The texts truly show the situation of the basic education in Brazil. As a consequence of the poor education in public schools, the government reserves part of the vacancies in universities for certain sectors of the society and finances private colleges by programs such as ProUni instead of investing on public education. This makes a false impression of Brazil being a First World country. The development achieved by South Korea after a war, for example, is attributed to willing to invest on education. Brazil must adopt the same strategy.
As the education is the basis of the economic system in a country from the XXI century, it should be largely stimulated by the government; fact that hasn't happenning in Brazil. Noticing that the texts' informations are compatible with the current situation of the education in our contry, it may be said, based on its importance to the country's development,that our government is far from reaching an ideal background to influence the globe. The strongest nations have a well defined and organized set of tools in order to manage the most important thing that they have; their economy. Inside this set of tools, the education has a great priority; thing that brazil isn't applying properly nowadays.
To me, the main point of the text about Indra Nooyi is that she assumed a challenge, which is change the focus of such a traditional company due to a concern with the health of the consumers. This is a good example of social responsibility and must be followed by the other companies.
We began our discussion in class with the factors for success. To achieve it, the “good” is never sufficient, we need to look for the “excellent”, and the text about Angela Jia Kim emphasises this quality of her, reporting that she consider herself obsessed to find “perfection”.
According to the characteristics of Georges Simenon’s work described in the text: being gripping, having a great variety of characters and having a simple style, the stories seem to be worth a try.
The first text in discussion brings out the problems felt in the modern Brazilian education system (and in the education model adopted by the Brazilian authorities as well), showing the flagrant contrasts we have in this area all around the country. The author puts in relief the numbers from different periods, trying to clarify the differences between the highly developed university system, otherwise the widespread illiteracy of a great part of the millions and millions students of secondary and high schools. What the text does not take in account is the fact that as in almost all areas in Brazil, education is not a priority even in university. In fact, nowadays, after a strong period of dictatorship during more than twenty years (from 1964 to 1985) led by armed forces and conservative politicians, Brazil is changing in economics, as the text points out, but bears a sorry heritage from that past whose influence can be better felt until today in education more than in other fields.
As all the texts verify, in order to achieve success, either you get seriously commited to hard work or you have well placed people as related ones. Considering the article about Angela Kim, it's clear that she generated the energy needed to achieve success from her previous experiences as a musician and out of the blue, she got a skin allergie which changed her life in a great degree. You will never know where destiny will eventually act to shorten the way that leads to success.
In the profile of Unesco in Facebook, one of the recent posts calls our attention to the high levels of scholar evasion of girls in several countries. The causes are not only in the field of education itself, but also in the lack of security and archaic traditions in these nations. These factors destroy one of the most precious things that human beings can have, which is the knowledge. For this reason, volunteers must have a passionate desire to help in education and, at same time, be strong to live in hostile environments. Another post is about the danger that threatens a Unesco World Heritage Site, the Everglades National Park. The park is considered a sanctuary for many animal species and has a great importance for tourism in United States. However, its aquatic system has been polluted with mercury. Volunteers can avoid that humanity destroys in few years what nature has taken 4 billions of years to create.
The voluntary work has an important role on the society. The volunteers are altruistic people who believe that they could make the difference and their actions could change the world in order to achieve a better place to live. Furthermore, they dedicate a major part of their life to help countries suffering the effects of poverty, war zones and areas that are suffering natural disasters. Nowadays, a great part of the society do not care about their equals,while the volunteers do not seek to be recognized or to earn money with their work, only help who need. Every one should try this lifestyle,you don't need to go to another country, if you help somebody near to you, it will be enough.
Being a volunteer it´s not easy at all. They must be strong enough and at least challenger to leave their homes, families, friends, so, everything that makes their lifes safe and confortable. Although most of the volunteers agree that help unfortunate persons or avoid the enviroment´s destruction get their days more pleasant, making their full time work greatfull. And there are a consensus between volunteers, that doesn´t exist any handicap in deny everything they have, if the aim is just help. We should take our hats for this style of life - voluntary work - mainly because they show us one of the ways in playing a citizen´s role, and how to make our world better.
The article written by Shehzad Nadeem and published in the website of The Guardian in 9 February 2011 depicts two aspects of the call centres in India. First, the accent neutralisation that workers are expected to reach. Second, the bad conditions of work to which the employees are submitted. The first aspect is a global tendency in all fields of communication. Human beings feel comfortable with someone who speaks like them, and companies rely on making the customers comfortable. Thus, being devoid of local inflections, in this case, must be seen not as a loss of cultural identity, but as a skill for those whose work relies on speaking to people from everywhere. On the other hand, companies do not care enough for the customers, outsourcing call centres with employees that are unprepared to solve the customers’ problems and have to work under pressure to reach the companies’ goals. It demonstrates that the companies and the outsourced call centres are much more concerned with profit than with the customers’ satisfaction.
