Conjugate the verb in parentheses.
- If they _____ (have) the time, they will attend the meeting.
- Jason _____ (recognize) the winner if he had been told.
- If I _____ (know) his name, I would say hello.
- If the president were informed in time, he _____ (make) a good decision.
- If Mary _____ (try) again, she would be successful.
- The children wouldn’t have been so upset if they _____ (be give – use passive voice) the candy.
- If Jerry _____ (spend) more money on the repair work, it will work well.
- We _____ (believe) them if they had told us the story.
- She will finish the report on time if she _____ (know) all the facts.
- If we _____ (not buy) that car, we wouldn’t have gone on vacation.
- She _____ (wish) she had known about the problems.
- If they _____ (ask) the right questions, they would receive the right answers.
- She wouldn’t have been allowed to speak if she _____ (disagree) with his point of view.
- I wish they ______ (think) twice before doing that.
- We wish we _____ (know) about those people.
- Alice _____ (not speak) to him if she is asked ahead of time.
17. She wishes she _____ (apply) for the bank position.
Here is the model for the first paragraph of your first assignment:
The term “vegetarian” tends to be synonymous with ‘tree hugger’ in many people’s minds. They see vegetarianism as a cult that brainwashes its followers into eliminating an essential part of their daily diets for an abstract goal of “animal welfare.” However, few vegetarians choose their lifestyle just to follow the crowd. On the contrary, many of these supposedly brainwashed people are actually independent thinkers, concerned citizens, and compassionate human beings. For the truth is that there are many very good reasons for giving up meat. Perhaps the best reasons are to improve the environment, to encourage humane treatment of livestock, or to enhance one’s own health. In this essay, then, closely examining a vegetarian diet as compared to a meat-eater’s diet will show that vegetarianism is clearly the better option for sustaining the Earth and all its inhabitants.
Emily Poe, Student at Furman University
1 If they have time they will attend the meeting.
2 Jason would have recognize the winner if we had been told.
3 If I knew his name I would have said hello.
4 If the president were informed in time, he would have made a decision.
5 If Mary tries again, she will be successful.
6 The children would not have been so upset, if they have been given candy.
7 If Jerry spends more money on the repair work, it will work well.
8 We would have believe them if they had told us a story.
9 She will finish the report on time if she knows all the facts.
10 If we had not bought that car, we would not have gone on vacation.
11 she wished she had known about this problem.
12 if they ask the right questions, they would receive the right answers.
13 She wouldn’t have been allowed to speak if she disagreed with his point of view.
14 I wish they thought twice before doing that.
15 We wish we have known about those people.
16 Alice will not speak to him if she is asked ahead of time.
17 She wishes she applied for a bank position.
Prof: Krystyna Michael
ENG 2100T.
Diana Haoyan Wu.
First Draft Essay #1: Extended definition paper: Heroes and Villains
Due: 02/28/12
The social construction of heroes and villains.
The popular meaning of “Hero” is more than known in our society. Courage, bravery, determination, sacrifice and endurance are some of the characteristics and synonymous for a hero. Meanwhile “villain” means all the opposite of hero. It means to be evil, extremely ambitious, immoral, and mean. People accept heroes but not villains in our society, and this is the main reason why we simply like to put a ticket for everything to differentiate between what is good and what is bad because we like a better society where everything is good and nothing is bad. But the main point is that heroes would not exist if villains were not present. So between this reciprocal relation of good and bad, we can see that being a hero or a villain depends on many factors like social stereotypes, people acceptance and circumstances.
Can we return to our childhood, especially when we saw cartoons on the different channels? Do we remember the Powerpuff Girls cartoon? Well, Blossom, Bubble and Buttercup were the heroes to defend and protect Townsville, while Mojo Jojo and the monsters were the villains trying to destroy the city. We keep this picture in our mind every time that we talk about heroes and villains because we can identify a hero’s characteristics with the Powerpuff Girls and a villain with Mojo Jojo and the monsters. The main reason is that identifying figures and characteristics is the natural and psychological process of learning in kids. Since we were children and saw these cartoons, we learned to identify what is good and what is bad. Also, we learned from the social stereotype that who is hero can’t be villain and who is villain can’t be hero because heroes are courageous, brave and good people, and on the other hand, villains are destructive, immoral, and evil people. Then we were able to determine who is a hero and who is a villain.
