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Yardsticks are typically made of wood although they can be metal or plastic. They are called yardsticks because they equal a yard of distance, or 3 feet. ...
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I feel the term "cartabón" has been chosen with care... it could be used as a physical symbol since a "cartabón" is a triangular instrument with the centre removed, leaving a space available to be filled with something.

One of the entries cited below goes so far as to say "social network framework". I believe that the writer has used cartabón to say that the Carnaval provides them with a structure for fitting in while expressing their own native culture. 1 May 1986 ... the social organization of Caribbean immigrants, a subset of the New ...... most joyous occasions of the year, Carnival being the more .... The advantage of a social network framework lies in the fact that it permits ...
www.escholarship.org/uc/item/013317jw.pdf; This review first presents a framework weaved by sociocultural literacy and ..... Participation, hybridity, and carnival: A situated analysis of a dynamic ...
web.uvic.ca/~literacy/conferenceproceedings2010/zhang.doc; Living in another country requires immigrants to assimilate to the culture of the new ... Within this framework, social space is the listserv environment; study .... cultural (like the Brazilian Carnaval) and social (like asking ...
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