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This present extract of the doctoral thesis Field of a memory and regimes of visuality: the criminal subject in Youtube (2019) analyzed the intersections between cinema and discursive social representations of violence in Brazil, through the analysis of the Brazilian documentary Ônibus 174. The theoretical and methodological basis was the philosophical notion of discourse and memory field, as teached by the philosopher Michel Foucault.

Mining is a high impact activity environmental and socially speaking. The mineral district of Capim river in the State of Pará has the largest reserve of kaolin in the Brazilian territory. The aim of this study is to identify changes in land use and cover caused by the modifications in the way of ore prospecting in the municipality of Ipixuna-PA from 2004 to 2014 and to analyze potential impacts on natural resources due to these changes in land and the lack of compliance by the company. Data from the TerraClass Project and the United States Geological Survey were used.

Cheating in high school examination is a serious problem in some countries nowadays. A questionnaire was to collect data of students' attitudes towards cheating, ways of cheating and reasons for cheating. It has been revealed that many students in Vietnamese high school considered cheating acceptable. The research findings also indicated that there are many ways of cheating, students chose their own common methods to cheat. They blamed their dishonesty on many reasons belonged to personal, family and school factors.

This article discusses learners’ views on Second Chance Schools (S.C.S.) regarding their program, Lifelong Learning and the implementation of participatory educational techniques. Incentives and obstacles to participation on S.C.S. program are examined as well. The conducted approach of the research was quantitive with the use of questionnaires in person regarding the trainees of SCS. The trainees of SCS believe in the value of lifelong education and its multiple benefits strengthen their participation in the program.

The aim of the study was to describe the performance of the obstetric nurse in the immediate care of the newborn in a Normal Delivery Center (NDC).This study is of the descriptive type with qualitative approach, developed in the municipality of Castanhal-PA.At the Center, 12 obstetrical nurses worked, where only 09 were participants and 03 were excluded because of the selection criteria.The analysis was performed using Bardin's methodology, using the software IRaMuTeQ for the treatment of the results.

Animal rights groups have taken prominence in the Brazilian and international media, especially in episodes involving scientific experiments and, more recently, in the initiative of passing laws and pushing the judicial system to prohibiting the practice of ritualistic sacrifice of animals in religious practices of African origin. The deep ecology worldview that animal rights are universal in time and space contrasts sharply with the ritual sacrifice of non-human living beings.

Talent training is an important function of higher education, which reflects the philosophy of schooling and the management characteristics of colleges and universities. The cultivation of English talents in China began with the introduction of the western mode of higher education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and gradually formed two characteristics of professional education and general education.

Theoretically appropriate way of estimating the value of the benefits of risk reduction policies is to estimate the WTP for risk reduction by the affected population. This study attempts to estimate the wiliness to pay (WTP) for reducing the risk of chronic bronchitis using contingent valuation method and check whether magnitude of risk does have any impact on WTP estimates. The study was conducted in an industrial community affected by cement pollution in Khrew town of Jammu and Kashmir (India).

Job Satisfaction and Staff Performance in Nigerian State Universities has become a national discourse. This is because Job satisfaction is expected to encourage staff stability, performance, efficiency, goal congruency and positive behaviour in the work places. The reverse is the case in Ebonyi State University where mass exodus of staff, complaints, ethnocentrism, political interference and prolonged industrial strikes are alarming (Ezeali, 2010). The broad objective of the study is to determine the relationship between job satisfaction and Staff performance in Ebonyi State University.

The present text deals with the Internationalization of the Curriculum (IoC) as a practice of inclusion and its contribution to the formation of individuals qualified to act in an increasingly globalized world. It is essentially a bibliographical research that discusses the themes of inclusion, intercultural competences and internationalized curriculum in higher education.