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“A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury is a story where the main Character, Eckels, goes on a time safari that uses a time machine to transfer the hunters, Eckels, Billings, and Kramer and their leaders, Mr. Travis and Lesperance.

These hunters arrive sixty-million years ago to the time of the dinosaurs. In search of a Tyrannosaurus rex with a red paint mark. They are warned by Travis to stay on the metal path that is laid by the time safari because if they accidently step on a plant, animal etc. they would change the future.

They are also told that they cannot shoot at random animals. They only shoot at ones marked with red paint. Why do they have to shoot at marked animals? Lesperance answered this question by telling them that paint marked animals are doomed to die.

After they set foot on the path, they spotted the T-rex a while later and then they started shooting it. (Eckels didn’t listen to instructions and went off the path) After that, the dinosaur fell down and a tree fell on top of it, and Lesperance said that the tree was supposed to kill the T-rex.

They cleaned up the mess and in the morning just as they were about to leave, Travis was mad at Eckels and ordered him to get the bullets out of the large monster. If he didn’t they would leave him here.

After he got them, they were speeding back to present-day and Mr.Travis glared at him a full ten minutes. However, when they got back the place was different. Instead of Keith getting chosen for president, the other one got chosen and all the spelling on the sign was wrong. Just as Eckels was cleaning his boots, He saw a dead butterfly in the muck stuck on his shoe.

He wanted to make it alive again but it was too late. Travis lifted his rifle and shot Eckels.

Technological advances in the course of history. Early humans used rocks and wood. As people get smarter and smarter the tools that they use started to differ. With the rise of plastic people almost always identified it as the Magic material. It can be put in everywhere, pencil sharpeners, cards, lights, and even books. Now a new type of material has the sickness of an atom and harder than steel is on the rise. Some researchers explain that this type of material might be the next generation of plastic since plastic can be made into graphene. But I personally didn’t think that this type of material is going to replace plastic there are two reasons why. First of all, plastic is cheap and easy to make but this type of material is hard and almost impossible to make. it also takes a lot of effort and the items that it creates are not that much better. The second reason is plastic pollutes our oceans and takes a lot of energy to make. Same with this material it also takes a lot of energy to make and is not necessarily cleaner than plastic. I think people want to remove plastic because of how much waste is produced and how much pollution it does but this material also does that. However, it has the same way of making it similar to plastic but it is way harder. Lastly, I think that the new material is not that helpful, but that is just what I think.

Science is a great thing that we have produced and advanced in. It gave humanity improvements and also improved our knowledge of those around us. Science, to us, is a blessing and a whole new world. However, what if science, which gave us power and knowledge, instead doomed us all and destroyed humanity? It isn’t impossible, since in Ray Bradbury’s “Sound of Thunder” humanity changed because time travelled and changed the past. But what if we were to develop the kind of technology that lets us travel the past or stop time itself? What would happen? Science is a really helpful tool to humanity, but we also need to be weary of it, or else it could be our downfall.

Many of you have heard of time traveling and most of you would probably agree that it is useful. We could stop important people from getting hurt, change our future, and stop the extinction of a kind of animal. But time traveling is also really risky. If you change one small thing, like leaving the lights on or throw a twig at a dog, then the future might change entirely. This one small action could create a big ripple in time, thus being known as the “Ripple Effect”. In “Sound of Thunder”, the ripple effect is portrayed when the protagonist accidentally killed a butterfly from the prehistoric age. When he travelled to present time, a complete nation and language changed, just because of this one stone thrown in the pond of time. This ripple effect would be a very bad side effect that could cause the downside of humanity.

Another dangerous thing is science not doing its job. If somebody was to make a robot that does surgery, then the robot would be handling somebody’s life. A person’s life would be at stake, and if the robot was to fail its mission, than the person would die. Well, robots are more efficient than humans so the risk should be the same or less right? Well, thats wrong because even if a robot is more precise and quick, robots lack experience and emotion. Humans differentiate from robots because of this. Humans could make ethically right actions, while robots only do what it is supposed to do. If a military robot was to wipe out a whole army, there will be no lives at stake. But if wiping out the whole army involves destroying a whole town, humans would probably think twice before blasting. But robots wouldn’t since its main and only objective is to destroy the enemy. Thousands of innocent lives would be at stake.

