1.5 hours writing, 3 hours processing data, 1 hour emailing, page count = 167
Welcome once again to my dear old dad, Hugo Cardona, in Milwaukee, as this week's monitor. Thanks, Dad!
I finished processing the police service-records database, and wrote up a relevant section in the chapter on La Violencia. I'm getting to the point where my tasks are fewer in number but greater in intensity. I continue to get advice on managing the dissertation endgame, and to correspond with my research assistant, Ana María, in Bogotá, who's getting a lot done. I guess that's all there is to say today.
Here's to a good start to the week!
From June 2007 to June 2008, I posted each weekday regarding progress on my dissertation. This blog was called "It Takes a Village to Write a Dissertation."
On August 15, 2008, I filed my dissertation, completing all the requirements for my Ph.D in Political Science from UC Berkeley. Friends and family, thank you for keeping me honest. Mission accomplished!
About Me
Villager Blogs/Websites
- The Village Quill (Harry Bruinius)
- National Novel Writing Month (Val Wang)
- Negrón Consulting (Michael Negrón)
- La Causa (Hugo Cardona)
- Nachtkinder (Tanja Royal)
- Locus Vulpes (Geordan Drummond)
- Cypress Hills Community School (Laura Ascenzi-Moreno)
- Food & Wine Editorial Blog (Kristin Donnelly)
- SF Cityscape (Steve Boland)
STATUS OF CHAPTERS
Chapter 1: Armed Challenges, Security-Force Configurations, and Party Systems
PART I: THE 19TH CENTURY BACKGROUND
Chapter 2: Regionalism, "Two-Partyism," and the Struggle for a Central-Federal Balance: 19th-Century Antecedents to State Formation
PART II: POLITICIANS, PARTIES, SOLDIERS, AND POLICE IN ANTIOQUIA'S RECURRING LOCAL INSURRECTION (1946-54)
Chapter 4: Antioquia in Context
PART III: LA VIOLENCIA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 7: Security-Forces, Party Systems, and Armed Challenges in Latin American Context
Complete
PART I: THE 19TH CENTURY BACKGROUND
Chapter 2: Regionalism, "Two-Partyism," and the Struggle for a Central-Federal Balance: 19th-Century Antecedents to State Formation
CompleteChapter 3: Designing the Colombian Security Forces (1886-1910)
Complete
PART II: POLITICIANS, PARTIES, SOLDIERS, AND POLICE IN ANTIOQUIA'S RECURRING LOCAL INSURRECTION (1946-54)
Chapter 4: Antioquia in Context
CompleteChapter 5: Conflict Rising: Politicized Security Forces and the Escalation of La Violencia (1945-48)
CompleteChapter 6: Generalized Conflict: Security Forces and Politicians in the "High" Period of La Violencia (1948-54)
Complete
PART III: LA VIOLENCIA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 7: Security-Forces, Party Systems, and Armed Challenges in Latin American Context
CompleteConclusion
Complete
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- CC = two hundred
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- 100 years ago...
- Someone call the Gendarmes
- When politicization is a step up
- Transfer
- S.O.I.
- What if the tool is no good?
- The simple reason
- Zeroing in
- Embriaguez y escandalo
- Shades
- Conversion
- In transit
- Preeee-sen-ta-tion time, come on!
- Desde la otra costa
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1 comment:
Dear Son:
Congratulations on the new pages that you have written. If your goal is to have 220 pages [in the Berkeley format] you have completed 76% of your goal. In order to write the remaining 53 pages in the remaining 13 days that you have before November 30 [not counting Thanksgiving Day or weekends] you need to write an average of 4 pages per day.
My advice is simple concentrate in writing, perhaps 6-7 pages per day, and you will have about one week to “clean-up” the final pages before submission. This reminds me of my NYC Marathon walk with your sister. The first 20 miles were a “picnic” and then the serious sprint for home took place. After we finished, we “basked in our fatigue and personal glory”.
Love you very much, Daddy
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