Paraphrasing Excersice

1. "The Antarctic is the vast source of cold on our planet, just as the sun is the source of our heat, and it exerts tremendous control on our climate," [Jacques] Cousteau told the camera. "The cold ocean water around Antarctica flows north to mix with warmer water from the tropics, and its upwellings help to cool both the surface water and our atmosphere. Yet the fragility of this regulating system is now threatened by human activity." From "Captain Cousteau," Audubon (May 1990):17.

The cold water surrounding Antartica travels north, mixing with the hotter water in the tropical areas, making the water on top and our environment cooler. This is why the Antartic is such a big origin of cold weather. However, this process is being interefered in a negative way because of our recent relationship with the environment. (Audubon, 17)

2. The twenties were the years when drinking was against the law, and the law was a bad joke because everyone knew of a local bar where liquor could be had. They were the years when organized crime ruled the cities, and the police seemed powerless to do anything against it. Classical music was forgotten while jazz spread throughout the land, and men like Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie became the heroes of the young. The flapper was born in the twenties, and with her bobbed hair and short skirts, she symbolized, perhaps more than anyone or anything else, America's break with the past. From Kathleen Yancey, English 102 Supplemental Guide (1989): 25.

A time of change in America were the 20´s. Although drinking was illegal, anyone did it anyway. The police did not rule the city, criminals did. Classical music was now a thing of the past, making jazz the most popuar music genre. The "flapper" was now the fashion movement that almost every woman was following, and perhaps it was this that was the biggest separation with the way things were done before. (Yancey, 25)

3. Of the more than 1000 bicycling deaths each year, three-fourths are caused by head injuries. Half of those killed are school-age children. One study concluded that wearing a bike helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent. In an accident, a bike helmet absorbs the shock and cushions the head. From "Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers," Consumer Reports (May 1990): 348.

More than half of biking-caused deaths lay their guilt on head concussions. Exactly 50% are kids that are small enough to be in school, but this can all change. More than 80% of these accidents to the head can be prevented by simply wearing a helmet, because it will reduce the shock to the head and at the same time act as a pillow. (Consumer Reports, 348).

4. Matisse is the best painter ever at putting the viewer at the scene. He's the most realistic of all modern artists, if you admit the feel of the breeze as necessary to a landscape and the smell of oranges as essential to a still life. "The Casbah Gate" depicts the well-known gateway Bab el Aassa, which pierces the southern wall of the city near the sultan's palace. With scrubby coats of ivory, aqua, blue, and rose delicately fenced by the liveliest gray outline in art history, Matisse gets the essence of a Tangier afternoon, including the subtle presence of the bowaab, the sentry who sits and surveys those who pass through the gate. From Peter Plagens, "Bright Lights." Newsweek (26 March 1990): 50

Henri Matisse manages to capture real life in his paintings, making you feel as if though you were at the place of his paintings. Two of his most remarkable works are "The Casbah Gate", a painting which shows the gateway Bab el Aassa, and the painting representing a Tangier sunset and the guard of the gate. (Plagens, 50)

5. While the Sears Tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper engineering so far, it's unlikely that architects and engineers have abandoned the quest for the world's tallest building. The question is: Just how high can a building go? Structural engineer William LeMessurier has designed a skyscraper nearly one-half mile high, twice as tall as the Sears Tower. And architect Robert Sobel claims that existing technology could produce a 500-story building. From Ron Bachman, "Reaching for the Sky." Dial (May 1990): 15.

Some say that the Sears Tower is the best piece of skyscraper engineering, but some disagree. However, what matter is if the engineers will attempt the construction of an even higher building. William LeMessurier, a structural engineer, for example, is attempting the making of a building two times the height of the Sears Tower, while the arrchitect Robert Sobel says that technology today could produce a tower 500 stories high. (Bachman, 15)