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.