Active to passive

1.Joanne was delayed by a client when she was leaving the office.
2. A meeting was being held by the tennis club at 6.30.
3. Sheba,the dog,blocked the doorway.
4. Sheba had to be taken to the vet.
5. The vet was worried by her condition.
6. The vet treated the dog while Joanne went home.
7. Joanne was told to get out of the house.
8. Joanne was confused by the telephone call.
9. The burglar was captured by the police.
10. His fingers had been bitten off by the dog.

1. Those bottles cannot be easily opened by children.
2. A road was built right outside her front door by the government.
3. The antique vase was broken by Mr. Ross as he walked through the store.
4. The changes amazed her when she arrived.
5. Street repairs are being made by the construction workers all month long.
6. His retirement will be celebrated by the party.
7. His oral exam was being discussed by his professors in front of him.
8. The homemade cookies were eaten by my son.
9. The hull of the ship was damaged by corrosion.
10. While I was there the old homestead were being visited by some children.

Nice guys finish first

This chapter is mostly about the way you will act if you are in a complicated situation in the one you can gain completly of loss it all. We did various examples of this inclass, about prisones, games, boyfriends, drugdealers and other more. The chapter starts giving an example of Prisoner's Dilemma. ''There is a banker who adjudicates and pays out winnings to the two players. Suppose that I am playing against you. There are only two cards...COOPERATE DEFECT...'' In conclusion is about the way in which you can do things without communicationg with the other person you are playing or the threat is putten to se hoew much you can think wisely to win in all ways. In my opinion as shown in the difffrent examples, people think mostly in themselves all the time and are selfish and do as possible to win more. In some occations the both players have to think for the both to win, but the inmediate question of everyone is always getting the best for them, in a selfish way, and them think in the rest. Later, the chapter talks about the way that a computer programm ''plays'' the game and finds a way in which yu can always win, lose, or just not gaining anything.
The person that wins is the person which thinks the most and thinks in the wise way not be selfish and thinking the right way to always win something.

Immortal Coils

Reading this chapter I got a little confused and the scince became top much to me because I did not understant many of the words. This has been the hardest chapter untill know. In class we discussed some and the understanding was better
Alles: Two or more genes that are rival fot the same slot in a chromosome. One is dominant and the other receive.
Meiosis: Division of a cell into a new cell, but only occurs in the sex cells the sperm and egg
Mitosis: Is the process by which cells divided or replicated into new cells each one reaciving a copy of 46 chromosomes.
Start symbol: Is a sequence of nuclear tides coding for the start of the protein chain.
End symbol_ Is a sequence of nuclear tides coding the end of the protein chain
Point mutation: Is an error that is misinterpretated in a nuclear typu sequence.
This chapter is all about the DNA, reproduction, sex and about science. It was kind of confusing

Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene - Meet the author

I think this video is not really specific. I am reading the book but I do not understand what it has to do with Ortodox but the only thing I understood was the alturism and the selfish genes that we talked about that before. I did not know the book was so old and it is really confusing to me, and most of all that he would write it the same way after so many years and so much new science appearing in the world.

The replicators

In this chapter Daewkins stars talking about the way that Darwins explained the theory of evolution. ''Shows us a way in which simplicity couls change into complexity, how uorderes atoms could group themselves into ever more complex patters until they ended up manufacturing people''(12) He says that the theory of Darwin of ''survival of the fittesr'' is more ''survival of the stable'' He says the universe is populated by stable things. '' A stable thing is a collection of atoms that is permamnent enough or common enough to ddeserce a name''(12) He starts giving examples such as: soap bubbles, salt crystals, hydrogen atoms and haemoglobin molecules. '' Haemoglobin is a modern molecule, used to illustrate the princuple that atoms tend to fall into stable patters''(13)
Later, he gets to the point of the Peplicator. '' Remarkable molecule was formed by accident''(14) He also says it may not be the biggerst or more complex molecule '' extraordinary property of being able to create copies of itself''(15) He says the way that when improbable things happen in the lives of a human they aree considered as impossible. He starts talking about the replicatos and then it says that it can act as a template not for an identical copy but a negative. '' re- make an exact copy of the original ''positive'' ''(16)
This book is being complicated, but in a way its getting interesting and a way of learning.

The selfish gene

Im not a person who really aprreiates reading about science and evoluntion and trhe way Richard Dawkins is going to talk about his book. He talks about alturism which is a word i haven't hear before but later it was explained in class and we also saw `` Alturism act is one that looks superficially, as if it mist tend to make the alturist more likely to die, and the recipient more likely to survive''(4) He begins talking about the evolution and Darwinism and the survival of the fittest but Dawkins changes that term to the survival of the gene. Being alturisc is doing good thing foor the community and other people and not being selfish. I think everyone is selfish in some point or in some way. Poepple are selfish many times and that is a natural thing in humans. '' The word selfish may seem an understatement for sucj extreme cases as cannibalism''(5) He gives an example in which there are humans an in the sea they are seals, they want to get into the see but they are really selfish and are wainting for someone else to risk their lives because they ar enot risking themselves. '' Naturally nobody wants to be the guinea pig, so they wait, and sometimes even try to push each other in''(5)

I think everyone is selfish in some point, sometimes you are alturism because you think in others but not always, and most of the time you think only in you survival and in your own good.

Sources

Instructions:
1. Think about what you want to write your topic and see if the article you are reading works.
2.See if you will have good sources for your topic.
3. Primary, secondary or terciary source
4. Determine if the information is the source you are using is a fact, opinion or propaganda.
5.Check hhow old is your source for the information you are going to need. Is it useful?

EBSCO:
1.IS IT TOO EASY TO GET A GUN IN AMERICA? By: Edelman, Marian Wright; Craig, Larry. New York Times Upfront, 9/3/2007, Vol. 140 Issue 1, p28-28, 1p; (AN 27136089)
2.Virginia's Gun Market. New York Times, 8/22/2007, Vol. 156 Issue 54044, pA18-A18, 1/8p; (AN 26547045
3.The Campus Killings Spur States to Act to Protect Students. By: Lewis, Lyndsey. Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/27/2007, Vol. 53 Issue 47, p13-13, 1p; (AN 25941041)
4.Report Claims Guns More Plentiful at Schools. By: Portner, Jessica. Education Week, 09/27/2000, Vol. 20 Issue 4, p3, 1/2p, 1c; (AN 3729999)
5.'Gun-Free Zones.'. By: Kopel, David B.. Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition, 4/18/2007, Vol. 249 Issue 90, pA17, 00p; (AN 24811922)

Paraphrasing, quotation and summary

P: Roger Sipher concludes his essay talking about the education that students are having and the lack of effort they put into their classes because of being there without wanting. He talks about the way he thinks that schools have failed in putting order to the students and making the education productive.

S: Roger Sipher makes of point of what he thinks about education and it being completly managed in the wrong way. He talks about students going to school and not having any interest that they do not make the school and learning advance in a positive way. He says that the thinking that students have is that they pass from grade to grade but many times they know they dont make an advance in thei lifes until they quit. He talks about the way people see school as a fun place and useless. He ends his essay talkingt about the way schools should be for learning not for a social tme of a chilling passing the day time. Poeple should take school seriously and that advantage of the oportunity of learning.

Q: ´´First, it would alert everyone that school is a serious place where one goes to learn. Schools are neither day-care centers nor indoor street corners. Young people who resist learning should stay away; indeed, an end to compulsory schooling would require them to stay away.´´ (Sipher)This is a point that Roger Sipher makes about the way people take school and how not serious thay think about it.