Virals

This is an amazing story about a group of friends who stumble onto the decades old murder of Katherine Heaton. Katherine was a young student who was attempting to create a project that was based on endangered species. She discovers a colony of eagles living on Cole Island, but her discovery is not welcomed by all. The owners of Cole Island discovered her presence there and before she is able to tell anyone her great discovery, she is killed and her body buried on Loggerhead Island which is a research facility. As Tory Brennan figure out the mystery, she takes herself and her friends deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole.
It all begins when Tory and her friends Ben, Shelton and Hiram go to Loggerhead Island to see if they can find a pack of wolf-dogs. These animals have made the island their home. They had seen them before, and Tory had even saved the youngest pup from a shaft he had fell into, and named him Coop. The young pup had disappeared. Tory wants to find the pack, and Coop. Caught on the island by the head researcher, Dr. Karsten, they are warned away from the restricted areas after he makes it clear that he would rather they found somewhere else to amuse themselves. Knowing they have permission to be there takes some of the venom from Karsten's warning. They carry on, following a new trail that leads them right into a restricted region. Tory sits under a tree and suffers an attack from a particularly agitated primate. The tattoo on her chest indicates she is a research subject, and she is showing unusually crazy behavior. She throws something shiny at Tory, and Shelton recognizes it as a dog tag immediately. Tory decides to try to trace the owner, which is where everything begins. After trying to clean the tag at home without success, she talks the boys into breaking into Karsten's lab to use the sonicator to clean it. Shelton picks the locks successfully and they manage to get into the lab. The tag is cleaned and they are almost ready to leave when Ben returns and asks them to come upstairs with him. He leads them to a newly installed security door behind which they can clearly hear a dog barking. The keyless entry is one that Shelton can't pick, but by entering the default code, they are able to get in. To their surprise, they find the young wolf-dog pup who has been missing for over a week. He is in a plexiglass cage, hooked up to intravenous lines and wearing a collar to prevent him from removing them. Tory looks over the clipboard attached to the cage and sees that Coop has Parvovirus and is scheduled to be destroyed immediately. Tory won't let that happen. She makes a quick decision to save the young cub. They free him, taking along bags of  fluids and several vials of antibiotic, and then take him to an abandoned place that they use as a clubhouse. In the clubhouse, they aid the pup slowly back to health, but in the process become ill themselves. Parvovirus is species specific. This strain had been created by Dr. Karsten, and blended a human strain with a wolf strain. The results were a new and highly contagious virus that infects all four of them, mixing their DNA with that of the wolf pack and making them all relatives at the most basic level. Tory tracks the dog tag to Katherine Heaton, who had gone missing and never been found. They find her body; uncover the murderer; learn about the endangered eagle population; and tie the murder to one of the more citizens in their small town.They have new found abilities that are more wolf-like than human, and learn that they will never be the same. It is a secret they agree to keep between them.

5.02 Questions to Answer "The Lady or the Tiger"

1. How did the princess find out which door held the lady and which door held the tiger?

     The princess found out the two different doors by using her powers. In the story, it says: "She had possessed of the secret of the doors." She wanted to know which door was the held the fate of her lover.

2. How did the king feel about the young man who loved his daughter? 

    The King was not satisfied when he found out about the man who loved his daughter. In the story, it says: " He did not hesitate nor waver in regard to his duty in the premises. The youth was immediately cast in prison, and a day was appointed for his trial in the King's arena." Because the King was so overprotective he made up his mind to punish him.

3. What does the word "deliberation" mean in the following sentence?

"Her decision had been indicated in an instant, but it had been made after days and nights of anguished deliberation." 

In this sentence, the word "deliberation" mean long and careful consideration or discussion. Or slow and careful movement or thought. This also mean that the princess have been thinking long and hard about her lover's fate.

4. Which came out of the opened door: the lady, or the tiger?

     The tiger came out the door. In the story, the princess was described as "barbaric". The word "barbaric" means savagely cruel, exceedingly brutal. This mean that instead of being pushed around and being taken for granted, she will come out on the first hand to attack.  

4.05 Bias Analysis

Issue: Domestic Violence Ray Rice

First View: Ray Rice hitting his wife.

Authors: Ed Payne and Steve Almasy, CNN reporters

Facts and Opinions: A bombshell video shows Ray Rice knocking out his now-wife on a casino elevator. Another shows him dragging her off. Rice, who was released Monday by the Baltimore Ravens, and his then-fiancee, Janay Palmer, got into an altercation on an elevator in the casino in Atlantic City on February 15. Rice knocked her out with a punch to the head then dragged her -- face down -- out of the elevator. "One thing I can say is that sometimes in life, you will fail," Rice said. "But I won’t call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down; it’s not getting up."


Second View: Ray Rice isn't alone.

