Typical College Student Sounds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xwnWpaCM18&feature=youtu.be

Passive Voice

1. Police in riot gear fired rubber coated bullets into the crowd..

2. The boss informed the employees of the layoffs later that day.

3. LeBron James missed a three-point shot with five seconds left.

4.Researchers asked survey participants about their changes in political affiliation.

5.Raoul avoided tall buildings and mountain roads due to his extreme fear of heights.

6. The legislature is considering the bill.

7. The earthquake destroyed the tiny island.

8. The class is reading the book.

9. Doctors performed an experimental operation yesterday.

10. Debris form the downed airliner covered the wheat field.

Video Edit Assignment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCvejbqwpdY&feature=youtu.be

Lecture opens dialogue for a slave-free campus

Anti-slavery activist Kevin Bales called on students to start demanding that their campuses become slave-free.

“No university has done the work to say ‘we are slave free,’” Bales said.

Bales, co-founder of the organization Free the Slaves, suggested that students begin to demand that their universities become slave-free during his Feb. 6 lecture.

This would mean that nothing - from the products that are available on campus to the investments made on behalf of the university - is associated with slavery.

           A CougSync group dedicated to anti-slavery efforts opened for students to join as of Feb. 11.

            Sarah Hogan, lectures programmer for the Student Entertainment Board, said that the movement will take time and momentum by the global movement to have more significant campus impact.

            “It’s going to be a process to figure out what we have on this campus that has slave involvement,” Hogan said.

More than 350 people attended the lecture online while 250 attended in person, according to Hogan.

            Global Campus, Global Connections, the Anthropology Graduate Organization and the Student Entertainment Board presented the lecture on the causes and effects of modern-day global slavery.

            This joint effort brought the issue of modern slavery to the attention of those who might not otherwise have been interested in the subject, said Emily Casillas, a member of the Anthropology Graduate Organization.  According to Casillas, many of her students who attended the lecture expressed surprise and dismay at the fact that slavery still exists.

            Many of the statistics that Bales presented compared modern slavery to the slavery in the history books.

            During the course of the last four centuries, the average price for a single slave totaled $40,000. Today the average global price for a single slave is $90.

            “People have gone from being investments to being disposable inputs,” Bales said.

            While the price for a slave varies from country to country, Bales has found a connection between environmental destruction and slavery. According to Bales, slavery is the third-largest producer of carbon dioxide emissions, falling just behind the U.S. and China.

            The environmental impact of slavery is one reason for the liberation of the world’s slaves beyond the morality of the issue, said Bales.

            To liberate all 27 million of the world’s slaves would cost $10.8 billion said Bales. That is the amount that Americans spend annually on movie tickets, Bales said.

            What Bales does not want to happen following the liberation of the world’s slaves is what he calls a “botched emancipation.”

            “We want to end slavery without a war and without anybody becoming a second-class citizen,” Bales said.

Peer Edit

1. More than 200 people received complimentary gifts for donating blood.

2. The center hosted its fourth annual charity event “Dinner with a Coug."

3. According to William Jones, marketing coordinator for the Palouse Food Bank, only five percent of the public make donations.

4. From retail stores like Abercrombie & Fitch to hospitality companies like Coastal Hotel Groups, there are opportunities for all majors. “I discovered a lot of companies previously unknown,” Lee said.

5. Johnson will speak at 7 p.m. on Feb.19.

6. The world-renowned artist will shock with her creative sculptures.

7. The exhibit is titled "Ceramics from the Kolva-Sullivan Collection."

8. Anderson, a sophomore engineering major, was the team's coach.

9. “It's a branding opportunity for our community. We don’t want to just be a community but rather be known as a green community,” Blacker said.

After each sentence, write the subject, verb and object.

a. Sustainability and a green friendly lifestyle is something the city council plans to promote this year in Pullman.

 

• Subject: lifestyle
• Verb: is
• Object: something the city council plans to promote...

b. A discussion on getting the city of Pullman involved in social media was also mentioned.

 

• Subject: discussion
• Verb: mentioned
• Object: getting the city of Pullman involved in social media