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What makes determining the causes of project failure so tough are all of the variables involved. Companies, teams, and projects have different sets of requirements and environmental factors that can influence outcome. Small and seemingly harmless circumstances can be like a "snowball" and bring the whole project to a standstill. "Project failure", however, is not synonymous with "project death". There are varying degrees of failure. The most extreme case, of course, is total project cancellation, and perhaps a few broken windows and bruised egos. But a project can also be considered a failure if it deviates too far from original specifications, doesn't meet key user requirements, and is late or over budget. The list of reasons for project failure is a long one, but we can conclude that the main causes are: setting an overly ambitious project scope, absence of project methodology, lack of support from senior management and poor interpersonal skills.
Adaptado de: CHIN, Paul. Cold Case File: Why Projects Fail. Revista IT Management, 06/05/2003.
Analise as afirmativas a seguir e assinale a alternativa correta, de acordo com o texto:
I. Os termos “falha do projeto” e “morte do projeto” podem ser considerados sinônimos.
II. Determinar as causas do fracasso de projetos é difícil por causa das janelas quebradas e egos machucados.
III. O caso mais extremo de falha é o cancelamento total do projeto.
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According a recent research, the Americans devote 22,7% of the time they spend on the Internet on social networking sites and blogs. A year ago, this number it was lower than 16%. Driving this trend is the social networking Facebook, which recently celebrated reaching half a billion users worldwide. It claimed an 85% share of social networking use; MySpace came in a distant second with a 5% share; and Twitter with just 1%. For the first time, games beat out e-mail as the No. 2 online time killer, accounting for 10% of time spent. The research found that half of all Americans online spend time playing games like online-gaming Zynga’s explosively popular FarmVille. It was unclear if time spent playing games like FarmVille on Facebook significantly influenced how much time people spend on Facebook. It’s not that people are not e-mailing or using instant messaging. They are engaged in those activities on services such as Facebook. And they are still heavily involved in those activities while online. E-mail was the third most popular activity at 8%, and instant messaging came in fifth at 4%. The other activity on the rise is watching videos and movies on YouTube, Hulu and Netflix, which jumped 12% to account for nearly 4% of all time spent online.
Adaptado de: GUYNN, Jessica. Social networking tops e-mail as most popular online activity. Los Angeles Times Website, 02/08/2010.
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According a recent research, the Americans devote 22,7% of the time they spend on the Internet on social networking sites and blogs. A year ago, this number it was lower than 16%. Driving this trend is the social networking Facebook, which recently celebrated reaching half a billion users worldwide. It claimed an 85% share of social networking use; MySpace came in a distant second with a 5% share; and Twitter with just 1%. For the first time, games beat out e-mail as the No. 2 online time killer, accounting for 10% of time spent. The research found that half of all Americans online spend time playing games like online-gaming Zynga’s explosively popular FarmVille. It was unclear if time spent playing games like FarmVille on Facebook significantly influenced how much time people spend on Facebook. It’s not that people are not e-mailing or using instant messaging. They are engaged in those activities on services such as Facebook. And they are still heavily involved in those activities while online. E-mail was the third most popular activity at 8%, and instant messaging came in fifth at 4%. The other activity on the rise is watching videos and movies on YouTube, Hulu and Netflix, which jumped 12% to account for nearly 4% of all time spent online.
Adaptado de: GUYNN, Jessica. Social networking tops e-mail as most popular online activity. Los Angeles Times Website, 02/08/2010.
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According a recent research, the Americans devote 22,7% of the time they spend on the Internet on social networking sites and blogs. A year ago, this number it was lower than 16%. Driving this trend is the social networking Facebook, which recently celebrated reaching half a billion users worldwide. It claimed an 85% share of social networking use; MySpace came in a distant second with a 5% share; and Twitter with just 1%. For the first time, games beat out e-mail as the No. 2 online time killer, accounting for 10% of time spent. The research found that half of all Americans online spend time playing games like online-gaming Zynga’s explosively popular FarmVille. It was unclear if time spent playing games like FarmVille on Facebook significantly influenced how much time people spend on Facebook. It’s not that people are not e-mailing or using instant messaging. They are engaged in those activities on services such as Facebook. And they are still heavily involved in those activities while online. E-mail was the third most popular activity at 8%, and instant messaging came in fifth at 4%. The other activity on the rise is watching videos and movies on YouTube, Hulu and Netflix, which jumped 12% to account for nearly 4% of all time spent online.
Adaptado de: GUYNN, Jessica. Social networking tops e-mail as most popular online activity. Los Angeles Times Website, 02/08/2010.
Analise as afirmativas a seguir e assinale a alternativa correta, de acordo com o texto:
I. Os sites de redes sociais e blogs são responsáveis por 22,7% do tempo que os americanos passam na Internet.
II. O Facebook atingiu recentemente a marca de meio bilhão de usuários somente nos Estados Unidos.
III. Os americanos dedicam 85% do tempo que passam na Internet usando o Facebook.
IV. O MySpace representa 5% do tempo que os americanos gastam com redes sociais.
We came to see you twice when they brought you to San Antonio, my mother and my sister Yolanda and two of my aunts, Tía Enedina and my Tía Perla, and we drove all the way from Beeville just to visit you and make our requests.
I don’t know what my Tía Enedina asked for, she’s always so secretive, but probably it had to do with her son Beto who doesn’t do anything but hang around the house and get into trouble. And my Tía Perla no doubt complained about her ladies’ problems–her ovaries that itch, her tangled fallopians, her uterus that makes her seasick with all its flipping and flopping. And Mami who said she only came along for the ride, lit three candles so you would bless us all and sweep jealousy and bitterness from our hearts because that’s what she says every day and every night. And my sister Yoli asked that you help her lose weight because I don’t want to wind up like Tía Perla, embroidering altar cloths and dressing saints.
But that was a year ago, Virgencita, and since then my cousin Beto was fined for killing the neighbor’s rooster with a flying Big Red bottle, and my Tía Perla is convinced her uterus has fallen because when she walks something inside her rattles like a maraca, and my mother and my aunts are arguing and yelling at each other same as always. And my stupid sister Yoli is still sending away for even stupider products like the Grasa Fantástica, guaranteed to burn away fat – It really works, Tere, just rub some on while you’re watching TV – only she’s fatter than ever and just as sad.
What I realize is that we all made the trip to San Antonio to ask something of you, Virgencita, we all needed you to listen to us. And of all of us, my mama and sister Yoli, and my aunts Enedina and Perla, of all of us, you granted me my petition and sent, just like I asked, a guy who would love only me because I was tired of looking at girls younger than me walking along the street or riding in cars or standing in front of the school with a guy’s arm hooked around their neck.
So what is it I’m asking for? Please, Virgencita. Lift this heavy cross from my shoulders and leave me like I was before, wind on my neck, my arms swinging free, and no one telling me how I ought to be.
Teresa Galindo Beeville, Texas
(“The Heath Anthology of American Literature”. Paul Lauter. D.C. Heath and Company / Editora)
Mark the item which corresponds to the reason Teresa Galindo had for her third request to the Santísima Señora de San Juan de los Lagos:
A world of connections
Source: www.economist.com (Adapted)
Jan 28th, 2010
To sceptics all this talk of twittering, yammering and chattering smacks of another internet bubble in the making. They argue that even a huge social network such as Facebook will struggle to make money because fickle networkers will not stay in one place for long, pointing to the example of MySpace, which was once all the rage but has now become a shadow of its former self. Last year the site, which is owned by News Corp, installed a new boss and fi red 45% of its staff as part of a plan to revive its fortunes.
Within companies there is plenty of doubt about the benefits of online social networking in the office. A survey of 1,400 chief information officers conducted last year by Robert Half Technology, a recruitment firm, found that only one-tenth of them gave employees full access to such networks during the day, and that many were blocking Facebook and Twitter altogether. The executives’ biggest concern was that social networking would lead to social notworking, with employees using the sites to chat with friends instead of doing their jobs. Some bosses also fretted that the sites would be used to leak sensitive corporate information.
