Steal The Goldfish Essay

3. What did further examination of Tiktaalik’s fins reveal about the creature and its’ lifestyle?

The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer Holm tells a tale about a young teenage girl and her seventy-six-year-old grandfather who found a formula to turn him into a thirteen-year-old teenage boy. Their names, Ellie and Melvin are about the same age. Attempting to get the T. Melvinus, along with Ellie’s friend Raj, can they all find and decide if humans should use the T. Melvins, or destroy it. I would recommend this book written because the book sparks my interest in the biological field. Both children and adults including scientists would like it because it combines terms that scientists use, “children's literature”, along with “adult’s literature.” Can the group figure it out? Maybe the settings have something to do with it.

The story follows young Yonatan, as he tries to document people’s responses to a simple question. Along the way he meets a man named Sergei, and this is where acceptance comes up. Sergei is very irritated by the young and ecstatic boy when he shows up to his doorstep. Sergei being very weary of people who knock on his door, does not accept or tolerate Yonatan, and tries to get him to leave his home when Yonatan was showing respect to him and being very kind. When Yonatan enters his home without his permission, Sergei kills him on accident. Then Sergei's magical fish offers to revive Yonatan in exchange for being set free, this forced him to become tolerant of the young boy, and make a selfless decision.

as to why someone would want to speak to him. 4 paragraphs later Sergei has come to the

Being considerate toward everybody and everything is the ideal goal that everybody hopes to achieve. Though the idea of being considerate is different depending on the person so reaching that point in the world is impossible to achieve since there is no baseline for that, we have many competing ideas as to what that could be. Some people see being considerate as being thoughtful of other people but others will see it as a deeper meaning with being courteous toward all living things on Earth and their belongings. There are so many different ways to be considerate and the readings of David Foster Wallace, Jessica Mittford, and Caitlin Doughty all have underlying messages of how people need to be more aware of what they are doing. Each piece

Before he arrived at this decision, Gorelick considered covering up the murder to keep the fish. He said,“ "Fixable... "I'll just mop up the blood... "When I'm fishing,...I'll tie the kid to a rock and dump him in the sea. Not a chance, not in a million years, will anyone ever find him."”( lines 164-171) His stubbornness started surfacing, obstructing his sound reasoning. Goralick tried to find excuses in order not to use his last wish. For example, he said that he was saving it for something important.Goralick was ambivalent.Whilst suggesting this, he forgot how scared he was to even touch Yonatan’s blood(lines 124-127). That along with his statement, “He can't be dead”(110-113) proves that had he chosen otherwise, Goralick would have suffered from guilt. In fact, even the goldfish asserted, “"You killed him, Sergei,"... but you're not a murderer."... "If, on this, you won't waste a wish, then tell me, Sergei, what is it good for?"” Though what immediately happened after this question was skipped, one can infer that Sergei thought thoroughly during that time. He rightfully chose to save Yonatan. His actions such the uses of his first two wishes reveal his character traits.

The first short story has some relevance to the quote is What of This Goldfish, Would You Wish? In this story, there was lots of tension between the goldfish and Sergio. Sergio would not decide on his last wish, which led to the goldfish having to stay in his fishbowl. The goldfish had lost most of its tolerance for the man and couldn’t help but smile when the man wished his last wish. This is an example because the fish no longer wanted to be trapped which means he did not want to deal with Sergio any longer. Another example of tolerance being lost is when Sergio killed the boy.

“What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish” is a short story by Israeli writer, Etgar Keret. This story shows just how far a person will go not to be alone. The author shows this through the character Sergei Goralick, a Russian immigrant in Israel, who killed

Do Cortisol levels predict personality in Stickleback fish, Gasterosteus aculeatus? For a behaviour exhibited by an animal to be considered a personality trait, it must be stable over time (consistent both in the short and long term), and stable across contexts, for example different environments. The Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is a hormone production and secretion pathway that produces cortisol. In response to stress, Corticotropin Releasing Factor (CRF) is released into the pituitary gland.

Throughout this unit I have seen how the lense of perspective is different in everybody's eye and how it’s important to look through the lense of the opposing side and not just our own. A great example that was shown in one of the stories that we read is in “What, of this Goldfish, would you wish” when around half way through the story it switched from the young boys perspective to that of the Russian. Also examples can be taken from the “Texas V.S. Johnson” case and how it can be seen through the perspective of both the government and the people who were burning the flag. There can even be examples from current day events that happen everyday in another part of the world with the video “My So-called enemy” showing how both the Israelis and the Palestinians have their motives for what they fight for. All of

Throughout the history of humankind, mystical stories of magic in far off places have dazzled the populations of civilizations ancient and modern alike. Many of these stories contain mystical creatures known as genies. These lamp-dwelling beings function to grant three wishes. In some stories, other objects or animals replace genies. These stories typically embody motifs of greed, abnegation of personal gain, and benefit of third party people. While these motifs are present, they are frequently the consequence of a noble motivation with for the benefit of oneself and others. In “What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?” by Etgar Keret, the desire to feel independent, the necessity of individuality, and the inevitability or impetuousness drive

The fisherman’s wife shows a lot of true greed throughout the story. She could have easily stopped with the first wish and could have been

Mr. White wishes for two hundred pounds, but then his son dies. A bad thing about the paw is that everyone who wished upon it ended with bad luck. In the “Monkey's Paw”, each wish has an ironic consequence. Sergeant

They don’t know how strict my mom was, now she lost her strict attitude and is more compassionate. I think that my mom changed her way of thinking and changed her tradition of wearing uniform, now my siblings they wear uniform if they want to. Sergei doesn't want to waste his last wish, the Goldfish has granted him only two wishes, and is waiting for the third wish. The story, “What of This Goldfish Would You Wish?” written by Etgar Keret, it’s a story of a goldfish granting only three wishes and Sergei, but Sergei doesn't want to waste the last wish. Sergei doesn't want anymore wishes, he would just like to talk to the Goldfish

Life lesson. Noun. Something from which useful knowledge or principles that which can be learned. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee; is filled with tons of life lessons that the reader can learn from. It goes from discrimination, equality, to courage, yet those are just a few examples in the book.