Sunny Youth Journal

Do you think a crazy insane person who’s addicted to drugs is a bad guy. Well, Uncle Willy is like but but no, Uncle Willy is not a bad guy. Sure, Uncle Willy is a crazy and insane guy but he’s not really Bad. Uncle Willy is not bad because what he really is trying to do is to have fun though he does some pretty crazy things. People think he is bad because he is addicted to the drug, dope. Some other people think he’s bad because he started running away from the preacher but the reason he ran away is because he didn’t want to be controlled by the preacher, the preacher’s sister, or the preachers friend. They had locked Uncle Willy up in his house and were forcing him to quit going on drugs. They were taking away his personal rights, you can lock a prisoner in a cell but doing drugs isn’t really breaking the law.

Uncle Willy is actually a really good person when it comes to kids. He go’s to school with them, give them ice cream and baseball caps, baseball bats, and other things after one team wins a baseball game. Which bad guy would give ice cream, baseball caps and bats to kids.

These are the reasons why Uncle Willy is not a bad guy even though he is a insane person who’s addicted to drugs.

“A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury is a pretty interesting short story. It starts in 2055, when time travel was available. Eckels is a hunter who paid $10,000 to go back in time and hunt a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Time Safari, Inc., the time-travel outfitting agency, wants to make sure its customers understand the risks involved. They do not guarantee safety, relating the deaths of six guides and twelve hunters in the previous year. But they do guarantee dinosaurs, and Eckels cannot refuse this trip of a lifetime.

While Eckels waits his for his expedition to begin, he and a company employee discuss the recent election in which the democratic candidate Keith, the moderate presidential candidate, was elected over Deutscher, the dictatorial candidate described as an anti-everything man. The two suggest that if the election had turned out differently, many people would be running for the time machine just to escape Deutscher’s rule.

Travis, the tour guide, along with his assistant, Lesperance, leads Eckels and two other hunters, Billings and Kramer, into the time machine and they set off to a time 60,002,055 years before the time they left.

When they arrive, Travis gives the hunters two specific instructions: shoot only the dinosaurs marked (they were going to die soon anyway) and stay on the path, which is made of antigravity metal that hovers above the ground. When Eckels asks why, Travis launches into an explanation of how changing the past could have a negative effect on the future: if one mouse is killed in the past, the families of that mouse will also no longer live, along with the animals that would have preyed on the mouse. This would, in turn, cause the animals that preyed on those animals to no longer live, compounding until the effect of the death of that one mouse could mean generations of people may no longer be alive in the present. With everyone sufficiently scared, they head out.

As they anxiously wait for the T. rex, the men hear ‘a sound of thunder’ – the footsteps of the dinosaur – and Eckels is overcome by the beauty and majesty of the beast. He decides he cannot shoot it. Travis, furious that Eckels has chickened out, tells him to return to the machine. Eckels, in a state of shock, moves the wrong direction, catching the eye of the dinosaur. As the T. rex begins to come after the hunters, they fire and kill it.

Upon returning to the time machine, Travis notices that Eckels’ boots are muddy. He stepped off the path! Furious, Travis threatens to leave Eckels in the past unless he collects the bullets from the dinosaur, which they can’t leave. He does so, but Travis still threatens to kill Eckels for disobeying the rules.

Upon arriving back in 2055, Eckels notices that things are a little off. The air smells weird and the spelling of the company sign is a little different. Eckels looks down at his shoes and notices a butterfly stuck to the bottom, dead. In shock, he asks who won the presidential election and the employee exclaims that, thankfully, it was Deutscher. Eckels groans. Travis aims his weapon at Eckels and there is a sound of thunder.

One of the morals of the story is there are consequences for your actions. He chose to go on this expedition, and then bailed out. Because of that, he went off “The Path”, and changed the future. Overall, the story was interesting.

