The following study provides a critical interpretation of the ten years’ administration of Rafael Correa in Ecuador. The main goal is to comprehend to which extent structural transformations were achieved during his period in power and what lessons can be drawn in order to conceptualize strategies for the complete emancipation of Latin America.

Sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2) into subsurface porous sandstone is proposed as a method for reducing accumulation of anthropogenic emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere. Natural exposures of reservoir and top-seal pairs in central and southeastern Utah are identified as analogs to proposed CO2 injection targets. Reservoir and top-seal pairs in natural analog exposures are analyzed in tandem to evaluate evidence for paleo-migration of fluids and/or hydrocarbons from the reservoir through the top seal. The San Rafael Swell and Monument Uplift exhibit similar structure and exposures of Jurassic units yet differ in amount and type of host rock alteration due to variable amounts and types of fluids and/or hydrocarbons that migrated along faults and fractures. Macroscopic scale analysis of each monocline included processing of satellite imagery, and creation of depth contour maps. At the mesoscopic scale, fracture spacing acquired from scanline station measurements identified increased fracture frequency in proximity to major fault zones. At the microscopic scale, percentage of degradation and type of mineralization in pore space were used to verify increased fluid flow in proximity to major fault zones. Faults with possible intersections with multiple antithetic faults at depth have an increased probability of allowing for upward migration of fluids and/or hydrocarbons along the fault plane and damage zone, effectively bypassing the top sealing formations. Fault leakage potential maps identified areas where seal bypass along major faults would likely occur during sequestration of CO2. The method was validated by identifying potential migration pathways for oil seeps on the Little Grand Wash fault in central Utah. The San Rafael Swell was geometrically modeled through restoration of eroded formation tops along the fold axis to quantify the interaction between an outward migrating CO2 plume and varying degrees of faulting and fracturing. Analysis of the migration of a CO2 plume front through time exhibits an increasing probability of the outward migrating plume intersecting a leaking feature, with the highest probability of the advancing plume intersecting a potentially leaking feature achieved when faults with 1+ km trace length and mean fracture spacing of 17 cm are taken into consideration. (177 pages)

The Lower Triassic Sinbad Limestone Member of the Moenkopi Formation has produced minor amounts of oil in the Grassy Trail Creek field near Green River, Utah and is present below much of central Utah including the recently discovered Covenant field. Superb outcrops of this thin (15 m), mixed carbonate-silicilastic unit in the San Rafael Swell permit detailed analysis of its vertical and lateral reservoir heterogeneity. Vertically, the Sinbad Limestone comprises three facies associations: (A) a basal storm-dominated, well-circulated skeletal-oolitic-peloidal limestone association, (B) a storm-dominated, poorly-circulated hummocky cross-stratified siliciclastic/peloidal association, and (C) a capping peritidal cross-bedded oolitic dolograinstone association. Eleven microfacies are present in 14 measured sections within the Sinbad Limestone. Lateral variation is most pronounced in the upper part of the basal limestone where storm-deposited beds pinch out over a lateral distance of one kilometer. Otherwise, individual beds and microfacies display a large degree of lateral homogeneity and regional persistence. Diagenesis is strongly controlled by microfacies. Diagenetic elements include marine fibrous calcite cements, micritized grains, compaction, dissolution and neomorphism of aragonite grains, meteoric cements, pressure dissolution, and dolomitization. The paragenetic sequence progresses from marine to meteoric to burial. Marine and meteoric cements occlude much of the depositional porosity. Hydrocarbon-lined interparticle and separate vug (largely molds) pores (1-5%) characterize the skeletal-oolitic limestones with permeability ranging from 0-100 md. Low permeability/porosity characterizes the middle silicilastic unit. The best reservoir qualities (permeability 400 md) occur in portions of the dolomitized oolitic grainstones that form the upper 2 to 3 m of the Sinbad Limestone. Fracture analysis of the studied area indicates a strong NW-SE trend. Fracture spacing is associated with lithology. Fracturing of limestone possibly displays a higher dependence upon bed thickness and microfacies type. The degree of dolomitization controls and increases fracture spacing while siltstones display more closely spaced fractures. The basal limestone unit is an oil storage unit, medial siltstones are flow baffles/barriers, and the dolostone caprock is an oil flow unit. If good connectivity through fractures can be obtained between the dolostone and limestone units, the Sinbad Limestone has potential to serve as a reservoir. This study will not only aid in future Sinbad exploration, but will serve as a model for parasequence-scale intervals in thicker mixed carbonate-siliciclastic successions.

Narratives of resisting the Trujillo regime are so prevalent in Dominican-American literature that it seems Dominican-American authors must write about Trujillo to be deemed authentically Dominican-American. Within these Trujillo narratives there seems to be two main ways to talk about resistance. “The resistance,” an organized entity that actively and consciously opposes the Trujillo regime, can be seen in stories like those told about the Mirabal sisters. The other resistance narrates how characters capitalize on opportunities to disrupt business or political functions, thus disrupting the Trujillo machine. This resistance works much like Ben Highmore's explanation of de Certeau's resistance in that “it limits flows and dissipates energies” (104). Characters from the socio-economic lower-class typically use this type of resistance because they are not recognized by nor allowed direct access to the regime. My thesis focuses on the latter type of resistance through my study of Angie Cruz's Let It Rain Coffee and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Both authors narrate instances of unrecognized resistance against Trujillo, but they also articulate modern resistance to economic, racial, and gender pressures, such as materialism and hyper-masculinity, through Trujillo narratives. While these narratives create a space for Dominican-Americans of different gender, class, and race, they also create Trujillo as a marker of Dominican literature, perpetuating the idea of Trujillo as inextricably connected to Dominican identity and obfuscating more complex issues of race and gender in Dominican culture.

