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Whatever Happened to Patience?
AWAKE!
3. What do you think the article will be about?
The patience in the people gets lost little by little in different situations and ages.
4.
The digital technology like to computers, Smartphone's, cameras, mobile phones, etc; changed our life. Because this technology do things very quickly and is not necessary to wait for anything. The doctor Jennifer Hartstein says we have become an immediate gratification culture, and we expect things to move quickly, efficiently and in the way we want.
We have many impatience for have results immediately that we damage our lives with problems like to eat too quickly or procrastination, result of the bad decisions we generate violence, economic problems and up to loss of friends.
It is important to improve, to be more patient and to worry a bit for our life and health.
5. Vocabulary Use:
Tailgate [teyl-geyt]
Noun
1.
the board or gate at the back of a wagon, truck, station wagon, etc., which can be removed or letdown for convenience in loading or unloading.
verb (used without object)
2.
to follow or drive hazardously close to the rear of another vehicle.
Shallow [shal-oh]
Adjective
1.
of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
2.
lacking depth; superficial: a mind that is not narrow but shallow.
Sober [soh-ber]
Adjective
1.
not intoxicated or drunk.
2.
habitually temperate, especially in the use of liquor.
Tend [tend]
Verb (used without object)
1.
to be disposed or inclined in action, operation, or effect to do something: The particles tend to unite.
2.
to be disposed toward an idea, emotion, way of thinking, etc.: He tends to be overly optimistic. Herreligious philosophy tends toward pantheism.
Realm [relm]
Noun
1.
a royal domain; kingdom: the realm of England.
2.
the region, sphere, or domain within which anything occurs, prevails, or dominates: the realm of dreams.
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