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Kindly Shut the Hell Up About “Adulting”

By Danielle Tullo

 

    A few nights ago, I got home from work and sat on my bed, scrolling through Twitter. I didn’t get far in my timeline before I saw a tweet from a twentysomething who said she was “adulting” because she cooked herself dinner. Ugh.
    Scroll through the #adulting hashtag on Twitter at any given moment, and you’re likely to see Millennials sharing anecdotes like: “I grabbed drinks with friends but only talked about apartment leases #adulting”, “I have clean laundry!!! #adulting”, and, “I made dinner that wasn’t hummus and baby carrots #adulting”.
    Urban Dictionary defines “adulting” as “to do grown up things and hold responsibilities such as a 9-5 job, a mortgage/rent, a car payment, or anything else that makes one think of grown ups”. In the past year, the term “adulting” has increased in usage by 700 percent on Twitter.
    “Adulting” is a terrible fake word (that you will not find in the actual dictionary, for the record) that everyone should stop using. “Adulting” implies that being an adult is not a necessary part of growing up, but rather a life choice you’re hesitant to fully buy into. It’s a singularly Millennial – especially female, at that – immaturity that reduces being a grown-up to a hobby.
    Many of us have been shielded from the full responsibilities of adulthood. Unlike our parents’ generation, nearly a third of us are not forced to pay rent or provide for ourselves immediately after college. Many of us don’t need to worry about going to the grocery store alone because our parents’ fridge is already stocked. We don’t have to think about paying the cable bill because our parents have it covered. Growing up may feel optional because, for many of us, it is.

(From: http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/news/a58946/stop-adulting/.)

About the term “adulting”, consider as true (T) or false (F) the following affirmatives:

( ) “Adulting” is a probably a new term, used to refer to something typical of our times.
( ) “Adulting” is a term that has found a lot of space in social media.
( ) “Adulting” is a term designed for social interactions, especially eating and drinking with friends, and it cannot be used for activities done by yourself.
( ) “Adulting” means avoiding doing daily chores because you do not like them.

Mark the alternative that represents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.

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Trump's Terrible Numbers Are a Little Less Terrible

By Jonathan Bernstein

 

    After spending August stuck right around 37.0 percent approval, Trump has rallied and, as of Sunday night, sat at 38.8 percent, according to “FiveThirtyEight” (other polling aggregators have similar results). His net approval – approval minus disapproval – is only around -16 now, after dipping below -20 in August.
    That’s still awful.
    The move up a couple of percentage points appears to be real. But I'd recommend being extremely cautious in interpreting the change. I’ve seen speculation that it's because Trump appears to have handled the recent hurricanes well. That’s plausible – but so is speculation that the hurricanes, regardless of Trump's actions, helped him by getting the news focus off him for a while. Or perhaps the publicity from striking deals with Democrats, no matter how little substance has been in them so far, is helping him.
    There’s really no way to assess which if any of these factors might be causing the small increase. It’s too small an effect, for now at least, and there are too many stories in the news at the same time.

From: httpshg://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-18/trump-s-terrible-numbers-are-a-little-less-terrible

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Trump's Terrible Numbers Are a Little Less Terrible

By Jonathan Bernstein

 

    After spending August stuck right around 37.0 percent approval, Trump has rallied and, as of Sunday night, sat at 38.8 percent, according to “FiveThirtyEight” (other polling aggregators have similar results). His net approval – approval minus disapproval – is only around -16 now, after dipping below -20 in August.
    That’s still awful.
    The move up a couple of percentage points appears to be real. But I'd recommend being extremely cautious in interpreting the change. I’ve seen speculation that it's because Trump appears to have handled the recent hurricanes well. That’s plausible – but so is speculation that the hurricanes, regardless of Trump's actions, helped him by getting the news focus off him for a while. Or perhaps the publicity from striking deals with Democrats, no matter how little substance has been in them so far, is helping him.
    There’s really no way to assess which if any of these factors might be causing the small increase. It’s too small an effect, for now at least, and there are too many stories in the news at the same time.

From: httpshg://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-18/trump-s-terrible-numbers-are-a-little-less-terrible

According to the article, what can be said about president Donald Trump’s approval rating?

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    Bullying behaviour often emerges in childhood, and the consequences for victims can last a lifetime.

    When RubySam Youngz was singled out by a bully at the age of 10 in her last year of primary school, she felt isolated and confused. She had just moved with her family from England to Wales and the bully honed in on her accent. They then started mocking her appearance. “Nothing really made sense to me,” she says. “I’m in a new place, I don’t really know anyone, no one likes me, and I really do not know why.”

    Youngz says the relentless bullying, which continued through secondary school, had a knock-on effect in all areas of her life, and she took up smoking and drinking in an attempt to cope. Now aged 46, it is only in the past year that she has come to terms with the effect that the bullying had on her.

    “I felt like ‘no one else likes me, so I don’t like me’,” she says.

    Her experience underlines a painful truth. Children, for all their innocence and inexperience of the world, can be some of the most vicious bullies. Their actions, perhaps less hindered by the social norms we learn in later life, can be merciless, violent and shocking. And they can have life-long implications for the victims.

(Fonte: Disponível em: https://www.bbc.com/ future/article/20190913-why-some-childrenbecome-merciless-bullies Adaptado).

About RubySam Youngz it is correct to affirm that:

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Considering the sentences “I told him it was impolite to eat with his hands” and “He said “Whose hands should I eat with?” choose the correct answer.

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The office coffee flowchart

Choose the correct meaning of the senteces “carry on and be productive” and “you can figure it out”.