Lastly, is a kind of technology that is very dangerous. Stopping time. Sure, stopping time could help in lots of situations and would be really handy, however, stopping time would mean that time would be frozen everywhere. Throughout the whole universe, time will be stopped. But time has stopped so if you were to move, that would be impossible. If that time-stopper had a red button on it and you just pressed it, then you can’t unstop time again! Time would be forever stopped, and nothing will happen again. But what if you were to be able to move when you stop time. Changing one small thing, like the ripple effect would cause a big disturbance. This concept of manipulating time and space is very risky and it wouldn’t be like exploring a whole new world. Instead, it will be like exploring a dungeon full of traps when we are blindfolded. We don’t know what to be cautious of and we don’t know solutions to problems that has never happened before.

Overall, science is a really risky tool that humanity has, but it has proved itself useful many times throughout the course of history. It let us explore things that were dreamed of by humans, and let us advance civilization at a speed that has never been shown before. However science isn’t to mess around with and could come with huge consequences if played around with. We need to be weary of what we do with science and we need to be cautious.

Yes, A sound of thunder is a good story. A sound of thunder is a good story because it describes how the character feels really well even if it doesn’t say how the character feels in the story. It also gives you clues about how the story might end. It sort of draws you in to the very end of the story. It gives you a few different possibilities on what might happen in the end.

Unlike the disney books and movies that always start with a good or bad start and end with a happy ending, A sound of thunder starts with a really happy start but ends with a sad and bad ending. If they always end with happy endings, it’s boring so that’s another reason why people like this story. It’s also an exciting story because they go on a really dangerous adventure.

These are a few of the reasons why people think that A sound of thunder is a good story. You should read it sometime.

This story is about Eckel. He went to the past on a time travel machine to kill a T-Rex. When he sees the dinosaur, he gets anxious. Before they could aim and shoot at the T-Rex, it had already spotted them and was coming for them. After the dinosaur was dead the leader started to scream at him for putting them at risk. He was warned that if he had killed anything that he wasn’t supposed to in the past, the present would be changed. Yet he kicked some dirt on the side of the road and killed a butterfly.

This shows that he sometimes is a bit careless and overproud. It is because he was boasting that he had killed wild boars, buffalo, and even elephants. In the beginning, I think he was anxious because he was scared that he wouldn’t come out alive. when he was in the machine, he was still anxious because of that thought. Overall, to me, he is careless and overproud.

The short story “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury is an extraordinary tale that talks about the time travel paradox. The time travel paradox is a logical belief in time travel. “A Sound of Thunder,” is a story about cause and effect.

The story is about cause and effect because the main character goes into a time machine that allows life forms travel back in time. The protagonist, Eckels, is a customer who wanted to proceed back in time because he was commonly known as the trophy hunter and wanted to try something new. He went back in time and he stepped off a path that was meant to never change the future and he did. He caused the future to change from President Kieth to President Deutscher.

The story is terrific and awesome because of the science in the tale and the fantasy. I specifically really like fantasy which makes the story even better. The personal favorites of mine are when Travis, the Safari Leader, his assistant, Lesperance, and two other) hunters, Billings, Kramer, and Eckels found the Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-Rex) and panicked. This was where Eckels proceeded to walk off the path and changed everything. After the travelers went back to the future, Travis killed someone, but who?

Changing one thing could change the infinite possibilities in the world that could happen. One simple and little thing could destroy a whole country. Everyone has a choice, but most of the times, people choose the wrong one. There should be more cause and effect in the world, but for the better.

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.

Almost everyone has had a substitute teacher. Firstly, there’s the teacher that follows the notes the regular teacher left them, and teaches according to that. Next, there’s the teacher that just gives out an easy worksheet or sometimes a crossword puzzle and then just leaves them to it. Lastly, you get the rarest substitute of all, the extremely strict one. This is the archetype of the substitute encountered by Roger in the short story Miss Awful. A theme in this story is how different people can have different ways of expressing emotion.

