Seja f a função quadrática definida por f (x)=2x2 + (log1/3 k) x + 2, com k ∈ |R e k >0.
O produto dos valores reais de k para os quais a função f (x) tem uma raiz dupla é igual a
“Brexit é uma abreviação para “British exit” (saída britânica, na tradução literal para o português). Esse é o termo mais comumente usado quando se refere à decisão do Reino Unido de deixar a União Europeia”.
Fonte: BBC News Brasil. O que é o Brexit? Entenda a polêmica saída do Reino Unido da União Europeia com esta e outras 10 questões. In: www.bbc.com/portuguese (acesso em 29 mar 19).
Considerando a composição do Reino Unido, escolha aquela que melhor expressa a representação cartográfica do Brexit dentre as alternativas abaixo:
Irregular distribuição dos recursos hídricos, uso compartilhado de bacias hidrográficas, ineficientes sistemas de tratamento, desmatamento, construção de barragens, despejo de lixo, diversidade climática, expansão da urbanização, pressão demográfica, geração de energia, projetos de irrigação, dentre outros, são fatores que potencializam o estresse hídrico e originam situações hidroconflitivas. Sobre esse último termo, considere as seguintes afirmações:
I – Um exemplo de situação hidroconflitiva é o caso da construção de barragens para projetos de irrigação na bacia do rio Nilo pelo governo Sudanês, o que tem provocado tensões com o vizinho Egito.
II – O Brasil, por dispor de uma região extremamente rica em recursos hídricos, não tem registrado problemas dessa natureza com seus vizinhos ao longo de sua história republicana.
III – O Rio Ganges atravessa quase todo o território de Bangladesh antes de se abrir no largo delta, em território indiano. A construção de barragens a montante, pelo primeiro, tem provocado desavenças entre esses dois países.
IV – No conflito entre israelenses e palestinos, há um importante componente hídrico, evidenciado pela posse e controle das escassas fontes existentes na região.
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta todas as afirmativas corretas, dentre as listadas acima.
Numa sala de aula, um professor de Geografia apresentou o seguinte texto aos seus alunos: “Quase todo mundo conhece alguém que tem certeza de que o pouso da Apolo 11 na lua, assim como os pequenos grandes passos de Neil Armstrong foram uma farsa. São pessoas que garantem que tudo foi uma produção de Hollywood (...). Agora mesmo estamos diante de gente que garante que a Terra, diferentemente de todos os outros planetas e satélites do nosso sistema solar, é na verdade plana. São os terraplanistas (...). Mas tem gente pior que os terraplanistas. Por exemplo, a sociedade que acredita – e divulga – que a Terra é oca. E habitada. Lá estariam vikings, nazistas e até uma raça superior que viveria num lugar chamado Agharta, iluminado por um sol interior.”
Fonte: Paulo Pestana. A ficção na vida real. Jornal Correio Braziliense, 27 de janeiro de 2019.
Após a leitura, o professor pediu aos seus alunos que, com base em evidências científicas, refutassem a ideia de que a Terra é oca. Três alunos apresentaram seus argumentos:
João: “Essa ideia de que a Terra é oca é um absurdo do ponto de vista da Ciência. Por meio de sismógrafos, é possível medir a velocidade de propagação das ondas no interior da Terra. Esses estudos revelam que o interior do Planeta é formado por diversas camadas, com densidade e composição de materiais variados.”
Carlos: “Impossível! As evidências científicas deixam claro que a maior parte do interior da Terra é composta por uma mistura Níquel e Ferro em estado líquido, onde a temperatura média está acima de 5.000°C.”
José: “Como a Terra poderia ser oca se já sabemos que os terremotos e os vulcões, por exemplo, originam-se da pressão exercida pelo magma encontrado na astenosfera?”
Considerando a estrutura da Terra, pode-se afirmar que são plausíveis apenas os argumentos apresentados por:
China e Índia são dois gigantes que possuem inúmeras semelhanças, como, por exemplo, o fato de serem os países mais populosos do mundo e fazerem parte dos chamados BRICS. Apesar disso, guardam inúmeras características que os diferenciam entre si. Sobre as diferenças entre esses dois gigantes, podemos citar os fatos de que, enquanto:
I – a Índia baseia sua matriz energética no petróleo e na energia nuclear, a China prioriza o gás natural e o carvão mineral.
