CREATING

A. DYADIC ACTIVITY. From the news article you have just read, write at
least five conclusions based on the discussion.

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B. Read the article below. Then, do detailed reading as you answer the questions that follow.

The habit of reading is one of the greatest resources of mankind; and we enjoy reading books that
belong to us much more than if they are borrowed. A borrowed book is like a guest in the house; it must be
treated with punctiliousness, with a certain considerate formality. You must see that it sustains no damage;
it must not suffer while under your roof. You cannot leave it carelessly, you cannot mark it, you cannot turn
down the pages, and you cannot use it familiarly. And then, someday, although this is seldom done, you
really ought to return it.

But your own books belong to you; you treat them with that affectionate intimacy that annihilates
formality. Books are for use, not for show; you should own no book that you are afraid to mark up, or afraid
to place on the table, wide open and face down. A good reason for marking favorite passages in books is
that this practice enables you to remember more easily the significant sayings, to refer to them quickly, and
then in later years, it is like visiting a forest where you once blazed a trail. You have the pleasure of going
over the old ground, and recalling both the intellectual scenery and your own earlier self.

Everyone should begin collecting a private library in youth; the instinct of private property, which is
fundamental in human beings, can here be cultivated with every advantage and no evils. One should have
one's own bookshelves, which should not have doors, glass windows, or keys; they should be free and
accessible to the hand as well as to the eye. The best of mural decorations is books; they are more varied
in color and appearance than any wallpaper, they are more attractive in design, and they have the prime
advantage of being separate personalities, so that if you sit alone in the room in the firelight, you are
surrounded with intimate friends. The knowledge that they are there in plain view is both stimulating and
refreshing. You do not have to read them all. Most of my indoor life is spent in a room containing six
thousand books; and I have a stock answer to the invariable question that comes from strangers. "Have
you read all of these books?""Some of them twice." This reply is both true and unexpected.

There are of course no friends like living, breathing, corporeal men and women; my devotion to reading
has never made me a recluse. How could it? Books are of the people, by the people, for the people.
Literature is the immortal part of history; it is the best and most enduring part of personality. But book-
friends have this advantage over living friends; you can enjoy the most truly aristocratic society in the world
whenever you want it. The great dead are beyond our physical reach, and the great living are usually almost
as inaccessible; as for our personal friends and acquaintances, we cannot always see them. Perchance
they are asleep, or away on a journey. But in a private library, you can at any moment converse with
Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens or Shaw or Barrie or Galsworthy. And there is no
doubt that in these books you see these men at their best. They wrote for you. They "laid themselves out,"
they did their ultimate best to entertain you, to make a favorable impression. You are necessary to them as
an audience is to an actor; only instead of seeing them masked, you look into their innermost heart of heart.

1. Why is the article titled, “The Pleasures of Books?”

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2. Cite and elaborate one purpose of the author in writing this article?

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3. The author compared a borrowed book from a guest in the house. Do you agree with the
comparison? If yes, give more justifications with his comparison. If not, make your own
comparison.

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4. Defend or refute: Collecting private library in the youth is fundamental in human beings.

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5. What does the author mean when he mentioned that the authors “laid
themselves out”?

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C. Read and scan the following passages. After which, identify the thesis statement in each passage
and make short summaries based on your comprehension.

Owning and Starting a Business

(Management)
Source: "Owning and Starting a Business." 123HelpMe.com. 06 Jul 2016
<http://www.123HelpMe.com/view.asp?id=172967>.

For some people, being the boss, and which by boss I mean business
owner, would be the greatest thing ever. Most think you get to pick your own hours, make the most money,
and make everyone do the things you want done. Of course there is work involved and it takes work to
make it but the rewards will be better owning a business that succeeds. The ultimate goal is becoming a
millionaire and retiring at the age of forty and just drawing money from business production. However they
really don’t understand the work it takes to make it a million dollar company. When these people are finally
able to own a business they get a rude awakening. I am in no way trying to offend the typical business
owner when I say, owning a business can be a challenging task that can cause many complications in your
life and if you’re not careful they can change your life entirely.
Over the last eight years I have watched my Aunt and Grandfather

