Sentence fragments exercise 2

Sentence Fragments: Exercise 2
These paragraphs need proofreading for possible fragments. Use the space below each paragraph for revising.

1. How can a person find patriotism in a local night club? Well, it did not take me too long. About four weeks ago in a little night club in Louisville, Kentucky, a couple of my friends, Rick and Lon, the duo who were providing the entertainment that night for the club.
How can a person find patriotism in a local night club? Well, it did not take me too long. About four weeks ago in a little night club in Louisville, Kentucky, a couple of my friends, Rick and Lon, the duo who were providing the entertainment that night for the club, they dressed up on the national custom.
2. For the past twenty years, the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan has been measuring the level of Americans' trust and confidence in their politicians and quasi-political trust and confidence in their political institutions and their leaders. "Political" being all levels of government, and "quasi-political" churches, labor unions, large professional/business associations, educational institutions, and the like. The result is that a very sharp decline has taken place every year since 1964.
2. For the past twenty years, the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan has been measuring the level of Americans' trust and confidence in their politicians and quasi-political trust and confidence in their political institutions and their leaders. "Political" means being all levels of government, and "quasi-political" includes churches, labor unions, large professional/business associations, educational institutions, and the like. The result is that a very sharp decline has taken place every year since 1964.
3. For 200 years Americans believed in better jobs, better homes, a better life for one's children. This confidence no longer exists. Polls now indicate that fewer Americans who feel they are better off today than they were five years ago. A public-opinion analysis group has found that large numbers of Americans, at some times and in some places, see themselves as lower on the ladder with worse living conditions and anticipation of further decline over the next five years.
4. Well, in looking at the picture at the left you see an old lady. She has a very funny look on her face. As if she's lonely and just wants to be left alone. She also looks as if she has seen a lot and experienced lots of things.
Well looking at the picture at the left you see an old lady. She has a very funny look on her face as if she's lonely and just wants to be left alone also as if she has seen a lot and experienced lots of things.
5. A president is an appointed leader he is a decision maker in the executive branch of our government. This doesn't necessarily mean that the person the people elect is capable, just hopefully assumes through his past record as a politician, over the years' buildup of experience and handling situations

