Month: June 2020

By 2050, antimicrobial resistance will be our biggest killer, even surpassing cancer by about 2 million deaths! We need to act quick! However, even finding a place to start is a big question. This is because over half of the antibiotics is used by animals! Antibiotics are helpful though. This mysterious thing is used to make animals and plants grow better and faster. However, the antimicrobial resistance also grows. In fact, the cons don’t stop there! The most dangerous antibiotic factors that are dangerous to humans are antibiotics used by pets!

We all have faced the question to obey someone or not. Many people just want to do something fun, but are then told to stop. They have a choice: to obey or defy someone’s order. As we all have experienced, the defying is the easy path. But we face consequences, like being in timeout or the worst . . .. . . . no video games. Well that is not really the worst.

In the short story, A Sound of Thunder, a man travels back to the time where there are dinosaurs with an agency that has a time machine. When there, however, they meet a HUGE dinosaur. When they run back, he is soo scared he leaps off the path, which is prohibited and kills an exotic butterfly.

Little does he know, that will cause the course of history to be changed. This little action and disobedience caused even the president to be different. We, as a society need to realize that unless we obey our superiors we will cause the ultimate and tragic destruction of humanity. If we continue to disobey our superiors, just one reason to obey them is in this short story

It was a happy time, a healthy place,
political rulers always had a trace,
It was a quiet morning
a happy one,
until that day when no one
would say “Yay!”

The enemy attacked
the cells went forth
it attacked everywhere
and the people went north.

This isn’t about the Americans
that has COVID 19,
it’s about Rome,
and Antonine
that virus gene.

Societies can’t just avoid outbreaks
but can stand against very severe aches.

Again, with dirty Rome,
the virus of Cyprian
retaliate.
It attacked poor Rome,
again and again.

Scientists researched that
when you get virused
over and over,
each time it happens
you might get a good luck clover.

Over centuries attacks have been smaller
with better medical help
and even better scholars.

But the point is that plagues in the past, help the future.

A sound of thunder, by Ray Bradbury, is about two men going into the past to kill some dinosaurs. When they go back they have to follow this floating path. If they step of it, it can cause a change in the future. So when they go back in time, and one of them sees the dinosaur. He freaks out and runs back to the teleport spot. He accidentally steps of the path. He does not know it yet but that action has changed the future drastically.

After he came back to the present, he found that he stepped on a butterfly. In the present a election was finished but they find out that the winner was changed. That ruler was a dictator and was described as a anti-everything person. And the spelling was changed on a sign and things were all weird. After finding this out the other man shot him in the head.

I think the main theme of this story is that all your actions have impacts on the world either long term or short. Even though the butterfly was so small, it had such a big impact on the world by killing it. An example of this in the real world is that you can slack off and not study but that just might make you not smart enough to get the the job you want.

What I took away from this is that you shouldn’t slack off and that even the smallest details of what you’re doing can still make make a impact short or long term.

He wanted to hunt a T. Rex, so he got In a machine

He thought he had a chance with a rifle but was greatly dumbfounded

He wanted to go back to the present, but it was too late now

He was so desperate, he ran off the metal track

The guide threatened to kill him if the present changed, but…

Like a ripple of time, a butterfly killed, the stone caused a disturbance in the pond,

A dictator was elected and soon the world will stink

All because this man wanted game

The guide’s hatred was too great, he got out his pistol

And the man’s last memory was a sound of thunder

In the short story, the sound of thunder, the author is clearing saying something very important. It is about a man who travels back in time with a company called Time Safari Inc. to hunt dinosaurs. They are told not to do anything that will alter the past because it could change the future.
If a single animal dies, it won’t have any babies which means that the whole generation of that animal is doomed. Same thing in this story. One of the hunters steps on a butterfly that lives back then, which means the current butterfly that is related the to dead one also dies. The entire generation of those butterflies also dies. If they leave a bullet, cave men might discover it. Thus, the gun might be invented early. Cave paintings would show modern weapons instead of bows and arrows. If they kill the dinosaur early on, entire fossils can change. exhibit in museums could have changed. What if they killed Sue the famed T-rex, the museum would have a tiny little dinosaur or they could have never found it. The theme is, if you do something small, it could have a big impact.
Therefore, this is why I think the theme of the short story is little things make big differences.

