Month: June 2020

When Miss Orville arrives as a substitute teacher for Roger’s class, she required that the students be obedient. She was a harsh and strict teacher, that’s why Roger called her ”Miss Awful”. However, on Miss Orville’s last day before she leaves Roger’s class, Roger realized that Miss Orville’s point of being harsh and strict was that she wanted to let them have a better life. Roger learned that we shouldn’t judge people until we’ve been in their shoes. Just like the quote: “Don’t judge a book by the cover”

Roger had the best and nicest teacher before, Miss Wilson. She played with the students during classes and even let the students take some rest. When she gave homework, Roger didn’t even care about it. Once she left for a week to Omaha for a trip, the students got a new substitute. She was stringent and mean. She came to the classroom with her plant in one hand, and bunch of works on the other. She was Ms. Orville, and students called her “Miss Awful” . Miss Orville confiscated Roger’s toys, ripped the papers of students who didn’t do the homework correctly, marched them in and out from the schools, and complained about the students to their parents. She insulted Roger by calling him the prodigy of misspelling. Then she asked Roger to spell flower and castle but he couldn’t. After this embarrassment of Mrs. and Mr. Clark were surprised to see how Roger became smarter and was afraid of her. Another day when parents came to pick up their children Nancy Reeves, Roger’s friend’s mother remembered that she knew Miss Orville and said that she was evicted from her apartment and was left homeless with her plants.

Since the students hated her they thought of many horrid ways of getting rid of her like beating her up. Another was the idea to rip the leaves of her plant. Miss Awful started her last day with announcement: “If I have been severe with you this past week, it was for your benefit. The world needs good citizens.” Then after when she saw the plant all bare she continued: “You see, Violence and destruction, Whoever is responsible, please feel remorse for your actions.” After the class ended there was no forming lines and some students were in regret while others were happy she was gone. She gave Roger his toys, and he understood why she was stringent to the students.

The story, “A Sound of Thunder,” portrays the actuality of making decisions. Everyone at some point makes an important decision, whether it is minor or major. Whether it is choosing an activity to do, what to cook, eat, and even to the point of choosing a future and college possibly. The decision you make is possibly the way your future is going to be, from who you will have a future with, what your job will be, and how exactly your life would be. Many people, including me, make decisions without much thought of it. We go with the flow because we don’t think our actions and decisions could possibly affect us in the future and forget that there is reality facing us wherever we go. The main problem is that we can’t necessarily control every part of our future and there will to be a specific decision that will lead us to becoming a certain way permanently.
Eckels, the protagonist, has a character trait that follows and is present in many. Like Eckels, he does not think before making an action. He does not feel the need to think before doing something which is such a common mistake. As humans, we all want the best for ourselves and we want life to be perfect which is part of the human greed. We neglect reality and “go with the flow.” We do not think our decisions could really affect the future, just like Eckels, however, when he killed the butterfly it completely changed history and altered the results with a different winner for the elections. From there, history onwards and events could be changed drastically.
This story is great at highlighting the importance of thinking before you act and that the little things matter. No matter how small of a task or decision it is, or how small you think it could affect your life, there is reality that can come crashing in at any moment of your life. We may not think about the consequences now or if they ever will come back at us, but one thing for sure is that we stay vigilant in our decisions and learn from the mistakes instead of pushing them away.

Humans are a forgetful species. From natural disasters to political upheaval to pandemics like the one we’re in now, we forget all the bad times we should have remembered and learned from- that is, unless we not only lived it, but were directly affected by it.

Take for example racism. It is a long-standing problem in the US- it’s been around for centuries, actually- and we’ve had plenty of lessons on equality, but many people don’t learn. Take for example police brutality toward African-American people, and normal citizens calling the police on them for just living their lives as usual (think of the killings by police- the very people who are supposed to protect- and the woman who called the police on a man who only wanted her to leash her dog, as per the rules). If humanity has learned anything from the era of slavery, activists like MLK, and and a war, this shouldn’t be happening.

