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When I arrive in Los Angeles, California, I had in my mind "I will be a good student and learn a lot of new things that I will use in my life". Now, when finished the classes, I realized that all these stuffs taught to us here, I already learned in my classes in Brazil, whatever, my experiences here was very important to my life, like how I can live alone without my parents. But I like very much Sean's classes

Analyzing Arguments

The govern needs to stop focusing on testing and instead support changing the hours of the school day, starting it later for teenagers and ending it later for all children. Indeed, each morning, few of the country’s 17 million high school students are awake enough to get much out of their first class, particularly if it starts before 8 a.m. Sure, many of them stayed up too late the night before, but not because they wanted to. Research shows that teenagers’ body clocks are set to a schedule that is different from that of younger children or adults.

Obviously that the idea of this text is correct, because all the teenagers like to wake up later that they can, and everybody can't work so well after they wake up, so the classes needs to starts a little bit later, and of course that the people needs to sleep before midnight, 'cause this time is so much late.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/opinion/14kalish.html

Synthesis

Video games and its effects are topics of a great discussion since the beginning of this century. On one hand, Walker, (2001). says that children who play violent video games have more tendency to become more violent than the children who do not play (p.116).  On the other hand, Smith, A.J. (2003). agrees with Walker, but he argues that almost everything in a children life have a violent side, like TV shows or films, and looking this way, the video games are not the only responsible for the children becoming more violent. Smith also says that exists many others video games such sports games, that are not violent. In my opinion, i have to agree with Smith, because if video games makes children more violent and we should avoid them, we also have to avoid TV shows and films, because they are also violent.

Walker, A. (2001). Computer games and adolescent aggression. In N. Peters (Ed.), Research into
the effects of computer games (pp. 108-124). London: St Martin’s Press.

Smith, A. J. (2003). Synthesis. Retrieved October 20, 2008 from The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, The English Language Centre Web site:

http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/eap/synthesis.htm

Paraphrasing

Loinaz, Alexis. (2012, july 6). E! online. http://www.eonline.com/news/328262/new-iron-man-3-teaser-art-is-tony-stark-now-a-mutant

Robert Downey Jr. comes back again. Until the next May, Iron Man 3 returns in a especial edition with great emotion and action. The protagonist fights with an armature suit emerging from his body, that is because of the Marvel effects that released an concept art image in the personages. The studio is now just confirming the identify of the supervilan, Ben Kingsley, to act on the role of Mandarin, a scientist and who works with advanced alien technology.

Sources

Wheellwright, Jeff. (2011, March). Don't eat again. Discover, 22, 36-46

A little about me

I'm Matheus, I have fourteen years old and I'm from Brazil. I'll be in CA only for one mounth, in a Study Vacation program