In the “Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling‚ the story helps advance the plot because it really talks about how humans panic and what they do when nothing is going their way because they wanted to figure out which character was helping the aliens. As quoted in the story Tommy says it was “...a ship landing from outer space”. Tommy knew what it was but the adults thought he was reading too many comic books‚ but as he got to telling them more about it‚ they began to get suspicious and
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Themes for: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street 1. Loyalty/Disloyalty a. It takes two people to be loyal. b. Loyalties can change for the better or worse. c. Loyalties can change based on people’s actions. d. Loyal friends don’t falsely accuse friends. 2. Suspicious a. We’re suspicious of things we don’t understand. b. Overly suspicious people tend to jump to conclusions. c. Suspicions can take over our lives and minds and ruin other people’s lives. 3. Perseverance a. Patience is an
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“He always was an oddball. Him and his whole family. Real oddballs.’’ stated Charlie. “The monsters are due on Maple Street” is a teleplay by Rod Serling has a theme of fear of the unknown. The meter causes strange things to happen and nabers start the point fingers at each other. The meteor coming down was causing strange things to happen. When those who lived on Maple Street saw the meteor coming down they didn’t hear a crash though. “ It came way too close for my money” said Mrs. Brand. Soon after
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Lyt2 - Simple Getaways OVERVIEW Due to several years of growth‚ Simple Getaways‚ Inc. (SGI) has expanded from a single California office to twelve offices distributed throughout the western United States with approximately 270 employees. Methods of communication and data storage that are currently being used were adequate for a single office but are no longer sufficient to meet the needs of Simple Getaways‚ Inc. This proposal will address the requirements for file storage and management‚ collaborative
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Contract Cancellation due to a Breach of Contract Submitted by Victoria Wyatt Prepared for Dr. Maverick Acquisition Law Spring 07 18 May 2007 CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORSHIP: I certify that I am the author. I have cited all sources from which I used data‚ ideas‚ or words‚ either quoted directly or paraphrased. I also certify that this paper was prepared by me specifically for this course. ______________________________________________ Signature Date Overview
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Acceleration Due to Gravity Conducted on October 6th‚ 2014 Objective: The object of the experiment is to determine whether or not objects fall freely at the same rate and speed. Measure and calculate the time in which it takes random objects to hit the ground from a certain height and determine if the objects have the same rate of motion or not. Materials: 1. Meter Stick 2. Stopwatch 3. Wallet 4. Quarter 5. Tape 6. Hot sauce packet from Chinese food delivery 7. Container of wipes
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Kwabena Mensah Northcentral University The two business professionals that revolutionary contributed to the advancement in the business world for the lessons of transforming any business are Michael Dell of Dell Computers and Andy Groves of the Intel Corporation. Michael Dell mainly focused on the Customer whiles Andy Groves‚ on Execution and Strategy. Michael Dell put the customer at the center of his business‚ which so many businesses might also have done‚ but what made him different was
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Name: Randall Dey Class: General Psychology Date: December 23‚ 2012 Name of Essay: Essay 1 Topic Chosen: Design an experiment to test whether alcohol consumption influences people’s tendency to become socially aggressive. Be sure to specify your experimental hypothesis and identify your dependent and independent variables‚ as well as your experimental and control groups. Identify any experimental procedures that would help to ensure the validity or your research. Hypothesis: During
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"In grave times‚ darkness grows‚ until the shadow swallows the fellow." (D. Yu). In the video‚ The Monsters are Due on Maple Street‚ directed by Debbie Allen‚ viewers find out that humans possess many characteristics‚ some good and some bad. In times of darkness‚ many do not realize it‚ when their flaws start to define them. In the video The Monsters are on Maple Street the characters’ flaws‚ aggressiveness and suspiciousness‚ start to grow when something unexpected hits them. Suspiciousness is represented
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Rod Serling’s message to the readers of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street‚” is prejudice‚ to not be too quick to judge people. The theme begins to appear in the story when Les Goodman’s car starts up by itself and everybody is in shock. Then everybody kind of starts blaming Les Goodman for the car starting up by itself after Tommy tells his crazy story about how aliens went to earth ahead of time to freak these people out then the aliens could land on earth. That’s when people start being prejudice
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