Culture
Write a short paragraph (5-6 sentences) in which you describe the differences between American housing and housing in France and other francophone countries.
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answer. Television Transforms Daily Life It's not surprising that the effects of such a pervasive medium have attracted so much attention from parents, educators, social scientists, religious leaders, public officials and anyone else who wants to understand society's habits and values. TV has been blamed for everything from declines in literacy to rises in violent crime to the trivialization of national politics. Every once in a while it is praised, too, for giving viewers instant access to world events and uniting audiences in times of national crisis. An industry with this much presence in American life is bound to affect the way we live. Someone who is watching television is not doing other things: playing basketball, visiting a museum, or looking through telescope at the planets, for instance. Television can, however, bring you to a museum you might never visit or to a basketball game you cannot attend or to the surface of a planet you can only see through a telescope. Television technology, by adding pictures to the sounds of radio, truly transformed Americans' living and learning patterns. The word television, which once meant programs delivered by antennas through over-the-air signals, now means a television screen, where several different types of delivery systems bring viewers a diversity of programs. The programs Americans watch today are delivered by antennas, cables, and satellites, but they all appear on the same television screen, and as a viewer, you can't tell how the program arrived at your television set and probably don't care. What you do know is that television gives you access to all types of programs—drama, comedy, sports, news, game shows, and talk shows. You can see all types of people—murderers, public officials, foreign leaders, reporters, soldiers, entertainers, athletes, detectives and doctors. The television screen is truly, as scholar Erik Barnouw observed, "a tube of plenty." About 1,600 television stations operate in the United States. Three out of four of these are commercial stations, and the others are noncommercial stations. About half the commercial stations are affiliated with a network. What has TV been blamed for? a. for giving viewers instant access to world events and uniting audiences in times of national crisis. b. for the decline in literacy c. for bringing news to people who live in remote areas d. for carrying a diverse array of programs
Write the verb in each sentence, and indicate what the verb tense is
Leon had been cleaning the house all day when the doorbell rang. What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following words in the following sentence should be capitalized that isn't? Our favorite president was president Bill Clinton
a. the first use of president b. the second use of president c. favorite d. none of the above
CompletionVocabularioUn abuelo "adoptado" Para una clase de antropología, necesitas "adoptar" a un abuelo y entrevistarlo. Como primer paso, necesitas escribir las preguntas que le vas a hacer durante la entrevista. Completa las preguntas con la opción apropiada de la siguiente lista.
a. antepasadosd. dominarong. lograronk. retosb. ascendenciae. éxitoh. superarm. trasladarsec. costumbresf. inmigrari. mejorón. valores· ¿Cuál es su 1. ______? · ¿Cuándo inmigraron sus 2. _______ a Estados Unidos?· ¿Tuvieron que 3. ______ muchos obstáculos para asimilar la nueva cultura?· ¿Deseaban sus antepasados 4. ______ al nuevo país, o tuvieron que 5. ______ por otras causas como la guerra?· ¿Cuáles son las 6._____ y creencias que Ud. ha aprendido de sus padres y abuelos?· En su opinión, ¿tuvieron 7. ______ sus antepasados en adaptarse a la nueva cultura? ¿8._______ sus sueños?· ¿Cuáles fueron los 9. _____ que enfrentaron sus antepasados al llegar a Estados Unidos? · ¿Piensa Ud. que los 10. ______ de los inmigrantes de hoy en día son diferentes de los de los inmigrantes en épocas pasadas, o respetan las mismas ideas?· ¿En cuánto tiempo 11. ______ sus antepasados el inglés? · ¿Cree Ud. que la calidad de vida de sus antepasados 12. ______ como resultado de inmigrar a Estados Unidos?(8) Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).