According to paragraph 2, the benefits of online social networking in the office are
“Culture must go hand in hand with humanitarian aid. It must be present in Haiti’s reconstruction strategies because culture and development are closely linked”, stressed Irina Bokova, Director-General of United Nations Education, Scientific and Cutural Organization (Unesco), as she ended her official visit to Haiti yesterday.
On her second and last day in Haiti, Ms Bokova met with the Minister of Culture and Communication, and the Director of ISPAN, institute for safeguarding national heritage. She then went to Jacmel, city in the southeast that is on Haiti’s Tentative List of properties to be proposed for inscription on Unesco’s World Heritage List. The city suffered severe damage during the 12 January earthquake.
The Director-General reiterated Unesco’s commitment to safeguarding heritage in the colonial city, founded in the late 17th century, where numerous buildings are in ruins. In her discussion with the mayor, Ms Bokova underlined the vital role – social as well as economic – of craftsmanship in local life and the need to preserve it. “We are aware that emergency humanitarian aid is not the only appropriate response to the country’s needs and that your know-how and your traditions must be taken into account in the reconstruction effort”, said Ms Bokova.
Ms Bokova, emphasizing that Port-au-Prince was not the only part of Haiti to be stricken by the earthquake, then went to Camp-Perrin in the south. According to a Unesco consultant of Haiti’s state university, some 9000 people streamed into the small town following the disaster, 30% of them school-age children.
Ms Bokova visited workshops in Camp-Perrin where masons are learning techniques for building earthquake resistant structures. “In an exposed region such as Haiti, everyone has the right to live in a secure house”, declared the Director-General. “Preventive measures must be taken to ensure this result and I hope experience acquired here can spread to other parts of the country.”
Back in Port-au-Prince, the Director-General met with the European Union’s chargé d’affaire and the spanish ambassador. At her next meeting with the Special Representative for the United Nations Secretary General, she asked for assistance from Minustah, the UN’s mission in Haiti, to protect the country’s historical sites and monuments from the threat of vandalism and illicit trade in art objects and other cultural property.
Culture must be an integral part of reconstruction. Internet: http://portal.unesco.org. Accessed on 13/3/2010 (with adaptations).
Analyze the following statements as True (T) or False (F) and choose the correct option.
I – The Director-General of Unesco believes that culture and humanitarian aid cannot be considered separately from each other.
II – Some 9000 people left Camp-Perrin in order to escape from the earthquakes.
III – Jacmel, a city in the southeast of Haiti, integrates Unesco’s World Heritage List to be reconstructed.
IV – Minustah, the UN’s mission in Haiti, is suspected of vandalism and illicit trade in art objects.
The correct sequence is:
Scott J. Baxter
In this article I describe some of the ways that journals can be used as teaching tools in the language classroom; in fact, the suggestions I make could be applied to the use of journals in teaching just about any subject. I begin by describing the concept of writing to learn, which is the theoretical foundation that journals are based on. After that, I give practical advice for using journals in the classroom. Next, I share my own advice and present feedback about journals from students at the American University of Bulgaria. Finally, I end with specific suggestions for how journals might be used at different moments during a lesson.
Writing to learn
One way to begin is by thinking about the concept of writing to learn. But, rather than starting with a definition of the concept, I would like to start with a thought experiment. Suppose someone asked you to grab a piece of paper and jot down an answer to the question, “What things are important to you as a teacher?” What would you say? Perhaps you would write about the things you want your students to learn. Or maybe you would write about the sort of atmosphere you like to have in your classroom. Or perhaps you would write about the factors that led to your becoming a teacher.
If you had, in fact, grabbed a piece of paper and jotted down some information, you would have been doing a type of writing called writing to learn. Writing to learn is thinking as you write. And this thinking as you write is the kind of writing that happens when people keep journals.
Writing to learn is based on the assumption that students’ thoughts and understanding can grow and clarify through the process of writing. And growth in thought and understanding can certainly happen in the foreign language classroom.
