I don't know which one to use. What one would I use for this:
"... our actions today will (effect or affect) the future..."
edit: Woo here's my quick paragraph on "A Sound of Thunder". I think it's pretty decent just gotta think of a damn title.
In Ray Bradbury?s short story, ?A Sound of Thunder?, he focused on evolutionary change and how human actions today will affect the future. By changing what happened in the past, the future was changed to a great degree. The hunters were aware of the consequences of time traveling if they disrupted life in the past. Travis told the hunters, ?We don?t want to change the future. We don?t belong here in the past,? (Bradbury 549). It was very important that their journeys did not affect their surroundings in any way, which is why everyone had to stay on the path. ?A little error here could multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion,? said Travis before they left the Machine (Bradbury 550). However, when Eckels panicked and stepped on a butterfly by accident, that small mistake was multiplied over millions of years. As a result, when they returned, they found their time to be changed some due to his mistake. If by killing a single butterfly had such a drastic effect on their future, how will destroying thousands of acres of rainforests and organisms affect our future?
"... our actions today will (effect or affect) the future..."
edit: Woo here's my quick paragraph on "A Sound of Thunder". I think it's pretty decent just gotta think of a damn title.
In Ray Bradbury?s short story, ?A Sound of Thunder?, he focused on evolutionary change and how human actions today will affect the future. By changing what happened in the past, the future was changed to a great degree. The hunters were aware of the consequences of time traveling if they disrupted life in the past. Travis told the hunters, ?We don?t want to change the future. We don?t belong here in the past,? (Bradbury 549). It was very important that their journeys did not affect their surroundings in any way, which is why everyone had to stay on the path. ?A little error here could multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion,? said Travis before they left the Machine (Bradbury 550). However, when Eckels panicked and stepped on a butterfly by accident, that small mistake was multiplied over millions of years. As a result, when they returned, they found their time to be changed some due to his mistake. If by killing a single butterfly had such a drastic effect on their future, how will destroying thousands of acres of rainforests and organisms affect our future?