Flight of the Butterflies
Crystal Hairston
Jacqueline Whitfield
English 112
Artistic Critique
Flight of the Butterflies My experience of my cultural event was awesome. I remember going to this type of place in elementary school, and I was so excited to relive that experience. Now as a mother, I want my son to have the same privilege as I had. I am definitely going to take him the Digital Dome and the Danville Science Center very soon. Although science is not one of my favorite or stronger subjects, I thoroughly enjoyed the Digital Dome Theatre, recently built as an addition to the Danville Science Center. Upon entering the Dome, I was amazed and wowed at the forty-foot screen. The tour guide suggested that my accompanist and I sit right in the middle of the theatre. The seats were so comfortable-much more comfortable than Danville Cinema 12 theatre seats. No, the Dome’s seats were slightly reclined. You could lay you head back and relax while watching the film. I almost couldn’t jot down my notes while watching “Flight of the Butterflies” on Saturday, April 26 at 3pm. This film describes the life cycle and migration of the monarch butterfly studied by a scientist names Freddy and his wife Nora. As a young child, he wanted to know where the monarch butterfly went when the season changed in the north. As years went on, he came up with the idea of putting tags on them to track their travels. The word grew about the tagging, and soon people from all over America were placing tags on monarchs. People wrote letters to the scientist and his wife, but still there was no progress. Freddy, in his old age, began to give up hope on their experiment, until Freddy received a call from Ken and his wife Catalina, two scientists in Mexico hired by Freddy to study monarchs. Ken informed Freddy that they’d found the butterflies high in the mountains gathered in clusters trying to keep warm. There were millions of them. Against his doctor’s orders, Freddy and his wife traveled from Canada to
Jacqueline Whitfield
English 112
Artistic Critique
Flight of the Butterflies My experience of my cultural event was awesome. I remember going to this type of place in elementary school, and I was so excited to relive that experience. Now as a mother, I want my son to have the same privilege as I had. I am definitely going to take him the Digital Dome and the Danville Science Center very soon. Although science is not one of my favorite or stronger subjects, I thoroughly enjoyed the Digital Dome Theatre, recently built as an addition to the Danville Science Center. Upon entering the Dome, I was amazed and wowed at the forty-foot screen. The tour guide suggested that my accompanist and I sit right in the middle of the theatre. The seats were so comfortable-much more comfortable than Danville Cinema 12 theatre seats. No, the Dome’s seats were slightly reclined. You could lay you head back and relax while watching the film. I almost couldn’t jot down my notes while watching “Flight of the Butterflies” on Saturday, April 26 at 3pm. This film describes the life cycle and migration of the monarch butterfly studied by a scientist names Freddy and his wife Nora. As a young child, he wanted to know where the monarch butterfly went when the season changed in the north. As years went on, he came up with the idea of putting tags on them to track their travels. The word grew about the tagging, and soon people from all over America were placing tags on monarchs. People wrote letters to the scientist and his wife, but still there was no progress. Freddy, in his old age, began to give up hope on their experiment, until Freddy received a call from Ken and his wife Catalina, two scientists in Mexico hired by Freddy to study monarchs. Ken informed Freddy that they’d found the butterflies high in the mountains gathered in clusters trying to keep warm. There were millions of them. Against his doctor’s orders, Freddy and his wife traveled from Canada to