FLY ON THE WALL SEES

THINGS IT WISHES IT
HADNT
Written by Rob Dunn
Presented by Taylor Kinmann, Annie
Reyas, Briana Perez, and Sangeeta
Chakrabarti
WHO IS THE WRITER?
Rob Dunn
Biology professor at North Carolina State University
Environmentalist
Believes that for everything we do know, there is an unknown.
Used human impact on nature to conclude about societies behavior based on
culture.
HOW DOES ROB DUNN COMMUNICATE WITH US?
Conversational Voice
Allows the reader to make it personal
as if being spoken to
captivate attention
HOW ELSE DOES HE POSE HIS POINT?
Very Descriptive/Narrative Detail
Place emphasis on key points or events
Enables a nice flow to connect all ideas
WHAT IS THE POINT OF VIEW?
The author himself: He knows what we dont
He knows about organisms, how they have evolved
and why
How societys cultural behavior affect nature and to
what extent
Can be seen in the fly
WHO IS THE AUDIENCE?
The people of the world
wanting to share his information among everybody to help save the planet
might be to the people of the future: not to take the little things for granted (like
we are today)
For anyone willing to listen
Not just about our action but about culture
Culture influence people actions but peoples actions make culture
WHAT IS HE TRYING TO TELL US?
A series of human actions have impacted the environment and flies have
been that silent spectator and they are vectors of what we leave
behind. By studying them, we can study what humans have left behind
and what we are still leaving behind.
What actions and behaviors as a cultural group have negative influences
on Environment?
They are vectors of what we leave
behind.
HARMLESS HOUSE FLY OR WORLD WIDE
HUMAN FAULTS?
Fly: Extended metaphor
Facilitated the transition
Common ground for all readers
Started with the known to go to the unknown
Point out cultural faults whether about the overuse of antibiotics or
some other of our failings.
Small scale effect that can have a massive ripple
superbug
WHY USE THE FLY?
Flies are seen as insects that serve
no common purpose in our everyday lives.
People normally either think of the fly as a
nasty bug that swarms their trash and brings
in germs, or they simply dont think of them at
all since they are so common but
unnecessary.
Reduce
Reuse Recycle
WHY DONT WE NOTICE THE FLIES?
More people are prone to like spiders over flies, because at least they get rid of the
insects that harm our gardens or belongings. Flies dont seem to serve a purpose in
our everyday lives other than ruin the barbeque or irritate us when we take the trash
out, but really we dont give them credit for their potential, good and bad.
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WE MAY UNDERESTIMATE FLIES, BUT SO WHAT?
The purpose of this article is to spread awareness. Demonstrate how technology
accepted by culture such as antibiotics causes harm on a minute scale that have big
rippling effects. We are suppose to learn from our history, yet we still ignore the
unknown.
Black Plague
People ignored the rats who carried the disease because they were as common
to the people in that era as flies are today.
Bacteria