The story “A Sound of Thunder,” Starts when a man named Eckels enters the office of Time Safari, Inc., a company that offers time travel to hunters that want to hunt prehistoric animals. Eckels gives a check for $10000 to the clerk and asks if the company ensures that hunters return alive from the past. The person replies that the company guarantees no safety, only the guarantee of dinosaurs. Hunters must strictly obey their guides, shooting only what and when they are instructed to shoot. Any disobedience will result in a $10000 fine, and also possible government penalties.

Eckels studies the nearby time machine and tells the clerk that having Deustcher as a president would be awful. The clerk agrees that it would indeed have been awful if Deutscher had been elected. The two men quickly return, however, to discussing the opportunity Eckels will have to shoot a T-Rex, the most famous prehistoric dinosaur. The clerk warns that if Eckels is attacked and eaten by a dinosaur, the company is not liable. Six safari guides died last year, along with a dozen hunters. The clerk asks Eckels seriously that he really wants to do this trip.

Eckels says that he does, and so he is introduced to Travis, the experienced safari guide who will lead this safari. Travis and Eckels, carrying rifles, enter the time machine, which is already occupied by Travis’s assistant, and two other hunters, Billings and Kramer. The machine kicks into operation and the nights, days, weeks, months, years, centuries, and millennia zooms by . Leaving A.D 2055, the men soon arrive in the middle of a jungle that existed millions of years ago.

As they look out of the time machine, Travis points out a metal path into the jungle. Made of anti-gravity metal, it hovers half a foot above the ground. It was placed there by the company to prevent hunters from in any way having physical contact with the jungle. Travis tells them that they are never to leave the path. He sternly told the men pay careful attention to this rule and never violate it. They are not to touch anything, and they are not to shoot at any animals unless Travis approves. When Eckels asks why, Travis explains that the company does not want to take any chances by changing anything at all about the future. Destroying even an insect, mouse, or any other living thing could cause undeterminable consequences in the future. This is especially the case since killing one living thing in the jungle would mean wiping out the potential offspring of that thing, and thus the offsprings’ offspring, and so on and on and on for infinite generations. The results of killing anything in the jungle are literally unpredictable, even bacteria, which is one reason that all the men are wearing oxygen masks. Killing just one animal might some day mean, for instance, that a future caveman might not survive by eating the distant offspring of that animal, and the non-survival of that caveman would change human history forever. In short: no one is to kill anything except an animal that would die almost 2 seconds after the encounter with the hunters. Which the company sprayed with red paint.

The company sent scouts to record any accidental deaths, that occur on a certain time frame, and they mark the dinosaur with red paint. Then, when they kill that certain dinosaur, then it wouldn’t have altered anything, since it was gonna die almost immediately after.

Eckels was scared when a T-rex marked with red paint approached, and ran off the trail, kicking up dirt. Travis screamed at him and told him to take the bullets out of the dinosaur. I would imagine that to be very disgusting. When they went back to the future, they realized that the president was changed, and the entire alphabet was in complete mayhem and the atmosphere had a different type of gas . Out of pure rage, Travis shot Eckels, and Eckels died.

The question of the global warming, a butterfly effect, is one that has concerned scientists and nature conservatives, who have the responsibility of saving and protecting the Earth. This story can easily relate to global warming, as they both have the butterfly effect and show how easily the world can change.

