Q&A: suffragette or suffragist?

Is there a difference between the terms suffragette and suffragist, or do they mean the same?

This week sees the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act which finally extended the suffrage to British and Irish women over 30 who met certain criteria, as well as all men over 21. Full electoral equality was not extended to women until 1922 in Ireland and 1928 in the UK. The change in the law came about for many reasons, but was due in large part to long-term campaigns by women (and many men) to get women the right to vote.

10+ лучших англоязычных блогов по изучению английского языка

Где вы обычно ищете ответы на свои вопросы, касающиеся английского? Наверняка просматриваете различные блоги по изучению языка, читаете статьи и стараетесь разобраться в материале. В этой статье мы хотим познакомить вас с дополнительными источниками ответов на ваши вопросы — лучшими англоязычными блогами по изучению английского. Мы выбрали только одобренные нашими методистами сайты, на которых размещают достоверную и действительно полезную информацию.

Zuckerberg at Congress

Mark Zuckerberg took two days to testify before members of Congress last week, and he apologised for privacy breaches on Facebook.

He said that the social media website did not take a broad enough view of its responsibility, which was a big mistake. He continued to take responsibility for Facebook, saying that he started it, runs it, and he is responsible for what happens at the company.

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin asked Zuckerberg whether he would be comfortable sharing the name of the hotel where he stayed the previous night, or the names of the people who he messaged that week. The CEO was startled by the question, and he took about 7 seconds to respond with no.

The senator used such techniques to illustrate the point of the hearing – people’s right to privacy, limits of the rights to privacy, and how much we give up in the name of ‘connecting people around the world’.

Difficult words: testify (formally answer questions, talk about what happened), breach (a problem, doing something illegal), CEO (the most important boss at a company), startled (shocked), hearing (a formal situation when somebody explains something).

Train Almost Hits a Man

In Victoria, Australia, CCTV captured the moment that a train nearly hit a man, as it travelled at around 88 kilometres per hour.

The customer walked onto the train line without paying attention and made it to the edge of the opposite platform before hearing the train, as the driver sounded his horn and applied the emergency brake.

Although it was too late to stop the train completely, the driver’s evasive measures meant that the foolish man had just enough time to get out of the way of the fast-moving vehicle.

One witness could not bear to watch – as she saw the incident unfold, she put her face against a fence so she could not see.

Difficult words: CCTV (security camera footage), evasive (avoiding – trying not to hit the man), measure (an action, an act), bear (to be strong enough), unfold (to happen).

Shooting at YouTube

Nasim Aghdam, a 39-year-old Californian resident, entered YouTube’s headquarters in Northern California and opened fire with a handgun. She wounded three people – one of them critically – before fatally shooting herself.

The Iranian-born YouTuber posted content about veganism and healthy lifestyles. The police believe that she was angry at YouTube for demonetising most of her videos and allegedly filtering her channels to keep her from getting views.

Difficult words: fatally (deadly), demonetise (remove ads from next to a video – the YouTuber cannot make money), allegedly (according to someone).

Facebook Scandal

People are deleting their Facebook accounts following a privacy scandal which hit last week when it was revealed that British consultants from Cambridge Analytica collected data of about 50 million Facebook users.

If you took a quiz on Facebook, the quiz collected data about you and all of your friends. The data, which was supposed to be used for academic purposes, allegedly was used by the Trump campaign to create targeted ads and fake news. This practice could have greatly influenced the results of the American presidential election as well as other world elections.

Facebook connects 2.2 billion users across the world, which no other company has been able to do, but some users no longer see Facebook as being secure and are considering deleting their accounts.

Furthermore, since the report came out on last Monday, Facebook stock took a big hit and suffered a 9% decline.

Difficult words: allegedly (according to what people say), influence (affect, change), stock (what a company is worth), decline (a fall).

Sisters Meet After 30 Years

Sisters Lorena Sanchez and Jacqueline Vasquez Sanchez were aged three and nine when the Tolima Volcano in Columbia erupted and devastated their town in November, 1985.

The volcano left more than 20,000 people dead and many victims were never identified. The catastrophe separated the sisters and they were put up for adoption after authorities believed that they had lost their family.

Decades later, Jacqueline saw a Facebook video, which featured her younger sister Lorena making an appeal for information on surviving family members. Jacqueline eventually was able to track down her sister.

Now, the sisters are trying to find out what happened to their parents, but despite public appeals, the search has been unsuccessful. They also have 30 years of catching up to do! Lorena said that the moment of their reunion was beautiful and sad at the same time.

Difficult words: catastrophe (a very negative event), authorities (leaders), appeal (a request), feature (to have), track down (to find).

Scientific events

Scientific meetings are one of the primary venues for scientists to present their new work to their colleagues with the purpose of receiving feedback at an early stage of their research, and thus they are an integral part of the process of science. They serve as an informal peer review that can help researchers to develop, clarify, and refine their work as they proceed to write it up and submit it for formal review and final publication. In addition, meetings allow researchers to hear about what others in their field and related disciplines are doing, talk with colleagues from different institutions around the world, and learn about new research, tools, and techniques that might be relevant to their work.

Some meetings are small and narrowly focused on a specific topic or theme, while others are meant to bring many thousands of scientists together annually and are very broad. Regardless of the size of the meeting, the main goal is to bring a community of scientists together and provide opportunities for them to interact.

Groups of men (and they were, in fact, all men) interested in discussing science met as early as 1640 in London; eventually, these meetings led to the establishment of the Royal Society of London in 1660 (Gribbin, 2007) (see Scientific Institutions and Societies). Since then, scientific societies and meetings have grown together. Early meetings remained small and local for about 200 years since transportation was difficult and costly, but larger meetings began to proliferate (along with scientific societies) in the mid-1800s.

