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Jok Church: A circle of caring
Jok Church: O círculo do carinho
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Nesta palestra de 3 minutos, cartunista e educador Jok Church conta uma história comovente sobre a professora que se interessou por ele quando ninguém mais o fez – e como ele retribuiu o favor.
Jok Church - Cartoonist
Jok Church created the science-education comic strip "You Can with Beakman and Jax" and the zany TV series "Beakman's World." Full bio
Jok Church created the science-education comic strip "You Can with Beakman and Jax" and the zany TV series "Beakman's World." Full bio
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You know, what I do is write for children,
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Sabem, o que faço é escrever para crianças,
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and I'm probably America's
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e provavelmente sou o autor de livro infantil
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most widely read children's author, in fact.
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mais lido nos Estados Unidos.
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And I always tell people
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E eu sempre digo às pessoas
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that I don't want to show up looking like a scientist.
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que não quero ter uma aparência de um cientista.
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You can have me as a farmer, or in leathers,
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Posso aparecer como um fazendeiro, ou com roupa de couro
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and no one has ever chose farmer.
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e nunca ninguém escolheu fazendeiro.
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I'm here today to talk to you
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Hoje estou aqui para falar
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about circles and epiphanies.
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sobre círculos e epifanias.
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And you know, an epiphany
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E vocês sabem, uma epifania
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is usually something you find that you dropped someplace.
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é normalmente algo que encontramos que tínhamos deixado cair em algum lugar.
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You've just got to go around the block
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Vocês só precisam dar um volta no quarteirão
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to see it as an epiphany.
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para ver este algo como uma epifania.
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That's a painting of a circle.
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Esta é uma pintura de um círculo.
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A friend of mine did that -- Richard Bollingbroke.
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Meu amigo a pintou – Richard Bollingbroke.
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It's the kind of complicated circle
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É o tipo de círculo complicado
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that I'm going to tell you about.
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sobre o que vou lhes contar.
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My circle began back in the '60s
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Meu círculo começou nos anos 60
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in high school in Stow, Ohio
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no colégio em Stow, em Ohio
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where I was the class queer.
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onde eu era o gay da minha classe.
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I was the guy beaten up bloody
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Eu era o cara que apanhava até sangrar,
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every week in the boys' room,
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todas as semanas, no banheiro dos meninos,
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until one teacher saved my life.
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até que uma professora salvou a minha vida.
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She saved my life by letting me go to the bathroom
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Ela salvou a minha vida quando me deixou ir ao banheiro
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in the teachers' lounge.
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na sala dos professores.
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She did it in secret.
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Ela fez isto secretamente,
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She did it for three years.
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ela fez isto durante 3 anos,
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And I had to get out of town.
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e tive que sair da cidade.
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I had a thumb, I had 85 dollars,
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Eu tinha um polegar, tinha 85 dólares,
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and I ended up in San Francisco, California --
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e acabei indo para São Francisco, na Califórnia –
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met a lover --
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encontrei um amante –
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and back in the '80s, found it necessary
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e nos anos 80, vi a necessidade
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to begin work on AIDS organizations.
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de começar a trabalhar em organizações de AIDS.
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About three or four years ago,
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Há cerca de três ou quatro anos,
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I got a phone call in the middle of the night
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recebi um telefonema de madrugada
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from that teacher, Mrs. Posten,
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daquela professora, a sra Posten,
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who said, "I need to see you.
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que disse, “Preciso ver você.
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I'm disappointed
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Estou desapontada
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that we never got to know each other as adults.
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por nunca termos nos encontrado como adultos.
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Could you please come to Ohio,
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Por favor, venha a Ohio,
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and please bring that man
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e por favor traga esse homem,
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that I know you have found by now.
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que sei que a essa altura você encontrou.
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And I should mention
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E devo mencionar
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that I have pancreatic cancer,
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que tenho câncer de pâncreas,
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and I'd like you to please
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e eu gostaria que você, por favor
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be quick about this."
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viesse rápido.”
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Well, the next day we were in Cleveland.
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Bem, no dia seguinte chegamos em Cleveland.
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We took a look at her, we laughed, we cried,
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Nós olhamos para ela, rimos, choramos,
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and we knew that she needed to be in a hospice.
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e vimos que ela precisava ir para uma residência para pacientes terminais.
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We found her one, we got her there,
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Encontramos um lugar e a levamos para lá,
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and we took care of her
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e cuidamos dela
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and watched over her family,
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e demos assistência à família dela,
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because it was necessary.
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porque era preciso,
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It's something we knew how to do.
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isto era algo que sabíamos como fazer.
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And just as the woman who wanted to know me as an adult
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E justamente quando a mulher que queria me conhecer como um adulto
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got to know me,
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veio a me conhecer,
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she turned into a box of ashes
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ela se transformou numa caixa de cinzas
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and was placed in my hands.
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e foi colocada nas minhas mãos.
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And what had happened
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E o que aconteceu
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was the circle had closed,
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foi que o círculo fechou,
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it had become a circle --
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tornou-se um círculo –
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and that epiphany I talked about
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e aquela epifania que mencionei
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presented itself.
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se fez presente.
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The epiphany is
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A epifania é
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that death is a part of life.
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que a morte é uma parte da vida.
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She saved my life;
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Ela salvou a minha vida,
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I and my partner saved hers.
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Eu e meu companheiro salvamos a dela.
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And you know, that part of life needs everything
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E sabem, essa parte da vida precisa de tudo
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that the rest of life does.
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que o resto da vida precisa.
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It needs truth and beauty,
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Precisa de verdade e beleza,
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and I'm so happy it's been mentioned so much here today.
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e fico muito feliz que isto tenha sido mencionado tanto aqui hoje.
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It also needs --
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A vida também precisa --
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it needs dignity,
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precisa de dignidade,
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love and pleasure,
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amor e felicidade.
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and it's our job to hand those things out.
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E é nossa missão proporcionar estas coisas.
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Thank you.
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Obrigado.
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(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jok Church - CartoonistJok Church created the science-education comic strip "You Can with Beakman and Jax" and the zany TV series "Beakman's World."
Why you should listen
In his work, Jok Church loved helping kids learn basic concepts of science and experimentation -- with a healthy dash of fun. He created his comic strip You Can with Beakman & Jax in 1991 for his local newspaper in Marin County, California -- inspired by a stint answering kids' letters for Lucasfilm. The comic strip does not answer readers' questions directly. Rather, it gives directions to do a thing, a procedure, an experiment to learn the answer. It's about learning by doing. Active. Not passive.
Six Beakman & Jax books are best-sellers. Church created the long-running TV series Beakman's World, a hit in English and Spanish, and helped create the Beakman's World on Tour exhibit for science centers and museums. A longtime techie, he also served as the webmaster for artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Church died April 29, 2016, and will be much missed.
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