II – a China implantou um rígido programa de controle de natalidade, a Índia não tem demonstrado a mesma preocupação ao longo das últimas décadas.
III – a China dispõe de uma maior diversidade cultural, a Índia possui uma cultura milenar, o que lhe garante maior homogeneidade étnica e liguística.
IV – o modelo econômico chinês privilegiou a produção industrial, a Índia está se convertendo numa economia de serviços, na qual se destacam setores como tecnologia da informação e biotecnologia.
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta todas as afirmativas corretas, dentre as listadas acima.
Desde os primitivos rabiscos em uma placa de argila ou em peles de animais até a difusão maciça de aplicativos de localização e de navegação em smartphones, o uso de mapas é uma necessidade vital para o homem. Sobre esse assunto, considere as seguintes afirmativas:
I – Diferentemente dos meridianos, que possuem sempre o mesmo diâmetro, os círculos que representam os paralelos diminuem de tamanho à medida que se afastam do Equador em direção aos polos.
II – As escalas podem ser gráficas ou numéricas. As representações em escala pequena mostram áreas pequenas e com muitos detalhes.
III – A distorção (de áreas, de formas ou de distâncias) pode ser eliminada quando as projeções afiláticas são empregadas na confecção de um mapa.
IV – Anamorfose é uma forma de representação cartográfica utilizada em mapas temáticos na qual as áreas dos países, estados ou regiões são mostradas proporcionalmente à importância de sua participação no fenômeno representado.
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta todas as afirmativas corretas, dentre as listadas acima.
É inequívoca a influência do clima sobre as mais variadas atividades humanas, na diferenciação da paisagem e na biogeografia. Analise as afirmativas abaixo:
I – A célula tropical (também chamada célula de Hadley) é responsável pela transferência de calor e umidade entre as latitudes equatoriais e subtropicais. Nela podem-se identificar os ventos alísios e os contra-alísios.
II – O El Niño é uma anomalia climática com desdobramentos globais. Na costa ocidental da América do Sul, o fenômeno provoca a elevação da temperatura da água do mar e, consequentemente, um aumento da atividade pesqueira no litoral peruano.
III – No Sul e Sudeste da Ásia, a agricultura tradicional é muito influenciada pelo regime das monções, cujo mecanismo básico de alternância de centros de pressão é semelhante ao que regula as brisas marinhas e terrestres, ressalvadas a duração e as respectivas escalas de abrangência.
IV – O clima mediterrâneo, típico do sul da Europa, das extremidades norte e sul da África, de parte do litoral chileno e californiano e da porção meridional da Austrália, apresenta duas estações bem distintas: um verão quente e chuvoso e um inverno frio e seco.
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta todas as afirmativas corretas, dentre as listadas acima.
“O deslocamento de pessoas entre países, regiões, cidades etc. é um fenômeno antigo, amplo e complexo, pois envolve as mais variadas classes sociais, culturas e religiões”.
SENE, Eustáquio & MOREIRA, J.C. - Geografia Geral e do Brasil: Espaço Geográfico e Globalização (3). 2ª ed. S Paulo: Moderna, 2012.
Sobre os fluxos migratórios contemporâneos, considere as seguintes afirmações:
I – Em termos quantitativos, a maior parte dos deslocamentos humanos se refere à saída de
migrantes dos países pobres e emergentes em direção aos desenvolvidos.
II – Na última década, a América Latina e o Caribe contribuíram com o maior contingente de emigrantes, seguidos pela África setentrional.
III – Países do Oriente Médio, como Catar, Emirados Árabes Unidos, Arábia Saudita e Kuwait recebem muitos migrantes oriundos do sul da Ásia (Paquistão, Índia e Filipinas).
IV – A “drenagem de cérebros” é um grande problema para os países de origem desses fluxos, pois afeta a sua capacidade tecnológica, comprometendo o seu desenvolvimento.
