Passage eighteen
Beyond puppyhood, retraining an aggressive dog often is a tough job, and it doesn’t always work. You may need professional advice. Contract your veterinarian, who might refer you to a trainer or behaviorist. If after retraining, your dog continues to scare people, considering whether the kindest and safest action is to put the dog to sleep.
Every pet owner, and every family with children, need to take seriously of the risk of dog bites. Ask the Bogers. It's been more than one year since five-year-old Megan began to raise her pet. The scars
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. around her eye and the wound on one side of her mouth have faded almost to nothing, and the memory of the attack by her pet lingers. 6. “She’s very hesitant around all dogs,” reports her mom, “I’m more so.”
They have taught Megan and their another children to approach dogs 7. slowly, and hold up a hand to be sniffed before getting closer.
The family was requiring by law to keep the dog contained for d ten days, to be sure it didn't carry rabies. Then the Bogers gave it to a family friend ― one with children. Now they have it back, but he's carefully supervised.
8. 9. 10. Passage nineteen
When I was about 11, I inherited my older brother's paper route. It was a good job, though it means waking up at the crack of dawn 1. and hopping on my bike in Rockford, to deliver papers.
Punctuality was critic. People expected the paper on their front 2. porch by 6 a.m. If I ran late, they would be standing in their doorways and I would infinitely hear about it. On the other hand, doing the job 3. professionally often resulted in much-appreciated tips.
Ever since then, I have tried to do as professional a job as 4. possible-whether it be bagging groceries, painting houses or tarring roofs. Acting is not different. I believe if you work hard and behave
like a pro, it will pay back, and you will be offered more and better roles. 5.
This means giving your all. If a scene requires another character to react to jumping into the water, I will jump in as many times as it 6. takes to help him and the director get the shot. Several years ago, while filmed a movie in the mountains of Brazil, my fellow actors 7. and I all pitched in to help the screw move heavy equipment through 8. 11
rugged jungle. Acting is a job like any other, and you can't let it go to
your head. The thing that made a difference delivering papers 9. being thorough, punctual, doing your best-also count on the movie set. And I still have to woken up at the crack of dawn.
Passage twenty
Jimmy Lee was executed in Parchment, Miss. He was a murder. In Mississippi, killers are executed by strapping them into a chair and dropped cyanide crystals into a pan of water.
This is supposed to do the job quickly and with a maximum
of suffering. However, this was not the case of Jimmy Lee. He moaned and convulsed and thrashed about everywhere for several minutes before his end came. His lawyer was upset by the way Jimmy Lee died, and also were many of the kindly souls who opposed the death penalty in any form. But they’ve overlooked
something unusually about Jimmy Lee's death. And that is the fact that this is one of those rare times a killer got exactly what he gave. He was executed for the crime of smothering a 3-year-old girl. It can be assumed the little girl also gasped breath and suffered when she
was deprived of air. The difference is that she did nothing to deserve her suffering and death.
Passage twenty-one
The dominance of black athletes to professional basketball is
beyond dispute. Two-thirds of the players are black, and the number would be greater was it not for the continuing practice of picking white bench warmers for the sake of balance. Over the last two decades, no less than three players have been among the ten starting players on National Basket-ball Association’s All-Star Team, and in the last quarter of this century, only two white players have ever been chosen as the NBA’s Most Valuable Player. But this dominance reflects a natural inheritance: basketball is a pastime of the urbane poor. The current generation of black athletes are heirs of a tradition more than half a century old. In a neighborhood where without the money for bats, gloves, hockey sticks and icing skates, basketball is an eminent accessible sport. “Once it was the game of the Irish and Italian Catholics in Rockaway,” writes David Wolf in his book. Foul! “It was recreation, status and a way out.”
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Passage twenty-two
Scientists claim that air pollution causes a decline in the world’s average air temperature. In order to prove that theory, ecologists have turned to historic data in relation to especially huge volcanic eruptions. They suspect that volcanoes effect weather changes that are similar with air pollution.
One source of information is the affect of the eruption of Tambora, a volcano in Sumbawa, the Dutch East Indies, in April 1815. The largest recorded volcanic eruption, Tambora threw 150 million tons of fine ash into the stratosphere. The ash from a volcano spreads world- wide in a few days and remain in the air for years. Its effect is to turn incoming solar radiation into space and however cool the earth. For example, records of weather in England show between April and November 1815, the average temperature has fallen 4. 5 F. During the next 24 months, England suffered one of the cold periods of its
history. Farmer's records from April 1815 to December 1818 indicate frost throughout the spring and summer and sharp decreases in crop and livestock markets. Since there was a time lag of several years between reason and effect, by the time the world agricultural commodity community has deteriorated, no one realized the cause.
