Argumentative Essay On Firefly

Improved Essays
“Firefly is a TV series that talk about the crew of desperate men and women just want to survive and maybe have better lives, but they face constant challenges on the new frontier, such as the Reavers, flesh-eating mongrels who live on the fringes of the universe”(Firefly). In the movies, one of the character name Kaylee, she is smart, lovable, and such a generous person who seems the best in everyone. Kaylee was an exceptional mechanic who had a great passion for machines. She had no credibility diploma about mechanic, but she learns it from watching her father repairing things when she was back home.
Kaylee is a smart girl who did not go to school to learn mechanic, she simply learns by watching her father repairing things when she was

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Wind-Wolf was an Indian 5 year old in kindergarten. His teacher assumed that he was a slow learner because Wing-Wolf was not learning what was being taught in class at the same rate as his classmates. The teacher tried to use the same methods of teaching he used with the rest of the class which was not the way Wind-Wolf was taught. The teacher should have tried different methods of teaching such as, verbal, logical, spatial, kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, or naturalist intelligence to find a better way to teach Wind-Wolf. Wind-Wolf’s father mentioned that Wind-Wolf learned to count with objects.…

    • 463 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the April of 1992, Chris McCandless set out from South Dakota to Fairbanks Alaska. Five months later, McCandless's body was found rotting inside an abandoned bus. Chris McCandless had run away from his family and had hoped to survive in the wild with only the bare necessities. McCandless was a fool for what he did, he was a hard working, and vigilant man, yet he embarked without a backup plan, nor the proper supplies to survive out in the wild.…

    • 678 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Imagine you were a kid stranded on a deserted island with no adults but just other kids. In the book "Lord Of The Flies" by William Golding that's exactly what happened. Jack and some other schoolboys are stranded on a deserted island after their plane has crashed. Jack and his society were trying to be civilized and made laws with their new leader Ralph. But it's not long before jack starts to turn savage along with the rest of the boys.…

    • 921 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Similar to Rosie, Joe learned things at the plant that could not be taught through schooling. Instead of how to add and subtract matrices, Joe learned how to streamline a product production; instead of memorizing past political conflicts he was innovating the way paint is applied to cars. Rose’s message to us is that what Joe was learning was not less substantial than what other individuals learn in school, it was just…

    • 466 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Argumentative Essay The play we read in class was called A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry the author of the play wrote about a African American family living in Chicago during segregation. Throughout the play we learned about each of the characters dreams.…

    • 461 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Shrek Argumentative Essay

    • 278 Words
    • 2 Pages

    After an eternity Rashawn interrupts the silence, saying as a Vehicle Specialist, driving is our preferred form of transportation. Considering the alternatives, it’s both efficient and effective for our journey, however, he makes it exceedingly clear that until he finds someone superior to travel with his only priority is himself. Furthermore, he continues describing the implications of traveling unprepared and describes our situation as disastrous without a plan. During this interaction, the eccentric looking man wearing the blue lab coat catches Shrek’s attention causing him to ask “Hey Tech, what are you doing?” Everyone turns their attention in the direction of our unnoticed co-worker.…

    • 278 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The Firefly Hunt Analysis

    • 1032 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Experiences and people influence the way we see life. While some people perceive their world in a different way, others accept the world presented to them. There are people who dream and see the world as fantasy; everyone has different ideas and thoughts because of their experiences. Jacey Choy’s “Red Cranes” and Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s “The Firefly Hunt” are two different short stories which center around the idea of a child’s imagination. For Mie, she is a realist.…

    • 1032 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Firefly

    • 1221 Words
    • 5 Pages

    We have all had a song in our lives that we heard at an early age, and it has just stuck with us ever since. It’s the kind of song that you can never get yourself to delete off your playlist, even though it is no longer your favorite song. So, when it begins to play out of your phone speakers, you never skip it. You would never actively look for that song, but it still gave you a feeling of content every time you heard it. That is the feeling I get when I hear “Firefly” by Owl City.…

    • 1221 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Firefly Hunt Analysis

    • 736 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Jacey Choy and Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, authors of “Red Cranes” and “The Firefly Hunt,” respectively, both write about characters similar in age, personality, and culture; however, the authors take different approaches in developing and presenting their characters to the reader. While their characters share a youthful, energetic, and curious personality, Choy and Tanizaki use several different methods to develop such characters over the course of their stories. While Choy uses Mie’s interactions with supporting characters to develop Mie’s characters, Tanizaki instead focuses on Sachiko’s feelings, worries, and thoughts. In “Red Cranes,” Choy’s description of Mie’s interactions with her father and mother form the basis of her character development.…

    • 736 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Mrs. Erickson Lit Essay 12/07/2016 Life of Pi Life sometimes can be very awful and ugly, it is important to have the will to live because it is what keep you going in life. In the book “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel, a young teenager named Piscine whom the author called Pi, faced a dramatic accident in his life. While migrating to Canada with his family, his ship sank with an unexplainable cause, killing his whole family. Pi was left in a lifeboat with a hyena, orangutan and an adult Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Both the hyena and orangutan did not survive, they died.…

    • 1020 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Narrators in stories “Red Cranes” by Jacey Choy and “The Firefly Hunt” by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki share a similar theme of coming of age. The two stories characters have aspirations to become something more than they currently are in the setting of the story. Mie is portrayed through her interactions with her father and mother and through her feelings relative to the red cranes and future aspirations. Poetry is also a mentioned hobby for Mie, however, this is not the overall objective of the story. Mie’s father has respect for her and her hopes of seeing the red cranes as he promises to fulfill her wish to wake her up at the first sighting.…

    • 320 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As of the 21st century, it is no longer controversial to believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life. While in the 16th century, a belief that life existed beyond Earth and its atmosphere may have led to a public execution (like it did for astronomer, Giordano Bruno), the same belief is held by 54% of Americans today. Given the evidence gathered through advanced space exploration and technology, the scientific community, as well as the general population, is more inclined to believe in extraterrestrial life. However, something that is more debatable, is the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life.…

    • 799 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Section A: One of the primary conflicts in Blade Runner is trying to identify real humans versus “replicants” (this is a challenge both for characters in the film and the film’s viewers). Without an identifier or test to determine who is human, how do we determine what makes a human “human”? Or what makes someone inhuman” (a monster)? How do you think Viktor Frankenstein would answer these questions? When we think of replicants, in movies or in books, we make them in our image.…

    • 1380 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Ashley Kuroki Science 9/8/15 Insect Olympiad Jigsaw Group B: The Difference between Problematic Insects Moths and butterflies- Moths and butterflies don’t have that many differences. However, moths have feathery antennae while the butterflies have thin antennae. Moths are nocturnal and butterflies are active during the day. Those are the main differences. Even though butterflies have better looking wings than a moth’s, there are some moths that look exactly like a butterfly like the Madagascan sunset moth; they are active during the day.…

    • 1130 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Artificial intelligence (AI) is the science that makes the machine intelligent, e.g. when the computer makes decisions in a similar way that human does. AI is applied in software or machines From the research I did, the scientists are investigating on two type of AI, one AI is that it has its own personality, it can acts as human, has own emotion, feel what human can feel and its own thinking, so singularity. And this AI has self learning program so it is like human can learn from experience. The other type of AI is like a program that process things automatically, it has kind of human intelligence like choosing the best option in a certain situation but it can not have its own emotion self learning that the human does. I have chosen AI because…

    • 1070 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays