Text Structures—Theme Park Analysis

Text Structures—Theme Park Analysis Come up with examples using these text structures:  Cause and Effect  Chronology/Order of Events  Comparison and Contrast  Description  Problem and Solution I am focusing on Busch Gardens, which has parks in Tampa, Florida as well as Williamsburg, Virginia. However, you can decide on whichever theme park you desire. Preferably, choose a theme park that has a counterpart in another location. I chose Busch Gardens because there are rides with similar features at both parks. Busch Gardens Tampa’s water park counterpart is Adventure Island while Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s water park counterpart is Water Country USA. On the contrary, one park is Africa-themed while the other is Europe-themed. Busch Gardens Tampa is one of the largest zoos in all of North America, boasting 300 species of animals, while Busch Gardens Williamsburg offers phenomenal landscaping. Busch Gardens Williamsburg has actually been deemed the best landscaped theme park in North America.

Cause and Effect

What kind of theme park scenarios lend to “ cause and effect ”? The specific “physics” behind a ride. Describe Describe how acquiring an annual pass to a how potential energy, kinetic energy, gravity, theme park helps a person to be able to visit inertia, g-forces, and centripetal more often without “breaking the bank”. How acceleration are factors of a specific ride. is acquiring an annual pass more economical than purchasing a “day ticket” to a park ten times in one year? Does the theme park you are writing about Can you find out how many gallons of water have a ride that gets riders in a certain mood are used, on average, at a certain theme park due to the animatronics, soundtrack, or in one year (or even one day)? Why is this so? special effects? Explain which ride you are What are the specific ways in which the theme describing at which park, and be very specific park you are choosing uses water? about how the ride evokes a certain (Remember not just to focus on rides that use (frightening or mystical) mood. water, although that is an extremely important factor as well.)

My example revolving around Busch Gardens: I bolded signal/transition words that enhanced my writing. Which signal and transition words can you use to enhance your writing? In May 2018, an unsuspecting victim—a squirrel— caused a power outage at Busch Gardens Tampa. Therefore , entry into the park was delayed by several hours because the squirrel entered the park’s substation breaker before 11:00 a.m. Ambassadors had to work with TECO Energy to restore power as quickly as possible, although the process was arduous and took around four hours to do so in entirety. As a consequence , people who were in the park experienced all kinds of delays, from the Zagora Café having an hour-long wait and running out of ice to only one ride being open for small children.

Chronology/Order of Events

What kind of theme park scenarios lend to “ chronology/order of events ”? What has been the timeline of your theme Write about the process of how engineers and park since its inception (opening)? Obviously, other individuals plan a theme park ride. How you cannot report all dates over the years, long does it take? What are some of the steps but you can talk about when certain that occur as this process is carried out? attractions opened and closed. Perhaps you can find a video about a specific ride on YouTube or an article from another source. What are the steps chefs take to prepare a Describe a specific show (permanent or certain dish at a theme park? seasonal) that occurs at a theme park. Make sure you focus on the entire show as you write your description.

My example revolving around Busch Gardens: I bolded signal/transition words that enhanced my writing. Which signal and transition words can you use to enhance your writing? Just four years after a revolutionary theme park opened in Anaheim, California that forever changed peoples’ perceptions of theme parks, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay opened its doors on March 31, 1959. Initially , Busch Gardens was notnotnot known for thrill rides or being the home of “more than 12,000 animals from 300 different species” (buschgardens.com) . It was actually not until 1965 that the 29-acre Serengeti Plains opened and 1971 when the railway debuted. Bengal tigers were added to the Congo area in 1982, and eleven years later , the park’s first massive roller coaster—Kumba— arrived on the scene. This led to more thrill rides overtaking the park, with Montu debuting in 1996 and SheiKra debuting in 2005. Respectively, Cheetah Hunt and Cobra’s Curse opened well after the theme park embraced more thrill rides as well.

I am not offering any more examples from here, yet I am still offering “prompts” to get your mind thinking about the kinds of text structures that exist. Comparison and Contrast

What kind of theme park scenarios lend to “ comparison and contrast ”? Compare and contrast rides that are similar Describe how the properties of physics are “at at two theme parks from the same play” with two different kinds of roller corporation (ex. Busch Gardens). For coasters—an ordinary steel roller coaster vs. example, Alpengeist and Montu, or Griffon a triple launch steel roller coaster. and SheiKra.

Similarly, there may be the same exact ride at multiple parks, but the features may be completely different. Compare and contrast two parades or shows Compare and contrast the features and prices offered at the same theme park or two theme of annual passes from two different theme parks owned by the same corporation. parks.

When you write your example, what kind of signal and transition words are you going to use? Some for comparison and contrast are: likewise, on the contrary, on the other hand, similarly, and therefore.

Description

What kind of theme park scenarios lend to “ description ”? Describe a kind of dish offered at a theme Describe the features of a particular ride. park, really honing in on sensory words to What is the narrative (story) of the ride? Which make the reader feel like (s)he is having the animatronics do you encounter, and what are dish as well. You may want to search up a the special features as well as the soundtrack dish and look at the photo in all its vibrant that enhance the ride? Are there any kinds of glory as you describe it! drops or times in which the vehicle speeds up, slows down, or turns in another direction? Make the reader feel like (s)he is there. Describe a parade or show offered at a theme Describe the scenery of a particular land or park. What truly enhances the viewer’s area at a theme park. Describe the aspects of experience? Is there a soundtrack? Are there the architecture, landscaping, names of special effects like mist, smoke, or places, and anything the theme park does something done with the lighting? Is this “above and beyond” to immerse you in the parade or show outside or inside? What kinds story of the area. Are there any special of costumes and scenery are there? What restaurants, rides, or stores that add to the certain narrative (story) or theme is essence of the area? followed?

When you write your example, use sensory language to guide your description.

Problem and Solution

What kind of theme park scenarios lend to “ problem and solution ”? Did any theme parks have a difficult opening What do workers do when a ride gets stuck at day (years and years ago)? How did the a theme park? Research a time a roller theme park solve those problems to make coaster may have stopped and figure out the experiences better for visitors? process the workers carried out to make sure riders were safe.

Has a theme park ever had a ride people Are there any other problems theme parks didn’t like? Sometimes, “reimagined” rides have encountered? How did those who work upset people. Describe the situation and how at the theme park improve the situation? the theme park solved that problem.

When you write your example, what kind of signal and transition words are you going to use? Some for problem and solution are: in finding an answer, in devising a solution, to improve the situation, and to solve the issue.