Exercise

 1.- In a newspaper or  magazine article of your own choosing, find and underline examples of verb + object clusters and of noun + adjective clusters

Forced Relocation Left Native Americans More Exposed to Climate Threats, Data Show

Tribal nations have lost 99 percent of their historical territory. Where they live now is more vulnerable to extreme weather, adding to the debate over how to address racial injustice.

By Christopher Flavelle

WASHINGTON — Centuries of land loss and forced relocation have left Native Americans significantly more exposed to the effects of climate change, new data show, adding to the debate over how to address climate change and racial inequity in the United States.

The findings, which took seven years to compile and were published Thursday in the journal Science, mark the first time that researchers have been able to quantify on a large scale what Native Americans have long believed to be true: That European settlers, and later the United States government, pushed Indigenous peoples onto marginal lands.

“Historic land dispossession is a huge factor contributing to extreme climate change vulnerability for tribes,” said Kyle Whyte, one of the study’s authors, who is a University of Michigan professor and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

The new data comes as the United States suffers through increasingly severe heat waves, drought, wildfires and other disasters made worse by a warming planet. By demonstrating that government actions have made Native Americans more exposed to climate change, the authors argue, the data strengthens the case for trying to make up for that damage, however imperfectly.

2.- In a newspaper or  magazine article of your own choosing, find and underline examples of others kinds of word clusters that constitute units of meaning, such as idiomatic expressions, proverbs, clichés, figures of speech, stock phrases, phrases verbs.

CREATIVITY

[This page pulls together][ my most essential information about creativity]. I’ll share how creativity works, how to find your hidden creative genius, and [how to create meaningful work by learning ]how to make creative thinking a habit. I’ve tried to present the basics of everything you need to know to start mastering creativity, [even if you don’t have much time].

[At the end] of this page, you’ll find [a complete list of all the articles] I have written on creativity.

What is Creativity?

Let's define creativity.

The creative process is the act of making new connections between old ideas or recognizing relationships between concepts. Creative thinking is not about generating something new from a blank slate, [but rather about taking] what is already present and combining those bits and pieces [in a way that] has not been done previously.

While being creative isn't easy, [nearly all great ideas follow a similar creative process.] In 1940, an advertising executive named James Webb Young published a short guide titled, A Technique for Producing Ideas.

Young believed the process of creative connection always occurred in five steps.

a. Connect the verb with the appropiate object

exert          tribute

set                 efforts

frame            goals

pay            proposals 

1.- Exert efforts

2.- Pay tribute

3.- Frame proporsals

4.- Set goals