The Electric Ant Short Story Summary

Anteaters are edentates. Edentates are animals that do not have teeth. Anteaters do not eat apples, but they eat about 30,000 ants and terminates a day. The anteater uses its large sharp claws to rip open an anthill or termite mound. Then he uses a very long, sticky tongue to catch them. Anteaters walk on their knuckles so their long claws don’t hurt them. A baby anteater is called a pup and rides on its mom’s back for about a year. When an anteater feels threatened, it will stand on its hind legs, hold its arms out wide and show its claws. Can you stand up tall, hold out your arms and spread your fingers to make yourself as big and scary?

Does Leiningen have a good or bad characteristics for putting his workers in harm's way? Is what many people question throughout the story “Leiningen Versus the Ants.” The protagonist in Carl Stephenson’s short story, Leiningen, has a variety of good and bad characteristics finding himself, his workers, and his worker’s family in danger.

Jimmy constantly questioned his surroundings; “is it real…?” (Atwood 269) became a reoccurring theme. Over a game of virtual chess one day Jimmy asked, “why don’t we use a real set, the old kind with plastic men?” To which crake later responded, “the real set is in your head.” (Atwood, 93) These seemingly unimportant debates among friends, proved to be a small part of the problems apparent in our modern society. Atwood has drawn to attention the idea that the world in which we live is no longer real, and developed it as the main theme in her novel through characterization. Martin Heidegger, in his analysis of human development, proposed that we as a society appropriate entities in order to dominate them, and that our culture built upon a technological dependence has evolved an ideal of self importance (125). This endless consumption, and appropriation, addressed by Heidegger, is demonstrated throughout the novel mostly through bioengineering. Between the exploitation of resources, and Jimmy’s futile questioning of its authenticity, the theme of how consumption can lead to a false reality becomes clear.

                Ahh! Velvet ant! Now this is how I became so afraid of velvet ants.To begin with, one day I was in the sonoran desert and I came across and ornges-reddish pretty big crawling insect so i decided i wanted to look at it even more and I realized its one of the biggest insects i've seen.This velvet ant also has a really tough exoskeleton so if you try to smush it the insect will roll over and sting you with the enormous stinger.These insects can grow to  be 3/4 inches in size the red velevt ant is the biggest of thier kind.

Melbourne is the capital city of victoria it’s the second-most populous city in Australia. Melbourne has townships, and rural localities in the greater metropolitan area in the State of Victoria. Melbourne is the hub of Victoria's business, administrative, cultural and recreational activities. The City of Melbourne is a place of rich cultural diversity that is one of the main reasons why a lot of tourists visit Melbourne.

Will Leiningen defeat the ants, or will the plantation be destroyed? In “Leiningen versus the Ants,” by Carl Stephenson that is the question. Leiningen is trying to beat the ants and defeat them before they destroy the plantation. Even though he had advice to leave from authorities, Leiningen stays at his plantation to protect it from the ants. Leiningen’s choice will result in serious consequences for his plantation, his 400 workers and himself . He and his 400 workers have the choice to evacuate, but some stay to fight and protect the plantation .

The author intelligently introduces plot twists to explore the question of how would an android construct its identity. Since, the android is essentially built of metal and wires, is it right to assume that it is non-living, even though it is made to resemble human life as closely as possible. The story goes a step further, and compares an android’s existence to that of a slave, who is also at times subject to molestation, because an android can’t complain, can

Near the end of the story, the main protagonist is stimulated by the need to manipulate reality and go back in time by reversing a segment of the tape. His objective is to experience the absolute reality all at once by running his last test on himself. “What I want, he realized, is ultimate and absolute reality, for one microsecond. After that it doesn’t matter, because all will be known; nothing will be left to understand or see.” By doing so, he can finally understand why he was transformed into an electric ant, who is behind the creation of electric ants as well as an infinity of unanswered questions in the universe. Everything will be revealed to him once he changes the pattern of the reality tape. However, things turn sour and

Is there a war in the history of humanity that has been won without the support of another? In order to survive we have come to depend on others, much like the living organisms that portray mutual symbiosis. After analyzing both selections, it is my strong belief that the article about the Acacias Trees and Ants best portrays mutual symbiosis.

The ghost ant is a type of house pest that first appeared in Florida in the late 1980s. Since then, the ants have become common across south and central Florida. They can even become found in northern states as long as they have a greenhouse or a warm building that they can survive in. Native to Asia or Africa, these ants have spread across the world by global trade, which makes it difficult to figure out where they are originally from.

The 1960’s was a time of change as activists began speaking out against the war in Vietnam, sexism in workplaces, and racial prejudices. Students spoke out against inequality, recognizing that the barriers put between youth and adults, women and men, or black and white were arbitrary, because whichever side they landed on, they were human. Any defining factors meant to separate factions were built from cultural situations, and not an actual definition of either group. Philip K. Dick’s 1968 book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? calls these arbitrary walls into question. To emphasize that the walls built between factions of people are more fiction than fact, Dick displays complex and conflicting examples of empathy and connectedness in human and android relationships.

Army Ants the most deadliest ants in the world! How do army ants hunt and what do they eat? Army ants cast about prey in large groups. Army ants seem nice until they get hungry and eat you whole. What do army ants eat? Army ants seize other ants, beetles, centipedes, grasshoppers, roaches, scorpions, spiders, tarantulas, snakes, lizards, and ground-nesting birds. Army ants consume so much prey that they must frequently move to a new area to find food. When army ants are in large groups they can eat animal 20 times their size. Army ants will eat anything in their path. They will eat your house to dust. What do army ants look like? Army ants can have yellow black or brown hair. They live in colonies to keep safe from their predators. When they

In the class we discussed Moliere. Tartuffe based on that, How effective is reason in stemming the passions of various characters (especially Orgon) in the play? What (if anything) really works to change people’s behavior, to make them see the error, extremity, and blindness of their passions? What do you think Molière is saying about the relations between reason, passion and authority?

If I was an ant who found a cookie traveling down a hill there are many different reference points you can see that would have many things to appear to be moving or not moving. For example the cookie is moving from another viewer or human looking as I the ant am traveling with it down the hill with the cookie because the cookie is in my mouth and to a viewer we are both traveling a distance. Furthermore from my frame of reference it would appear the cookie is still in my mouth as I know I'm moving but the cookie is still in my mouth as I travel a distance.

After the discovery of red ants at Port Botany, inspectors are asking for homeowners to be vigilant for signs this insect has appeared on their property. While these are a problem in some parts of America, this type of ant is rarely found in Australia and the government would like to keep it that way. To help you know what you are looking for while you are outside doing some winter garden maintenance, these are the three main facts you need to know about red ants.