...One of the greatest scientific mystery has involved the comet that caused extinction of dinosaurs and mass destruction to food chain that has existed. Although the modern world has advanced significantly in technology and science, there is still much more mystery to be discovered about the early earth and the events that took place for the extinction of many species. Many scientists have created multiple theories on how the dinosaurs and other species went extinct. Walter Alvarez, a Berkeley scientist, investigates the giant impact and writes “T. rex and the Crater of Doom,” which explains a giant extraterrestrial impact that brought destruction to many of the plant and animal species, including dinosaurs, sixty five million years ago. Alvarez...
Words: 825 - Pages: 4
...T. Rex had a well-developed sense of smell, and its hearing and vision were probably better than average by late Cretaceous standards. One unconventional weapon may have been T. Rex's bad breath; rotting chunks of meat stuck in this teeth could have transmitted fatal bacterial infections to any animal lucky enough to survive an initial bite.As "arms races" go, T. Rex was a hands-down loser this dinosaur's arms were so short and stubby that they would have been nearly useless in a fight. Also, despite what you've seen in movies like Jurassic Park, T. Rex probably wasn't the swiftest dinosaur on the face of the earth; an adult running at full speed might not have been a match for a five-year-old kindergartner on training wheels. And now for...
Words: 258 - Pages: 2
...Dr. Malcolm states, “John doesn't subscribe to Chaos, particularly what it has to say about his little science project!” (Koepp 19) pitting him against Hammond. These two are the most obvious players in the chaos game, but Dr. Sattler against Dr. Grant and the Tyrannosaurus Rex (T. rex) against the Velociraptors (Raptors) are also players. The other characters do not have as defined roles but still play into the game. They all have a common theme: Chaos vs. Order. Most of the main characters arrive on the island on the same helicopter. The first view inside shows Hammond, Dr. Sattler, and Dr. Grant on the right with Dr. Malcolm and Gennaro on the left. This scene shows who is on which side of the line, but Hammond’s and Dr. Malcolm’s conflict with each other is most prevalent. Hammond is wearing all white while Dr. Malcolm is, “dressed all in black” (Koepp 18) adding visual representation of the polar difference between chaos and order. Chaos and order is the root topic during the Velociraptor birth and lunch scene. Dr. Sattler and Dr. Grant debate which will win in the end but Dr. Malcolm and Hammond have already made up their minds. Chaos is thrown its first blow when Dr. Malcolm is hurt by the T. rex. He starts to be less of an apostle of chaos and starts to wish for a bit of order. When Hammond gets Dr. Sattler lost looking for the power box, Dr. Malcolm is able to decipher the chaotic schematic maps. Hammond could not do this but when it comes time for the directions to...
Words: 996 - Pages: 4
...years ago to hunt Tyrannosaurus Rex. The scientific information on Tyrannosaurus Rex, and Upper Cretaceous life in general provided in the story is fairly accurate compared to what we know today. There have, however, been some advancements in our knowledge of the time of dinosaurs since 1983 when the story was published. In the story, the T-Rex hunters go back in time to 60 million 2 thousand years ago. This conflicts with our current knowledge of T-Rex, because current fossil records only show specimens from around 67-65 million years ago. It is believed that T-Rex, along with most dinosaurs, was probably extinct around 65 million years ago. While it is possible that there was a T-Rex around 60 million years ago, the story would have been more scientifically accurate if the characters in the story traveled back between 67 and 65 million years ago. Next, the story describes the environment as a jungle smelling of tar and salt of an inland sea, and covered with red flowers. There were huge pterodactyls soaring through the air above. We know that roughly 60 million years ago was actually during a regression of the seas, between the Zuni and Tejas transgressions, therefore an inland sea was unlikely. Bradbury portrays the T-Rex as being much bigger and faster than it was. He probably did this for dramatic effect, and Tyrannosaurus was indeed large, but it probably was not large enough to tower 30 feet above the trees. The largest specimen of T-Rex that has been discovered was about...
Words: 487 - Pages: 2
...Orlando Cabero Sally vs The Dinosaur Sally saw a huge T-Rex and without thinking she ran for cover trying to get away from this huge dinosaur, once she found a safe place to hide she started thinking about the way her body reacted. She wanted to know how her body reacted in command and at a speed that she has never experienced before. Instead of her screaming or reaching for a stick or some sort of weapon to ward off the dinosaur, as if she would do if she had encountered a smaller animal, her body simply ran for cover. For her body to react this way, there are many steps her body must go thru, starting with her eyes. There are certain neuronal pathways that transmit action potentials generated by light from the time light enters her eye until it reaches the area of the cerebrum where vision is perceived. After light passes through the lens, light going to her brain to hit the visual sensory receptor cells- photoreceptors at the proximal end to cause any sort of visual stimulus. Then photoreceptor neurons in the retina collect the light and send signals to a network of neurons that then generate electrical impulses that go to the brain through the optic nerve. The optic nerves leave her eye through the optic foramen to enter the cranial cavity and connect each other at the optic chiasm. At the optic chiasm, ganglion cell axons from the nasal retina cross and project...
