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Literature Picture Project

In the short story “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, a man named Eckles decides to go on a hunting safari 65 million years in the past.  The story focuses on Eckles as he goes into the past to hunt a tyrannosaurus rex.  Him, Travis, Lesperance and two other hunters go into the time…

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Walter Mitty Daydream Six

In the short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber, the story goes back and forth between realism and expressionism.  Realism is when things are happening in the present.  When Walter Mitty comes out of his dreams he returns to his real life.  The story shows realism by his interactions with his…

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“What Darwin Never Knew” Blog Post

Darwin’s theory was that species changed, that they evolved and we all came from common ancestors millions of years ago.  For the years following people have been trying to prove that his theory is correct, and humans have done just that.  With the discovery on DNA, scientists have been able to study and compare the…

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The Butterfly Effect in “A Sound of Thunder”

In the short story “A Sound of Thunder”, a man named Eckles decides to go back 60 million years to hunt a tyrannosaurus rex.  One mistake and the future could change drastically.  There is a continuous domino effect throughout the story and you can see it grows more and more.  At the start of the…

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