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The purposeof this research is to succinctly evaluate the main theories of the origin of life and to propose specific reasons to consider the biblical story as a reliable alternative to the origins. The research has a qualitative approach of descriptive character. For the data colletionis used the technique of bibliographic transfer, which allows to organize the state of the art of theories of the origin of life and the Genesis account. Severalauthors and research lines to list characteristics that are related to the appearance of life, but there is no clear definition of life in the scientific community. Theories of the world of RNA, panspermia, and prebiological membranes address the origin of life from an abiogenic, gradualist and evolutionary approach. On the other hand, in the protology of the Near East lies the account of Biblical Genesis as a historical, sequential and amictic narrative, which has differentiating characteristics with respect to the synchronic cosmogonies of Enuma Elish, Eridu Genesis and Atrahasis. In conclusion, the current theories of the origin of life carry significant limitations in their approach, which dissuades the possibility of considering the biblical text of creation as an alternative theory to the origin of life.

The present research was developed in the department of San Martin. The main objective of this study is to know the preferences demanded by the students at the time of choosing a university career, as well as the preference of the University for their higher education studies. The method of study was descriptive, cross-sectional design. The study population consisted of 1435 students from 14 to 20 years to come coursing in 3rd year to the 5th of secondary which took as a reference the Provinces and Districts of the Region San Martin. Tarapoto, Rioja, Moyobamba, New Cajamarca, Juanjuí, Yurimaguas, Bellavista Lamas and Tocache. The instrument was administered that was used to measure the preferences of the races more demanding. By which were performed different questions, based the choice of a career and educational center where to study. The result is obtained located in the first place to the National University of San Martin with a 25.6%, (368), followed by the Universidad Peruana Union with a 18.8% (270), taking such as racing flags medicine with 15.7% (225), followed by civil engineering 14.4% (217) and Business Administration 11.2% (161). It is concluded that in the region of San Martin demand exists for universities and traditional careers.

The present theoretical revision aims to present the current Chilean reality about curricular change, which points to an inclusive vision of education.This study was carried out by means of a bibliographical review of the context in which Chilean educationand its relation with Special Educational Needs are found, through an educational analysis of the legislation and the educational curriculum, highlighting fundamental aspects about a methodological structure Diversifies. It concludes with a view on the change in legislation and factors that are relevant to a diversified, inclusive education for all students.

This research examines Greek philosophical categories influence on theology. This will do through the historical-critical method of biblical theology and in the reality conception of the theological system. In this sense, it is argued that both conception of God's being, reality, doctrines and the nature of man have incurred several biblical-theological errors because of Greek philosophical framework influence that has penetrated strongly in the method to do biblical theology, that is to say in exegesis and in the presuppositions for elaboration of a systematic theology.

This paper proposes a comparative study of Desmundo (1997) by the Brazilian Ana Miranda and Nação crioula (1997) by the Angolan José Eduardo Agualusa. The analysis focusses on the configuration of the protagonists of both novels. These protagonists transit the Atlantic Ocean which is characterized by symbolic exchanges and intense cultural contact: respectively a marriageable maiden who is compelled to immigrate to Brazil in order to strengthen the Lusitanian presence in the tropics, confirming the body of the white woman also as an instrument of European merchant machine, and a former slave and rich owner who becomes the embodiment of anti-abolitionist struggle in a mixed race Angola, confirming once again the body of the black woman as a slave trade merchandise.

Taking as its starting point the historic concert of Fania All Stars in Kinshasa (1973), this essays analyzes how the label Fania Records develops during the 1970s a commercial strategy that emphasizes, not the Afro-Caribbean origin of salsa, but its African nature. This vindication of Africa in such visual materials as the magazine Latin NY and the documentary film Salsa! (1976) signals the emergence of a new cultural geography of hybridity in which salsa becomes what Homi Bhabha defines as a sonic “third space” that unites the peripheries of the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Latino communities from New York into a sonic vision of a Global South avant-la-lettre.

This paper analyzes the relation between the ideals of universality and globalization developed by the Biennials of Havana and Johannesburg, and the local contexts where those initiatives were put into practice. Both events are traditionally considered as the main antecedent of contemporary biennials. Furthermore, both enact a separation with Eurocentric ideas of modernity, generating a decentered and more critical artistic panorama. Without dismissing those elements, in this text I argue that the heritage of both biennials is expressed not just in the models of globalism they produced. The contradictions deriving from the complex articulation of those models and a local medium in transition, still bounded to national issues, constitute a central node to understand their evolution and to frame the coordinates of the present-day global art system.

This article proposes a rereading of the representations of Queen Njinga of Angola (1582-1663) in the light of African and Latin American feminist studies. The Queen’s image created in the chronicles of the 17th century (especially Cavazzi) and the historiographical debate about the legitimacy of her throne and her gender identity are confronted with feminist studies, which intend to delegitimize the Western categories of gender and race in the African context. Finally, two historical novels written from the Brazilian perspective are analyzed, O trono da Rainha Jinga (1999) by Alberto Mussa, and A Rainha Ginga. E de como os africanos inventaram o mundo (2014) by José Eduardo Agualusa, questioning whether they offer innovative readings for the categories of gender and race.

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