Author: Maggie Fox

Facts and Opinions: Close to one in five men admits he has hit, slapped, kicked or otherwise attacked a wife or girlfriend, researchers say. It’s a rare look at domestic violence not from the point of view of the victim, but from the aggressor’s side. “If men could enter responses in a private way, the percentage could have been even higher,”

Reader's View and Why: Hitting your wife or any woman is wrong. Men are built stronger than women so they will always have an advantage when it comes to fighting. You shouldn't become so angry to the point where you have to place your hands on your wife in a violent manner. That is unbelievable.

Thirteen Reasons Why

Thirteen Reasons Why is an amazing story. This story is about a quiet, shy, high school student, Clay Jensen. One day, coming home from school, he discover a package on his doorstep. Inside this package was a shoe box filled with cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker. Hannah Baker was Clay's classmate who recently committed suicide from overdose. The tapes were mailed to one classmate who was instructed to pass them to another, sort of like a chain reaction. Starting from one involved in the first story to the last. Hannah explains to 12 people why they each had a part of her death, providing her with 13 reasons to kill herself in the cassette tapes. Hannah reveals her pain and suffering leading to a great pinnacle of depression, resulting in her death. On her list, it included a peeping Tom, her first kiss, the guidance counselor, a hater, two ex-friends, a guy she had sex with, a cheerleader who crashes into a stop sign, and last but not least, Clay himself. The snowball effect became to get bigger and bigger as the time went on, and the lies started to build up. Everyone who she mention thought their actions didn't mean anything to Hannah, but it did. It meant a lot to her. Clay discovers that he wasn't the reason why Hannah killed herself. So he passed them on to someone else. Tony, Clay's close friend, had the second set of tapes. He was instructed to leak them out them out to the whole student body, if the students didn't pass them on.

4.03 Tone Analysis

Good Review:

"The Bet" is an amazing story to read. Both the lawyer and the banker have their own unique personalities. This story about these two best friends would make you grateful to have your freedom. It also encourages you to learn new things and to keep in your mind that no matter how bad the situation might seems, there is always a little hope.


Bad Review:

"The Bet" is a unusual story to read. The story focuses on two characters who are stuck to and refers to their religious beliefs on how to use punishments. The lawyer waste 15 years of his life in prison for money. And the banker lose all of his life savings trying to prove a point. This passage will make you think about life in a crazy way. This story also express a lot of dreadful, emotional pain.

The House of Scorpions

The House of the Scorpion  is an interesting story about a young boy who finds out he is a clone and must struggle to learn what this means. Matteo Alacran, a clone harvested from the DNA of El Patron, the Master of Opium, is treated poorly by the Alacran family and servants, despite his education and his attempts to fit in. After escaping death by fleeing to the neighboring nation of Atzlan, Matt faces isolation for reasons he never would have thought of. Matt lives in a house in the middle of the poppy fields the woman who take cares of him, Celia. When children come to the window and try to play and interact with Matt, he cuts himself trying to jump out the window he broke to play with them. The children carry him to the Big House on the Alacran Estate to see the doctor, but when Mr. Alacran recognizes Matt as El Patron's clone, he puts Rosa in charge of Matt. Rosa imprisons Matt in a room filled with sawdust, treating him like an animal, but when Celia finds out what is going on, she contacts El Patron who rescues Matt and forbids anyone to treat Matt poorly. Matt is educated and raised in the Big House, but the Alacrans and their servants ignore him as much as possible. Maria Mendoza is Matt's only friend near his age. Tam Lin, his bodyguard, teaches him a bit about life outside of the poppy fields. El Patron loves Matt because Matt is a clone of El Patron. He is cloned Matt for a reason. El Patron is like over 100 years old. His organs stop working after a while. Since Matt is a healthy young boy, El Patron will use his organs to survive. Matt finally realized what was going on and the reason he was brought into this world. He decided to escape from the Big House. Tam Lin helped both Maria and Matt escape the Alacran Estate. They traveled to Mexico where Maria's family lived. They took good care of Matt while he was there. Treated him like family. After a few years, El Patron died from a bad illness. Matt came back to the Alacran Estate. And is now the Master of the Opium. He prepares to take full responsibility and get rid of all the violence, drugs, and all the illegal slavery El Patron had comitted. 

3.05 Carner Hall

The Bet: Carner Hall


Cause: The banker made a bet with a lawyer about life in prsion. The banker said that the lawyer could not spend 5 years in prison. they made a bet if the lawyer could stay in prison for 15 years the lawyer would give him 2 million dollars.

Topic:
Lawyer makes bet with banker about life in prison.


Effects: The lawyer served in prison for 15 years and won 2 million dollars from the banker. The banker lost a lot of money while the lawyer was in prison.

Topic One: The Lawyer
Differences:
Won the bet. 
Very brave.
He is willing to do whatever it takes to prove his point across.

Similarities:
Both made a bet.
Both the lawyer and the banker wanted to make a point.
Both were males.

Topic Two: Banker
Differences:
Lost the bet.
Was doubting himself.
Paid 2 million dollars.