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  • 12-21-2017, 12:20 PM
    dylan815
    About to give the biggest presentation of my life.... So far
    I'm about to give my senior presentation. It's about snakes and the irrational fear of them. Wish me luck as this is the last thing i need to do in order to graduate. I also have written a 8 page paper if anyone is super interest/bored and would like to read it! haha!
  • 12-21-2017, 12:24 PM
    BallPythonWannaBe
    Re: About to give the biggest presentation of my life.... So far
    Good luck! I hope it goes well. :D I'd love to read your paper.
  • 12-21-2017, 12:27 PM
    dylan815
    Re: About to give the biggest presentation of my life.... So far
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by BallPythonWannaBe View Post
    Good luck! I hope it goes well. :D I'd love to read your paper.

    How should i post it on here? what area and how could i "attach it" to the post? i don't think i want to just copy and past 8 pages?
  • 12-21-2017, 12:28 PM
    SDA
    Google docs!
  • 12-21-2017, 12:28 PM
    dylan815
    Re: About to give the biggest presentation of my life.... So far
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by SDA View Post
    Google docs!

    Ahhh yesss
  • 12-21-2017, 01:11 PM
    dylan815
    Re: About to give the biggest presentation of my life.... So far
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by BallPythonWannaBe View Post
    Good luck! I hope it goes well. :D I'd love to read your paper.

    Well, here it is. If anyone thinks i should change any parts or numbers let me know.

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...it?usp=sharing
  • 12-21-2017, 01:36 PM
    mama_arty
    good luck! I remember doing my senior presentation! Seems like 100 years ago. I did mine on American Pit Bull Terriers, yet another misunderstood animal. Just take it easy, you know snakes, you've got this. :) :gj:
  • 12-21-2017, 02:21 PM
    EL-Ziggy
    Re: About to give the biggest presentation of my life.... So far
    Good luck with your presentation Dylan!! I'll read the paper in a bit too. ;)
  • 12-21-2017, 02:28 PM
    Aerries
    Re: About to give the biggest presentation of my life.... So far
    Good luck! I did my senior presentation on Forensic Pathology [emoji14]


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  • 12-21-2017, 02:44 PM
    tttaylorrr
    Re: About to give the biggest presentation of my life.... So far
    good luck!!!
    i look forward to reading your paper!
  • 12-21-2017, 03:17 PM
    Momokahn
    Re: About to give the biggest presentation of my life.... So far
    Excellent paper, I grant thee an A.

    The area of the paper if you are wanting to drive a point across is the 1 in 50 million odds of being killed by a venomous snake. I would write that horses kill more people per year in the United States and yet I have never seen it make a top 10 list of the "Most Feared" surveys. Might point out the cuteness of a baby fawn and when it grows up it may very well contribute to the 100 plus deaths in the United States due to a car accident. And for the granddaddy of them all is the mosquito will kill another 700,000 people again next year world wide and as a human, we actually enjoy exposing ourselves to them on those cool summer evenings......swat!

    As long as we have the fake/drama queen press and movie producers wanting to make a dollar at the expense of an animal, it will continue to be people like you putting up the good fight to educate and speak the truth about an animal that was given a bad wrap in Genesis. I bet if it were a cow getting a bad wrap in Genesis, McDonalds and Texas Roadhouse would still exist.
  • 12-21-2017, 04:10 PM
    dylan815
    Re: About to give the biggest presentation of my life.... So far
    It was a huge success! I brought in my boa and killed the presentation. Looks like I get to graduate!!!


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  • 12-21-2017, 04:16 PM
    dylan815
    Re: About to give the biggest presentation of my life.... So far
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Momokahn View Post
    Excellent paper, I grant thee an A.

    The area of the paper if you are wanting to drive a point across is the 1 in 50 million odds of being killed by a venomous snake. I would write that horses kill more people per year in the United States and yet I have never seen it make a top 10 list of the "Most Feared" surveys. Might point out the cuteness of a baby fawn and when it grows up it may very well contribute to the 100 plus deaths in the United States due to a car accident. And for the granddaddy of them all is the mosquito will kill another 700,000 people again next year world wide and as a human, we actually enjoy exposing ourselves to them on those cool summer evenings......swat!

    As long as we have the fake/drama queen press and movie producers wanting to make a dollar at the expense of an animal, it will continue to be people like you putting up the good fight to educate and speak the truth about an animal that was given a bad wrap in Genesis. I bet if it were a cow getting a bad wrap in Genesis, McDonalds and Texas Roadhouse would still exist.

    In my presentation I went into depth about how many people die from dog bites, lightening, cars, and lung cancer. So I think I got the point across that people are really actually afraid of the wrong things.


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  • 12-21-2017, 04:43 PM
    cchardwick
    Good tactics to bring in a snake. Give me an A or you'll get bit HA!
  • 12-21-2017, 04:58 PM
    dylan815
    Re: About to give the biggest presentation of my life.... So far
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by cchardwick View Post
    Good tactics to bring in a snake. Give me an A or you'll get bit HA!

    Not really the point I'm tying to prove here [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]but true lol!


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  • 12-21-2017, 05:21 PM
    Prognathodon
    Re: About to give the biggest presentation of my life.... So far
    *If* you haven’t turned in the paper yet, you need to run it by a human proofreader. A couple things that I saw from a skim:
    “bred” is past tense for breeding, “bread” is the stuff you eat
    “cypress” mulch, not “Cyprus” the country

    There may be more, but I wanted to give you a heads-up in case there’s time to fix things.

    Computerized spell-checks don’t catch homonyms like these, as they’re not mis-spelled . . . but they aren’t the correct terms, either.


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  • 12-21-2017, 06:52 PM
    Momokahn
    Re: About to give the biggest presentation of my life.... So far
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by dylan815 View Post
    In my presentation I went into depth about how many people die from dog bites, lightening, cars, and lung cancer. So I think I got the point across that people are really actually afraid of the wrong things.


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    I did see that and I think your presentation is no doubt better than anything than I could write. Just threw some suggestions out for you. No doubt you will be questioned by your teachers or fellow students because you are stating facts, not wives tales and myths. How I would love to be there when you knock it out of the park. Good luck, great job, and as a fellow herper I'm very proud of you.

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  • 12-22-2017, 01:40 PM
    dylan815
    Thank you everyone for you support and encouragement. I really appreciate it! It's up to us to fight the good fight concerning reptiles. It's up to the hobbyists to change peoples minds and perceptions of them. Thanks again everybody!

    --Dylan
  • 12-22-2017, 02:49 PM
    mama_arty
    Re: About to give the biggest presentation of my life.... So far
    bravo!! Glad to hear it went well. And your snake got to go on a field trip and be a big show off. Fancy snake now, might have to get it some bejeweled mice to show off star status :)
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