Chimpanzee Politics by Frans de Waal chronicles a colony of 23 chimpanzees who live in an outdoor‚ open-air space at the Arnhem Zoo in the Netherlands. Of these 23 chimpanzees there are four males: Yeroen‚ Luit‚ Nikkie and Dandy. The colony also consists of three female subgroups‚ the largest made up of Mama‚ Gorilla‚ Franje‚ Amber and three children‚ Moniek‚ Roosje and Fons. The second largest subgroup includes Krom‚ Spin‚ Jimmie and her two sons Jakie and Jonas. And the third female subgroup consists
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Bibliography: Chorost‚ Michael. World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity‚ Machines‚ and the Internet. Free Press‚ 2011. Halpern‚ Sue. ”Mind Control & the Internet.” The New York Review (2011). Lanier‚ Jaron. You are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto. Vintage‚ 2010. Orwell‚ George. Nineteen Eighty-four. A Novel. Secker & Warburg: Secker & Warburg‚ 1949. Pariser‚ Eli. The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You. Penguin‚ 2011
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the solace they provide is only passively communal. “The Boy In The Moon” presents the philosophical dilemma that one receives and demonstrates the bitter-sweet moments of a life that come along with a child like Walker. Ian starts the book with an all too common routine in the Browns household. Walker is rhythmically beating himself in the dead of the night waking Ian up to do “The same routine of tiny details‚ connected in precise order‚ each mundane‚ each crucial” as he puts it. The
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The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence‚ Honor‚ and Manhood in the Union Army by Lorien Foote In the year 1861‚ the Civil War erupted throughout the United States. After four long gruesome years‚ the Union Army enlisted a total number of 2‚893‚304 northern soldiers. In The Gentlemen and the Roughs‚ Lorien Foote sheds light on northern conceptions of violence‚ honor‚ and manhood. Foote argues that the Union army originated by dividing class and social status‚ fighting a war for
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Harbor‚ Louie Zamperini was lucky to not be one of those people. Floating on a raft in the sea for forty-seven days; Captured and tortured in POW camps; Louie Zamperini endured all these examples of trauma beyond belief and lived to tell the story. The book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand best describes Louie Zamperini’s life‚ and the nightmare he went through shows how he stayed Hopeful and mentally strong. Louie Zamperini was known for being a man of different traits‚ a trait that stands out most‚ is
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On Hitler’s Mountain shared the personal account of Irmgard Hunt‚ a Geman girl‚ which grew up on the same mountain that was Adolf Hitler’s alpine retreat. She narrated her own and her family’s story from how they lived through many important historical moments in German history. From how the great depression negatively affected her grandparent’s household to how the Nazi ideals put up a division between her own family. She shared anecdotes that she experienced herself growing up in the German society
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Never Look Back “What makes players like me is fight‚ spirit‚ determination and ambition to be a winner” (Cole 357). To truly be great‚ it takes dedication‚ and sacrifice. Cole voices his perseverance to play the game he loves more than anything else. This drive and determination‚ though not always welcome‚ was fundamental in the development of him becoming one of the world’s best footballers. My Defence‚ is an autobiography written by Ashley Cole‚ himself‚ outlining the ups and downs that
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Brianna Nichols Per.1 11-10-12 A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a truly exquisite piece of literature that has influenced readers‚ young and old‚ for generations. It gives us a very realistic view of racial tension‚ as well as the socioeconomic struggles‚ African Americans faced during the late 1940s-50s. In this play we meet the Youngers‚ a lower-class‚ diverse-minded‚ African American family simply trying to survive in 1950s South Chicago. Together they
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unconscious." -Diane Ackerman‚ "An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain" The mind fascinates me--especially the unconscious/subconscious mind. The other than conscious is an integral part of my work in the persuasion field. In her amazing book‚ Diane Ackerman explains that our brains need space without volume because the conscious mind‚ the thinking part‚ can only hold a finite amount of information. And so our brains ". . . began storing information and memories outside itself on stone
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Desai‚ K. (2006). The inheritance of loss. New York: Grove Press. “The Inheritance of Loss” opens with a teenage Indian girl who is an orphan named Sai. She is living with her grandfather‚ a retired judge‚ in the town of Kalimpong part of the Indian Himalayas. The grandfather is a Cambridge-educated Anglophile. Sai is romantically involved with her math tutor‚ Gyan. He is the descendant of a Nepali Gurkha mercenary so their love seems uncertain from the beginning. He eventually recoils from her
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