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta todas as afirmativas corretas, dentre as listadas acima.
Segundo o geógrafo Aziz Ab’Sáber, existem grandes extensões do território brasileiro em que vários elementos naturais (clima, vegetação, relevo, hidrografia e solo) interagem de forma singular, caracterizando uma unidade paisagística: são os chamados domínios morfoclimáticos. Entre eles ocorrem faixas de transição.
Sobre os domínios morfoclimáticos e as faixas de transição, considere as seguintes afirmações:
I – A exuberância da Floresta Amazônica contrasta com a pobreza de grande parte de seus solos, geralmente ácidos, intemperizados e de baixa fertilidade.
II – Tipicamente associados à Campanha Gaúcha, os campos apresentam um relevo com suaves ondulações, cobertas principalmente por gramíneas. Neste domínio, há um preocupante processo de desertificação advindo de anomalias climáticas observadas nas últimas décadas.
III – O Cerrado, adaptado à alternância do clima tropical, ocupa mais de 3 milhões de km² e apresenta solos pobres. É uma formação tipicamente latifoliada que, dentre outras características, perde as folhas durante o período de seca.
IV – A Mata dos Cocais é uma faixa de transição situada entre os domínios da Floresta Amazônica, do Cerrado e da Caatinga. Predominam as palmeiras, com destaque para o babaçu, a carnaúba e o buriti.
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta todas as afirmativas corretas, dentre as listadas acima.
O mundo moderno é um voraz consumidor de energia. Atender a essa demanda, pressionada cada vez mais pelas economias emergentes, bem como observar as exigências de um mercado balizado pelo paradigma da eficiência, são desafios incontornáveis. Sobre as características e a participação das diversas fontes de energia, considere as seguintes afirmativas:
I – O drástico aumento do preço do petróleo causado pelas crises internacionais de 1973 e 1979/1980 teve um duplo efeito: viabilizou sua extração em locais de difícil acesso (Sibéria, Alasca e plataformas continentais) e estimulou a pesquisa de fontes alternativas.
II – Impulsionado pelas políticas de redução das emissões de CO2 adotadas pela China, o gás natural já é, desde 2010, a segunda fonte de energia mais utilizada no mundo.
III – Fontes de energia como o etanol e o biodiesel despontam atualmente como excelentes alternativas, pois apresentam os seguintes benefícios: poluem menos que os combustíveis fósseis, geram vários empregos no campo e dinamizam a economia por conta do seu efeito multiplicador.
IV – Isenta de impactos ambientais, a energia eólica vem conquistando cada vez mais espaço na matriz energética de países como China, EUA, Alemanha, Espanha e Índia.
V – Países como França, Ucrânia, Japão e Coreia do Sul continuam a ter nas usinas nucleares uma importante fonte energia, mesmo com problemas relacionados à destinação dos seus rejeitos, à pressão da opinião pública e aos altos custos de construção e manutenção.
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta todas as afirmativas corretas, dentre as listadas acima.
Muitos europeus acreditavam que, em direção ao sul, o mar seria habitado por monstros e estaria sempre em chamas. Se arriscassem cruzar o oceano Atlântico, à época conhecido como mar Tenebroso, iriam se deparar com o fim do mundo. Mesmo assim, os portugueses se lançaram às Grandes Navegações, no final do século XV. Considerando:
I – A Tomada de Constantinopla pelos turcos otomanos;
II – A Criação da Companhia das Índias Ocidentais;
III – A existência de um poder centralizador e de um Estado unificado;
IV – A descoberta da imensa mina de prata em Potosí pelos lusitanos;
V – A invenção da bússola pelos portugueses na Escola de Sagres.
Assinale abaixo a alternativa que apresenta as causas que levaram à Expansão Marítima Portuguesa.
Ideias republicanas estavam presentes entre os brasileiros há tempos. No século XVIII, inspiraram movimentos contra o domínio português. Em 1870, um grupo de políticos lançou, no Rio de Janeiro, o Manifesto Republicano. Os seguintes episódios, ocorridos na segunda metade do século XIX, abalaram o Império Brasileiro. Considerando os seguintes fatos:
I – Questão Militar.
