school district to attend school in another. What are the financial and educational implications resulting from the administration of California’s statutory provisions allowing pupils resident in one school district to attend school in another? This question sums up the problem. The purposes of this study were, therefore, as follows: (1) To determine the effect of interdistrict school attendance upon the apportionment of State moneys to school districts; (2) To determine the effect of interdistrict school attendance upon the life and program of the school; (3) To determine the true intent of the statutory law permitting interdistrict attendance of school pupils; (4) To determine whether departures from the true intent of the law exist; (5) To organize the available information and raw data into a usable form; and (6) to assist in developing a method of equalizing educational opportunities in California in terms of fiscal support.

Este trabajo de carácter empírico documenta la presencia de la forma de tratamiento su merced durante el siglo XIX, en particular, en textos literarios latinoamericanos que representan el habla de africanos y de sus descendientes, tomados de Lipski (2005a, 2005b), y en textos literarios presentes en CORDE. El texto muestra también otros usos de su merced ligados a contextos de comunicación oficial escrita a partir de estudios anteriores. Asimismo, en este trabajo, se revisa la bibliografía sobre la forma en cuestión, se documenta el uso de su merced y se concluye que esta forma de tratamiento aparece en el contexto de relaciones sociales asimétricas y, muy marcadamente, en variedades de español habladas por africanos o descendientes de africanos en el siglo XIX.AbstractThis paper is an empirical study of the presence of the address form su merced in the XIX century, particularly in Latin American literary texts representing the speech of Africans and their descendants, based on examples taken from Lipski (2005a, 2005b) and texts included in CORDE. Based on data found in other corpora, the discussion also includes uses of su merced in official written communication. It reviews earlier studies about su merced in Latin America and concludes that this address form appears in the context of asymmetrical social relations between groups and especially in the speech of Africans and their descendants.Keywords: su merced – Bozal Spanish – XIX century – language contact

The natural result of this increased population was to place an abnormal strain on the Merced City School facilities. In the last ten years the enrollment of the schools in this city has increased from a peak of 1773 to 3566 pupils. The administrators of Merced City schools, in attempting to provide adequate facilities for the mounting enrollments, have in the last three years, with the support of the patrons of the district, financed and constructed six new school buildings. Four of these are additions to the total number of district buildings and have been located at new sites because of the transfer of minor population to different attendance areas. Of the other two, one is a replacement and enlargement of an inadequate building, and the other is a replacement located at a new site to accommodate a shifted zone of attendance. In spite or this effort, once again for the school year 1953-1954 there are arrangements being made for three more temporary buildings for classrooms, making a total of seventeen temporary structures being used. The overloaded attendance at one school without space tor expansion probably indicates that consideration should also be given to establishing an additional attendance center on the south side of town. To add to these problems there is a feeling among patrons that added facilities such as cafeterias and multipurpose rooms should be planned. New constructions always further strain the finances of a school district for equipment and improvement of grounds. Out of this situation arises a question of just what are the building needs in the Merced City School District as indicated by the population trends? This question resolves itself into other related questions which will be used as a guide for this investigation: What does a study of the community indicate as to its growth within the last ten years and its probably growth? What does the present educational program of the Merced City schools reveal regarding the optimum usage of the facilities already provided? What are the trends in school enrollment and what future enrollments may be expected within the next six years? Do evaluation scores of present buildings and their utilization indicate a need for additional facilities? What is the recommended school plant as indicated by an analysis of scientific data?

Gods, Have Merced! chronicles the struggle of Jose Merced, a Santeria priest, with the city of Euless, Texas, where he has been residing for 17 years in an effort to overrule an ordinance that bans the most critical element of his faith: animal sacrifice. As the city officials justify the ban on the basis of public health, Merced thinks he is merely a victim of selective code enforcement aimed a restricting his freedom of religion. Local and national media covered the lawsuit he filed against the City of Euless, and Merced seems ready to take the fight over animal sacrifice to the United States Supreme Court. He wants American justice to give his African-originated religion recognized in a city where people seem uneasy about a practice that brings back the historic fears of Voodoo and its popularly assumed malefic practices. The film explores the complex structure of Santeria, its African roots, its renaissance in the Americas and the very controversial issue of animal sacrifice in the US.