But humanity hasn’t learned; rather, it has forgotten- or it has never known at all. Presumably people forget because they weren’t/aren’t directly, personally affected by the problem at hand, so they know little of it. But people who were directly affected by the problem might forget because they hold memories of it too painful to think about. And then there are people who have never known the problem at all, never lived through it, were never affected by it, and they either choose to try and understand and help or remain ignorant of all the lessons they should learn and say things that hurt and never help at all (one notable example is currently in a powerful position and has said things like “the China virus”, leading to violence against Asian-American people. This stands independent of my political views and I will say naught about them).

In conclusion, humanity forgets because of pain, distance, or sheer lack of empathy, which is the real problem behind many of our problems- racism, bigotry, violence, etc. If people would try, really try, to feel what it is to be in another’s position, maybe these problems wouldn’t be so severe. Maybe some of them need never have existed at all. Maybe if everyone read To Kill A Mockingbird and took a leaf out of Atticus Finch’s book, the world would be a better place- but sadly (sometimes), fictional people are- well, fictional.

In A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury, human psyche and mindset plays a huge part in how the story plays out. The story also shows many flaws in humans, especially due to their arrogance and sense of superiority. Overall, the story gives an important message and sheds light on the dangerous inner feelings and minds of humans. 

First, humans’ wish and desire plays a major part in the story. In the beginning, Eckels and a few other crew members travel through a time machine to visit the age of the dinosaurs to kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Before going, Eckels constantly asks and looks for reassurance that he will make it out alive. He asks the man behind the desk for the reassurance that he will get the thrill of a dangerous experience without worrying about his danger. He realizes how much of a dangerous situation he was getting himself in, but proceeds to be drawn to the time machine and the possibilities behind it. Due to Eckels’s own sense of adventure and belief in himself, he gets himself in danger. 

Secondly, before Eckels hears about the possibility of death and encounters the Tyrannosaurus Rex, he feels confident and ready. Presumably, in his head, he had played out a situation that utterly fails when occurring in reality. After the official behind the desk tells him about the possibility of death, Eckels feels uncertain and afraid. He continues to describe the fear surrounding the Tyrannosaurus Rex and Eckels becomes offended, clearly still stuck in his imagination and dreams. However, when Eckels meets the Tyrannosaurus Rex in reality, he runs away in fear and cowers due to the sheer size and strength of the beast. An ironic event occurs as a result of him running. Eckels runs away due to being afraid of death, but in the end, his death was caused by him running away. 

Overall, A Sound of Thunder tells us about how human emotion and feelings cause major consequences through their actions. Eckels and the whole safari’s sense of enjoyment causes the whole situation with altering the future to occur. Another way human feeling affects the story is through one’s arrogance about a situation only to be disrupted by reality. Through A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury, human psyche and feeling are shown through the decisions that each character makes. 

In a fateful trip to the prehistoric era, Eckel learns — a little too late — that even the tiniest alteration to history has drastic effects, changing the course of history. Small actions, such as stepping on and killing a delicate butterfly, can have disastrous, perhaps even deadly, repercussions. These extreme effects show that an action can never be separated from its respective consequence.

Ray Bradbury blurs the line between past, present, and future with the use of a time machine. Of course, according to quantum theory, time, as we know it, does not exist. What is currently regarded as an important rubric determining train times and class schedules is just a “social construct,” according to several scientists. Time actually is just a progression towards chaos, which correlates strongly with the butterfly effect. As Travis tells Eckel, “A little error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion.” A simple action done in the past, such as crushing a butterfly underfoot, gets amplified as “time” moves towards chaos.