Michelle Obama's speach

By The Associated Press – 1 day agoPrepared remarks of Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, for her address to the Democratic National Convention. On Monday night in Denver as released by the Obama campaign:OBAMA:As you might imagine, for Barack, running for President is nothing compared to that first game of basketball with my brother Craig. I can't tell you how much it means to have Craig and my mom here tonight. Like Craig, I can feel my dad looking down on us, just as I've felt his presence in every grace-filled moment of my life. At six-foot-six, I've often felt like Craig was looking down on me too...literally. But the truth is, both when we were kids and today, he wasn't looking down on me - he was watching over me. And he's been there for me every step of the way since that clear February day 19 months ago, when - with little more than our faith in each other and a hunger for change - we joined my husband, Barack Obama, on the improbable journey that's brought us to this moment. But each of us also comes here tonight by way of our own improbable journey.I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend.I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president. I come here as a Mom whose girls are the heart of my heart and the center of my world - they're the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning, and the last thing I think about when I go to bed at night. Their future - and all our children's future - is my stake in this election. And I come here as a daughter - raised on the South Side of Chicago by a father who was a blue collar city worker, and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me. My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, and her intelligence reflected in my own daughters. My Dad was our rock. Although he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in his early thirties, he was our provider, our champion, our hero. As he got sicker, it got harder for him to walk, it took him longer to get dressed in the morning. But if he was in pain, he never let on. He never stopped smiling and laughing - even while struggling to button his shirt, even while using two canes to get himself across the room to give my Mom a kiss. He just woke up a little earlier, and worked a little harder. He and my mom poured everything they had into me and Craig. It was the greatest gift a child can receive: never doubting for a single minute that you're loved, and cherished, and have a place in this world. And thanks to their faith and hard work, we both were able to go on to college. So I know firsthand from their lives - and mine - that the American Dream endures.And you know, what struck me when I first met Barack was that even though he had this funny name, even though he'd grown up all the way across the continent in Hawaii, his family was so much like mine. He was raised by grandparents who were working class folks just like my parents, and by a single mother who struggled to pay the bills just like we did. Like my family, they scrimped and saved so that he could have opportunities they never had themselves. And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you're going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them, and even if you don't agree with them. And Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values, and pass them on to the next generation. Because we want our children - and all children in this nation - to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them. And as our friendship grew, and I learned more about Barack, he introduced me to the work he'd done when he first moved to Chicago after college. Instead of heading to Wall Street, Barack had gone to work in neighborhoods devastated when steel plants shut down, and jobs dried up. And he'd been invited back to speak to people from those neighborhoods about how to rebuild their community.The people gathered together that day were ordinary folks doing the best they could to build a good life. They were parents living paycheck to paycheck; grandparents trying to get by on a fixed income; men frustrated that they couldn't support their families after their jobs disappeared. Those folks weren't asking for a handout or a shortcut. They were ready to work - they wanted to contribute. They believed - like you and I believe - that America should be a place where you can make it if you try.Barack stood up that day, and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about "The world as it is" and "The world as it should be." And he said that all too often, we accept the distance between the two, and settle for the world as it is - even when it doesn't reflect our values and aspirations. But he reminded us that we know what our world should look like. We know what fairness and justice and opportunity look like. And he urged us to believe in ourselves - to find the strength within ourselves to strive for the world as it should be. And isn't that the great American story?It's the story of men and women gathered in churches and union halls, in town squares and high school gyms - people who stood up and marched and risked everything they had - refusing to settle, determined to mold our future into the shape of our ideals.It is because of their will and determination that this week, we celebrate two anniversaries: the 88th anniversary of women winning the right to vote, and the 45th anniversary of that hot summer day when Dr. King lifted our sights and our hearts with his dream for our nation.

awnsers of blog questions

A. What is the difference between a blog and a book?
“Books are tight. Blogs are reckless. Books are slow. Blogs are fast. Books ask you to stay between their covers. Blogs invite you to stray. Books fret over copyright and libel. Blogs grab whatever they want with impunity—news, gossip, pictures, videos.” (www.nybooks.com/articles/21013)
B. How have blogs changes recently?
Since 1999 blogs have changed. Today bloggers are more interested on becoming famous. Before blogs were pages with information (which maybe could not be true) on several different subjects. The quantities of the info on the blogs have changed, as well as the topics. Today you may see millions of blogs either bothering or on sex, before this wasn’t so common.
C. Why might you read a blog?
I would read a blog to complement the information you already have. Blogs may have various different sources or viewpoints on any subject. For example in the Iraq war, bloggers may be local people, American soldiers or war journalists. This gives you a bigger view on your interests.
D. Is there reason to doubt the objectivity of a blog? Why? Why not?
Yes, blogs are maid from different view points. They might not be true or fair. You might never find an objective blog. Blog are made individually.
E. If you kept your own blog, what would you title it?
I would have an interesting topic that would attract readers as much as possible. Probably the topic would not be related to the information in the blog.

Last pages

Chapter 13 is closing of the book. The book could not end as it did on chapter 12. The human discovered how to save the world and was finally going to buy Ishmael. This is not the kind of book with just a happy ending. Something like “and they lived happily ever after.” The story is one that will end unconcluded, for the reader to imagine its own “happy ending.” Although it does have an ending, Ishmael dies and the human finds the poster that said. “With men gone, will there be hope for a gorilla” (Quinn, page 262) and on the other side “With gorilla gone, will they be hope for men” (Quinn, page 263)