Therefore, the popular concept of hero and villain is well known. This is what we know as people’s general acceptance of the term “Hero”. But the only thing that we don’t realize is that good and bad exist because of an especial relation between both. However, we didn’t see it in our learning process because determining good and bad is just recognition of characteristics, but explaining to a kid what is the reason or the relation between them is more complex. Furthermore, our reality and society is different from our cartoons and we can see that some of our heroes are firemen, policemen, social leaders, and young people fighting for better life’s conditions. Also we have some villains like Hitler, terrorist people, thieves, and murders. Recognizing them is not so hard, but why some of them are heroes and others are villains?
Jean Jacques Rousseau was a great French philosopher. In his Social Contract book where he described about social, political and economic empowerment, he argued that man is good by nature but the social institutions corrupt him. So, children are pure when they born, then it means that people become villain when they are part of our society. It seems that people’s soul is pure by nature, but the different hard circumstances or situations can change people’s reaction or respond to a specific way making them evil. Furthermore, when people follow the same pattern of behavior, they increase their bad actions and assume that they are doing well because they are accustomed to response in the same way like a habit. However they don’t realize that they are harming someone else or they may know it but they don’t care.
Consequently, people are evil as a result of a bad response to difficult situations. So, villains are not persons. Villain is the situation and the wrong response to it. Moreover, we can say that many villains like thieves, murders and terrorist people are evil because of ambition and wrong ideologies that they have, but can we imagine Hitler when he bore planning the Holocaust? We can’t.
On the other hand, heroes are not only who defend and protect other lives. It is more about attitude and reaction to face a situation because it is a feeling that provides enough courage to do the right sacrificing the personal interest for a general good. However, if the difficult situations and villains wouldn’t exist, we cannot pretend to have these good heroes that we have protecting us today, because it wouldn’t make sense to keep safe when we are not in danger. Then the relation between good and bad must be in a balance state to make everyone safe and happy because if we live only with hard situations and villains, we would be in troubles; but we can’t have heroes in the inverse position.
Finally, our perspective of hero and villain depends on a social construction of what is good and what is bad. And we have the wrong idea that both things are independent and can’t be inversed, but good and bad are dependent from each other. A thieve would save your life if they react to face a situation like a fire and try to save lives. In contrast, a hero who is a good person can become a villain when they react with a bad response to a situation like driving drunk and killing someone. Then, determining heroes and villains is not the same that the reciprocal relationship of them because the response to circumstances is relative to every single situation. So, both characters have to be in balance so we can deal with villains and create heroes.
I made the same decision for 3 times in my life. the first one was when I decided to change my high school, then the university in my country, and now the place where I am living: NYC. It is not easy make changes, but sometimes we feel that we got already all our goals and we have no more expectations from ourselves. And no matter how hard it would be, we risk everything we have to get new goals and try to find out more reasons to keep doing and following dreams. May be at the beginning of these changes we suffer the transition, I was really depress when I came here because first English is not my first language, second I had no friends, third I didn’t know the place, and the last one I miss my family like I never did before. However, if we can see the positive things and how beautiful is this opportunity to learn new things, that is all we need to be happy in our new home.
Starting to make new friends is a good way to know better of our new surroundings. ‘step out off your comfort zone where magics never happen’
Now-a-days there are not so many difference between Hero and Villain. Sometimes it is so close that people
define Villain as a Hero. In earlier days, whenever we think about a hero certain things comes in our mind.
Most common things are Hero always fight for good, have some special power and of course a costume which
is attractive. Now this thing comes in a different way. If we see the earlier characteristics of Hero we will find
so many things which are not real. In one word unrealistic. But in present it is completely reversed. Now we
find Hero involving in so many realistic matters. On the other hand, The Villain role is completely different
than earlier times. In earlier times most of the time we find villain in less power than Hero and most important
thing, everybody hates them. But now Villain is more popular than Hero in Certain areas. In present Villain are
more powerful with modern technology and more upgraded than before.
“Bad” Time Creates Heroes, “Good” Time Creates Evils
The term “hero” tends to be synonymous with “superman” in many people’s minds. They see heroes as supernatural humans who born with supernatural genes inside them, and they are born to be heroes but not us. However, the definition of hero actually changes over time, we may consider someone is a hero in a specific time because he/she do something few people dare to do at that time and his/her behavior fits that period’s value. Otherwise, we may consider the same person as an evil in a different time when his/her deed doesn’t fit this time’s value. Thus, as far as I am concerned, heroes and evils are relative, but not absolute. It’s not what you “do” determines you are a hero or an evil, but the time determines it. A hero is someone who does something that normal people don’t do in “bad” situations, while an evil is someone who does something that normal people don’t do in “good” situations. That is, “bad” time creates heroes, and “good” time creates evils.
As we know, people may consider somebody as a hero when he/she saved a child from a torrential great river or fought against the aristocracy with the weapon called “revolution”, especially in the Middle Ages. In those “bad” time, it’s normal to do nothing, so we considered those people who do normal things as unnormal —heroes. For example, when a child is drowning in a torrential great river, it’s “normal” to be a bystander because you afraid that you may die for saving him/her. So most normal people see it, but few people jump into the water to save the child. Thus, we call these small parts of people “heroes”. This is a “bad” time, so bad time creates heroes. Try to imagine that we are in a time which most people will jump into the water to save the child, but just few people being bystanders. Then, we will consider the people who will save the child as “normal people”, but the bystanders as “evils”. This is a “good” time, so good time creates evils.
Another example, it’s normal to see a soldier killing a person in a war, but we don’t take him as an evil. On the contrary, people in his country may think he as a “hero” because he does this to protect his country and protect their lives, just like Hitler in WWⅡto Germans. This is a “bad” time. However, it’s unnormal to see a soldier killing a person in a peaceful land, so we will take it as guilty; we will consider the soldier as an “evil”, just like Hitler in today to most people. It’s still the same deed, but we will think it differently because it’s a “good” time. Thus, heroes and evils are relative, but not absolute. It’s not what you “do” make you become a hero or an evil, but the time determines it.
Therefore, open your TV and watch the news now. If you find that there are more evils than heroes appear on the news, you should be grateful, because you are still in a “good” time. If you find that there are more heroes than evils appear on the news, you should be alarmed, because you are in a “bad” time now. If one day a normal behavior became a hero deed, the most horrible nightmare should come. For example, if we consider a student who didn’t late for class as a hero, that means everybody would be late for class at that time; if we consider a person who didn’t kill people as a hero, that means we would be already surrounded by murderers!
So try to be grateful if you saw another murder on tomorrow’s news, because you are still in a “good” time that murder hasn’t become a normal deed.
A turning point in my life
The greatest event in my life, which also was a turning point, was moving to this country one year ago. As you can imagine my life was changed drastically. In China, I used to have a stable job, many close friends and also my home for the past twenty some years. You may ask me why I made this big decision to take the risk of abandoning all I already had. I can’t say it was just because I wanted to go to the college in America or that I preferred an American life.
I got my first Bachelor’s degree and I had a pretty easy life in my country. So the topic in which I will be speaking about today is the reason why i choose to come here. In China I very much in my comfort zone I knew my surroundings and my daily life had very much become lukewarm and bland. Simply put, I wanted a turning point in my life. I just wanted to change, change my surroundings, change the type of food I ate, change my friends, gain more knowledge of the world and change everything I use to live with, but most of all I understood that it would be a great opportunity for me to add a few more new and fantastic stories to my life, in which I had never been in before.
I’m in the same situation. I couldn’t agree with you more.
I made the same decision for 3 times in my life. the first one was when I decided to change my high school, then the university in my country, and now the place where I am living: NYC. It is not easy make changes, but sometimes we feel that we got already all our goals and we have no more expectations from ourselves. And no matter how hard it would be, we give everything we have to get new goals and try to find out more reasons to keep doing and following dreams. May be at the beginning of these changes we suffer the transition, I was really depressive when I came here because first English is not my first language, second I had no friends, third I didn’t know the place, and the last one I miss my family like I never did before. However, if we can see the positive things and how beautiful is this opportunity to learn new things, that is all we need to be happy in our new home.