As a Georgia native you can imagine my shock when I found out Georgia has it’s very own loch ness monster! The monster’s name is Altamaha-ha, it was given to him by the Creek Indians that lived near the Altamaha-ha river. The monster has been spotted in Darien and Butler Island, Georgia. The Altamaha River is a beautiful place. It’s known for it’s vast marshes and 18th/19th century rice fields and canals.…
Monster by Walter Dean Myers is a book about a 16-year-old boy who is an African-American and is on trial for felony murder when a drug store holdup has gone down with James King and other Witnesses including Osvaldo Cruz and Richard “Bobo” Evans. In this book, we go on a crazy adventure on how to get Steve and others out of jail with the help of the powerful voices of Kathy O'Brien, Steve’s lawyer And Asa Brigg, James King's…
Monsters are not merely fictional creatures that hide in closets, or under beds waiting to pounce on their unsuspecting victims. One could say that human beings have the capability to become monsters. After all, it is the average individual who creates a culture of fear by perpetuating stigmas like: hate and prejudice. It seems as if fear derives solely from the environment in which the monster dwells, which in essence is everyday life. However, people do not just transform into monsters for the fun of it; their transformation is intentional, and that intention is often suppressed by a hidden agenda to manipulate other individuals, or the culture itself.…
It is odd to see an author propose a topic that contradicts his or her writing choice and beliefs , to path readers on a trail of uncertainty, doubt, and speculation. Many would find it peculiar to pose an argument on oneself; however, Jeffrey Cohen does exactly this to the readers of his essay “monster culture”. Cohen sends his readers on a crumbling path of ambiguity when he asks readers a question that puts his readers either at one end of the path or the other asking if monsters truly exist. In Cohen’s “monster culture”, monsters and culture are discussed and speculated on to bring to light the connections between them. “What I will propose here by way of a first foray, as entrance into this book of monstrous content, is a sketch of a new modus legendi: a method of reading cultures from the monsters they engender,” he starts (11).…
The only items of evidence scientists previously had were beaks, tentacles, and other parts of fallen colossal squids that were slowly digesting in the stomachs of sperm whales (one of the colossal squids predators) that had been beached and had died or previously captured and killed whales. This all changed in 2-22-2007. The scientists finally had a whole body of a female colossal squid body for evidence and…
A lot of things happened in 1977- The Atari 2600 gaming system was released, Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as the 39th U.S president, and NASA launched Voyager 1. But something else happened, a huge breakthrough for the marine science world. An expedition to the Galápagos Rift revealed hydrothermal vents, and along with it new and unknown creatures that somehow has survived in very harsh conditions. Hydrothermal vents are most commonly found along mid-oceanic ridges, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the Galápagos Rift.…
The Monster becoming a killer was evident after Victor refused to take care of him and teach him the societal norms of time. When the monster was again rejected by another family this event just helped to lead the monster to a life of crime. As Reuter’s and Bogardus would explain the event of these families abandoning the Monster all lead to the psychological problems and these acts of defiance the Monster acts out. In McCord, Widom and Crowell’s opinion the lack of family at all and the events that lead up to the family leaving the child will be what causes the child to become a delinquent and eventually a criminal. Bogardus and Doggett along with Wright and Wright all explain in their works that the majority of criminals in todays society…
Past experiences made it so easy for early European settlers to believe in the existence of monsters in the New World because they were had seen or heard of all these tales or depictions of monsters so they were afraid of what they would find. They found that natives mannerisms to be quite peculiar, they also had different skin tones and we’re uncivilized which overwhelmed some of them into grouping them in league with the evils that were always talked about in religion at the time. Some of the settlers became quite gullible too for they still knew nothing of this new world so when they got a chance they "...hungrily devoured the story of a local Native American Chicora..." they took it to be which led to number of complications with the Church.…
Walter Dean Myers' graphic novel Monster is about a sixteen-year-old African American boy named Steve Harmon, This graphic novel is written in a first person perspective from Steve's view. He shows himself through his journal entries and a screenplay. In this book, the protagonist’s are Kathy O’Brien, Mr. Sawicki, and Steve Harmon. The antagonists are the justice system, Richard Evans or more commonly known “bobo”, James King, the Assistant District Attorney (Sandra Petrocelli) and Steve King's lawyer Asa Briggs. The story takes place in Manhattan, Harlem, the courtroom in a city lockup, and sometimes in the neighborhood where Steve Harmon lives.…
Summary: Monster Theory In the first few lines of this article Jeffery Jerome Cohen, declares that he is creating a new “modus legendi”. That is, he is creating a new method of studying cultures from the monsters they engender (Cohen 3). He is ready to go against how cultural studies have been done in the past and form a new way of thinking and studying culture. Cohen goes one to make a few more comments on culture and history.…
The article, Monsters and the Moral Imagination, is informing the audience that monsters show a boarder aspect of the society. The article gives different point of views on monsters and gives a direct explanation on how the acts portray by monsters reminds us about reality. However, the use of monsters can improve our imagination by teaching us about survival and preparing us for disasters and global issues. Monsters can be good or bad as shown in different fictional stories. For example, these stories of Frankenstein and World War Z, display multiple warnings about our standard of living and high expectations in this current era of globalization.…
In the novel, Monster by Walter Dean Myers three themes are explored: race, justice, and A.V.R (appearance versus reality). One of the major themes and the one This paragraph talks about is A.V.P. There are multiple examples of this, but one I found really good was on page 1 “When I look into the small rectangle…….” The small rectangle being a mirror “I see a face looking back at me but…… It doesn’t look like me”. This is an appearance versus reality because to Steve, the main character of the book, the appearance is he doesn’t think the face he sees in the mirror is him but the reality is it is him.…
In his writing, “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)”, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen argues that we no longer live in an age that uses Unified Theory, an age when we realized that history is composed of a multitude of fragments. In this writing, he has bound some fragments together to form a “monstrous body” and pushes his readers to reevaluate their cultural assumptions relating to those specific fragments. In his first thesis, “The Monster’s Body is a Cultural Body” Cohen explains that each monster has a certain culture and follows certain rules. The monsters are typically born within a certain cultural moment.…
Why do we as a people fear monsters and similar entities? Throughout history people have created stories centered around monsters who would terrorize communities. These stories would be used to rationalize findings they couldn’t understand. These monsters were used to rationalize dieses, deaths and many other occurrences. These monsters still persist in stories today because over time they would evolve past what they stood for and would become symbols of our primal fears.…
On May 2, 1933, Mrs. Aldie Mackay saw something in the still calm waters of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. This was the first modern sighting of an aquatic beast, said to be a plesiosaur, inhabiting the waters of the Loch Ness lake. Known as “Nessie,” the Loch Ness Monster has brought about a lot of dubiousness around the world. Although there had been plenty of reported sightings from people all around the world who have visited Loch Ness to determine whether Nessie is real or not, there is also a lot of scientific evidence that debunks the myth. The Loch Ness monster is a made believe, legendary creature that has been fooling people for over thirteen centuries.…