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THE WORLD: Rescued migrant hopes for better life in Europe for baby born on warship

Stephanie Samuel and baby Francesca Marina soon to be transferred from Sicilian hospital to immigration centre. 

A woman who gave birth on a warship after the Italian navy rescued her from a migrant boat has said her daughter will have a better life in Europe after surviving the dangerous voyage. 

Baby Francesca Marina, named after St Francis and the Italian navy, was delivered aboard the Bettica naval vessel in the Mediterranean a week ago. Once ashore, she suffered seizures and was put in intensive care¹. 

A week on, Francesca and her mother, Stephanie Samuel, 24, have recovered and doctors in Sicily said they would probably be transferred to an immigration centre² for families with small children in a few days’ time. 

The story of the migrant baby born aboard a navy ship captured international media attention at the end of one of the busiest weekends for sea crossings from Libya to Europe this year, during which about 6,800 people were rescued³ and dozens are said to have drowned. 

Samuel, who is Nigerian, worked for two years in Tripoli as a housemaid to save money to pay smugglers for the trip. The boat she set off in with about 90 others stalled after three hours at sea. 

By the time they were picked up by the Bettica⁴ off the Libyan coast seven hours later, she was unconscious after suffering epileptic seizures and had gone into labour. 

“I didn’t expect the baby, you know, but she just came,” Samuel said. “I just wanted to leave Libya. Italy is better than Libya and Nigeria is the worst.” 

Of her daughter, she said: “God decides, not me … but I believe she will have a more good future in Europe.” So far this year more than 30,000 people have reached Italy by sea from North Africa, mostly from Libya. 

More than 170,000 came last year. The interior ministry has said 200,000 might make it to Italy’s shores in 2015. 

Many are political refugees such as Syrians fleeing civil war or Eritreans escaping forced military conscription, while others like Samuel are economic migrants in search of a better life. 

Samuel said her husband, who was still working in Libya, was ready to risk the sea crossing to be with her and their daughter as soon as he could afford to pay the smugglers, who demand up to £1,000 for passage on overcrowded, rickety boats. 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/11/rescued-migrant-mother-better-life-europe-baby

 

Analise as alternativas abaixo quanto à melhor correlação da voz ativa das sentenças grifadas no texto. 

 

I. They put Francesca in Intensive Care.

II. Doctors would transfer Stephanie and Francesca to Italy. 

III. They rescued about 6,800 people.

IV. The Bettica picked them up.

 

É correto o que se afirma em:

HEALTH: Blood Pattern Analysis

 

  Even a tiny drop of blood at the scene of a violent crime can give important information to the police. Blood is there either because it has dripped out¹ of a small wound, sprayed out from an artery, oozed out² through a large wound, or flown off a weapon. Using blood pattern analysis, police can learn a lot about what happened from the shape of the blood drops. 

  Sometimes a murderer cleans the crime scene very carefully, and if detectives cannot see any blood they spray a chemical called Luminol across the scene. This makes it possible to see the blood in the dark. Luminol can show up³ very small drops of blood. 

  From blood at the scene of a crime, police can learn about the person the blood came from. They can tell the person’s blood type and, because male and female blood cells are different, they can also work out⁴ if the blood comes from a man or woman. Also, 80% of us are ‘secretors’, which means our blood type is contained in other bodily fluids. This can also help identify suspects. 

  In 1984 a man, Graham Backhouse, was found injured near his home with deep cuts across his face and chest. A neighbour lay dead nearby. Backhouse said the neighbour attacked him, and so he shot the neighbour to defend himself. But the shape of the blood drops showed that Backhouse was standing still when he was wounded, and there was also no blood from Backhouse on his gun or near the victim. Police were sure Backhouse shot his victim and then wounded himself. He was found guilty of murder. 

Com base no texto, as expressões numeradas apresentam os seguintes significados:

HEALTH: Blood Pattern Analysis

 

  Even a tiny drop of blood at the scene of a violent crime can give important information to the police. Blood is there either because it has dripped out¹ of a small wound, sprayed out from an artery, oozed out² through a large wound, or flown off a weapon. Using blood pattern analysis, police can learn a lot about what happened from the shape of the blood drops. 

  Sometimes a murderer cleans the crime scene very carefully, and if detectives cannot see any blood they spray a chemical called Luminol across the scene. This makes it possible to see the blood in the dark. Luminol can show up³ very small drops of blood. 

  From blood at the scene of a crime, police can learn about the person the blood came from. They can tell the person’s blood type and, because male and female blood cells are different, they can also work out⁴ if the blood comes from a man or woman. Also, 80% of us are ‘secretors’, which means our blood type is contained in other bodily fluids. This can also help identify suspects. 

  In 1984 a man, Graham Backhouse, was found injured near his home with deep cuts across his face and chest. A neighbour lay dead nearby. Backhouse said the neighbour attacked him, and so he shot the neighbour to defend himself. But the shape of the blood drops showed that Backhouse was standing still when he was wounded, and there was also no blood from Backhouse on his gun or near the victim. Police were sure Backhouse shot his victim and then wounded himself. He was found guilty of murder. 

