Quarter 2, Week 7 Critical Reading Passage

China’s economy has grown very quickly over the last 30 years due to the number of
1) export__________ they send to countries like the United States. It is almost impossible to name a product that Americans use that is not 2) _imported_________from China – toys, clothes, electronics, and furniture. The Chinese government has spent more than $568 billion on improving transportation in China in order to increase the Chinese economy. One recent development has been the introduction of a bullet train that runs between two major Chinese cities.
Its 3) _function_________ is not just to transport passengers, but to help increase China’s economy by helping to transport goods between cities faster.In 2009, China became the world’s largest
4) ___imports_______ of goods to the rest of the world. It is expected that China’s economy will become the world’s largest by 2027, beating out the United States. It is difficult for the United States to compete with China. We 5) __import_______ four items from China for every one
6) _export________ that we send there. This means fewer jobs for U.S. workers and more jobs for Chinese workers. The benefit that Americans receive from the high number of Chinese imports is that it allows U.S. stores to offer lower priced goods. However, many Americans feel that the U.S. government’s 7) _function_________ is to decrease this trade deficit if the U.S. wants to remain the largest economy in the world.

I think the u.s goverment should make better quality products for americans to buy. and make china have less job. i also think that the the u.s government should encourage americans to buy more goods for a better price.

Q2, Week 6 Critical Reading Passage

- When people abuse their credit cards they can seek help from consumer credit counselors, debt management companies, or they may need to file for bankruptcy.
- What would you do if someone gave you a credit card with a $20,000 limit?
- What would you do if the credit card company asked for all of their money back and 10% interest on what you had spent?
- What are some of the consequences of bankruptcy?

well if some one gave me credit card with a supposably 20,000 limit i wouldn't acepted beacuse i wouldnt really know if the consequence that it mite get me, into. but if i wouldn't think this way i probably end up taking it and buyting me all the things that i would like to have. and
probably had buought a lot of things to my babies nephews.and if in a case the credit card company would asked for all the money back i would suite them for giving me a credit card that they supposabably was in limited. and the consequences of bankruptcy is that you won't be allowed to buy or take anything out untill seven hs been paased to be allows to do anything you want again. till your credit has been cleared

A Creator's Responsibilities

1. Can you remember when you last copied, downloaded, or shared some type of creative work? What was the creative work? no i dont remeber but if i did i know i didnt use them in a bad attentions.

2. Can you think of a time when you used someone else’s work in something you made? yeah but not copied the exact work just to use to help me how to give me an idea how the work must be done.



1. Can you think of an example of piracy or plagiarism?
Whenever you download music illegaly or burn a copy of a DVD

2. What are Henry’s rights as a creator?
That he thinks that he is ok to use someone else work or that he have done websites,that he thinks he created alot of videos from other videos thinking he had done his own.

3. What are Henry’s responsibilities in using other people’s creative work?
That he do not have to copy the same work as the other's creators and that he has to be responsible.

4. Henry says that pirating material is stealing, no matter how it’s done. What are examples of pirating? Why should you avoid it?
because it can be copies from theaters saying that hey are real ehrn their not and that could lead you in to troulble i guess.

5. Henry likes to make mash-ups and remixes and put them online. What does he need to do to make this “fair use” just to make sure that he make them real not fake say that he did them when he really didnt just to get credit.

Week 4 Critical Reading Passage

deffintions!!!!!!

perceive - 1.Become aware or conscious of (something) come to realize or understand.

impact - The action of one object coming forcibly into contact with another: "cause injury on impact".

structure - The arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex.

1) Do you think social networking sites have made a positive or negative impact on your life and our society? not in my life but probably in our society in the way that people may found out such as things that no one would it imagen such as curuel and in pripporiate things that it it may hurt other people.

2) How have social networking sites changed the structure of social relationships?

3) As of 2011, it is legal for colleges and businesses to view the social networking profiles of applicants. Do you think that is a violation of their privacy?

Q2, Week 4 Vocabulary Definitions & Cloze Reading

deffintions!!!

context - 1.The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed

equate - 1.Consider (one thing) to be the same as or equivalent to another: "customers equate their name with quality".

evaluate - Form an idea of the amount, number, or value of; assess

cloning became a hot topic when Dolly the Sheep was cloned from an identical sheep in 1997. Cloning basically 1) _equate_________ to creating a genetic twin. There is no evidence that human cloning has occurred yet, but it is believed that scientists have the ability to do so. Most countries have 2) __evaluate________ the pros and cons of human cloning and limited or outlawed it. If you look at this in a different 3) ____equate______, there are human clones among us right now. They are identical twins, created naturally, not in a lab.

Supporters of human cloning say that it could help couples who are struggling with conceiving a baby. More importantly, many people say that human cloning could be used to save lives by cloning a diseased liver or heart or to replace a body part like an arm. In this 4) ___evaluate_______, human cloning may not be such a bad thing.

Opponents of human cloning say that people are “playing God” and they
5) __equate________ that with going against many people’s religious beliefs. Some people fear that scientists could create “superhumans” that would be bred as super-soldiers or super-athletes which would make it impossible for non-cloned humans to compete with them.

Q2, Week 3 - T-Chart & Paragraph

Do violent video games contribute to youth violence?

yes in the way that violent game contribute you to your youth vionenct is that it give you ideas of how to become more sico mental in the streets of damaging things that are not yours becoming more of a troublemaker another way is that it influence you to get into gange activities also in how your behavior will change wich it will lead you to have problems with the law.
and i also think that it wont contribute you your youth violence if your mnot too into video games and if your more a lil bit meature you wont lets that take over your mentality.

Cloze Reading Passage Quarter 2 Week 1

Should all Americans have the right to free health care?
I think and "We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege or a commodity.
everyone in the United States has the human right to health care. Reform measures should ensure that every person has access to comprehensive, quality health care. No one should be discriminated against on the basis of income, health status, gender, race, age, immigration status or other factors...
Health care is a public good, not a commodity. Gaps in the health care system should be eliminated so that all communities, rich and poor, have access to comprehensive, quality treatment and services.":)

Health care is an 1) _ISSUE_that continues to be debated. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, millions of people in the U.S. do not have health insurance. In 2007, Americans spent more than two trillion dollars on health care. Health care is the largest industry in the U.S., employing more than 14 million people.

Supporters of the right to health care, believe that health care reform would stop medical bankruptcies (when people go broke because someone in the family gets sick), improve public health, and reduce overall health care spending.
2) 0R suggests that 2.1% of all U.S. bankruptcies in 2007 were related to medical expenses. They say that no one in the richest nation on earth should go without health care. A June 2009 report 3) _AND_the results of a poll that showed 64% of Americans believe health care is an important
4) ISSUE_and should be a right.

People who are against using taxes to provide health care for all Americans argue that it is socialism (a government run society). They also feel that there is
5) _____and_____ to suggest that it would decrease the quality and availability of health care for those who already have medical coverage. In 6) __issue________, opponents say it is not the government's responsibility to guarantee health coverage.