Sentence Shifts

1. Sentence Shifts When to shift and when not to shift

2. Group Members: Jen Cai Fiona Chua MiggyCornejo Josh De Dios Marius De Guzman Luisa Gamboa Pat Razon Sarah Santos Luis Villadolid Kenny Yu

3. The Ugly DucklingBernie Siegel “We are all unborn swans, and have within us the power to be swans and to create swans. A caring schoolteacher or a physician who is unafraid of showing unconditional love can be a mirror in which students or patients discover their own beauty. I've had patients call me asking for Jack Kevorkian's phone number. When they learned they were swans, they found self-love, repaired relationships, and cured their diseases.”

4. Weird or NormalTom Walsh “Jason laughed. “That’s a good question. Sometimes I wonder. Sometimes the people that other people call ‘flakes’ seem to be much happier than the ones we all call ‘normal.’ I think sometimes it’s good to be weird.””

5. Get a Life!Anna Quindlen “Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Each time I look at my diploma, I remember that I am still a student, still learning every day to be human. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. Kiss your mom. Hug your dad.”

6. The Mysteries of PittsburghMichael Chabon “The phone was busy at the Bellwethers'. I tried to determine whether this was fear I felt, or anxiety. What, I asked myself, what is the big deal? They were still laughing in the back room; two customers stood nearly on the threshold, probably eyeing the doughnuts. Who was he talking to? What would I say if he answered?"

7. Of Mice and MenJohn Steinbeck “Slim ang George came into the darkening bunk house together. Slim reached up over the card table and turned on the the tin-shaded electric light. Instantly the table was brilliant with light, and the cone of the shade threw its brightness straight downward, leaving the corners of the bunk house still in dusk. Slim sat down on a box ad George took his place opposite.”

8. Deception PointDan Brown “Gabrielle followed the Secret Serviceman fifty feet down a tiled hallway to a second security desk. Here, another sentry was assembling a guest pass that was just rolling out of a lamination machine. He punched a hole in it, affixed a neck cord, and slipped in over Gabrielle's head. The plastic was still warm. The photo on the ID was the snapshot they had taken fifteen seconds earlier down the hall.”

9. Finding Your Inner ArtistShana Aborn “You were being spiritual without even knowing it. Creating art of any kind is an act that involves the part of our souls we usually don't tap into on a daily basis. We rely on our emotions, our intuition and our heart to lead us to the finished product. We use art to express our innermost selves, to bring us closer to our sense of the divine.”

10. Obama fans are shocked by Mitt Romney's dominance in debate – Los Angeles TimesDavid Horsey “I watched the Wednesday night's presidential debate with a group of wine-sipping West Coast Obama fans who were stunned by the way Mitt Romney dominated the stage. Over the 90 minutes of the debate, Romney submerged the right-wing image he had adopted in the Republican primary race and came off as a reasonable, moderate technocrat who differs with President Obama only about the means to get to the ends they both seek.”

11. Men Who Explains Things – Los Angeles TimesRebecca Solnit “I still don't know why Sallie and I bothered to go to that party in the forest slope above Aspen. The people were all older than us and dull in a distinguished way, old enough that we, at 40-ish, passed as the occasion's young ladies. The house in Colorado was great -- if you like Ralph Lauren-style chalets: a rugged luxury cabin at 9,000 feet, complete with elk antlers, lots of kilims, and a wood-burning stove. We were preparing to leave when our host said, "No, stay a little longer so I can talk to you." He was an imposing man who'd made a lot of money in advertising or something like that.”

12. Beethoven’s CatElizabet McHugh “Could he really be a direct descendant of Beethoven's cat? Wiggie, short for Ludwig, is as astonished as everyone else in the Carter family when one night, as Mr. carter works on his thesis on Beethoven, he discovers a picture of Beethoven and his cat and notices that the cat looks almost identical to their own beloved Wiggie.”

13. A Lesson Before DyingErnest J. Gaines “Ten o'clock on Monday, Miss Emma and my aunt sat in the same seats they had occupied on Friday. Reverend Mose Ambrose, the pastor of this church, was with them. He and my aunt sat on either side of Miss Emma.”

14. Victim No MoreLynn Grabhorn “We may have been taught, and therefore have believed that we live at the mercy of others, or fate, or luck, or chance; certainly that is what most people on this planet live by. But once you start to see the Law of Attraction in operation, you ultimately come to understand that there is no such thing as a victim; never has been, never will be. There is no good luck, bad luck, good fortune, or coincidence. There is no destiny, fate, or providence. There is no big judge in the sky keeping score on how right or wrong you've been. There is no karma from past lives nor penance. That's all victim stuff. And there is not a victim among us, only co-creators in thought and feeling, powerful magnets attracting like bees to honey the matching frequency of our ever-flowing vibrations.”

15. Encouragement – The Helium of LifeBernie Siegel “The key element in encouragement is to stop being judgmental. The important thing isn't the grade your son got; it's the effort he put out. It isn't whether your daughter hit a home run; it's that she went up to the plate and took a swing. The effort is what matters, because as long as we are trying we are fulfilling our mission.”

16. The Open WindowH.H Mikho “He stopped, stupefied and utterly at a loss when he saw that his wife was beginning to cry. Two large tears ran slowly down from the corners of her eyes towards the corners of her mouth.”

17. To Kill A MockingbirdHarper Lee “When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.”

18. The Kite RunnerKhaledHosseini “The poplar trees lined the redbrick driveway, which led to a pair of wrought-iron gates. They in turn opened into an extension of the driveway into my father’s estate. The house sat on the left side of the brick path, the backyard at the end of it. ”

19. 1984George Orwell "Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"

20. Your Hidden PotentialAri Kiev “Your life has been designed to work, and your hidden potential contains what you seek and all that you need in life. It is OK to be who you are and choose what you have.”

21. On GivingKent Nerburn “To often we are blind to this everyday miracle. We build our lives around accumulation--of money, of possessions, of status--as a way of protecting ourselves and our families from the vagaries of the world. Without thinking, we begin to see giving as an economic exchange--a subtracting of something from who and what we are--and we weigh it on the scales of self-interest.”

22. Giving and RecievingShakti Gawain “Our abilities to give and receive are at the core of our capacity to create and experience true prosperity. We each receive certain gifts when we come into this life. These gifts take the form of our special talents, interests, and attributes, as well as our universal human characteristics, such as our ability to love and care for one another.”

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25. The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint Exupery "If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He can say to himself, 'Somewhere, my flower is there ...' But if the sheep eats the flower, in one moment all his stars will be darkened ... And you think that is not important!"

26. "She has been very interesting," said Framton."I hope you don't mind the open window," said Mrs. Sappleton briskly; "my husband and brothers will be home directly from shooting, and they always come in this way. They've been out for snipe in the marshes today, so they'll make a fine mess over my poor carpets. So like you menfolk, isn't it?"She rattled on cheerfully about the shooting and the scarcity of birds, and the prospects for duck in the winter. To Framton it was all purely horrible. He made a desperate but only partially successful effort to turn the talk on to a less ghastly topic, he was conscious that his hostess was giving him only a fragment of her attention, and her eyes were constantly straying past him to the open window and the lawn beyond. It was certainly an unfortunate coincidence that he should have paid his visit on this tragic anniversary. • He stopped, stupefied and utterly at a loss when he saw that his wife was beginning to cry. Two large tears ran slowly down from the corners of her eyes towards the corners of her mouth.