Writing to learn is usually contrasted with writing to communicate. Writing to communicate is the sort of graded writing that is typically assigned in classrooms. According to Young (1999), there are several key differences between writing to learn and writing to communicate: (1) writing to learn emphasizes discovery thinking, as opposed to critical thinking; (2) the emphasis is on developing ideas rather than revising, crafting, or clarifying; (3) the writing is designed to make sense primarily to the writer, rather than to a reader; (4) the audience is the self and trusted others, rather than a distant audience; (5) the language can be personal, rather than academic and formal; (6) the teacher plays the role of mentor or coach rather than judge; and (7) forms include journals, blogs, and rough drafts rather than graded essays, reports, or business letters.
This list is one way to think about how writing to learn and writing to communicate differ. Another way to think about what writing to learn is has been illustrated by Casanave and Sosa (2008):
[A] second language student, bored by textbook exercises, longs to be challenged by something more interesting, which almost always means something more difficult and more interactive and almost always something outside the conventional school setting. c But if she is doing this in her L2, she must hold to a belief that may make her fearful at first—she must believe that she does not have to wait until her language is error-free in order to transform her experiences and complex thoughts into lines of words. The lines do not need to be long. The grammar does not need to be perfect. c She also needs to be convinced that there is a receptive audience consisting of other people who are interested in what she has to say. (92)
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(http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum/archives/docs/09-47-4-e.pdf)
The classroom activity proposed by the article is in accordance with a teaching methodology whose focus is
Posted by Olga Kharif on January 27
On Jan. 27, Apple said it will soon make available a version of its iPad tablet computer able to run over AT&T‟s wireless network, as long as you pay $15 or $30 a month for service. The device could usher in the era of more people paying wireless charges for multiple mobile devices.
In other parts of the world, paying for multiple mobile devices is already commonplace. In Italy, people often own several phones, one for calling and one for messaging. And Americans should follow suit. In a few years, each American will own four or five mobile devices, each of them requiring a voice or a data plan, figures wireless expert Chetan Sharma.
A small percentage of Americans already pays for service for several mobile devices. Amazon‟s Kindle e-reader comes with wireless connectivity to Sprint Nextel‟s network priced in. Some consumers pay monthly charges for data cards, allowing them to connect their laptops to wireless networks. The iPad, which some analysts expect to sell 5 million units in its first year, could push the idea of paying for service for non-phone devices into the mainstream. If the iPad takes off, that is.
That, in turn, could lead to the introduction of family plans for devices, an idea analysts have talked about for years. A carrier might sell you a pool of wireless minutes and data access to be used by your stable of three or four wireless devices, such as a tablet, a gaming console, a car navigation system and your phone.
Clearly, as Americans snap up more wireless gadgets that require wireless plans, carriers stand to benefit, big time. Their costs in pushing these gadgets to consumers should be low: The devices‟ manufacturers will do the heavy lifting of marketing and selling the gadgets in their stores. The devices won‟t necessarily have to be subsidized; AT&T won‟t subsidize the iPad, Jefferies analyst Jonathan Schildkraut says in a Jan. 27 note. The carriers will likely have to share service revenues with the manufacturers, though, and those service fees may be smaller than regular phone charges. But even those fees could drive the carriers‟ growth for years to come, Sharma says.
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2010/01/ipad_pushing_mo.html
From the text we see that Chetan Sharma is
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We are destroying our forests faster than any other ecological zone in our planet.
Forests cover only 6% of the Earth’s lands but they have between 50% to 90% of all plant and animal species from the planet. But unfortunately, humanity is destroying the forests faster and faster.
Many species of the rainforests (the ones that are located in a tropical area and which receive a lot of rain) benefit all of us. Many medicines (pharmaceuticals), for example, come from the rainforest. China, Brazil, Australia, and Mexico have a large number of species in extinction.
We are losing 50-100 species of plants and animals every day. Lost of species become extinct from natural processes. If we lose 50% of our planet’s species, it will take evolution 5-20 million years to replace them. Humans should help endangered species. We can work together to stop this destruction!
