PENSAR LIVREMENTE FAZ BEM

Não sou partidário e nem tão pouco fanático, em nenhum aspecto, tenho uma mente livre de paixões, com exceção a mulher, portanto não me julguem pelas minhas perguntas e comentários.... Pois, não quero isentar ninguém de qualquer responsabilidade, só gostaria que tirassemos algumas lições do passado...

Direto ao ponto!
Alguém, em sã consciência, realmente acredita que a solução dos problemas que o Brasil enfrenta, é remover um presidente do seu cargo?

"Fizemos" o mesmo com o Collor, mas é certo dizer: fizeram o mesmo com o Collor. O que mudou, de fato, depois de seu impeachment?

Com o "impeachment" de Fernando Collor, pôs fim à corrupção que permeava a política e políticos no Brasil?
Fazendo uma análise pós impeachment, a corrupção aumentou ou diminuiu?

Temos o direito e devemos demonstrar nossa insatisfação sim, mas desprovida de paixão - amando demais ou, odiando demais!

A paixão por Collor, fez com que ele fosse eleito, como o salvador da pátria....
O ódio por Collor, fez com ele fosse expulso, com o rabo entre as pernas, da presidência, como o vilão da pátria...

Será que de lá para cá, não aprendemos realmente nada?????

Nos aprensantam um "Santo Salvador" e ajoelhamos diante de tal santo, colocando todas as nossas esperanças e desejo aos pés do santo e voltamos para casa com o coração cheio de alegria e esperança, acreditando o Santo Maior, eleito por nós, pela nossa fé, resolva todos os nossos problemas...

A decepção não demora a bater às nossas portas, por que o Santo não resolveu "nossos problemas", como queríamos; então, passamos a odiar o santo....
Nos dão, então, um bode expiatório e, o aceitamos de bom grado, para descarregar toda a nossa insatifação e ira..... Porém, sem questionar a nós mesmos, qual seria nossa responsabilidade individual e que contribuiu para que tais eventos frustrantes, odiosos, atingisse a sociedade de modo geral...

Estamos vivendo ainda, de "forma realista", o "nascimento" ou Natal, como queiram; a "Sexta-feira santa" e o "Sábado do aleluia" - quando apedrejamos o Judas, para descarregar e esconder a nossa culpa na morte do cordeiro. Preferimos apedrejar o Judas a que assumir qualquer responssabilidade individual, pelos eventos que levaram ao fracasso da fé em quem foi escolhido como Salvador!!!

NÃO EXISTE SOLUÇÃO FÁCIL PARA NENHUM PROBLEMA!!!
PARA QUE QUALQUER PROBLEMA SEJA RESOLVIDO, É NECESSÁRIO QUE SE PAGUE UM PREÇO!!!
MAS É PRECISO TER CUIDADO PARA SE PAGAR O PREÇO ERRADO, POIS UMA VEZ QUE O PREÇO FOR PAGO, NÃO HAVERÁ DEVOLUÇÃO!!!

English Grammar Tips

Greetings and Farewells - (Cumprimentos e Despedidas)

Greetings
Hi             

Hello (mais usado ao telephone ou p/ chamar a atenção...)
Good Evening
Good Afternoon

Farewells
Bye

I´ll see you later

Good Night

Good Bye

Introductions (Apresentações) and City and Country of Origin (Cidade e País de origem)

My name is Clark Wendel
I am Clark Wendel

I am from Belo Horizonte 

(from: preposição que indica um lugar específico ou tempo inicial)
I was living in United States of America(in: preposição que indica uma área, limite, ou fronteira)

I am an English teacher(an: indefinite article; usado antes de palavras iniciadas por vogal ou h mudo (Em uma conversa introdutória, será necessário saber como usa o verbo to be e pronomes possessivos adjetivos)

_Grammar: Personal Pronouns, Forms of “to be” –

Present Tense :

Singular:                          Plural:
1. I am                             1. We are
2. You are                        2. You are
3. He is, she is, it is          3. They are

Past Tense :
1. I was                             1. We were
2. You were                      2. You were
3. He, She, It was             3. They were

 Pronomes Pessoais - São os que designam as pessoas.
• Pronomes subjetivos (caso reto)

Singular                      Plural
I                                  We
You                             You
He                               They
She
It
Estes pronomes funcionam como sujeito da oração, vindo antes do verbo: She comes by train.


A: Possessive Adjetives Pronouns :Used with noun: My book / your father / our parents

Singular:                      Plural:
My                               our
Your                            your
His, her, its                  their

• Adjetivos possessivos
My – meu (s), minha (s)
Your – seu (s), sua (s)
His – seu (s), sua (s), dele (s)
Her – seu (s), sua (s), dela (s)
Its – dele (s), neutro, animais
Our – nosso (s), nossa (s)
Your – seu (s) , sua (s)
Their – seus (s), sua (s), deles (as)

Têm a função de modificar um substantivo e deve sempre anteceder esse substantivo. He wrote his address on the envelope.


B: Possessive Pronouns : without noun: the book is mine /

Singular:                               Plural:
Mine                                      ours
Yours                                    yours
His, hers, its                          theirs

• Pronomes adjetivos possessivos 

Mine – o meu (s), a minha (s)
Yours – o seu (s), a sua (s)
His – o seu (s), a sua (s), o dele (s)
Her – o seu (s),a sua (s), o dela (s)
Its – o (a) dele (s), neutro, animais
Ours – o nosso (s), a nossa (s)
Yours – o (s) seu (s) , a (s) sua (s)
Theirs – o (s) seu (s) , a (s) sua (s), dele (s), dela (s)

Esses pronomes são usados em construções chamadas de double possessive (“posse em dobro”): 

A friend of mine = one of my friends
A cousing of hers = one of her cousins
An old friend dram of ours = one of my old dreams

English Grammar (At - On - In - To ...)

AT =>

PREPOSIÇÃO SIMPLES, EMPREGADA:

Em palavras que indicam posição:



Ex.: quem está à porta => who is at the door?



Em horas do dia:

Ao meio dia => at noonÀ meia noite => at midnight



Em ruas com número:

Ela mora à rua wall 15 => she lives at 15 wall street.



Com o verbo to arrive:

Ele chegou ao rio de janeiro => he arrived at rio de janeiro



Em frases idiomáticas:

À toda velocidade => at full speed

À torto e a direito => at random



ON =>

Preposição simples, empregada para indicar contato com uma superfície, ruas sem número, e um certo tempo particular, nunca excedendo a duração de um dia:



a pé => on foot

a cavalo => on horseback

a bordo => on board



IN =>

Preposição simples, empregada:



Para indicar lugar, tempo (dia, mês, ano, estação):

De manhã = in the morning

De tarde = in the afternoon



Para indicar condição, modo, moda:

Estar de luto = to be in mourning

Estar de cama = to be sick in bed

Vestido de azul = dressed in blue



TO =>

Preposição simples, empregada:

Para indicar movimento para alguma parte:

Vou à cidade => I am going to the city



Para ligar o termo antecedente ao objeto indereto. É muitas vezes omitido em inglês.

Ele mandou o livro à mulher => he sent the woman the book

Ele mandou o livro à mulher => he sent the book to the woman



BELOW = ABAIXO DE

Preposição composta, empregada para indicar difereça de nível entre dois objetos ou pessoas não relacionadas uma com a outra.

Ex: Isto está abaixo da dignidade de um homem => that is below the dignity of a man.



ABOUT

Preposição composta, empregada para indicar proximidade a certo número, quantidade e tempo.

Ex: Da vinci viveu cerca do ano 1500 => da vinci lived about the year 1500.



ABOVE

Preposição composta, empregada para indicar posição superior a um outro objeto.

Ex: Ela mora no andar acima de nós => she lives in the floor above us.



AGROUND => adverbio de lugar => the ship ran aground. (o navio chegou à costa/ dar à costa/ encalhar)

Great Articulator Exercises to Help You With English Pronunciation

Colocando um Ponto Final no Conformismo e no Inconformismo

A MELHOR FORMA DE PROTESTO CONTRA UMA MARCA OU PRODUTO É "NÃO COMPRÁ-LO" E "NEM UTILIZÁ-LO, MESMO QUE DE GRAÇA"; QUANTO A UM EVENTO, A MELHOR DE PROTESTAR, É NÃO APOIÁ-LO E NÃO PARTICIPAR DO MESMO.

Estamos insatisfeitos e descontentes com os preços dos carros no Brasil, que deixemos de comprá-los;
Estamos insatisfeitos com o transporte público coletivo; que TODOS, fiquemos em casa por uma semana, sem utilizar transporte público ou carros;
Estamos insatisfeitos com os nossos políticos, QUE FIQUEMOS TODOS EM CASA, no dia das eleições;

Está insatisfeito(a) e descontente com seu trabalho, não reclame, procure outro;
Está insatisfeito(a) e descontente com seu namorado/ namorada, termine;
Está insatisfeito(a) com sua vida, pare de reclamar e faça algo para mudá-la para melhor, você é ÚNICA pessoa que pode mudar a sua história.

É isso.... É nisso que estou pensando... necessita de consultoria, fale comigo! Dou consultoria até pra suicida... MORRA! ou pare de se sentir um(a) coitado(a).

Seja diferente a partir de hoje, a vida só se vive uma vez, apesar de muitos acreditarem no contrário... já imaginou se eu estiver certo? O que terás feito da vida?

BRAZIL, A COUNTRY NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY! IS THAT THE FINAL TRUTH ABOUT OUR COUNTRY?

The words: “Le Brésil n’est pas un pays serieux”- Brazil is not a serious country, pronounced by the Diplomat Carlos Alves De Souza Filho, when he was Ambassador to Brazil in France, between 1956 e 1964, has echoed throughout the world up to this day. Whenever the country is on the spotlight, people are reminded of these words spelled out years ago.

The perception of Brazil, almost 50 years ago, was that Brazil didn’t take things too seriously. Unfortunately, this hasn’t changed much; today, not only foreigners but also we, Brazilians believe that nothing in our country is to be taken seriously.

What is wrong with our country? What’s wrong with us, the people? Our politicians became more corrupt; our people less and lesser educated; our health system is not efficient, neither is our public transportation system and public safety is as bad as everything else. Our roads and streets have more vehicles than they could support.

Economically people might say that the country is doing well because of the fact that many foreign companies came to Brazil, creating more jobs opportunities. In a sense I agree with that, but I ask, at what cost? We pay too much more for industrialized products, than in any other country and yet, the products we buy do not have the same quality as they do in USA and Europe. The international companies come to Brazil, because here their profits are exorbitant; they can sale second class products as luxury products and Brazilian costumers don’t care. Consumerism is stimulated through government subsidies, which benefits big companies, increasing their profits.

The words Brazil is not a serious country, to whom it should be applied? A country is the territory of a nation and a Nation is made of sufficiently conscious people, about its unity, therefore, Brazilian people, according to Mr. Filho, are not serious people.

We the people, tend to blame the government and the politicians for everything bad that happens in the country, but the matter of the fact is that we are as much responsible. Each person has its share of responsibility about the good and the bad things that happen around us in our country. We always ask the government to do something or everything for us, we rarely ask what we can do to make Brazil, our country, a better place.

The government only exists because of people. There is no government without people. People can live without government, but no government can subsist without people’s support. If things are bad in Brazil, our country, we, the people, are to be blamed for it, as much or even more than our politicians, for they do not exist without us the people. We are co-responsible; we are the ones who elect our government and our representatives in congress.

Our politicians do not respect us, and therefore, do not represent us in congress accordingly, because they know we are weak as people. We are weak because we do not have the conscious of unity, which is necessary to make people powerful. We don’t think of Brazil as our own homeland, we are not really patriotic. Our sense of nationalism and patriotism is limited to Football; no wonder government has invested billions of reais to host international football championships in Brazil, not mentioning the amounts of money that is spent every year for national and local football championships.

If fact, we do not take things as serious as we should. Here it reigns the law of “jeitinho” known everywhere as “jetinho brasileiro”, which means to deceive people and bypass the rules to take advantage of everything and everyone, to achieve personal goals. The “jetinho brasileiro” made us more selfish, without a national conscience and less patriotic.

We, Brazilian people do not put the whole society before ourselves, not even for the greater good. We don’t see our country as our land or our community as our home to care for.

What is lacking is education in Brazil. The numbers are scary, even when compared to our South American neighbors. Brazil has a percentage of college students lower than Paraguayan; Only 3% of Brazilians are bilinguals. The country has 9% of illiterates, in Brazil there are 33.000.000 of functional illiterates. Last year 300.000 new illiterate emerged. Among the 300 best universities in the world, has no Brazilian university.

The UN 2012 Ranking, Brazil, which was already misplaced, dropped 3 more positions, and today is the number 88 in the world. Brazil is behind Belize, Fiji Islands, Chad, Azerbaijan, Mauritius, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, Belarus, Tajikistan, Botswana, Sao Tome and Principe, Namibia, Saint Lucia, Moldavia .... Brazil managed to stay even behind the Palestine that is at war.

