MARGINALISED
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VICIOUS CIRCLE OF SOCIAL DEPRIVATION Social deprivation is often explained by - or consists of - a whole set of interconnected problems. If the parents are alcoholic there may be a certain statistical probability that the children may grow up to be alcoholics. The bad social patterns are passed on from one generation to the next. However, we must be careful not to be deterministic about this. There ought not to be such a "law of social conditioning": Luckily many kids break the proconditioning of the established social pattern. |
Grammar exercise:
Can, may, must, shall, will.
1. Turn the forms of "can" into perfect tense (førnutid : "har kunnet")
2. When do forms of "will" express future tense in the text below?
3. How is the perfect tense of "must" expressed in the text below?
"Four hundred dollars is a good deal more
than I can afford," he went on.
"I wanted to get something that you'd enjoy. It's the last extravagance
we'll be able to indulge in this year. I see that you haven't paid your
clothing bills yet. I saw them on your dressing table." He looked directly
at her. "Why did you tell me you'd paid them? Why did you lie to me?"
"I just didn't want you to worry, Jim," she said. She drank some water. "I'll
be able to pay my bills out of this month's allowance. There were the
slip-covers last month, and that party."
"You've got to learn to handle the money I give you a little more
intelligently, Irene," he said. "You've got to understand that we won't have
as much money this year as we had last. I had a very sobering talk with
Mitchell today. No one is buying anything. We are spending all our time
promoting new issues, and you know how long that takes. I'm not getting any
younger, you know. I'm thirty-seven. My hair will be gray next year. I
haven't done as well as I'd hoped to do. And I don't suppose things will get
any better."
"Yes, dear," she said.
"We've got to start cutting down," Jim said. "We've got to think of the
children. To be perfectly ,frank with you, I worry about money a great deal.
I'm not at all sure of the future. No one is. If anything should happen to
me, there's the insurance, but that wouldn't go very far today. I've worked
awfully hard to give you and the children a comfortable life," he said
bitterly. "I don't like to see all of my energies, all of my youth, wasted
on fur coats and radios and slipcovers and-"
"Please, Jim," she said. "Please. They'll hear us."
"Who'll hear us? Emma can't hear us."
"The radio."
"Oh, I'm sick!" he shouted. "I'm sick to death of your apprehensiveness. The
radio can't hear us. Nobody can hear us. And what if they can hear us? Who
cares?"
Irene got up from the table and went into the living room. Jim went to the
door and shouted at her from there. "Why are you so Christly all of a sudden?
What's turned you overnight into a convent girl? You stole your mother's
jewelry before they probated her will. You never gave your sister a cent of
that money that was intended for her — not even when she needed it. You made
Grace Howland's life miserable, and where was all your piety and your virtue
when you went to that abortionist? I'll never forget how cool you were. You
packed your bag and went off to have that child murdered as if you were
going to Nassau. If you'd had any reasons, if you'd had any good reasons -"
Put in
commas in the text below and correct it for grammatical errors:
Voice: Do you have a message for Mr. Bush?
Carroll: (Laughs)Yeah he needs to stop this war he knows this war is wrong
he knows that it was illegal from the very beginning. He knows that it was
built on a mountain of lies and I think he needs to finally admit that to
the American people and make the troops go home and he doesn’t care about
his own people.He doesn’t care about the people here in Iraq he needs to
wake up and the people of America need to wake up and tell that what he’s
done here is wrong and so hopefully this time he can get the message that
this war was wrong and the continuing occupation is wrong and he could
change his policies. He’s dangerous for Iraq he’s dangerous for America he
needs to accept that and admit that to people.
[…]
Voice: What do you feel now that the Mujahedeen are giving you your freedom
while there are still women in Abu Ghraib?
Carroll: Well I feel guilty honestly I’ve been here treated very well like a
guest. I’ve been given good food never never hurt while those women are in
Abu Ghraib. Terrible things are happening to them while the American
soldiers are torturing them and other things I don’t want I can’t even say
so I feel guilty and I also feels it shows the difference between the
Mujahedeen and Americans the Mujahedeen are merciful and kind that’s why I’m
free and alive. The American army they aren’t total bad I feel guilty and I
also feel that it just show that Mujahedeen are goodly people fighting an
honorably fight a good fight while the Americans are here as a occupying
force treating the people in a very very bad way so I can’t be happy totally
for my freedom there are people still suffering in prisons and very
difficult situations. (SM)
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