II – Questão de Fronteiras.
III – Questão Religiosa.
IV – Questão da Cisplatina.
V – Questão Abolicionista.
Assinale abaixo a alternativa em que todas as proposições estão corretas no que se refere às questões que contribuiram para o fim do período Imperial Brasileiro.
Em 1985, a inflação brasileira chegou a 235% ao ano. Para corrigir essa situação, o governo Sarney anunciou, em fevereiro do ano seguinte, um plano de estabilização econômica, conhecido como Plano Cruzado. Observe as afirmativas abaixo.
I – Instituição da moeda chamada Real;
II – Congelamento de preços;
III – “Gatilho” salarial, determinando que os salários seriam reajustados sempre que a inflação chegasse a 20% ao mês;
IV – Substituição da moeda corrente no país, o cruzeiro, pelo cruzeiro novo;
V – Introdução da Unidade Real de Valor (URV).
Assinale a alternativa em que todas as afirmativas estão relacionadas ao plano econômico supracitado.
Teaching English in the Brazilian countryside
“In Brazil, countryside youth want to learn about new places, new cultures and people. However, they think their everyday lives are an obstacle to that, because they imagine that country life has nothing to do with other parts of the world”, says Rafael Fonseca. Rafael teaches English in a language school in a cooperative coffee cultivation in Paraguaçu. His learners are the children of rural workers.
Rafael tells us that the objective of the project being developed in the cooperative is to give the young people more opportunities of growth in the countryside, and that includes the ability to communicate with international buyers. “In the future, our project may help overcome the lack of succession in countryside activities because, nowadays, rural workers’ children become lawyers, engineers, teachers, and sometimes even doctors, but those children very rarely want to have a profession related to rural work”, says Rafael.
“That happens”, he adds, “because their parents understand that life in the countryside can be hard work and they do not want to see their children running the same type of life that they have. Their children also believe that life in the country does not allow them to have contact with other parts of the world, meet other people and improve cultural bounds. The program intends to show them that by means of a second language they can travel, communicate with new people and learn about new cultures as a means of promoting and selling what they produce in the country, and that includes receiving visitors in their workplace from abroad.”
Rafael’s strategy is to contextualize the English language and keep learners up-to-date with what happens in the global market. “Integrating relevant topics about countryside living can be transformative in the classroom. The local regional and cultural aspects are a great source of inspiration and learning not only for the young, but for us all.”
Adapted from http://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2019/01/21/teaching-english-in-the-brazilian-classroom/
Teaching English in the Brazilian countryside
“In Brazil, countryside youth want to learn about new places, new cultures and people. However, they think their everyday lives are an obstacle to that, because they imagine that country life has nothing to do with other parts of the world”, says Rafael Fonseca. Rafael teaches English in a language school in a cooperative coffee cultivation in Paraguaçu. His learners are the children of rural workers.
Rafael tells us that the objective of the project being developed in the cooperative is to give the young people more opportunities of growth in the countryside, and that includes the ability to communicate with international buyers. “In the future, our project may help overcome the lack of succession in countryside activities because, nowadays, rural workers’ children become lawyers, engineers, teachers, and sometimes even doctors, but those children very rarely want to have a profession related to rural work”, says Rafael.
“That happens”, he adds, “because their parents understand that life in the countryside can be hard work and they do not want to see their children running the same type of life that they have. Their children also believe that life in the country does not allow them to have contact with other parts of the world, meet other people and improve cultural bounds. The program intends to show them that by means of a second language they can travel, communicate with new people and learn about new cultures as a means of promoting and selling what they produce in the country, and that includes receiving visitors in their workplace from abroad.”
Rafael’s strategy is to contextualize the English language and keep learners up-to-date with what happens in the global market. “Integrating relevant topics about countryside living can be transformative in the classroom. The local regional and cultural aspects are a great source of inspiration and learning not only for the young, but for us all.”
Adapted from http://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2019/01/21/teaching-english-in-the-brazilian-classroom/
Teaching English in the Brazilian countryside
“In Brazil, countryside youth want to learn about new places, new cultures and people. However, they think their everyday lives are an obstacle to that, because they imagine that country life has nothing to do with other parts of the world”, says Rafael Fonseca. Rafael teaches English in a language school in a cooperative coffee cultivation in Paraguaçu. His learners are the children of rural workers.
Rafael tells us that the objective of the project being developed in the cooperative is to give the young people more opportunities of growth in the countryside, and that includes the ability to communicate with international buyers. “In the future, our project may help overcome the lack of succession in countryside activities because, nowadays, rural workers’ children become lawyers, engineers, teachers, and sometimes even doctors, but those children very rarely want to have a profession related to rural work”, says Rafael.
“That happens”, he adds, “because their parents understand that life in the countryside can be hard work and they do not want to see their children running the same type of life that they have. Their children also believe that life in the country does not allow them to have contact with other parts of the world, meet other people and improve cultural bounds. The program intends to show them that by means of a second language they can travel, communicate with new people and learn about new cultures as a means of promoting and selling what they produce in the country, and that includes receiving visitors in their workplace from abroad.”
Rafael’s strategy is to contextualize the English language and keep learners up-to-date with what happens in the global market. “Integrating relevant topics about countryside living can be transformative in the classroom. The local regional and cultural aspects are a great source of inspiration and learning not only for the young, but for us all.”
Adapted from http://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2019/01/21/teaching-english-in-the-brazilian-classroom/
According to the text, read the statements and choose the correct alternative.
I. Rafael tries to show them that their everyday lives are not an obstacle.
II. Those children’s parents don’t want them to attend university.
III. Rafael brings classroom topics close to what the children see and live.
IV. Those children may replace their parents in the future as rural workers.
V. The language school reaffirms that country life has nothing to do with other parts of the world.
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Italian children have been told not to turn up to school unless they can prove they have been properly vaccinated. The deadline follows months of national debate over compulsory vaccination. The new law came amid a surge in measles cases - but Italian officials say vaccination rates have improved since it was introduced. Children must receive a range of mandatory immunisations before attending school. They include vaccinations for chickenpox, polio, measles, mumps and rubella.
Children up to the age of six years will be excluded from nursery and kindergarten without proof of vaccination under the new rules. Those aged between six and 16 cannot be banned from attending school, but their parents face fines if they do not complete the mandatory course of immunisations.
Italian media report that regional authorities are handling the situation in a number of different ways. In Bologna, the local authority has set letters of suspension to the parents of some 300 children, and a total of 5,000 children do not have their vaccine documentation up to date. In other areas there have been no reported cases, while still others have been given a grace period of a few days beyond the deadline.
The new law was passed to raise Italy’s dropping vaccination rates from below 80% to the World Health Organisation’s 95% target.
Adapted from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47536981
(Título omitido propositadamente)
Italian children have been told not to turn up to school unless they can prove they have been properly vaccinated. The deadline follows months of national debate over compulsory vaccination. The new law came amid a surge in measles cases - but Italian officials say vaccination rates have improved since it was introduced. Children must receive a range of mandatory immunisations before attending school. They include vaccinations for chickenpox, polio, measles, mumps and rubella.
Children up to the age of six years will be excluded from nursery and kindergarten without proof of vaccination under the new rules. Those aged between six and 16 cannot be banned from attending school, but their parents face fines if they do not complete the mandatory course of immunisations.
Italian media report that regional authorities are handling the situation in a number of different ways. In Bologna, the local authority has set letters of suspension to the parents of some 300 children, and a total of 5,000 children do not have their vaccine documentation up to date. In other areas there have been no reported cases, while still others have been given a grace period of a few days beyond the deadline.
The new law was passed to raise Italy’s dropping vaccination rates from below 80% to the World Health Organisation’s 95% target.
