Passive Voice

Level 1: Directions: Change the sentences below to the passive voice. Children cannot open these bottles easily. These bottles cannot be easily opened by children. The government built a road right outside her front door. A road was built by the government right outside her door. Mr. Ross broke the antique vase as he walked through the store. The antique vase was broken by Mr. Ross. When she arrived, the changes amazed her. The changes amazed her when she arrived. The construction workers are making street repairs all month long. Street repairs are being made by conduction workers all month long. The party will celebrate his retirement. His retirement will be celebrated by the party. His professors were discussing his oral exam right in front of him. His oral exam was being discussed by his professors in front if him. My son ate all the homemade cookies. All the homemade cookies were eaten by my son. Corrosion had damaged the hull of the ship. The hull of the ship had been damaged by corrosion. Some children were visiting the old homestead while I was there. The old homestead was being visited by children while I was there.

Thesis for Analytic Essay

The use of blood in Psycho and the use of blood in Macbeth 1971 differ in the fact that Psycho uses blood as a tool for caring the audience, but it dosent represent a theme in the movie. With Macbeth, blood is a recurring tool that the director used to explore the message of the novel.

Writers Workshop for April 12, 2012

Topic: Writers Workshop
Aim: How is a analytic film essay similar to an analytic literary essay?
WatchNow: In this short film how do words relate to images? Explain with one example.

 In this short film, words are complementary to the images and the sequences being shown in the film. For example, when the child says, "We're going to run away," the next images and video excerpts include a plane taking off, a feather slowly floating in the air, and a flock of birds. Based on this example, one can conclude that the words in this film foreshadow the approaching events. Although they might not relate directly, as in to say that after the child says that, the video dosen't show a grop of children running away from the original spot where he said it. It rather shows a pattern of images that can be transferred back to what the child says.