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Leia as informações publicadas em 23.10.2019 no site da World Economic Forum.

 

In terms of wealth per adult, the biggest winners were in Switzerland in the period 2018–2019, with a growth of $ 17,790. Australia was at the other end of the scale, with losses of $ 28,670 per adult, largely down to exchange rate effects. Australia lost 124,000 millionaires following a fall in average wealth, and was the only country recording a drop of more than 2 % in house prices (–6 %).

 

Change in wealth per adult 2018-19, biggest gains and losses

Considerando as informações dadas sobre as riquezas de indivíduos entre 2018 e 2019, é correto afirmar que

Considere o excerto da música Idiots are taking over, da banda de punk rock NOFX.

 

Idiots Are Taking Over

(NOFX)

 

It’s not the right time to be sober
Now the idiots have taken over
Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?
[…]
Darwin’s rolling over in his coffin
The fittest are surviving much less often
Now everything seems to be reversing, and it’s worsening
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
Now angry mob mentality’s
no longer the exception, it’s the rule
[…]
There’s no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
Political scientists
Get the same one vote
as some Arkansas inbred
[…]

https://tinyurl.com/twd3lby%20Acesso%20em:%2020.04.2022.%20Adaptado.

 

Segundo o texto, é correto afirmar que

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Boy in the Striped Pyjamas “may fuel dangerous Holocaust fallacies”

Harriet Sherwood - Thu 27 Jan 2022

 

    A study, to be published shortly, builds on research conducted five years ago among secondary school pupils which found that the story by John Boyne regularly elicited misplaced sympathy for Nazis. […]

    Boyne’s book is about a friendship between the son of an Auschwitz commandant and a Jewish boy incarcerated in the Nazi concentration camp. Published in 2006, it has sold more than 11m copies worldwide. A film version was made in 2008.

    The centre’s report said: “While most young people who took part in the study recognised the narrative as a work of fiction and many were able to identify and critique its most glaring implausibilities and historical inaccuracies, they nonetheless overwhelmingly characterised it as ‘realistic’ and/or ‘truthful’.”

    It added that many students, after studying the story, reached conclusions that “contributed significantly to one of the most powerful and problematic misconceptions of this history, that ‘ordinary Germans’ held little responsibility and were by and large ‘brainwashed’ or otherwise entirely ignorant of the unfolding atrocities”.

    Among comments from teachers gathered during the research were, “students come to us and literally think the Holocaust IS The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas”; “They come with … ideas that nobody knew about the Holocaust, that people were completely in the dark about it”; and “They feel sorry for the German guard”.

    Stuart Foster, the centre’s executive director, said he had no criticism of Boyne for his work of fiction, but using the novel in lessons about a historical event could be problematic. “In an era of fake news and conspiracy theories, it’s very worrying that young people harbour myths and misconceptions about the Holocaust.” […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/27/ the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas-fuels-dangerous-holocaust-fallacies

Com relação ao uso das formas verbais em destaque, assinale a alternativa INCORRETA.

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Boy in the Striped Pyjamas “may fuel dangerous Holocaust fallacies”

Harriet Sherwood - Thu 27 Jan 2022

 

    A study, to be published shortly, builds on research conducted five years ago among secondary school pupils which found that the story by John Boyne regularly elicited misplaced sympathy for Nazis. […]

    Boyne’s book is about a friendship between the son of an Auschwitz commandant and a Jewish boy incarcerated in the Nazi concentration camp. Published in 2006, it has sold more than 11m copies worldwide. A film version was made in 2008.

    The centre’s report said: “While most young people who took part in the study recognised the narrative as a work of fiction and many were able to identify and critique its most glaring implausibilities and historical inaccuracies, they nonetheless overwhelmingly characterised it as ‘realistic’ and/or ‘truthful’.”

    It added that many students, after studying the story, reached conclusions that “contributed significantly to one of the most powerful and problematic misconceptions of this history, that ‘ordinary Germans’ held little responsibility and were by and large ‘brainwashed’ or otherwise entirely ignorant of the unfolding atrocities”.

    Among comments from teachers gathered during the research were, “students come to us and literally think the Holocaust IS The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas”; “They come with … ideas that nobody knew about the Holocaust, that people were completely in the dark about it”; and “They feel sorry for the German guard”.

    Stuart Foster, the centre’s executive director, said he had no criticism of Boyne for his work of fiction, but using the novel in lessons about a historical event could be problematic. “In an era of fake news and conspiracy theories, it’s very worrying that young people harbour myths and misconceptions about the Holocaust.” […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/27/ the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas-fuels-dangerous-holocaust-fallacies

DE ACORDO com o texto, a pesquisa sobre o uso educacional da obra The boy in the striped pyjamas constatou que

Texto-base para a questão

 

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas “may fuel dangerous Holocaust fallacies”

Harriet Sherwood - Thu 27 Jan 2022

 

    A study, to be published shortly, builds on research conducted five years ago among secondary school pupils which found that the story by John Boyne regularly elicited misplaced sympathy for Nazis. […]

    Boyne’s book is about a friendship between the son of an Auschwitz commandant and a Jewish boy incarcerated in the Nazi concentration camp. Published in 2006, it has sold more than 11m copies worldwide. A film version was made in 2008.

    The centre’s report said: “While most young people who took part in the study recognised the narrative as a work of fiction and many were able to identify and critique its most glaring implausibilities and historical inaccuracies, they nonetheless overwhelmingly characterised it as ‘realistic’ and/or ‘truthful’.”

    It added that many students, after studying the story, reached conclusions that “contributed significantly to one of the most powerful and problematic misconceptions of this history, that ‘ordinary Germans’ held little responsibility and were by and large ‘brainwashed’ or otherwise entirely ignorant of the unfolding atrocities”.

    Among comments from teachers gathered during the research were, “students come to us and literally think the Holocaust IS The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas”; “They come with … ideas that nobody knew about the Holocaust, that people were completely in the dark about it”; and “They feel sorry for the German guard”.

    Stuart Foster, the centre’s executive director, said he had no criticism of Boyne for his work of fiction, but using the novel in lessons about a historical event could be problematic. “In an era of fake news and conspiracy theories, it’s very worrying that young people harbour myths and misconceptions about the Holocaust.” […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/27/ the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas-fuels-dangerous-holocaust-fallacies

DE ACORDO com o texto, o livro The boy in the striped pyjamas (O menino do pijama listrado)

Leia o texto a seguir e responda à questão.

 

Brazilian Poet Manoel de Barros Dies Aged 97

 

     The author who wrote verses from the “depths of the trifling”, as it features in a poem and one of his books, poet Manoel de Barros died on Thursday morning, November 13th, aged 97, in Campo Grande, in Mato Grosso do Sul state.

     He had been in intensive care for over a week after he undergone surgery for bowel obstruction. According to the hospital he died due to multiple organ failure. Manoel de Barros was born in Cuiabá and throughout his life he wrote 18 poetry books, in addition to children's books and autobiographical accounts.

     He received several literary prizes, two of which were Jabuti prizes (Tortoise prizes) - one in 1989 for “O Guardador de Águas” and in 2002 for “O Fazedor do Amanhecer”. Barros used to say that “poetry is not supposed to be understood, it is supposed to be incorporated. Understanding it creates a wall. One ought to try to be a tree”. Manoel de Barros was a philosopher who liked to think and rethink the world through poetry. Eucanaã Ferraz has said that Barros was wise and surfaced already as an essential author. Almost half a century went by until his debut in literature: “Poemas Concebidos Sem Pecado” was published in 1937 almost in handmade style, with 21 copies.

    The greatest publishing of his works only came in the second half of the 1980s, thanks to the efforts of admirers such as Brazilian writers Millôr Fernanddes and Antonio Houaiss, for whom he was often compared to Saint Francis of Assisi“in his humility before everything”. Even after his tardy success as one of the greatest Brazilian writers of his generation, he stayed true to his origins.

     He lived in Corumbá in Mato Grosso do Sul state, with stints in Rio de Janeiro and New York. Since the end of the 1970s, he lived in Campo Grande with his wife, Stella and their daughter, Martha.

(Texto Adaptado. Disponível em: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/cultur e/2014/11/1548038-brazilian-poet-manoel-de-barrosdies-aged-97.shtml. Acesso em: 25 out. 2021)

 

Na sentença “Barros was wise and surfaced already as an essential author”, é correto afirmar: