2024 USHERED IN TWO FIRSTS FOR MILITARY WOMEN.
WE’RE ALL CELEBRATING.
American women kicked off 2024 with two milestones that flipped the script on the way society keeps judging, classifying and relating to us. The first happened in Annapolis, Maryland, where Vice Admiral Yvette Davids − a mother of twin boys with an Audrey Hepburn vibe − became the first woman to
lead the 178-year-old U.S. Naval Academy. Then, Air Force 2nd Lieutenant Madison Marsh became the newest Miss America, the first-active duty military officer to win the pageant. Beauty can have brains and brawn; brains and brawn can be beautiful. Take that, society.
Marsh’s crown matters more when it comes to her job in the Air Force. She busts the myth that women who do the jobs that used to be held only by men have to look and act like them. This is important at the Naval Academy, where some graduates watched Davids show compassion, a vivacious personality
and maternal pride as her kids cheered her on in a room full of military brass. “It was surreal,” said Sharon Hanley Disher, 65, one of the first women to graduate from the academy in 1980. She was at the ceremony promoting Davids, who called out the class of pioneers twice during her speech in Annapolis.
She couldn’t stop thinking about her first evening at the academy, back in 1976. “Miss Hanley, I don’t like women in my school,” an upperclassman told her, she recalled, pointing his finger in her face. “I don’t want women in my school. It will be my mission to make sure you’re long gone before I graduate.” She
graduated, and Davids, who graduated in 1989, thanked her and others for helping pave the way.
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for,” said Davids in her welcome address, quoting the words of Admiral Grace Hopper. She will face doubt and challenges to her leadership. But besides proving that she can lead, she will be confronted with the opportunity to address women’s experience as
minorities in a school where they are just 28 percent of the student population.
Elizabeth Rowe, who was also in the class of 1980 with Hanley Disher, was celebrated as a pioneer in her small, Maryland farm town. When she went off to the academy, she was stunned by the hatred she faced when she got there. “While I knew it was first class and it was all male, I didn’t have any perspective. The
reaction we got − a sort of resentment, hatred, otherness, all of that − was unexpected. I spent four years just trying to get through it. The hazing and harassment − dead rats being left in mailboxes, the constant put-downs − were largely unaddressed by leaders,” she said.
Sadly, current students still face some of what she endured. Hanley Disher, who married a fellow graduate and again made history when all three of their children graduated from the academy, said she was thrilled to see her daughter have more congressionally mandated opportunities available to her. But she was
heartbroken when she heard that some of the old school misogyny was still there. “This one guy told my daughter a joke,” she recounted. He said: “What did the ugliest girl in the world say to the second ugliest girl in the world? What company are you in?”
Some of the women from the class of 1980 have never returned to the academy to celebrate milestones, as their colleagues took command in the Navy and rose in the ranks at the academy. They told Hanley Disher − when she reached out to them for reunions or events − that they can’t. But people change, places
change. During their 35th reunion, one of the men who was a primo harasser of women apologized to her. He told her that he has been living with guilt over the things he said and did, and wanted to apologize to all of them. So, Disher took him by the arm and said “Let’s go”. She accompanied him on his apology
tour, and then they cried about it at the bar.
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Adaptado de washingtonpost.com, 15/01/2024.
Beauty can have brains and brawn; brains and brawn can be beautiful. (l. 5-6)
By stating the above, the author intends to question a certain view of beauty in relation to intelligence and physical strength.
This view is based on the notion of:
2024 USHERED IN TWO FIRSTS FOR MILITARY WOMEN.
WE’RE ALL CELEBRATING.
American women kicked off 2024 with two milestones that flipped the script on the way society keeps judging, classifying and relating to us. The first happened in Annapolis, Maryland, where Vice Admiral Yvette Davids − a mother of twin boys with an Audrey Hepburn vibe − became the first woman to
lead the 178-year-old U.S. Naval Academy. Then, Air Force 2nd Lieutenant Madison Marsh became the newest Miss America, the first-active duty military officer to win the pageant. Beauty can have brains and brawn; brains and brawn can be beautiful. Take that, society.
Marsh’s crown matters more when it comes to her job in the Air Force. She busts the myth that women who do the jobs that used to be held only by men have to look and act like them. This is important at the Naval Academy, where some graduates watched Davids show compassion, a vivacious personality
and maternal pride as her kids cheered her on in a room full of military brass. “It was surreal,” said Sharon Hanley Disher, 65, one of the first women to graduate from the academy in 1980. She was at the ceremony promoting Davids, who called out the class of pioneers twice during her speech in Annapolis.
She couldn’t stop thinking about her first evening at the academy, back in 1976. “Miss Hanley, I don’t like women in my school,” an upperclassman told her, she recalled, pointing his finger in her face. “I don’t want women in my school. It will be my mission to make sure you’re long gone before I graduate.” She
graduated, and Davids, who graduated in 1989, thanked her and others for helping pave the way.
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for,” said Davids in her welcome address, quoting the words of Admiral Grace Hopper. She will face doubt and challenges to her leadership. But besides proving that she can lead, she will be confronted with the opportunity to address women’s experience as
minorities in a school where they are just 28 percent of the student population.
Elizabeth Rowe, who was also in the class of 1980 with Hanley Disher, was celebrated as a pioneer in her small, Maryland farm town. When she went off to the academy, she was stunned by the hatred she faced when she got there. “While I knew it was first class and it was all male, I didn’t have any perspective. The
reaction we got − a sort of resentment, hatred, otherness, all of that − was unexpected. I spent four years just trying to get through it. The hazing and harassment − dead rats being left in mailboxes, the constant put-downs − were largely unaddressed by leaders,” she said.
Sadly, current students still face some of what she endured. Hanley Disher, who married a fellow graduate and again made history when all three of their children graduated from the academy, said she was thrilled to see her daughter have more congressionally mandated opportunities available to her. But she was
heartbroken when she heard that some of the old school misogyny was still there. “This one guy told my daughter a joke,” she recounted. He said: “What did the ugliest girl in the world say to the second ugliest girl in the world? What company are you in?”
Some of the women from the class of 1980 have never returned to the academy to celebrate milestones, as their colleagues took command in the Navy and rose in the ranks at the academy. They told Hanley Disher − when she reached out to them for reunions or events − that they can’t. But people change, places
change. During their 35th reunion, one of the men who was a primo harasser of women apologized to her. He told her that he has been living with guilt over the things he said and did, and wanted to apologize to all of them. So, Disher took him by the arm and said “Let’s go”. She accompanied him on his apology
tour, and then they cried about it at the bar.
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Adaptado de washingtonpost.com, 15/01/2024.
They told Hanley Disher − when she reached out to them for reunions or events − that they can’t. (l. 34-35)
The underlined pronoun refers to women that are:
2024 USHERED IN TWO FIRSTS FOR MILITARY WOMEN.
WE’RE ALL CELEBRATING.
American women kicked off 2024 with two milestones that flipped the script on the way society keeps judging, classifying and relating to us. The first happened in Annapolis, Maryland, where Vice Admiral Yvette Davids − a mother of twin boys with an Audrey Hepburn vibe − became the first woman to
lead the 178-year-old U.S. Naval Academy. Then, Air Force 2nd Lieutenant Madison Marsh became the newest Miss America, the first-active duty military officer to win the pageant. Beauty can have brains and brawn; brains and brawn can be beautiful. Take that, society.
Marsh’s crown matters more when it comes to her job in the Air Force. She busts the myth that women who do the jobs that used to be held only by men have to look and act like them. This is important at the Naval Academy, where some graduates watched Davids show compassion, a vivacious personality
and maternal pride as her kids cheered her on in a room full of military brass. “It was surreal,” said Sharon Hanley Disher, 65, one of the first women to graduate from the academy in 1980. She was at the ceremony promoting Davids, who called out the class of pioneers twice during her speech in Annapolis.
She couldn’t stop thinking about her first evening at the academy, back in 1976. “Miss Hanley, I don’t like women in my school,” an upperclassman told her, she recalled, pointing his finger in her face. “I don’t want women in my school. It will be my mission to make sure you’re long gone before I graduate.” She
graduated, and Davids, who graduated in 1989, thanked her and others for helping pave the way.
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for,” said Davids in her welcome address, quoting the words of Admiral Grace Hopper. She will face doubt and challenges to her leadership. But besides proving that she can lead, she will be confronted with the opportunity to address women’s experience as
minorities in a school where they are just 28 percent of the student population.
Elizabeth Rowe, who was also in the class of 1980 with Hanley Disher, was celebrated as a pioneer in her small, Maryland farm town. When she went off to the academy, she was stunned by the hatred she faced when she got there. “While I knew it was first class and it was all male, I didn’t have any perspective. The
reaction we got − a sort of resentment, hatred, otherness, all of that − was unexpected. I spent four years just trying to get through it. The hazing and harassment − dead rats being left in mailboxes, the constant put-downs − were largely unaddressed by leaders,” she said.
Sadly, current students still face some of what she endured. Hanley Disher, who married a fellow graduate and again made history when all three of their children graduated from the academy, said she was thrilled to see her daughter have more congressionally mandated opportunities available to her. But she was
heartbroken when she heard that some of the old school misogyny was still there. “This one guy told my daughter a joke,” she recounted. He said: “What did the ugliest girl in the world say to the second ugliest girl in the world? What company are you in?”
Some of the women from the class of 1980 have never returned to the academy to celebrate milestones, as their colleagues took command in the Navy and rose in the ranks at the academy. They told Hanley Disher − when she reached out to them for reunions or events − that they can’t. But people change, places
change. During their 35th reunion, one of the men who was a primo harasser of women apologized to her. He told her that he has been living with guilt over the things he said and did, and wanted to apologize to all of them. So, Disher took him by the arm and said “Let’s go”. She accompanied him on his apology
tour, and then they cried about it at the bar.
PETULA DVORAK
Adaptado de washingtonpost.com, 15/01/2024.
In relation to readers, the recounts shared throughout the text are intended to:
2024 USHERED IN TWO FIRSTS FOR MILITARY WOMEN.
WE’RE ALL CELEBRATING.
American women kicked off 2024 with two milestones that flipped the script on the way society keeps judging, classifying and relating to us. The first happened in Annapolis, Maryland, where Vice Admiral Yvette Davids − a mother of twin boys with an Audrey Hepburn vibe − became the first woman to
lead the 178-year-old U.S. Naval Academy. Then, Air Force 2nd Lieutenant Madison Marsh became the newest Miss America, the first-active duty military officer to win the pageant. Beauty can have brains and brawn; brains and brawn can be beautiful. Take that, society.
Marsh’s crown matters more when it comes to her job in the Air Force. She busts the myth that women who do the jobs that used to be held only by men have to look and act like them. This is important at the Naval Academy, where some graduates watched Davids show compassion, a vivacious personality
and maternal pride as her kids cheered her on in a room full of military brass. “It was surreal,” said Sharon Hanley Disher, 65, one of the first women to graduate from the academy in 1980. She was at the ceremony promoting Davids, who called out the class of pioneers twice during her speech in Annapolis.
She couldn’t stop thinking about her first evening at the academy, back in 1976. “Miss Hanley, I don’t like women in my school,” an upperclassman told her, she recalled, pointing his finger in her face. “I don’t want women in my school. It will be my mission to make sure you’re long gone before I graduate.” She
graduated, and Davids, who graduated in 1989, thanked her and others for helping pave the way.
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for,” said Davids in her welcome address, quoting the words of Admiral Grace Hopper. She will face doubt and challenges to her leadership. But besides proving that she can lead, she will be confronted with the opportunity to address women’s experience as
minorities in a school where they are just 28 percent of the student population.
Elizabeth Rowe, who was also in the class of 1980 with Hanley Disher, was celebrated as a pioneer in her small, Maryland farm town. When she went off to the academy, she was stunned by the hatred she faced when she got there. “While I knew it was first class and it was all male, I didn’t have any perspective. The
reaction we got − a sort of resentment, hatred, otherness, all of that − was unexpected. I spent four years just trying to get through it. The hazing and harassment − dead rats being left in mailboxes, the constant put-downs − were largely unaddressed by leaders,” she said.
Sadly, current students still face some of what she endured. Hanley Disher, who married a fellow graduate and again made history when all three of their children graduated from the academy, said she was thrilled to see her daughter have more congressionally mandated opportunities available to her. But she was
heartbroken when she heard that some of the old school misogyny was still there. “This one guy told my daughter a joke,” she recounted. He said: “What did the ugliest girl in the world say to the second ugliest girl in the world? What company are you in?”
Some of the women from the class of 1980 have never returned to the academy to celebrate milestones, as their colleagues took command in the Navy and rose in the ranks at the academy. They told Hanley Disher − when she reached out to them for reunions or events − that they can’t. But people change, places
change. During their 35th reunion, one of the men who was a primo harasser of women apologized to her. He told her that he has been living with guilt over the things he said and did, and wanted to apologize to all of them. So, Disher took him by the arm and said “Let’s go”. She accompanied him on his apology
tour, and then they cried about it at the bar.
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Adaptado de washingtonpost.com, 15/01/2024.
The reaction we got − a sort of resentment, hatred, otherness, all of that − was unexpected. (l. 23-24)
The underlined word implies that the reason women were harassed in the academy is:
2024 USHERED IN TWO FIRSTS FOR MILITARY WOMEN.
WE’RE ALL CELEBRATING.
American women kicked off 2024 with two milestones that flipped the script on the way society keeps judging, classifying and relating to us. The first happened in Annapolis, Maryland, where Vice Admiral Yvette Davids − a mother of twin boys with an Audrey Hepburn vibe − became the first woman to
lead the 178-year-old U.S. Naval Academy. Then, Air Force 2nd Lieutenant Madison Marsh became the newest Miss America, the first-active duty military officer to win the pageant. Beauty can have brains and brawn; brains and brawn can be beautiful. Take that, society.
Marsh’s crown matters more when it comes to her job in the Air Force. She busts the myth that women who do the jobs that used to be held only by men have to look and act like them. This is important at the Naval Academy, where some graduates watched Davids show compassion, a vivacious personality
and maternal pride as her kids cheered her on in a room full of military brass. “It was surreal,” said Sharon Hanley Disher, 65, one of the first women to graduate from the academy in 1980. She was at the ceremony promoting Davids, who called out the class of pioneers twice during her speech in Annapolis.
She couldn’t stop thinking about her first evening at the academy, back in 1976. “Miss Hanley, I don’t like women in my school,” an upperclassman told her, she recalled, pointing his finger in her face. “I don’t want women in my school. It will be my mission to make sure you’re long gone before I graduate.” She
graduated, and Davids, who graduated in 1989, thanked her and others for helping pave the way.
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for,” said Davids in her welcome address, quoting the words of Admiral Grace Hopper. She will face doubt and challenges to her leadership. But besides proving that she can lead, she will be confronted with the opportunity to address women’s experience as
minorities in a school where they are just 28 percent of the student population.
Elizabeth Rowe, who was also in the class of 1980 with Hanley Disher, was celebrated as a pioneer in her small, Maryland farm town. When she went off to the academy, she was stunned by the hatred she faced when she got there. “While I knew it was first class and it was all male, I didn’t have any perspective. The
reaction we got − a sort of resentment, hatred, otherness, all of that − was unexpected. I spent four years just trying to get through it. The hazing and harassment − dead rats being left in mailboxes, the constant put-downs − were largely unaddressed by leaders,” she said.
Sadly, current students still face some of what she endured. Hanley Disher, who married a fellow graduate and again made history when all three of their children graduated from the academy, said she was thrilled to see her daughter have more congressionally mandated opportunities available to her. But she was
heartbroken when she heard that some of the old school misogyny was still there. “This one guy told my daughter a joke,” she recounted. He said: “What did the ugliest girl in the world say to the second ugliest girl in the world? What company are you in?”
Some of the women from the class of 1980 have never returned to the academy to celebrate milestones, as their colleagues took command in the Navy and rose in the ranks at the academy. They told Hanley Disher − when she reached out to them for reunions or events − that they can’t. But people change, places
change. During their 35th reunion, one of the men who was a primo harasser of women apologized to her. He told her that he has been living with guilt over the things he said and did, and wanted to apologize to all of them. So, Disher took him by the arm and said “Let’s go”. She accompanied him on his apology
tour, and then they cried about it at the bar.
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Adaptado de washingtonpost.com, 15/01/2024.
The article argues that women are redefining their roles in a male-dominated field.
To achieve such purpose, the following textual strategy is used:
2024 USHERED IN TWO FIRSTS FOR MILITARY WOMEN.
WE’RE ALL CELEBRATING.
American women kicked off 2024 with two milestones that flipped the script on the way society keeps judging, classifying and relating to us. The first happened in Annapolis, Maryland, where Vice Admiral Yvette Davids − a mother of twin boys with an Audrey Hepburn vibe − became the first woman to
lead the 178-year-old U.S. Naval Academy. Then, Air Force 2nd Lieutenant Madison Marsh became the newest Miss America, the first-active duty military officer to win the pageant. Beauty can have brains and brawn; brains and brawn can be beautiful. Take that, society.
Marsh’s crown matters more when it comes to her job in the Air Force. She busts the myth that women who do the jobs that used to be held only by men have to look and act like them. This is important at the Naval Academy, where some graduates watched Davids show compassion, a vivacious personality
and maternal pride as her kids cheered her on in a room full of military brass. “It was surreal,” said Sharon Hanley Disher, 65, one of the first women to graduate from the academy in 1980. She was at the ceremony promoting Davids, who called out the class of pioneers twice during her speech in Annapolis.
She couldn’t stop thinking about her first evening at the academy, back in 1976. “Miss Hanley, I don’t like women in my school,” an upperclassman told her, she recalled, pointing his finger in her face. “I don’t want women in my school. It will be my mission to make sure you’re long gone before I graduate.” She
graduated, and Davids, who graduated in 1989, thanked her and others for helping pave the way.
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for,” said Davids in her welcome address, quoting the words of Admiral Grace Hopper. She will face doubt and challenges to her leadership. But besides proving that she can lead, she will be confronted with the opportunity to address women’s experience as
minorities in a school where they are just 28 percent of the student population.
Elizabeth Rowe, who was also in the class of 1980 with Hanley Disher, was celebrated as a pioneer in her small, Maryland farm town. When she went off to the academy, she was stunned by the hatred she faced when she got there. “While I knew it was first class and it was all male, I didn’t have any perspective. The
reaction we got − a sort of resentment, hatred, otherness, all of that − was unexpected. I spent four years just trying to get through it. The hazing and harassment − dead rats being left in mailboxes, the constant put-downs − were largely unaddressed by leaders,” she said.
Sadly, current students still face some of what she endured. Hanley Disher, who married a fellow graduate and again made history when all three of their children graduated from the academy, said she was thrilled to see her daughter have more congressionally mandated opportunities available to her. But she was
heartbroken when she heard that some of the old school misogyny was still there. “This one guy told my daughter a joke,” she recounted. He said: “What did the ugliest girl in the world say to the second ugliest girl in the world? What company are you in?”
Some of the women from the class of 1980 have never returned to the academy to celebrate milestones, as their colleagues took command in the Navy and rose in the ranks at the academy. They told Hanley Disher − when she reached out to them for reunions or events − that they can’t. But people change, places
change. During their 35th reunion, one of the men who was a primo harasser of women apologized to her. He told her that he has been living with guilt over the things he said and did, and wanted to apologize to all of them. So, Disher took him by the arm and said “Let’s go”. She accompanied him on his apology
tour, and then they cried about it at the bar.
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A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for (l. 17)
According to the author of the article, the quote above emphasizes that, in order to lead, women should be prepared to respond to the following challenge:
2024 USHERED IN TWO FIRSTS FOR MILITARY WOMEN.
WE’RE ALL CELEBRATING.
American women kicked off 2024 with two milestones that flipped the script on the way society keeps judging, classifying and relating to us. The first happened in Annapolis, Maryland, where Vice Admiral Yvette Davids − a mother of twin boys with an Audrey Hepburn vibe − became the first woman to
lead the 178-year-old U.S. Naval Academy. Then, Air Force 2nd Lieutenant Madison Marsh became the newest Miss America, the first-active duty military officer to win the pageant. Beauty can have brains and brawn; brains and brawn can be beautiful. Take that, society.
Marsh’s crown matters more when it comes to her job in the Air Force. She busts the myth that women who do the jobs that used to be held only by men have to look and act like them. This is important at the Naval Academy, where some graduates watched Davids show compassion, a vivacious personality
and maternal pride as her kids cheered her on in a room full of military brass. “It was surreal,” said Sharon Hanley Disher, 65, one of the first women to graduate from the academy in 1980. She was at the ceremony promoting Davids, who called out the class of pioneers twice during her speech in Annapolis.
She couldn’t stop thinking about her first evening at the academy, back in 1976. “Miss Hanley, I don’t like women in my school,” an upperclassman told her, she recalled, pointing his finger in her face. “I don’t want women in my school. It will be my mission to make sure you’re long gone before I graduate.” She
graduated, and Davids, who graduated in 1989, thanked her and others for helping pave the way.
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for,” said Davids in her welcome address, quoting the words of Admiral Grace Hopper. She will face doubt and challenges to her leadership. But besides proving that she can lead, she will be confronted with the opportunity to address women’s experience as
minorities in a school where they are just 28 percent of the student population.
Elizabeth Rowe, who was also in the class of 1980 with Hanley Disher, was celebrated as a pioneer in her small, Maryland farm town. When she went off to the academy, she was stunned by the hatred she faced when she got there. “While I knew it was first class and it was all male, I didn’t have any perspective. The
reaction we got − a sort of resentment, hatred, otherness, all of that − was unexpected. I spent four years just trying to get through it. The hazing and harassment − dead rats being left in mailboxes, the constant put-downs − were largely unaddressed by leaders,” she said.
Sadly, current students still face some of what she endured. Hanley Disher, who married a fellow graduate and again made history when all three of their children graduated from the academy, said she was thrilled to see her daughter have more congressionally mandated opportunities available to her. But she was
heartbroken when she heard that some of the old school misogyny was still there. “This one guy told my daughter a joke,” she recounted. He said: “What did the ugliest girl in the world say to the second ugliest girl in the world? What company are you in?”