What impressed me in the Shehzad Nadeem’s article in the Gardian, on Wednesday 9 February 2011, was the fact that the teaching of a language as English has been used to create a skill on non-native speakers as if they were born in another country under a different culture. The statement: “As I witnessed during training sessions, employees are told that the customer can see their smile and sense their mood through their voice.” made me remind of the time when I have been working for a Brazilian air company, (by the way, now bankrupt), in a call center placed in São Paulo. At that time, the world was not globalized yet as it is today, but the idea that a person in the other side of the phone could be seeing your smile or could be feeling your mood through your voice, had scared us a lot. How can one smile through a telephone that even had not a screen? Nevertheless, the questions that Shehzad Nadeem rises up in his article are deeper and more serious. It is about “the industry's young employees – who are mostly under 30” who have been working “the permanent night shift”, as he asseverates. What is behind this new phenomenon, or better saying, behind the globalized speech, required by the globalized business, it relies the old question we’ ve been discussing recently: it is the economic power.
As we are living in a more and more globalizated world, it's clear that issues envolving profits have much more importance than the well being of the people who generate it. In order to comment on this subject, we have the text written by Shehzad Nadeem as a good example of the stuggle by which people pass through for the purpose of acquiring money. Inicially, we have the call center workers, the Indians, being mistreated by some native english speakers ( American and Britisth ones) bringing about the institutions for accent neutralization as a solution for the business. This scenario implies the existence of a high comfort level of the costumers, resulting in a "loss of personality" of the Indians and in a endless journey to the regionless accent. Finally, of all this aspects, one thing is for sure: although all human values remains alive currently (or are expected to be), the globalizated world imposes the money as the foremost item of the list.
Both texts clearly explain education's situation in Brazil nowadays, showing trustable arguments and data based on researches about the subject. Brazil's education matter goes beyond the education's concept itself. There are historicals, socials, economics an culturals aspects that contributed (and still contributes) to brazilian's educational situation today. In the beginning, Brazil was supposed to be just a raw-material provider to world's economy, there weren't meaningful priorities related to the country's progress and development. Another problem is the brazilian's politics, mainly focused on the economy growth and usually victim of corrupiton. The most troublesome fact to the education development is certainly the cultural aspect, sincce brazilians ususally don't concern enough about education, substancialy slowing education's progress.
The texts truly show the situation of the basic education in Brazil. As a consequence of the poor education in public schools, the government reserves part of the vacancies in universities for certain sectors of the society and finances private colleges by programs such as ProUni instead of investing on public education. This makes a false impression of Brazil being a First World country.
ResponderExcluirThe development achieved by South Korea after a war, for example, is attributed to willing to invest on education. Brazil must adopt the same strategy.
Vitor
As the education is the basis of the economic system in a country from the XXI century, it should be largely stimulated by the government; fact that hasn't happenning in Brazil. Noticing that the texts' informations are compatible with the current situation of the education in our contry, it may be said, based on its importance to the country's development,that our government is far from reaching an ideal background to influence the globe.
ResponderExcluirThe strongest nations have a well defined and organized set of tools in order to manage the most important thing that they have; their economy. Inside this set of tools, the education has a great priority; thing that brazil isn't applying properly nowadays.
Bruno
To me, the main point of the text about Indra Nooyi is that she assumed a challenge, which is change the focus of such a traditional company due to a concern with the health of the consumers. This is a good example of social responsibility and must be followed by the other companies.
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ResponderExcluirWe began our discussion in class with the factors for success. To achieve it, the “good” is never sufficient, we need to look for the “excellent”, and the text about Angela Jia Kim emphasises this quality of her, reporting that she consider herself obsessed to find “perfection”.
ResponderExcluirAccording to the characteristics of Georges Simenon’s work described in the text: being gripping, having a great variety of characters and having a simple style, the stories seem to be worth a try.
ResponderExcluirEste comentário foi removido pelo autor.
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ResponderExcluirThe first text in discussion brings out the problems felt in the modern Brazilian education system (and in the education model adopted by the Brazilian authorities as well), showing the flagrant contrasts we have in this area all around the country. The author puts in relief the numbers from different periods, trying to clarify the differences between the highly developed university system, otherwise the widespread illiteracy of a great part of the millions and millions students of secondary and high schools.
What the text does not take in account is the fact that as in almost all areas in Brazil, education is not a priority even in university. In fact, nowadays, after a strong period of dictatorship during more than twenty years (from 1964 to 1985) led by armed forces and conservative politicians, Brazil is changing in economics, as the text points out, but bears a sorry heritage from that past whose influence can be better felt until today in education more than in other fields.
As all the texts verify, in order to achieve success, either you get seriously commited to hard work or you have well placed people as related ones. Considering the article about Angela Kim, it's clear that she generated the energy needed to achieve success from her previous experiences as a musician and out of the blue, she got a skin allergie which changed her life in a great degree.
ResponderExcluirYou will never know where destiny will eventually act to shorten the way that leads to success.
In the profile of Unesco in Facebook, one of the recent posts calls our attention to the high levels of scholar evasion of girls in several countries. The causes are not only in the field of education itself, but also in the lack of security and archaic traditions in these nations. These factors destroy one of the most precious things that human beings can have, which is the knowledge. For this reason, volunteers must have a passionate desire to help in education and, at same time, be strong to live in hostile environments.
ResponderExcluirAnother post is about the danger that threatens a Unesco World Heritage Site, the Everglades National Park. The park is considered a sanctuary for many animal species and has a great importance for tourism in United States. However, its aquatic system has been polluted with mercury. Volunteers can avoid that humanity destroys in few years what nature has taken 4 billions of years to create.
The voluntary work has an important role on the society. The volunteers are altruistic people who believe that they could make the difference and their actions could change the world in order to achieve a better place to live. Furthermore, they dedicate a major part of their life to help countries suffering the effects of poverty, war zones and areas that are suffering natural disasters.
ResponderExcluirNowadays, a great part of the society do not care about their equals,while the volunteers do not seek to be recognized or to earn money with their work, only help who need.
Every one should try this lifestyle,you don't need to go to another country, if you help somebody near to you, it will be enough.
Being a volunteer it´s not easy at all. They must be strong enough and at least challenger to leave their homes, families, friends, so, everything that makes their lifes safe and confortable. Although most of the volunteers agree that help unfortunate persons or avoid the enviroment´s destruction get their days more pleasant, making their full time work greatfull. And there are a consensus between volunteers, that doesn´t exist any handicap in deny everything they have, if the aim is just help.
ResponderExcluirWe should take our hats for this style of life - voluntary work -
mainly because they show us one of the ways in playing a citizen´s role, and how to make our world better.
The article written by Shehzad Nadeem and published in the website of The Guardian in 9 February 2011 depicts two aspects of the call centres in India. First, the accent neutralisation that workers are expected to reach. Second, the bad conditions of work to which the employees are submitted.
ResponderExcluirThe first aspect is a global tendency in all fields of communication. Human beings feel comfortable with someone who speaks like them, and companies rely on making the customers comfortable. Thus, being devoid of local inflections, in this case, must be seen not as a loss of cultural identity, but as a skill for those whose work relies on speaking to people from everywhere.
On the other hand, companies do not care enough for the customers, outsourcing call centres with employees that are unprepared to solve the customers’ problems and have to work under pressure to reach the companies’ goals. It demonstrates that the companies and the outsourced call centres are much more concerned with profit than with the customers’ satisfaction.
What impressed me in the Shehzad Nadeem’s article in the Gardian, on Wednesday 9 February 2011, was the fact that the teaching of a language as English has been used to create a skill on non-native speakers as if they were born in another country under a different culture. The statement: “As I witnessed during training sessions, employees are told that the customer can see their smile and sense their mood through their voice.” made me remind of the time when I have been working for a Brazilian air company, (by the way, now bankrupt), in a call center placed in São Paulo. At that time, the world was not globalized yet as it is today, but the idea that a person in the other side of the phone could be seeing your smile or could be feeling your mood through your voice, had scared us a lot. How can one smile through a telephone that even had not a screen? Nevertheless, the questions that Shehzad Nadeem rises up in his article are deeper and more serious. It is about “the industry's young employees – who are mostly under 30” who have been working “the permanent night shift”, as he asseverates. What is behind this new phenomenon, or better saying, behind the globalized speech, required by the globalized business, it relies the old question we’ ve been discussing recently: it is the economic power.
ResponderExcluirI meant Guardian instead of the written above "Gardian"...
ExcluirAs we are living in a more and more globalizated world, it's clear that issues envolving profits have much more importance than the well being of the people who generate it. In order to comment on this subject, we have the text written by Shehzad Nadeem as a good example of the stuggle by which people pass through for the purpose of acquiring money. Inicially, we have the call center workers, the Indians, being mistreated by some native english speakers ( American and Britisth ones) bringing about the institutions for accent neutralization as a solution for the business.
ResponderExcluirThis scenario implies the existence of a high comfort level of the costumers, resulting in a "loss of personality" of the Indians and in a endless journey to the regionless accent.
Finally, of all this aspects, one thing is for sure: although all human values remains alive currently (or are expected to be), the globalizated world imposes the money as the foremost item of the list.
I misspelled the word custumers ( I have written costumers).
Excluir"I had written costumers" is the right form. My bad again...
ExcluirBoth texts clearly explain education's situation in Brazil nowadays, showing trustable arguments and data based on researches about the subject. Brazil's education matter goes beyond the education's concept itself. There are historicals, socials, economics an culturals aspects that contributed (and still contributes) to brazilian's educational situation today. In the beginning, Brazil was supposed to be just a raw-material provider to world's economy, there weren't meaningful priorities related to the country's progress and development. Another problem is the brazilian's politics, mainly focused on the economy growth and usually victim of corrupiton. The most troublesome fact to the education development is certainly the cultural aspect, sincce brazilians ususally don't concern enough about education, substancialy slowing education's progress.
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