Words: 926 - Pages: 4
...Cody Stricker Ms. Windish Creative Composition 14 March 2018 The Death of a Butterfly One little action can change the rest of time in the short story “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury. In the story a man named Eckels pays Time Safari Inc. in order to go back in time and hunt a T-Rex. Upon meeting the T-Rex he is frightened and accidentally steps on a butterfly killing it. When he returns to modern time the entire world has subtly changed, and the tour guide kills him for this mistake. In this story Ray Bradbury is trying to convey the unpredictableness of people and the importance of our everyday actions. The unpredictableness of people comes in very cleverly in “A Sound of Thunder.” In the beginning, we can infer that Eckels is confident...
Words: 460 - Pages: 2
...It is impossible for man to actually film a T Rex hunting or a Triceratops family grazing along a stream in real life. Through the years, directors have relied on scientific knowledge to create their vision of how dinosaurs looked, moved, and interacted with each other and their environment. Hal Roach directed the 1940 sci fi movie, One Million B.C. for United Artists. His solution was to creatively film "dinosaurs" using enlarged iguanas and an alligator with glued on fins, sails, spikes, and horns. A pig running around in a rubber suit starred as a Triceratops and fought an Allosaurus (man walking upright in a rubber suit). At the time audiences liked the dino-action, but it was not a box office smash (Gross, Early Dinosaur Cinema). One Million B.C. did receive two Academy Awards nominations...
Words: 1479 - Pages: 6
...Introduction Exxon Mobil is an American company resulting of a merger from 1999 between Mobil Oil & Exxon Corporation. Exxon Mobil’s field of activity focuses on oil’s extraction, refining and distribution where it is one of the leaders. Exxon Mobil is also one of the largest petrochemicals producers in the world. It has 45 refineries in twenty-five countries with a distilling capacity of 6.3 million barrels of oil per day. It also has 42,000 service stations in more than 100 countries under the brand names Exxon, Esso and Mobil. The corporation has regained the No. 1 rank, in the fortune magazine, of the largest U.S. companies, dethroning Wal-Mart, the retail giant, with a turnover of 453 billion dollars. We are going to perform an Ethical Review of Exxon Mobil. As a first step, it is important to say that when it comes to ethics and oil industry everything already seems lost in advance. Since long the image of this industry is marred by various environmental disasters (oil spill on the coasts etc…) and many business problems that suggest that oil companies have blood on their hands. Following these disturbing facts it now seems essential for Oil businesses to regain a public image for stakeholders & all others. Indeed, a lot of these events have significantly harmed the Oil Industry. We will therefore study Exxon Mobile’s ethics based on its history, its ethics policy, its corporate board & key executives and finally through its ethical practice. ...
Words: 5137 - Pages: 21
...Alan Grant and his colleague Dr. Ellie Sattler were invited by John Hammond to an Island just off the coast of Costa Rica, and as experts of dinosaurs they agree to see what he has in plan. John Hammond, owner of InGen turned the island, Isla Nublar, into a dino zoo called Jurassic Park, with his cloned dinos. Tim and Lex Murphy, John’s grandchildren were brought along to the park, though it was certainly dangerous with the cloned dinos. A rival company tried to steal dino embryos, which lead to the park’s malfunction. With the park’s security systems down, a T. rex breaks loose killing one visitor and injuring another. Alan Grant, Lex and Tim managed the T. rex, but is now stranded on the island, they try to head back to the lodge, but the by the time they got back the velociraptors have escaped their cell, and is now loose on the island. The raptors surround the lodge killing everyone but the kids and Grant, Tim manages to get the power back on, reactivating the electric fence before the velociraptors could break through. The Costa Rican National Guard show, and rescues Alan, Ellie and the kids, blowing up the...
Words: 674 - Pages: 3
...Have you ever felt a personal connection to a character? An author counts on that when assigning traits to a given character. In A Sound of Thunder, Ray Bradbury, the author, makes Eckels, the main character, believable through the character's speech, his actions, and the reactions of others. Through Eckels' speech, we learn a lot about him. For example, when Travis is trying to explain the effects of killing a mouse, Eckels replies “So what if they're dead?”. This lead to Travis going more in depth with his explanation. This shows me that Eckels doesn't think about the facts in front of him, nor does he think of how his actions affect people. He didn't think about how killing a mouse in the past could have repercussions in the future. My...