Some of the women from the class of 1980 have never returned to the academy to celebrate milestones, as their colleagues took command in the Navy and rose in the ranks at the academy. They told Hanley Disher − when she reached out to them for reunions or events − that they can’t. But people change, places
change. During their 35th reunion, one of the men who was a primo harasser of women apologized to her. He told her that he has been living with guilt over the things he said and did, and wanted to apologize to all of them. So, Disher took him by the arm and said “Let’s go”. She accompanied him on his apology
tour, and then they cried about it at the bar.
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Adaptado de washingtonpost.com, 15/01/2024.
Sharon Disher uses the word surreal (l. 10) to express her opinion on Yvette Davids’ promotion ceremony.
This lexical choice characterizes the ceremony as:
2024 USHERED IN TWO FIRSTS FOR MILITARY WOMEN.
WE’RE ALL CELEBRATING.
American women kicked off 2024 with two milestones that flipped the script on the way society keeps judging, classifying and relating to us. The first happened in Annapolis, Maryland, where Vice Admiral Yvette Davids − a mother of twin boys with an Audrey Hepburn vibe − became the first woman to
lead the 178-year-old U.S. Naval Academy. Then, Air Force 2nd Lieutenant Madison Marsh became the newest Miss America, the first-active duty military officer to win the pageant. Beauty can have brains and brawn; brains and brawn can be beautiful. Take that, society.
Marsh’s crown matters more when it comes to her job in the Air Force. She busts the myth that women who do the jobs that used to be held only by men have to look and act like them. This is important at the Naval Academy, where some graduates watched Davids show compassion, a vivacious personality
and maternal pride as her kids cheered her on in a room full of military brass. “It was surreal,” said Sharon Hanley Disher, 65, one of the first women to graduate from the academy in 1980. She was at the ceremony promoting Davids, who called out the class of pioneers twice during her speech in Annapolis.
She couldn’t stop thinking about her first evening at the academy, back in 1976. “Miss Hanley, I don’t like women in my school,” an upperclassman told her, she recalled, pointing his finger in her face. “I don’t want women in my school. It will be my mission to make sure you’re long gone before I graduate.” She
graduated, and Davids, who graduated in 1989, thanked her and others for helping pave the way.
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for,” said Davids in her welcome address, quoting the words of Admiral Grace Hopper. She will face doubt and challenges to her leadership. But besides proving that she can lead, she will be confronted with the opportunity to address women’s experience as
minorities in a school where they are just 28 percent of the student population.
Elizabeth Rowe, who was also in the class of 1980 with Hanley Disher, was celebrated as a pioneer in her small, Maryland farm town. When she went off to the academy, she was stunned by the hatred she faced when she got there. “While I knew it was first class and it was all male, I didn’t have any perspective. The
reaction we got − a sort of resentment, hatred, otherness, all of that − was unexpected. I spent four years just trying to get through it. The hazing and harassment − dead rats being left in mailboxes, the constant put-downs − were largely unaddressed by leaders,” she said.
Sadly, current students still face some of what she endured. Hanley Disher, who married a fellow graduate and again made history when all three of their children graduated from the academy, said she was thrilled to see her daughter have more congressionally mandated opportunities available to her. But she was
heartbroken when she heard that some of the old school misogyny was still there. “This one guy told my daughter a joke,” she recounted. He said: “What did the ugliest girl in the world say to the second ugliest girl in the world? What company are you in?”
Some of the women from the class of 1980 have never returned to the academy to celebrate milestones, as their colleagues took command in the Navy and rose in the ranks at the academy. They told Hanley Disher − when she reached out to them for reunions or events − that they can’t. But people change, places
change. During their 35th reunion, one of the men who was a primo harasser of women apologized to her. He told her that he has been living with guilt over the things he said and did, and wanted to apologize to all of them. So, Disher took him by the arm and said “Let’s go”. She accompanied him on his apology
tour, and then they cried about it at the bar.
PETULA DVORAK
Adaptado de washingtonpost.com, 15/01/2024.
The report in the last paragraph describes when a woman harasser apologized to Hanley Disher and to other women.
Regarding the context, women in the military might experience this apology as:
2024 USHERED IN TWO FIRSTS FOR MILITARY WOMEN.
WE’RE ALL CELEBRATING.
American women kicked off 2024 with two milestones that flipped the script on the way society keeps judging, classifying and relating to us. The first happened in Annapolis, Maryland, where Vice Admiral Yvette Davids − a mother of twin boys with an Audrey Hepburn vibe − became the first woman to
lead the 178-year-old U.S. Naval Academy. Then, Air Force 2nd Lieutenant Madison Marsh became the newest Miss America, the first-active duty military officer to win the pageant. Beauty can have brains and brawn; brains and brawn can be beautiful. Take that, society.