For example, a group of scientists gathered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 20, 1848, with the goal of establishing a new national-scale organization: theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). They held six days of talks andpresentations by prospective members and, by the end of the meeting, had 461 registered members on the books (Kohlstedt et al., 1999). Louis Agassiz, one of the founders, worked with two other scientists to draft the "Rules and Objectives of the Association," which stated that one of the fundamental goals of the new society was, "By periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science in different parts of the United States" (as quoted in Kohlstedt et al., 1999). In other words, they recognized that scientists were at work all over the country, and they hoped to overcome geographic barriers that kept scientists apart by holding regular meetings that moved around the country.

Another goal of the new society was "to give a stronger and... more systematic direction to scientificresearch in our country" (as quoted in Kohlstedt et al., 1999). The new society, therefore, would not only provide an opportunity to bring the community together through meetings, but would guide research through consensus of the membership. At the first AAAS meeting in 1848, a group of new members – still all men – wrote three resolutions to influence research directions in the United States. One of these resolutions was to establish a committee to address "the Secretary of the Navy, requesting his further aid in procuring for Lieut. Maury the use of the observations of European and other foreign navigators, for the extension and perfecting of his charts of winds and currents" (AAAS, 1848). The support of a wide group of scientists may have eventually helped Lieutenant Maury hold an international meeting in 1853 to establish standards for weather measurements (see Data Analysis and Interpretation). In many cases, meetings still provide the opportunity to bring the membership of a society together to vote on resolutions or position statements and to give direction to future research.

Scientific events

Scientific meetings are one of the primary venues for scientists to present their new work to their colleagues with the purpose of receiving feedback at an early stage of their research, and thus they are an integral part of the process of science. They serve as an informal peer review that can help researchers to develop, clarify, and refine their work as they proceed to write it up and submit it for formal review and final publication. In addition, meetings allow researchers to hear about what others in their field and related disciplines are doing, talk with colleagues from different institutions around the world, and learn about new research, tools, and techniques that might be relevant to their work.

Some meetings are small and narrowly focused on a specific topic or theme, while others are meant to bring many thousands of scientists together annually and are very broad. Regardless of the size of the meeting, the main goal is to bring a community of scientists together and provide opportunities for them to interact.

Groups of men (and they were, in fact, all men) interested in discussing science met as early as 1640 in London; eventually, these meetings led to the establishment of the Royal Society of London in 1660 (Gribbin, 2007) (see Scientific Institutions and Societies). Since then, scientific societies and meetings have grown together. Early meetings remained small and local for about 200 years since transportation was difficult and costly, but larger meetings began to proliferate (along with scientific societies) in the mid-1800s.

For example, a group of scientists gathered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 20, 1848, with the goal of establishing a new national-scale organization: theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). They held six days of talks andpresentations by prospective members and, by the end of the meeting, had 461 registered members on the books (Kohlstedt et al., 1999). Louis Agassiz, one of the founders, worked with two other scientists to draft the "Rules and Objectives of the Association," which stated that one of the fundamental goals of the new society was, "By periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science in different parts of the United States" (as quoted in Kohlstedt et al., 1999). In other words, they recognized that scientists were at work all over the country, and they hoped to overcome geographic barriers that kept scientists apart by holding regular meetings that moved around the country.

Another goal of the new society was "to give a stronger and... more systematic direction to scientificresearch in our country" (as quoted in Kohlstedt et al., 1999). The new society, therefore, would not only provide an opportunity to bring the community together through meetings, but would guide research through consensus of the membership. At the first AAAS meeting in 1848, a group of new members – still all men – wrote three resolutions to influence research directions in the United States. One of these resolutions was to establish a committee to address "the Secretary of the Navy, requesting his further aid in procuring for Lieut. Maury the use of the observations of European and other foreign navigators, for the extension and perfecting of his charts of winds and currents" (AAAS, 1848). The support of a wide group of scientists may have eventually helped Lieutenant Maury hold an international meeting in 1853 to establish standards for weather measurements (see Data Analysis and Interpretation). In many cases, meetings still provide the opportunity to bring the membership of a society together to vote on resolutions or position statements and to give direction to future research.

Unemployment is a Global Problem

Video

Unemployment is a Global Problem

Video

Here’s what war with North Korea would look like

Link

Here’s what war with North Korea would look like

Link

A Lazy Way to Boost your Memory

A surprisingly potent technique can boost your short and long-term recall – and it appears to help everyone from students to Alzheimer’s patients.

Link

A Lazy Way to Boost your Memory

A surprisingly potent technique can boost your short and long-term recall – and it appears to help everyone from students to Alzheimer’s patients.

Link

Career

1.  Most people spend a third of their lives at work and more time with their colleagues than with their families or friends. Therefore, it is important that people enjoy their work as much as possible: and enjoying work means choosing the right career in the first place.
2. Choosing a profession is a whole process that begins with a dream and continues through education. In the life of every young person, there are always older people with a share of responsibility. Parents, friends and teachers can all have a big influence on a person's future choice of profession.
3. When planning your future career, it is important to look at how realistic your choice is, to gather as much information as possible to have a full picture of what the job you want to do. Maybe you tend to think that everything depends on luck and circumstance, but in reality, most situations are predictable and can go the way you want them.

Укажите, какой части текста (1, 2, 3) соответствует следующая информация: Older people have influence on young man’s choice of profession.

Определите, является ли утверждение “The realistic view on future profession is very important”верным (‘true’, ‘false’, ‘not in text’).

Озаглавьте текст:

Choosing a Profession

World Professions

My future occupation