Author: EricL

I believe that jealousy and love can make people commit to doing things that are unbelievable. In the short story,”The Lady or the Tiger”,by Frank Stockton, the princess lover is put into the arena, because apparently that loving each other is a crime. Inside the arena consist of two doors, which one contains a tiger and the other a lady. The man must choose one of the doors to open. Ultimately the life of the man is in the princess hand because she knows what is behind them.
However, I believe that their could be a third option for the kid; when he goes to choose a door, what actually is behind them is absolutely nothing. This is obviously done by the princess. The objective of having nothing behind those doors proves that that in their religion in believing supernatural powers, this might have provided a good explanation to the king and people, that this man was chosen to live. After seeing this idea, I think the king might give the man permission to marry the princess. There are a few reasons why I believe that behind the doors contain nothing. Throughout the story we learn that the love between the princess and the man is pretty strong. Stockton states,” She loved him with an ador that had enough of barbarism in it to make it exceedingly warm and strong”. We can also see that “love affair moved on happily for months”. After seeing this description of their passionate love we can say she would do anything for him.

Overall, the love between the two is too strong, that I believe she will do anything for him because after seeing both of the choices behind the door, she didn’t really have a good choice but to create a 3rd option for herself.

In “A Rose for Emily”, the rose is a symbol that acts as a replacement for all the tragedies and negative things that have happened in her life. Her father died and the one person she loved left her to rot. Emily didn’t have anyone to help her and eventually became very depressed. Faulkner states,” That was two years after her father’s death and a short time after her sweetheart–the one we believed would marry her –had deserted her. After her father’s death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all.” As the story progresses, Emily’s situation gradually becomes more difficult to climb out of. She has even been seen buying heavy drugs from the drug store and the people are assuming that she is going to kill herself. Faulkner states,”SO THE NEXT day we all said, “She will kill herself”; and we said it would be the best thing.”This is where Faulkner introduces the rose because Emily has gotten her heart broken and has gone through so many things the rose would give her a sense of hope(sadly this did not happen in reality).

Some of the benefits of launching these internet satellites into space is so everyone in the world can have access to stable internet. Some may say that everyone already has internet, but Musk was specifically targeting places that weren’t so fortunate like the rest of the world. Chadwick states,”’ The goal of Starlink is to create a network that will help provide internet services to those who are not yet connected, and to provide reliable and affordable internet across the globe.” This will insure that everyone can have internet and won’t be living under a rock while the rest of the world is evolving.
Launching satellites into space is an effective way of distributing internet across the world, but is it? Scientists say that these satellites acting like stars are effecting their research. It is giving them a difficult time to see the actual stars and obstructing their radios on land. The text says,”However, scientists and stargazers have voiced frustrations that the devices are hindering their ability to see the night sky. The orbiting satellites can also interfere with the workings of ground-based radio telescopes that experts use to see more distant phenomena.” This is definitely a huge downside for the scientists and stargazers. This is giving them an artificial taste of the sky compared to before, when there was no satellite in space. Also scientist are handed more obstacles when exploring space.