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    very first, “Welcome to Jurassic Park,” given by John Hammond, audiences have been captivated with the idea of dinosaurs. Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park series has a plethora of strong female characters, from Dr. Ellie Sattler to the infamous Tyrannosaurus Rex herself. In 2015, the blockbuster film Jurassic World, directed by Colin Trevorrow, hit theaters, adding itself to the dinosaur lineage. The plot takes place twenty-two years after the first film. The park has now reopened, and there is no room

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    talks about his bad reputation and experiences at school and him being bullied but by then you know he’s a misfit. As for in “ A Sound of Thunder,” Eckels is revealed to be a misfit to all of the other hunters when he get face to face with a Tyrannosaurus Rex and just runs of in complete fear. These simple events will help you know the characterization within the rest of the story. As you get deeper into the story, the books do a good job of making a feeling of future events. In “Nethergrave,”

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    Hopefully, you’ve never been one point off an A because you forgot a homework assignment, like me. It’s one of the worst feelings ever, and what happened to me last year. This story takes it to an extreme. Named “A Sound of thunder,” by Ray Bradbury, this title embellishes the butterfly effect by having five people go back in time on a dino-hunting safari. Everything is meticulously planned so the future wouldn’t change, but the main character steps on a butterfly and changes everything. A major

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    Dinosaurs went extinct on Earth 65 million years ago, and the only remnants of these colossal beasts are found in the Earth below. But what if somewhere on the planet was a place where dinosaurs lived, and kept surviving after the mass extinction. A Lost World. It was a cold, rainy March day when I turned on the news and heard something that was very interesting. “...and it appears that this is apart of some new species of lizard. This was found by a local scientist on the beaches of Venezuela

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    Chester Krupa-Carbone 500652158 RTA 956 - Children 's Programming Major Paper Daniel Tiger’s Neighbourhood is an American-Canadian based animated childrens tv series. The tv show builds on the existing family oriented tv series the Neighbourhood of make-believe from Mister Roger’s Neighbourhood. (Wikepedia) The show debuted on PBS stations on September 3, 2012, and is still currently airing today. This tv series follows the life of a preschooler, a 4-year-old tiger

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    2 Two Favorite Dinosaurs

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    {draw:frame} Millions of years ago, long before there were any people, there were dinosaurs. Dinosaurs were reptiles that lived on Earth from about 225 to 65 million years ago. There were many different sizes and shapes of dinosaurs. Some were meat-eaters and some were plant-eaters. Some dinosaurs were very big and some were much smaller. {draw:frame} A fossil is the remains or trace of something that was once alive, but is now long-gone and dead. We know that dinosaurs existed because

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    Pluto Change Society

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    Have you ever thought about how Pluto was a planet and the next day it wasn’t? Well, this isn’t uncommon; scientific knowledge changes again and again. Things that we think are facts could actually just be scientific theories and could have easily been changed. We should acknowledge the change and see things that have changed like the food scale and the organization of organisms. Scientist fine new evidence every day and it has a big impact on our society. To start off, we should acknowledge the

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    Hendrickson Ph.D., discovered some fossil bones on the side of a cliff. Her co-worker and one of the founders of The Black Hill Institution, Peter Larson, a paleontologist, helped uncover what was known as a Tyrannosaurus rex. It was named Sue, after Hendrickson. Sue was the only Tyrannosaurus Rex to be completed 80%, compared to the others found, being less then 40% complete (Hendrickson Ph.D. and Larson). Maurice Williams, the property owner of where the excavation took place, was offered $5,000 from

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    In the short story “A sound of Thunder” the main character Eckels decides he wants to go back to the future and shoot a Tyrannosaurus rex. Mr. Travis, his Safari Guide in the past takes him sixty million years to shoot this dinosaur, and he has explained all the rules and the penalties if he does disobey them. As the story goes on, all the events that happen helps the audience foreshadow that somehow Eckels will end up dying. They explained to Eckles that if anything happens to him, that they

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    also called the age of reptiles and is divided into three periods: The Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. The Jurassic period was dominated by dinosaurs. They ruled the land, sea and the air during this period. They were like the kings. ‘T-Rex' means Tynnosaurus rex, most ferocious of all the dinosaurs. The name means tyrant-lizard king. It was so scary and so huge. Tynnosaurus stood nearly 3 meters high at the hips and grew about 13 meters long.

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