Exercises 4.2 #1-5

1.

• · City councils are setting fewer restrictions on real estate developers.
• · Old American residential neighborhoods are being bought up and remodeled.
• · The price of creating sidewalks has increased dramatically.

2.

• · More families are buying new homes.
• · People are spending less time in their kitchens and do not feel it needs to be separate from the rest of the house.
• · Living rooms have become a more formal area than they used to be and it is no longer appropriate to use them for leisure activities.

3.

• · Suburban neighborhoods with fences surrounding the houses are nicer than city dwellings.
• · People are happier when they avoid others and keep to themselves.
• · Physical barriers must be erected in order to prevent the neighbor’s pets from digging up people’s yards.

4.

• · Females are more likely to verbalize their emotions than males.
• · Men tend to think rationally before they speak.
• · Women’s Corpus Callosums have more neural fibers connecting the hemispheres of the brain than men

5.

• · The American legal system has lost faith in its juvenile reformation system, and no longer believes teenage criminals can be changed.
• · There are not enough juvenile courts to try all teenage offenders and therefore regular federal courts are being asked to help out.
• · Teenagers are committing more and more crimes in the United States.