Paraphrasing Exercise 2

1. According to Jacques Cousteau the Antartic is the source of cold for our planet as the Sun is the sourse for heat. The water that comes from the north(antartica) mixes with the water from the tropic and this way all of the surface water in the atmosphere is cooled, but this cycle might be ruined because of human activity.

2. The twenties was a period for change, classical music was changed for jazz with and men like Louis Armostrong and Count Basie became heroes in the genre; organized crime ruled the city while the police seem to be incapable of doing anything. Drinking was illegal but that didn’t stop anyone from drinking because everyone seemed to know in which local bar the liquor was available, the flapper was also born during this time period and according to this 'article', this represented "America's break from the past" (Kathleen Yancey, English 102 Supplemental Guide '1989').

3. More than 1000 deaths occur each year from bike accidents and that three-fourths are head injuries. Half of the people who are killed in cycling accidents are children who still go to school. Wearing a helmet might save your life. If one crashes or has an accident and is using a helmet ,85 percent of any head injury is reduced because it absorbs the shock and creates a head cushion.

4. Matisse's art takes the viewer's eyes to nirvana, magically making him/her envision themselves in it. He shows his art as if everything was there, real, almost as if you could smell the objects he drew. A drawing of his, known as "The Casbah Gate," shows in detail the reality of the people and their homes coexisting with that of a "sultan's palace (Plagens, Peter). Matisse manages to capture every little detail, every movement of every character, and we can tell what time of the day it is by the way he colors the sky. From Peter Plagens, "Bright Lights." Newsweek (26 March 1990): 50.

5. The Sears Tower is one of the greatest skyscraper eingineering achievement made by man, but where could this leave the quest fot the worlds largest building?
Engineer William LeMessurier has designed a skyscraper twice the size of that of the Sears Tower and architect Robert Sobel claims that a 500 story building can be built, so maybe the architects and engineers have not left their goal for the world's tallest bulding.