Questão 2184366

TEXT I

Drawing Number One

“I showed the grown-ups my masterpiece, and I asked

them if my drawing scared them. They answered, ‘Why be

was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

5 Then I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so the grown-

ups could understand. They always need explanations. My

Drawing Number Two looked like this:

Drawing Number Two

The grown-ups' advised me to put away my drawings

of boa constrictors, outside or inside, and apply myself

10 instead to geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar. That

is why, I abandoned, at the age of six, a magnificent career

as an artist. I had been discouraged by the failure of my

Drawing Number One and of my Drawing Number Two.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it

15 is exhausting for children to have to provide explanations

over and over again. So then I had to choose another career,

and I learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown almost

everywhere in the world. And, as a matter of fact, geography

has been a big help to me. I could tell China from Arizona at

20 first glance, which is very useful if you get lost during the

encounters with lots of serious people. I have spent lots of

time with grown-ups. I have seen them at close range...

which hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.”

Source: SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine. The little Prince. New York: Mariner Books, 1943. Translated from French by Richard Howard.

TEXT II

Around the World with Barrier Breaking Women Pilots

Oct 31, 2021

By Dorothy Cochrane and P. Ramirez

5 We know the names of early American women pilots like

Bessie Coleman and Amelia Earhart. However, across the

globe, women pilots were also taking to the skies and

setting records. Travel across with these stories of two such

pilots.

10

Part I

Hélène Dutrieu, Belgium

Hélène Dutrieu of Belgium was known as the "girl hawk" of

15 aviation because she was the most daring and

accomplished woman pilot of her time. She first soloed in

France in 1909 and within a year was setting altitude and

distance records. She thrilled the world in September of

1910 by flying non-stop from Ostend to Bruges, Belgium,

20 and she became the first Belgian woman to receive a pilot

license on November 25, 1910. During her second year as

an aviator she narrowly escaped death twice. She visited

the United States in 1911, making her American debut at

the Nassau Boulevard Aviation meeting. Back in Europe,

25 Dutrieu won France's Coupe Femina for the women's world

nonstop light record on December 31, 1911, flying 158 miles

(254 kilometers) in 178 minutes. In Florence, Italy, she was

the only woman in a field of 15 and outflew all of her male

competitors to win the King's Cup. In 1913 the French

30 government awarded Dutrieu the Legion of Honor for her

achievements. She also became an ambulance driver and

later a director of a military hospital.

Part II

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Jean Batten, New Zealand

Jean Batten grew up in New Zealand and developed a love

for aviation that overcame her desire to be a concert pianist.

40 Her interest in flying stemmed from the 1919 England to

Australia flight by Ross and Keith Smith, and later solo

flights. Batten's father did not approve of her aviation

enthusiasm but she convinced her mother to move to

England with her and help her become a pilot. She received

45 her license and her commercial rating at the London

Aeroplane Club at Stag Lane and then began planning for a

flight from England to Australia. Her first two attempts failed,

but she succeeded in 1934, flying a Gipsy Moth. Batten

became an instant sensation in Australia, New Zealand, and

50 in England upon her return flight the next year (it was the

first roundtrip by a woman). In 1935, she broke James

Mollison's records for England to Brazil and Dakar to Natal

while becoming the first woman to solo across the South

Atlantic. Then, in 1936, she realized her dream of flying solo

55 from England to New Zealand in a Percival Gull in 11 days

and earned her second consecutive Harmon Trophy, having

shared the first one in 1935 with Amelia Earhart. In 1937,

she set another record for an Australia to England flight.

Unable to obtain a flying job during World War II, Batten

60 gave up flying and eventually became a recluse, living with

her mother in Majorca, Spain, and appearing in public only

for a few anniversary events. In 1937, she published her

autobiography, My Life.

Adapted from: RAMIREZ. Around the World with Barrier Breaking Women Pilots:https://airandspace.si.edu /stories/editorial/around-world-barrier-breaking-womenpilotshttps://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/around-world-barrierbreaking-women-pilots. Accessed on February 20th 2024

TEXT III

The world is changing

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Sandy Millin

The title of this week’s post is inspired by this cartoon from

Michael Leunig which appeared on my Facebook stream this

week:

Adapted from: https://sandymillin.wordpress.com/2020/04/04 /the-world-is-changing/ Accessed on March 06th, 2024

Consider texts I and III to answer question 13.

According to both texts we CANNOT state that