The Chimer A Short Story

The essay, “Slouching Toward Chimeras,” by Jeremy Rifkin addresses the moral dilemma of biological engineering between different species; including, the constant genome in these experiments- Homo sapiens (humans). Chimerism is the genetic engineering of two different species to create a hybrid offspring that contains the genetic code from both parents. This is an idea that has been around since the Ancient greek, however, it has not become reality until recently. One of the large controversies surrounding chimerism is the re-combination of the human gene with a different species, giving that hybrid human characteristics- depending on the gene inserted, the traits can be expressed physically of mentally. The main reason for chimeras with part

Once the person is outside of the cave they are blind and when they finally are able to see, they do not believe the outside world to be real. At first they can only see shadows and then eventually they are able to differentiate objects from one another. Lastly, the person is able to look at the sun itself. The sun represents good and now the person knows the truth. The cave is an illusion and the games they played in there were pointless.

After eating some food and resting, he headed to the village nearby. At his arrival, “the whole village was roused”. “Children shrieked” and “women fainted”. “Some fled, some attacked” the creature. The creature was “grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons”. He ran away and “fearfully took refuge in a low hovel”. (p. 83)

trees and the home of all the animals. There was a garden stone with the

The short story, “The Charmer,” by Budge Wilson sends the message that failure to hold children accountable for their misdeeds is dangerous as it often leads to dire consequences on their demeanor; this is a vital message to comprehend because parents who do constantly overlook the faults of their children, will often find themselves indulging in feelings of regret in the face of adversity. To begin, Zach’s absurd behaviour during the exposition helps Wilson illustrate her theme about the importance of punishing children for their wrongdoings. For example, Winnifred explains how “Zach stole money out of wallets that were left lying around...started smoking at thirteen…[and smashed up their] ...car one night after a poker party...But afterwards, Zach delivered apologies that would have brought tears to a preacher’s eyes” (Wilson, 4). This clearly proves that Zach is a manipulative son who believes that by using his charm, he is not obligated to abide by any rules. His parents’ excessive usage of forgiveness allows him to gradually magnify the degree of his crimes and impose financial burdens on the family. When a child happens to engage in criminal activity, parents are naturally inclined to be infuriated and impose strict consequences because they do not want their child to suffer in the future. However, since Zach’s parents are irresponsible, Zach is unable to differentiate right from wrong. Unfortunately, Zach’s actions show that he is becoming

Suddenly it jerks to the left and a cacophony of a bullet penetrating flesh of an animal can be heard, the animal hunches over in pain, and lets out its final shriek of pain. A hunter lets out a grunt of happiness, walks over to the deceased animal, picking it up, and click; there is the

As we hiked along Tijana and I pointed out red pandas and other animals along the path. Once we got to where the door was I told Tijana of the door that we stood in front of. He didn’t understand what I was talking about. So we walked back down to the village. Tijana must have thought that I was crazy because we didn’t speak the whole way down. After I had dropped Tijana off at his house I decided to go up to the door again. Tijana was not coming with me for he was to much of a burden. Once I got up to the door I heard growling and there was a tiger right about 25 yards away from me. I froze because he could have killed me right then and there. The only option was to go through the door so I took that way out. Slowly, I grabbed the key and unlocked the door and in one swift motion I quickly slipped through the

When he, his wife and a servant escaped from the house, all of his worldly possessions burned in front of his very own eyes. The following day, he visited the ruins and saw that one wall did not cave in. On the wall, he saw a great imprint of a gigantic cat with a rope around its neck. This brought the narrator to believe that during the fire, someone threw the cat inside one of the houses windows when the house was on fire. Since the cellar was made of concrete, it was not destroyed and they decided to live there. After some time, they find another cat with a splotch of white on his chest. They decide to adopt him and bring him home. This cat followed the narrator everywhere and everywhere. This eventually angered the narrator again. When he was in the cellar with his wife the cat made him trip and he was about to kill the cat with a fatal blow with an axe, until his wife stepped in the middle and the axe slammed into her skull, oozing of blood and killing her instantly. He decides to put her body in one of the walls of the cellar, like the monks of the middle ages did. For the next three days he does not see the cat. So he ends up thinking that he is finally a free man. When the police arrive on the 4th day, they check all the nooks and crannies in the room, and they do not see any evidence of a murder. When they are about to leave though, the narrator starts to brag about how well his house is constructed. When he taps the part of the wall where

Rolling a stone in front of the tomb was a major event in the story because Gebu and Wenamon will finally get caught and the guards will find the missing golden goblet. After Ranofer had answered the question right Queen Tiy got really angry and sad. She told the guards to rush over to the tomb and find the thieves. Ranofer also said that he had found a golden goblet. He said, “It is in my brother’s stone cutting shop-in the stone room-but it is hidden.”

To start off with, the stone could not have possibly be stolen because it weighs a lot. The estimated volume of the stone that was found repeatedly was 24 ft^3.

Zeus replied, "if I help you and your son, it won't turn out good. Right now both you and your son are angry and you guys aren't thinking straight. I will not help you guys so you can can harm innocent people."

Then later Karanas brother was killed by a pack of wild dogs. When Karana has the pack leader down and wounded she aims for a second shot. Karana hesitates when she sees the dog lift its head and place it back down to the ground but realizes it’s not going to run. When Karana sees that the dog cannot get up she takes the dog home to care for it and cleans its wounds with coral brush. Karana sleeps outside on the rock for three nights, scared to sleep in the house with the dog, she also brings the dog fish every night, but when she tries to feed it out of her hand the dog growls and backs away. On the fourth day Karana comes home early to find the dog was not waiting at the fence for her as usual. Karana had a strange feeling come over her as she called out “Dog, Dog”. Karana had started to care for the dog. On the fourth night Karana stayed inside with the dog and named it Rontu, which meant “Fox Eyes” in her language.

They saw several stones stacked on top of each other, probably some wood elves playing a game. Bilbo kicked one off the top of the stack. He heard a wet splash as it hit some water on the ground somewhere outside of the

I came to and looked around at the eerily familiar landscape, but something was missing. The house. It was gone. I slowly walked towards the plantation that I had visited so many times before, and as I grew closer and closer, I saw something peculiar. What was a rock doing in the middle of an empty field? The field was empty except for a single tree, which

“Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. The pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready; there were stones on the ground with the blowing scraps of paper that had come out of the box Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Mrs. Dunbar. "Come on," she said. "Hurry up."( (Jackson)