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PSYU1101 2023 Week 4 Tutorial Paraphrasing Exercise

Jacques Cousteau explains that the Antarctic plays a crucial role in regulating the Earth's climate by circulating cold water from the south to mix with warmer waters, yet this system is now threatened by human activity. Matisse was a master at conveying the feel and smells of a scene in his paintings, such as the essence of a Tangier afternoon in his work "The Casbah Gate". While skyscrapers continue to get taller, the Sears Tower remains the greatest engineering achievement, though designs have been proposed for structures twice as tall or 500 stories high.

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PSYU1101 2023 Week 4 Tutorial Paraphrasing Exercise

Jacques Cousteau explains that the Antarctic plays a crucial role in regulating the Earth's climate by circulating cold water from the south to mix with warmer waters, yet this system is now threatened by human activity. Matisse was a master at conveying the feel and smells of a scene in his paintings, such as the essence of a Tangier afternoon in his work "The Casbah Gate". While skyscrapers continue to get taller, the Sears Tower remains the greatest engineering achievement, though designs have been proposed for structures twice as tall or 500 stories high.

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"The Antarctic is the vast source of cold on our planet, just as the sun is the
source of our heat, and it exerts tremendous control on our climate," [Jacques]
Cousteau told the camera. "The cold ocean water around Antarctica flows north
to mix with warmer water from the tropics, and its upwellings help to cool both
the surface water and our atmosphere. Yet the fragility of this regulating system
is now threatened by human activity."
From "Captain Cousteau," Audubon (May 1990):17.

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"The twenties were the years when drinking was against the law, and the law
was a bad joke because everyone knew of a local bar where liquor could be
had. They were the years when organized crime ruled the cities, and the police
seemed powerless to do anything against it. Classical music was forgotten
while jazz spread throughout the land, and men like Bix Beiderbecke, Louis
Armstrong, and Count Basie became the heroes of the young. The flapper was
born in the twenties, and with her bobbed hair and short skirts, she symbolized,
perhaps more than anyone or anything else, America's break with the past."
From Kathleen Yancey, English 102 Supplemental Guide (1989): 25.

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"Of the more than 1000 bicycling deaths each year, three-fourths are caused by
head injuries. Half of those killed are school-age children. One study concluded
that wearing a bike helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent. In
an accident, a bike helmet absorbs the shock and cushions the head.“
From "Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers," Consumer Reports (May 1990): 348.

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"Matisse is the best painter ever at putting the viewer at the scene. He's the most
realistic of all modern artists, if you admit the feel of the breeze as necessary to a
landscape and the smell of oranges as essential to a still life. "The Casbah Gate"
depicts the well-known gateway Bab el Aassa, which pierces the southern wall of
the city near the sultan's palace. With scrubby coats of ivory, aqua, blue, and
rose delicately fenced by the liveliest gray outline in art history, Matisse gets the
essence of a Tangier afternoon, including the subtle presence of the bowaab, the
sentry who sits and surveys those who pass through the gate."
From Peter Plagens, "Bright Lights." Newsweek (26 March 1990): 50.

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"While the Sears Tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper


engineering so far, it's unlikely that architects and engineers have abandoned
the quest for the world's tallest building. The question is: Just how high can a
building go? Structural engineer William LeMessurier has designed a
skyscraper nearly one-half mile high, twice as tall as the Sears Tower. And
architect Robert Sobel claims that existing technology could produce a 500-
story building."
From Ron Bachman, "Reaching for the Sky." Dial (May 1990): 15.

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