If you had a time machine, what would you do with it? Would you go back in time to fix your mistakes, or will you go into the future to see how you end up? Of course, there’s another option, in which you charge people to use your time machine, thus making lots of money. The last option is the one explored by Ray Bradbury in his short story, A Sound of Thunder. A theme in this story is how people just refuse to believe the wide range of consequences that their actions can have.

In the story, Mr. Eckels, a hunter, goes back in time to hunt a T-Rex. His guides warn him of the massive consequences of interacting with anything there, which he takes lightly. They go on to say how they’re allowed to kill the T-Rex because that dinosaur will die in two minutes from a falling tree. When they meet the dinosaur, Mr. Eckels fled in fear, off the “Path,” a floating path meant to make sure they don’t touch anything in the past, finding his way back to the time machine after the other hunters kill the beast. His guides are worried that he touched the grass, and become furious when they realize he killed a butterfly by stepping on it. One of the guides threaten to shoot him if anything goes wrong with the future, and when they travel back, they find their language changed and that the newly elected president from their timeline lost here. The story ends with Eckels falling to his knees in disbelief, and the guide shooting him.

In this story, Mr. Eckels and to some extent the guides both think that they can get away with their actions without facing the consequences. Mr. Eckles didn’t think that touching the grass and killing a butterfly could change the future, and the guides didn’t think killing the T-Rex two minutes before it was scheduled to die would affect the future. However, some combination of these two things caused the future to be changed in drastic ways. Either or both of these could be responsible, even though the guides firmly decided that the blame was to fall on Mr. Eckels. In the end, even Mr. Eckels knew his actions’ consequences, but the guides remained in disbelief.

The story A Sound of Thunder is a slightly exaggerated method to show the reader how actions have consequences, through the science fiction trope of time travel. Mr. Eckels and the guides didn’t realize this, and ended up rewriting history. In addition, a side theme is how people can criticize others for a mistake while being blind to their own. The guides execute Mr. Eckels for messing up the future, while completely ignoring the fact that they too changed the past.

In the story A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury, a group of hunters travel back in time to hunt dinosaurs, but unconsciously changed the future when one of them stepped on a butterfly. This highlights one of the themes of this story, that time travel can have immeasurable consequences. I think that time travel couldn’t ever be invented, and even if it could, it shouldn’t.

There is a great likelihood that time travel could not be invented, because the very concept of time is human-made. The units used to measure time(seconds, minutes, hours, months, years, etc) are all man-made, based upon certain needs, like a day is based on how long it takes for the Earth to rotate once. Since the concept of time is human-made, it would be impossible to travel through time because time as a thing doesn’t exist. Time is, by physics, what a clock reads. It is not a tape that can be rewinded and played again.

Putting aside if time travel can even be invented, it should not be, because as the story described, there is the butterfly effect, in which if one small thing is changed, the future might be altered beyond comprehension. Something similar to this is in the food chain, when one primary consumer consumes a small amount of toxin, that toxin will be magnified tenfold in secondary consumers, because they consume a significant amount of the primary consumers, and the toxin would be magnified hundredfold on tertiary consumers, since they consume a significant amount of secondary consumers. This same situation can be applied to time, where small changes are magnified over time, and it is impossible to control. If time travel is made available, even to a small amount of privileged people, they would be tempted to change the past, and that could be catastrophic.

Right now, we can only hope that time travel won’t exist in the future. Time is not something to be dealt with lightly, and we should be wary of the effects of our actions.

Time is a concept; one that has greatly confused scientists for years. Is the mystery of time already solved? Or in the progress of being solved? Or is it still waiting to be solved? What happens if you mess with time? Is it even possible to time travel? Before these questions can be answered, we must realize what time really is.

Of many people’s philosophies, they say time is the numbers shown on the clock, the minutes and seconds and hours waiting to be counted, and the nonstop, everlasting progress of the past, present, and future. In fact, my good friend Google describes time as, “the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.” But what exactly does that all mean? Albert Einstein depicted time as another dimension, the 4th dimension. Even that doesn’t make sense, and as Einstein himself says, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

So essentially, all these sources of information are seemingly summing up to 1 point: time being the infinite process of the existence of the universe and the recording of events.

