Punctuation

Put in semicolons, colons, dashes, quotation marks, Italics (use an underline), and parentheses where ever they are needed in the following sentences.

1. The men, in question, Harold Keene, Jim Peterson, and Gerald Greene, deserve awards.

2. Several countries participated in the airlift: Italy, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.

3. 'Only one course was open to us, surrender' -said the ex-major- 'and we did'.

4. Judge Carswell, later to be nominated for the Supreme Court, had ruled against civil rights.

5. In last week's New Yorker, one of my favorite magazines, I enjoyed reading Leland's article 'How Not to Go Camping'.

6. 'Yes' -Jim said -'I'll be home by ten'.

7. There was only one thing to do: study till dawn.

8. Montaigne wrote the following: 'A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself'.

9. The following are the primary colors: red, blue, and yellow.

10. Arriving on the 8:10 plane were Liz Brooks, my old roommate; her husband, and Tim, their son.

11. When the teacher commented that her spelling was poor, Lynn replied 'All the members of my family are poor spellers. Why not me?'.

12. He used the phrase 'you know' so often that I finally said 'No, I don't know'.

13. The automobile dealer handled three makes of cars: Volkswagens, Porsches, and Mercedes Benz.
  
14. Though Phil said he would arrive on the 9:19 flight. He came instead on the 10:36 flight.

15.'Whoever thought' - said Helen - 'that Jack would be elected class president?'.

16. In baseball, a 'show boat' is a man who shows off.

17. The minister quoted Isaiah 5:21 in last Sunday's sermon.

18. There was a very interesting article entitled 'The New Rage for Folk Singing' in last Sunday's New York Times newspaper.

19. 'Whoever is elected secretary of the club: Ashley, or Chandra, or Aisha,  must be prepared to do a great deal of work' -said Jumita, the previous secretary-.

20. Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) caused a great controversy when it appeared.

21. We had a great time in France, the kids really enjoyed it.

22. Some people work best in the mornings; others do better in the evenings.

23. What are you doing next weekend?

24. Mother had to go into hospital: she had heart problems.

25. Did you understand why I was upset?

26. It is a fine idea; let us hope that it is going to work.

27. We will be arriving on Monday morning – at least, I think so.

28. A textbook can be a ‘wall’ between teacher and class.

29. The girl’s father sat in a corner.

30. In the words of Murphy’s Law: ‘Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.’

The purpose of education

  It is said that the main purpose of education is to learn. And that is it, but are students really learning? Or do students just repeat the things like robots? The education is more important than some people think. It is important for us and for our society. Thanks to it, we are who we are. We must not to waste it, because we can change the world through the education.

  Nowadays, we believe the education system works, and I am afraid of it does not. I dare to say that our education system does not work, in fact, our education system needs a internal reform. An internal reform which shows that the education really works, in others words, an education teaches us how to learn. We have on our hands to make it real, to make an almost perfect education. 

 First of all, the education have to lose that custom of teaching us that one thing is made a way or another way, without explanations. We are not robots, we have a brilliant brain, which can be very powerful if we fill it with much knowledges. But for that, we have to be taught how to apply the learned to our day a day. Because if we are not able to achieve it, that means that the education is not as good as some people believe. 

  Secondly, the use of technology in the education is a grand advantage, because thanks to technology we can find information fastly, however, the technology has a little problem: not all what it contains is truth. Therefore, we have to be careful at the moment to search information. Although the technology is useful, it is not enough to learn. The technology is just a tool to learn.
  
  Overall, It is obvious that the education is very important as much as breathe, but not any education, but an education is able to teach us how to learn to do something and, by that way, we can be able to apply it in different situations in our life. As I said before, we are not robots, we are humans, humans who have a powerful brain. Therefore, we can change the world with a brain filled of knowledges. 

Adult

 When I was child, I wanted being adult because I wanted to do many things, which only adults could do, for example, going out, going to parties, working, falling in love, having responsibilities... things that seemed interesting and funny.
  And now that I am 19 years old, I know that I am still young, I have realised those things are not as interesting as I thought. Now, I have many responsibilities, I have to think twice the things before do them. Now, I have to fight with daily problems. Now, I understand things that I did not achieve understand before. And, sadly, now I see the selfish and ignorance in the world. As I said before, I know I am young but I have realized that when you are growing up you are seing the world differently, you are not seeing it with those eyes of child. 
  In many situations, I have wished being a child again because there were many moments that I have not been able to respond. And also because I wanted be in the ignorance, I did not want to understand why something was happening. I just wanted to worry about not get out of the line when I was painting a picture.

Space Debris

I. It is said that human being are naturally curious. We want to go beyond our limits. We want to explore all what surround us, we want to know everything. Apparently, The Earth is not enough to satiate our curiosity, therefore the only place to satiate our curiosity is the space. 

II. Exploring new territories.
 A) That necessity to know what surround us. 

III. Satellites into the space.
 A) Those satellites offer us valuable information.
 B) It is as useful as harmful for space. 
   1. When a satellite is broken, his pieces fall into Earth.
   2. We could be beaten by those pieces someday. 
 C)  We are contaminating the space.

IV. It is expensive.
 A) Send a satellite into the space require much money.
 B) A satellite require especial materials. 

V. Overall, we are putting in danger the Earth' population, because someday somebody can be beaten by a satellite's piece , and we are contaminating the space because of that necessity to knowing everything what surround us. We have to put a limit.  

Pancho

I did not say it before, I have a pet! I am going to describe it, ready? but do not see the photo yet! Okay, my pet has four paws, a small tail and two little ears. My pet is small, furry and is curious. He scares easily and always be in guard. He likes nibbling the wood, paper, plants, cables... everything. Any idea yet? Yes? No? Do not you know it yet? I am going to say it! My pet is a little rabbit! Yeah, my pet is a rabbit, and his name is Pancho. I know that his name is not very common, but I like it. He is so adorable, but he nibbles everything!! and my mom does not like that! Anyway, he is my pet and he is three years old! He is with me since he was born. 

Life's too short

  We are always spending time with dumb things, with things that are not important for us. 

We have ever spent the time with the wrong person, even when we were conscious of that.

We have ever worried by things that were not ours. 

Overall, we have spent time, which will never be back. 

Sometimes, we worry by things that, when you start thinking about them, you realise that all to no avail. 

And it is that the life is too short to waste it.

We are owner of my life, let's enjoy it! 

Dance, jump, shout, sing, smile, cry... do all what you want to do, but with one condition: enjoy.

Win the lottery? me?

   The truth is that I do not know what I would do if I won suddenly a lot of money. First of all, I would be in shock. I think that, as all everybody, we need it to sort out our family's debts such as mortgage or the car. For this reason, I think that winning the lottery may be the answer to our problems, because if you or someone of your family is ill, you can buy medications and everything what you or your family need, although is truth that you cannot buy the curation, but you can buy thing that help you be well. 
   But with a lot of money is hard to refuse offers and do not throw money with dumb things. Because I know that if I like something and I have money, I will buy it. But the money won't be with me forever, if I waste money on clothes, jewels... whatever, I know that when I really need the money I won't have it. So, I'd have to control me. 
   If I won the lottery, apart from my family's debts, I'd share it with the most needy, because If I did not it, I would have a sense of guilty, because they do not have anything and I would like to help them. 
   However, one of the main disadvantages is that will have many interested people around you looking for their own benefit. You will not know who your friends are really, because the most of them will be with you by your money and not by your friendship. By this reason, some people say that have a lot of money make you feel alone. 
   Overall, Have a lot of money is not so good as people think. Winning a lot of money is so good as bad.