Paraphrasing

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.

· Earth has two main sources of heat and cold, heat is the sun, and cold The Antarctic. However this cold ocean water helps to cool the surface water and our atmosphere, by mixing it with warm water coming from the tropics.


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.

· During the years of 1920, the drinking law became crazy, everyone new where they could buy, for shure, alcohol. This were years were crime ruled the city and the police didn´t have any power at all. On the other hand, classical music went into the garbage, and jazz became a ¨BOOM!.¨people like Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke and others, were the heroes of this new gender. Women didn’t stay behind, they invented The Flapper, a rebellious form of dressing.


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.

· Bicycling is a really interesting sport, containing a lot of risk, most of them happen if you don’t wear a helmet, this can reduce the injuries on a 85%. Almost all of this injuries are head injuries, were half of them are kids that are not even in college. The helmet is a well designed protector, remember, ¨Drive slow, stay in school and…use a helmet! ¨

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.

· In my opinion Matisse is the most realistic painter of all, he transportates me into his scene, landscape and thoughts. This painter gives a touch of spirit in a Tangier afternoon, mixing a lot of pastel colors, giving life to this painting.

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.

· Can a building pass the height of the Sears Tower? William LeMessurier has just finished a building that is two times the Sears Tower, can the world hold it on? Robert Soberl says that today’s technology can hold up till 500’ story building.