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Sunday, 16 September 2018
Toelf Exercise 1
The lecture of the professor establishes other valid theories related with the extinction of the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous-Tertiary period. Although, she agrees that the 'impact-theory' is the most accepted by the scientific community. But, There are other such relevant theories to explain alternatives diffent to the massive extinction.
The first one is the natural evolution of species. This theory extent that the dinosaurs extinct because they could not adapt them to new condition of environment. In fact this point, expresses a situation where some of these animals were already extinct when the asteroid hit the earth. In opposition to the text that said that most of these animals extinct in a massive event.
This theory gains more support, when the scientists understand that the birds are probable evolve from carnivore dinosaurs. The birds adapt to the new conditions as many other animal like mammals and reptiles. This point is the most contradictory to the massive extinction one. Evolution from dinosaurs to birds is the consequence of millions of years of changes like volcanoes eruptions, climate change and other situations that are common in life evolution.
Finally, the professor agrees the text, but also presents other interesting ideas that puts some of the strong arguments of the impact theory in doubt an massive extinction.
The first one is the natural evolution of species. This theory extent that the dinosaurs extinct because they could not adapt them to new condition of environment. In fact this point, expresses a situation where some of these animals were already extinct when the asteroid hit the earth. In opposition to the text that said that most of these animals extinct in a massive event.
This theory gains more support, when the scientists understand that the birds are probable evolve from carnivore dinosaurs. The birds adapt to the new conditions as many other animal like mammals and reptiles. This point is the most contradictory to the massive extinction one. Evolution from dinosaurs to birds is the consequence of millions of years of changes like volcanoes eruptions, climate change and other situations that are common in life evolution.
Finally, the professor agrees the text, but also presents other interesting ideas that puts some of the strong arguments of the impact theory in doubt an massive extinction.
How can you balance the desire to write interesting, meaningful ideas with the need to be grammatically correct? How important should grammar be?
It is a topic that really
matters. As soon as you start a lecture, you can identify grammar problems even
if you don’t know anything about grammar. In fact, the reading became laborious.
It is not an issue of styling or elegance; It refers to the ability of the writer
to convey an idea in a clear and easy way to the reader. There are another
level of writers, those whose grammar is almost an art, I am not talking about them,
I am talking about common people like me, people that have a lot of things to
learn to make our writings more understandable, more interesting.
Some hard difficulties to find the correct words
After I wrote the three versions of the paragraph I found
some hard difficulties to find the correct words to express the ideas with
another tone. In fact, I understood that my vocabulary is mainly neutral and much
reduced to change the sensations and feeling into the reader mind. I had to use
the dictionary all the time to find better words to covey differently. The
second problem I had was not to change the meaning of the original text, I am
not sure if I did or not in the Humorous and sad text.
Original writing
Today movie is “Baby Driver”, It is the story about
a young adult”baby”, that also is very good driver. He spend his time driving
cars and listening music with earphones at the level that he is learned to read
the people lips because he never takes off his earphones. This guy has a great
heart, but not really good friends. Someday,
as he was a good driver, a well-known drug dealer and bank robber forced Baby
to dive in an assault, the theft was successful grateful to Baby, after that the
drug dealer used that boy to help them in many other illegal activities.
However, the driver saw his activity as a way to save money to get married with
his dream girl, a waitress who worked in a restaurant on the side of a state
highway.
The movie argument is very difficult to support
because Baby became a criminal, no matter what efforts the writer made to show
his as a good boy. Along the movie there were several scenes where Baby performs
good actions; I suppose to create the idea into the mind viewer that the protagonist doesn’t deserve a
punishment.
Humorous
and informal
This is the story about a very nice guy who
came into the hands of a bad boy. A drugs dealer who saw in to “Baby”, it is the
alias of the protagonist, a great driver to do his bank assaults and scape with
the loot. That guy “Baby” is an incredible driver, the movie is full of scenes
where they can extremely scape form the police doing a lot of spectacular scape
actions. Baby never takes off their earphones so the movie also has situations
where he drives listening hard music. As I said, baby was a good boy, we wanted
to get married with a beautiful waitress he known at a restaurant next to a highway.
