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A questão refere-se ao texto destacado a seguir.
It is the standing reproach of a democratic society that it is the purgatory of genius and the paradise of mediocrity. With ourselves it has become notorious that when a man is so unfortunate as to exhibit uncommon abilities, he usually renders himself ineligible for political honors or distinctions. It would seem that the community is possessed with that groveling quality of a sordid mind which hates superiority, and would ostracize genius, as the Athenians did Aristides. One might believe it would not be unpleasing to the popular taste if some enterprising person could invent a machine for stunting intellectual development, after the fashion of idiotic barbarians who flatten the heads of their children. The masses of the community certainly appear to believe that political equality implies not only social, but should also imply intellectual equality, under pain of being severely frowned down by an outraged public opinion.
The prevalent sentiment manifests itself in many different ways. It finds expression in public conveyances and resorts and is not altogether unknown even to the pulpit. It is found to perfection in the speeches of demagogues, who feel certain they are never so successful as when their audience is satisfied that the intellect of the speaker is of no higher an order than that of the lowest intelligence among them. Worse than all, it is demonstrated in the election of public officers of nearly all grades up to the highest: of which latter it has now become quite the custom to assume that it is impossible for a man of first-rate powers to be made President of the United States.
The causes which lend to so singular a state of affairs are of an intricate and complex character. At the outset, it is difficult to realize the possibility of a system, the logical deduction from which appears to be that, if a man would rise in life, he must assiduously belittle his understanding. Perhaps it would be fairer to modify the proposition so far as to concede that ability is as useful here as elsewhere, provided the owner has the tact not to affront the sensibilities of the people by showing too much of it. No doubt a vague apprehension exists in the popular mind that shining talents are dangerous when intrusted with executive power in a republic: yet, it were a poor commentary on our institutions to intimate that, under them, for a man to be clever he must also be vicious. Experience rather teaches the contrary. If the diffusion of education, having the general tendency to elevate the understanding, is to produce more bad men than good, we had better abandon than foster our Common School system. Manifestly, we must look further for the solution of our enigma[:] that minds of moderate calibre ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.
THE NEW YORK TIMES. The worship of mediocrity. 17/08/1862.
Disponível em: https://www.nytimes.com/1862/08/17/archives/the-worship-of-mediocrity.html. Acesso 20/08/2020.
A questão refere-se ao texto destacado a seguir.
It is the standing reproach of a democratic society that it is the purgatory of genius and the paradise of mediocrity. With ourselves it has become notorious that when a man is so unfortunate as to exhibit uncommon abilities, he usually renders himself ineligible for political honors or distinctions. It would seem that the community is possessed with that groveling quality of a sordid mind which hates superiority, and would ostracize genius, as the Athenians did Aristides. One might believe it would not be unpleasing to the popular taste if some enterprising person could invent a machine for stunting intellectual development, after the fashion of idiotic barbarians who flatten the heads of their children. The masses of the community certainly appear to believe that political equality implies not only social, but should also imply intellectual equality, under pain of being severely frowned down by an outraged public opinion.
The prevalent sentiment manifests itself in many different ways. It finds expression in public conveyances and resorts and is not altogether unknown even to the pulpit. It is found to perfection in the speeches of demagogues, who feel certain they are never so successful as when their audience is satisfied that the intellect of the speaker is of no higher an order than that of the lowest intelligence among them. Worse than all, it is demonstrated in the election of public officers of nearly all grades up to the highest: of which latter it has now become quite the custom to assume that it is impossible for a man of first-rate powers to be made President of the United States.
The causes which lend to so singular a state of affairs are of an intricate and complex character. At the outset, it is difficult to realize the possibility of a system, the logical deduction from which appears to be that, if a man would rise in life, he must assiduously belittle his understanding. Perhaps it would be fairer to modify the proposition so far as to concede that ability is as useful here as elsewhere, provided the owner has the tact not to affront the sensibilities of the people by showing too much of it. No doubt a vague apprehension exists in the popular mind that shining talents are dangerous when intrusted with executive power in a republic: yet, it were a poor commentary on our institutions to intimate that, under them, for a man to be clever he must also be vicious. Experience rather teaches the contrary. If the diffusion of education, having the general tendency to elevate the understanding, is to produce more bad men than good, we had better abandon than foster our Common School system. Manifestly, we must look further for the solution of our enigma[:] that minds of moderate calibre ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.
THE NEW YORK TIMES. The worship of mediocrity. 17/08/1862.
Disponível em: https://www.nytimes.com/1862/08/17/archives/the-worship-of-mediocrity.html. Acesso 20/08/2020.
I. Quanto menos inteligente for um homem, mais chances ele terá de ser presidente dos Estados Unidos. II. Quando um homem é infeliz a ponto de exibir habilidades incomuns, ele se torna inelegível para distinções políticas. III. A declaração de que o sistema educacional deve ser abandonado se produz mais pessoas ruins que boas é irônica.
De acordo com o texto, é correto afirmar que:
A questão refere-se ao texto destacado a seguir.
Since from August 1914 to November 1918 Great Britain and her Allies were fighting for civilization it cannot, I suppose, be impertinent to inquire what precisely civilization may be. “Liberty” and “Justice” have always been reckoned expensive words, but that “Civilization” could cost as much as I forget how many millions a day came as a surprise to many thoughtful taxpayers. The story of this word’s rise to the highest place amongst British war aims is so curious that, even were it less relevant, I should be tempted to tell it […].
