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    We are now a nation obsessed with the cult of celebrity. Celebrities have replaced the classic notion of the hero. But instead of being respected for talent, courage or intelligence, it is money, style and image the deciding factors in what commands respect. Image is everything. Their image is painstakingly constructed by a multitude of different image consultants to carve out the most profitable celebrity they can. Then society is right behind them, believing in everything that celebrity believes in. Companies know that people will buy a product if a celebrity has it too. It is as if the person buying the product feels that they now have some kind of connection with the celebrity and that some of their perceived happiness will now be passed onto the consumer. 80 to look at it one way, the cult of celebrity is really nothing more than a sophisticated marketing scheme. Celebrities though cannot be blamed for all negative aspects of society. In reality society is to blame. We are the people who seemed to have lost the ability to think for ourselves. I suppose it’s easier to be told what to think, rather than challenging what we are told. The reason we are swamped by celebrity is because there is a demand for it.
Disponível em: www.pitlanemagazine.com. Acesso em: 7 dez. 2017 (adaptado).
O texto, que aborda questões referentes ao tema do culto à celebridade, tem o objetivo de

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    CELINE

    Americans always think Europe is perfect. But such beauty and history can be really oppressive. It reduces the individual to nothing. It just reminds you all the time you are just a little speck in a long history, where in América you feel like you could be making history. Thats why I like Los Angeles because it is so...

    JESSE

    Ugly?

    CELINE

    No, I was going to say “neutral”. Its like looking at a blank canvas. I think people go to places like Venice on their honeymoon to make sure they are not going to fight for the first two weeks of their marriage because they’l I be too busy looking around at all the beautiful things. Thats what people call a romantic place — somewhere where the prettiness will contain your primary violent instinct. A real good honeymoon spot would be like somewhere in New Jersey.

KRIZAN, K.; LINKLATER, R. Before Sunrise: screenplay.

New York: Vintage Books, 2005.

Considerando-se o olhar dos personagens, esse trecho do roteiro de um filme permite reconhecer que a avaliação sobre um lugar depende do(a)

SIPRESS. Disponível em: www.newyorker.com. Acesso em: 12 jun. 2018.

A presença de “at odds with” na fala da personagem do cartum revela o(a) 

        What is it about Serena that inspires such vitriol? Is it that she dominates in a sport that was once considered to be for the upper crust at country clubs? One would think that Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe had put that idea to rest decades ago. Is it that she is considered too aggressive on the court? John McEnroe and Boris Becker seem to take the prize for that. Is it because she wins too much? To hate someone merely because he or she is great only speaks to one’s own insecurity. To attempt to and fault with someone because you cannot figure out how or why they win so often only shows that you have already lost. Or is it that she is unapologetically black? A #CarefreeBlackGirl who speaks her mind, supports her people, and whose only real opponent is herself.

Disponível em: https://theundefeated.com. Acesso em: 28 dez. 2018.

O texto, que discorre sobre Serena Williams, uma das mais bem-sucedidas atletas do tênis, tem o objetivo de

A Guide to Harvard “A Cappella!”

        A cappella is such a big deal on all college campuses these days, I thought I’d write a post about what Harvard has to offer (spoiler alert: many incredibly talented groups)! There are so many groups that we have a cappella jams fairly often, and it’s always a good time to go hear the other groups perform.

        Some of my favorite memories are hanging out with my a cappella group members both on campus and around the country (and soon the world during our summer tour!). The Harvard a cappella community is absurdly diverse and talented – I think every Harvard student should take advantage of all we have on campus and go see a show!

Disponível em: https://college.harvard.edu. Acesso em: 11 dez. 2017 (adaptado).

A expressão “a cappella” caracteriza o ato de cantar sem o acompanhamento de instrumentos musicais. A expressão “big deal”, usada com relação a esse tema, indica que

How On-line Gamers are Solving Science’s Biggest Problems

        On paper, gamers and scientists make a bizarre union. But in reality, their two worlds aren’t leagues apart: both involve solving problems within a given set of rules. Genetic analysis, for instance, is about finding sequences and patterns among seemingly random clusters of data. Frame the analysis as a pattern-spotting game that looks like Candy Crush, and, while aligning patterns and scoring points, players can also be hunting for mutations that cause cancer, Alzheimer’s disease or diabetes.

        “Our brains are geared up to recognise patterns”, says Erinma Ochu, a neuroscientist at the University of Manchester, explaining why scientists are turning to gamers for help, “and we do it better than computers. This is a new way of working for scientists, but as long as they learn how to trust game developers to do what they do best — make great games — then they can have thousands of people from all around the world working on their data”.

Disponível em: www.theguardian.com. Acesso em: 8 fev. 2014 (adaptado).