Adapted from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47536981
(Título omitido propositadamente)
Italian children have been told not to turn up to school unless they can prove they have been properly vaccinated. The deadline follows months of national debate over compulsory vaccination. The new law came amid a surge in measles cases - but Italian officials say vaccination rates have improved since it was introduced. Children must receive a range of mandatory immunisations before attending school. They include vaccinations for chickenpox, polio, measles, mumps and rubella.
Children up to the age of six years will be excluded from nursery and kindergarten without proof of vaccination under the new rules. Those aged between six and 16 cannot be banned from attending school, but their parents face fines if they do not complete the mandatory course of immunisations.
Italian media report that regional authorities are handling the situation in a number of different ways. In Bologna, the local authority has set letters of suspension to the parents of some 300 children, and a total of 5,000 children do not have their vaccine documentation up to date. In other areas there have been no reported cases, while still others have been given a grace period of a few days beyond the deadline.
The new law was passed to raise Italy’s dropping vaccination rates from below 80% to the World Health Organisation’s 95% target.
Adapted from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47536981
Lego wants to replace plastic blocks with sustainable materials
The Lego Group wants to replace the plastic in their products with a “sustainable material” by 2030, the company announced.
The world’s largest toy company will invest $1 billion in their new LEGO Sustainable Materials Centre in Denmark, which _______(1) devoted to finding and implementing new sustainable alternatives for their current building materials. Lego plans on hiring 100 specialists for the center. There is no official definition of a sustainable material.
Legos _______(2) made with a strong plastic known as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene since 1963. The company uses more than 6,000 tons of plastic annually to manufacture its products, according to NBC News. Changing the raw material could have a large effect on Lego’s carbon footprint, especially considering that only 10% of the carbon emissions from Lego products come from its factories. The other 90% is produced from the extraction and refinement of raw materials, as well as distribution from factories to toy stores.
The company _______(3) already taken steps to lower its carbon footprint, including a reduction of packaging size and an investment in an offshore wind farm.
Adapted from http://time.com/3931946/lego-sustainable-materials/
Lego wants to replace plastic blocks with sustainable materials
The Lego Group wants to replace the plastic in their products with a “sustainable material” by 2030, the company announced.
The world’s largest toy company will invest $1 billion in their new LEGO Sustainable Materials Centre in Denmark, which _______(1) devoted to finding and implementing new sustainable alternatives for their current building materials. Lego plans on hiring 100 specialists for the center. There is no official definition of a sustainable material.
Legos _______(2) made with a strong plastic known as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene since 1963. The company uses more than 6,000 tons of plastic annually to manufacture its products, according to NBC News. Changing the raw material could have a large effect on Lego’s carbon footprint, especially considering that only 10% of the carbon emissions from Lego products come from its factories. The other 90% is produced from the extraction and refinement of raw materials, as well as distribution from factories to toy stores.
The company _______(3) already taken steps to lower its carbon footprint, including a reduction of packaging size and an investment in an offshore wind farm.
Adapted from http://time.com/3931946/lego-sustainable-materials/
Choose the alternative containing the correct verb forms to complete gaps (1), (2) and (3) in paragraphs 2, 3 and 5 respectively.
Lego wants to replace plastic blocks with sustainable materials
The Lego Group wants to replace the plastic in their products with a “sustainable material” by 2030, the company announced.
The world’s largest toy company will invest $1 billion in their new LEGO Sustainable Materials Centre in Denmark, which _______(1) devoted to finding and implementing new sustainable alternatives for their current building materials. Lego plans on hiring 100 specialists for the center. There is no official definition of a sustainable material.
Legos _______(2) made with a strong plastic known as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene since 1963. The company uses more than 6,000 tons of plastic annually to manufacture its products, according to NBC News. Changing the raw material could have a large effect on Lego’s carbon footprint, especially considering that only 10% of the carbon emissions from Lego products come from its factories. The other 90% is produced from the extraction and refinement of raw materials, as well as distribution from factories to toy stores.
The company _______(3) already taken steps to lower its carbon footprint, including a reduction of packaging size and an investment in an offshore wind farm.
