A carta da leitora, endereçada à coluna da Abby, demonstra a preocupação dos pais com o(a)(s)
Observe as tirinhas.
As tirinhas são narrativas curtas, desenvolvidas em uma sequência de quadrinhos. Entre suas funções, está a de provocar humor. Esse efeito de comicidade pode ser deflagrado tanto por elementos verbais como não verbais. Na tirinha acima, o humor decorre da(s)
DEAR ABBY: My 17-year-old daughter, "Erica," is planning to marry her 24-year-old boyfriend. I use the term "boyfriend" loosely because their relationship consists entirely of texting, talking on the phone and the Internet. There has been no dating or getting to know each other in person. Erica is intent on marrying this man even though he has lied to her several times in addition to having lied to us. She is planning to attend a four-year college.
I\'m not sure how to handle this. She hid the relationship from us for more than six months. I realize Erica needs to make her own mistakes, but I\'m not sure how to make her understand my very real concern about this. Any advice would be appreciated. -- NEEDS HELP IN VIRGINIA (Disponível em: http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/. Acesso em: 13 dez. 2013) Dear Abby é o nome de uma coluna de aconselhamento em que a colunista dá conselhos sobre situações as mais diversas do cotidiano de seus leitores. Na carta acima, a leitora pede conselhos sobre como agir em relação à/aoThe Two White Americas
Charles Negy At the risk of over-simplification, I propose there are two distinct groups of white Americans living in the United States: multicultural Whites and monocultural Whites. Multicultural whites recognize our changing demographics and see the benefits of living in a multicultural society. They are comfortable with rubbing elbows with dissimilar others and are relatively unthreatened by change. They support, in a more genuine way, the notion of liberty and justice for all. By contrast, monocultural whites are a different species. They, too, recognize the changing demographics, but are threatened by it. Pining for the days when they could impose their values on the rest of us, they\'d like to have Christianity present in public life. The values held by many monocultural whites tend to be extreme. Many monocultural whites (…) are at war with sexual minorities and want to legislate discrimination against our gay and lesbian citizens. Their views of women hardly are much better (wanting government [i.e., white men] to dictate to women what they can and cannot do with their own bodies). Finally, many monocultural whites do not respect science and are in denial over climate change. They eschew evolution and yearn for the days when creationism was taught in science classes. In sum, the Republican party is excessively dominated by what I call monocultural whites. Monocultural whites need to recognize that their provincial and unfair ideology has no real place in modernity or in the future of the United States.
(Disponível em: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-negy-phd/the-two-white-americas_b_2120164.html. Acesso em: 16 dez. 2013)
O texto The Two White Americas trata de dois grupos de brancos que vivem nos Estados Unidos da América: os multiculturais e os monoculturais. Tendo em vista a composição do texto e as escolhas léxico-gramaticais do autor, pode-se afirmar que o objetivo do texto é
As countries’ human life expectancy grows, so do their numbers of endangered species, according to a new study by University of California, Davis researchers. The researchers examined social, economic and ecological information for 100 countries to determine which factors are most strongly linked to endangered birds and mammals. Human life expectancy is rarely included in such studies but turned out to be the best predictor of endangerment in these countries, according to the study published in Ecology and Society. “Increased life expectancy means that people live longer and affect the planet longer; each year is another year of carbon footprint, ecological footprint, use of natural resources, etc. The magnitude of this impact is increased as more people live longer,” the authors wrote.
(Disponível em: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=as-people-live-longer-threats-to-wildlife-increase. Acesso em: 17 dez. 2013)
Segundo o estudo feito pela Universidade da Califórnia, ameaças a espécies da vida animal crescem na medida em que aumenta o(a)