I crept through the grass, keeping my body low to the ground and making sure my footsteps made no sound. I was the hunter, silent and invisible as I stalked my prey. There, the small mouse sniffing the air, unaware of my presence as I made my way closer to my target. Soon, I was close enough, my tail twitching slightly with excitement as I readied to pounce.
"Gotcha!" I heard Snow yell as she jumped out of a nearby tree, landing on my back as well as scaring away my prey.
"Snow, you scared my prey away! There goes dinner for tonight!"
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
What Makes us Human? Essay Summary
Topic- What Makes us Human?
Main Points: Advanced communication, thought (emotions/morals and actual thought along with imagination), ability to use tools
Main Point 1 (Advanced Communication) Supporting Details: Written word, which transfers thought without having to actually be there yourself, along with recording thought for time. Spoken word. Telephones and radios allow communication across the world, including thousands of miles. This creates a world that functions cooperatively.
Main Point 2 (Advanced Minds) Supporting Details: Feelings like anger or sadness, happiness and more complex feelings like jealousy. Also can be harmful, with emotions can cause suicide or gambling that turns into addiction. Emotions guide who we are and affects the choices we make, which we have to take responsibility for.
Main Point 3 (Ability to use Tools) Supporting Details: Vehicles that allow us to travel from one part of the world to another quickly. Crafting tools such as hammers and saws that allow us to create shelter and bigger vechicles such as cranes and bulldozers that allow us to create buildings for offices and businesses.
Argument and Rebuttal:
-Argument: Simple differences like our opposable thumbs define who we are.
-Rebuttal: Answer lies within us. The choices we make define how we act and our actions cause reactions that change our future actions. That is what makes us human. Choices
Conclusion: We have the choice to create and destroy. Humans need to choose to create and take care of Earth so that we can live longer on this planet. Otherwise, we might not be able to survive.
Main Points: Advanced communication, thought (emotions/morals and actual thought along with imagination), ability to use tools
Main Point 1 (Advanced Communication) Supporting Details: Written word, which transfers thought without having to actually be there yourself, along with recording thought for time. Spoken word. Telephones and radios allow communication across the world, including thousands of miles. This creates a world that functions cooperatively.
Main Point 2 (Advanced Minds) Supporting Details: Feelings like anger or sadness, happiness and more complex feelings like jealousy. Also can be harmful, with emotions can cause suicide or gambling that turns into addiction. Emotions guide who we are and affects the choices we make, which we have to take responsibility for.
Main Point 3 (Ability to use Tools) Supporting Details: Vehicles that allow us to travel from one part of the world to another quickly. Crafting tools such as hammers and saws that allow us to create shelter and bigger vechicles such as cranes and bulldozers that allow us to create buildings for offices and businesses.
Argument and Rebuttal:
-Argument: Simple differences like our opposable thumbs define who we are.
-Rebuttal: Answer lies within us. The choices we make define how we act and our actions cause reactions that change our future actions. That is what makes us human. Choices
Conclusion: We have the choice to create and destroy. Humans need to choose to create and take care of Earth so that we can live longer on this planet. Otherwise, we might not be able to survive.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Responsibility of the Cost of Life
Depening on the circumstances, there are differences to how people will react to the responsibility and cost of life, and also the zeal to survive. If a situation is seemingly impossible to escape from or to survive in, people may react with acceptance and just accept their fate as is, or they will react by fighting tooth and nail until the final second.
The Titanic, for example, was a ship that was supposed to be unsinkable, according to those that built the ship, but an iceberg ripped out on side and the ship sank, killing over a thousand people. Some say that the engineers who built the ship should be responsible, but I say that the captain should be. The engineers are not at fault for building a supposed unsinkable ship and have the ship sunk, for any ship is sinkable, but the captain of the ship who was maneuvering the ship and crashed into the iceberg should be responsible for the lives of the people, if he escaped. This situation also goes back to the zeal to survive, for some on the ship would have accepted their fate and died in the ship, but the others would have been fighting to escape and get on any object that would float in order to stay out of the freezing water and survive.
In The Call of the Wild, Buck fights to survive as a sled dog. In the beginning of his "career" he is ignorant on the ways of survival out in the cold, brumal land. The other dogs teach him and he learns quickly how to burrow into the ground for warmth and how to steal food from the humans in order to eat more. Then, later in the book Buck has a feeling of the wild calling him, and under a new owner he ventures out into the woods and wonders for many days. Buck happens upon a herd of moose and he fights for days in order to kill the leader of the herd. The moose fights for those four days until he literally cannot anymore, this survival instinct that pushed the moose farther than maybe another moose or a human in this situation would have been able to do just because the moose wanted to survive, but when the moose was too tired to fight back he accepted his fate as Buck killed him.
So, in a life or death situation, how would you react? Would you accept your fate, or would you go down fighting? Think of these two situations and imagine yourself in them, as a passenger on the Titanic, as Buck, and as the moose.
The Titanic, for example, was a ship that was supposed to be unsinkable, according to those that built the ship, but an iceberg ripped out on side and the ship sank, killing over a thousand people. Some say that the engineers who built the ship should be responsible, but I say that the captain should be. The engineers are not at fault for building a supposed unsinkable ship and have the ship sunk, for any ship is sinkable, but the captain of the ship who was maneuvering the ship and crashed into the iceberg should be responsible for the lives of the people, if he escaped. This situation also goes back to the zeal to survive, for some on the ship would have accepted their fate and died in the ship, but the others would have been fighting to escape and get on any object that would float in order to stay out of the freezing water and survive.
In The Call of the Wild, Buck fights to survive as a sled dog. In the beginning of his "career" he is ignorant on the ways of survival out in the cold, brumal land. The other dogs teach him and he learns quickly how to burrow into the ground for warmth and how to steal food from the humans in order to eat more. Then, later in the book Buck has a feeling of the wild calling him, and under a new owner he ventures out into the woods and wonders for many days. Buck happens upon a herd of moose and he fights for days in order to kill the leader of the herd. The moose fights for those four days until he literally cannot anymore, this survival instinct that pushed the moose farther than maybe another moose or a human in this situation would have been able to do just because the moose wanted to survive, but when the moose was too tired to fight back he accepted his fate as Buck killed him.
So, in a life or death situation, how would you react? Would you accept your fate, or would you go down fighting? Think of these two situations and imagine yourself in them, as a passenger on the Titanic, as Buck, and as the moose.
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