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Maya Angelou’s strategy to deal with racial injustice in America was to call it by its right name (l. 13-14).
The action that best shows her adoption of such strategy is:
Maya Angelou was a writer of both poetry and prose.
According to the text, she wrote the following types of prose:
I loved and admired Angelou, (l. 9)
The fragment above hints at the purpose of the text, which is an exemplar of genre known as eulogy.
The purpose of this genre can be described as:
Working for on demand startups like Uber and TaskRabbit is supposed to offer flexible hours and higher wages, but many workers have found the pay lower and the hours less flexible than they expected. Even more surprising: 8 percent of those chauffeuring passengers and 16 percent of those making deliveries said they lack personal autoinsurance.
Those are among the findings from a survey about the work life of independent contractors for on-demand startups, a booming sector of the tech industry, being released Wednesday.
"We want to shed light on the industry as a whole," said Isaac Madan, a Stanford master's candidate in bioinformatics who worked with two other Stanford students and a recent alumnus on the survey of 1,330 workers. "People need to understand how this space will change and evolve and help the economy."
On-demand, often called the sharing economy, refers to companies that let users summon workers via smartphone apps to handle all manner of services: rides, cleaning, chores, deliveries, car parking, waiting in lines. Almost uniformly, those workers are independent contractors rather than salaried employees.
That status is the main point of contention in a recent rash of lawsuits in which workers are filing for employee status. While the survey did not directly ask
contractors if they would prefer to be employees, it found that their top workplace desires were to have paid health insurance, retirement benefits and paid time off for holidays, vacation and sick days - all perks of full time workers. Respondents also expressed interest in having more chances for advancement, education sponsorship, disability insurance and human relations support. Because respondents were recruited rather than randomly selected, the survey does not claim to be representational but a conclusion one may come to is that flexibility ofnew jobs comes with a cost. Not all workers are prepared for that!
SFChronicle.com and SFGate.com, May 20, 2015. Adaptado
Working for on demand startups like Uber and TaskRabbit is supposed to offer flexible hours and higher wages, but many workers have found the pay lower and the hours less flexible than they expected. Even more surprising: 8 percent of those chauffeuring passengers and 16 percent of those making deliveries said they lack personal autoinsurance.
Those are among the findings from a survey about the work life of independent contractors for on-demand startups, a booming sector of the tech industry, being released Wednesday.
"We want to shed light on the industry as a whole," said Isaac Madan, a Stanford master's candidate in bioinformatics who worked with two other Stanford students and a recent alumnus on the survey of 1,330 workers. "People need to understand how this space will change and evolve and help the economy."
On-demand, often called the sharing economy, refers to companies that let users summon workers via smartphone apps to handle all manner of services: rides, cleaning, chores, deliveries, car parking, waiting in lines. Almost uniformly, those workers are independent contractors rather than salaried employees.
That status is the main point of contention in a recent rash of lawsuits in which workers are filing for employee status. While the survey did not directly ask
contractors if they would prefer to be employees, it found that their top workplace desires were to have paid health insurance, retirement benefits and paid time off for holidays, vacation and sick days - all perks of full time workers. Respondents also expressed interest in having more chances for advancement, education sponsorship, disability insurance and human relations support. Because respondents were recruited rather than randomly selected, the survey does not claim to be representational but a conclusion one may come to is that flexibility ofnew jobs comes with a cost. Not all workers are prepared for that!
SFChronicle.com and SFGate.com, May 20, 2015. Adaptado
Working for on demand startups like Uber and TaskRabbit is supposed to offer flexible hours and higher wages, but many workers have found the pay lower and the hours less flexible than they expected. Even more surprising: 8 percent of those chauffeuring passengers and 16 percent of those making deliveries said they lack personal autoinsurance.
Those are among the findings from a survey about the work life of independent contractors for on-demand startups, a booming sector of the tech industry, being released Wednesday.
"We want to shed light on the industry as a whole," said Isaac Madan, a Stanford master's candidate in bioinformatics who worked with two other Stanford students and a recent alumnus on the survey of 1,330 workers. "People need to understand how this space will change and evolve and help the economy."
On-demand, often called the sharing economy, refers to companies that let users summon workers via smartphone apps to handle all manner of services: rides, cleaning, chores, deliveries, car parking, waiting in lines. Almost uniformly, those workers are independent contractors rather than salaried employees.
