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The arm of Liberty

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The Statue of Liberty is probably the______ icon of the USA.

 

    (...) When the American Civil war ended, Édouard de Laboulaye wanted to commemorate the end of the slave trade with a gift. He and other people who opposed slavery raised money and hired a sculptor, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, to design the Statue. Bartholdi later employed the French engineer, Gustave Eiffel, to devise its structure.

    Eiffel designed the Statue to be built around a massive metal skeleton, similar to the Eiffel Tower. In 2018, a map dealer bought some historic papers at an auction in Paris, which included original plans. After special treatment, the papers clearly showed that Eiffel’s plans had been changed by Bartholdi.

    (...) We don’t know what Eiffel thought of Bartholdi’s changes. By then, Eiffel was working on other projects, and only his assistants were working with Bartholdi.

    (...) At first, visitors could climb a ladder to the torch in Liberty’s arm, but in 1916, there was an explosion on a nearby island. It damaged the Statue and made it unsafe, and the stairway to the torch has been closed ever since. During restoration work in the 1980s, engineers noticed that the structure inside Liberty’s head, shoulders, and arm were different from how they were shown on Eiffel’s plans. They thought that the builders had made mistakes, but some historians believed that Bartholdi had changed Eiffel’s design. The newly discovered papers confirm those theories.

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    In the first 10 months of 2023, more than 43,000 migrants and refugees landed on the Spanish coasts. Most of them reached the Canary Islands in small boats known as pateras. The number far exceeds arrivals to the United Kingdom (UK), whose shores have been reached by about 27,000 people in the same period. The disparity is even more striking considering Spain has a population of 48 million, in contrast with the 68 million in the UK.

    People arriving by small boats are a minority in the immigration flow, and are not necessarily the ones who stay in Spain. About 15% of the Spanish population is foreign-born — the population is actually growing due to waves of new immigrants, mostly from Colombia, Morocco and Venezuela.

    Yet Spain has not witnessed the same level of outrage and alarmist anti-immigration rhetoric we see in the UK, where politicians across the political spectrum and even journalists embrace the slogan “stop the boats’’ as a casual way to speak about desperate people trying to escape hardship. Unlike in the UK, in Spain net migration numbers are usually reported not as a negative, but as a welcome source of growth in a country with an ageing population.

    However, overall, Spain maintains a positive view of migration. Most Spaniards have a positive attitude to immigrants, interact with migrants socially and believe integration has been successful at the local level. This may have something to do with the history of Spanish migration to richer countries in Europe. Politicians have not clung to the issue as they have in other European countries.

María Ramírez. In Spain, we don’t share Britain’s migration panic – ‘stop the boats’ has few fans here. In: The Guardian. Internet: www.theguardian.com (adapted).

 

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Internet: kudelka.com.au (adapted).

 

Based on the cartoon, it is correct to conclude that the guru

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Atlas: the new movie from Jennifer Lopez

 

    Atlas is a sci-fi thriller in which humanity faces the fury of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Filled with impressive visuals and intense action sequences, the movie explores themes of technology, ethics, and humanity’s future in an increasingly interconnected world. However, despite Jennifer Lopez’s convincing performance, the film’s predictability impedes its potential to become an incredible masterpiece.

    Jennifer Lopez is simply superb as a human distrusting machine. Her struggle to survive the battle and her transformation from analyst to combat fighter are convincing. Simu Liu, as the villainous robotic character Harlan, is believable, though he could have been more impactful. Sterling K. Brown, as Colonel Elias, delivers a strong performance, and Abraham Popoola, as the unbeatable AI fighter Casca, is brilliant. In a limited role as Atlas’s mother, Lana Parrilla plays a key character in the film.

(Archika Khurana. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com, 24.05.2024. Adaptado.)

No trecho do primeiro parágrafo “the film’s predictability impedes its potential to become an incredible masterpiece”, o termo sublinhado refere-se a

Read the comic strip by Jim Davis.

(Garfield at large, 2012.)

 

The excerpt “What am I saying?!”, in the last panel, indicates that the cat is

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Brazil’s floods reveal the growing danger of extreme rain

Helen Li
May 5th, 2024

REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli

 

Brazil’s “worst disaster” in the last 80 years has left many people dead, injured and displaced by catastrophic flooding. The
southern state of Rio Grande do Sul received more than 70 percent of all the rain it typically gets in the month of April in the
space of four days.
[5] The torrential rains have destroyed key infrastructure, including knocking out power and water, and blocking roads, leaving
thousands waiting to be rescued from the water.
The floods are the latest consequence of a global spate of extreme rain events that also recently hit Indonesia, Kenya, and
Dubai. Experts point to climate change and this year’s juiced El Niño-La Niña weather pattern as the likely driver — with deadly
consequences.
[10] Brazil’s unrelenting rain is being driven by a climate phenomenon known as El Niño, a periodic event that sees surface ocean
water warm up, spurring storms and rain in the southern hemisphere. Climatologists say the floods are evidence of a “disastrous
cocktail” made up of human-caused global warming and more typical El Niño weather effects. Brazil has recently endured
months of extreme drought and a deadly cyclone. Ane Alencar, science director for the Amazon Environmental Research
Institute, told the Associated Press last year that the oscillating pattern of extreme drought-extreme rain was likely “the new
[15] normal.”
Brazil is not alone in this: extreme flooding has affected countries around the world, and especially in east Africa. An El Niño-

intensified Cyclone Hidaya has caused deadly floods in Kenya and Tanzania, a “stark reminder of the human cost of the climate
crisis,” Greenpeace Africa’s executive director said. Thousands of refugees in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps have been
displaced by the rising water levels. “Many people here who are now displaced still don’t have anywhere to go, some don’t
[20] even have food,” Joseph Ndung’u, a resident of Mathare, Nairobi, recently told Semafor Africa.
The changing El Niño and La Niña climate cycle adds “another degree of complexity” for understanding how climate change
will affect future weather patterns, according to research by the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration. Scientists predict these extremes may “become even stronger than they are today,” and that El Niño-like events
could double in frequency by the end of the century. Ultimately, experts say many countries — and especially developing
[25] nations most vulnerable to climate change — are ill-prepared. Around 40 to 50 million people are currently affected by the
weather pattern in 16 countries, according to the United Nations. The UN Climate Crisis Coordinator for the El Niño/La Niña
Response said “action needs to happen now to support them.”

Retrieved and adapted from: https://www.semafor.com/article/05/05/2024/el-nino-and-climate-change-combine-in-brazils-floods Access on May 6th, 2024.

 

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What is emotion regulation?

 

Imagine you are at your friend’s birthday party. She has opened her presents and cut the cake, and now everyone is sitting down to watch a movie. The movie starts, and your stomach drops when you realize she has picked out a really scary movie. Some of your friends love scary movies, but you do not — they give you nightmares for a week! The lights go out and scary music begins to play as the movie starts. What do you do?

 

In our research lab, we study what happens in the brains of kids, teenagers, and adults when they feel angry, sad, or scared. Specifically, we study what scientists call emotion regulation, which is the way people cope with upsetting feelings. For example, in the scary movie scenario, you might want to feel less scared — or just seem less scared to your friends! There are many strategies you could use to feel less scared — you can think of these as tools in your emotion regulation toolbox. Specific regions in your brain work together to help you regulate your emotions and eventually feel better.

Available at: https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ frym.2022.710002. Accessed on: Feb 28, 2024.

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