1          What is beauty? Define beauty? One may as well dissect a soap bubble. We know it when we see it - or so we think.

2          Philosophers define ¹it as a moral equation. What is beautiful is good, said Plato. Poets look for high standards. Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, wrote John Keats.

3          Science examines beauty and pronounces it a strategy. "Beauty is health", a psychologist tells me. "It's a sign saying 'I'm healthy and fertile. I can pass on your genes.'"

4          At its best, beauty celebrates. From the painted Txikão Indian in Brazil to Madonna in her metal bra, humanity likes to abandon its everyday look and masquerade as a more powerful, romantic, or sexy being.

5          At its worst, beauty discriminates. Studies suggest attractive people make more money, get more attention in class and are seen as ²friendlier. We do judge people by their looks. In an era of feminist and politically correct values, not to mention the belief that all men and women are created equal, the fact that all men and women are not - and that some are more beautiful than others - disturbs, confuses, ³even angers.

6          The search for beauty is ⁴costly. ⁷In the United States last year people spent six billion dollars ⁸on fragrance and another six billion on make up. In the mania to lose weight 20 billions were spent on diet products and services - in addition to the billions that were paid out for health club memberships and cosmetic surgery.

7          The sad, sometimes ugly side of beauty: In a 1997 magazine survey, 15 percent of women and 11 percent of men sampled said they'd sacrifice more than five years of their life to be at their ideal weight. According to one study, 80 percent of women are dissatisfied with their bodies. In one of its worst manifestations, discontent with one's body can wind up as an eating disorder, such as anorexia or bulimia. Both can be fatal. ⁵Today eating disorders, once mostly limited to wealthy Western cultures, occur around the world, in countries as different as Fiji, Japan and Argentina.

8          The preoccupation with beauty can be a neurosis, and yet there is something therapeutic about paying attention to how we look and feel. "People are so quick to say beauty is superficial", says Ann Marie Gardner, beauty director of "W" magazine. "They're fearful. They say: 'It doesn't have substance.' What many don't ⁶realize is that it's fun to reinvent yourself, as long as you don't take it too seriously". 

"Today" (ref.5) can be substituted by all the alternatives EXCEPT 

Observe o esquema relativo à sinapse neuronal e marque a alternativa que contém somente informações corretas sobre os mecanismos funcionais pré e pós-sináptico.

(UFPB) A figura a seguir mostra dois espelhos planos, E₁ e E₂ que formam um ângulo de 140° entre eles. Um raio luminoso R₁ incide e é refletido no espelho E₁ de acordo com a figura a seguir.

Nessa situação, para que o raio refletido R₂ seja paralelo ao espelho E₂ o ângulo de incidência de R₁ no espelho E₁ deve ser de:

Leia o texto abaixo, que trata da época da ditadura militar no Brasil.

Em 14 de dezembro de 1968, o Jornal do Brasil, um dos mais importantes jornais da época, foi às bancas com uma edição planejada para provocar uma sensação estranha aos leitores. Entre as bizarrices, o jornal estampou (...) a previsão do tempo na primeira página. Não satisfeito, anunciou: “Temperatura sufocante. O ar está irrespirável. O país está sendo varrido por fortes ventos”. O dia era de sol e céu fortemente azul, mas a edição falava sério: tentava alertar o leitor sobre a presença de censores no jornal (...).

SCHWARCZ, Lilia Moritz e STARLING, Heloisa M. Brasil: uma biografia. São Paulo: Cia das Letras, 2015, p. 455 (adaptado).

Durante a ditadura militar , os meios de comunicação e a produção artística era censurada, mas mesmo sob o crivo do Estado; a mensagem era passada de forma subliminar como podemos perceber no texto acima. Marque a alternativa que interpreta corretamente esta forma de resistência. 



“CHILE, which has South America’s most successful economy, elected its first female president this year. But the lot of Chilean women is by many measures worse than that of their sisters elsewhere in the region. A smaller proportion of them work and fewer achieve political power. According to a recent report by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, an association of parliaments, 15% of representatives in the lower house of Chile’s Congress are women, less than half the proportion in Costa Rica and Argentina and below the level in eight other countries in the region, including Venezuela and Bolivia. Chilean women hope that Michelle Bachelet’s presidency will improve their position but there are worries that she will do more harm than good.”

The Economist August 12th 2006

(FUVEST 2007 1ª FASE) According to the text, the Chilean president