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La storia della Repubblica Dominicana è stata tristemente costellata, fin dalle origini, da un susseguirsi di sanguinose lotte, invasioni, guerre, feroci dittature, occupazioni militari e violente calamità naturali. Tuttavia, l’Era di Trujillo è ricordata dal popolo dominicano come il periodo più penoso e buio, che ha profondamente marcato il suo passato e la cui essenza si trascina silenziosa nel suo presente. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, pur essendo solo l’ultimo dei tiranni che hanno oppresso il popolo quisqueyano, è riconosciuto come uno dei dittatori più spietati dell’America Latina. Il suo diabolico carisma, accompagnato dalla crudeltà delle sue azioni, ha lasciato una traccia indelebile nell’identità e nell’animo della sua gente, diventando un’ispirazione letteraria che ha saputo dare vita, valicando anche i confini dell’isola, alla novela del trujillato. La presente ricerca si concentrerà sull’evoluzione della novela del trujillato e del personaggio letterario di Trujillo nel contesto dominicano e all’interno dei romanzi scritti da autori stranieri come Galíndez di Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, En el tiempo de las mariposas di Julia Álvarez, La Fiesta del Chivo di Mario Vargas Llosa e La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao di Junot Díaz. / The history of the Dominican Republic is cluttered with a string of bloody fights, invasions, wars, cruel dictatorships, military occupations and aggressive natural disasters. Nevertheless the Dominicans remember the ‘Trujillo’s Era’ as the darkest and more sorrowful period, that has deeply scarred their past and whose essence silently drags on in their present. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina is only the last dictator who has oppressed the Dominican people, but he is known as one of the most vicious and ruthless dictators that have plagued Latin America. His diabolic charisma and his cruel actions have indelibly marked the identity and the soul of his people, becoming a literary inspiration that could cross the island’s confines and give rise to the novela del trujillato. This thesis aims to analyze the evolution of the novela del trujillato and the character of Trujillo both in the Dominican context and in the novels, written by foreign authors, Galíndez by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, En el tiempo de las mariposas by Julia Álvarez, La Fiesta del Chivo by Mario Vargas Llosa and La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao by Junot Díaz.

A presente dissertação analisa os livros sobre o Museu do Prado, A la pintura (1948) e Noche de guerra en el Museo del Prado (1956), ambos do escritor espanhol Rafael Alberti, escritos na Argentina, durante seu longo exílio. A investigação parte da contextualização de Alberti, que nos leva a uma aproximação ao tema, o Museu do Prado, tratado de maneira diferente nas duas obras. Na sequência, é analisado o livro A la pintura e, em seguida, a peça de teatro Noche de guerra en el Museo del Prado. / This study analyzes the books about the Prado Museum, A la Pintura (1948) and Noche de guerra en el Museo del Prado (1956), both of spanish writer Rafael Alberti, written in Argentina, during his long exile. The investigation parts from the context of Alberti, that leads to an approach to the subject, the Prado Museum, treated differently in the two books. In the sequence is analyzed the book A la pintura and then the piece of theater Noche de guerra en el Museo del Prado.

A presente dissertação analisa os livros sobre o Museu do Prado, A la pintura (1948) e Noche de guerra en el Museo del Prado (1956), ambos do escritor espanhol Rafael Alberti, escritos na Argentina, durante seu longo exílio. A investigação parte da contextualização de Alberti, que nos leva a uma aproximação ao tema, o Museu do Prado, tratado de maneira diferente nas duas obras. Na sequência, é analisado o livro A la pintura e, em seguida, a peça de teatro Noche de guerra en el Museo del Prado. / This study analyzes the books about the Prado Museum, A la Pintura (1948) and Noche de guerra en el Museo del Prado (1956), both of spanish writer Rafael Alberti, written in Argentina, during his long exile. The investigation parts from the context of Alberti, that leads to an approach to the subject, the Prado Museum, treated differently in the two books. In the sequence is analyzed the book A la pintura and then the piece of theater Noche de guerra en el Museo del Prado.

Le présent travail se consacre à l’étude de la trilogie de l’écrivain espagnol Rafael Chirbes (1949-2015), constitué de La larga marcha, La caída de Madrid et Los viejos amigos, et à travers laquelle l’auteur retrace l’histoire récente de l’Espagne, depuis la guerre civile jusqu’au retour d’un régime démocratique, en passant par le franquisme. L’étude narrative de chacun des trois romans couplée à une approche collective permettra d’observer comment l’histoire des personnages finit par retracer celle de l’Espagne et celle de la génération désenchantée de l’auteur lui-même. / This work is dedicated to the study of the trilogy of the Spanish writer Rafael Chirbes (1949-2015), made uo of the Larga marcha, La caída de Madrid and Los viejos amigos, and through which the author recounts the recent history of Spain, since the civil war until the return of a democratic regime, via the Francoism period. The narrative study of each novels coupled with a collective approach will allow us to observe how the story of the characters ends up recounting Spain’s History as well as the story of the author’s disillusioned generation.