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North Carolina and Mississippi See Tourist Backlash After L.G.B.T. Laws

The reaction has been swift.

The singer Bryan Adams canceled his concert

in Mississippi in protest against what he called an "anti-

L.G.B.T". law, and the actress Sharon Stone decided not

to film a movie there. In North Carolina, Bruce

Springsteen, Ringo Starr, Pearl Jam and Ani

DiFranco have canceled shows in response to a law

regulating trasgender bathroom access.

________ the celebrity response is drawing considerable

attention, the travel industry in each state in more 

concerned about lower-profile visitors: the everday

tourists _______ have already begun canceling trips or

planning vacations elsewhere.

[...]

The damaging impact is already being felt in North

Carolina, _______ last month passed a law that limits

transgender people to using bathrooms that match the 

sex on their birth certificates. Tourism is a curcial driver

of the economy in the state, the sixth most-visited in the

country, ________ domestic travelers spent a record $21.3

billion in 2014, according to Visit North Carolina, the

state´s tourist board.

[...]

Regardless of the locus of the political tensions, the

cancellations are being reported statewide. Marriott

International, with 134 properties across its portifolio of

Worldwide, with 20, are also seeing canceled 

reservations.[...]

(Retrieved and adapted from http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/travel/north-carolina-mississippi-lgbt-gay-richts-travel.html. Access on April, 22^nd, 2016)

The main repercussion resulting from the polemic discussed in the text is:

Leia um trecho do poema de Edgar Allan Poe e as afirmações a seguir.

 

The Raven (by Edgar Allan Poe)

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more.” Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore— For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Nameless HERE for evermore.

POE, Edgar Allan. The Raven, 1845. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 23 out. 2015.

 

I. O poema de Edgar Allan Poe está na primeira pessoa do singular.

II. O trecho “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”, pode ser traduzido como “Certa vez, numa meia-noite lúgubre, enquanto meditava, fraco e cansado”.

III. Bleak in “Distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December” pode ser substituído por black, sem perda do efeito de sentido.

IV. O pronome relativo whom em “For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore refere-se a anjos”.

 

Está correto apenas o que se afirma em

Economists are Starting to Warn About the Risk of a New U.S. Recession

 

Confronted with disappointing data from around the world,  economists are whispering a word that hasn’t seemed like areal possibility in years: recession. It starts with the slowdown in China, which is already straining the global recovery. The world’s second-largest economy has lost its appetite for the raw materials that fueled its industrial boom, leaving the smaller countries that supplied it with resources stumbling in its wake. Slower growth abroad translates into weaker foreign currencies and a stronger U.S. dollar, which makes American goods harder to sell in the global marketplace.

A growing chorus of prominent economists and analysts are arguing those dynamics could tip the world -- and the United States along with it -- into recession within the next two years. The fear is showing up in the recent wild swings in financial markets, rare outside of broader economic downturns. The pace of U.S. job growth has slowed substantially compared to last year. And though the economic expansion has never quite reached many workers, it has actually lasted longer than the post-war average

“The global economy is uncomfortably close to the edge,” said David Stockton, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. […] Since World War II, recessions have occurred an average of every five years. The current expansion is more than six years old, beginning in July 2009. A recession is generally defined as two consecutive quarters of contraction, but an official designation is often not made until long after the decline has already begun.

The Great Recession started in December 2007 but was not officially diagnosed until a year later -- after the Dow Jones Industrial average had already fallen roughly 40 percent and more than 3.5 million workers had lost their jobs.

“A recession is inevitable in the fullness of time. The question is when is one likely to occur?” said Jason Thomas, director of research at The Carlyle Group, a financial services and private equity firm.

Thomas said he doesn’t believe one is imminent. But themore important question, he said, is how damaging it would be if it occurred. Most economists, including Thomas, believe the next recession will likely be mild. The problem is that the nation’s top policymakers may have less power to combat it.

If anything, analysts worry that it will be officials in Washington who inadvertently send the economy over the edge. Bitterly divided lawmakers have no clear plan for averting a catastrophic default on the nation’s debt obligations next month or a shutdown of the federal government in December. The hurdle for any stimulus may be insurmountable.

The other backstop during the financial crisis was the Fed. The nation’s central bank slashed its key interest rate to zero in December 2008 and has pumped trillions of dollars into the economy. Seven years later, rates are still at zero and the Fed has maintained a $4.5 trillion balance sheet.

In other words, most of the central bank’s arsenal is already deployed.

