Freaking Dinosaurs!!!

While reading in my Read, Reason, and Write book, written by Dorothy U. Seyler, for my english class, I came upon a section of the book that talked about claims and grounds on those claims. I thought to myself, "Oh no, another boring story on politics or global warming. The title of this particular article is called The Varieties of Tyrannosaurs by Mark A. Norell and Xu Xing. After reading this title I cried a little inside out of happiness and delight. When growing up I always watched dinosaur movies like Jurassic Park (classic) or Godzilla. In the way back of my mind I was a tad concerned on how this boring english text book could possibly tie in dinosaurs with claim and grounds.
The T-rex was the chosen reptile that the authors decided to base their meat of the article on. They based their research off the CLAIM that the Tyrannosaurs were a "gregarious" or these huge animals could reach sprint like speeds. First off, the authors of course have to be the debby downers and prove them wrong by involving physics. I bet if six tons of dinosaur was running after  your butt you would think he was speedy.  I personally believe myself that a fully grown T-rex can get up to speeds of about 35 miles an hour if he was really hungry.
Another claim about the Tyrannosaurs is that they were considered "scavengers" because of their short front limbs. They may have really short arms but i think they compensate for its huge mouth. In the new King Kong movie, directed by Peter Jackson, there is a scene where the mighty ape is attacked by what seems like four ravenous T-Rexs. Kong manages to keep them at bay while still having Noami Watts in his clutches perfectly unharmed. First off, monkeys dont get that big and second, i bet if that fight happened again ONE T-Rex could destroy that primate.
Even though T-Rexs may be considered "slow" scientifically. I think no one can even know the truth unless they are witnessing these reptiles first hand.

Finding Your Special Place

       In the New York Times article, "Words of War" Dr. Azar Nafisi uses books as her weapon against violence. Nafisi was a professor teaching at the University of Tehran during the Iraq-Iran war. She seems so real when explaining her experiences during bomb explosions and gunfire going off like a chaotic choir with no instructor. Inside herself, Nafisi feels as scared as everyone one else but knows deep down that she has an instrument that can put the light back in her students eyes. Hope was her main objection, taking bits and pieces of history and taping them together like a science fair project to give a correlation of their own situation."Memoirs from concentration camps and the gulag attest to this: 'Even more than bread we now need poetry, in a time when it seems it is not needed at all.'" During her time as a professor when bomb sirens and warnings would go off during school children would come to her classroom concerned about a certain story's ending. I feel that this was a very dramatic point of where children would ignore danger for the taste of something new. I'm pretty sure these kids weren't given many opportunities to explore literature before the arrival of Dr. Nafisi. Now that what i just said seemed bad but during that time period assuming that the government wasn't focused on education.
       Opening a book creates escape for Nafisi and her students. I believe this could be true. There are so many books out there that have such rich meanings that can take you to a better place like the beautiful plantations of the south in Gone With the Wind...(before the Civil War of course). When I try to find escape I do not run to the nearest book. I draw. I sketch. I distract my mind away from whats going on around me. Much like a book would do. Listening to a certain genere of music while sketching or drawing can put a certain twist in your work. Similar to how a plant reacts to negative energy. If positive energy, like a book, is given to read to a large amount of people who are in a rough place good things with flourish. So this article about this university in Tehran gives perfect examples to the uses of literature being used as a tool to mend the broken.

kmd