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Would you help me out with this summary, please? Does it sounds natural?
The objective of this study was to determine the rate of cats infected with the feline leukemia virus (FeLV) nursed at the Zoomedica hospital in 2015-2016. FeLV is a feline disease that can cause neoplasms. Most of the contaminated animals have secondary infections due to immunosuppression. When infected, the virus can be transmitted to another cat by saliva, bites, transplacental route, among others. The survey determined the number of felines that were diagnosed with the FeLV rapid test, showing the incidence by gender, race and age.
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Hi!! Is there anyone who could help me with this English exam, please?
December 22, 2016
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Friends, friends...
Hello there, I'm Lucas. I am a twenty-two year old student from MG, Brazil.
The reason why I'm writing this short text is to meet people from different parts of the globe who are interested in practicing English. I've been learning the language for the past two years by myself and I really enjoy it, but unfortunately in the last months I ended up dropping it. I want to pick it up again. So, anyone who is interested in talking please send me a private message. Allright? Thanks!
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First part-time job
My first part-time job was as an archivist at an Eye Care Clinic. It was a good job for a sixteen-year old high-school student. I had to be at work at 07:00 a.m and would leave by noon. I remember that I got really excited about the job. I would always give my best while working because it was not easy to find a part-time job back then, and the money that I getting was enough to buy my stuff and to party - that was all wanted.
In the first weeks when I started the job, the archive was a muddle. There were mountains of files spread all over the place - very disheartening. Whereupon, it occurred to me, as soon as I managed to make things neat, my job would become much easier. I toiled over that files for two months to get it organized. Even my boss was surprised when she looked at it. After that things loosed up.
I worked as a part-time archivist for a year. Then, after I graduated from high school, I begin working full-time. What I liked about my occupation was, on the one hand, the workplace atmosphere. There were the doctors, the nurses, the secretaries, the people of the management sector, the cleaners, and the archivist, of course. Everyone got along well. Every month there were a worker-birthday list pinned on the kitchen's wall. So, the doctors, to observe the employees' birthday, would pay a special breakfast for everybody.
On the other hand, I think working in an archive for a long period of time can be detrimental to a person's mental health. You are confined within a cramped room, alone, doing monotonous tasks all day long. After a while it starts to get boring. It was a nice part-time job, but it's not a job that I would like to go back to.
March 25, 2016
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Informal transcript for a video
Hi, friend. How's it going? You asked me if I had any pictures of my city or street to show you. Sorry, I don't have any pictures. I prefer videos than pictures. This is why I am recording this quick video to show you a little of my surroundings. I am now at a place nearby my house, where I like to go jogging once or twice a week. I like to come at this place because here the streets are long, wide, and paved which are great for walk and jog. Other reason for that is there are not much vehicles going around.
Bye the way, the audio is not the real audio of the video because I was feeling like a weirdo shooting the video and talking with the camera on the street - I am a bit shy. Also because if you talk while you're running you lose your breath, right? This video will be like a narrative.
Anyway. I'll talk a bit about my city. My city has around 200.000 inhabitants. It's not such a big place - it bores me to death sometimes - and it is very, very hot most part of the year. We're in the last days of summer and today's temperature was like 30-31 degrees Celsius.
I live 15 minutes car-drive from downtown. What I like about my neighborhood is, as I said, it's away from downtown, therefore we don't have traffic noises. I definitely enjoy it. It's situated on the edge of the city so along the one side of it and beyond there are small forested hills and green fields, which makes the air fresher and the landscape pretty. We're used to wake up hearing birds singing as well as roosters crowing. One or two neighbors on the quarter bring up fowls so we normally hear them at daybreak. On weekdays as I have to get up early is very pleasant to hear them, but on weekends I feel like I want them for lunch.
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Have you seen discrimination in your country? Who was involved? What happened?
It never happened to me of experience discrimination in person but I surely have seen it in the news. The last report of discrimination that I watched on the newscast was about a Haitian immigrant that had came to Brazil in the hope of better life conditions. He (the victim) was at work doing his job, he was a gas station attendant, and an asshole Brazilian guy showed up and started humiliating the Haitian worker by recording him, asking questions, and saying things, like "Where are you from? So, you have a job, huh? While thousands of Brazilians head of families lost their jobs last month (due to economic crisis). You must be very competent, congratulations!" A total idiot.
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Do you live in a homogeneous or heterogeneous group?
In the country where I live we have people of different races, religions, nationalities, and social classes; therefore, I live in a heterogeneous group. Regarding what measures we take to overcome discrimination in my country I will be talking a bit about when it occurs in the form of racism.
Pretty much all racism that is out there is upon black people. It's very unusual to see it on the streets though, I particularly never been in a place during a racist act. But, from time to time, we do see in the news people who suffered racist comments on social medias or, for another instance, in the course of a football match. Racism takes place in our society no doubt, whether it be expressed in words or within people's head. In theory, racism in Brazil is a crime, but to be honest I've never saw or, became aware of the fact, of people going to jail for committing racism. What we generally do to overcome racism is reproaching and punishing acts of the sort, working on people's values early on, and just keep planting good seeds for upcoming generations.
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Hometown and Traditional Foods
My hometown is a city called Divinópolis, located in the centre-west of Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The city in itself is not huge compared to the capital, but it is considered one of the biggest among the nearby cities, with its over 200.000 citizens. In downtown you can find ways of amusements like malls, cinemas, theaters, pubs, and cafe. But, there are also places with great deals of nature away from the hustle and bustle of the city, where is very pleasant to go walking, or bicycling, with streams and waterfalls. As a child, those places were my favorites to go to along with friends and family.
The Minas Gerais cuisine, which is called "Cozinha Mineira", is very distinct of any other Brazilian cuisine. Our best-known dish is called "Pão de Queijo", made with cheese and cassava flour, which is the best breakfast ever. Another typical dishes are: "Feijão Tropeiro", made with beans, cassava flour, scallions, eggs, and bacon. And "Feijoada", made with pork stew and black beans.
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