jueves, 25 de febrero de 2010

The Destruction of the Rain Forest

Why do writers often use statistics when writing about environmental problems? What is the potential danger of using statistics?
  • Writers try harder to convey the impact of environmental problems, they rattle off still more numbers, and our sense of hopelessness grows. Pollutants and billion of cubic feet to sens smog.
Why aren't the statistics necessary to understand that our environmental threatened?
  • It does not require a giant leap of consciousness to accept that our world is truly threatened.
Using El Chompipe as an example, describe a rain forest?
  • A large hill or small mountain among many larger mountain, cloud, thick clouds form and cover the hill, wetting the trees and brush and grounds plants almost constantly.
Why are tropical rain forest important?
  • Because remains almost vibrates with life, mahogany trees, birds, animals and a staggering variety of plants compete for sunlight with the leaves of the big trees themselves. This is the source of about 30 percent of the oxygen in our air.
Why are tropical rain forests shrinking?
  • Because they are being cleared for agriculture, specially for grazing land and plantations, and for timber and charcoal.
What is the difference between clearing forest for potatoes and for grazing cattle?
  • In the case of clearing forest, are cleared for grazing-the land has only a few productive years before it will not support cattle grazing or other farming. Others might support grazing for up to ten years.
Why doesn't rain forest land last long when animals graze on it?
  • The compacting action of animal feet is well known to farmers. Narrow hooves pressing down into the soft earth around the pond will compact the ground and stop the leaks.
What could be done to be sure cattle don't destroy the land they graze on? What will the economic effect of this action be?
  • The cycle of degradation, cleared grazing land will no longer support a practical or economical number of cattle.
According to Inglis, what will happen if Americans stop importing beef produced on land that was once rain forest?
  • The cost of range land beef would rise dramatically to perhaps five or ten times its present cost.
Why aren't wealthier nations able to convince less-developed nations to protect their rain forests?
  • The world population is growing, and its beef consumption is growing per capital. With such an expanding demand on a world commodity, it doesn't matter where the hamburger we eat is grazed.

miércoles, 24 de febrero de 2010

Week #3 (True love stories)

This story is about one man who seems a girl on a train. He saw many women but never one like her. He fall in love. And she never know it. When he decide to talk to her the train stop and there she go. He decide to make a web page to look for his dream girl. two days later he receive an e-mail and then he saw her on a picture. he had a date with her and came completely in love.

Week #2 Paragraph with (going) to and (will)...

I'm going to have a personal business. It will be about psychology for children. I'm going to write about it in my English class. I like very much to help this children who will be our future. First, I will finish my university, second, I will start to look for help and people who would like to help, and third, with my job I will start the construction of my building. In this building all the children can live and will have food, school, and many people who will love them.

Week 2 Future/Simple (going to)

miércoles, 17 de febrero de 2010

Week #1 Ready, Click, Spend


In the last story I read about how carefully we have to be when we are shopping from the internet or a website. And, how we can get to a secure site and don't be fraud. The story talk about the black Friday, the Cyber Monday and how to buy safely.

jueves, 11 de febrero de 2010

Understanding Gender Diferences

I. Topic: Social behavior

II. Limit the topic: Types of aggressions in a man

III. Generate ideas: aggression, aggressive, physically, psychology, verbally

IV. 1. Introduction (2-3)

2. Aggression (7-10)

3. Verbal aggression (7-10)

4. Physical aggression (7-10)

5. Conclusion (1-2)

V. Draft

VI. Revise ideas & grammar

VII. Final writing

Types of aggressions in a man

The man can be more aggressive than the women? Yes, this aggressive conduct is developing on the childhood. We have to know everything about this to learn how we can avoid that our children develop this bad conduct.

An aggression is a hostile attitude, behavior, or attack. Is a disparity that children see like something normal. But is really bad for the future of them. I’m saying this because are reports that explain that are more delinquent males than females. Much of them are in prison for verbal aggression, fifty-four law or physical aggression. These types of aggressions are very likely to a common aggression. An aggression is not a game.

Other type of aggression is verbal. This aggression can be used to insult other person. Or too, for make damage to the auto deconstruction. Is the most violent aggression because plays with the mind of the victim. This can develop a nervous breakdown and psychological problems. Is prove that the aggressive conduct is link with the frustration. When this aggression is not enough to the aggressor, began the physical.

A physical aggression is an act of beat, knock or hit somebody. Everyone knows about cases were the victim is burned with the oven, with gasoline or with ice. Or other cases were the victim is cut in pieces and kept in a refrigerator. This type of aggression is very foolish because is passing from the hit or the beat to a homicide or murder. When a person lose control can be a maniac or a killer. And this is not a disease, but is tractable with physiologists or psychiatrists. Although, is not one hundred percent secure that everyone shows a improvement.

So, in conclusion I exhort to all the parents that are reading this to enjoy the childhood of their children. And bring them the tools to control their impulses.