Science Fact or Cinematic Fiction? Outline

2^nd Term Paper Outline

I.                    Introduction

a.       Conservation of Energy

                                                               i.      Energy can’t be created or destroyed

II.                  How to Train Your Dragon: The Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon

a.       The Boneknapper was able to produce fire from within itself and breathe it out to attack the humans without hurting itself internally.

b.      The Boneknapper is a giant scaly lizard covered in bones, and it can fly.

c.       The fire breathe from the Boneknapper doesn’t seem to hurt the human in the proximately unless they are directly hit by it.

III.                The Walking Dead

a.       Zombies are roaming around the city months after they are decomposing

b.      Many of the zombies are missing limbs or even half their bodies but still able to move around

c.       The rain and the hot sun doesn’t affect their rotting flesh

IV.                The Clash of the Titan (2010)

a.       Medusa’s glaze can change any living creature into stone

b.      It turned a giant kraken into stone in less than half a minute

c.       Medusa’s head was still alive after decapitation

V.                  Conclusion

a.       Many stories that ignore the conservation of energy have to do with it being in a fantasy world. Some stories just pretend that it doesn’t matter and have a plot place around the people instead of the physics.