Marsh’s crown matters more when it comes to her job in the Air Force. She busts the myth that women who do the jobs that used to be held only by men have to look and act like them. This is important at the Naval Academy, where some graduates watched Davids show compassion, a vivacious personality
and maternal pride as her kids cheered her on in a room full of military brass. “It was surreal,” said Sharon Hanley Disher, 65, one of the first women to graduate from the academy in 1980. She was at the ceremony promoting Davids, who called out the class of pioneers twice during her speech in Annapolis.
She couldn’t stop thinking about her first evening at the academy, back in 1976. “Miss Hanley, I don’t like women in my school,” an upperclassman told her, she recalled, pointing his finger in her face. “I don’t want women in my school. It will be my mission to make sure you’re long gone before I graduate.” She
graduated, and Davids, who graduated in 1989, thanked her and others for helping pave the way.
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for,” said Davids in her welcome address, quoting the words of Admiral Grace Hopper. She will face doubt and challenges to her leadership. But besides proving that she can lead, she will be confronted with the opportunity to address women’s experience as
minorities in a school where they are just 28 percent of the student population.
Elizabeth Rowe, who was also in the class of 1980 with Hanley Disher, was celebrated as a pioneer in her small, Maryland farm town. When she went off to the academy, she was stunned by the hatred she faced when she got there. “While I knew it was first class and it was all male, I didn’t have any perspective. The
reaction we got − a sort of resentment, hatred, otherness, all of that − was unexpected. I spent four years just trying to get through it. The hazing and harassment − dead rats being left in mailboxes, the constant put-downs − were largely unaddressed by leaders,” she said.
Sadly, current students still face some of what she endured. Hanley Disher, who married a fellow graduate and again made history when all three of their children graduated from the academy, said she was thrilled to see her daughter have more congressionally mandated opportunities available to her. But she was
heartbroken when she heard that some of the old school misogyny was still there. “This one guy told my daughter a joke,” she recounted. He said: “What did the ugliest girl in the world say to the second ugliest girl in the world? What company are you in?”
Some of the women from the class of 1980 have never returned to the academy to celebrate milestones, as their colleagues took command in the Navy and rose in the ranks at the academy. They told Hanley Disher − when she reached out to them for reunions or events − that they can’t. But people change, places
change. During their 35th reunion, one of the men who was a primo harasser of women apologized to her. He told her that he has been living with guilt over the things he said and did, and wanted to apologize to all of them. So, Disher took him by the arm and said “Let’s go”. She accompanied him on his apology
tour, and then they cried about it at the bar.
PETULA DVORAK
Adaptado de washingtonpost.com, 15/01/2024.
Take that, society. (l. 6)
The choice of the underlined expression suggests the following attitude towards society’s expectations:
2024 USHERED IN TWO FIRSTS FOR MILITARY WOMEN.
WE’RE ALL CELEBRATING.
American women kicked off 2024 with two milestones that flipped the script on the way society keeps judging, classifying and relating to us. The first happened in Annapolis, Maryland, where Vice Admiral Yvette Davids − a mother of twin boys with an Audrey Hepburn vibe − became the first woman to
lead the 178-year-old U.S. Naval Academy. Then, Air Force 2nd Lieutenant Madison Marsh became the newest Miss America, the first-active duty military officer to win the pageant. Beauty can have brains and brawn; brains and brawn can be beautiful. Take that, society.
Marsh’s crown matters more when it comes to her job in the Air Force. She busts the myth that women who do the jobs that used to be held only by men have to look and act like them. This is important at the Naval Academy, where some graduates watched Davids show compassion, a vivacious personality
and maternal pride as her kids cheered her on in a room full of military brass. “It was surreal,” said Sharon Hanley Disher, 65, one of the first women to graduate from the academy in 1980. She was at the ceremony promoting Davids, who called out the class of pioneers twice during her speech in Annapolis.
She couldn’t stop thinking about her first evening at the academy, back in 1976. “Miss Hanley, I don’t like women in my school,” an upperclassman told her, she recalled, pointing his finger in her face. “I don’t want women in my school. It will be my mission to make sure you’re long gone before I graduate.” She
graduated, and Davids, who graduated in 1989, thanked her and others for helping pave the way.
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for,” said Davids in her welcome address, quoting the words of Admiral Grace Hopper. She will face doubt and challenges to her leadership. But besides proving that she can lead, she will be confronted with the opportunity to address women’s experience as
minorities in a school where they are just 28 percent of the student population.
