Excercise 1
1. A client delayed Joanne when she was leaving the office.
Joanne was delayed by a client when she was leaving the office.
2. The tennis club was holding a meeting at 6.30.
A meeting was being held by the tennis club at 6.30.
3. The doorway was blocked by Sheba, the dog.
Sheba, the dog, blocked the doorway.
4. Joanne had to take Sheba to the vet.
Sheba had to be taken to the vet.
5. Her condition worried the vet.
The vet was worried by her condition.
6. The dog was treated by the vet while Joanne went home.
The vet treated the dog while Joanne went home.
7. The vet told Joanne to get out of the house.
Joanne was told to get out of the house.
8. The telephone call confused Joanne.
Joanne was confused by the telephone call.
9. The police captured the burglar.
1. Children cannot open these bottles easily.
These bottles cannot be opened easily by children
2. The government built a road right outside her front door.
Outside her front door the government built a road.
3. Mr. Ross broke the antique vase as he walked through the store.
The antique base was brokeby Mr Ross as he walked through the store.
4. When she arrived, the changes amazed her.
The changes amazed her when she arrived.
5. The construction workers are making street repairs all month long.
Street repairs are being made by the construction workers all month long.
6. The party will celebrate his retirement.
His retierment will be celebrated with a party.
7. His professors were discussing his oral exam right in front of him.
His oral exam was being discussed by his professors right infront of him
8. My son ate all the homemade cookies.
The homemade cookies where made by my son.
9. Corrosion had damaged the hull of the ship.
The hull of the ship was damaged by corrosion.
10. Some children were visiting the old homestead while I was there.
The old homstead was being visited by some children while I was there.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarizing
¨So that nobody has to go to school if they don't want to¨
Summary:
This article talks about how the quality of education is decrasing due to the amount of children that are forced to go to school and hve no desire wht so ever in learning. This makes the teaching and learning reduce and therefore, the children who do want to learn are have thir education indangered because of those who don't want to.
Paraphrasing:
¨A decline in standardized test scores is but the most recent indicator that American education is in trouble.
One reason for the crisis is that present mandatory-attendance laws force many to attend school who have no wish to be there. Such children have little desire to learn and are so antagonistic to school that neither they nor more highly motivated students receive the quality education that is the birthright of every American.¨
Studies in the resutls of school exams, have proved how the learning of american children is beginning to fail.
This is because children are being obligated to attend school, when they realy dont want to learn. The main problem is because this children give little or no care to thier education and are not excited by learning.
Quoting:
¨There is no contradiction between the assertion that compulsory attendance has had little effect on the number of children attending school and the argument that repeal would be a positive step toward improving education.¨ both sudents would end up winning eventhough, ¨Most parents want a high school education for their children. Unfortunately, compulsory attendance hampers the ability of public school officials to enforce legitimate educational and disciplinary policies and thereby make the education a good one.¨
Summary:
This article talks about how the quality of education is decrasing due to the amount of children that are forced to go to school and hve no desire wht so ever in learning. This makes the teaching and learning reduce and therefore, the children who do want to learn are have thir education indangered because of those who don't want to.
Paraphrasing:
¨A decline in standardized test scores is but the most recent indicator that American education is in trouble.
One reason for the crisis is that present mandatory-attendance laws force many to attend school who have no wish to be there. Such children have little desire to learn and are so antagonistic to school that neither they nor more highly motivated students receive the quality education that is the birthright of every American.¨
Studies in the resutls of school exams, have proved how the learning of american children is beginning to fail.
This is because children are being obligated to attend school, when they realy dont want to learn. The main problem is because this children give little or no care to thier education and are not excited by learning.
Quoting:
¨There is no contradiction between the assertion that compulsory attendance has had little effect on the number of children attending school and the argument that repeal would be a positive step toward improving education.¨ both sudents would end up winning eventhough, ¨Most parents want a high school education for their children. Unfortunately, compulsory attendance hampers the ability of public school officials to enforce legitimate educational and disciplinary policies and thereby make the education a good one.¨
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Hamlet's Feelings
HALF LIFE- Duncan Sheik
I'm awake in the afternoon
I fell asleep in the living room
and it's one of those moments
when everything is so clear.
before the truth goes back into hiding
I want to decide 'cause it's worth deciding
to work on finding something more than this fear
It takes so much out of me to pretend
tell me now, tell me how to make amends
maybe, I need to see the daylight
to leave behind this half-life
don't you see I'm breaking down
lately, something here don't feel right
this is just a half-life
is there really no escape?
no escape from time
of any kind
I keep trying to understand
this thing and that thing, my fellow man
I guess I'll let you know
when i figure it out
but I don't mind a few mysteries
they can stay that way it's fine by me
and you are another mystery i am missing
It takes so much out of me to pretend
maybe, I need to see the daylight
to leave behind this half-life
don't you see I'm breaking down
Lately, something here don't feel right
this is just a half-life
is there really no escape?
no escape from time
of any kind
EXPLANATION:
This song, in my opinion shows Hamlet's feelings in act III. In this part of the novel, Hamlet shows the anger he has about his father's death and how he asks the question "To be or not to be". He asks himself whether to suicide himself or live. When he talks about this, he talks about death and how people are afraid and this is why the song relates to Hamlet.
