domingo, 29 de marzo de 2009

Evelyn Venegas/Assignment #1/alphabet city

1. Which letters of the English alphabet are vowels and which ones are consonants?
The letters A, E, I, O, U are considered to be vowels; the remaining letters are considered to be consonants. However, W, Y may occasionally function as a vowel as well.

2. True or False: The word, alphabet, came from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta?
True

3. There are dozens of alphabets in use in the world today. Most use a type of linear writing. Name 3 examples of alphabets which do NOT use linear writing?
alphabets NON-linear : Fingerspelling, Braille and Morse code

4. The term, alphabet, refers to a writing system which represents which 2 types of spoken sounds?
The term alphabet prototypically- refers to a writing system that has characters (graphemes) wich represent both consonat and vowel sounds, even though there may not be a complete one-to-on correspondence between symblo and sound

5. Name 2 types of writing systems which are non-Alphabetic representations.
Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters are two of the best-known writing systems with predominantly non-alphabetic representations.

jueves, 26 de marzo de 2009

My Biography Evelyn Vengas Montes

Hello, my name is Evelyn Venegas. I was born on August 9 of 1989 in Santiago, Chile. I live with my parents and my younger sister, she is 12 years old and we live in Maipú.I studied in the patrcicio mekis college my whole life, in the third of midle school i study gastronomy,, I practiced my profession in a casino. later in 2008 i went to a college to prepare for the psu in which i did fine but not so good. I started dating about 2 years 5 months ago and my boyfriend name is Sebastian Garrido, he studys dentistry and am very happy at his side. my best friend is called Romina Zamora it took us years of friendship and she is always there when I need somebody. at the moment I am very happy to be in this university and especially in this career because it is what I always wanted to study and is a joy to see that I'm fulfilling.