More than just the butterfly effect, however, Bradbury is ultimately warning his readers that every event will have a consequence, no matter how mundane. Time Safari Inc. clearly didn’t truly understand this principle. Though the time traveling company painstakingly set up all sorts of technologies to minimize any trace of their presence in the past, and they warned all potential clients of the danger, they still overestimated their ability to control all events. In reality, humans can’t possibly govern the flow of time and their effects on reality. Travis admits that “Maybe Time can’t be changed by us,” further proving how little humans know about time traveling. This uncertainty shows that the time travelers are foolhardy and thoughtless, dabbling in something they don’t understand. This entire scenario is a paradox: Time Safari Inc., while warning about the dangers of time traveling and changing the past, are overconfident of their ability to protect the past from any alterations.

When Eckel tramps off the path, Travis is too preoccupied with the t. rex to care. By the time the that they realize what has happened, it is already too late. Nothing can bring back the dead butterfly; Deutscher is the president now, not Keith. Using technology without fully understanding it has disastrous results, serving only to inflate human arrogance. Eckel, on realizing the disastrous effects of his mistake, asks, “Can’t we start over?” showing he still doesn’t grasp that his actions will have consequences. The damage has already been done, and there’s no way to go back.

When we were hunting animals with no fear, Eckel went to the past to hunt dinosaurs getting yelled at for everything he did. When he walks off the path a person nearly kills him. When he tries to run and then they kill the dinosaur they force him to get the bullets and stick his hands in blood when he also had to pay to get into the time machine.

The thing is that I see why they treat him so bad but if you get paid to do something I think you have to treat the payer nicer. So when the present changed he notices a clump of dino dirt on his shoe and when he picked it up the dirt showed a butterfly and somehow that butterfly changed the future a lot and that the words changed and the world changed.

Imagine going to the past in a time machine but then coming back just to find out that everything has changed. You’ve all watched or read about time traveling in sci-fi books or movies. However, there are many dangers that come with traveling through time.

In A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury, there is a Time Safari where you can go back in time to hunt animals that are extinct in the present day. They do things in a certain way to prevent a different timeline such as having a floating path to walk on and only shooting animals that will be dead in the near future. However, on one of these trips to hunt a T-rex, one of them gets scared and runs off the path. When they get back to their time, they realize that some things have changed because the person that got scared stepped on a butterfly when he ran off the path.

The TV show called The Flash also shows the dangers of time traveling. The main character has superpowers that allow him to go so fast he can travel through time. His mother had died when he was young so he went back in time to save her. However, this made him lose many things he had in the original timeline. He went back in time again to stop the previous him from saving his mom in an attempt to fix the timeline. However, even though many things went back to normal, the original timeline wasn’t restored completely.

An analogy that was made in The Flash was a glass cup breaking. You can try to put the piece back to fix it but it’s impossible to make it into what it was before. This is what happens when you try to fix the new timeline into the original one. The hunter who wanted to fix what he had done in A Sound of Thunder didn’t even get the chance to try as they knew he couldn’t make things to what they were before.

All of the time traveling works should caution all of us about the dangers of messing up your timeline. With advancing technology, it should be possible to travel through time in the far future. If you ever get to travel to the past, be aware of the catastrophic effects you may cause.

Time travels allows one to go back in time and meet their parents as children, one could see George Washington, or even have a conversation with some cavemen. All of these occurrences seem wonderful until one looks at the travel restrictions. The short story A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury, as long with the movie Back to the Future depicts the true dangers of time travel. It is about a hunter who wants to go back in time to hunt a dinosaur. When he returns from his trip, he realizes that he has killed a butterfly. This minor mistake caused major changes to the world he knows. Time travel is dangerous because it can cause terrifying chain reactions and create alternate timelines.

One danger of time travel is the cause of chain reactions and impossible outcomes. When the Eckel, the hunter, comes back into modern day, Everything from the English language to a presidential election has been altered, just because of a single tiny butterfly. This is caused due to the butterfly effect, or the domino effect. These ideologies mean if something is changed, it can slowly lead up to a more significant change. In the story, the tour guide also explains this chain reaction effect. He states how killing a single mouse can eliminate all of its millions of its offspring reproduced after the sixty million years. Each lost mouse also possibly contributes to a starving fox, which in turn leads to a starving lion. When the cavemen step foot on the world, the lion that they once hunted for food might have not existed, which causes him, or her, and all their offspring, including humans, to have never existed. This theory highlights how even changing a relatively microscopic event in the past can lead up to catastrophic events. These changes can also lead to an impossible outcome in time. One of the time travel paradoxes that still continues to boggle the human mind is the Grandfather Paradox. Suppose that someone goes back into time to kill their grandfather, for whatever idiotic nonsense reason. This means that their grandfather would have never met their grandmother, which means that the person’s parents were never born. The conclusion is that the person never exists. If the person never existed, then how did he kill the grandfather? This is just one of the many impossible outcomes of time travel. Traveling into the past is extremely dangerous and causes what some people call “a rip in the universe.”

Another danger of time travel is the consequence of creating another timeline, or also known as entering an alternative universe. Eckel returns from his trip, the world around him has changed in many ways, but Eckel is the only person to notice these changes because everyone else belongs inside this alternative timeline. This meant that Eckel is the only living being on the entire planet who belongs in another timeline. Creating alternative timelines is dangerous because there is no return. Trying to redo the changes seems promising at first, but one has to meet themselves in order to perform the change, which will obviously create even more alternative timelines. In the movie “Back to the Future,” a character introduces an alternative timeline by bringing a sports book displaying the outcomes of all the games. from the future into the present day. This caused someone to become extremely rich by winning all the bets, and that person was the new husband of the time traveler’s mom. In the movie, the characters simply redid their changes, but this is obviously impossible in real life. When someone from an alternative timeline enters another timeline, even interacting with anybody is dangerous. This is because before the person came back into modern day, their alternative self was acting normally inside their alternative timeline, but when they return, they will be missing the knowledge of the alternative individual, but posses information from the original timeline. Time travel is an extremely complicated and dangerous step to take.

In conclusion, humans should never time travel unless mankind somehow invents something capable of preventing changes. This is because making even the smallest change cause a catastrophic chain reaction or an impossible outcome. Additionally, time travel causes new alternative timelines to be created. Stephen Hawking once said, “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?” This famous quote might just simply prove that time travel is impossible, or it shows that humans have already time traveled, but they have not interacted with anything.

Many pet owners love their pets as much as their family members. Those people wouldn’t want their pets getting sick or infected with any sort of virus. To do this, they get antibiotics to make sure they stay healthy and live a long life. Of course, too much of anything isn’t good, but some pet owners aren’t aware of this and give too much medicine.

A lot of medicine would be bad for any kind of living organism that is offered to eat it. It is unhealthy because the more antibiotics you feed your body, the more immune the viruses and bacteria will get. They will become used to it and will not be defeated. The point of doctors reminding people to eat their medicines on specific dates is because if the person misses it, they will not kill the right amount of bacteria, if they eat too much, it will end as a result of the bacteria becoming immune.

Humanity and other organisms need to look after themselves to make sure they don’t have too many antibiotics. Antibiotics will be used up and no more will be produced at a certain time that will be enough for the world. Without medicine, people might perish, so we need to use our medication wisely without using too much or too few.

Disease devoured many people in the past and was hated by every single human being. There are many diseases or pandemics that happened in this world. And every one of them was a disaster.

There are many diseases that happened in the past that were catastrophic. One of them is the Antonine Plague. This is quite similar to the current Covid-19 pandemic. There are quite some similarities and differences between these two diseases. First let’s talk about the similarities, the main similarities is that they both cause the economics and the politics to go down. When you have a pandemic, people die so that reduces the income of your job. On the other hand, the difference between these two diseases is that the method of dying is different. 

Overall, there are many difference and similarities between these two diseases.