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Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcok was a man with vivid imagination, strong creative skills and passion for life. With his unique style and God-gifted wit he produced and directed some of the most thriling films that had the audience almost swooning with fright and falling off their seats with laughter. Alfred Hitchcock was greatly influenced by American films and magazines. At the age of 20, he took up a job at the office of Paramount Studio, London. Using imagination, talent and dedication, he made each of his endeavors a success. He took great pleasure in working in the studio and often worked all seven days a week. He moved to the USA in 1939 and got his American citizenship in 1955. There, he produced many more films and hosted a weekly television show. No matter from where his ideas came, whether a magazine article, a mystery novel or incident, his films had the typical "Hitchcock touch" — where the agony of suspense was relieved by interludes of laughter! Hitchcock was knighted in 1980.

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcok was a man with vivid imagination, strong creative skills and passion for life. With his unique style and God-gifted wit he produced and directed some of the most thriling films that had the audience almost swooning with fright and falling off their seats with laughter. Alfred Hitchcock was greatly influenced by American films and magazines. At the age of 20, he took up a job at the office of Paramount Studio, London. Using imagination, talent and dedication, he made each of his endeavors a success. He took great pleasure in working in the studio and often worked all seven days a week. He moved to the USA in 1939 and got his American citizenship in 1955. There, he produced many more films and hosted a weekly television show. No matter from where his ideas came, whether a magazine article, a mystery novel or incident, his films had the typical "Hitchcock touch" — where the agony of suspense was relieved by interludes of laughter! Hitchcock was knighted in 1980.

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcok was a man with vivid imagination, strong creative skills and passion for life. With his unique style and God-gifted wit he produced and directed some of the most thriling films that had the audience almost swooning with fright and falling off their seats with laughter. Alfred Hitchcock was greatly influenced by American films and magazines. At the age of 20, he took up a job at the office of Paramount Studio, London. Using imagination, talent and dedication, he made each of his endeavors a success. He took great pleasure in working in the studio and often worked all seven days a week. He moved to the USA in 1939 and got his American citizenship in 1955. There, he produced many more films and hosted a weekly television show. No matter from where his ideas came, whether a magazine article, a mystery novel or incident, his films had the typical "Hitchcock touch" — where the agony of suspense was relieved by interludes of laughter! Hitchcock was knighted in 1980.

K-POP – fame and fortune?

Who has never had great fun dancing Up Gangnam Style at a party with friends and doing all the choreography? This is just one example of a growing industry that has become famous worldwide from Korea.

Currently, K-POP is responsible for bringing money to Korea not only because of the shows the bands promote, but also because of all the merchandize produced from the bands – cups, notebooks, sweatshirts, among others. In response, the Korean government invests on culture maximizing the financial return.

Unfortunately, it’s not only a bed of roses. Many young men and women, especially the ones known as the idols, have been going under a lot of pressure due to the fame and not all of them can deal well with it. We have heard information that an idol decided to stop eating simply because one of his fans called him overweight.

Worse was yet to come. On October 14th 2019, one idol, Sulli, former star of the group F(X) was found dead at the age of 25. She was found in her apartment in Seongnam, Korea, and police are investigating the cause of death. Apparently, Sulli took her own life. According to family and close friends, she couldn’t deal with some situations that happened, including one exposure at her Instagram account.

What can we all learn from that" How can we help young people to cope with the difficulties of life" Are we being virtually too exposed? These are some questions that should be reflected and answers should be found.

O texto acima descreve o grande fenômeno coreano que atinge o mundo inteiro e, basicamente, foca:

(Disponível em: <https://portal.fgv.br/noticias/think-tanks-debatem-modos-combater-fake-news-e-robos-washington>. Acesso em: 30 out. 2019.)

Fake News

Fake News has become a phenomenon among internet users – from teens to presidential elections – all over the world especially for those can’t live without the social media.

However, fake news is not an invention of the 21st century. Well-known international newspapers already published some elaborated hoaxes such as the astonishing sights observed by the British astronomer John Herschel in 1835 from an observatory in South Africa.

Printers noticed the great increase in sales when those ‘fictional’ stories were published and, as we have today, they claim that they were just providing a means of distribution of the news, and were not responsible for guaranteeing accuracy.

We have currently ways to discover the truth faster than in the past. Nevertheless, fake news is also spread to a huge number of people and we have always to consider the effects of this news to society as a whole.

O texto acima foca, basicamente, em:

‘Don’t! he cried, struggling. ‘Let go! Why are you stopping me" Who is it"’

The young woman holding him started to cry loudly. ‘I’ve found him! Oh! You naughty boy, to make me suffer so much! Come home immediately, you cruel boy!’ She burst into tears and several people stopped to stare at what was happening.

‘What’s the matter?” asked one of the watching women.

‘He ran away from his parents…,’ the young woman said. ‘He almost broke his mother’s heart.’

(Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens – Oxford Bookworms – page 35)

A língua inglesa se utiliza de várias expressões, combinações verbais com preposições e phrasal verbs. A phrasal verb “ran away”, neste contexto, significa: