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First, let me tell you where I’m coming from. Before I saw “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”, I didn´t know the difference between an orc and an elf, or what Middle-earth was in the middle of. This review is coming to you from a Tolkien-freezone. I went into Peter Jackson’s movie – the first of a trilogy – with no preconceptions. I came out, three hours later, sorry I’d have to wait a year to see what happens next in Frodo Baggins’s battle against the Dark Lord, Sauron, and thinking a trip to the bookstore to pick “The Two Towers” might be in order. (…)
This is a violent movie – too violent for little ones – and there are moments more “Matrix than medieval. Yet it transcends cheap thrills; we root for the survival of our heroes with depth of feeling that may come to a surprise. The movie keeps drawing you in deeper. Unlike so many overcooked action movies these days, “Fellowship” doesn’t entertain you into a stupor. It leaves you with your wits intact, hungry for more.
(Disponível em: https://www.englishact.com.br/2015/05/atividade-deleitura-e-interpretacao-de_13.html. Acesso em 25 out. de 2021)
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There is no agent of ecological imperialism more ferocious than the wild pig. Wherever Europeans invaded, from the Americas to Australia, so did their pigs, many of which escaped into the countryside to wreak havoc. The beasts tear through native plants and animals, they spread disease, they destroy crops, and they reconstruct whole ecosystems in their wake. They’re not so much pests as they are chaos embodied.
Now add climate change to the wild pig’s résumé of destruction. In their never-ending search for food, the pigs root through soils, churning the dirt like a farmer tills fields. Scientists already knew, to some extent, that this releases the carbon that’s locked in the soil, but researchers in Australia, New Zealand, and the US have now calculated how much soil wild pigs may be disturbing worldwide. The carbon dioxide emissions that they produce annually, the authors concluded, equal that of more than a million cars.
It’s yet another piece of an increasingly worrisome puzzle, showing how modification of the land has — in this case, inadvertently — exacerbated climate change. “Anytime you disturb soil, you’re causing emissions,” says University of Queensland ecologist Christopher O’Bryan, lead author on a new paper describing the research in the journal Global Change Biology. “When you till soil for agriculture, for example, or you have widespread land-use change — urbanization, forest loss.”
Given their domination of whole landscapes, pigs had to be making things worse, the researchers knew, but no one had modeled it worldwide. “We started to realize there’s a big gap at the global scale looking at this question,” O’Bryan adds.
(Matt Simon. www.wired.com, 19.07.2021. Adaptado.)
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In February, the Royal Navy's submarine HMS Talent (S92) the upgraded Spearfish torpedo near the Isle of Skye to rigorously test it before it service.
During the three-day trial, the torpedo at Talent three times and to safely pass the submarine.
The trials valuable data in the final stages of the upgraded torpedo's development ahead of its entry into service.
The operational version of the weapon to all front-line Royal Navy submarines by 2025.
(Adapted from https://www .navaltoday.com)
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“Words like these have lost their meaning to many refugees:
home, family, work, human rights, future. Its our job to give them meaning again.” UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees).
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In France, a film taps into a desire for change
By Celestine Bohlen
The New York Times - May 2, 2016
In France, as in the United States, there is no "politics as usual" this year. With popular
disaffection on the rise, traditional parties and candidates have been thrown off course as voters look
for alternatives to the status quo. The restless, sometimes incoherent, clamor for change has taken
many forms in France — support for the extreme-right National Front; recurring strikes by hard-left
[05] labor unions; and a protest movement known as Nuit Debout, or Up All Night, which for the last month
has gathered young people in Paris and several other cities to vent their frustration with the "system."
If there is one thing these various dissatisfied voters would agree upon, it is the failure of the French
political establishment, on the left and on the right, to solve the country’s persistent problems — high
unemployment, low growth and the social cleavage created by immigration and inequality.
[10] This frustration helps explain the unlikely success of "Demain," or "Tomorrow," a French
documentary. Since its release in December, the film has drawn almost one million viewers. The 80-
minute film was made as a road movie with a budget of 1.3 million euros, about $1.5 million, one-third
of it collected through crowdfunding. With a chatty narration by Mélanie Laurent, a well-known French
actress, it tracks a global quest for workable initiatives in places as disparate as Detroit, Finland,
[15] Iceland and India, where people have found ways to move away from dependence on fossil fuels,
mobilize grass-roots democracy, grow their own food and inspire children to learn. According to Cyril
Dion, who, along with Ms. Laurent, directed the film, "Demain" reconnects people to something
positive and gives them hope. The movie opened at a propitious moment, after a difficult year that
included two terrorist attacks in Paris and a persistent economic crisis.
[20] The response has been enthusiastic and sustained: The film is playing in 122 French cinemas,
for longer than some recent Hollywood blockbusters. Audiences have been known to stand up and
applaud as the credits appear on the screen. Mr. Dion said some viewers have written to tell him that it
changed their lives. When he showed the movie on April 17 at the Place de la République, in central
Paris, where the Nuit Debout protesters have been camping out every night since March 31, a crowd
[25] of some 2,500 people — mostly young — braved unusually temperatures and occasional technical
difficulties. "They, too, are looking for solutions that can work," said Mr. Dion, 37, a former actor with a
long history of civic activism. According to Mr. Dion, this success is proof that optimism, fueled by
positive can- do energy, can be a force for change.
Adapted from https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/03/world/europe/france-activismelections.html?action=click&module=RelatedCoverage&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer Acessed on October 14th, 2018.
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