DIGITAL DIVIDE!

There is a theory that the society has been divided itself between 2 groups:  “have” and “have nots” - and there is a kind of segregation them.  

 In fact, what really happens is: Economic enequalities cause this not accessibility for some products, services and knowlegments.

After the computers have been spread quickly is a cause of they are became cheaper to buy and easier to use. If the population gets a facility and opportunity to access it they really use it. The prices having been falling and this digital divide have been breaking down.                                           Now we are living a great moment: 

-How to introduce in an effective way computers into the public schools?

-Are the students and teachers prepared for it?

-How computing could turn it more friendly and effective?

-How training and coaching our teachers be implemented for this new technology in a day-by-day scholar program?

A Latin America foundation prepared a researched and found that there is 1 computer for each 25 students at the public chain schools. 

Some countries as Argentine, Chile and Uruguay are more updating.                       There is 1 computer for each 9 students.

Good number instead with Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela; 1 computer for each 19 students.

This numbers show up the challenger that the authorities must face up next years.

Prospects studies proved that implantation computing in schools produces gains in test scores. But more than it, each computer could provide a large number of info’s and attract students to effort interest in study again.

Computing skills produces a better development in student’s minds in all levels degrees. It´s necessary to introduce it since the primary school.

The digital divide suggested a simple solution for a poverty helping into society.

How most the students – poor classes at least – getting the contact with this new technology – they will could scape from poverty; giving them other opportunities and a new vision of the world.

This gap between high and low classes can be disappear when the society could integrate whole the knowledge information that having been connecting by internet and many educational software to teach and discute into a class room. Mainly at the public classes room. 

The history of piercing

Body piercing has been practiced since five thousand years. It had begun with the first tribes and clans.  There are many stones, inside caves pictures in Africa, Asia, Egypt pyramids, India temples and it had been used to design Roman officials.

It has, in the beginning, as it is now, been used as a personal expression, a religious ritual or more often recently like a trend in fashion body.

During the great navigation discoveries, pirates were another group that used body piercing to show up their extravagant and bizarre looks alike.

After those times and during about one century body piercing had been seen not more used and it was almost completely forgotten.

By 1990´s, piercing returned had finally reached attention of entire global looking, linking from ancients with modern.

The parts of body most common placed piercing parts are the ear lobes, noose, lips, tongue, the nipples, belly-hole and eye-lashes.

It´s very interesting notice that body piercing has been showed up the changing’s into society´s behaviors. 

You´d like to put one piercing? Check it out on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o7KzDeQ42g

Exercise:

Find out and re-write 3 present perfect and 3 past perfect moments:

Present perfect:

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Past Perfect:

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ALCOHOL - A dangerous game to play.

 The legal limit for driving after drinking alcohol is 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood when tested.

But there is no sure way of telling how much you can drink before you reach this limit. It varies with each person depending on your weight, your gender, if you´ve eaten and what sort of drinks you have had.

Some people might reach their limit after only about three standard drinks.  In fact, your driving ability can be affected by just one or two drinks.

Even if you are below the legal limit, you could still be taken to court if a police officer thinks your driving has been affected by alcohol.

   It takes about one hour for the body puts out the alcohol in one standard drink.   

So, if you have a heavy drinking session in the evening you find that your driving ability is still affected the next morning, or you could even find that you are still over the legal limit.  

In a test with professional drivers, the more alcoholic drinks they had had the more certain they were to performance his ability to drive on... and less able they were to do it!

Alcohol is the major cause of road traffic accidents.

 One in three of the drivers killed in road accidents have levels of alcohol which are over the legal limit, and road accidents after drinking are the biggest cause of death among young men.

More than half of the people stopped by the police to take a breathalyzer test have a blood alcohol concentration more than twice the legal limit.

So the only way to be sure you are safe is not to drink at all.

The Digital Divide

A recent survey has shown that the number of people in the United Kingdom who do not intend to get internet access has risen. These people, who are known as  'net refuseniks', make up 24% of UK households, or 9.2 million people in total.

The research also showed that more than 70 percent of these people said that they were not interested in getting connected to the internet. This number has risen from just over 50% in 2010, with most giving lack of computer skills as a reason for not getting internet access, though some also said it was because of the cost.

More and more people are getting broadband and high speed net is available almost everywhere in the UK, but there are still a significant number of people who refuse to take the first step.

The cost of getting online is going down and internet speeds are increasing, so many see the main challenge to be explaining the relevance of the internet to this group.

This would encourage them to get connected before they are left too far behind.    The gap between those who have access to and use the internet is the digital divide, and if the gap continues to widen, those without access will get left behind and miss out on many opportunities, especially in their careers.

PREPOSITIONS IN ENGLISH? A HARD INVENTORY ABOUT ENGLISH PREPOSITION

HERE AN INVENTORY ABOUT  ENGLISH PREPOSTION:

your prepositon´s problem finished!!!!  Halleluyaaaa!

P R E P O S I T O N:

1)    About:           [sobre, a respeito de] 

                       1) Let´s talk about you?                 2) Everything about you.

