Grammer Post: Past Tense

There are some words that I cannot tell if it is past tense or not. Here I found that this helps me a lot.

Past tense verbs are used to express an action that has already happened. For most verbs, you can just add –ed to ending and you’re good to go. For irregular verbs, such as BE, HAVE, and DO, they have forms that are different depending on the subject.

Wallace moved into his new house last Saturday.

Yesterday I visited him for tea.

Group Presentation

In our group's presentation, we're going to have the power point on leading causes of death by age. There are four age groups that we are going to focus on: 1-3, 4-21, 21-64, and 64+. We are going to present them one after the other and tie them in.

I am a little worried about the delivery of the presentation. On page 839 in the SMGTW, it gives some advice to how to deliver the presentation. I feel more relieved after reading it. I need to make eye contact when speaking. I especially need to not speak in a monotone voice and avoid vocal mannerisms. And speak loudly. These are things i need to work on.

Most Cause Of Death At 65+

Why: Heart disease is caused by diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking, improper diet and lack of exercise. It can also have a genic component.

Prevent: Have better diet and exercise more.

Women develop heart problems later in life than men -- typically 7 or 8 years later. However, by about age 65, a woman's risk is almost the same as a man's.

Symtoms: Heart disease includes conditions such as heart failure, heart attack and heart arrhythmia that can cause the heart to beat ineffectively and impair circulation.

Causes Of Death

I found that the most cause of death in the world is Ischemic Heart Disease. It is a disease characterized by reduced blood supply to the heart muscle, usually due to coronary artery disease (atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries). Its risk increases with age, smoking, hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol levels), diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure) and is more common in men and those who have close relatives with ischemic heart disease.

In the United States, it is Diseases of the Heart. Which is heart disease.

Grammer Post: Present Tense

In my sentences, I don't stay consistent with the tenses. I start out with present then mix in some past tenses. I hate when that happens. All you need to do is just add "has" before the verb. I just forget the rules. Right here taught me a lot about present tense.

Gary has just ate the orange.

Opposition

Students with concealed weapons on College and Universities campuses should be allowed because it can prevent massacres. If there is a psycho student taking the class hostage with a gun, there is nothing to do but wait for him or her to be finished with their shooting spree. If one of the students or teacher had a gun concealed with them, he or she can end the psychopath’s shooting spree, thus preventing another massacre. The students would be safer knowing that their classmates had a gun to protect them. Massacres would have been protected if someone had a concealed weapon on them. They could have shot the person down, without killing them, and had prevented the shooting from ever happening. It is safer to know that your classmates have a concealed weapon on them.
Students do not have the enough courage to start a school shooting. The gun is used for bluffing. If a student pulls out their concealed weapon, it is not likely that they will shoot. They use the gun for scaring off people. They actually do not have the courage to shoot. Unless they are a psychopath, they will not shoot.
If gun control laws get too strict, it will violate the second amendment of the Constitution, which is the right to bear arms. It will limit if certain people can have guns, then limits them to what kind of guns are allowed to purchase. If it is a fully automatic or a semi-automatic gun, it is still a gun. A gun is a gun. It should not matter what kind of gun the person has. Gun control will likely interfere with our rights to bear arms. It limits to the varieties of guns the people can purchase.
People can still get their hands on guns even if the law changes. They can get it illegally from black-markets and under the table from gun companies. No matter what the law is, people can somehow get their hands on guns. So why bother changing the laws, it is a waste of time and paper.

Propostion

Gun sellers need to have stricter background checks (Espo). A background check is when the seller brings up the buyer’s records to see if he or she is legible for a gun or not. If the person is not legible, they cannot buy a gun. Background checks should be performed on every buyer (Espo). Since they got out of juvy, they might want revenge on some people that put them in there (Espo). Then the shooting begins. If they’re a student that isn’t legible, there is not a risk for a school shooting. The background checks should be as accurate as possible (Beef). Juvenile delinquents should be restricted from buying guns (Espo).
People with mental illness should be restricted to buy guns (Beef). The law should be changed so that it is impossible for someone with mental illnesses to purchase a gun (Beef). Since he or she already knows that they aren’t suppose to buy it. Seung Hui Cho, the one who started the Virginia Tech. massacre, was able buy not just one gun, he actually he bought several legally from a gun dealer. The seller saw the mental illness on Seung Hui Cho’s background check and ignored it and sold the gun to him. He had enough mental illness that should have sent him to jail for purchasing a gun. People with mental illness should be restricted to buy guns (Beef).
Government should shut down companies that distribute guns to low gun control areas. Gun makers and distributors deliberately oversupply guns to low gun control areas (Taking). Knowing that the guns can be resold to anyone illegally, they do it anyways. Student can get their hand on the illegal guns easily (Taking). Once the guns are in the student’s hands, there’s a possibility that he or she is going to school and shoot someone that may have bullied them. Those gun manufacturers can be sued in California if they market and sell weapons with disregard for public safety (Mintz). You can make money off of the manufacturers if you buy one of their guns illegally and sue them for marketing them (Taking). This doesn’t change the fact that guns are dangerous.
Colleges and Universities should not allow their student to have concealed handguns on campus (Roberts). At Colleges and Universities throughout the country, students are allowed have concealed handguns on campus (Roberts). This is not acceptable, having guns in school will cause many problems throughout the whole campus. The safety of innocent students will always be at risk (Roberts). The student with the concealed gun will threaten other students and will get his or her way. The causes of shootings are immaturity, alienation, stress, use of drugs and alcohol (Beef). Theses causes not just happen in Colleges and Universities, but everywhere. Instead of having a fist fight, they’ll have a shootout instead (Roberts). That sounds fun. Students with the concealed gun can shoot anyone or anything at any given moment. Carrying a gun around campus will have a much bigger chance of a shootout than not carrying around a gun on campus (Roberts).