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

Reading challenge 2

A Vote for Democracy

Lack:

1 : to be deficient or missing lacking for a full explanation> 2 : to be short or have need of something lack for advisers> transitive verb : to stand in need of : suffer from the absence or deficiency of <lack the necessities of life>

Threshold:

1: the plank, stone, or piece of timber that lies under a door : sill2 a: gate , door b (1): end , boundary ; specifically : the end of a runway (2): the place or point of entering or beginning : outset threshold of a new age>3 a: the point at which a physiological or psychological effect begins to be produced threshold for pain> b: a level, point, or value above which something is true or will take place and below which it is not or will not.

Furthest:
Farthest

Spread:
1 a: to open or expand over a larger area <spread out the map> b: to stretch out : extend <spread its wings for flight>2 a: to distribute over an area <spread fertilizer> b: to distribute over a period or among a group <spread the work over a few weeks> c: to apply on a surface <spread butter on bread> d (1): to cover or overlay something with <spread the cloth on the table> (2)archaic : to cover completely e (1): to prepare or furnish for dining : set <spread the table> (2): serve <spread the afternoon tea>3 a: to make widely known <spread the news> b: to extend the range or incidence of <spread a disease> c: diffuse , emit spreading their fragrance>4: to push apart by weight or forceintransitive verb1 a: to become dispersed, distributed, or scattered b: to become known or disseminated spread rapidly>2: to grow in length or breadth : expand3: to move apart (as from pressure or weight) : separate.

Lag:

1: one that lags or is last2 a: the act or the condition of lagging b: comparative slowness or retardation c (1): an amount of lagging or the time during which lagging continues (2): a space of time especially between related events or phenomena : interval3: the action of lagging for opening shot (as in marbles or billiards)4: a usually long putt struck with the aim of having the ball stop near the hole

World Problem Awareness Video Task 3

solutions (by myself)

1. promote reading in schools
2. promote learning and memorization exercises
3. people aware of the danger of abuse of technology

Reading challenge 1

Green Sahara

Aquifers: a water-bearing stratum of permeable rock, sand, or gravel.
Tilt: a canopy for a wagon, boat, or stall

World Problem Awareness Video Task 2

1. People looking for more comfort and facilities for daily life.
2. With new technological inputs, people begin to consume more technology.
3. Increasingly, technological tools have more features useless

When mankind began to create tools, these were created with the purpose of improving the quality of life and facilitating the daily life of people. But, scientists began to create more and more tools that people began to consume maniac. So it was with the machines and technological tools. And thanks to human ingenuity, technology has more functions unserviceable to stop the effort of men to perform simple tasks.

World Problem Awareness Video Task 1

The human memory against technology tools

The human memory is the result of brain function synaptic connections between neurons through which human beings can retain their previous experiences. The memories are created when neurons in an integrated circuit reinforcing the strength of synapses.

These experiences, according to the temporal scope to that tally, are classified, conventionally, in short-term memory and long-term memory.

The human memory, unlike the memory of the animals that acts primarily on the basis of their needs, you can contemplate the past and plan for the future. With respect to their ability, we calculated the human brain can store information that "would fill some twenty million volumes, as in the largest libraries of the world." Some neuroscientists have calculated that in a lifetime is used only one ten thousandth part (0.0001) of the potential of the brain.

But now, this human capacity has been declining. The technological tools provide the ability to be used as an aid. But on estimates of their abuse, have been converted into morphine in human memory. In this age of technology, everything is left to the machines and virtual memory. We have become more lazy, dependent more and more lazy. We remember less and less because of the death of memory. Only if our memory entremnamos properly, we independietes and intelligent.


Cites:

• Solociencia.com
  
• Revista MuyInteresante
• Online Memory Training Tools
• Wikipedia.org

Independent Work N° 19

THE NETWORK DESTRUCTION

There are many jobs around the world; there is a job for everyone. It is an axiomatic thoug the earching for a perfect job, infact, this job has to the easiest possible. Therefore, a job appearred called "telecommuting" it is meaning, working from home with technology tols. However, this job brings it many negativeconsequences; the most important is the destruction of family network. Acording to this there are two causes: Social rejection an sedentary life.

As firts reason, social rejection concerns on a separation of social and his dialogue life when the person realizes she or he can do everything without a face to face realation ship with other people, they lust the ability to communicate with their enviroment. For example, when telecommuters family invite them to an activity, like a birthday celebration or a meeting, they can not because they are working at home and step by step they turn a abssesive workers.

On the other hand, telecommuters are sedentary people technology is able to put everything in people´s hands. Then they are not able to effort to do something. Therefore telecommuters become lazy people. For example, when telecommuters have hungry and hre or his kitchen is emty, the worker call o send mailfor by food.

Finally, we can lok how pepople, working at home, start to separate the family life, becoming a lonely person. It is possible because the people begin to reject them selv to society or they are very slot to do some exercise or movement and technology helps to this. Therefore, currently, people are becomig an island, alone in the sea it is a bad future, the worst futurama.