start a completely new hospice. My aunt is the main boss of the business, my grandfather just put in money
so that she was able to actually start the business. Over those last eight years she has had some of the
roughest times in her life. Being a single mother is hard enough, but then to start a business from scratch
made it much more difficult to not only raise a family by herself. My aunt has had many problems in the last
eight years and her business is now getting to the point of choosing what she does. I see some teenagers
saying they want to own a business when they get older, but they only think of the money they can earn,
the people they can tell what to do, and the fact that they can work when they want to work and no one can
tell them otherwise. My aunt has put in more work to her business in the last eight years than I have done
homework assignments in my school career. When one owns a business, they must work constantly
because there is always something that needs to be done. Whether there is a problem to sort out, bills to
pay, or numbers and accounting paperwork to figure out, there is always something that they must do. I
can remember staying the night at her house staying up late and playing video games while right down the
hall she was in the office still working on paperwork at one and two in the morning. Still, she got up every
day, went to work and did the same thing the next day. These grueling hours can cause many problems in
the family, and with her being basically a single mother (got married about three years after starting the
business), she always seemed to be stressed out. My cousin Joe (6’3, 350lbs, and obsessed with computer
games) never really helped her out around her house so she was always down his back to make him do
something but he never did. Those two constantly fought about little and stupid things and it really got
annoying for a while. This continuous work put so much stress on her and if she was any less strong than
she would not have lasted. She had a constant hassle of making decisions for the good of the business,
hiring and firing new people, and trying to look after each employee to make sure they were giving the care
they should be giving to the patient. It seems like with new business owners that the business is always in
your mind thinking of ways to increase your appreciation among future patients or customers. With hard
work, time management, and stress management you can make a business succeed to great lengths.
Luckily her business is doing well now and she was looking to sell her business for something around $5
million. Owning a business is a difficult process one that you should be very prepared for because even if
you have the greatest idea ever, being accepted in a community as a typical place to return to will take a
very long time.

Four years ago, my father came up with the idea that he wanted to
own a Chicago Style Hot Dog restaurant. He, like every typical virgin business owner, thought it was going
to be a piece of cake. He got the money and thought he had the greatest idea ever by opening up a
restaurant that our city doesn’t have. However, after a few weeks of opening reality set in and he was not
the jolly man most remember him being. He looked at the city of Noblesville, and realized we didn’t really
have a hotdog place in town. There is one problem with his thought process, he may have looked at the
direct competition (other hotdog restaurants), but he failed to see the indirect competition (other fast food
restaurants e.g. McDonalds or Burger King). When starting a fresh new business all the components must
be looked at to judge whether starting the business is really worth the time and money. My dad has spent
lots of money advertising trying to get his business known throughout Hamilton County and it has slowly
been working. They say the biggest key to have a successful business is marketing. The toughest key
about marketing however, is finding new ways to market to potential customers and get them to actually
notice your advertisement. My father is good at coming up with ideas but gathering the money is a tough
dilemma and can cause a lot of stress on the owner. Owners have a lot of work on their plate when trying
to run the business due to every other person is always trying to help but it just doesn’t go the way you
want it to happen. My father had some the most stressful times of his life, while owning this business. The
business world is a constant cat and mouse game always trying to decide the best move to make next. His
business has been slowly increasing its figures after starting out in the negative aspect of making money.
It is still worth nothing right now due to the fact that the revenue earned is still below the expenses but it is
slowly equaling itself which is a good sign. I have memories about when my dad was in an argument with
a land lord or product agent .I can remember times where he used to be so stressed and just wouldn’t know
how to handle it he would yell at me for simple small things that he thought I should have done. For instance,
one day I didn’t clean my room because I was somewhat busy but more or less I was procrastinating. That
night when he got home after working from open to close he blew up in my face over procrastinating.
Procrastinating however is not the greatest way we should all be, especially if someone is going to own a
business. Paying the bills is a business owner’s biggest concern. If the owner can’t pay the bills then there
is not future and your life becomes horrible, and not being able to pay the bills causes the most stress on
owners.
Owning and starting a business is one of the hardest things to do in life. You must first be able to
have sufficient funds to run the business, have the time, and the ability to manage the stress. If you can
manage all of these things plus the dilemma of making decisions for the better of the business you can run
a successful business. Before you begin to own a business, please make sure you have the time to spend
with your family because family is one of the most important things in life.

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