Words: 606 - Pages: 3
...revisit the original jaw dropping instalment, Jurassic Park. The film’s success was inevitable once the internationally acclaimed director of Jaws and ET was on board; the film was bound for the stars. The suspense king (Steven Spielberg) brought just that, suspense, not leaving one second for the audience to catch their breath. Spielberg used his famous peek-a-boo move only showing snippets of the T-Rex for most of the film, before releasing the entire life size dinosaur onto our screen leaving the audience captivated...
Words: 627 - Pages: 3
...In the short story of “A Sound of Thunder”, by Ray Bradbury, suspense is built through simile, conflict, and metaphor. The first way the author creates suspense through simile, to describes how things looked like. To begin with a simile describes what something look like. After the hunters find the t-rex, they open fire on it, and they kill it, and when and when the t-rex falls, they describe it by saying “Like a stone, like a mountain avalanche Tyrannosaurs fell “and that's how they use simile to describe what something looks like by saying it looks like that when it falls. The second way the author creates suspense is through conflict, and it describes what might happen to the characters. My evidence for conflict is when Eckles comes...
Words: 322 - Pages: 2
...Dinosaurs never seize to amaze paleontologists, researchers, and science in general in the modern world today. The gigantic creatures (up to thirty feet long, ten feet tall and weighed up to twelve tons) that once walked and ruled the face of the earth millions of years ago have fascinated the human race for centuries. This does not come as a surprise, the existence of such amazing, larger than life beings gives insight and a sense of wonder to people. Dinosaurs were known to have roamed the Earth millions of years ago with their existence proven by fossil discoveries of archaeologists throughout the world. One of the most recognized dinosaurs is the Triceratops, the herbivore dinosaur known for its three horns and frill. The fossils can hardly be missed on this dinosaur, with the horns, deep, bold cheek bones and large size. The Triceratops’ skull was 1/3 the length of its entire body. This enormous, stocky creature was said to have evolved from a smaller but related species that was recently found in China. The fossil remains date to the very end of the Cretaceous period, right before the meteor impact. So, they were one of the last dinosaurs standing before the extinction. The Triceratops proved to be an interesting dinosaur as its extinction still raises questions at present times today. The first named specimen of the Triceratops was found near Denver Colorado in 1887. Originally the bones were believed to belong to a particularly large and unusual bison, but then later...
Words: 647 - Pages: 3
...Elements of Design Maria T Rozo Introduction to Film ENG 225 Professor, Susan Luck 16 March 2014 Elements of Design From the great director Steven Spielberg, came a very famous movie called “Jurassic Park”. In the movie clip “Tyrannosaurus Rex” (movieclips.com 4/10), Martin Ferrero, Jeff Goldblum (Ian Malcolm), Joseph Mazzello (grandson), Sam Neill (Dr. Alan Grant), Ariana Richards (granddaughter) have found themselves in a very difficult situation. When the Tyrannosaurus Rex starts to attack the vehicle the children are in, due to the attention the flashlight the children had was making. When the men in the other vehicle see the struggle the children are going through, and the vehicle is about to collapse on the children, if the Tyrannosaurus Rex steps on it one more time. They come up with a brilliant idea to use a firecracker to distract the Tyrannosaurus Rex from the children and direct it in the opposite direction. But in a weird turn of events, the Tyrannosaurus Rex follows the man and ends up in a restroom, where the Tyrannosaurus Rex eats the man on the toilet. Rick Carter was the production designer; his role was to guide the key staff in other departments for example, costume designer, hair, make-up and the special effects director. His ultimate job is to create the perfect image with all the proper angles to be shot and put in a film. John Bell and William James Teegarden were the art directors. Their sole job is to supervise and unify the vision of the film...
Words: 994 - Pages: 4
...in the reader’s mind of the ‘roller-coaster’ ride of the rapids where the passengers ‘perched on the side tubes’, adding a sense of danger. “Tightest packing system I had ever seen.” This shows us that there was no possible way of ejecting off the raft, therefore it couldn’t be possible to break ‘Ed’s rules’ but somehow she manages to do so. Therefore we learn that she is a rule breaker a ‘rebel’. Explain how the headline, sub-headline and picture are effective and how they link with the text? The large, bold title, “Fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex Sue may of died of a sore throat.” The element of humour plays a strong part in this title, along with the contradicting ideas of this dinosaur being fearsome, yet dying of something so insignificant. The possibility that this humongous Tyrannosaurus rex has been defeated by what’s no more than a common cold is laughable. The picture of what is described as a ‘Fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex’ definitely proves this as true. Although it is just a skeleton it has many elements of power especially due to its size and big, sharp teeth to penetrate...
Words: 1815 - Pages: 8