That status is the main point of contention in a recent rash of lawsuits in which workers are filing for employee status. While the survey did not directly ask
contractors if they would prefer to be employees, it found that their top workplace desires were to have paid health insurance, retirement benefits and paid time off for holidays, vacation and sick days - all perks of full time workers. Respondents also expressed interest in having more chances for advancement, education sponsorship, disability insurance and human relations support. Because respondents were recruited rather than randomly selected, the survey does not claim to be representational but a conclusion one may come to is that flexibility ofnew jobs comes with a cost. Not all workers are prepared for that!
SFChronicle.com and SFGate.com, May 20, 2015. Adaptado
Machiavellianism" is a ...... used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described in The Prince. The book itself gained enormous notoriety and wide readership because most readers assumed the author was teaching and endorsing evil and immoral behavior. Because of this, the term "Machiavellian" is often associated with deceit, deviousness, ambition, and brutality. However that was Machiavelli's stylistic device to gain the reader's attention for his close analysis of the actual techniques used by rulers.
(Adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3% B2_Machiavelli)
Machiavelli’s actual purpose in writing The Prince was to
TEXTO 8
CAPÍTULO XVIII
Rubião e o cachorro, entrando em casa, sentiram, ouviram a pessoa e as vozes do finado amigo. Enquanto o cachorro farejava por toda a parte, Rubião foi sentar-se na cadeira, onde estivera quando Quincas Borba referiu a morte da avó com explicações científicas. A memória dele recompôs, ainda que de embrulho e esgarçadamente, os argumentos do filósofo. Pela primeira vez, atentou bem na alegoria das tribos famintas e compreendeu a conclusão: “Ao vencedor, as batatas!”. Ouviu distintamente a voz roufenha do finado expor a situação das tribos, a luta e a razão da luta, o extermínio de uma e a vitória da outra, e murmurou baixinho:
— Ao vencedor, as batatas!
Tão simples! tão claro! Olhou para as calças de brim surrado e o rodaque cerzido, e notou que até há pouco fora, por assim dizer, um exterminado, uma bolha; mas que ora não, era um vencedor. Não havia dúvida; as batatas fizeram-se para a tribo que elimina a outra a fim de transpor a montanha e ir às batatas do outro lado. Justamente o seu caso. Ia descer de Barbacena para arrancar e comer as batatas da capital. Cumpria-lhe ser duro e implacável, era poderoso e forte. E levantando-se de golpe, alvoroçado, ergueu os braços exclamando:
— Ao vencedor, as batatas!
Gostava da fórmula, achava-a engenhosa, compendiosa e eloquente, além de verdadeira e profunda. Ideou as batatas em suas várias formas, classificou-as pelo sabor, pelo aspecto, pelo poder nutritivo, fartou- -se antemão do banquete da vida. Era tempo de acabar com as raízes pobres e secas, que apenas enganavam o estômago, triste comida de longos anos; agora o farto, o sólido, o perpétuo, comer até morrer, e morrer em colchas de seda, que é melhor que trapos. E voltava à afirmação de ser duro e implacável, e à fórmula da alegoria. Chegou a compor de cabeça um sinete para seu uso, com este lema: AO VENCEDOR AS BATATAS.
Esqueceu o projeto do sinete; mas a fórmula viveu no espírito de Rubião, por alguns dias: — Ao vencedor as batatas! Não a compreenderia antes do testamento; ao contrário, vimos que a achou obscura e sem explicação. Tão certo é que a paisagem depende do ponto de vista, e que o melhor modo de apreciar o chicote é ter-lhe o cabo na mão.
(ASSIS, Machado de. Quincas Borba. São Paulo: Ática,
2011. p. 38-39.)
Reflecting upon the idea that we understand literature through society, and society through its literature, which of the texts below gives us a similar window on the historical moment of slavery throughout the Americas?
I - “There was much activity in the year – men unhitching horses, curious children scurrying about, Romero assigning quarters to the new slaves [...] Never known for patience, Romero snatched his whip and swung it overhead. But his hand froze in midair, the whip swinging impotently in the morning breeze" (Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma. Daughters of the stone. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009. p. 6.).
II - “They unhitched from schoolteacher's horse the borrowed mule that was to carry the fugitive woman back to where she belonged, and tied it to the fence […] All testimony to the results of a little so-called freedom imposed on people who needed every care and guidance in the world to keep them from the cannibal life they preferred" (Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Vintage Books, 1987. p. 177.).
III - “What fueled those who were leaving was less fear of communism, which Fidel had only hinted at at that point, or shortages of any kind, because the U.S. embargo was still a distant concern, but the persistent rumors of invasions and imminent combat that were sweeping Havana" (Obejas, Achy. Days of awe. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001. p. 6.).