(Adapted from www.trentu.ca/ers/sheperd/lecture1.html#summary,
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id= 654432006 .
Accessed: April 2006. )
From fifty to _____ per cent of all plant and animal species live in the forests.
We are destroying our forests faster than any other ecological zone in our planet.
Forests cover only 6% of the Earth’s lands but they have between 50% to 90% of all plant and animal species from the planet. But unfortunately, humanity is destroying the forests faster and faster.
Many species of the rainforests (the ones that are located in a tropical area and which receive a lot of rain) benefit all of us. Many medicines (pharmaceuticals), for example, come from the rainforest. China, Brazil, Australia, and Mexico have a large number of species in extinction.
We are losing 50-100 species of plants and animals every day. Lost of species become extinct from natural processes. If we lose 50% of our planet’s species, it will take evolution 5-20 million years to replace them. Humans should help endangered species. We can work together to stop this destruction!
(Adapted from www.trentu.ca/ers/sheperd/lecture1.html#summary,
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id= 654432006 .
Accessed: April 2006. )
About _____ per cent of our planet is not covered by forests.
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Translegal, LLC works to formulate strategies to accomplish our clients' international business goals. We provide specialized consulting services related to international legal and commercial issues, including business development, coordinating international commercial litigation dispute resolution cases, legal research, Hague and Inter-American Convention applications and requests, global trademark registrations, government relations and translations.
Translegal founder, Francisco Laguna, has worked in international law and consulting firm settings both in the United States and abroad, including countries such as Colombia, the Dominican Republic, France, Luxembourg and Spain.
Mr. Laguna comprehends the differences among legal and commercial cultures. He bridges the gaps between common law and civil law systems, understands the nuances of doing business internationally and advises clients accordingly. Mr. Laguna works with clients and the professionals of the TransLegal Network to formulate specific strategies to accomplish their goals or to resolve disputes.
Our services include international consulting and research, foreign and domestic service of process, foreign evidence requests, including the taking of sworn testimony, government relations, global trademark searches and registration, transnational administrative procedures and translations.
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Translegal founder, Francisco Laguna, has worked in international law and consulting firm settings both in the United States and abroad, including countries such as Colombia, the Dominican Republic, France, Luxembourg and Spain.
Mr. Laguna comprehends the differences among legal and commercial cultures. He bridges the gaps between common law and civil law systems, understands the nuances of doing business internationally and advises clients accordingly. Mr. Laguna works with clients and the professionals of the TransLegal Network to formulate specific strategies to accomplish their goals or to resolve disputes.
Our services include international consulting and research, foreign and domestic service of process, foreign evidence requests, including the taking of sworn testimony, government relations, global trademark searches and registration, transnational administrative procedures and translations.
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Translegal founder, Francisco Laguna, has worked in international law and consulting firm settings both in the United States and abroad, including countries such as Colombia, the Dominican Republic, France, Luxembourg and Spain.
Mr. Laguna comprehends the differences among legal and commercial cultures. He bridges the gaps between common law and civil law systems, understands the nuances of doing business internationally and advises clients accordingly. Mr. Laguna works with clients and the professionals of the TransLegal Network to formulate specific strategies to accomplish their goals or to resolve disputes.
Our services include international consulting and research, foreign and domestic service of process, foreign evidence requests, including the taking of sworn testimony, government relations, global trademark searches and registration, transnational administrative procedures and translations.
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Translegal founder, Francisco Laguna, has worked in international law and consulting firm settings both in the United States and abroad, including countries such as Colombia, the Dominican Republic, France, Luxembourg and Spain.
Mr. Laguna comprehends the differences among legal and commercial cultures. He bridges the gaps between common law and civil law systems, understands the nuances of doing business internationally and advises clients accordingly. Mr. Laguna works with clients and the professionals of the TransLegal Network to formulate specific strategies to accomplish their goals or to resolve disputes.
Our services include international consulting and research, foreign and domestic service of process, foreign evidence requests, including the taking of sworn testimony, government relations, global trademark searches and registration, transnational administrative procedures and translations.
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