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- 241: Chimpanzee
- ... new evidence that chimpanzees near the Ugalla River of western Tanzania also consume mammals.(Riss, 1990:167) Cannibalism has also been recorded both in the Budongo Forest, Mahale Mountains and the Gombe National Park. In Jane Goodall's, May 1979 article in the National Geographic called "Life and Death at Gombe" it reveals the first time that chimpanzees who were always perceived to be playful, gentle monkeys, could suddenly become dangerous ... killed; one other infant died from wounds."(Goodall, 1979:599) In 1972 the chimpanzees of Gombe divided into two groups: the southern group(Kahama)and the northern group(Kasakela). This was the start of what Jane Goodall called the "four year war." In 1974, a gang of five chimpanzees from the Kasakela community caught a single male of the Kahama group. They hit, kicked, and bit him for twenty minutes and ... chimpanzees are the closest human relatives we have. If we are indeed superior to these primates, does it not stand to reason that humans should be able to learn from this violence and avoid it? Jane Goodall, in her article labeled, "Life and Death at Gombe" draws a similar conclusion: It is sobering that our new awareness of chimpanzee violence compels us to acknowledge that these ape cousins of ours ...
- 242: The Life and Times of Edgar ALlan Poe
- ... but her frequent sickness made her less than the ideal mother. At one occasion it is known that he called Rosalie's foster mother "Ma". At the age of fourteen he became infatuated with Mrs. Jane Stanard, the mother of one of his classmates. He came to her when he felt unhappy at home and she somewhat resembled both Fanny Allan and Eliza Poe. Edgar had only known her for about ... to find that it marked her engagement. In March 1827 the strain between Edgar and John Allan climaxed. This was the result of more than two years of indifferences going back to the death of Jane Stanard, and now the loss of Elmira. Edgar moved out of John Allan's home and where he went is uncertain. Edgar was looking for "some place in this wide world, where I will be ... February 28, 1829, at the age of 44. On her death bed she wished to see Edgar but he was not able to arrive until the night after her burial in Shockoe Hill Cemetery (where Jane Stanard also was buried). Edgar felt guilty for leaving Fanny in her bad condition and once wrote: "I have had a fearful warning & have hardly ever known before what distress was." Fanny's Death ...
- 243: Pride And Prejudice: Marriage
- Introduction For this essay, I chose to read the perhaps most famous book by the English author Jane Austen. During the reading I was thinking about which theme I should choose to write about and analyze, and eventually I felt that marriage was the central keyword in the book. I will concentrate on ... discussed further down). So, naturally, personal attractions are weighed against financial considerations. This is why Mrs. Gardiner does not think Wickham a very prudent man for Elizabeth; because of his want of fortune. Or as Jane says when she hears of Lydia's elopement with Wickham: "So imprudent a match on both sides!...my father can give her nothing". Since money is so important, Wickham tries to elope with Georgiana Darcy ... Darcy's proposal, which stand like an anti-thesis of the otherwise general view of the perfect marriage: "He is rich, to be sure, and you may have more fine clothes and fine carriages than Jane. But will they make you happy?"
- 244: Paul McCartney: Six Feet Under?
- ... time of the crash: ...-had it been another day, I might've looked the other way and never been aware. In the song, "Girl," the lyrics refer to the highly publicized relationship between Paul and Jane Asher. ...that a man must break his back to earn his day of leisure will she still believe it when he's dead... shows that their relationship wasn't a very good one. Most of ... no one will hear...was buried...Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave, no one was saved... "For No One" tells of a love of Paul's (possibly Jane Asher) who is no more: ...she says her love is dead...she says that long ago she knew someone but now he's gone. The song "Got to Get You Into My Life" tells what ... the three remaining Beatles. Some even believe that the guitar appears to spell "PAUL?" (O'Brien). On the right side of the cover, there is a doll with red lines (blood) running down her dress (Jane Asher or the metermaid), and there is a small car on her lap, the model of the one Paul was driving. Below the "T" in the word "Beatles," there is a statue of the ...