“You are fighting for civilization”, cried the wisest and best of those leaders who led us into war, and the very soldiers took up the cry, “Join up, for civilization’s sake”. Startled by this sudden enthusiasm for an abstraction in which till then politicians and recruiting-sergeants had manifested little or no interest, I, in my turn, began to cry: “And what is civilization?” I did not cry aloud, be sure: at that time, for crying things of that sort aloud, one was sent to prison. But now that it is no longer criminal, nor unpatriotic even, to ask questions, I intend to inquire what this thing is for which we fought and for which we pay. I propose to investigate the nature of our leading war-aim. Whether my search will end in discovery and – if it does – whether what is discovered will bear any likeliness to the Treaty of Versailles remains to be seen.
BELL, Clive. Civilization: An Essay. 1ª ed. 1928. Harmondsworth,
Middlesex, UK: Penguin Books, 1938, p. 13.
A questão refere-se ao texto destacado a seguir.
Since from August 1914 to November 1918 Great Britain and her Allies were fighting for civilization it cannot, I suppose, be impertinent to inquire what precisely civilization may be. “Liberty” and “Justice” have always been reckoned expensive words, but that “Civilization” could cost as much as I forget how many millions a day came as a surprise to many thoughtful taxpayers. The story of this word’s rise to the highest place amongst British war aims is so curious that, even were it less relevant, I should be tempted to tell it […].
“You are fighting for civilization”, cried the wisest and best of those leaders who led us into war, and the very soldiers took up the cry, “Join up, for civilization’s sake”. Startled by this sudden enthusiasm for an abstraction in which till then politicians and recruiting-sergeants had manifested little or no interest, I, in my turn, began to cry: “And what is civilization?” I did not cry aloud, be sure: at that time, for crying things of that sort aloud, one was sent to prison. But now that it is no longer criminal, nor unpatriotic even, to ask questions, I intend to inquire what this thing is for which we fought and for which we pay. I propose to investigate the nature of our leading war-aim. Whether my search will end in discovery and – if it does – whether what is discovered will bear any likeliness to the Treaty of Versailles remains to be seen.
BELL, Clive. Civilization: An Essay. 1ª ed. 1928. Harmondsworth,
Middlesex, UK: Penguin Books, 1938, p. 13.
I. Em “Senhor Diretor”, Maria Emília é uma mulher marcada por uma rígida repressão sexual. II. Em “A Sauna”, após repassar sua vida a limpo, o narrador protagonista se arrepende de seus atos egoístas e mesquinhos. III. Em “WM”, os fatos da vida de Wlado não são revelados ao leitor. IV. Em “Seminário dos ratos”, a invasão dos ratos simboliza uma aterrorizante ameaça ao poder representado pelo Secretário do Bem-Estar Público e Privado e pelo Chefe de Relações Públicas.
Assinale a alternativa correta relativamente ao grifo do pronome demonstrativo e o uso da pontuação.
Assinale a alternativa que explicita corretamente o significado de “esforço inútil” no contexto.
I. A descrição da pensão, a caracterização da sua dona, o cheiro, a janela quebrada, os pesadelos e o desaparecimento das formigas são elementos que contribuem para a construção de uma atmosfera de suspense. II. O trecho a seguir exemplifica a dubiedade da narrativa: “– Um anão. Raríssimo, entende? E acho que não falta nenhum ossinho, vou trazer as ligaduras, quero ver se no fim da semana começo a montar ele.” III. A vulnerabilidade das protagonistas pode ser constatada em seus atos corriqueiros, como ter um ursinho de pelúcia e o cuidado recíproco que têm uma pela outra.
Sobre essa passagem, é correto afirmar:
Em “Teoria do medalhão”, por que o pai recomenda ao filho que use a chalaça e despreze a ironia?
Assinale a alternativa correta.
No capítulo “Caldo entornado”, de Memórias de um sargento de milícias, lê-se: “Entretanto o
zelo da comadre pôs-se em atividade, e poucos dias depois entrou ela muito contente, e veio participar ao
Leonardo que lhe tinha achado um excelente arranjo que o habilitava, segundo pensava, a um grande
futuro, e o punha perfeitamente a coberto das iras do Vidigal; era o arranjo de servidor na ucharia* real.
Deixando de parte o substantivo ucharia, e atendendo só ao adjetivo real, todos os interessados e o
próprio Leonardo regalaram os olhos com o achado da comadre.”
Acerca de Memórias de um sargento de milícias, é correto afirmar que:
Quando precisar use os seguintes valores para as constantes:
Aceleração local da gravidade g = 10 m/s2 .
Constante gravitacional universal G = 6,67×10−11 m3 .kg−1.s−2 .
Velocidade da luz no vácuo c = 3,0×108 m/s.
Constante de Planck reduzida h = 1,05×10−34 J.s.
Permeabilidade magnética do vácuo µ0 = 4π×10−7 N.A−2 .
Carga elétrica elementar e = 1,6×10−19C.
Massa do elétron m0 = 9,1×10−31 kg.
Constante eletrostática do vácuo K0 = 9,0×109 N.m2.C-2.
Conheça nossos planos