De acordo com a reportagem publicada no jornal The Guardian, os adeptos de jogos eletrônicos podem ajudar os cientistas por terem

A presença de “at odds with” na fala da personagem do cartum revela o(a)

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I’d like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.

HEMINGWAY, E. For Whom the Bells Toll. Madison, Wisconsin: Demco Media, 1995.


Nessa passagem de um clássico de Ernest Hemingway, o narrador

      We walked on, the stranger walking with us. Taylor Franklin Bankole. Our last names an instant bond between us. We’re both descended from men who assumed African surnames back during the 1960s. His father and my grandfather had had their names legally changed, and both had chosen Yoruba replacement names.
     “Most people chose Swahili names in the ’60s”, Bankole told me. He wanted to be called Bankole. “My father had to do something different. All his life he had to be different”.
      “I don’t know my grandfather’s reasons”, I said. “His last name was Broome before he changed it, and that was no loss’. But why he chose Olamina…? Even my father didn’t know. He made the change before my father was born, so my father was always Olamina, and so were we.

BUTLER, O. E. Parable of the Sower. New York: Hachette, 2019 (adaptado).


Nesse trecho do romance Parable of the Sower, os nomes “Bankole” e “Olamina” representam o(a)

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LAVIERA, T. Benedición: The Complete Poetry of Tato Laviera. Houston: Arte Público Press, 2014 (fragmento).

Nesse poema de Tato Laviera, o eu lírico destaca uma

Esse infográfico, composto de textos verbais e não verbais, tem por finalidade

Os recursos verbais e não verbais do cartum fazem referência a situações comuns em aeroportos, motivadas pelo fato de que os(as)

Anyway

You can spend your whole life building

Something from nothin’

One storm can come and blow it all away

Build it anyway

You can chase a dream that seems so out of reach

And you know it might not ever come your way

Dream it anyway

[…]

This world’s gone crazy and it’s hard to believe

That tomorrow will be better than today

Believe it anyway

You can love someone with all your heart

For all the right reasons

In a moment they can choose to walk away

Love ’em anyway

McBRIDE, M. Disponível em: www.elyrics.net. Acesso em: 8 fev. 2013 (fragmento).

Com base na palavra “anyway”, que é título da canção, entende-se que o fragmento

 A Minor Bird

I have wished a bird would fly away,

And not sing by my house all day;

Have clapped my hands at him from the door

When it seemed as if I could bear no more.

The fault must partly have been in me.

The bird was not to blame for his key.

And of course there must be something wrong

In wanting to silence any song.

FROST. R. West .running Brook Now Yolk Horny Hod and Company, 1928

No poema de Robert Frost, as palavras “fault" e "blame" revelam por parte do eu lírico uma

Considerando-se o uso difundido do inglês na atualidade, o cartum remete à 

No texto, o autor lança mão de palavras como “literary ”, “male” e “female” para apresentar uma matéria jornalística cujo tema está relacionado ao(à)

O texto que versa sobre a prática do uso de argolas no pescoço por mulheres de uma tribo que migrou para a Tailândia tem por finalidade

       Our physical alienation from India almost inevitably means that we will not be capable of reclaiming precisely the thing that was lost; that we will, in short, create fictions, not actual cities or villages, but invisible ones, imaginary homelands, Indias of the mind. […] It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated […], but I suggest that the writer who is out-of-country and even out-of-language may experience this loss in an intensified form.


RUSHDIE, S. Imaginary Homelands. Londres: Vintage Books, 2010 (adaptado).



Nesse fragmento de texto, ao abordar a literatura anglo-indiana, o autor Salman Rushdie ressalta a relação entre criação literária e

Disponível em: www.globalenglish.com. Acesso em: www.globalenglish.com. 20 abr. 2015.
O infográfico aborda a importância do inglês para os negócios. Nesse texto, as expressões but e yet only evidenciam

Classifying Philip and Annie wear glasses and so do Jim and Sue, but Jim and Sue have freckles, and Tracey and Sammy too. Philip and Jim are in boy’s group but Philip is tall like Sam whilst Jim is small like Tracey and Sue and Clare and Bill and Fran. Sue is in Guides and football whilst Helen fits in most things — except she’s a girl and quite tall. Jenny is curly and blonde and short whilst Sally is curly but dark; Jenny likes netball, writing and maths but Sally likes no kind of work. Philip and Sam are both jolly, Fran’s best for a quiet chat: now I have freckles, like joking, am tall, curly, dark, in Guides, football and play penny whistles and the piano… how do I fit into all that?
NICHOLS, J. In: COLLIE, J.; LADOUSSE, G. Paths into Poetry. England: Oxford University Press, 1993.
No poema Classifying, a escritora inglesa Judith Nichols compara várias pessoas com o objetivo de