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06:42 PM on April 23, 2008
I haven't been able to come to terms with all of the lying that happens on the internet.
I have sons that spend a great deal of time on MySpace and FaceBook. I was looking at one of their profiles and a great deal of the info. on there was a lie. I asked him about it and he said that it was OK because everyone lied a little on MySpace. He is a young man of great character, and this does not represent his normal behaviour.
I understand that giving out personal information over the internet is not wise. Some lies are told to cover the true identity of the person communicating. But how many? And when is it enough? Which lies are acceptable? Which are not?
It seems like this constant acceptance of lying over the internet can desensitize one, to the point that lying in general, is more acceptable in one's daily life.
I have not been able to get past this and think it will not have a positive effect on the younger generation.
Disponível em: <http://bigthink.com/montelinn/why-is-lying-on-theinternet -considered-not-as-offensive-as-lying-in-general>. Acesso em: 30 set. 2009. [Adaptado].
Glossary:
wise: sensato
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S. Fred Singer has recently published a book, The Great Global Warming Swindle, based on sound science and interviews with real climate scientists. The main scientific argument presented in the book is that there is no proof that the current warming is caused by a rise of greenhouse gases from human activity. Ice core records from the past 650,000 years show that temperature increases have preceded – not resulted from – increases in CO2 by hundreds of years, suggesting that the warming of the oceans is an important source of the rise in atmospheric CO2.
Disponível em: <http://www.ourcivilisation.com/aginatur/swindle.htm>. Acesso em: 30 set. 2009. [Adaptado].
Glossary:
swindle: farsa
sound: confiáveis
Which statement supports the argument presented in the book?
Language and Neo-colonialism: African Development Challenge
[...] Africa represents today the only major historical and cultural area of the world where despite their indigenous socio-cultural majorities, countries prefer to use the languages of their erstwhile masters in their attempts to develop and make social progress. The result of this neocolonial approach to culture and democracy is that the scientific and technological culture of Africans is hardly advancing. Actually, Africa, by and large, is retrogressing or stagnating. Mass society and its culture is shut off, and condemned to cultural backwardness and alienation from the life of the elite. The elite in turn is bent on what many social critics regard as mindless imitation of the colonial and metropolitan cultures of the west. This is an orientation, which in effect integrates the elite more into the culture of the former colonial masters than the indigenous cultures from where this elite historically and socially derives […].
Disponível em: <http://africaunchained.blogspot.com/2005/09/languageand- neo-colonialism-african.html>. Acesso em: 30 set. 2009.
Glossary:
erstwhile: antigos
by and large: de modo geral
shut off: excluída
backwardness: atraso
mindless: irracional
De acordo com Kwesi Kwaa Prah, significa um retrocesso para o continente africano a
Language and Neo-colonialism: African Development Challenge
[...] Africa represents today the only major historical and cultural area of the world where despite their indigenous socio-cultural majorities, countries prefer to use the languages of their erstwhile masters in their attempts to develop and make social progress. The result of this neocolonial approach to culture and democracy is that the scientific and technological culture of Africans is hardly advancing. Actually, Africa, by and large, is retrogressing or stagnating. Mass society and its culture is shut off, and condemned to cultural backwardness and alienation from the life of the elite. The elite in turn is bent on what many social critics regard as mindless imitation of the colonial and metropolitan cultures of the west. This is an orientation, which in effect integrates the elite more into the culture of the former colonial masters than the indigenous cultures from where this elite historically and socially derives […].
Disponível em: <http://africaunchained.blogspot.com/2005/09/languageand- neo-colonialism-african.html>. Acesso em: 30 set. 2009.
Glossary:
erstwhile: antigos
by and large: de modo geral
shut off: excluída
backwardness: atraso
mindless: irracional
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