In the lyrics these words appear: "To work on finding more than this fear." This could be related with the fear of death Hamlet talks about in one point. Later on in the song it says "It takes so much to pretend", here Hamlet is identified because he wants to take revenge but he can´t do it because he has to obey Claudius this means he has to pretend something he does not feel. At the end of the song when Duncan Sheik says the following: "Lately, something here don't feel right, this is just a half-life, is there really no escape?", we can compare it when Hamlet is son mad and agry about his father's death that he lets the reader know he wants to comit suicide.
I'm awake in the afternoon
I fell asleep in the living room
and it's one of those moments
when everything is so clear.
before the truth goes back into hiding
I want to decide 'cause it's worth deciding
to work on finding something more than this fear
It takes so much out of me to pretend
tell me now, tell me how to make amends
maybe, I need to see the daylight
to leave behind this half-life
don't you see I'm breaking down
lately, something here don't feel right
this is just a half-life
is there really no escape?
no escape from time
of any kind
I keep trying to understand
this thing and that thing, my fellow man
I guess I'll let you know
when i figure it out
but I don't mind a few mysteries
they can stay that way it's fine by me
and you are another mystery i am missing
It takes so much out of me to pretend
maybe, I need to see the daylight
to leave behind this half-life
don't you see I'm breaking down
Lately, something here don't feel right
this is just a half-life
is there really no escape?
no escape from time
of any kind
EXPLANATION:
This song, in my opinion shows Hamlet's feelings in act III. In this part of the novel, Hamlet shows the anger he has about his father's death and how he asks the question "To be or not to be". He asks himself whether to suicide himself or live. When he talks about this, he talks about death and how people are afraid and this is why the song relates to Hamlet.
In the lyrics these words appear: "To work on finding more than this fear." This could be related with the fear of death Hamlet talks about in one point. Later on in the song it says "It takes so much to pretend", here Hamlet is identified because he wants to take revenge but he can´t do it because he has to obey Claudius this means he has to pretend something he does not feel. At the end of the song when Duncan Sheik says the following: "Lately, something here don't feel right, this is just a half-life, is there really no escape?", we can compare it when Hamlet is son mad and agry about his father's death that he lets the reader know he wants to comit suicide.
Paraphrasing Exercises
1. ORIGINAL: "The Antarctic is the vast source of cold on our planet, just as the sun is the source of our heat, and it exerts tremendous control on our climate," [Jacques] Cousteau told the camera. "The cold ocean water around Antarctica flows north to mix with warmer water from the tropics, and its upwellings help to cool both the surface water and our atmosphere. Yet the fragility of this regulating system is now threatened by human activity." From "Captain Cousteau," Audubon (May 1990):17.
PARAPHRASED: Jacques Cousteau said that two important sources of heat and cold for our planet are the Antartic and the sun. Although these two, affect the climate of the entire world human activity is affecting the cycle these two have. When the cold water of the south runs into the north, to the warm waters of the tropics, these waters cool up as well as the surface.
2. ORIGINAL: The twenties were the years when drinking was against the law, and the law was a bad joke because everyone knew of a local bar where liquor could be had. They were the years when organized crime ruled the cities, and the police seemed powerless to do anything against it. Classical music was forgotten while jazz spread throughout the land, and men like Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie became the heroes of the young. The flapper was born in the twenties, and with her bobbed hair and short skirts, she symbolized, perhaps more than anyone or anything else, America's break with the past. From Kathleen Yancey, English 102 Supplemental Guide (1989): 25.
PARAPHRASED: During the twenties, there were several acts that were against the law. One of them was the consumption of alcohol, which was broken by the people. This was because everyone who wanted a drink would get one in a local bar. This was the time where jazz extended throughout the cities and Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Amstrong and Count Basie became the most important celebrities of the time. With the jazz also came the flapper, the small skirts and the exaggerated hair do´s.
3. ORIGINAL: Of the more than 1000 bicycling deaths each year, three-fourths are caused by head injuries. Half of those killed are school-age children. One study concluded that wearing a bike helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent. In an accident, a bike helmet absorbs the shock and cushions the head. From "Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers," Consumer Reports (May 1990): 348.
PARAPHRASED: Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers says that the use of helmet is the key to reducing bicycling accidents. These accidents are mainly because head injuries because people do not wear their helmet. Studies affirm that if the head is cushioned in the risk of a head injury decreases.
4. ORIGINAL: Matisse is the best painter ever at putting the viewer at the scene. He's the most realistic of all modern artists, if you admit the feel of the breeze as necessary to a landscape and the smell of oranges as essential to a still life. "The Casbah Gate" depicts the well-known gateway Bab el Aassa, which pierces the southern wall of the city near the sultan's palace. With scrubby coats of ivory, aqua, blue, and rose delicately fenced by the liveliest gray outline in art history, Matisse gets the essence of a Tangier afternoon, including the subtle presence of the bowaab, the sentry who sits and surveys those who pass through the gate. From Peter Plagens, "Bright Lights." Newsweek (26 March 1990): 50.
