Passive and Active

1. Change this active sentence to the passive:
A client delayed Joanne when she was leaving the office.
-Joanne was delayed by a client when she was leaving the office.

2. Change this active sentence to the passive:
The tennis club was holding a meeting at 6.30.
-A meeting was being held by the tennis club at 6.30.

3. Change this passive sentence to active:
The doorway was blocked by Sheba, the dog.
-Sheba, the dog, was blocking the doorway.

4. Change this active sentence to passive:
Joanne had to take Sheba to the vet.
-Sheba had to be taken to the vet.

5. Change this active sentence to passive:
Her condition worried the vet.
-The vet was worried by her condition.

6. Change this passive sentence to active:
The dog was treated by the vet while Joanne went home.
-The vet treated the dog while Joanne went home.

7. Change this active sentence to passive:
The vet told Joanne to get out of the house.
-Joanne was told to get out of the house.

8. Change this active sentence to passive:
The telephone call confused Joanne.
-Joanne was confused by the telephone call.

9. Change this active sentence to passive:
The police captured the burglar.
-The burglar was captured by the police.

10. Change this active sentence to passive:
The dog had bitten off his fingers.
-His fingers had been bitten off by the dog.

The Selfish Gene: The replicators

In this chapter Dawkins starts talking about simplicity an how every living thing starts simple and starts getting more complex. This is an obvious statement because throughout live living things experience different changes that make of this a more complex way to live as they evolve. Because of this, Dawkins says that there is a more simple theory way to survive and its the survival of the stable. He says that If anything changes and keeps the same way forever, it will stay that way and "survive". In his text he describes this survival skill as the first one on earth."The earliest form of natural selection was simply a selection of stable forms and a rejection of unstable ones"(pg. 13). This might be a new theory stated by the own author and that really makes a lot of sense. Afterwards, Dawkins talks about the biological part of the genes and how after a long, long time the 'replicator' which is a molecule that can copy itself is created and provides stabilization. This is called primeval soup. He continues telling us about the replication of genes and how these are machines that provide live to our body and mind.

The Selfish Gene: Why are people?

As we start reading the selfish gene by Richard Dawkins, we see how he supports Darwin´s theory of evolution in every aspect in regards to the human being and every living thing. These series of historical theories make the author realize that our genes are always in competition and are what define all human beings. He talks about to very important points that affect the live of every living thing, in both positive and negative aspects. This two important aspects are Altruism and Selfishness.

Evolution is just a theory that we don´t really know for fact if it is true; Just like Dawkins said "Have they discovered evolution jet?" (pg. 1). But we know that there have been outstanding minds over the years that have invented these theories of why we are here, such as Charles Darwin. Darwin talked about the survival of the species, instead Dawkins changed it to the survival of the gene. To explain this he defines these two words. Altruism is the act of risking oneself for the well being of another and selfishness is caring about yourself and no one else. What I think about this is that Depending on the behavior of the gene, we are what we are. It is scietifically proven that your genes make you what oyu are. In this case, It is important to state that the selfish gene may exist because of the survival of his own. Also if it is altruism, it is also selfish do to the fact that you are acting in a selfish way because you are defending your species. It will always be a selfish gene. "Anything that has evolved by natural selection should be selfish"(pg. 4).

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