A question that many scientists and people think about: What is time travel and is it possible? Many fictional stories depict time machines as machines that allow people to go back or forward in time. For instance, the short story “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury illustrates that a hunting company has a time machine that allows hunters to hunt animals in the past. But there is a risk to time traveling (if it is possible). If a detail in the past is altered, drastic measures of changes may occur. Bradbury’s short story shows that, and many scientists, after years of research, have also come to the same conclusion. In the story, the protagonist Mr. Eckels went along with the Time Safari and hunted, and there was an anti-gravity path designed so the past won’t be changed. However, Eckels stepped off the path and killed an ancient butterfly, and when they returned to the present, the whole future was changed. This story greatly encouraged the name for a paradox, the Butterfly Effect. This effect describes how 1 very minor change in the past can affect the future several times greater, depending on the time elapsed.

Simply put, if there is a scientist in the 22nd century with a time machine who baked an apple pie with his fully grown apple tree, who went to the past for some strange reason, and tripped and fell on his apple tree in the past when it was only a sapling and killed it, apple pie would never have existed.

You would say, how is time travel actually possible? There is a chance that time travel will happen in the future. There is a concept called “spacetime,” folding the 3 dimensions of space (length, width, height) and the 1 dimension of time into 4 total dimensions. If there is something with high gravity, say, a black hole, it would affect spacetime. Imagine a blanket and you drop a bowling ball on it, it would create a hole. That is very similar to what a black hole is, except the black hole is trillions of times greater in gravitational force, so much it would suck the light out. So now we know that gravity would affect time. If the gravity is greater, then the time would appear to move much slower because the gravitational force bends the spacetime. So if we launched a spacecraft with people on it and it managed to get back, the people on the spacecraft would experience time slower, and the people on Earth would look many years older.

For now, we can only hope that time travel won’t exist in the future. However, if it does happen, we must be very careful about our actions during time travel. So is the mystery of time solved yet? Depending on the time period of when you’re reading this text, we will never know the exact answer.

Virus have been in the air as long as the start of the world as the roman ages there have been a lot of virus. There was the black plauge which killed a lot of people and disrupted the world like when the yellow fever ended farmers wanted more land and the people who surivied the virus got good names and became famous. In the article it pointed out a lot of viruses but I want to do the yellow fever one.

The yellow fever started in the eastern side of the US then when people started running to the western side people got caught and was sent back in fear that they had it so when people found out they couldn’t get through they hid in the forests and fired guns and cannons in to clean the air so in Fever 1793 it said that people threw up black stuff and their eyes became yellow and they saw stuff that other people couldn’t and they got really scared.

In Ray Bradbury’s short story A Sound of Thunder is about an old hunter named Eckels who wants to go back in time to hunt a T-Rex. He is very cowardly until he learns about the gun he’s using where he becomes confident as he thinks he is in control. He becomes terrified once he realizes that he may die and is not in control. He also sees the precautions taken by the hunting company but doesn’t want to believe that something he does could endanger the entire human population. He doesn’t want to believe that they weren’t in complete control.

Eckles likes being in complete control, which is mostly why he hunts to seem like he can do anything and is in complete control. Once he sees the guns he becomes very confident in his abilities with such a powerful weapon. He thinks he is in complete control until he sees the power and size of the T-Rex. He wants to be in control so he hunts to feel superior and stronger than everything else.

Once he sees all of the precautions taken by the safari company he either doesn’t understand why they take such precautions or he doesn’t want to. He wants to believe that they are in complete control so he doesn’t think that if he messes up he could ruin civilization completely. He proceeds to mess up and stray off of the path in a panic. The safari leaders also don’t really take the butterfly effect seriously, they only care about money and the history of humanity is a kind of afterthought to them, they really don’t take this sort of thing seriously at all.

In conclusion The Sound of Thunder is a deep story which sort of reflects how humans want to show that they care about the environment but they don’t really care about it at all. Along with this the story talks about the consequences of time travel and how the smallest action could bite you in the butt with a gigantic effect. Overall the story was a deep story that reflected on many aspects of humanity.

