Bite

On the 8th of October, I was given an assignment to find the book Why Things Bite Back by Edward Tenner. When I find the book I have to answer the question of how many pages are in chapter 12. I originally wanted to do this task right away, but little did I know that my mind had other ideas. When class ended, I went to my introduction to college class and thinking about how I would handle it. So I devoted my entire focus to that problem for the entire class period. I knew that the best decision…

General Topic: To inform Specific Purpose: How to Make Chocolate Cranberry Energy Bites General Purpose: I want to inform my audience about how cooking can be fun. Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech, the audience will know how to make energy bites. Organizational Pattern: Chronological Central Idea: To make energy bites all you have to do is collect the ingredients, mix them together, and make them bite sized. Introduction Many people in this generation either do not know how to cook or…

Don’t Bite the Hands that Feed You J.D. Vance is being critiqued in this article for not putting enough emphasis on the role the government plays in the formation of “hillbilly societies”, but Vance is right in the fact that people need to have motivation to do something with their lives. Vance says people need to “pull up their bootstraps”, and that’s what needs to happen to put these areas back on track. In the article Sarah Jones says that the government needs to step up and help these areas…

In the campaign “Taking the Bite out of the Binge” Netflix uses the lack of a preexisting definition of binge watching to create a campaign that shows a favorable light on the term. After using two studies from two organizations as secondary research, Netflix conducts it’s own primary research to better understand how Internet streamers watch TV in the U.S and Canada. The reactive campaign is a research campaign designed to generate publicity as a strategy. The strategy was to address why…

Rehabilitation is painful. Individuals are consumed with frustration, withdrawal, and anguish. In the memoirs, Bite of the Mango and A Long Way Gone, both narrators, Ishmael and Mariatu, experience this agonizing escape from addiction and trauma. Fortunately, they are blessed with the kindness of social workers and nurses that provide them with opportunities to live a life of purpose. Those who assisted both victims inform them of their circumstances and the condition of their country; these…

Dogs Don’t Bite When a Growl Will Do: What Your Dog Can Teach You About Living a Happy Life examines the relationship between a person and their dog. Broken into sixty-seven lessons, the book allows us to reflect and learn from man’s best friend. Each thought provoking chapter are fairly short, concise, and tells its own story. This leads to the reader not having to read the book from cover to cover, rather each chapter independently perhaps one each day almost like a devotional. The personal…

“ Don’t bite my mom,” I would tell my dad (step-dad). I was only two or three years old and I was already trying to protect those I love the most. My mom and dad meet through one of my dad’s cousin that use to take care of me. My mom always tells me how I always tried to be a big girl and act tough no matter who I was up against. She always tells me how she remembers that I always want to help those around me. Her first memory of me trying to help someone was when we were at the park one day and…

Victims of War Children are the biggest victims of war, whether they are forced to become soldiers or whether they are wounded and maimed. Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone, and Mariatu Kamara, author of The Bite of the Mango, both faced unspeakable horrors and loss and were equally victimized during the war. The two authors were subject to immense trauma; at an incredibly young age they went from enjoying their childhoods to witnessing death and being faced with extreme brutality and…

celebrating. We were all sitting around chatting and their dog, a Staffordshire bull terrier, was curled up right next to Alexis. She was a great dog, loving and fabulous with children. Then suddenly without any warning. The dog was on top of Alexis and bites the side of her face and then went to her mouth. She tore some flesh from her face when we finally pulled her off. There was a lot of blood everywhere. We took her to the hospital as fast as we can. The next day they put fifty stitches in…

than a nuisance to humans, but also to animals. Mosquitoes bite humans infected, and then bite another person who isn't infected with a disease and than both of them have a disease, or when animals have a disease and the mosquito bites them and then comes and bites the human than the human has that same disease and could die. “A mosquito bites someone infected with malaria. A few days later, when the mosquito is read for its next meal, it bites someone else. And the mosquito jabs the new…