An International embarrassment, but Brazilian people are very happy for being five times world champion, playing FOOTBAL!

DEATH PENALTY, CRIMINAL AGE, INCREASE IN PENALTY

The death penalty and the reduction of age for criminal responsibility as well as the increase to 60 years of jail time, as maximum term for convicted prisoners.

I AM IN FAVOR:

THE DEATH PENALTY AND THE REDUCTION OF THE AGE FOR CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY TO THE AGE OF 14 YEARS OLD;

INCREASING THE MAXIMUM PENALTY OF IMPRISONMENT OF 30 TO 60 YEARS;

CITIZENS SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE A GUN AT HOME, TO PROTECT AND DEFEND YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR PROPERTY OF ANY INVADER ATTACK THAT PUT AT RISK YOUR SAFETY AND THE SAFETY OF YOUR FAMILY.

THE BRAZILIAN LAW MAKERS SHOULD PASS A NON-TRESPASSING LAW THAT GUARANTEES A CITIZEN, THE RIGHT TO USE THE NECESSARY MEANS TO PROTECT AND DEFEND, ONESELF, ONE’S FAMILY AND ONE’S PROPERTY AGAINST ANYONE  WHO MIGHT THREAT THEM.

It is not fair that good citizens remain hostage to the impunity that prevails in Brazil. It can’t continue like it has been.

With the debate over the implementation or not of the death penalty in Brazil many theories against the death penalty emerge and most of these theories, is based on pure theory only, excluding relevant facts of everyday life, such as the increase of barbaric crimes in our midst ; impunity and / or light punishment . Some people want to end the death penalty, even before trying it and seeing the results.

I believe that given the fact of the exorbitant rise in crime, it is necessary to impose the death penalty in Brazil. The one instituted through the state, since it was already established by the criminals, against all good citizens. I do not believe that the death penalty per se, will definitely solve the crime problem, but it will solve in a temporary basis, until the return to order and peace prevail in our society. Criminals should be punished severely and that punishment should serves as an example, to inhibit the weak citizen joining crime. Things cannot continue as they have been lately; we must try anything possible to reestablish order and peace in our society.

The death penalty should indeed be instituted to punish repeat offenders and those who commit heinous crimes and to punish corrupt politicians as well, since corruption seriously undermines society in general.

There is much talk about Democracy and Freedom, but society doesn’t function well without rigid moral and ethics boundaries. We human beings need these limits, without them we are in risk to become irrational animals. The way things have been, we are not too far from that, we’ve seen so many atrocities right in front of our eyes.

The good and law abiding citizens are held hostage to violence, unable to defend themselves, as it the law prohibits having a weapon in your possession even your own life, your property from invasion. On the other side, the thugs are well armed and even more violent.

The other day, I heard the news on the radio- Itatiaia Station, the police arrested  a suspect of murdering a taxi driver during an assault, and the reporter asked the suspect  if he had anything  to say , and shamelessly answered that people must not react to the assault. This story of  not react to a crime committed against you, it is very convenient for the criminal, but for the law abiding people, never is, because these perpetrators have no mercy , for they are not content to just taking your belongings, but they also, rape and kill , even when the victim does not to their actions.

The minors, with 14 year of age can and should be punished criminally, as an adult. What it shouldn’t be accepted is current situation, as regular people continue to suffer violence at the hands of these criminals, protected by soft laws that do not punish them appropriately. The excuse that these people had no opportunities in life, does not serve as an excuse to protect them from being punished accordingly.

It is necessary to increase the maximum term of imprisonment, as it is today, the time in jail is almost insignificant that it feels like a resting time for prisoners recharge their energy, to commit more crimes when they live prison  . Over the years, the life expectancy of the man rose up. When the maximum sentence of 30 years was established, the life expectancy of men was at most 50 years, having good health at the time. Today, with life expectancy ranging between 70 and 80 years, it is therefore, only fair that the maximum term of imprisonment is increased to at least 60 years of imprisonment term.

Another important detail, the prisoner has to work. The public cleaning service for example, should be run by jailed, thereby the cities would save a fortune with this service – money that could be invest in other important areas in the community, and the prisoner would not be idle. And we should not agree with the excuse- given by many, if the prisoner worked, that would take the work of someone else, because I do not believe that is 100% true.