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This modern version of the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood addresses different social issues.
One of these issues is:
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This modern version of the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood addresses different social issues.
One of these issues is:



Fala-se, por exemplo, em aldeia global para fazer crer que a difusão instantânea de notícias realmente informa as pessoas. (l. 8-9)
Ao empregar a expressão destacada neste trecho, o autor indica sua discordância em relação a uma ideia difundida como verdade inquestionável.
Outra expressão empregada com a mesma finalidade está destacada em:

No primeiro parágrafo, o autor apresenta uma caracterização negativa do mundo atual, ao mesmo tempo que propõe um procedimento de análise desse contexto que permitiria superá-lo.
Esse procedimento de análise está explicado em:


Talvez eu tivesse encontrado a história que todos nós procuramos nas páginas dos livros e
nas telas dos cinemas: uma história na qual as estrelas e eu éramos os protagonistas. (l. 21-22)
Na frase acima, o autor procura delimitar um sentido para a palavra história por meio dos trechos destacados.
Esses trechos apresentam uma formulação do seguinte tipo:

Quase hiper-realisticamente vivenciei a primeira noite de minha vida. (l. 9)
Na palavra destacada, o acréscimo do prefixo hiper indica ideia de:

Umberto Eco narra, no segundo parágrafo do texto, uma experiência surpreendente que vivenciou.
Pode-se compreender essa experiência pela relação que se estabelece entre os seguintes elementos:

aos cães domesticados se ensina
a andar sempre atrás do dono
mas os cães o passado só aparentemente nos pertencem (v. 12-14)
Nesses versos, sugere-se uma ideia a respeito da relação entre cães e seres humanos. Essa ideia, no verso destacado, recebe da poeta a seguinte avaliação:


Nos versos de 1 a 6, a poeta vale-se de um recurso para caracterizar tanto o passado quanto o futuro.
Esse recurso consiste na construção de:


Ao fugir para o Brasil, metade dos Brun ganhou uma perna a mais. O “n” virou “m”. Mas essa
perna a mais era um membro fantasma, um ganho que revelava uma perda. (l. 26-27)
A autora associa a troca de letras no registro do sobrenome de seu tetravô à expressão um
membro fantasma.
Essa associação constrói um exemplo da figura de linguagem denominada:

Como desertava, meu bisavô Antônio foi levado em um bote até o navio que já se afastava
do porto de Gênova. (l. 6-7)
O trecho sublinhado estabelece com o restante da frase o sentido de:


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Disparity in life spans of the rich and the poor is growing
Sabrina Tavernise
February 12, 2016

Experts have long known that rich people generally live longer than poor people. But a growing body of data shows a more disturbing pattern: Despite big advances in medicine, technology and education, the longevity gap between high-income and low-income Americans has been widening sharply.
The poor are losing ground not only in income, but also in years of life, the most basic measure of well-being. In the early 1970s, a 60-year-old man in the top half of the earnings ladder could expect to live 1.2 years longer than a man of the same age in the bottom half, according to an analysis by the Social Security Administration. Fast-forward to 2001, and he could expect to live 5.8 years longer than his poorer counterpart.
New research released this month contains even more jarring numbers. Looking at the extreme ends of the income spectrum, economists at the Brookings Institution found that for men born in 1920, there was a six-year difference in life expectancy between the top 10 percent of earners and the bottom 10 percent. For men born in 1950, that difference had more than doubled, to 14 years. For women, the gap grew to 13 years, from 4.7 years. “There has been this huge spreading out,” said Gary Burtless, one of the authors of the study.
The growing chasm is alarming policy makers, and has surfaced in the presidential campaign. During a Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton expressed concern over shortening life spans for some Americans. “This may be the next frontier of the inequality discussion,” said Peter Orszag, a former Obama administration official now at Citigroup, who was among the first to highlight the pattern. The causes are still being investigated, but public health researchers say that deep declines in smoking among the affluent and educated may partly explain the difference.
Overall, according to the Brookings study, life expectancy for the bottom 10 percent of wage earners improved by just 3 percent for men born in 1950 compared with those born in 1920. For the top 10 percent, though, it jumped by about 28 percent. (The researchers used a common measure – life expectancy at age 50 – and included data from 1984 to 2012.)
(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)
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Disparity in life spans of the rich and the poor is growing
Sabrina Tavernise
February 12, 2016