Choose from the following options:
TODO PIONEIRO É UM FORTE, pensava Bambico. Acredita nos sonhos. Se não fosse por ele, o mundo ainda estaria no tempo das cavernas... Quanto mais pensava nisso, mais se fortalecia.
Bambico chegara à Amazônia com as mãos vazias, vindo do Sul. Mas tinha na cabeça projetos grandiosos. Queria extrair da natureza toda a riqueza intacta, como o garimpeiro faz. Não desejava, entretanto, cavar rio e terra para achar pepitas de ouro. Não tinha vocação para tatu. Não faria como os garimpeiros: quando não havia mais nada, eles se mudavam, atrás de outros garimpos.
— Garimpeiro vive de ilusões. Eu gosto de projetos!
Que projetos grandiosos eram? Cortar árvores, exportar madeiras preciosas para a casa e a mobília dos ricos. Em seguida, semear capim, povoando os campos com as boiadas de nelore brilhando de tanta saúde. A riqueza estava acima do chão. A imensidão verde desaparecia no horizonte. Só de olhar para uma árvore, sabia quantos dólares cairia em seus bolsos. Quando ouvia os roncos das motosserras, costumava dizer, orgulhoso:
— Eis o barulho da fortuna!
Montes de serragem eram avistados de longe quando o visitante chegava às pequenas comunidades. Os caminhões de toras gemiam nas estradas esburacadas. Índios e caboclos eram afugentados à bala. A floresta se transformava num pó fino, que logo apodrecia. Quando os montes de serragem não apodreciam, eram queimados, sempre apressadamente. Por dias, os canudos negros de fumaça subindo pesadamente ao céu. Havia o medo dos fiscais. Quando apareciam, quase nunca eram vistos, era conveniente que houvesse pouca serragem...
Que história, a de Bambico! Teria muita coisa a contar para os netos que haveriam de chegar.
Em seu escritório, fumando um Havana, que um importador americano lhe presenteara, estufou o peito, vaidoso.
— Sim, muitas coisas! Quem te viu, quem te vê!
[...]
Sentia prazer com seus projetos grandiosos. Toda manhã se levantava para conquistar o mundo. Vereança era merreca. Não se rastejava em pequenos projetos. Muito menos desejava ser deputado... Ambicionava altos voos. Todo deputado era pau-mandado dos ricos. O Senado, sim, era o grande alvo. Lá, ele poderia afrontar esses “falsos profetas protetores da natureza". Essas ONGs de fachada... Lá, o seu cajado cairia sem dó, como um verdugo, sobre o costado dessa gente tola. Enquanto isso, ele poderia continuar seus projetos grandiosos. Cortar árvores, exportar madeiras preciosas para a casa e a mobília dos ricos, e semear capim.
Sonhara em ter uma dúzia de filhos, mas o destino lhe dera apenas dois. Sua mulher, após o segundo parto, ficara impossibilitada de procriar. Não queria fêmea entre os seus descendentes, mas logo no primeiro parto veio a decepção. Uma menina. Decepcionado, nada comentou com a esposa. No segundo, depois de uma gravidez tumultuada, veio o varão. Encheu-se de alegria. Com certeza, mais varões estavam para vir... [...]
(GONÇALVES, David. Sangue verde. São Paulo: Sucesso Pocket, 2014. p. 114-115.)
When we consider other common idioms such as, for example, “let the cat out of the bag", “break a leg", and “you can't judge a book by its cover", which of the following sentences best defines “idiom" in the English language:
The second that fulfils the following cohesive function:
The effect of closeness between the tiger and the viewer is obtained in the panel below:
Besides being funny, comics often expresses criticism.
The comic strip criticizes men’s incapacity to take the following action:
- Any items that are returned after more than 30 days.
- Any CD, DVD, or video game that is not in its plastic wrapping.
- Any item not in perfect condition.
- Any items that are returned after more than 30 days.
- Any CD, DVD, or video game that is not in its plastic wrapping.
- Any item not in perfect condition.
- Any items that are returned after more than 30 days.
- Any CD, DVD, or video game that is not in its plastic wrapping.
- Any item not in perfect condition.
- Any items that are returned after more than 30 days.
- Any CD, DVD, or video game that is not in its plastic wrapping.
- Any item not in perfect condition.
- Any items that are returned after more than 30 days.
- Any CD, DVD, or video game that is not in its plastic wrapping.
- Any item not in perfect condition.
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