For an interesting attempt to measure cause and effect try Mappiness, a project run by the London School of Economics, which offers a phone app that prompts you to record your mood and situation.
The Mappiness website says: "We're particulary interested in how people's happiness is affected by their local environment - air pollution, noise, green spacess, absolutely great for investigating."
Will it work? With enough people, it might. But there are other problems. We've benn using happiness and well-being interchangeably. It that ok? The difference comes out in a sentiment like: "We were happier during the war." But was our well-being also greater then?
Disponível em: http://www.bbc.co.uk. Acesso em: 27 jun. 2011 (adaptado).
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Na fase escolar, é prática comum que os professores passem atividades extraclasse e marquem uma data para que as mesmas sejam entregues para correção. No caso da cena da charge, a professora ouve uma estudante apresentando argumentos para
War
Until the philosophy which holds one race superior
And another inferior
Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned,
Everywhere - May say war.
That until there is no longer
First class and second class citizens of any nation,
Until the color of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the color of his eyes -
Me say war.
[…]
And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique,
South Africa, sub-human bondage have been toppled,
Utterly destroyed -
Well everywhere is war -
Me say war.
War in the east, war in the west,
War up north, war down south -
War - war - Rumors of war.
And until that day, the African continent will not know peace.
We, Africans, will fight - we find it necessary -
And we know we shall win
As we are confident in the victory.
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MARLEY, B. Disponível em: http://www.sing365.com. Acesso em: 30 jun. 2011 (fragmento).
Bob Marley foi um artista popular e atraiu muitos fãs com suas canções. Ciente de sua influência social, na música War, o cantor se utiliza de sua arte para alertar sobre