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Facebook: where do you belong?

 

    A team of communication professors from the Brigham Young University, USA, revealed that people using the social media platform Facebook can be classified into categories, depending on their posts and use of additional Facebook features. Their findings basically answer why an average of 1.28 billion users check on their Facebook accounts every day, with majority of them spending about 35 minutes daily on the platform. “What is it about this social-media platform that has taken over the world?” asked lead author Tom Robinson. “Why are people so willing to put their lives on display? Nobody has ever really asked the question, ‘Why do you like this?’”

    To identify different kinds of Facebook user, the researchers compiled a list of 48 statements that identify potential reasons why people use Facebook. They then recruited study subjects and asked them to reflect their personal connection to the statements, rating each on a scale from “most like me” to “least like me”. The researchers also interviewed each subject. Based on the responses, the researchers identified four categories of Facebook users: relationship builders, town criers, selfies and window shoppers.

    Relationship builders and selfies tend to post pictures, videos and text updates on their Facebook. While relationship builders post and use additional Facebook features primarily to further strengthen the relationships they have beyond the virtual world, selfies are more focused on getting more attention, likes and comments.

    On the other hand, town criers and window shoppers both feel a sense of social obligation to be on Facebook and are mostly indifferent about posting stories or other information about themselves. Town criers tend to share news stories and post events; window shoppers were more likely to be onlookers that prefer watching what other people do.

    The researchers noted that Facebook users may see themselves in more than one of the categories. For example, most people have the tendency to be selfies. However, users can identify more with one category than the others.

(John Raphael. www.natureworldnews.com, 31.07.2017. Adaptado.)

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Facebook: where do you belong?

 

    A team of communication professors from the Brigham Young University, USA, revealed that people using the social media platform Facebook can be classified into categories, depending on their posts and use of additional Facebook features. Their findings basically answer why an average of 1.28 billion users check on their Facebook accounts every day, with majority of them spending about 35 minutes daily on the platform. “What is it about this social-media platform that has taken over the world?” asked lead author Tom Robinson. “Why are people so willing to put their lives on display? Nobody has ever really asked the question, ‘Why do you like this?’”

    To identify different kinds of Facebook user, the researchers compiled a list of 48 statements that identify potential reasons why people use Facebook. They then recruited study subjects and asked them to reflect their personal connection to the statements, rating each on a scale from “most like me” to “least like me”. The researchers also interviewed each subject. Based on the responses, the researchers identified four categories of Facebook users: relationship builders, town criers, selfies and window shoppers.

    Relationship builders and selfies tend to post pictures, videos and text updates on their Facebook. While relationship builders post and use additional Facebook features primarily to further strengthen the relationships they have beyond the virtual world, selfies are more focused on getting more attention, likes and comments.

    On the other hand, town criers and window shoppers both feel a sense of social obligation to be on Facebook and are mostly indifferent about posting stories or other information about themselves. Town criers tend to share news stories and post events; window shoppers were more likely to be onlookers that prefer watching what other people do.

    The researchers noted that Facebook users may see themselves in more than one of the categories. For example, most people have the tendency to be selfies. However, users can identify more with one category than the others.

(John Raphael. www.natureworldnews.com, 31.07.2017. Adaptado.)

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What Makes a Genius? The World’s Greatest Minds Have One Thing in Common
Walter Isaacson @WalterIsaacson Nov. 16, 2017

 

Franklin, Einstein, Jobs, da Vinci. How history's greatest thinkers broke with tradition and solved problems nobody else could see. Being a genius is different than merely being supersmart. Smart people are a dime a dozen, and many of them don’t amount to much. What matters is creativity, the ability to apply imagination to almost any situation.Take Benjamin Franklin. He lacked the analytic processing power of a Hamilton and the philosophical depth of a Madison. Yet with little formal education, Franklin taught himself to become the American Enlightenment’s best inventor, diplomat, scientist, writer and business strategist. He proved, by flying a kite, that lightning is electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He devised clean-burning stoves, charts of the Gulf Stream, bifocal glasses, enchanting musical instruments and America’s unique style of homespun humor.

 

Albert Einstein followed a similar path. He was slow in learning to speak as a child–so slow that his parents consulted a doctor. The family maid dubbed him “der Depperte,” the dopey one, and a relative referred to him as “almost backwards.” He also harbored a cheeky rebelliousness toward authority, which led one schoolmaster to send him packing and another to amuse history by declaring that he would never amount to much. These traits made Einstein the patron saint of distracted schoolkids everywhere.

(Excerpt from the site: http://time.com/5027069/what-makes-a-genius/ researched on November 2017.)

In the sentence “He proved, by flying a kite, that lightning is electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it.

 

He devised clean-burning stoves” the underlined verbs are in the:

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A civil rights 'emergency': justice, clean air and water in the age of Trump
by Oliver Milman in New York

 

The Trump administration’s dismantling of environmental regulations has intensified a growing civil rights battle over the deadly burden of pollution on minorities and low-income people. Black, Latino and disadvantaged people have long been disproportionately afflicted by toxins from industrial plants, cars, hazardous housing conditions and other sources. But political leaders, academics and activists spoke of a growing urgency around the struggle for environmental justice as the Trump administration peels away rules designed to protect clean air and water.

 

“What we are seeing is the institutionalization of discrimination again, the thing we’ve fought for 40 years,” said Robert Bullard, an academic widely considered the father of the environmental justice movement. “There are people in fence-line communities who are now very worried. If the federal government doesn’t monitor and regulate, and gives the states a green light to do what they want, we are going to get more pollution, more people will get sick. There will be more deaths.”

(Excerpt from the site: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/20/environmental-justice-in-the-age-of-trump. Researched on November 2017.)

In the sentence “If the federal government doesn’t monitor and regulate, and gives the states a green light to do what they want we are going to get more pollution” the underlined conjunction indicates:

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A civil rights 'emergency': justice, clean air and water in the age of Trump
by Oliver Milman in New York

 

The Trump administration’s dismantling of environmental regulations has intensified a growing civil rights battle over the deadly burden of pollution on minorities and low-income people. Black, Latino and disadvantaged people have long been disproportionately afflicted by toxins from industrial plants, cars, hazardous housing conditions and other sources. But political leaders, academics and activists spoke of a growing urgency around the struggle for environmental justice as the Trump administration peels away rules designed to protect clean air and water.

 

“What we are seeing is the institutionalization of discrimination again, the thing we’ve fought for 40 years,” said Robert Bullard, an academic widely considered the father of the environmental justice movement. “There are people in fence-line communities who are now very worried. If the federal government doesn’t monitor and regulate, and gives the states a green light to do what they want, we are going to get more pollution, more people will get sick. There will be more deaths.”

(Excerpt from the site: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/20/environmental-justice-in-the-age-of-trump. Researched on November 2017.)

In the sentence: “If the federal government doesn’t monitor and regulate, and gives the states a green light to do what they want, we are going to get more pollution, more people will get sick”.

 

The underlined words have respectively the grammatical functions of:

Read the following quote and choose the alternative with the correct forms of the verbs to complete the gaps.

 

    “Creativity involves ________ out of established patterns in order ________ at things in a different way.”

(Edward de Bono, English psychologist, 1935 - ) (Available on: http://www.um.edu.mt/create/courses/masterdegreeprogramme. Accessed on: 6 Oct. 2017.)