The story is not believable but funny, nobody
drives like him. But also, in deep he was not really a good boy.
Sad
Today movie is “Baby Driver”, It is the story about
a young criminal named ”baby”, that has the ability to driver very well so he
can escape from difficult situations . He spend his time driving cars and
listening hard music with earphones at the level that he learned to read the
people lips because he never takes them off his earphones. This guy diverted his
good heart, while share with his not
really good friends. Someday, as he was a good driver, a well-known drug dealer
and bank robber convinced Baby to dive in an assault, the theft was successful because
Baby, after that the drug dealer used that boy to help them in many other
illegal activities. The driver saw his activity as a way to save money to get
married with his girl, a waitress who knew in a restaurant on the side of a
state highway.
The movie argument is very difficult to support
because Baby became a criminal, no matter what efforts the writer made to show
his as a good boy. Along the movie there were several scenes where Baby performs
good actions; I suppose to create the idea into the mind viewer that the protagonist
doesn’t deserve a punishment.
Three tones to describe a library
Objective
This is my library. It is located just next to
end of the stairs at the second floor. It is an open space of 20 square meters where
I have two desks with laptop computers, a sofa and huge furniture full of books on one of the walls of the room. In the middle of the space there is a red
carpet which covers more than the half of the space. The room has a view to a
big window where it is possible to see the 88 street, some trees and other yellow
houses of this quiet neighborhood. The furniture has more than 500 books mainly
related with computers programming and project management.
Excited
This is my workplace, my library!. It is located next to my room, in an open
well-lighted space of 20 square meters of inspiration perfect to make shine
ideas. I have there a desk with a computer where happened my education plans,
as sofa to dream an incredible collection of 500 books to light up my mind with
others impressions. In the middle of the
space there is a red carpet which covers more than the half of the space, it
helps me to feel myself in a prolonged cuddle. The room has a view to the 88
street, some trees and other yellow houses of this quiet neighborhood.
Frustrated
This is my library, the place where I try to do
my shores. It is located next to my room where I usually try to stay more of
the time. It is an open stressful space of 20 square meters where I have two
desks with laptop computers, a sofa and huge furniture full of non-read books
remembering what I have to do in my next months. In the middle of the space
there is a red carpet which covers more than the half of the space, it helps me
to remember how to feel cuddle. The room has a view to a big window where it is
possible to see the 88 street, some leafless trees and other pale houses of the
excessive quiet neighborhood.
Sunday, 9 September 2018
IT is changing all the rules
Undoubtedly Information’s technologies are the industrial
sector that is changing all the rules of how doing business in the 21st
Century. Certainly, almost every human activity has been impacted by the increasing
computing capabilities to process information. Though we cannot ignore the
influential of other industries into the reconfiguration of the future, It is
undeniable that IT is affecting all other industries as no other. Form worksheet
to Artificial Intelligence all these stuffs has millions of applications in every
human activity related with business. It
is also difficult to establish whether this impact is positive or negative because it
depends on the using of technology. But It is true that the growth of the
computers using will continue changing the rules for long time, and it is also
true that the dependency heightening of our lives in computers would change even
our self-vision of the reality.
Tuesday, 4 September 2018
Journal, Day 1. How to transform a simple idea into a strong argument?
I used to write for business purposes, but not exclusively. In my job I must write an average of 30 mails per day and a couple of business documents related with the software products that we build. Some of these mails and documents are written in English, of course I feel more confident writing in my first language, but nowadays most of our communications are English.
As I said, not all my writings are for business. I also write for personal reasons, it is a kind of internal dialog, I record on paper my dreams, my fairs, my dissertations, and sometimes love letters. I especially enjoyed my time when I write. Most of my writing are just for me.
Finally, I write much better in Spanish than in English. I Know that I have many things to learn and improve, but the most important for me at this time is vocabulary and structures to transform a simple idea into a strong argument thought the property use of connectors.
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