| Número 153 | 15 diciembre 2014 |
| Jingle all the way by: Gwen Bloomsburg I count myself as one of many people from the United States who prefer the simple, family-and-food Thanksgiving holiday over the increasingly commercialized Christmas season. I have never shopped on Black Friday. I refuse to put up a Christmas tree before the beginning of December. In fact, I just put mine up and have yet to decorate it. I am not alone, although merchants are more insistent about pushing Christmas to October. One way is to play Christmas carols beginning around Halloween. Because I hate to hear Christmas carols until after Thanksgiving, it came as a tremendous surprise to me that the internationally recognized and perhaps most popular of those songs, “Jingle Bells,” appears to have been composed for Thanksgiving rather than for Christmas. (Hiskey, “Today I Found Out”). James Pierpoint published the song, probably written a few years earlier, in 1857 as “One-Horse Open Sleigh.” It will strike anyone who actually thinks through the lyrics that, indeed, Christmas is never mentioned. It’s a song about racing in a horse-drawn sleigh, falling out, and trying to get a girl, all in winter weather, but nary a hint of holly, mistletoe, or a manger. What you will find if you read the lyrics (available on Wikipedia in several versions: “Jingle Bells”), is that they are rich with the language and imagery of the period. In addition, you can marvel at our amazing human capacity for association. Without a compelling reason to co-opt this song as a paean to Christmas, it became one, just as the holiday seems to have evolved into an endless excuse to shop.
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Citación bibliográfica por: Gino Naranjo Para finalizar el año 2014 con noticias tecnológicas les presentamos recursos de asistencia para una adecuada citación bibliográfica. En primer lugar recordar que el procesador de textos de la cuenta Udlanet tiene una herramienta llamada “búsqueda” cuando la activamos se despliega una barra lateral a la derecha del documento abierto en donde es posible acceder directamente al buscador de Google, y filtrar la búsqueda en imágenes, citas, diccionario, académico, etc. Una vez capturada la información e integrada al documento se generará automáticamente la referencia al pie de página. El autor puede elegir el formato de la cita en APA, MLA o CHICAGO pulsando en la pequeña flecha que aparece sobre los resultados. Otra forma de asistencia para las citaciones bibliográficas las tenemos en los siguientes servicios: 3. http://www.cite.com/: Generador automático de referencias bibliográficas, en dos formatos: MLA 7 y APA. 4. https://www.citethisforme.com/ : Generador automático de referencias bibliográficas. 5. http://www.easybib.com/: Generador automático de referencias bibliográficas. |
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