Preview

Oscar’s Life Changing Adventure

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
580 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Oscar’s Life Changing Adventure
Oscar’s Life Changing Adventure
1. Intro – Once upon a time, there was an oxygen molecule named Oscar. Oscar was getting ready to go on the biggest adventure of his life, a trip through the respiratory system to become a carbon dioxide molecule.
2. Intro Extended – In order to start his adventure, Oscar must find a body to be breathed in by. Once he found a body that breathed him in, he faces the decision of choosing either to enter through the mouth or the nose. Oscar decides to enter through the nose.
3. Nose - Before exiting the nose and continuing his adventure, Oscar finds out that he must pass through the police of the respiratory system know as the cilia and mucus. The cilia and mucus trap dust and smoke, filter air, and sweep the bad stuff from the lungs.
4. Pharynx - The next stop on Oscar’s adventure is the pharynx. Here, there is a water slide where both oxygen and food can take to move through the respiratory system. Oscar decides to jump on the slide and he is on his way.
5. Epiglottis – At the end of the water slide, Oscar gets off and realizes that he has just entered the Epiglottis Game Show. His task is to choose between door number one, the food passageway, and door number two, the windpipe. Oscar chooses door number two and wins. This means that he gets to continue on his adventure.
6. Larynx – After opening door number two, Oscar finds himself on La La Larynx American Idol, the well-known singing competition that takes place in the larynx. Oscar sings a song about his adventure so far and the judges decide that he is good enough to move on.
7. Trachea – Oscar’s next stop is the trachea, a very windy place where he can relax and fly his kite. Oscar named his kite windpipe; naming it after the place he first flew it.
8. Bronchi – Oscar comes across two tunnels, one on his right and one on his left. Both tunnels, known as bronchi, look exactly the same. So in order to decide which way to go, Oscar does eeny-meeny-miny-moe. This leads him

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Cari s story

    • 705 Words
    • 2 Pages

    C. Which structures found in the terminal bronchioles and alveoli normally would protect cari’s lungs from infectious pathogens and particulate matter? Normally goblet cells secrete mucous to trap particles while cilia works by moving mucous towards the pharynx for removal. Cigarette smoke damages and destroys cilia, and causes goblet cells to produce increased amounts of mucous. The damaged cilia combined with increased mucous obstructs airflow in and out of the lungs.…

    • 705 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Cari's Story

    • 940 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Which structures found in the bronchioles and alveoli normally would protect Cari’s lungs from infectious pathogens and particulate matter?…

    • 940 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Panda awkwardly moves around/over Beard Guy to get to his seat. Panda finally plops himself into the seat. He attempts to nap but then the baby next to him starts crying. Panda tries to shush the baby. Finally it stops but then the guy on the other side of him starts snoring really loud. The passenger in front of Panda keeps pushing the seat back, invading Panda’s space. Panda is miserable.…

    • 657 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    1. I think that going under the water ultimately killed the Underhills. If they had not been in water and loss conscience and or had heart attack etc. they may have regained conscience instead they were in water and therefore drowned.…

    • 602 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    In the first fifty pages of the story, Junot Diaz vividly described the progression of Oscar. We are able to experience Oscar's growth from childhood to his adolescent years. As a young boy, Oscar was the "typical Dominican" boy. He enjoyed chasing after girls and trying to kiss them. His mother took pride in this. As, he begins to develop into his adolescent stage, there is a drastic change. His hobbies and interest are not the same as the other children. Oscar is a "nerd" and enjoys reading, writing, and sci fi movies. This is not the common interests of those his age in the community that he lives. In addition, the one adorable child as grown into an acne faced, over weight adolescent. Oscar finds it hard to make friends and he is unable…

    • 237 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Nose and mouth (air enters) nasal cavity Larynx (both air and food move through) trachea Bronchi (large tubes leading to both lungs) lungs.…

    • 1516 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Cool Joe: A Short Story

    • 819 Words
    • 4 Pages

    He failed miserably and ended up calling himself, because he rolled a one. Then, as he was screaming in anger because of his horrid rolling skills, he trips on a rock and starts falling off the cliff. He is falling,…

    • 819 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Everybody has someone they look up to and it’s important to surround yourself with people that affect you in a positive way. For some it’s an athlete and others may look up to someone who serves as an advocate for human rights. For Oscar, he looks up to the one man who has served as a mentor all of his life- his father, Oscar Sr. There are many reasons as to why Oscar looks up to his father. His personality, the positive influence he’s had on his life and the valuable lessons his father has taught him are a few of the reasons he looks up to his father.…

    • 502 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Life of Oscar Wao analysis

    • 1606 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Why does society as a whole stand for everything it fights? In a world that criminalizes bullying and preaches about equality, do social crimes slip through the cracks unnoticed. It is true that things we are afraid of draw our attention, and we are dedicated to crushing our fears aren’t we? Did a kindergartener know what a terrorist was before September Eleventh? No, and he likely wouldn’t have been able to locate the Middle East anymore than his house on a map. The collapse of the Soviet Union ended the thought of an immediate end of the world by nuclear war. A war we thought we have swept under the rug is the war on social injustice. America is the land of the free, because of the great lengths we go to protect ourselves, but as a result we have ostracized our own people and abandoned our founding principals.…

    • 1606 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    Cardiovascular Lab a&P

    • 2150 Words
    • 9 Pages

    to the cells and get the carbon dioxide out of the cells. (Vass, 2007 pg. 64)…

    • 2150 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Yunior, specifically, realizes this attitude in Oscar, especially since he is the narrator and unsympathetically writes, “for four days Oscar resisted any attempt to pack him up in a plane, which says a lot about this fat kid’s fortitude,” (Diaz 303). Throughout the course of the novel, Yunior does not speak endearingly of Oscar, showing his lack of affection and immorality to him. The only reason Yunior tolerates Wao’s nerdiness is because of his love for Lola. Instead of letting Oscar live happily, Yunior flies down to the Dominican Republic with Lola to bring Oscar back to the states, telling him that he will get himself killed if he stays. Yunior writes, “Did I fly down? Of course I did. With Lola. Nothing brings a couple together quite like catastrophe” to which Oscar alludes to Shakespeare by saying, “Et tu, Yunior?” illustrating the ironic and hypocritical nature of Oscar’s life (Diaz 319). Wao refuses to leave Santo Domingo for the States because he loves Ybon too passionately to ever leave her again. If Yunior ever took the time to realize “that it was only because of [Ybon’s] love that [Oscar] had been able to do the thing that he had done” which was to still stand by Ybon after his life had been threatened,…

    • 1219 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Oscar Ornati Summary

    • 242 Words
    • 1 Page

    T.W. Sanchez (2008) explains that Oscar Ornati was one of the first to publish research on transportation and poor, which was released in New York City in the late 1960’s. Ornati discussed the challenges that those in poverty have when dealing with the public transportation system, including the difficulty those have when seeking employment.. While his research was well, his location was not. There is and has always been a very large difference between the public transportation in New York City and other U.S. cities, New York has always been ahead of it’s time. This meaning that Ornatis research was unable to represent all of the U.S. and their cities transportation programs.…

    • 242 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    The respiratory system is continually challenged by a large amount of foreign material, including viruses, bacteria and fungi inhaled in air from track and arena surfaces during exercise, or from dusty bedding, feed and stable environments.…

    • 661 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Respiratory System

    • 1253 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Pharynx (throat) about 12.5 cm (5 inches) long Divided into nasopharynx, oropharynx, and laryngopharynx Two nasal cavities, mouth, esophagus, larynx, and auditory tubes all have openings into pharynx…

    • 1253 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Finally, we’ve arrived in the tropics, its so warm here totes going to get my tan on just kidding, I’m an oxygen atom, girl that would be crazy. Oh my gosh so like we have to go through this thing called the Carbon cycle, like ewe I have to be attached to another oxygen atom and a carbon atom. It’s ok though cause at least the other oxygen atom is my friend Becky and she’s totally rad. I should probably tell you how I met this Carbon atom. Well, Becky and I were just chilling, and suddenly we saw these big plumes of fossil fuel, I know crazy right? Instantly Carbon, Becky and I were attached at the hip, we even came up with this really cool group name, Carbon Dioxide. Suddenly we were taken out of the atmosphere and this Orchid like totally used us in this thing called photosynthesis, which is how a plant gets nutrients. Being the building blocks of a plant was one of the strangest things I’ve ever done; we were released back into the atmosphere through another thing called respiration it was nice being back in something familiar.…

    • 740 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays