OTHERS

Summary: This master's thesis consist of a didactic unit for the subject of history of first grade of ESO (Secondary Obligatory Education), to be taught in English as a foreign language to native Catalan-speaking students using CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), a modern a pedagogical methodology that both the European Union and the Catalan Government (Generalitat) are trying to implement at schools, since the beginning of the 21st century.

The title of the didactic unit is “The first civilizations” and it deals about the history of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China, the world’s first urban cultures and hydraulic civilizations, a decisive development stage in the evolution of mankind.

Reference: Master's thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, online publication.

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Title translation: "The Abbysinian saber and other African sickle-swords. Comparative study".

Summary: This article aims to analyze the swords traditionally made in Ethiopia, paying special attention to the sabres with a distinctive curved sickle-shaped blade (shotel), to place them within its African arms context and at the same time to draw typological and functional parallels, searching for plausible similarities and trying to propose possible connections or influences. The route Nile-Ethiopia-Great Lakes-Congo of these peculiar white arms, starting from the Egyptian khopesh, is described in detail and also improbable hypothesis proposed by other authors are analysed here, including the Austronesian one from Southeast Asia, as well as its origin as farming tools.

Reference: Armi Antiche. Bollettino dell’Accademia di San Marciano, Torino, pp. 99-146.

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Title translation: "Can Yaman's Sandokan: the new television aberration".

Summary: Film review in Catalan about the television series "Sandokan" (2025, Rai  – Italy), starring the actor Can Yaman. A bad literary adaptation.

Reference: Crítica cinematogràfica, ResearchGate.net & Academia.edu, online publication.

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Title translation: "Integration in Catalonia: An unfinished task".

Summary: Contrary to the erroneous Pujol-era assertion that «anyone who lives and works in Catalonia is Catalan», a Catalan is someone who has or adopts Catalan as his own language of identification and uses it, and, at the same time, someone who feels Catalan and defends the Catalan nation. Following the massive immigration of the last 75 years —the largest with a different mother tongue in all of Europe— today only 35% of the population of Catalonia has Catalan as their own language or language of identification, and only 40% feel exclusively Catalan or more Catalan than Spanish. Until the rest of the inhabitants of outsider origin are fully integrated into the land’s own language and national sentiment, we will not truly be «one single people».

Reference: Diari Més. El diari del Camp de Tarragona, 16 September, Tarragona, page 20.

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