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2)    Above:           [acima;por cima]  

1) A Director is above a Manager.          2) The stars are above the sky.

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3)    Across:              [através; sobre superficie]  

1)  A new bridge was built across the river.                     2) He is walking across the street.

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4)    After:              [após; depois de]

1)    Day after Day 2) After hour       3) After this class I will go to lunch.

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5)    Against:          [Contra]

1)    You are against me?       2) Everybody is against you.

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6)    Among:          [Entre; no meio – quando há mais de 3 elementos]

1)   There is one child among the victims.   2) Only one chance among many.

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7)    At:                            [Horas; local definido; endereços; datas]

1)    We are at home.              2) I am going to leave at 10:00am.

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8)    Before:         [Antes de; perante]

1)    Before I leave, I need to close the door.   2) Three days before.

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9)    Behind:           [Atrás]

1)    I live behind that building.                  2) Look behind.

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10)          Below:       [ Abaixo de; sob]

1)    The crime is below the investigation.      2) There is nothing below us.

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11)          Beneath:    [Abaixo; debaixo por baixo]

1)     He is stay beneath the tree.      2) This film is not indicating to children beneath 14 year-old.

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12)          Beside:      [Ao lado de]

1)    My house is beside a gas station.     2) He is there beside that car.

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13)          Between:   [Entre; no meio- quando há 2 elementos]

1)    Not allowed between us. 2) There is nothing between you and me.

14)          By:             [por volta de; até; próximo de]

1)      Contact us by phone.       2) A book by Machado de Assis.    3) He´ll be here by midday.

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15)          Down:        [para baixo; abaixo – como indicação e ou posição]

1)    Go down two blocks.       2 ) I am so down.     3) The Sun is going down.

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16)          For:            [para; por; durante]

1)     Let´s go for another drink.         2) I am going to do it for you.  3) It´s not necessary for me.

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17)          From:         [apartir de – da origem; destinatário e ou ponto inicial]

1)    From today I Will stop to smoke.     2) This E-mail is from Curitiba.

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18)          In:               [Dentro de; em – Indica interior de; locais; eventos e períodos de tempo]

1)     My birthday is in December.     2) The meeting is in the morning.   3) Made in Brazil.

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19)          In front of:  [Em frente de]

1)    He is in front of the house.       2) We are in front a big problem.

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20)          Inside:       [Dentro]

1)    Intel inside.    2) The Money is inside the bag.

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21)          Instead of: [Em vez de]

1)    I prefer a coke instead of Pepsi.

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22)          Into:           [para dentro – indica movimento]

1)    She is going into the store.       2) He is entering into the car.

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23)          Near:          [perto de]

1)    We are arriving near the point.           2) He lives near here.

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24)          Next to:      [Junto a; próximo]

1)    What is the next step?     2) Next class we are going to study…

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25)          Of:              [de – indica posse; autoria; fazer parte de algo]

1)    I did a series of tests.      2) Lots of people die of hunger everyday.

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26)          Off:            [Fora de; desligamento – Indica movimento para fora ou estar fora]

1)The elevators are Off.                2) Your team is off finals.

27)          On:             [Em, sobre; em cima; antes de dia semana; definição endereço; em ação]

1)    The magazine is on the table.  2) On Saturdays.         3) On the beach.

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28)          Onto:          [para cima – indica movimento]

1)    The plane is onto the clouds.   2) We are going onto them.

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29)          Out of:       [Fora; para fora – indica estar fora de uma posição]

1)    Get out of here.   2) The elevator is out of the work.  3) Stay out of it!

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30)          Outside:     [do lado de fora; estar do outro lado]

1)They are outside. Open the door.                2) The truth is outside.

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31)          Over:                   [Acima de; por cima; por sobre – Indica posição hierárquica]

1)    A viaduct was built over the avenue. 2) Over the rainbow.    3)Over you

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32)          Since:        [desde – Indica um tempo; data passada]

1)    I live here since 2004.              2) Father to Sons since 1985

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33)          Through – Throughtout:        [Através de; por; durante; penetração de lado ao outro]

1)    He is traveling through the country.

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34)          To:             [Para; a ; indica direção – movimentação – Dar para alguém]

1)    Give to me.    2) He walked to door.           3) Happy birthday to you!

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35)          Towards:   [Em direção a; em relação a]

1)     Brazil is going towards the future.       2) The bandit escaped toward the garden.

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36)          Under:        [De baixo de; posição por baixo; indica estar embaixo de algo]

1)    Poor people live under the bridge.    2) Let the kids under control.

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37)          Until - till:    [Até – refere-se a tempo]

1)    We are going to stay here until they arrive.             2) He fought till die.

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38)          Up:             [Acima; para cima; para o alto – Indica posição]

1)    He climbed up the mountain.    2) He is upstairs.                   3) Drive up there.

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39)          With:          [Com – Indicação somatório; o ajuntamento de mais alguém ou algo]

1)     Coffee with Milk.         2) Me with you.      3) Let´s go with us.

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40)          Without:     [Sem – Indica sem conteúdo; sem ninguém ou algo]

1)    They are without clothes.          2) Without paper.