Empregabilidade e side-bets: uma realidade dos estudantes universitários do mestrado

O conceito de empregabilidade tem sido crucial nos dias de hoje devido às mudanças que têm ocorrido na sociedade em geral. É imprescindível conhecer o este conceito bem como as transformações que têm ocorrido à volta dele e principalmente quais os seus antecedentes. Partindo da ideia que existe um investimento na procura de emprego, os side-bets foram considerados antecedentes da empregabilidade. O presente estudo teve como objectivo estudar a relação de antecedência dos side-bets com a percepção da empregabilidade, num contexto universitário, nomeadamente dos estudantes do mestrado. Os resultados permitiram concluir que os side-bets são antecedentes da empregabilidade. Contudo foram identificadas várias limitações que permitem encontrar estudos futuros bastante interessantes. Foram discutidas as implicações do presente estudo

The dark side of the Mediterranean : expression of fear from the inquisition to the present

Inside the stones of its most famous buildings, Évora keeps mysteries and secrets which constitute the most hidden side of its cultural identity. A World Heritage site, this town seems to preserve, in its medieval walls, a precious knowledge of the most universal and ancient human emotion: fear. Trying to transcend many of its past and future fears, some of its historical monuments in Gothic style were erected against the fear of death, the most terrible of all fears, which the famous inscription, in the Bones Chapel of the Church of São Francisco, insistently reminds us, through the most disturbing words: “Nós ossos que aqui estamos pelos vossos esperamos”. If the first inquisitors worked in central Europe (Germany, northern Italy, eastern France), later the centres of the Inquisition were established in the Mediterranean regions, especially southern France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Consequently, the roots of fear in Évora are common to other towns, where the Inquisition developed a culture of fear, through which we can penetrate into the dark side of the Mediterranean, where people were subjected to the same terrifying methods of persecution and torture. This common geographical and historical context was not ignored by one of the most famous masters of American gothic fiction, Edgar Allan Poe. Through the pages of The Pit and the Pendulum, readers get precise images of the fearful instruments of terror that were able to produce the legend that has made the first grand inquisitor, Tomas de Torquemada, a symbol of ultimate cruelty, bigotry, intolerance, and religious fanaticism, which unfortunately are still the source of our present fears in a time when religious beliefs can be used again as a motif of war and destruction. As Krishnamurti once suggested, only a fundamental realization of the root of all fear can free our minds.