Disponível em: <https://www.washingtonpost.com/>. Acesso em: 21 out. 2015. (Adaptado)

By analysing the text, it is understood that economists

Colombian Government and Rebels Agree to Retrieve, ID Remains of Guerrilla War Dead

 

State and rebel leaders in Colombia agreed on Saturday to implement an unprecedented plan to locate, identify and return the remains of the tens of thousands of people who have disappeared in the country’s lengthy ongoing civil conflict, TeleSUR, a South American broadcasting network, reported.

The agreement, between the Colombian government and the left-wing guerrilla group known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), is a milestone in a bloody conflict that has spanned half a century, leaving 220,000 people dead and displacing 6 million more. More than 50,000 people are still missing, according to government approximations.

The FARC and other left-wing extremist groups claim to defend Colombia’s poor against state hostility in the name of communism; right-wing paramilitary groups use force to lash out against the left-wing guerrillas; the government says it merely seeks to establish stability and protect its citizens. Experts say that all three parties have abused human rights by either action or inaction in what has been described as the longest ongoing domestic conflict in the Western hemisphere.

Per the agreement, both FARC and the government will work to identify and retrieve the remains of their victims, with the state facilitating burials in cemeteries located in areas impacted by the conflict. It is the latest advance in a recent concerted effort to establish peace between the guerrillas and the Colombian government. A month ago, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC leader Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri — known by his nom de guerre Timochenko — symbolically met in Havana to begin a sixmonth period in which a mutual peace accord will be drafted.

Disponível em: <http://time.com/4077682/colombia-farc-disappeared-civil-war> Acesso em: 20 out. 2015.

The main purpose of the article is to inform that

Colombian Government and Rebels Agree to Retrieve, ID Remains of Guerrilla War Dead

 

State and rebel leaders in Colombia agreed on Saturday to implement an unprecedented plan to locate, identify and return the remains of the tens of thousands of people who have disappeared in the country’s lengthy ongoing civil conflict, TeleSUR, a South American broadcasting network, reported.

The agreement, between the Colombian government and the left-wing guerrilla group known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), is a milestone in a bloody conflict that has spanned half a century, leaving 220,000 people dead and displacing 6 million more. More than 50,000 people are still missing, according to government approximations.

The FARC and other left-wing extremist groups claim to defend Colombia’s poor against state hostility in the name of communism; right-wing paramilitary groups use force to lash out against the left-wing guerrillas; the government says it merely seeks to establish stability and protect its citizens. Experts say that all three parties have abused human rights by either action or inaction in what has been described as the longest ongoing domestic conflict in the Western hemisphere.

Per the agreement, both FARC and the government will work to identify and retrieve the remains of their victims, with the state facilitating burials in cemeteries located in areas impacted by the conflict. It is the latest advance in a recent concerted effort to establish peace between the guerrillas and the Colombian government. A month ago, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC leader Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri — known by his nom de guerre Timochenko — symbolically met in Havana to begin a sixmonth period in which a mutual peace accord will be drafted.

Disponível em: <http://time.com/4077682/colombia-farc-disappeared-civil-war> Acesso em: 20 out. 2015.

The only statement that is correct according to TeleSUR information, reported on the text is

Social life in youth may impact health decades later

Robert Preidt

August 6, 2015                                            

Having good social connections at age 20 can lead

to improved well-being later in life, a new study suggests.

Previous research has shown that people with poor social links

are at increased risk for early death. “In fact, having few social

connections is equivalent to tobacco use, and [the risk is]

higher than for those who drink excessive amounts of alcohol,

or who suffer from obesity,” study author Cheryl Carmichael,

who conducted the study while a doctoral candidate at the

University of Rochester in New York, said in a university news

release.

The study included 133 people who enrolled when

they were 20-year-old college students in the 1970s. The

participants kept track of their daily social interactions at

ages 20 and 30. At age 50, they completed an online survey

about the quality of their social lives and emotional well-being,

including questions about loneliness and depression, and

their relationships with close friends.

The findings showed that frequent social interactions at

age 20 and good-quality relationships – defined as intimate

and satisfying – at age 30 were associated with higher levels

of well-being at age 50. The study findings were published in

a recent issue of the journal Psychology and Aging.

A high number of social interactions at age 20 are

beneficial later in life because they help young adults

determine who they are, the researchers said. “It’s

often around this age that we meet people from diverse

backgrounds, with opinions and values that are different

from our own, and we learn how to best manage those

differences,” said Carmichael, now an assistant professor

of psychology at Brooklyn College. “Considering everything

else that goes on in life over those 30 years – marriage,

raising a family and building a career – it is extraordinary

that there appears to be a relationship between the kinds

of interactions college students and young adults have and

their emotional health later in life,” she concluded.

(www.nlm.nih.gov)

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