Preview

Elephants Helping Trunk

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
409 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Elephants Helping Trunk
The information from the different texts is presented to the reader through a variety of ways. First, in the article “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk" by Virginia Morell has a picture of elephants to help the reader have a better understanding of what is happening. The picture helps the reader understand by clarifying how the objects in the experiment were set up. Second, in the passage ¨Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task" Joshua M. Plotnik has a visual of a graph to assist the reader in the understanding of the passage. The graph provides more information about the length of time between the release of the first and second elephant. By showing this graph the reader has a better understanding of what the

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    When I first learned of the visual rhetorical analysis and began to read the accompanying instructions, not going to lie, I was a little worried. My first thought was “how am I supposed to talk, let alone, care enough about an image to write, at a minimum, 1250 words about it.” I mean they do say a picture speaks a 1000 words, but they don’t say anything about 1250. (This was all before we received the updated instructions, which by coincidence or not, changed the word count to 1000.) The next step in my process came when I initially saw the four images which we were presented with as options, and from the first glance I knew exactly the one I was going to write about. I chose the WWF’s representation of lungs and the environment because,…

    • 403 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    I haven't read something with many pictures for so long. It is hard to concentrate on the readings. I feel that by showing pictures in the reading help me understand what it is trying to say a lot better. Combining both pictures and words can let the people reading it more of a feel of what is actually going on. In this they have many pictures and good explanations of each. When we do rhetoric writing, we mostly want the reader to be interest in our writing and continue reading it. We have to persuade the reader to know what our points are and get the message we are trying to say. This reading talks about Ethos, Pathos and Logos. Each word were described in some sort of pictures. Ethos is about the credibility of what the author is trying to…

    • 252 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    In this chapter the active reading strategy I used was visualizing. When the author used descriptive language I made a mental picture.…

    • 753 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    In what ways does the distinctively visual influence your understanding of people and events within texts?…

    • 1013 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    1. How is the text organized within the book? How does this contribute to the meaning of the work as a whole?…

    • 485 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    The use of imagery helps the reader to paint a mental image of the scenes throughout the book. As Simon…

    • 518 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Translating a novel into a film is not as easy as one may have thought. Due to time constraints, characters and/or scenes may be eliminated and therefore may not have the same impact as a novel, but this is not always the case. The Help written by Kathryn Stockett and published in 2009. The film version was released on August 10, 2011 by DreamWorks and directed by Tate Taylor. The cast includes Emma Scott (Skeeter Phelan), Viola Davis (Aibileen Clark), Bryce Dallas Howard (Hilly Holbrook), and Octavia Spencer (Minny Jackson). The Help in both forms is riveting and heartbreaking, as well as a racial awakening for some.…

    • 1941 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Water for Elephants

    • 1144 Words
    • 5 Pages

    I chose the book Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. I chose this book because I had watched the movie a long time ago and everyone says the book is always better than the movie. I knew I was going to like it because I love animals and I have always wanted to be a veterinarian just like Jacob in this book. I thought it was very inspiring how even after Jacob learns that his parents have been killed in the car crash and their home has been mortgaged to pay for his tuition and the house is not to become his home, he leaves his college right before he has nearly graduated. He jumps on a train, not knowing it is a circus train belonging to the Benzini Brothers. Jacob is nearly kicked off of the train but when the owner of the circus, Uncle Al finds out about Jacob’s training as a vet, he hires Jacob to take care of his circus animals. I believe it is was a miracle. Jacob is hardworking and does whatever he can to protect what and who he loves. Unlike some people Jacob was aware that August was a mean man that abuses the animals and the people around him, but comes off as a charming man, he felt he had to develop a guarded relationship to protect Rosie and Marlena. Jacob was an all around caring person, he helped people as much as possible like when he helped Camel who became paralyzed and the circus had no need for him anymore, Jacob knew August would kick him off the train so he took care of Camel until the circus got to the providence, which is where Camel’s son was located. I think that the message in this book is that when there is no hope left in you that you need to just keep moving because whether you believe it or not things will get better. That is what happened to Jacob numerous times in this book, he had a lot of tough times but he got through them eventually. I like that you can imagine what is happening in your head the whole time you are reading this book, but for example “Rosie stretches out her trunk, reaching for…

    • 1144 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    With the use of figurative language, tone, mood, and foreshadowing, the readers will be able to relate to the book and visualize the actions in motion. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus,” said Mark Twain. All books have pictures but some are not seen with the naked eye. The authors paint the picture. The perspicacious audience piece together the aspects of the image using their insight. All together the pictures may vary and differ, but everyone has their own…

    • 833 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Water for Elephants

    • 649 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The novel Water for Elephants is written by the best-selling author Sarah Gruen. The book was published on May 26, 2006, under Algonquin Books, in the United States of America. It has 335 pages, and is classified as historical romance and fiction. The book does include many historical events, such as the Great Depression, but the rest of the content is entirely fictional.…

    • 649 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Using imagery is a smart way to engage an audience and keep someone on their seat to keep reading. Tim O'Brien uses imagery to connect and entertain his audience in an effective way. “..not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic... after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending.. He wanted Martha to love him as he loved her” (1). This quote gives the reader evidence that imagery can create a new picture and really help you understand a story in a deeper level. This is more suitable than using facts because using facts can not create a vivid, lasting picture in the reader’s mind.…

    • 690 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Water for Elephants

    • 1029 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen is about an old man recounting his experiences in the circus. As an old man, Jacob Jankowski makes a decision to leave his nursing home and join the circus that has come to his town. After Jacob’s parents’ death during Jacob’s college exams, Jacob decides to leave college and hop on a train. He hops on a train that happens to be the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. He makes many friends in the circus and marries his love, Marlena. They start a family in the Ringling Brothers circus after the Benzini Brothers circus collapses. In the circus he gains family, friends, and tons of stories. When Jacob is in the Nursing home, his son, Simon, forgets to take Jacob to the circus. Jacob then decides to walk there himself from the nursing home. Jacob anticipates a joyful circus day and his forgetful son is not going to stop Jacob from enjoying that day. All Jacob wants to do is relive his adventurous past for a day, and when an opportunity to relive that adventure for the rest of his life is offered to him, Jacob takes it. The manager of the circus offers Jacob the opportunity to join the circus. Anyone would give up boring nursing home living for the circus. Jacob makes a good decision at the end of the novel because it is justified by his life now and his past experiences in the circus.…

    • 1029 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Imagery helps readers create a picture in their minds of the action of a play while reading.…

    • 899 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Using your prescribed text and a text of your own choosing explain how text present distinctively visual images and how these images shape meaning in the texts…

    • 1156 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    George Owell Imperialism

    • 1070 Words
    • 5 Pages

    His description of the elephant changes from the first time he mentions it to point when it…

    • 1070 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays