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(took a) tumble=fall 1. Our story deals with time travel. If you could go back in time, which event(s) in history would you try to change?
2. If you could, which event(s) in your past life would you like to change?
3. In a famous story by sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury, "A Sound of Thunder," people go back in time to kill a dinosaur. Participants are warned not to make contact with anything, because (as in the Butterly Effect) it would alter the future. A character stumbles and crushes a butterfly, and on his return finds the world has changed. Based on the Butterfly Effect, consider the two following questions:
a. Which action or event in your past life do you think may have altered your life for better or for worse?
b. Which event in history that happened or might have happened do you think would have changed the course of history?
Do not choose obvious events, such as Hitler not being born! Besides, your choice is not as important as your argument why.
For example, we know that Beethoven wrote his most revolutionary music after the onset of his illness that resulted in total deafness. What if Beethoven had never gone deaf? With a social life otherwise prevented by his deafness, perhaps his music would have been less revolutionary, thereby changing the future of Western music.
To argue your point, consider the facts of the case and the alternatives.
4. If given the chance of time travel, which era would you choose? Why?
2. If you could, which event(s) in your past life would you like to change?
3. In a famous story by sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury, "A Sound of Thunder," people go back in time to kill a dinosaur. Participants are warned not to make contact with anything, because (as in the Butterly Effect) it would alter the future. A character stumbles and crushes a butterfly, and on his return finds the world has changed. Based on the Butterfly Effect, consider the two following questions:
a. Which action or event in your past life do you think may have altered your life for better or for worse?
b. Which event in history that happened or might have happened do you think would have changed the course of history?
Do not choose obvious events, such as Hitler not being born! Besides, your choice is not as important as your argument why.
For example, we know that Beethoven wrote his most revolutionary music after the onset of his illness that resulted in total deafness. What if Beethoven had never gone deaf? With a social life otherwise prevented by his deafness, perhaps his music would have been less revolutionary, thereby changing the future of Western music.
To argue your point, consider the facts of the case and the alternatives.
4. If given the chance of time travel, which era would you choose? Why?
VOCABULARY
Crash=the sudden fall in economic value called the Depression
abyss=pit, hole
anachronism=out of time
theoretical (argument)="if" argument
H. G. Wells=sci-fi writer
Abraham Lincoln=US president
John Wilkes Booth=Southern US actor
blame (subject)=damn (polite expression)
metaphysical=complex theory
boarder=renter of room
veteran=former soldier
clairvoyant=able to see the future
cordon (of men)=roped alignment
incarcerated=jailed
remanded (in custody)=handed over to
demented (fool)=mad
benefactor=helper
dabble (in something)=do
psychiatrist=mind doctor
assassinated=kill for political reasons
insane=crazy, mad (a legal term)
(feel) faint=unsteady, dizzy
(comfortable) accomodation=living place
drug (somebody)=medicate, poison
amass (a fortune)=make
palavar=nonsense
swindler=cheater
wheel and deal=make business deals
chum=friend
peaked=weary
snob=person who feels superior
skein (of events)=thread, ball
new tact=new way
beribboned=with ribbons
tried and true (method) (ways)=established
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