The Revolution

“Mother Cultures teaches that, before the revolution, human life was devoid of meaning, was stupid, empty, and worthless. Prerevolutionary life was ugly. Detestable.” (Quinn, Page 216) Chapter 11 tropes conclusions on how the taker life-style is better than the leaver style. How the taker that convinces a leaver to change and become a civilized men.
Mother Culture teaches the civilized that the leaver life is grim one. Humans lived as animals and had no control. Ishmael and its pupil make a dialogue, the human was a taker and its teacher was a leaver. The objective was, to convince a leaver to become a taker. Through the discussion the student constantly explains why the uncivilized life is worst than it’s opposite. Well, humans in the prerevolutionary moment had no control over a destiny, they weren’t save; the gods hade no mercy. Its human’s nature to develop and become more independent. The life process of a normal man is to become more independent; He starts being a baby that cannot eat by himself, later on when he is a teenager he may take some decisions and at last when he becomes a adult he lives by himself. I think the revolution was caused by this human feature. They dint think that by planting they were going to have control over them, they wanted to become more independent. They made a natural development.
In the book, it’s mentioned that humans before the revolutions lived the same for 3 million years. That’s not true. Men each time hade more complex tools for hunting, they discovered the fire they started painting and had other important developments. People think that the uncivilized life is a disastrous one. That’s caused by the human habit to life in a different society in which we are supposed to have over control. “Look, here’s the point. Unless you control your own food supply, you live at mercy of the world. It doesn’t matter that there’s always been enough. That’s not the point. You can’t live at the whim of the gods. That’s just not a human way to live.” (Quinn, page 224)

An Earnest Desire To Save The World

Chapter 12 was the ending of the story. Ishmael has nothing more to teach, know it’s the human who should teach others for “an earnest desire to save the world” (Quinn, page 4) In this chapter the book tropes the conclusion. How things came to be this way? How we ought to live? Things came to be this way by evolution. There is not an exact way to life.
The book has several interesting and revolutionary theories. Life’s complex, if we were all in a prison the rich and stronger would win, the weak and poor would loose. But, is life resumed just to power and wealth? Humans destroy the world just for power and wealth. The main conclusion of the book is this impressive but honest idea. I definitely agree with it. All the third world countries live on constant violence and poverty. Both are caused by some people’s intentions for wealth and power. The war in Colombia, Iraq, Darfur, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Somalia, India, Sri Lanka and several others countries , are just conflicts for power and wealth that are meaningless. The world life’s under a cloud of terrorism. Is it relevant on a prison if one celebrity marriages a maid. Society is confused, society is a unthankful and unconscious group of people. “I am afraid it’s a cause to which almost none of humanity will subscribe. White or colored, male or female, what the people of this culture want is to have much wealth and power in the taker prison as they can get. They don’t give a dam that’s a prison an they don’t give a dam it’s destroy the world” (Quinn, page 253)

Is It Culture?

The definition of culture: “When a species attains a certain order of intelligence, the members of one generation begin to pass along information and technique to the rest. The next generation takes this accumulation, ads its own discoveries and refinements and passes the total on to the next” (Quinn, page 198.). Although I disagree, I found this quote interesting. Other than an uncle arriving to town, Ishmael disappearing and other long pages of deep reflection of the leaver and the taker life philosophy on how we ought to live. The chapter is the quote above.
Probably the author was having problems on how to end the book. He spends some page of how Ishmael was suddenly lost. The human finds itself in desperate position when its spiritual teacher suddenly disappears. Not in his office neither in the house of its owner (the daughter of the Jew, if I am not wrong her name is Rachel.) Although some time later he is found on a carnival.
If culture was the knowledge passed through generations (considering that the hole world, or more specifically every region has a specific culture). Humanity hasent learned from its mistakes. Every experience has something to teach, therefore we supposedly have learned from our mistakes, which have given us some knowledge we transmit through generations (which is culture) we have definitely failed! I disagree because the culture may be something that makes someone or something unique. Or in a general view the common stream of thoughts and specific actions. Colombia is a country rich in culture, if the definition by Quinn and my theory on learning from our mistakes were correct; Colombia would not be rich, we have experienced corruption, violence and several other misfortunes through the hole 200 years of existence. If we transmitted knowledge from generation to generation it wouldn’t be lost. Again Colombia is an example; the hits in local music or the dance style of my parents’ generation was lost. Culture is made and lost constantly.