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Paraphrased from Brooke Gladstone, “Listen to a Comet Sing”, on NPR’s On the Media. Listen here

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I'm a princess cut from marble, smoother than a storm
And the scars that mark my body, they're silver and gold
My blood is a flood of rubies, precious stones
It keeps my veins hot, the fires found a home in me
I move through town, I'm quiet like a fire
And my necklace is of rope, I tie it and untie it

And now people talk to me, but nothing ever hits home
And people talk to me, and all the voices just burn holes
I'm done with it (ooh)

This is the start of how it all ends
They used to shout my name, now they whisper it
I'm speeding up and this is the
Red, orange, yellow flicker beat sparking up my heart
We rip the start, the colours disappear
I never watch the stars there's so much down here
So I just try to keep up with them
Red, orange, yellow flicker beat sparking up my heart

I dream all year, but they're not the sweet kinds
And the shivers move down my shoulder blades in double time

And now people talk to me I'm slipping out of reach now
People talk to me, and all their faces blur
But I got my fingers laced together and I made a little prison
And I'm locking up everyone who ever laid a finger on me
I'm done with it (ooh)

This is the start of how it all ends
They used to shout my name, now they whisper it
I'm speeding up and this is the
Red, orange, yellow flicker beat sparking up my heart
We rip the start, the colours disappear
I never watch the stars there's so much down here
So I just try to keep up with them
Red, orange, yellow flicker beat sparking up my heart

Oh oh oh

And this is the red, orange, yellow flicker beat
Sparking up my heart

Oh oh oh

And this is the red, orange, yellow flicker beat-beat-beat-beat.

Songwriters
Little, Joel / Yelich-O'Connor, Ella

TEXT ANALYZE

 Here, this is a text about the world's most ethical countries for the year 2014. I chosed this one because it's an interesting and a fantastic topic for me. I liked the way the author explained the countries because the author has also refered to some survey results. Also, I learned many things about these countries. Have a nice day.:))

The world’s most ethical countries: 2014

What makes the Bahamas a more ethical vacation choice than Costa Rica? That’s the crux of a recent survey about ethical travel, a movement that encourages travellers to be mindful about the impact of bringing tourism dollars to one country over another.(Simple Present Tense- to Express that generalization.)To encourage responsible globetrotting, a California nonprofit Ethical Traveler has been regularly compiling a list of its top 10 ethical destinations since 2006. (Present Perfect Continious Tense- to express an action that started to be done in the past and stil going on.)The surprise: 2014’s list, which came out in late 2013, has three new contenders: the Bahamas, Chile and Dominica. ( Simple Present Tense- to give information from a survey.)So what are they doing right that Costa Rica, Ghana and Samoa (which fell off the list from 2013) didn’t do enough of? (Present Continuous Tense- to refer to an action that is still being done)The answer lies in the way Ethical Traveler evaluates countries for its top 10 list. (Simple Present Tense- to express a truth.) In addition to more standard criteria like unspoiled natural beauty and authentic cultural experiences, researchers judged destinations on 35 metrics in four categories:environment protection, social welfare, human rights, and for the first time, animal welfare. (Simple Past Tense- to express an action that happened in the past and finished then.)In other words, judges considered quality of drinking water in the category of environmental protection, women’s rights in the category of human rights, and so on. (Simple Past Tense- to express an action that happened in the past and finished then.) The Bahamas won its way onto the list by making efforts to reduce human trafficking and expand national parks and protected areas, such as the Andros West Side National Park, which grew from 882,000 acres to nearly 1.3 million acres. (Simple Past Tense- to express an action that happened in the past and finished then, it is an instant action,to win,.)Chile improved its gender equality scores and launched a few ambitious environmental initiatives – including a program to move logging workers into various tourism roles. (Simple Past Tense- to express change or a development.)And a plan to become carbon negative – that is, minimize and offset carbon emissions – by 2020 helped Dominica make the cut. (Simple Past Tense- to express change or a development.)The complete list for 2014 (in alphabetical order) includes the Bahamas, Barbados, Cape Verde, Chile, Dominica, Latvia, Lithuania, Mauritius, Palau and Uruguay. ( Simple Present Tense- to reveal the study results.)Ethical Traveler does not rank the countries within the top 10. ( Simple Present Tense- to reveal the study results.)Travellers can “vote with their wings”, said Jeff Greenwald, Ethical Traveler’s founder and executive director.(Simple Present Tense- to express  thought)“We feel that we can make a difference in those countries because they really want to try to do the right thing. If we can send more travellers there because of their good policies, we think they’ll really stand up and take notice.”(Simple Present Tense/Future Tense- to express thoughts, feelings about the situations and refer to the things that can happen in the future. )Three countries that fell off the list from 2013 – Costa Rica, Ghana and Samoa – slid backward on key metrics such as environmental protection and human rights violations, said Michael McColl, Ethical Traveler’s co-founder and director of communications. (Simple Past Tense- to express a change)Costa Rica, for example, is a major hub for human trafficking and its government allows persecution of activists working against illegal shark finning and sea turtle trades, McColl said. (Simpe Present Tense- to refer to a general truth.) Ghana dropped from last year’s list due to discrimination against same-sex couples (same-sex sexual activity is illegal in Ghana, and there is no legal recognition of same-sex couples. Ghanaian law also does not protect people from discrimination based on sexual orientation.( Simple Present Tense- to express a general truth,fact)) (Simple Past Tense- to express a change) And Samoa fell from the top 10 due to unsustainable logging, failure to guarantee LGBT rights and poor women’s rights. (Simple Past Tense- to express a change) Nonetheless, these countries still received high marks overall (Simple Past Tense- to express an action that happened in the past and finished then.) , and are still among the more ethical countries a traveller can visit. (Simple Present Tense-to refer to a survey result.)“You want to put your money where your beliefs are,” Greenwald says. (Simple Present Tense- to express a thought) “Everyone loves the thought of travelling to Thailand or Cambodia or Burma,but these places don’t really have great human rights records. Why not use your travel dollars to show your support and solidarity for countries that are struggling to have good government and attract travellers? Why not reward them? It could create a groundswell of economic incentive for countries to do the right thing.” (Simple Presen Tense- to express thoughts, to make suggestions and refer to the possible solutions.)For ethical properties and tours within a country, the site Green Travel Reviews evaluates environmentally and socially conscious properties like Rosalie Bay, the only Green Globe-certified resort in Dominica which has won accolades for its wind- and solar-powered energy, including more than 200 solar panels; locally- and organically-sourced food; and protected black sand beach where endangered sea turtles nest. (Simple Present Tense- to express a general truth and refer to a survey result.) In Costa Rica, Casa Corcovado Jungle Lodge is one of the few eco-resorts to earn a five-Leaf rating from Costa Rica’s Certification for Sustainable Tourism for its pristine 170-acre nature preserve as well as a number of eco-initiatives including a solar electric system, hydroelectric turbine and a hybrid solar convection system for heating water.(Simple Present Tense- to express a general truth,fact  and refer to a survey result.)"I believe that we ,as a tourism entity, have a responsibility to the travelling public and the beautiful destination we represent to use natural resources in a way that protects the local environment and improves the well-being of its residents,” said Rosalie Bay owner Beverly Deikel. (Simple Present Tense/Simple Past Tense- to express a thought, belief.)

   Tone of the aythor is EVALUATIVE.

 FROM:http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20140306-the-worlds-most-ethical-countries-2014

 
 

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