Durante a primeira rodada do sorteio dos grupos da Copa do Mundo de 2018, na Rússia, foram distribuídos os 8 cabeças de chave entre os grupos. O resultado dessa rodada inicial está descrito na tabela abaixo.

Na segunda rodada do sorteio, outras 8 equipes, entre elas o Uruguai, seriam distribuídas entre os grupos, sendo uma em cada grupo. Como Brasil e Argentina também são países da América do Sul, as regras do sorteio impediam que o Uruguai fosse para o grupo D ou para o grupo E. Considerando que as chances de que o Uruguai fosse para qualquer outro grupo eram iguais, a probabilidade de que essa seleção caísse no grupo da Alemanha valia:

A agulha de uma bússola ao ser colocada entre dois imãs sofre um giro no sentido anti-horário. A figura que ilustra corretamente a posição inicial da agulha em relação aos imãs é:

(UERJ) The art of difference

Mutuality in recognizing and negotiating difference is crucial for people to deal with their past and the future; it is also essential in the process of creating a culture of responsibility. How can this be achieved and what is the role of art in this process?

¹A vision based on ideologies solves both challenges of sharing – the interpretation of the past and the projections of the future. But ideologies are somehow “total”, if not totalitarian, because there is not much space for serious public negotiation. Individuals, then, lose their integrity or are restricted to their private spheres and, in the end, their memories become part of the dominant identity discourse, their aspirations are delegated. Even in less obvious systems of ideological rule, where individual subscription to the official story line seems to be consciously voluntary and collective memories are willingly encouraged for the sake of collective identities, the negotiation of difference is often not welcome: exclusion happens quickly ²and non-conformist doubts produce suspicion.

A democratic vision – shared aspirations for the future, based on negotiated interpretations of the past that respect diversity – is necessarily found in complex processes of private and public discourse and participatory and inclusive culture. Yet, politics tends to reduce complexity and engineer the balance between the individual and the collective rather than invest in processes of negotiation. We have learned, ¹¹though, that this social engineering is a phantasm, largely limited and limiting, and, even if successful, often creates paranoid and fatal structures of homogeneity by trying to mould memories and hopes.

Humankind has gathered impressive knowledge about the limitations of the human will and the failures of such “engineering”. ¹²Nevertheless, despite this, and maybe even because of it, we cannot give up trying the ³impossible: to create conditions for equality and solidarity for individuals to flourish. These conditions should be accompanied by narratives of a just, fair and free commonwealth of all. If history and memory seem to make this dream an ⁴unlikely scenario, can art play this part?

The role of art is precisely to keep inspiration alive, to deconstruct ideology, to ⁵recall the necessary dream of freedom, of the individual and of the common good beyond the “either/or” and beyond simplicity. In this sense, art in general prevents false hopes, and thus generates hope in the most paradoxical way: the only way of hoping that reaches beyond the private sphere without some kind of ideological distortion.

What makes art so unique? And why? Because the best narratives of art are purpose-free, uniquely non-instrumental, simply human. Art narrates what we don’t understand in ⁷enlightened ways. Artists in particular offer a wealth of ⁶unseen perspectives and ⁸unexpected pathways of human exploration. Art makes us aware that all memories are personal, despite the power of collective narratives. Arts and culture empower people to think freely, to imagine the ⁹unimagined, to feel responsible across borders and boundaries. Hopefully, the narratives of the future will be ¹⁰intercultural – and art will be the ally in the art of difference that needs to be further developed. “Art is about difference, art is difference”, as stated by Igor Dobricic*. And it is difference that will be at the origin of the new bonding narratives of confidence.

Gottfried Wagner alliancepublishing.org

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Uma partícula, executando um movimento harmônico simples, move-se ao longo de um eixo Ox e sua posição, em função do tempo ao longo desse eixo é representada no gráfico da figura abaixo.

A partir da análise do gráfico, a função horária, em unidades SI que representa corretamente o movimento harmônico simples descrito por essa partícula é:

 O texto afirma que o estádio onde foi assinada a lei trabalhista brasileira, denominada CLT, estava lotado, e que as pessoas ali presentes queriam comemorar a criação dessa lei.

 A CLT foi comemorada porque