Experts have long known that rich people generally live longer than poor people. But a growing body of data shows a more disturbing pattern: Despite big advances in medicine, technology and education, the longevity gap between high-income and low-income Americans has been widening sharply.
The poor are losing ground not only in income, but also in years of life, the most basic measure of well-being. In the early 1970s, a 60-year-old man in the top half of the earnings ladder could expect to live 1.2 years longer than a man of the same age in the bottom half, according to an analysis by the Social Security Administration. Fast-forward to 2001, and he could expect to live 5.8 years longer than his poorer counterpart.
New research released this month contains even more jarring numbers. Looking at the extreme ends of the income spectrum, economists at the Brookings Institution found that for men born in 1920, there was a six-year difference in life expectancy between the top 10 percent of earners and the bottom 10 percent. For men born in 1950, that difference had more than doubled, to 14 years. For women, the gap grew to 13 years, from 4.7 years. “There has been this huge spreading out,” said Gary Burtless, one of the authors of the study.
The growing chasm is alarming policy makers, and has surfaced in the presidential campaign. During a Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton expressed concern over shortening life spans for some Americans. “This may be the next frontier of the inequality discussion,” said Peter Orszag, a former Obama administration official now at Citigroup, who was among the first to highlight the pattern. The causes are still being investigated, but public health researchers say that deep declines in smoking among the affluent and educated may partly explain the difference.
Overall, according to the Brookings study, life expectancy for the bottom 10 percent of wage earners improved by just 3 percent for men born in 1950 compared with those born in 1920. For the top 10 percent, though, it jumped by about 28 percent. (The researchers used a common measure – life expectancy at age 50 – and included data from 1984 to 2012.)
(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)
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Disparity in life spans of the rich and the poor is growing
Sabrina Tavernise
February 12, 2016

Experts have long known that rich people generally live longer than poor people. But a growing body of data shows a more disturbing pattern: Despite big advances in medicine, technology and education, the longevity gap between high-income and low-income Americans has been widening sharply.
The poor are losing ground not only in income, but also in years of life, the most basic measure of well-being. In the early 1970s, a 60-year-old man in the top half of the earnings ladder could expect to live 1.2 years longer than a man of the same age in the bottom half, according to an analysis by the Social Security Administration. Fast-forward to 2001, and he could expect to live 5.8 years longer than his poorer counterpart.
New research released this month contains even more jarring numbers. Looking at the extreme ends of the income spectrum, economists at the Brookings Institution found that for men born in 1920, there was a six-year difference in life expectancy between the top 10 percent of earners and the bottom 10 percent. For men born in 1950, that difference had more than doubled, to 14 years. For women, the gap grew to 13 years, from 4.7 years. “There has been this huge spreading out,” said Gary Burtless, one of the authors of the study.
The growing chasm is alarming policy makers, and has surfaced in the presidential campaign. During a Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton expressed concern over shortening life spans for some Americans. “This may be the next frontier of the inequality discussion,” said Peter Orszag, a former Obama administration official now at Citigroup, who was among the first to highlight the pattern. The causes are still being investigated, but public health researchers say that deep declines in smoking among the affluent and educated may partly explain the difference.
Overall, according to the Brookings study, life expectancy for the bottom 10 percent of wage earners improved by just 3 percent for men born in 1950 compared with those born in 1920. For the top 10 percent, though, it jumped by about 28 percent. (The researchers used a common measure – life expectancy at age 50 – and included data from 1984 to 2012.)
(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)