Adapted from http://time.com/3931946/lego-sustainable-materials/
Prison without guards or weapons in Brazil
Tatiane Correia de Lima is a 26-year-old mother of two who is serving a 12-year sentence in Brazil. The South American country has the world’s fourth largest prison population and its jails regularly come under the spotlight for their poor conditions, with chronic overcrowding and gang violence provoking deadly riots.
Lima had just been moved from a prison in the mainstream penitential system to a facility run ______(1) the Association for the Protection and Assistance to Convicts (APAC) in the town of Itaúna, in Minas Gerais state. Unlike in the mainstream system, “which steals your femininity”, as Lima puts it, at the APAC jail she is allowed to wear her own clothes and have a mirror, make-up and hair dye. But the difference between the regimes is far more than skin-deep.
The APAC system has been gaining growing recognition as a safer, cheaper and more humane answer to the country’s prison crisis. All APAC prisoners must have passed through the mainstream system and must show remorse and be willing to follow the strict regime of work and study which is part of the system’s philosophy. There are no guards or weapons and visitors are greeted by an inmate who unlocks the main door to the small women’s jail.
Inmates are known as recuperandos (recovering people), reflecting the APAC focus ______(2) restorative justice and rehabilitation. They must study and work, sometimes in collaboration with the local community. If they do not - or if they try to abscond - they risk being returned to the mainstream system. There have been physical fights but never a murder at an APAC jail.
Adapted from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44056946
Prison without guards or weapons in Brazil
Tatiane Correia de Lima is a 26-year-old mother of two who is serving a 12-year sentence in Brazil. The South American country has the world’s fourth largest prison population and its jails regularly come under the spotlight for their poor conditions, with chronic overcrowding and gang violence provoking deadly riots.
Lima had just been moved from a prison in the mainstream penitential system to a facility run ______(1) the Association for the Protection and Assistance to Convicts (APAC) in the town of Itaúna, in Minas Gerais state. Unlike in the mainstream system, “which steals your femininity”, as Lima puts it, at the APAC jail she is allowed to wear her own clothes and have a mirror, make-up and hair dye. But the difference between the regimes is far more than skin-deep.
The APAC system has been gaining growing recognition as a safer, cheaper and more humane answer to the country’s prison crisis. All APAC prisoners must have passed through the mainstream system and must show remorse and be willing to follow the strict regime of work and study which is part of the system’s philosophy. There are no guards or weapons and visitors are greeted by an inmate who unlocks the main door to the small women’s jail.
Inmates are known as recuperandos (recovering people), reflecting the APAC focus ______(2) restorative justice and rehabilitation. They must study and work, sometimes in collaboration with the local community. If they do not - or if they try to abscond - they risk being returned to the mainstream system. There have been physical fights but never a murder at an APAC jail.
Adapted from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44056946
Prison without guards or weapons in Brazil
Tatiane Correia de Lima is a 26-year-old mother of two who is serving a 12-year sentence in Brazil. The South American country has the world’s fourth largest prison population and its jails regularly come under the spotlight for their poor conditions, with chronic overcrowding and gang violence provoking deadly riots.
Lima had just been moved from a prison in the mainstream penitential system to a facility run ______(1) the Association for the Protection and Assistance to Convicts (APAC) in the town of Itaúna, in Minas Gerais state. Unlike in the mainstream system, “which steals your femininity”, as Lima puts it, at the APAC jail she is allowed to wear her own clothes and have a mirror, make-up and hair dye. But the difference between the regimes is far more than skin-deep.
The APAC system has been gaining growing recognition as a safer, cheaper and more humane answer to the country’s prison crisis. All APAC prisoners must have passed through the mainstream system and must show remorse and be willing to follow the strict regime of work and study which is part of the system’s philosophy. There are no guards or weapons and visitors are greeted by an inmate who unlocks the main door to the small women’s jail.
Inmates are known as recuperandos (recovering people), reflecting the APAC focus ______(2) restorative justice and rehabilitation. They must study and work, sometimes in collaboration with the local community. If they do not - or if they try to abscond - they risk being returned to the mainstream system. There have been physical fights but never a murder at an APAC jail.
Adapted from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44056946