Elizabeth Rowe, who was also in the class of 1980 with Hanley Disher, was celebrated as a pioneer in her small, Maryland farm town. When she went off to the academy, she was stunned by the hatred she faced when she got there. “While I knew it was first class and it was all male, I didn’t have any perspective. The
reaction we got − a sort of resentment, hatred, otherness, all of that − was unexpected. I spent four years just trying to get through it. The hazing and harassment − dead rats being left in mailboxes, the constant put-downs − were largely unaddressed by leaders,” she said.
Sadly, current students still face some of what she endured. Hanley Disher, who married a fellow graduate and again made history when all three of their children graduated from the academy, said she was thrilled to see her daughter have more congressionally mandated opportunities available to her. But she was
heartbroken when she heard that some of the old school misogyny was still there. “This one guy told my daughter a joke,” she recounted. He said: “What did the ugliest girl in the world say to the second ugliest girl in the world? What company are you in?”
Some of the women from the class of 1980 have never returned to the academy to celebrate milestones, as their colleagues took command in the Navy and rose in the ranks at the academy. They told Hanley Disher − when she reached out to them for reunions or events − that they can’t. But people change, places
change. During their 35th reunion, one of the men who was a primo harasser of women apologized to her. He told her that he has been living with guilt over the things he said and did, and wanted to apologize to all of them. So, Disher took him by the arm and said “Let’s go”. She accompanied him on his apology
tour, and then they cried about it at the bar.
PETULA DVORAK
Adaptado de washingtonpost.com, 15/01/2024.
The tone of the article is best described as:
Digital technology is everywhere, and it is changing the way citizens behave. From working patterns to the day-to-day services we use and the places we live, there is no aspect of modern life that remains untouched by digital tools and solutions. This represents both the biggest challenge and opportunity for public sector organizations as they seek to engage citizens and create future-proofed, sustainably-minded societies.
The public sector plays a key role in setting the sustainability agenda for society, including the approach to circularity and recycling. While private sector companies can greatly influence the successful achievement of sustainability targets, the public sector bears the responsibility for outlining how society can achieve these goals more broadly at both national and local levels. By embracing the same digital technologies that are transforming their citizens’ lives, public sector organizations can help pivot society towards a more sustainable tomorrow.
In addition, there has been a rise of smart cities and the circular economy. Urban areas account for 75% of global carbon dioxide emissions, and the 100 cities with the greatest footprints account for 18% of global emissions. But there are more than 70 cities worldwide pledging to become carbon neutral by 2050.
Public sector actors can fuel sustainable transformation by releasing capital to invest in sustainable city transformation projects and smart cities. By tapping into the value of data and green infrastructure, smart cities can combat climate risks and become more resilient to the many unexpected events of today’s increasingly unpredictable world. These cities can supportthe decoupling of resource use and environmental impacts by diffusing circular economy approaches to production and consumption.
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Based on the ideas presented in the previous text, as well as on its linguistic aspects, judge the following items.
The text indicates that, by investing in sustainable city transformation projects and smart cities, public sector actors can help cities become better prepared to face climate risks and unpredictable events.
In paragraph 3, the statement “Instead of protecting children, state governments have willfully enabled anyone to monitor them and collect their personal information online” means that the permission given by state governments to third-party companies was
In paragraph 7, the statement “the General Personal Data Protection Law [...] does not explicitly prohibit actors from exploiting children’s information” means that the data protection law does not currently prevent educational websites from
In the segment of paragraph 2 “These websites not only watched children inside of their online classrooms, but followed them across the internet”, the term them refers to
Does Snoozing Your Alarm Really Increase Sleepiness?
Snoozing the alarm doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll feel groggy the rest of the day. But it’s important to get as much sleep as you can. Getting up early in the morning is no easy task for plenty of people. That’s why alarms are important — they ensure that you wake up at your desired time. However, nobody can deny how tempting it is to try and squeeze in a few more minutes of sleep.
According to a survey, about 57 percent of people snooze in the morning, which is defined as needing multiple alarms to wake up. If you set a single alarm and snooze it repeatedly or set several alarms at regular intervals until the time you absolutely need to get up, you are a snoozer. Waking up on the first alarm is commonly recommended, but does it really make a difference if you are woken up by one alarm compared to several ones? In a recent sleep study, researchers examine how snoozing affects an individual’s health and sleep.
According to the study, people snooze for a variety of reasons. Most of the participants said that they just can’t get up with only the first alarm. Some say they snooze because they feel comfortable in bed, while others do it because they feel less tired when they do get up. A researcher said that snoozing might be a sign that people are waking up because of important scheduled activities — like school or work — rather than because they have adequately rested.
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According to the preceding text, judge the following items.
More than half of the people surveyed admitted snoozing in the morning for various reasons.