- 245: Thomas Jefferson
- ... at Shadwell in Goochland (now in Albemarle) Co., Virginia, which was at the time considered a western outpost and was to remain as Jeffersonˇ¦s lifelong home. He was the son of Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph Jefferson. His father, Peter, was a surveyor, a cartographer, and a plantation owner and he was also largely self-educated. His mother, Jane was from the prominent Rudolph family of colonial Virginia. Jeffersonˇ¦s intense interest in botany, geology, cartography, North American exploration, and love of Greek and Latin are due largely from his father and his surrounding ...
- 246: Thomas Jefferson
- ... a philosopher, politician, scientist, architect, inventor, musician, and writer. Thomas Jefferson was also one of the smartest leaders in history. His father was named Peter Jefferson, a very rich Farmer from Virginia. Thomas’s Mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, was part of the Randolph family. The Randolph Family was a big part of Virginia history, and also very rich also. Peter and Jane Jefferson moved to Goochland county, because Peter had just gotten 400 acres of land there. Thomas Jefferson was born in the log cabin in which the family lived. Thomas Jefferson was the third child out ...
- 247: Harry S. Truman
- ... six years old. President Truman was the oldest of three children and the only one born in Lamar. His brother John Vivian, was born on April 25, 1885, at Belton, Missouri and his sister, Mary Jane, was born August 12, 1889, in Grandview, Missouri. Harry grew up on a farms all his life. he was forbidden to play roughhouse games because of his glasses. He was a bookworm--a sissy, as ... at West Point was eliminated by his poor eyesight. 4. Family Harry S. Truman’s family included his father John Anderson Truman and his mother Martha Ellen Young Truman. His siblings included his sister Mary Jane Truman and his brother John Vivian Truman. 5. Prior Employment Before the Presidency In 1901 Harry began work as a timekeeper for the Santa Fe Railroad at $35 per month, and in his spare time ...
- 248: Harry S. Truman
- ... six years old. President Truman was the oldest of three children and the only one born in Lamar. His brother John Vivian, was born on April 25, 1885, at Belton, Missouri and his sister, Mary Jane, was born August 12, 1889, in Grandview, Missouri. Harry grew up on a farms all his life. he was forbidden to play roughhouse games because of his glasses. He was a bookworm--a sissy, as ... at West Point was eliminated by his poor eyesight. 4. Family Harry S. Truman s family included his father John Anderson Truman and his mother Martha Ellen Young Truman. His siblings included his sister Mary Jane Truman and his brother John Vivian Truman. 5. Prior Employment Before the Presidency In 1901 Harry began work as a timekeeper for the Santa Fe Railroad at $35 per month, and in his spare time ...
- 249: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... Major emphasis within the Lloyd-Jones family included education, religion, and nature. Wright’s family spent many evenings listening to William Lincoln Wright read the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Blake. His aunts Nell and Jane opened a school of their own, pressing the philosophies of the German educator, Froebel. Wright was brought up in a comfortable, but certainly not warm household. His father, William Carey Wright, who worked as a ... a job as a draftsman in a Chicago architectural firm. During this short time with the firm of J. Lyman Silsbee, Wright started on his first project, the “Hillside Home” for his aunts, Nell and Jane. Impatiently moving forward, Wright got a job at one of the best known firms in Chicago at the time, Adler and Sullivan. Sullivan was to become Wright’s greatest mentor. LOUIS SULLIVAN: LIEBER MEISTER Wright ...
- 250: Pride And Prejudice (a Contemp
- ... relationships and bad ones lead to conflict. At first, I did not see the same humor in You've Got Mail that had been used in Pride and Prejudice, primarily because I was looking for Jane Austen's personal "regulated hatred" instead of that of modern culture. It is undisputable that the same satire used in Pride and Prejudice is shown in the character of Patricia Eden, Joe's girlfriend. She ... were also successful in showing the dynamics of the relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth though that of Joe and Kathleen and Klara and Kralik with respect to manners, morals, and romance. WORKS CITED: 1. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1981. 2. You've Got Mail. Dir. Nora Ephron. With Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Jean Stapleton and Dabney Coleman. Warner, 1998. The Shop Around the ...
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