rationale

Short and sweet… Paragraph 1: what were you trying to do (tone, purpose, audience to reach?) Paragraph 2: How did you try to do that…give examples from your piece. Paragraph 3: How did you connect to your topic? Example– I wrote a protest letter about the victims of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland. It was written with a serious tone and hopes to address the Prime Minister. In my letter,  I tried to present my point of  view  with phrase like “As another matter fact.” and “It is for these reasons”. I tried as well to use a sophisticated level of vocabulary with word choices like “prosecution" and “hypocrite” finally I tried to use complex structures like one might see in a higher level publication such as The New York Times with sentences like “I am writing this letter to concern...” and "I am currently concerned about how the soldiers...”. Using these elements I feel I reached my purpose set out in the task. This task addresses the topic “Taking a Stand”  and specially addresses the topic of the abuse of power. I think  a letter of protest helped me to  best express what I learned from the topics we studied in this unit and how I feel about them.

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Educreations. Bloody Sunday

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Bloody Sunday Report

Sir David Cameron.                                                                                           Vicuña Mackenna 666                                                  

House of Parlament.                                                                                               The Mackay School

Dear Prime Minister,                                                                                                             286500

I am writing this letter to concern about the 'Bloody Sunday' case. I know that a long time has passed since then but it lax still has problems without solving in my opinion. I am actually a bit disappointed in how you shot those protesters, if you're really gonna do something about protesters then try to control them, but don't shoot them right away. Even though there were problems and you apologized about what happened the lives from the people you killed won't be back, their families should still continue sad about this. I am currently concerned about how the soldiers who killed this people could do that to unarmed people.  It is supposed that everything started as a pacific march, if that's the case . . . Why couldn't you just try to mantain the peace rather that killing those innocent people? If you were really trying to mantain peace by killing those who make disorders then you're just doing hypocrite actions, why would killing make the world a more peaceful place?

You should prosecute the soldiers who shot those people, there's enough evidence in Saville's report, they started shooting giving no warning and more importantly, they shot people, even if there's a problem with them people have right and they shouldn't be randomly shot by a soldier. Everyone has rights, they should've been warned not to do something at least, to warn them so that they can learn what they're doing is wrong. No one will learn from being shot to death.

As another matter of fact, there shouldn't be any problems from now on, so don't use guns on marches, even if people are making disorders, you should just stop the by force, not killing them. So please don't even allow the use of guns in future marchs. Keep the peace, promote peaceful marchs.

It this for this that I would like to ask you to go apologize to the murdered people's families and friends personally and individually, maybe have a little chat together and ask them how you can help them. If everything comes nice with them you should be able to revert that ill-feeling into something good, where you'll feel better after this situation and they'll feel better with you.

Steve Jobs Questions

III. Answer the following questions:

1. When did Steve Jobs die? 2011.
2. How did he die?
3. What was the impact of his death?
4. What tributes did he receive?
5. According to Jobs: What fact makes you realize that the world is more than what you were taught? Explain.
6. Where did Steve J. spend his childhood?
7. What did Jobs and Fernandez do together?
8. Who introduced S. Jobs to S. Wozniak?
9. What was the first invention together? How did it work?
10. How did Robert Cringely meet both Steves?
11. What happened to Apple 1 in 2010?
12. What was Ronald Wayne’s participation in Apple’s early days?
13. In what ways was calligraphy important in Job’s life?
14. What did Jobs do after dropping out of college?
15. Why was he interested in Zen Buddhism?
16. What company develop the first prototype mouse? Xerox
17. What materials were used in the first Apple prototype mouse? Parts from drug store products.

Steve Jobs True or False

II. Say if the following statements are true or false:

1. Steve never betrayed a friend 
2. He has inspired the youngest generation
3. If he needed a friend he would do anything for him 
4. It was difficult to smile in a conversation with him TRUE

Steve Jobs Word Meanings

Geek: It is said to the people afficionated to technologic devices.

Tribute:A gift, payment, declaration, or other acknowledgment of gratitude, respect, or admiration.

Reverberate:To have a prolonged or continuing effect.

Visionary: Having the nature of fantasies or dreams; illusory.

Glimpse:A brief, incomplete view or look.

Misfit:Something of the wrong size or shape for its purpose.

Prototype:An original type, form, or instance serving as a basis or standard for later stages.

Bloody Sunday Word Meanings

.- prosecute:"institute or conduct legal proceedings against (a person or organization).

"they were prosecuted for obstructing the highway"".

.-prospect:"the possibility or likelihood of some future event occurring.

"there was no prospect of a reconciliation"".

.-flee:"run away from a place or situation of danger. 

"To escape the fighting, his family fled from their village"".

.-cherry picking:"selectively choose (the most beneficial or profitable items, opportunities, etc.) from what is available.

"the company should buy the whole airline and not just cherry-pick its best assets"".

.-set in train:"if you set in train an activity or an event, you make it begin His book set in train the events which eventually led to revolution."

.-devolution:"Transference, as of rights or qualities, to a successor".

.-aftermath:"the consequences or after-effects of a significant unpleasant event.

"food prices soared in the aftermath of the drought".

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