The first text
1. The first main point of the text is that there is a different perception and meaning of the time from one culture to another that can create misunderstandings.
• “Time is elastic in many cultures but snaps taut in others. Indeed, the way members of a culture perceive and use time reflects their society’s priorities and even their own worldview.”
• In this example we can understand that it is not everyone that has the same notion of time.
2. The second main point is that the pace of life is various to where you work and what is your profession.
• “When it comes to business, however, that loose approach to timeliness works only for the people with power.”
• In the text, they are saying that in every country, people with great influence in the society (CEO...)
3. The third main point is that there are some cultures that don’t have a clear distinction of time.
• “Some cultures do not draw neat distinctions between the past, present a future. Australians Aborigines, for instance, believe that their ancestors crawled out of the earth during the Dreamtime.”
• In that part of the text we can see that there are cultures that don’t really see the time as we, North Americans see it.
4. The last main point in that the past has a strong meaning of carrying. It will never disappear.
• “Muslims “always carry the pat with them” (...) In Islam, time is a tapestry incorporating the past, present and future.”
• We can see that Muslims believe that they have the responsibility from the past that they have to carry on the present and the future.

The second text
1. The first main point is that engineers are forgotten even if they do important jobs such as made things smooth, made things run, coaxed efficiency out of every technological process.
• “When all was working well, they became invisible, unthanked for their (engineers) efforts, and assigned to another project.”
• We can see there that Fleming is frustrated because he’s job in not