(ENEM - 2018 - PROVA AMARELA)
Lava Mae: Creating Showers on Wheels for the Homeless
San Francisco, according to recent city numbers, has 4,300 people living on the streets. Among the many problems the homeless face is little or no access to showers. San Francisco only has about...
(ENEM - 2018 - PROVA AMARELA)
TEXTO I
A Free World-class Education for Anyone Anywhere
The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free education to anyone anywhere. All of the site's resources...
(ENEM - 2018 - PROVA AMARELA)
Don't write in English, they said,
English is not your mother tongue…
...The language I speak
Becomes mine, its distortions, its queerness
All mine, mine alone, it is half English, half
Indian, funny perhaps, but it is honest,
It is as huma...
(ENEM - 2018 - PROVA AMARELA)
1984 (excerpt)
'Is it your opinion, Winston, that the past has real existence?' [...] O'Brien smiled faintly. 'I will put it more precisely. Does the past exist concretely, in space? Is there somewhere or other a place, a world of solid objects, where...
(ENEM PPL - 2018)
Which skin colour are you? The human swatch chart that confronts racism
In 1933, in a book called The Masters and the Slaves, the Brazilian anthropologist Gilberto Freyre wrote: “Every Brazilian, even the light-skinned, fair-haired one, carries about him on his soul, when...
(ENEM PPL - 2018)
Monks embrace web to reach recruits
Stew Milne for The New York Times
The Benedictine monks at the Portsmouth Abbey in Portsmouth have a problem. They are aging and their numbers have fallen to 12, from a peak of about 24 in 1969. So the monks have taken to the Internet with a...
(ENEM PPL - 2018)
Most people today have a mobile phone. In fact, many people can't imagine how they ever got along without a portable phone. However, many people also complain about cell phone users. People complain about other people loudly discussing personal matters in public places. They c...