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Use the steps of the scientific method to organize the outline. Answer: First of I would think about my data results and then go from there. I would start drawing conclusions on why I think the experiment turned out that way. A hypothesis is a lot to take in. My hypothesis would be that the number of Right-Handed people were most likely to be Right handed dominant. And that Left-handed people were left-handed dominant. Read a scientific research paper in a scientific journal. Identify the…

be very rewarding. The stories, The Devil’s Thumb by Jon Krakauer and Touch the Top of the World by Erik Weihenmayer, both detail the authors’ exploits to climb the treacherous mountains, The Devil’s Thumb and Mount Everest, respectively. There are many similarities between the experiences of each climber as they went through their ascents. These similarities also are reflected in the writing of these two stories. The resemblance between The Devil’s Thumb and Touch the Top of the World is…

Everyone must need to accomplish a dream in order to feel like they have had a complete life. In the two memoirs, “The Devils Thumb” and “Everest”, the characters Jon Krakauer and Erik Weihenmayer, climb a mountain to accomplish their dream. Jon Krakauer deliberately tries to alter his life because he rancors it, yet Erik Weihenmayer was just circling a dream. The two characters assiduously try to climb a mountain and succeed. Both authors use unique perspectives, central ideas, tones, words,…

“Nothing kills romance faster than pulling out a smartphone…”- my friend as she was rambling to me, from her recent date experience. Technology is, indeed, slowly killing romance just like Natalie Moore explained in her article “Rule of Thumb: Love in the Age of Texting.” And on my defense, technology does have the power to weaken and hurt relationships. Technology fails to deliver humane aspects, dull real-life interactions, and moreover, pushes infidelity in the digital age. Conversations…

Thumb on the Scales of Work-Life Balance Several decades ago, when I was half my age and my Dad was still alive, he made a statement—actually a prediction—about the work and the time we spend at work. While not academically educated, he was a perceptive and optimistic man and he believed he was seeing a positive change in progress. We were discussing my job, its good and bad points, when we got around to the work hours; in my case that meant the standard forty-hour, Monday through Friday…

Gaining a Green Thumb Living in the country and passing several farms on the way to and from my home made me contemplate how rewarding it could be to have that much land and provide for my family with food straight from the earth. Gardening, for me, is a meditative escape and empowering project. Vegetable gardening can be an easy task for some. The phrase, “he or she has a green thumb” comes to mind, although most people just have a plain flesh colored thumb. I have been gardening for five…

18 October How did it feel to lose the use of your thumbs, even for a short period of time? What tasks were most difficult? What techniques or adaptations did you use to get around this? What conclusions can you draw about the importance of opposable thumbs in human development? This is a great excitement because I have the chance to know how I would feel when missing my thumbs or what I can do and cannot do without it. Firstly, even for just a short period of time, you will feel uncomfortable,…

under your thumb. I need to be clear on this point however in that you use your right hand to feel your left hand if you are a right-handed and use your left hand to feel your right hand if you are left…

mountain, “The Devils Thumb” and Touch the Top of the World handle the subject matter in different ways. While both stories focus on the climb itself, they also address the underlying themes and lessons these climbs bring with them. As such, the two narratives take on extremely different viewpoints; one focuses on innocence and the limits of dreams, while the other focuses its attention on the author’s struggle and the eventual surpassing of their preconceived limits. “The Devils Thumb” focuses…

memberial scene, when the Capulets and Montagues talk trash to each other about biting their thumbs at each other, had been unique in their own way. With the first version from 1936 is humorous, the second version from 1976 being sarcastic, the third version from 1968 being more realistic, and finally the last version from 1996 being modern to the original scene of the two groups talking about biting thumbs. All of them though, had still given the idea of what the scene was addressing through…