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Passive Voice

Use: Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action; It’s not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action.

For example, “A mistake was made”. In this case, the focus is on the fact that a mistake was made, but I don’t blame anyone.

Form: Subject + finite form of to be + Past Participle.

Examples.

Present: - English is spoken worldwide.

- A letter is written by the President

- The door is opened by him.

- The car is washed.

- This room is cleaned

Past: - Dinosaurs were killed by a comet.

          - The car was washed.

          - The houses were bought by a rich man.

          - The river was jumped by a frog.

          - The T.V was stolen by a stealer.

Future: - Computers will be used in every aspect of our live

              - A letter will be written by the President.

              - The Fifa contest will be judged by soccer experts.

              - The car will be washed.

              - A house will be built.

             

Present

Perfect: - The car has been washed.

               - A house has been built.

               - The doors have been locked.

               - The worker has been promoted.

               -The dinosaurs have been killed by a comet.

Raul M B

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Nick Vujici Story.

We are used to believe in what the others say about us, but we never give importance to what we really are, because we are scared with the idea of ​​being alone, and then we start to think either that we are not good enough or that we are a failure and we get closer to fall into depression, and leaving our dreams, and is amazing how Nick Vujicic who doesn’t have limbs and can do all what we do daily and overcome the difficulties in his life.

So if he has a normal and happy life, and travels around the world, why we can’t get over the prejudices of the people, and follow our dreams, and be happy too? .We should ask to our self “what way I’m going to take?” and made the right decision to forget all that lies that some people say about us and start living our lives.

I think that the main point of the conference is about accept yourself just the way you are and have a good self esteem , don’t listen to the judgments of the people around of you.

 I’m impressed; I just can’t imagine how Nick has a perfectly normal life and go on, even though problems he could have.

Every one of us have problems, whatever they are, but we have also the possibility to address the problems and stay on feet to fight for our dreams and for ourselves.

Samantha 407

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

When I saw the video I think, this is another history of a guy who didn’t have anything and becomes millionaire from the nowhere, but, when I finally finished to watch the video, I realized that I was wrong and this is a beautiful history about  learning how to face the failures, but also to teach me that I have my own thing to love for example baseball, I love it and I have the taste of defeats, and feel that I don’t even deserve the privilege of playing, and things like “my parents are wasting their money” it could be possible, but only depends of me and how much effort I put on my trainings and games.

One of other stories speaks about how the things that we do today are connected to the future and we don’t even know it yet. I have my own history for that; Once my uncle said to me: come here, I’m going to teach you how to prepare cocktails and I thought: How suppose am I going to use this in the future?, several months later my uncle called me and said to me: I need an assistant in a wedding, do you want to go with me? And I say of course and that was my first paid job, I won 45 dlls. So this is how I interpret and understood the advice of “connecting the dots”,  this is an experience that can happen to anybody.

The other history makes me feel like I’m wasting my life because there are too many days that I wake up and feel like I’m doing this wrong: if it’s my last on earth, I don’t want to waste it like that but unfortunately many of the times I can’t do anything to change that.

I come to a conclusion in this history, it made me to realize that I have to stop and think what I’m doing with my life before that turn serious.

A. 407

8 parts of Speechhttp://www.sophia.org/building-blocks-of-language-the-eight-parts-of-spe-tutorial?subject=english-as-a-second-language

The butterfly Circus – Essay

Leyra, 407

This short movie is so beautiful. It just says that n o matter how it’s hard for you something, if you try hard you will succeed. The first time I saw this short movie, I didn't believe it was true, that there is a person without limbs, but I searched more of that and I confirmed that it was true.

It’s incredible to see how a person can accomplish so much with so little, see how he fight for get a normal life and not being treated badly or differently. I admire so much this kind of people with different disabilities, they always show to people that they’re be in perfect conditions that everything in this life can be if they fight for that.

The way it presents in the movie is magnificent. Before, the people discriminate so much people for being different, mocked them doing circus shows displaying their “deformities” to all.

Watch how the owner of The Butterfly Circus Mendez, teach to Will, the man without limbs, everyone said: God turned his back, that no man call itself, he’s a useless goose bumps and then you see how he manages to believe in himself, because he believed everything that people was told him before, and Mendez taught him to trust himself, he realized that he is better than people who humiliated him. Not only will it tested with one case, if not with others who are: drunk and quarrelsome man,   a woman working in a brothel, she is pregnant and was send  to the street, or the story of an old man who works on the street.

My opinion of video, is there isn’t a excuse for not doing something, because God gives to you all the opportunities to do and making excuses to give up is very silly, and the form how he proves that is with such people who fight and struggle all their lives, simply because that want to be treated equally.

The Butterfly Circus

Lengua Adicional al Español IV407  //  #45  –  Alondra

About this video, I think that is a good video because shows how everything is possible. Sometimes we think that we are unfortunates because something goes wrong or is not how we hoped but we are fortunate because we are  alive.

The video shows a man who believed that God was wrong with him because it gave him no arms or legs, and as everyone said he was useless, worthless and he believed the same. Nonetheless a great man say him “You are magnificent” and invited him to The Butterfly circus.

There he found the thing that he could do, he found he could swim.
So, how he could?  He could do it because he wanted to cross the river but nobody paid attention, he try to do it for himself; he moved and moved until he could swim.

Of this way, we can see that nobody can say you that you can do or not, what you are or what you aren’t, we are free and we can do anything that we want and where we want, as long as you respect the other people.

It looked very cute as Mr. Mendez made him fell important, how he was with him and the way he spoke to him for he understands that he wasn’t a phenomenon, that was worth much more than he thought.

No different from anyone, no matter the economic situation we are in, race, color, religion or way of thinking; we are all human and we do not have to be racist with someone just because they don’t have your same tastes.

To conclude, I think that no matter how we are or where we come from, all the matters is that we are humans, we have feelings, we are here for a reason and no one is better than anyone, we are all equal.