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They were arrested last week on arrival at Tocontin airport in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, from where they planned to travel to the United States. Their arrest came just days after the attacks in Paris and raised concerns in the US that Islamist militants could be trying to enter the country illegally. They have been charged with falsifying documents. They were arrested after Greek diplomats were called to the airport terminal and found the five did not speak any Greek. ‘No militant links’
Shortly after their arrest, Honduran police said there were no signs the men had any links to any militant groups. But the fact that they had successfully traveled through a number of Latin American countries on doctored passports before being stopped in Honduras raised concerns in Latin America and their intended destination, the U.S.
Honduran police said the five men, who range in age from 21 to 30 years, arrived on a flight from Costa Rica, where they had spent several days. Police spokesman Anibal Baca said that “we received information from [fellow] police services that these five Syrians left Greece and passed through Turkey, Brazil, Argentina and San Jose in Costa Rica before finally reaching Tegucigalpa”.
From there, they had planned to travel north to Guatemala and on to the US, he said. US Senator James Risch, who is a member of the Selected Committee on Intelligence, called the news “very troubling”. Honduran Minister for Human Rights Rigoberto Chang Castillo said on Monday that the five had requested asylum “because their lives were at risk in their home country”. The minister said their request would be considered even though they had been charged with forging official documents. A court will decide later on Tuesday whether they will face trial.
Disponível em: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america34909482 Acesso em nov. 2015.
Assinale a alternativa que corresponde às informações contidas no texto:
Val is the kind of live-in housekeeper who takes her work seriously. She wears a crisp maid’s uniform while serving perfect canapés; she serves her wealthy São Paulo employers day in and day out while lovingly nannying their teenage son whom she’s raised since toddlerhood. Everyone and everything in the elegant house has its place until one day, Val’s ambitious, clever daughter Jessica arrives from Val’s hometown to take the college entrance examination. Jessica’s confident, youthful presence upsets the unspoken yet strict balance of power in the household; Val must decide where her allegiances lie and what she’s willing to sacrifice.
With subtly dark, giddy humor and keenly drawn characters, director Anna Muylaert mines the incendiary drama when old ideas and new worlds collide. The immense satisfaction and fun of The Second Mother stem from watching tacit social codes and delicate hierarchies waver as a new generation blithely treads on sacrosanct boundaries. Muylaert has given us a fresh, contemporary spin on class in Brazil, wrapped in a deeply moving story of what belonging and family mean.
Disponível em: http://www.sundance.org/projects/the-second-mother. Acesso em nov. 2015.
De acordo com a sinopse, o tema central do filme baseia-se:
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2016.
Translated by Milli Legrain. Disponível em: <www1.folha.uol.com.br/…/
1441449-fire-and-drought-turns-amazon…shtml>. Acesso em: 7 set.
2016.
Translated by Milli Legrain. Disponível em: <www1.folha.uol.com.br/…/
1441449-fire-and-drought-turns-amazon…shtml>. Acesso em: 7 set.
2016.
Ao longo do período de 10 anos em que a experiência foi conduzida em três áreas da floresta,
( ) uma área foi queimada várias vezes ao longo do ano. ( ) outra área foi queimada a cada três anos. ( ) uma terceira área foi totalmente queimada de uma única vez.
A sequência correta, de cima para baixo, é
Translated by Milli Legrain. Disponível em: <www1.folha.uol.com.br/…/
1441449-fire-and-drought-turns-amazon…shtml>. Acesso em: 7 set.
2016.
THE HONEYBEE has... Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/news/scienceenvironment-34749846>. Acesso em: 21 set. 2016.
( ) What were lifestyles like right after the last Ice Age? ( ) Where did men seem to first have used the honeybee? ( ) Why couldn’t the ancient farmers exploit the products of the honeybee?
A sequência correta, de cima para baixo, é
THE HONEYBEE has... Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/news/scienceenvironment-34749846>. Acesso em: 21 set. 2016.
THE HONEYBEE has... Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/news/scienceenvironment-34749846>. Acesso em: 21 set. 2016.
A study carried out by Lauren Sherman of the University of California and her colleagues investigated how use of the “like” button in social media affects the brains of teenagers lying in body scanners.
Thirty-two teens who had Instagram accounts were asked to lie down in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner. This let Dr. Sherman monitor their brain activity while they were perusing both their own Instagram photos and photos that they were told had been added by other teenagers in the experiment. In reality, Dr. Sherman had collected all the other photos, which included neutral images of food and friends as well as many depicting risky behaviours like drinking, smoking and drug use, from other peoples’ Instagram accounts. The researchers told participants they were viewing photographs that 50 other teenagers had already seen and endorsed with a “like” in the laboratory.
The participants were more likely themselves to “like” photos already depicted as having been “liked” a lot than they were photos depicted with fewer previous “likes”. When she looked at the fMRI results, Dr. Sherman found that activity in the nucleus accumbens, a hub of reward circuitry in the brain, increased with the number of “likes” that a photo had.
The Economist, June 13, 2016. Adaptado.
In the original publication of this text, a paragraph was introduced by the following sentences:
“The fight for liberalism is at its most fraught with immigration. Given that most governments manage who comes to work and live in their country, the EU’s total freedom of movement is an anomaly.”
These sentences would fit in immediately before the paragraph that begins with
The title of the last section of the text – “Back to the future” – brings in itself a paradox between the words “back” and “future”.
It may be inferred that this paradox refers to the fact that
The author affirms that “liberalism needs to fight its ground all over again” (lines 78-79).
In order to support this point of view, the author considers
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