In latest years farmers have begun to use drones for surveillance over crops and animals. Many lawmakers have been concerned about farmers and the utilization of drones for many special reasons. But what they have not realized is that with farmers using drones. Drones proved to be less difficult for farmers to watch over the farm as an alternative than the use of planes.

High-tech drones enable farmers and the drone pilots that operate them, to better the farming process. From crop surveillance to planting, livestock management, crop spraying, irrigation mapping, and more. Agricultural drones do what’s known as precision agriculture. The drones have multiple uses such as scouting land and crops, checking for weeds, and spot treating plants, monitoring overall crop health, and monitoring for health issues.

Of course, there are always disadvantages to using drones. Such as, it depends on the weather. When it is windy using drones is harder to handle. Another disadvantage is you can not use the drones for long periods of time. They also have a certain flight range, which is limited. The price of the drones is higher than the cost of a plane but they also can bring in more income from the crops than planes. Drones are not as simple as planes are to an average farmer may not be able to operate the drone without lessons or a skilled pilot.

Overall, drones are the better choice since they bring in more revenue than planes and are less time-consuming. Drones are a simpler option when comparing the two. Drones can replace planes to the advantages of the agricultural world

The “Perfect” crime gone wrong. How can a so-called perfect crime go wrong? It is not getting caught in the crime. It is the guilt afterward that can make a perfect crime go wrong. The short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe, it is about the perfect crime that went wrong just like how it was stated above, by guilt. At the beginning of the story, the speaker says “It is impossible to say how the idea first entered my head, (64). This is the speaker saying that an unknown force put the idea in his head. But before the speaker states this he asks “But why do you say that I have lost my mind,” maybe he is but maybe he isn’t. Then right after the speaker asks ” Can you not see that I have full control over my mind,” another question that he doesn’t believe that his mind is lost. Anyhow the speaker kills this old man, the funny thing is the speaker doesn’t know why he did. He even says so himself, “There was no reason for what I did.” Then the speaker begins to talk about the old man and his eye. The speaker describes the old man’s eye as “the eye of a vulture,” a bird that “watches and waits while an animal dies.” The speaker says that every time the old man looked at him, he felt a cold shiver. The thing about this is that then the speaker says “And so, I finally decided I had to kill the old man and close that eye forever!” But earlier the man stated that there was no reason, then proceeds to give a reason. Now back to the guilt thing. Why would someone who says there is no reason then explain a reason for the murder? Guilt, if you give no reason for it then you believe that what you did was right. But the man gave a reason as an excuse. You don’t make excuses for something you feel good about but you do when you don’t like what you did.

What does exhausting work achieve for an individual and the people around them? An excellent piece of writing to explain this question is “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost. The piece is a poem that contains many themes but the effective one is, the value of work. Before stepping into details on the theme allow us to talk about the poem. Each year, the speaker and his neighbor walk along the wall together. They repair the wall from damage that has been gained from frost or by hunters that previous year. Which shows by line two and five where the poem says “That sends the frozen ground swell under it,” (2), “The work of hunters is another thing” (5). By the end, their hands are raw, and yet they continue to do this every year. This states in line twenty in the poem where it says “We wear our fingers rough with handling them,” Which describes the hard and long work the two men put in. Since there is some background information about, Mending Wall. Let us continue on with the theme of the poem. Since the work needs to be redone each year the speaker inquires why continue to mend the wall. Frost was letting the repairing of the wall to serve as a symbol of sympathetic activity. Given that their task is repetitive and pointless, the speaker suggests there might be better off if they stopped repairing the wall altogether. But the neighbor insists they do since “‘Good fences make good neighbors.’”(27). The neighbor is saying the work itself is pleasing and valuable and may not completely be the fence that requires the action of the rebuilding. It is having a job together that results in a general goal.

Who will be on the top? With the election coming up, my reading teacher has asked us to write a blog post about who will win. Every claim that is in this past is not biased only based on poll results and the least biased articles that were found.

Poll Results

According to the polls that I have discovered on Real Clear Politics, all of the counts are pointing to former Vice President Biden. In the General Election poll, I was studying the graph It looks like Biden’s numbers are decreasing and Trump’s are rising. This explains why “there doesn’t seem to be that big of a gap between the numbers,” (3).

In the favorability poll, Biden is pretty far ahead compared to Trump. Biden’s numbers are still rising while Trump’s are decreasing. Biden’s numbers are easily more considerable than Trump’s in this poll and not really that close.  

