Essay

Important People Making Important Changes

If I were a very important person, I would help needed people, because I think that people that have the opportunities to help other people they don’t do it. The most important things to do are: reduce violence and invert in education because we need to literate people to improve our level as a country.

Violence is one of the most important things I would change in our country. Violence stops investment in Mexico and make people feel unsure of living in their own cities. Violence is one of the principal factors that affect diplomatic relations with other countries, which means, people don’t trust in Mexico. Also violence limits the growth of our country, mainly economic growth. In addition violence makes that children in our country grow up with fear, that’s why this thing would be one of the things that I change in our country.

In addition, education should be more important in the country. The future of the country is the young people and children. For this reason, it’s very important to invest in education in all grades of education. Mexican education is not sufficient to be competitive with the rest of the world. Consequently, it’s primordial that our country increments the level in education. When Mexico reaches this goal, Mexico will develop considerably.

In other hand, the corruption is another big problem that we have to change in our country. This problem has been increased with the past of the time; we have to stop and try to be more carefully with this kind of acts. If we know that somebody is doing an act of corruption we have to denunciate. Maybe in the future we can see a Nation more just and sovereign.

As a conclusion, I would like help needed people, give them the opportunity to improve her life’s quality. I believe that the future of this country and the world is in the next generations and to make this country one of the most beautiful and peaceful for his habitants.

Activity 2

Error Correction. - Correct the three errors in punctuating adjective clauses.

While working at my first job, which was at a clothing store, I had a co-worker who got me into a lot of trouble. She had stolen some money from the cash register and then blamed me. I insisted on my innocence, but my supervisor, who did not believe me fired me that day.

Ten years later, I got an e-mail_that stunned me. It was from the woman who had gotten me fired. She was writing to tell me how sorry she was for what she had done! I now realize that the experience that cost me my job also taught me a valuable lesson. Sometimes people hurt themselves when they cheat or lie more than the people they lie to or about. This incident, which I had almost forgotten still troubled my former co-worker, even after all these years.

Step 1. Prewriting. Using information questions to generate ideas. Think about an incident in your life that taught you a lesson. Then write questions about the incident to help generate ideas.

Example: Who was involved?

WHO cheated you?

WHAT did she say?

WHEN she cheated you?

WHERE were you when she cheated you?

WHY she did it?

HOW did the situation?

Activity 1

Córdoba		Cancún
Cordoba is an industrial city. Cordoba has a good climate. Córdoba don’t have many centers of entertaining.	BOTH Like Córdoba, Cancún not is very big. Both Cancún and Córdoba are crowded. Like Córdoba, Cancún is very nice.		Cancún is a tourist city. Cancun has a warm climate. Cancún is much visited. Cancún is very beautiful. Cancún is a funny city.

If I had to choose between living in Córdoba or staying in Cancún, I would choose Cancún. Both Córdoba and Cancún are not very big, but Cancún appeals to me more.

On one hand, I like the weather of Córdoba. It is good live in a city with good weather. However, I prefer the fun in Cancún, I think that living in a city with many centers of entertainment could be bad or could be good for me, depends of the situations of my life.