Ella Aerts Period 5 Your Inner Fish Discussion Answers Chapter 1 - Finding Your Inner Fish Neil and his colleagues focused on rocks from 375 million years ago because fossils from 360 million years ago were amphibians with necks and four legs. However rocks that are 380 million years old looked more like fish we know today, with fins and scale. So, it made sense that they would find the transitioning fossils in rocks that was 375 million years old.
Title Researchers and scientists have constructed extensive research on dinosaur’s extinction. Speculation instead of real evidence seems common in most theories about the dinosaurs’ extinction. However, Jay Gould’s essay “Sex, Drugs, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs” is the complete opposite of speculation over evidence. Rather, Gould uses the mix of persuasive techniques, such as rhetorical questions, logos, along with profound evidence to not only disapprove of other theories but convince readers of his place on the dinosaur’s extinction.
Perceptions from others can be cruel. Criminals are often thought of negatively by themselves and are also disrespected by others in society. The novel Monster presents the impressions people have about Steve Harmon, an accused criminal on trial for robbery and murder. Furthermore, the text explains Steve’s views of himself during and after time in prison from first person point-of-view. The novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers highlights the various perceptions that exist about an accused criminal.
The Boat by Alistair MacLeod is about a boy who grew up in a fishing town and wanted to escape it retelling his story. The unmanned narrator starts the story by telling the readers of his first boat ride. We learn from the story that his father is a fisherman and his mother has always known this life of fishing. So the narrators entire life was spend on a boat; from reading thee we will learn that the boat is a reoccurring theme and it is kind of personified. The we learn that the narrator’s father is an avid reader and is always reading.
1. “Nothing in life comes easy, if it does you should be suspicious” (222) 2. “Thinking about that moment was like peeling a scab off an almost healed wound” (9) 3. “They love to wave the red flag in the bullring, but you don’t have to react” (209) 4. “In any case, she refused to take the drug test and signed a paper for the termination of her parental rights to me instead” (137) 5.
The definition of a “monster” is a threatening force. In Walter Dean Myers’ Monster, Steve Harmon the defendant in the trial is being charged for felony murder. The monster in him is the struggle between his innocence and guilt. Steve’s judgement of his actions is similar to a pendulum swinging. One side is his innocence translated to his testimony while the other side is his guilt which is seen in his diary.
The intended audience for the fiction novel A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness, ranges from young adult to adult. This book was written in the point of a view of a thirteen year old, but it touches on very serious topics that are not suitable for younger readers. Less mature people may have a harder time understanding the dark themes of this book. Take for example in the last chapter when Conor’s mother died, “He knew it would come, and soon, maybe even this 12:07. The moment she would slip from his grasp, no matter how tightly he held on” (Ness 205).
Prison Reform Essay In the book Monster, by Walter Dean Myers, Steve was on trial for being a look out for a robbery that ended in murder. The book followed him during his time in prison, his protection and recorded his experience. It told about the struggles of being a teen in prison, but being tried as an adult. Through the book and later articles, many discussions came up.
Dragons are real we can tell this from the movie dragons world, when the scientist collects data from the fossils that were found and experimented on throughout the movie. The first piece of evidence that made it seem dragons were real was how they survived the meteor that killed off the dinosaurs. The dragon spices survived the meteor by having a branch of the spices the lived underwater this evolutionary stage left its mark on the dragon species and gave them traits for living underwater that carried through many generations even when the species came to land ex. The false palette, slender body type, and webbed feet.
He grows up in Geneva. His childhood friends are Elizabeth Lavenza and Henry Clerval. He begins as a man with ambition and a curiosity with the creation in life but slowly goes through a downward spiral into depression and loneliness. He attends the University of Ingolstadt where he learns how to do all of the things necessary to create the Monster.
Never judge a book by it’s cover. You cannot come to conclusions about who someone is based on their image. What’s on the outside may contradict what’s on the inside. Who someone is will always surprise if you immediately make assumptions because of how they look. That’s what happened in the novel “frankenstein” written by Mary Shelley.
There 's such a great amount of going ahead in Fantastic Beasts that after the principal demonstration, you practically can 't be tried to mind what occurs next. In the film 's reality, there 's a mysterious clarification for everything, which implies story rationale again and again gets left by the wayside. What 's more, the brutes? They 're regularly really awesome. A puffin-sort animal with an affinity for negligible burglary, a kind of rhino-hippo thing whose rough face shines as though lit from inside, an exquisite green twiglike being whose attitude is timid however his activities are chivalrous: These are quite recently a portion of the companions who consume up room in Scamander 's inconceivable bag, which opens up into its own
“The Beast in the Cave”, a short story written by notorious horror author, H.P. Lovecraft, chills readers to the bone as they drink in the rich imagery created by Lovecraft’s twisted mind. As the audience is immersed into the narrator’s world, a dark, claustrophobic cave, they feel the same horror and panic as the main character. How are they going to get out of that cave? What is that mysterious sound coming closer to them? Are they going to die in there?
Comparative essay of Frankenstein and The Island In two pieces of works, there is one subject where the both align: creating artificial life. Frankenstein, novel by author Mary Shelley, is about the main character Victor Frankenstein playing God by creating a non human creature that all living sees as a monster including himself. Meanwhile in the film The Island directed by Michael Bay there is instead a company that plays God, where they illegally create clones to prolong the lives of the rich. Overall the movie and the book both shine the spotlight on the ethics of creating artificial life while also discussing whether or not these creations are “human”.
Imagine a kid having their father leave them, their mother dying when they are three years old, having a speech problem, and being a highschool dropout at the age of seventeen. Who would ever come over all of this to become successful in the real world? Walter Dean Myers would to shape himself into someone for African-American children to look up to, to show there is a way out. Writing more than one hundred books about African-Americans and Juveniles helped him be shown as an author that speaks out on equality for African Americans. His own life impacted what he wrote about and his message is there is a way out for young African-Americans.
