The Truth About Sharks By Joan Bauer Summary

In the article "Great White Sharks," by Peter Benchley, his point of view is biased. Peter Benchley shows his bias when he wrote, "Nowadays more people are coming to respect and appreciate sharks for what they are: beautiful, graceful, efficient. " The words "beautiful" and "graceful" are examples of loaded language that shows sharks in positive ways. "We know that these most wonderful natural-born killers, these exquisite creatures of evolution, are not only villain they are victims in danger of-if not extinction quite yet-serious, perhaps catastrophic, decline." This quote explains that Peter Benchley has a bias opinion about sharks because he thinks that sharks are wonderful and exquisite.

Equally important in the story is the use of characterization to show the reader exactly who the protagonist in the story is and what kind of life she is living, we first read of her sisters and how they act in contrast to the protagonist: “I [the narrator] wasn't even pretty or nice like my older sisters and I just couldn't do the girl things they could

“No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.” This compelling quote from William Godwin shows the importance of integrity, guilt, and most importantly, innocence. Innocence, is the exact opposite of guilt, wrong, sin, and disgrace. Joan Bauer is the author of the extraordinary short story, “The Truth About Sharks.” This realistic fiction short story has a shocking ending where the main protagonist, Beth changes her point of view about guilt and innocence. One sunny day, a young girl by the name of Beth traveled one day to “Mitchell Gail’s,” which is her “go to” store. Beth needs to purchase clothes for her Uncle Al’s birthday party. As she browses through clothes she meets a friendly employee whose name is Hannah.

Instead of standing up for herself, Beth is easily intimidated into doing things she dislikes without fighting back. “I made a pitiful noise and curled up into a ball”(32) was the course of action, Beth did when she was told of the chores she was to do. The course of action, Beth took portrays her as a lazy, weak willed person who gives up without standing up for herself despite not wanting to said actions. And how being weak willed made her mom just told her to do things and she did it. Another example of how easily pacified and intimated in the story was “You're hurting me!””Shut up! Tears stung my eyes””(36). In the scene portrayed by that excerpt from the story shows how Beth is so easily intimidated in the story. Instead of trying to argue back from the security guard when she was arrested Beth whined and in tears when told to shut up the security Guard. Her actions in the beginning and early middle of the story shows Beth was a cowardly and weak person who is not willing to stand up for herself and in turn people are not willing to listen to

The dynamic change that the narrator experiences at the end of the short story is that he becomes more sympathetic. He starts to see that sometimes you have to take a stand for what you believe in. He did not want to be apart of what had just happened at the store with the girls. From the way other customers were judging them by the way they were dressed. Along with how the store manager embarrassed them with their inappropriate appearance. In my opinion he would not have had such a dynamic change in the story if the store manager would have addressed this in a different manner. The manager could have approached the three girls individuality in a private setting instead of getting into an altercation in front of all the customers in the store. The way of knowing he was making a dynamic change in the story is when he quit. He learned that it was time to make a stand in his life for what he did not feel was right. He has witnessed first hand how hard life is going to be. In a short time he saw how

A typical day for a grocery store cashier consists of scanning items, bagging items, and dealing with snobby customers every once in a while. So it is no wonder that Sammy, the grocery store cashier, has a sudden mood change that exhibits his personality when his day deviates from the normal. In the first two paragraphs of the narrative “A&P” by John Updike, Updike uses word choice, tone of voice, and detail to show that the narrator, Sammy, has a lot of good/bad qualities, like straightforwardness, wittiness, perceptiveness, and eloquence. Depending on the situation in which these traits are revealed, Sammy can either be perceived as an innocent teenager or a chauvinist in the making.

She sees something special in him that is different, and this makes her smarter, and stronger than the other women. She is bold for telling Equality these things that could get her in trouble in their society. She is different, like equality, because she has feelings that no one else has (except Equality.) This only emphasizes her mental strength, and her boldness for following Equality in his quest for freedom. She showed me that even when it seems that there is no hope, there is, because she found love, which was a forgotten thing in their society. She was bold enough to step out and do something that she believed, and

The story that this research paper is being written over is “A&P” by John Updike. This story is filled with good grammar and has a well written plot and good transition. A person reading the story “A&P” could see it as an interesting story filled with good symbolism. The main character, Sammy, uses a great deal of symbolism when describing the three girls in bathing suits who walked into the store he works in. the three girls in bathing suits that walked into the store where the center of the whole story. Whether it was the fat girl, the chubby-faced girl or the girl identified as the “queenie”, Sammy still went into great detail about the girls that came into the A&P store especially the one he named the queen. Through using the bathing suits, the main character Sammy established several points of symbolism in the story such as what the suits meant about each of the girls status and personality.

Humans are just like sharks. Humans eat meat they have live babies and sharks make mistakes just like humans. Sharks are very interesting creatures but people don’t give them a chance because people make them sound like they are terrible beasts. Many people are more likely to get killed by a car crash then by a shark. If people keep killing sharks for fins there will be no more sharks.

At another point of the story, it also shows how girls in the book are strong because on page 93, it states that,”Don’t go down there. It’s not your fight,” This shows how girls don’t

There are many things that feel wrong to us but if you have courage, you can stand up against it and maybe change it. When someone thinks that something is unjust or goes against their values, they may want to change it. The only problem is that the most people will just sit and become suppressed by the thing they think is wrong. You have to have courage and stand up against what you think is beyond your acceptance. In the novel Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen, we are shown the horrors and oppression of the slaves but along with a story about a young girl and another man who opposes the unjust laws and learns to read.

Strategy is not easily defined and furthermore the term is not exclusively related to just the business world. We can confidently say strategy is key to survival, not only in business but also in the animal kingdom. All animals under go a process of constant change in their physical appearance and in their behaviour. These changes take place over millions of years and the species that survive, do so because throughout their evolution they have perfected certain strategies that have enabled them to develop more successfully in the environment they inhabit. One such case of this successful development is the great hammerhead shark.

Beginning with the simplest one-celled organism, an extraordinary animal rose in the murky waters entitled to a non-comparable killing-eating machine. This organism has become nature’s most genuine and most successful creature that it has remained unchanged for over 250 million years. Nature finally invented the perfect king of the sea. This animal has given the sea it’s “living” adjective; in turn, it was entitled—the “great white shark.”

Sharks are one of the most feared carnivores in the sea. There are 365 species of of sharks in the sea as we know today. All sharks are carnivores. Most of them eat live fish, including other sharks. A shark's most common natural enemy is an another shark. Most sharks eat their prey whole, or they tear off large chunks of the bodies. Some sharks crush their prey. Others take out small pieces off flesh from large fish. Sharks also feed on dead or dying animals. Sharks have the reputation of attacking human beings. But less than 100 shark attacks a year are reported throughout the world. Sharks are most common in warm seas and oceans. Whale sharks, are the largest shark known to man. Sharks are classified in the order

The important idea of the power of literature is highlighted throughout the entire novel.  At the time black maids were victims of constant maltreatment from their employers, because of the beliefs of the communities in Mississippi  in 1960’s.  People of colour were never seen or treated as equal, leaving them with no escape from the harassment they endure.  An example of this is when Mrs. Holbrook accused a maid of stealing some silver cutlery.  This maid had no way of protesting or fighting against this injustice.  To release and express their feelings against the