“A Sound of Thunder” is about how a hunter called Eckels, who wants an adventure of hunting outside of his normal game. He decides to go on a time machine into the era of the dinosaurs, where he goes on an expedition to hunt the T. Rex. After a swift encounter in which they have hunted and killed the T. Rex, Eckels leaves the designated trail, in which he comes back only get get yelled at by Mr.Travis, the Safari Leader of his group, who thinks that Eckels stomped on at least one thing. When they got back to the present times, Travis’s fears were proven correct. The U.S president was Deutscher instead of Keith and the spelling was insane and absurd. I’m not sure but in the end I think Travis shot Eckels but maybe he shot himself.

I believe that “A Sound of Thunder” is a perfect example of a butterfly effect, and that we shouldn’t be the same as the people in the story who reportedly crushed one butterfly, and somehow they got a different president and strange spelling. We should try to stick in our daily lives, and keep our noses in our own business first.

To recapitulate, “A Sound of Thunder” gives a great moral of how fragile the ecosystem is and how easily we can change not only nature, but also us. If we are to stay the same and not die out, we should keep the environment the same, too.

-Jüßtįñ

“The Lady or the Tiger” by Frank Stockton takes place in a land where a king presides over court using chance to determine people’s innocence or guilt. Inside of a public arena are two doors. Behind one is a woman whom the accused must marry if he opens that door. Behind the other is a hungry tiger. If that door is chosen by the accused, the accused is considered guilty and will be eaten by the tiger. The king’s daughter falls in love with a man of lower status, and he is brought into the arena to choose a door. The princess learns which door has the tiger and which one has the lady, and she discreetly tells her lover to open the door on the right. However, it is never revealed what was behind that door, so we don’t know if she led him into death or into marriage with another woman.

You can’t really say there is a theme for this short story, but the moral value of “The Lady, or the Tiger?” story is we have to be careful in making decisions. Every decision must be well considered before it becomes a final. The consideration should be reviewing the effects for us in our next steps of life. The king made the accused make a life-deciding decision, and it was all chance if they lived or died. This was a pretty interesting story as it was ended with a cliffhanger, since we don’t know what happened to the prince, and what was behind the door he chose.

In Frank R. Stockton’s “The Lady, or the Tiger?” the king of the land serves justice by forcing the wrongdoer to choose between two doors, behind one of which is a tiger, and behind the other a lady. Without knowing who waits behind which door, the wrongdoer chooses between life and death blind and deaf to which one he is choosing. Specifically, the princess’s lover is forced to choose between the two doors when the king finds out about his relationship with the princess. Standing before the doors, the young man looks up at the princess, who points her finger right. So the young man chooses the door on the right, and there the author invites us to decide for ourselves what we believe the princess wanted for her lover: to live married to another woman, and one she hates at that, or to die rather than be with anyone other than her, especially someone she hates?

Now, it can be assumed that the door on the right hides the tiger, for the story describes the princess agonizing over the decision and the passage about the lady is three times as long and much more passionate than the passage about the tiger. So, it seems that the young man’s fate hinges entirely on what the princess wants. However, this is only so because he chooses to trust the princess. If he did not trust the princess with his happiness and his fate, he would not go along with her choice so confidently- what if she chose wrong? And in that is another choice that is the young man’s, and his only: what he wants for himself.

But what he wants for himself is linked with what he wants for the princess. He loves her, yes? Therefore, even faced with the possibility of death, he would gladly die from being mauled by a tiger to see her happy. He sees that it would make the princess unhappy that he does not trust him, so he goes along with her choice.

And there is yet another example of decisions of his own: whether he himself or the princess matters more to him, and whether he trusts the princess, chance, or his own intuition more.

So I guess this is all meant to say that every decision is affected by innumerable other decisions, no matter the importance of those, no matter how ill-informed the decision made seems. And that knowing yourself is a very important thing in life- whether the young man knows himself well enough to decide whether he is willing to face death, emotional infidelity, the unknown, or far, far worse for someone he loves is a very big factor in his fate.