Based on the polls presented it shows Biden is more likely to win. But polls are not the sole thing to consider, let’s have a look at the articles about the Election.

What the Articles are saying

One article that I refer to is talking about how Trump is pushing and Biden is in control. According to the article “all of the democrats have voted before other parties,” (4). “Trump trying to catch up with Biden and doing 5 rallies in different states. While Biden mostly stayed and focused on Pennsylvania,” (4). “Biden also took a rally in Ohio” which was a very confident step on his part considering Trump won that state by 8 percent at the last election,”(5). “Biden also announced an unexpected move by heading to Phillie for a rally and that Trump will, of course, be going to Virginia since his headquarters is located there,”(4).

Conclusion

I conclude that from the polls it all points to Biden as well as the article is talking and noting Biden’s confidence. With all of the things that the article is saying about Biden is that it will be hard for Trump to come back. This is why I think that Biden might win with the way that the numbers and confidence levels are rising above Trump’s.

About “The Most Dangerous Game”

In class, we are reading the short story of “The Most Dangerous Game.” This story is about a famous hunter named Sanger Rainsford. He falls overboard on his way to hunt. He washes up on Ship-Trop island. It is a very dangerous island in this book. He is welcomed by General Zaroff, he is a man that got tired of hunting buffalos and tiger other things like that. So, he starts to hunt the most dangerous game, humans. Rainsford and Zaroff go hunting but it turns dangerous for Rainsford, so he has to uses his witts and outsmart Zardoff to survive.

How it’s related to fear

During the story, Rainsford is experiencing fear. According to an article that I read (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-happens-brain-feel-fear-180966992/) about fear is that it heightens your senses. It puts you more alert about your surroundings. You start to run off adrenaline more than anything. When you are afraid you could be hurt and it would slow you down as much as it would if you were just walking. Fear makes your hearing alert to the smallest sound like rustling leaves will be heard. Your eyes will catch everything from a branch being broken to a scratch on a tree. A change in smell will be noticed. Then when it senses danger your mind and body go into that fight or flight mode. Where it sets up a defense to fight or take off running. The article also talks about how when your brain is in what I like to call fear mode it can keep your body running even if things start to shut down. So say your liver or something starts to shut down you can keep running or fighting. Don’t forget that most of the things that I have mentioned have been paraphrased from the article that I read.

About the Scarlett Ibis

“The Scarlett Ibis” is a very sad story. In the story, there are many themes that would be useful to learn from. In “The Scarlett Ibis” I found 2 out of many more universal themes.

Universal Themes of the Scarlett Ibis

• Love vs. Pride
• Acceptance vs. Expectation

Love vs. Pride

“The Scarlett Ibis” is a story that is written as a flashback at how Brother and Doodle lived and also how Doodle died. A memory of Doodle, which is how the story is written, shows his love for Doodle. At first, Brother didn’t like the fact that he could play with Doodle and push around Doodle like how Brother planed upset Brother so he thought Doodle how to walk and stand. This showed that he cared about Doodle, now Brother also let his pride get in the way. Brother’s pride made him do things that he shouldn’t have done. But after Doodle died Brother felt the remorse harder than anyone. That showed that Brother truly loved Doodle and it has made an impact on his life. I got all of this from these 2 quotes “They did not know that I did it for myself, that pride, whose slave I was, spoke to me louder than all their voices, and that Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother” ( Hurst 4). Also, “But sometimes (like right now), as I sit in the cool, green-draped parlor, the grindstone begins to turn, and time with all its changes is ground away-and I remember Doodle,” (Hurst 1)

Acceptance vs. Expectation

In “The Scarlett Ibis” Doodle had a band heart condition. Everyone in the family except Brother accepted Doodle for who he was and didn’t try to change him in any way. But Brother was pushing him to do things that were way beyond his limits.I mean I get the walking why not try but after trying to get him to run and all of that stuff he should have accepted that Doodle just couldn’t do more. But the expectation that Brother had for Doodle wouldn’t leave his mind so he pushed and pushed. I do think that in the end after Doodle died Brother wished that he would have accepted him and not let his expectations cloud that. I got all of this from these 2 quotes “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow” (Hurst 1). Also, “I should have already admitted defeat, but my pride wouldn’t let me” (Hurst 4).