There has been an oil scam near the Black Vine Swamp. The Red Diamond Energy Corporation (REDC) is an oil company. They're trying to find as much oil as they can without pumping the oil out of the ground. The government would pay them not to pump the oil. A man named Drake McBride is the head of the RDEC.
Along with the regionalistic narrators, both stories show regionalistic qualities in their themes. In “The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” the theme is cunning and cleverness. Jim Smiley shows he is cunning and clever by winning every bet he ever made. Although, after making a bet with a stranger in which he believes knows nothing about frogs, he bets him forty dollars that his frog can outjump any frog in Calaveras county, but he surprisingly doesn't win. After making the bet, the stranger claims he doesn't have a frog, so Simley leaves his frog and the forty dollars he bet behind with the stranger to go down to the swamp to fetch him a frog.
Florida has the Python Challenge, which has people from all over the nation coming to hunt these pythons. The Python Challenge was made to bring awareness to the problem. The people who started the challenge want to take the pythons captured to scientists. The scientists need the snakes to be alive to do research on them. (Paragraph 7), “Scientists have not found any way of eliminating invasive constrictor snakes once they become established in the wild.”
“Like the rest of us, scientists gravitate toward the huggable” (Begley 257) says Sharon Begley as she refers to animals in her article “Praise the Humble Dung Beetle”. Begley, an accomplished and award-winning science journalist, informs people of the threat on the plants and animals going extinct. In this article published in Newsweek, she persuades her audience that this is harming the environment and humankind and why this is so detrimental. In “Praise the Humble Dung Beetle,” Begley’s use of rhetorical appeals, her organization and syntax, as well as her tone, help inform her audience about the importance of insects in our ecosystem. With her knowledge of journalism, Begley utilizes the resource she knows best, expert opinion.
In 'The Insect Apocalypse is Here', Brooke Jarvis presents a persuasive argument on the crisis of declining insect populations using ethos, logos, and pathos. She cites multiple studies and experts in entomology, uses data and statistics, and employs vivid language and storytelling to evoke emotions and create a sense of urgency. Jarvis's writing appeals to the reader's sense of empathy and inspires them to act by offering concrete steps to address the issue. Although the article lacks direct citations, the author's reputation, supporting evidence, and personal observations are still used to establish credibility. The article successfully convinces the reader of the importance of the insect apocalypse and motivates them to act.
The professor points out that young cane toads and their eggs live in rivers and streams and water flow young toads from one side of the river to the other side. Therefore, the professor adds that even if few of the cane toads could
Interest in Existing Argument is the response Cohen gives to proponents of her Harm to Children Argument, to whom which uses these new reproductive technologies. Cohen’s critique of these proponents of new reproductive technologies is, she believes that it is better to be alive than not to be, even if there is health risks to children conceived through IVF. Cohen believes that serious illness and defects are not necessarily a deterring cause (with the exception of serous cases) because, its better to be alive than to not exist at all. " …in almost all cases, better to be alive than not, and these children would not be alive but for the employment of these techniques, using them to bring these children into the world is justified." (textbook
She then proceeds to introduce the idea of a global mass extinction and explains that in all of history, such an event has only occurred five times. The rate of the frogs’ disappearances, however, is alarmingly similar to a mass extinction and Kolbert presents “the notion that a sixth such event would be taking place right now” (Kolbert 11). Rather than simply telling us that a global mass extinction is occurring, Kolbert uses the idea of a mass amphibian extinction in the Americas to introduce it. This makes the audience more likely to agree with Kolbert as the story she told seems to be proof of what she is claiming. In addition, the example of the frogs shows the audience that the sixth extinction is a real and present
The Tlaxcala cabildo impeded on colonials again by limiting the planting of cochineal cacti. As a result of conquest, the market for cochineal flourished causing the nobles to lose their profits as everyone now planted cochineal. The cabildo wrote, “Everyone does nothing but take care of cochineal cactus… when discussion was completed, everyone approved keeping ten plantings of cactus.” (Mesoamerican Voices, p. 133) The increase in the market of cochineal only hindered the profits of the nobles as everyone rushed to plant the cactus.
As for Ellen, she learns “where … children come from” (162), and when her mother is talking about sex, Ellen knows “exactly what they were talking about.” (163). A ten year old girl isn’t supposed to be familiar with sex and pregnancy, just as 10 year old boys don’t normally kill one another. Both of these groups were faced with these new happenings upon arriving in a new, unfamiliar
She basically compared same sex couples and their inability to have children to people who are suffering from medical conditions and not being able to have
This was a very small discovery, but an original one. Elizabeth Ann was as excited about it as a mother-bird over the first egg that hatches.” From this excerpt, the reader can see how much Elizabeth Ann’s character had changed over the course of one trip. At first, she was just a girl who followed the rules. Near the end of the trip, however, Elizabeth Ann finally realized that she has the capability to have her own, original thoughts and
Although Raising Cane’s seems to have some great perks that would interest me, such as having an open culture of wearing jeans, there are opportunities of going up in the hierarchy, they tend to use technological advances such as social media which is a big importance, as anything that includes technology brings my attention, and the pay rate seems to be average. But after all of that, I would say no, as I know how a restaurant work, and everything is very stressful, also my parents worked for many restaurant industries and their experience have not been the greatest. But overall, working for a restaurant is not my desire, my big focus is to have a company that can provide goods or services to help in any way, with the use of
The Princess and the Frog is about a hardworking and humble girl named Tiana who dreams about one day owning her own restaurant. There’s a twist to this when she meets Prince Naveen when he is in the form of a frog because of the shadow man Dr. Facilier. Since she has a nice ball gown on when they meet, Naveen mistakes her for a princess and thinks that if he kisses her, it will break the spell and he will turn back into a man. This doesn’t happen, however. Instead, Tiana turns into a frog and this starts an adventure as they travel to find the voodoo priestess who can break the spell.
Imagine living life as a caged animal. You are physically stable, take care of and given lots of attention. Yet, being caged restricts the ability of being free. It also depicts life as being underneath someone else’s control where the ability to make our own decisions cannot be made. This may seem cruel and unreal, yet many women today are living their lives in that cage, yet that cage is invisible.