PARAPHRASED: Matisse paintings have always been oustanding by the sensory expresions the viewer feels when he/she sees the painting. For example, "The Casbah Gate" takes the viewer to the city of Tangier and the Bab el Aassa gateway near the Sultan's palace, where people can imagine the colors of the wonderful sunset.
5. ORIGINAL: While the Sears Tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper engineering so far, it's unlikely that architects and engineers have abandoned the quest for the world's tallest building. The question is: Just how high can a building go? Structural engineer William LeMessurier has designed a skyscraper nearly one-half mile high, twice as tall as the Sears Tower. And architect Robert Sobel claims that existing technology could produce a 500-story building. From Ron Bachman, "Reaching for the Sky." Dial (May 1990): 15.
PARAPHRASED: One of the most important skyscapers in the world is the Sears Tower. This tower has acchieved the best engeneering work of all times. Many people wonder how can this tower stay upright and will there be one that exceeds this height? Architect Robert Sobel says that with the new technology there will be buildings taller than the Sears Tower.
Friday, November 2, 2007
The Power and The Glory Blog # 9
The Final Chapter
Death, is a situation that is difficult to handle by most of the peoprl. Most of the times, when people have to confront death they take different points of view depending on how it affects them. Some people, deny death, others have different reactions or ways to see this situation. This is what happens in The Power and The Glory with the death of the priest. Some see it as a good thing and others dont't want to believe it is real.
The boy, is a good example who does not want to face reality. "He dreamed that the priest whom they had shot that morning was back in the house dressed in the clothes his father had lent him and laid out stiffly for burial. The boy sat beside the bed and his mother read out of a very long book all about how the priest had acted in front of the bishop the part of Julius Caesar: there was a fish basket at her feet, and the fish were bleeding, wrapped in her handkerchief. He was very bored and very tired and somebody was hammering nails into a coffin in the passage. Suddenly the dead priest winked at him—an unmistakable flicker of the eyelid, just like that." Pg. 221. The boy is in denyal, he wants the priest back, and here we see the importance of the priest and of christianity to the boy. He is loyal to his religion and knows how the priest was a good friend to him and how he wants him back to be part of his life.
Death, is a situation that is difficult to handle by most of the peoprl. Most of the times, when people have to confront death they take different points of view depending on how it affects them. Some people, deny death, others have different reactions or ways to see this situation. This is what happens in The Power and The Glory with the death of the priest. Some see it as a good thing and others dont't want to believe it is real.
The boy, is a good example who does not want to face reality. "He dreamed that the priest whom they had shot that morning was back in the house dressed in the clothes his father had lent him and laid out stiffly for burial. The boy sat beside the bed and his mother read out of a very long book all about how the priest had acted in front of the bishop the part of Julius Caesar: there was a fish basket at her feet, and the fish were bleeding, wrapped in her handkerchief. He was very bored and very tired and somebody was hammering nails into a coffin in the passage. Suddenly the dead priest winked at him—an unmistakable flicker of the eyelid, just like that." Pg. 221. The boy is in denyal, he wants the priest back, and here we see the importance of the priest and of christianity to the boy. He is loyal to his religion and knows how the priest was a good friend to him and how he wants him back to be part of his life.
The Power and The Glory Blog # 8
Reasoning vs. Church
Thought and reasoning have always been challenged by the church. Throughout history church has denied all class of reasoning and scientific explanations what so ever. Church, has always had a contrary point of view towards the sciences and the logical explanations of things. They have always based their point of view in what the bible says.
"The lieutenant said in a tone of fury: 'Well, you're going to be a martyr—you've got that satisfaction.'
'Oh, no. Martyrs are not like me. They don't think all the time—if I had drunk more brandy I shouldn't be so afraid.' Pg. 196.
In this passage the priest lets the reader know how he and the church think about thought and people who think. He tells he is not like the people who think, he is from the church, therefore he does not think and he is not like all other martyrs. Throughout the book, the priest lets us know his point of view in an implicit way. However, most of the decisions he makes are because of his toughts.
Thought and reasoning have always been challenged by the church. Throughout history church has denied all class of reasoning and scientific explanations what so ever. Church, has always had a contrary point of view towards the sciences and the logical explanations of things. They have always based their point of view in what the bible says.
"The lieutenant said in a tone of fury: 'Well, you're going to be a martyr—you've got that satisfaction.'
'Oh, no. Martyrs are not like me. They don't think all the time—if I had drunk more brandy I shouldn't be so afraid.' Pg. 196.
In this passage the priest lets the reader know how he and the church think about thought and people who think. He tells he is not like the people who think, he is from the church, therefore he does not think and he is not like all other martyrs. Throughout the book, the priest lets us know his point of view in an implicit way. However, most of the decisions he makes are because of his toughts.
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