Após a leitura do texto, escreva (V) se a sentença for verdadeira e (F) se for falsa nos parênteses ao lado.

 

1. Blood from a cut artery drips out. ( )

2. Blood pattern analysis looks at the shape of drops of blood. ( )

3. Luminol tells you the blood type. ( )

4. Male blood is different from female blood. ( )

5. Graham Backhouse’s neighbour shot himself. ( )

 

Marque a altermativa que traz a sequência correta.

O cantor inglês George Ezra afirma ter recebido influências de Bob Dylan e Woody Guthrie para compor suas músicas. O sucesso Budapest confirma o grande interesse do público por sua voz grave e rítmica. 

And give me one more reason

Why I should never make a change

Baby if you hold me

Then all of this will go away¹

 

Oh, to you

Ooh, you

Ooh, I’d leave² it all

 

Assim, as sentenças numeradas no refrão da música apresentam os seguintes significados, respectivamente: 

[1] The study of game aesthetics is a very

recent practice, spanning less than two

decades. Unlike game studies in mathematics

or the social sciences, ........ are much older,

[5] games became subject to humanistic study

only after computer and video games became

popular. This lack of persistent interest might

seem odd, but only if we see traditional

games and computer games as intrinsically

[10] similar, ........ they are not. We might try to

explain this lack by noting that games are

usually seen as trivial and lowbrow by the

aesthetic and theoretical elites ........ cultivate

the analysis of artistic media objects:

[15] literature, the visual arts, theatre, music, etc.

But this does not explain the fact that

aesthetic studies of games are now not only

possible, but even encouraged and supported

with funding. What happened to cause this

[20] change?

A possible explanation could be that digital

games, unlike traditional games or sports,

consist of non-ephemeral content (stored

words, sounds and images), which places

[25] them much closer to the ideal object of the

Humanities, the work of art. Thus, they

become visible and textualizable for the

aesthetic observer, in a way the previous

phenomena were not.

[30] However, this sudden visibility, probably

also caused by the tremendous economic and

cultural success of computer games, produces

certain blind spots in the aesthetic observer,

especially if he/she is trained in textual/visual

[35] analysis, as is usually the case. Instead of

treating the new phenomena carefully, and as

objects of a study for which no methodology

yet exists, they are analyzed with tools that

happen to be at hand, such as film or

[40] narrative theories. Therefore we need to

outline and promote a methodology for the

aesthetic study of games, which, given the

current nascent state of the field, will

doubtlessly give way to more sophisticated

[45] approaches in the years to come.

Adapted from: Aarseth, Espen. Playing Research: Methodological approaches to game analysis. Available at: <http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/ papers/Aarseth.pdf>. Accessed on July 26th, 2014.

Which of the alternatives below could replace will doubtlessly give way to (l. 43-44) without changing the literal meaning of the sentence?

[1] The study of game aesthetics is a very

recent practice, spanning less than two

decades. Unlike game studies in mathematics

or the social sciences, ........ are much older,

[5] games became subject to humanistic study

only after computer and video games became

popular. This lack of persistent interest might

seem odd, but only if we see traditional

games and computer games as intrinsically

[10] similar, ........ they are not. We might try to

explain this lack by noting that games are

usually seen as trivial and lowbrow by the

aesthetic and theoretical elites ........ cultivate

the analysis of artistic media objects:

[15] literature, the visual arts, theatre, music, etc.

But this does not explain the fact that

aesthetic studies of games are now not only

possible, but even encouraged and supported

with funding. What happened to cause this

[20] change?

A possible explanation could be that digital

games, unlike traditional games or sports,

consist of non-ephemeral content (stored

words, sounds and images), which places

[25] them much closer to the ideal object of the

Humanities, the work of art. Thus, they

become visible and textualizable for the

aesthetic observer, in a way the previous

phenomena were not.

[30] However, this sudden visibility, probably

also caused by the tremendous economic and

cultural success of computer games, produces

certain blind spots in the aesthetic observer,

especially if he/she is trained in textual/visual

[35] analysis, as is usually the case. Instead of

treating the new phenomena carefully, and as

objects of a study for which no methodology

yet exists, they are analyzed with tools that

happen to be at hand, such as film or

[40] narrative theories. Therefore we need to

outline and promote a methodology for the

aesthetic study of games, which, given the

current nascent state of the field, will

doubtlessly give way to more sophisticated

[45] approaches in the years to come.

Adapted from: Aarseth, Espen. Playing Research: Methodological approaches to game analysis. Available at: <http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/ papers/Aarseth.pdf>. Accessed on July 26th, 2014.

Consider the following alternative writings to the clause a study for which no methodology yet exists (l. 37-38).

 

I - a study that lacks a tailored methodology

II - a study devoid of a specific methodology

III- a study whose proper methodology still does not exist

 

Which could adequately replace the original clause without altering the literal meaning of the sentence?