Ecologists today warn that we face with a twofold menace.
The ever-present possibility of volcanic eruptions, such as that of Mt, St. Helens in Washington, added to man’s pollution of the atmosphere with oil, gas, coal, and other polluting substances, may bring us increasing colder weather.
Passage twenty-three
The world is in a self-destruction mode. By this statement I mean that the people of the world are bent on making this planet
inhabitable in three distinct ways. Furthermore, these three ways are all interrelated and related directly to industrialization.
The first of three is through pollution to the air, the water, and the soil. Industrialization has meant toxic fumes in atmosphere and
poisonous substances in the water and in the soil. Industry has also been responsible to noise and visual pollution: the roar of machinery and the ugliness of factories and cheap housing developments …these factors take the joy outside of natural surroundings for human beings.
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However, the balance of nature has been upset. To feed the hungry factories, huge forests have been leveled, mountains
have stripped of their protection. The results are farther-reaching as we can know.
The third and the most acute of the problem is the
psychological effect on people of increased competition and hard economic times. The reasons that people give for political unrest
might be reasons of belief or religion, but I believe that it is the desire of people to improve their standard of life that ultimately causes wars. Because of the industrialization, much of the beauty and the simplicity of life is away.
Passage twenty-four
Henry Fielding, the famous novelist who was also a London magistrate, once made a night raid to two known hideouts in this city-within-a-city; he found seven men, women, and children packed away in a few tiny stinking rooms. All of these people, included little
children of five and six who were trained as pick-pockets, were wanted for crime.
Conditions like these bred more criminals. One of the typical cases was that Jack Shepard, whose execution in 1724 was watched by two hundred thousand people. Shepard, the son of honest working people, was an apprentice in a respectful trade. He ran away from it
because he fancied that he had been ill-treated, and soon found it was easy to make more money by thieving as his father had done by a lifetime of honest work.
In Shepard’s day highwaymen committed robberies at broad
daylight, in sight of a crowd, and. rode solemnly and triumphantly through the town with danger of molestation. If they were chased, twenty or thirty armed men were ready to come to their assistance. Murder was a everyday affair, and there were many people who made heroes from the murderers.
Passage twenty-five
No two people have the same orientation to work because that unique backgrounds and experiences. Such differences, as we noted earlier, are relevant to the shape of values and attitudes. While very
little systematic inquiry has been made into the role of cultural,
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economics, and political factors as related to job satisfaction, some evidence suggests that this class of variables is relevant. For example, it was found that characteristics of the communities which workers
reside must be considered to understand job satisfaction, based on data obtained from 1300 blue-collar workers employed in 21 plants in the eastern United States. The urban or rural location of the plant were used as an index of expected alienation from middle-class values such as accomplishment and upward mobility. The investigators found that nobody of the workers in rural locations were alienated from middle-class values, whereas who in urban locations were. One explanation was advanced is that the workers in small towns
are more likely influenced by middle-class, Protestant norms and
values. Children are taught these values in school and attempt to reach goals defined in terms of these values by means of behavior inconsistent with these values. Children raised in urban areas are less likely to be Anglo-Saxon or Protestant and less responsible or sympathetic to such a value system-Criticism from peer groups and negative reinforcement tends to destroy behavior and beliefs consistent with middle-class ideals.
Passage twenty-six
People often dream of living in a perfect place where no one
would be poor, and everyone would be considerable of everyone else. Such a place, however, is very good to be true: such a place is nowhere, and that’s what the word “utopic” means. It is made up two Greek words meaning “not a place”. The word was first used by Thomas More, a sixteen century English writer whose book Utopia, published in 1516,describing a perfect island country. More’s idea for tale came from Plato. Plato’s The Republic described what would b a perfect state.Early legends told a perfect place existing somewhere in Atlantic. These legends were no longer believed when the explorations of Americas began, but after More’s time they became common for writers to imagine there places. Utopia, if is effected, would not suddenly make everything perfect because people are of nature imperfect.
Passage twenty-seven
One of the greatest problems for these settlers in Nebraska in the last quarter of the previous century was fuel. Few of the state was
forested when the first settlers arrived and it is probable that by 1880,
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