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Zoos have survived by changing their reason for existing roughly once a generation. They began as displays of dominion — proof that a ruler could hold the far edges of the world behind a fence. When that became embarrassing, they became educational. When the c…
Segundo o autor, a sucessão de justificativas adotadas pelos zoológicos
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A street is the only room in a city that nobody has to pay to enter, which is precisely why so much effort goes into deciding who may linger in it. Benches acquire armrests at careful intervals. Ledges grow small metal studs. Music is played at frequencies tha…
A expressão "each arrives dressed as maintenance, comfort or safety" evidencia, no texto, que
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The city museum's new hall on crocodilians is, in the best sense, an argument disguised as a display. It opens with the expected jaws and then does something braver: it refuses the word primitive. A wall text explains, politely but firmly, that an animal whose…
A comparação "solved, the way a good bridge is solved" é empregada na resenha para
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A young warbler, hatched in a northern summer and never having travelled anywhere, will leave alone in autumn and arrive at a wintering ground it has never seen. The adults may already have gone. There is no one to follow. Displacement experiments — birds capt…
Os experimentos de deslocamento são apresentados no texto como evidência de que
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A garden is an argument that has to be won again every week. Leave it for a season and it does not return to wilderness — it becomes something worse, from the gardener's point of view: a compromise, in which the plants nobody chose flourish beside the ones tha…
A observação sobre a palavra "weed" é introduzida no texto para demonstrar que
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Nations draw their borders on land with fences, cameras and signatures, and then arrive at the coast and keep drawing. A line is agreed at twelve nautical miles, another further out, and the water is assigned to authorities it cannot notice. This is the peculi…
A crítica central do editorial dirige-se
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By four o'clock the families had gone and the beach began its other work. My father used to bring me here in the off season, when the kiosks were shuttered and the sand kept the day's evidence: a bottle cap, a dog's diagonal crossing, the deep prints of someon…
A oposição entre "landfill" e "mirror" serve, no conto, para
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Every era explains the mind with whatever machine it has just built. Hydraulic ages gave us humours and pressures; clockwork gave us mechanism; the telegraph gave us wires and signals. The computer arrived and we promptly discovered that memory is storage, tha…
Ao afirmar que "A good metaphor stops announcing itself", o autor sustenta que
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The tiger is orange, and to most of the animals it hunts it is not. Deer and wild pigs are dichromats: the wavelengths that make the coat blaze against green foliage for a human observer collapse, in their eyes, into something close to the colour of dry grass.…
A frase final, "Our astonishment at its beauty is, strictly speaking, an accident of our own retinas", funciona no texto como
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There is no other profession in which the results arrive so late and so anonymously. A surgeon closes the incision and knows. A teacher works for years on evidence that will surface, if it surfaces at all, in a decision made by a thirty-year-old in a city she …
Ao afirmar que aquilo que pode ser contado até dezembro é "by definition the part that matters least", o autor
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The room smelled of chalk and wet coats, and at the front hung a map that had been wrong for eleven years. Nobody replaced it. We learned the borders of countries that had already renamed themselves, and our teacher, who knew, would tap the faded pink territor…
A reavaliação que o narrador faz do mapa desatualizado sugere que
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Every argument about schooling eventually returns to the building, and the building has already answered. Corridors that empty on a bell teach punctuality more effectively than any lesson about it. Windows set above eye level teach that the outside is a distra…
O editorial sustenta-se no pressuposto de que
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The phone did not simply shorten distance; it abolished a specific human experience, and we have not yet named the loss. Before it, waiting was an activity. You stood at a corner not knowing whether the other person had left, and that not-knowing had a texture…
A inflexão de tom introduzida por "The device is not the villain here" indica que o autor
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Consider the desk: a flat plane held at the height of a seated adult's forearms, and around that plane an entire theory of what a person should be doing. The surface does not merely hold papers. It insists on them. It proposes that work is something done facin…
A tese defendida pelo autor pode ser assim resumida:
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It is fashionable to say that we domesticated the cat. The evidence suggests something more embarrassing: the cat noticed that agriculture produced mice, that mice gathered where grain was stored, and that humans, conveniently, stored grain. Nothing was surren…
O emprego da expressão "has never once agreed to the arrangement in writing" produz efeito de sentido ao
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The doll had belonged to my aunt, and the family agreed it was valuable, which is a word people use when they cannot say pleasant. It sat on the landing with its porcelain hands open, and every guest, without exception, looked at it twice. The first look was o…
A afirmação "the almost was worse than any monster" expressa, no conto, a ideia de que
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A newborn is, by most engineering standards, a failure. It cannot walk, feed itself, regulate its own temperature, or flee. Compared with a foal upright within the hour, the human infant looks like a design abandoned halfway. Researchers have long argued that …
A comparação inicial entre o recém-nascido e um projeto de engenharia malsucedido cumpre, na organização do texto, a função de
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My grandfather measured engines in horses and never found it strange. A tractor was forty of them; the old pump behind the barn was one and a half, which struck me as cruel arithmetic, half an animal working forever. He had known real horses, and that was the …
No texto, o recibo dobrado quatro vezes funciona como
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For half a century the television sat in the best corner of the room, angled like an honoured guest, and the furniture arranged itself around it. We called it a box, which was generous; a box implies something you can close. What it actually offered was a wind…
A ironia contida em "we congratulate ourselves on the escape" reside no fato de que
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No fruit has been asked to carry so much. The apple arrives in our stories already guilty, already sweet, already a verdict. Scholars will remind you, patiently, that the forbidden fruit of the old narratives was never named as an apple at all; the identificat…
A afirmação "a symbol does not need to be accurate to be permanent" sintetiza, no texto, a tese de que
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Your correspondent last week complained about babies crying in cafés and suggested that parents should stay at home until the child is old enough to behave. I have some sympathy, having sat through a two-hour train journey beside a screaming eight-month-old, a…
A autora da carta discorda do leitor da semana anterior porque considera que
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The documentary Nine Hours follows a single long-haul flight from the perspective of everyone except the passengers: the loaders, the cleaners, the fuel technicians, the woman who plans where each container sits so that the aircraft balances. It is a clever st…
Para o resenhista, o principal defeito do documentário está em
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The modern zoo defends itself with two arguments: it educates the public, and it breeds species that would otherwise disappear. Both are partly true, and both are used to avoid a harder question. Education is real but shallow; studies of visitors leaving an en…
A crítica central desse ensaio aos zoológicos consiste em apontar que
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My street acquired its third coffee shop last month, and I am told that this is called improvement. The pavement is certainly cleaner. The bakery that sold bread at seven in the morning to people going to work has become a place selling pastries at eleven to p…
Nesse texto, o autor sustenta que a transformação de sua rua
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