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BAYRAM ERDEM Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Perspective

Hello!

I have to paraphrase the following paragraph. However hard I try, it looks like a ‘’destruction of the meaning’’ rather than ‘’expressing the meaning of the paragraph using different words.’’

So could you please take a look at it and reword it to achieve greater clarity ?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Here is the text:

''So, my question: are we alone?

Perspective is a very powerful thing. Perspectives can change. Perspectives can be altered. From my perspective, we live on a fragile island of life, in a universe of possibilities. For many millennia, humans have been on a journey to find answers, answers to questions about naturalism and transcendence,about who we are and why we are, and of course, who else might be out there. Is it really just us? Are we alone in this vast universe of energy and matter and chemistry and physics? Well, if we are, it's an awful waste of space. But, what if we're not? ''
  

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BAYRAM ERDEMI have to paraphrase the following paragraph.
That's a shame, because it's not bad at all to begin with. Is this an assignment imposed on you, or are you imposing it on yourself?
BAYRAM ERDEMHowever hard I try, it looks like a ‘’destruction of the meaning’’ rather than ‘’expressing the meaning of the paragraph using differe

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