Reading challenge 8

Animals thinking

Squeak:
to utter or make a short shrill cry or noise.

Odorless:
a quality of something that stimulates the olfactory organ

Grasp:
to take or seize eagerly.

Measures:
a basis or standard of comparison .

Dogged:
marked by stubborn determination

Reading challenge 7

Environment: affected?

Brow:
the projecting upper part or margin of a steep place.
Prey:
an animal taken by a predator as food.

Elk:
soft tanned rugged leather.

Warble:
any of numerous small chiefly Old World oscine birds

Stream:
a body of running water

Problem-solution essay

The addiction to be very skinny

The image is an important aspect in men’s life. It’s the window that is displayed as a person, or at least like the person who wants to see. But now, people are worrying too much for her image and forget other things. The addiction for being extremely thin is one of the most recurrent and dangerous today.

One of the most serious problems around this issue is the modern concept of beauty. The stereotypes of beauty, transmitted by the media are recently, very thin people, cadaverous-looking. For this reason, it is urgent to change these icons through the media. When public see that people are beautiful without the need to be extremely skinny, they do not try to lose weight to be like the idols of the beauty.

Fashion has also coerced people to be thin. The trendy clothing comes in sizes small, so the people of normal or larger size can not use it. Then, the clothing stores should create and sell fashionable clothes in large sizes. That way, people may find your favorite clothes in any fashion store.

A final problem is social pressure and acceptance. Society does not tend to accept people fat. Around this problem, there are many taboos and prejudices. In that order of ideas, it is imperative to promote, through conferences, tolerance of diversity. As a result, rejected people would be readmitted into society. In this way, they will feel important to society, regardless of their image.

In conclusion, although the image is an important factor in humanity, but is not the most essential in our life. Besides, people who follow diets without medical care and endanger their health. Moreover, in the market found medicines of free dispensing to lose weight that can be very damaging.

Reading challenge 6

Volcanology

Obsidian:
a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava.

Shrouded:
to cover for protection.

Scatter:
to reflect irregularly and diffusely.

Indeed:
without any question.

Prior:
the superior ranking next to the abbot of a monastery

Reading challenge 5

Middle East

Pedigre:
a register recording a line of ancestors
Onrushing:
a rushing forward or onward

Roughly:
without completeness or exactness

Fencing:
the art or practice of attack and defense with the foil, épee, or saber

Ditch:
a long narrow excavation dug in the earth

Reading challenge 4

Medicine

Relief:
a payment made by a male feudal tenant to his lord on succeeding to an inherited estate.

Darn:
to mend with interlacing stitches.

Upset:
to thicken and shorten (as a heated bar of iron) by hammering on the end

Distress:
pain or suffering affecting the body, a bodily part, or the mind

Sharp:
Keen

Reading challenge 3

The history of Science

Entushe:

To make enthusiastic enthused about the project> 2 : to express with enthusiasm intransitive verb : to show enthusiasm enthusing over it — Julian Huxley>

Peer:

One that is of equal standing with another

Chutzpah:
supreme self-confidence.

Dare:
To be sufficiently courageous to dared say a word

Bold:
Fearless before danger