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PARESH, Nath. UN on hunger and poverty. Cagle. Available at: https://www.cagle.com/news/education/page/5/ Acessed: MAY, 8 th 2019.

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LEONARDO DA VINCI: WHY HE STILL FASCINATES 500 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH 

(1) The Italian painter, architect, engineer and innovator died on May 2, 1519, in north-western France, at the age of 67.

(3) Da Vinci is perhaps best known for his talent as an artist which brought him fame during his lifetime — a somewhat rare occurrence at the time.

(5) Among his most famous works are The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. The second painting, exhibited at the Louvre in Paris, received the highest known insurance valuation in the world when it was estimated at $100 million in 1962. (8) His thirst for knowledge and his interest in sciences also saw him draw botany, animals and anatomical sketches.

(10) He also drew and wrote detailed studies into light, the physical properties of water and the flight of birds.

(12) A keen engineer, he also spent time as a military architect for Cesare Borgia, during which he toured and surveyed the Papal States of Romagna and the Marches and sketched city plans and maps, "creating early examples of aspects of modern cartography," according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

(15) A precursor, Da Vinci is also credited for inventing — or at the very least imagining and sketching — technology that would not see the light of day for centuries. Among them are the helicopter, the parachute and the tank.

(18) Da Vinci's musings into art, sciences and engineering were carefully recorded by the polymath himself and continue to fascinate today because they reveal how far ahead of his time the artist was.

TIDEY, Alice. Leonardo da Vinci: Why he still fascinates 500 years after his death. Euronews. Available at: https://www.euronews.com/2019/05/02/leonardo-da-vinci-why-he-still-fascinates-500-years-after-his-death. Acessed: MAY, 8 th 2019 (adapted).

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LEONARDO DA VINCI: WHY HE STILL FASCINATES 500 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH 

(1) The Italian painter, architect, engineer and innovator died on May 2, 1519, in north-western France, at the age of 67.

(3) Da Vinci is perhaps best known for his talent as an artist which brought him fame during his lifetime — a somewhat rare occurrence at the time.

(5) Among his most famous works are The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. The second painting, exhibited at the Louvre in Paris, received the highest known insurance valuation in the world when it was estimated at $100 million in 1962. (8) His thirst for knowledge and his interest in sciences also saw him draw botany, animals and anatomical sketches.

(10) He also drew and wrote detailed studies into light, the physical properties of water and the flight of birds.

(12) A keen engineer, he also spent time as a military architect for Cesare Borgia, during which he toured and surveyed the Papal States of Romagna and the Marches and sketched city plans and maps, "creating early examples of aspects of modern cartography," according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

(15) A precursor, Da Vinci is also credited for inventing — or at the very least imagining and sketching — technology that would not see the light of day for centuries. Among them are the helicopter, the parachute and the tank.

(18) Da Vinci's musings into art, sciences and engineering were carefully recorded by the polymath himself and continue to fascinate today because they reveal how far ahead of his time the artist was.

TIDEY, Alice. Leonardo da Vinci: Why he still fascinates 500 years after his death. Euronews. Available at: https://www.euronews.com/2019/05/02/leonardo-da-vinci-why-he-still-fascinates-500-years-after-his-death. Acessed: MAY, 8 th 2019 (adapted).

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Tell Us What to Call the Generation AfterMillenniais (Please)

    Millennials are getting older. Not that much older, of course. We're a roughly defined | generational cohort, but arguably the oldest members of our demographic set are just beginning to reachthe age of 40.

    Meanwhie, the Americangeneration behind millennials has startedtomoveintothe workplace. And while some have proposed names for this group born in 1995 and after — Generation Z, Post-Millennials, The Homeland Generation, iGeneration — all of these names are bad. The first two don't even strive for originality! Come on. Then again, it's hard to know what makes a generational name stick

    “Millennial” was coined in the late 1980s by the consultants Neil Howe and William Strauss, “both baby boomers, before the term Generation X was even popularized. (They wanted to call them “13th Gen;" but that didn't stick, and neither did “slackers.”)

    But their term “millennial” did not become the dominant name for the huge generation after those two until much later. “n retrospect, it's easy to see that names that people gravitate to say something, Mr. Howe said in a recent interview. “Either the name itself or the way in which it was adapted”

    But Malcolm Harris, the millennial author of “Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials,” argues that those most interested in naming generations are those trying to sell things to that cohort,

    “Generations are really only understood in retrospect” Mr. Harris said. “Some people have 2 financial interest in naming them as soon as possible, people trying to sell stuff. That's the first perspective we get on any cohort, and | don't think it's necessarily a very good one”

    One stumbling block is a lack of agreement about the birth years for each generation. People onthe fringes can feel as if they've got almost nothing in common with the rest of the group. A few years' difference can determine if you could have been drafted for Vietnam, watched the first MTV.videos, or were born into a world ofinstant messaging.