In this story, the year is 2055 and the main character is a rich man named Eckels. There are time machines, and he goes on a time safari to hunt down dinosaurs. He accidentally kills a butterfly, which messes up a lot of major things in the future. To fix the problems, the people working at the time safari place have to kill Eckels and try to fix the problems he created. Because Eckels messed up, I think letting anyone go into the past shouldn’t be allowed.

I think not everyone should be able to go into the past because it is too dangerous and could change how a lot of things happen. Different animals species could live or die because of something someone did in the distant past. Depending on which types of life are changed, different human families could disappear, and completely new ones to replace them. Or, if someone did something really bad, the human race could have evolved into an entirely different species.

Not only could going to the past change a lot of things in the future, but it could also be dangerous for the people who go into the past. In the story, Eckels thinks that he is safe and that he can take down a Tyrannosaurus Rex without any problems, but once he faces it in reality, he panics and wants to run away. But running away would cause even more problems. People who think they can handle going into the past but really can’t would be a problem. They would endanger themselves and others around them.

Some people might say that they would be really careful, and wouldn’t panic. But they haven’t went into the past before, and have no experience with time traveling. I think some people should be able to go, but they should be trained for a long time so they can be prepared. The company in the story had guides, but that didn’t work. Eckels still did something wrong and messed up the future. So having guides wouldn’t work. The only way would be to only allow professionals into the past.

Today we read a science fiction written by Ray Bradbury. It talked about the human invent the time machine in the future 2055 and use it to go back to prehistoric times to hunt dinosaurs as an adventure. But there is a nervous guest, Ekcels kill a butterfly accidentally, that result in he can not go back to the primary globe. There comes one problem I want to talk about today. The time machine is good or bad?

In today’s’ world, technology is improving very quickly. The time machine is always the top dream machine that humans want to invent. Because we want to know what happened in the prehistoric times, why dinosaurs died out, and how the globe looked like at that time… There are lots of mysteries that we want to solve, so scientists and inventors study hard day and night to invent the machine which can help. But how can we promise that someone like the people in the story won’t use the machine to do bad things? What if they try to steal something from the past? We never know.

I admit technology helps us a lot, it makes our life much more convenient. The time machine is good or not, depends on how we use it. So the first thing we should do before the time machine invented, is that scientists should tell people this machine is only for research and study not for adventure. And I don’t think people should be allowed to get into the past, like walking or jumping at that time in that world. The world is connected, any change that happened in the past might change today’s world, to a large extent. So my advice is we can only use the time machine to see what happened instead of getting into that world. That might avoid some bad things happen.

Invent the time machine is a hard thing, but how can we use it correctly is much harder than that. We still need to study hard and improve human quality to make sure the time machine can realize its biggest value and truly help people to figure out the mysteries.

A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury takes place in the future. Humans have developed time travel machines, and one incorporation allows people to travel back in time to kill dinosaurs. The people in the company have loads of safety measures so there would be a low chance of someone changing the future. However, one man, Eckles, does what they fear: He changes the future.

Eckles and his tour group go to shoot a T-rex. Its size was miscalculated though, and it was much larger than expected. Eckles freezes up and can’t move. He also whispers, which makes the dinosaur notice them. He runs off the path specifically designed so that no organisms were harmed. He smushes a butterfly under his boot and that causes a chain reaction. The current president, Keith, is nice and kind. After the butterfly is killed, the other candidate, Deutscher, who was a dictator and hated many people became the president.

One symbol in the short story is thunder. When the dinosaur comes towards the tour group, it came with flashing thunder. When Eckles was shot for changing the future, he heard a sound of thunder. In the story, thunder symbolizes death and danger.

The author does a good job using the symbol of thunder to foreshadow what was going to happen. If maybe humans never made a time machine, these dangerous events would have never happened. Our accomplishments, even if they seem great, can cause something horrible in the future.