Guided writing 2

When and why do we dream?

Did you dream last night? Dreams are mysterious. Some are the reverse of real life. Some are absurd. Two different school, and the psychological school. Both, however, agree that we dream during the REM, or rapid eye movement, phase of sleep. During this phase of sleep, our closed eyes dart rapidly about, our brain activity peaks, and our muscles suffer temporary paralysis.

The physiological theory centers upon how our body, specifically our brains, function during the REM phase of sleep. Proponents of this theory believe that we dream to exercise the synapses, or pathways, between brain cells, and that dreaming takes over where the active and awake brain leaves off. When awake, our brains constantly transmit and receive messages, which course through our billions of brain cells to their appropriate destinations, and keep our bodies in perpetual motion. Dreams replace this function.

Psychological theorists of dreams focus upon our thoughts and emotions, and speculate that dreams deal with immediate concerns in our lives, such as unfinished business from the day, or concerns we are incapable of handing during the course of the day. Dreams can, in fact, teach us things about ourselves that we are unaware of.

Connections between dreams that the human psyche have been made by many people over thousands of years. Sigmund Freud, one of the fathers of modern psychology, believed dreams to be symbolic of any number of things buried deep within our minds and our memories.

Guided writing 1

Why are rain forest important?

Tropical rain forests are rich with plants and animals and rain forest plants include many of the things we eat.

Plants from the rain forest provide us with many other important things. The rubber in tires comes from the rubber tree. Rope and baskets are made from rain-forest products.

On the other hand, rain forest are essential to recycling water. Almost half of all the world's rain falls on rain forests. When rain forests have been cleared from the land, much less rain falls.

The land becomes hard and dry. Animal and plant life disappears. Thousands of rain forest animals become extinct every day.

Summary

  Wang Yongping, the spokesman of the "7.23 rail car accident" news release conference, gave an excuse to the audience in the beginning of the conference on behalf of the government on 7.24. He expressed his great sorrow of the tragedy and expressed sympathy to the relatives of the dead. Besides, he said that the cause was still under investigation and the public should be patient to wait for the final result.