Outline for the Second Term Paper

1. Introduction
   1. Conservation of Mass: Mass can neither be created nor destroyed.
2. Body 1: Wreck-it Ralph
   1. Scene: Laffy Taffy vines grow from the trees and rescue Felix and Sgt. Calhoun down below.
   2. Laffy Taffy vines grow and shrink from nothing – simply from the power of laughter.
   3. The mass they gain would need to have been acquired from something else, but that's not the case.
3. Body 2: Despicable Me
   1. Scene: Gru shrinks the moon, holds it in his hand, and takes it home.
   2. The shrunken moon is significantly lighter than its full-size, as if all its mass went somewhere else.
   3. It would have passed the Law of Conservation of Mass if it managed to be incredibly dense: as though the entire mass was squeezed into the shrunken moon.
4. Body 3: Brave
   1. Scene: Under a spell, Queen Elinor turns into a huge bear.
   2. If she turned into a bear of the same exact mass as her, it would pass – but in this case, the additional mass comes from nowhere.
5. Conclusion
   1. Audiences are fine with all three of these cases because they rely on magical or sci-fi conditions we're already familiar with in the stories.