In the story, Roger’s easygoing teacher who lets her class get away with everything leaves and is substituted by Miss Orville, nicknamed “Miss Awful” by the class. She is very strict to the students and criticize them harshly for mistakes, making her very unpopular. She makes Roger do his homework over and over again because of his spelling mistakes, causing him to call her a witch at home. On her last day before the regular teacher comes back, the students ripped the leaves of her precious plant, against Roger’s protests. After finding out, Miss Orville despairs over her failure in helping any of the students grow and dismisses them. After the class left the room, Roger goes up to Miss Orville and demonstrates his growth in his spelling.

Miss Orville has the students’ best interests in mind, and she acts on it by being strict so that they can be the best they can be. Most students interpret this as plain ill will, more reinforced by her comparing students with her plants, something that she treasures. Roger understands this at the end, and in his demonstration of spelling, he shows that Miss Orville helped him grow and that he understands her intentions.

A theme in the short story Miss Awful is how you could misunderstand someone because the method they show how they care can be different. In the story, Miss Orville really wanted to help the students, but they hated her because of how strict she was. The author of the story wanted the reader to stop and consider the intentions of other people before jumping to conclusions.

In today’s video called The Truth About Graphene-what’s the hold up? on Undecided with Matt Ferrell, Ferrell talks about the material graphene, its uses, and why it’s not being widely used. This led me to think of a common phenomenon in our world, the development of technology in wartime compared to peacetime.

During wars, technology is developed faster and on a greater range then technology in peacetime. Many technological breakthroughs have been made during wars. Technology that might have not existed otherwise were developed during wars or for military purposes. Jet propulsion and rocket technology were both invented and made operational during World War II. Nuclear fission was discovered just before World War II, and was greatly enhanced to make the atomic bomb. The Global Positioning System(GPS) and the Internet both began as military projects under the U.S. military that were later given to the public domain. These are all examples of technological advances made in war.

The reason for this phenomenon is quite simple. In wartime, no expense is spared on any type of technology that might be instrumental in winning the war, and there are two parts to that. One is developing better technology than that of your enemy, and the other is developing new technology that nobody else has. In peacetime, however, technological development is mainly driven by consumer demand and very little new technology is developed.

Not all of our technology was born in war, however. It is certain that our world would look very different if we never waged war at all. It is my wish that the pace of technology would not be restricted by warfare, and that we would be able to be just as productive in peacetime as well.

In this story, the main character is Roger, who is a boy in 3rd grade. He is very playful, and has a very laid back and lax teacher named Ms. Wilson. Then she leaves, and his class gets a very strict substitute teacher whose name is Ms. Orville. She embarrasses some of the children and their parents in front of everyone else, and she forces the children to do everything perfectly. In my opinion, she is a bad teacher.

I think Ms. Orville is a bad teacher because she is too strict. Even though students need a teacher who isn’t too laid back, they shouldn’t have a teacher who is too strict. She makes them march in a straight line in unison every single day, and assigns a lot more homework than they are used to. Even though it improved Roger’s spelling skills, this only happened because he tried really hard. It didn’t do much for the other kids.

Ms. Orville also yells at the 3rd graders whenever they make any kind of mistake. She expects eight and nine year olds to be completely mature and act like adults. Everyone needs to learn these things eventually, but I think it should be later in life. In 3rd grade, most kids don’t fully understand manners yet, and she is trying to teach little kids these things. I think students should start have strict teachers later in elementary school or in middle school. Or else the younger kids who have strict teachers won’t understand what their teachers are doing for them and hate their teacher.

Another reason I think she is a bad teacher is because I have a bias against strict teachers. I had a very strict teacher in 4th grade, who was similar to Ms. Orville. But she wasn’t as strict and didn’t make us march in a line. Even so, I hated her. The year before, I had a very laid back teacher who didn’t assign much homework. Then in 4th grade suddenly I had a teacher who yelled at us if we messed up at all and assigned a lot of homework. She only had one or two favorite students who liked her, but everyone else hated her.