    In 2015, the Census Bureau said that there were 83.1 míllion American millennials (bom between 1982 and 2000), exceeding the 75.4 million baby boomers (between 1946 and 1964), and the 65 million that Pew Research said belong in Generation X (between 1965 and 1980). But the generation after millenniais is stil so ill-defined (probably because of the whole name issue) that an accurate count has not yet been established.      And a good name? Nope.

Fonte: New York Times. Publicado em 23/01/2018. Disponível em: https://www.nytimes. com/2018/01/23/style/generation-names.html

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Tell Us What to Call the Generation AfterMillenniais (Please)

    Millennials are getting older. Not that much older, of course. We're a roughly defined | generational cohort, but arguably the oldest members of our demographic set are just beginning to reachthe age of 40.

    Meanwhie, the Americangeneration behind millennials has startedtomoveintothe workplace. And while some have proposed names for this group born in 1995 and after — Generation Z, Post-Millennials, The Homeland Generation, iGeneration — all of these names are bad. The first two don't even strive for originality! Come on. Then again, it's hard to know what makes a generational name stick

    “Millennial” was coined in the late 1980s by the consultants Neil Howe and William Strauss, “both baby boomers, before the term Generation X was even popularized. (They wanted to call them “13th Gen;" but that didn't stick, and neither did “slackers.”)

    But their term “millennial” did not become the dominant name for the huge generation after those two until much later. “n retrospect, it's easy to see that names that people gravitate to say something, Mr. Howe said in a recent interview. “Either the name itself or the way in which it was adapted”

    But Malcolm Harris, the millennial author of “Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials,” argues that those most interested in naming generations are those trying to sell things to that cohort,

    “Generations are really only understood in retrospect” Mr. Harris said. “Some people have 2 financial interest in naming them as soon as possible, people trying to sell stuff. That's the first perspective we get on any cohort, and | don't think it's necessarily a very good one”

    One stumbling block is a lack of agreement about the birth years for each generation. People onthe fringes can feel as if they've got almost nothing in common with the rest of the group. A few years' difference can determine if you could have been drafted for Vietnam, watched the first MTV.videos, or were born into a world ofinstant messaging.

    In 2015, the Census Bureau said that there were 83.1 míllion American millennials (bom between 1982 and 2000), exceeding the 75.4 million baby boomers (between 1946 and 1964), and the 65 million that Pew Research said belong in Generation X (between 1965 and 1980). But the generation after millenniais is stil so ill-defined (probably because of the whole name issue) that an accurate count has not yet been established.      And a good name? Nope.

Fonte: New York Times. Publicado em 23/01/2018. Disponível em: https://www.nytimes. com/2018/01/23/style/generation-names.html

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Tell Us What to Call the Generation AfterMillenniais (Please)

    Millennials are getting older. Not that much older, of course. We're a roughly defined | generational cohort, but arguably the oldest members of our demographic set are just beginning to reachthe age of 40.

    Meanwhie, the Americangeneration behind millennials has startedtomoveintothe workplace. And while some have proposed names for this group born in 1995 and after — Generation Z, Post-Millennials, The Homeland Generation, iGeneration — all of these names are bad. The first two don't even strive for originality! Come on. Then again, it's hard to know what makes a generational name stick

    “Millennial” was coined in the late 1980s by the consultants Neil Howe and William Strauss, “both baby boomers, before the term Generation X was even popularized. (They wanted to call them “13th Gen;" but that didn't stick, and neither did “slackers.”)

    But their term “millennial” did not become the dominant name for the huge generation after those two until much later. “n retrospect, it's easy to see that names that people gravitate to say something, Mr. Howe said in a recent interview. “Either the name itself or the way in which it was adapted”

    But Malcolm Harris, the millennial author of “Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials,” argues that those most interested in naming generations are those trying to sell things to that cohort,

    “Generations are really only understood in retrospect” Mr. Harris said. “Some people have 2 financial interest in naming them as soon as possible, people trying to sell stuff. That's the first perspective we get on any cohort, and | don't think it's necessarily a very good one”

    One stumbling block is a lack of agreement about the birth years for each generation. People onthe fringes can feel as if they've got almost nothing in common with the rest of the group. A few years' difference can determine if you could have been drafted for Vietnam, watched the first MTV.videos, or were born into a world ofinstant messaging.

    In 2015, the Census Bureau said that there were 83.1 míllion American millennials (bom between 1982 and 2000), exceeding the 75.4 million baby boomers (between 1946 and 1964), and the 65 million that Pew Research said belong in Generation X (between 1965 and 1980). But the generation after millenniais is stil so ill-defined (probably because of the whole name issue) that an accurate count has not yet been established.      And a good name? Nope.

Fonte: New York Times. Publicado em 23/01/2018. Disponível em: https://www.nytimes. com/2018/01/23/style/generation-names.html