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    Jane Goodall

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    Jane Goodall’s research with chimpanzees and gorillas is an example of Naturalistic observation. Here is a list of the key findings if Goodall’s life * 1960: Chimpanzees as meat eaters * First recorded instance of toolmaking by nonhumans * 1964: Planning-Figan showed deliberate planning when he kidnapped baby Flint in order to get his mother Flo and the rest of the group to follow him. * Using man-made objects- Mike used empty kerosene cans to intimidate larger males‚ and

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    Jane Addams

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    An American pragmatist and feminist‚ Hull-House founder Jane Addams (1860-1935) came of age in time of increasing tensions and division between segments of the American society‚ a division that was reflected in debates about educational reform. In the midst of this diversity‚ Addams saw the profoundly interdependent nature of all social and political interaction‚ and she aligned her efforts to support‚ emphasize and increase this interdependence. Education was one of the ways she relied on to overcome

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    “A Brief Summary on the Research and Influence of Dr. Jane Goodall” Jane Goodall is a famed English primatologist and ethologist . More than forty-five years of studying chimpanzee‚ or Pan Troglodyte‚ interactions in the wild has helped her become the world’s most famous expert on the animal. This paper will start with how Goodall began researching chimpanzees along with her alternative research methods‚ we will then delve into what are considered the three most important discoveries made by Goodall

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    Jane Austen

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    Kate Smith Analysis of Extract from Chapter 3 of Pride and Prejudice The novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was first published in 1813. The novel has a third person narrator‚ is romantic fiction and covers themes such as love‚ romance‚ marriage‚ reputation‚ money‚ status‚ class and hierarchy but it also deals with the social changes that were happening at the time including more social mobility due to ‘new money’ and the role of women in society as they began to try and break down

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    Calamity Jane

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    General Custer as a scout at Fort Russell‚ Wyoming. She thought of herself as reckless and one of the best shots in the West. When they returned from Arizona‚ she was order to the Muscle Shell Indian outbreak. This is where she earned her name‚ "Calamity Jane." Over the next few years‚ she was ordered around‚ still continuing to dress and act like a man. She was found out to be a woman after being seen swimming nude. Later‚ she got severely sick and was in the hospital for 14 days. After regaining her strength

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    The novels Jane Eyre and Little Women are strikingly similar in many ways‚ and the characters Jane Eyre and Jo March are almost mirrors of each other. There are many similarities between Jane and Jo‚ and also some differences‚ as well. From childhood‚ although they find themselves in completely different situations‚ both girls experience many of the same trials in their younger years. Jane is an orphan who has no family to call her own‚ and lives with an aunt and cousins who despise and dislike her

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    Jane Eyre as Cinderella  In charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre‚ there are several paradigms that are used throughout the story; one of the most obvious is the Cinderella template. When looking at Jane Eyre through this template‚ the ideas of an orphan child‚ the stepfamily‚ and the fairy godmother seem to be all the characteristics of Cinderella.         Jane Eyre is the orphan child‚ which symbolizes Cinderella. Jane‚ like Cinderella lost both her parents and is dependent on others to care for

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    Jane Eyre Essay

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    Jane Eyre The novel Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman work that illustrates Jane’s coming-of-age. Each location in the story: Gateshead‚ Lowood‚ Thornfield‚ Moor House‚ and Ferndean provide realization of Jane’s growth and development‚ both spiritually and morally. The novel started off in Gateshead. Jane was ten years old and she lived there with her uncle Mr. Reed‚ who soon died‚ and his family. Mrs. Reed had great animosity toward Jane‚ mainly because of Mr. Reed’s favoritism toward Jane. Because

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    Jane Eyre Analysis

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    Journal Prompt #1 In the novel Jane Eyre there are two main male characters that are introduced to us‚ one being Mr. Rochester and the other‚ St. John. Mr. Rochester’s rude and abrupt personality reflects in the way he treats every women in his life and the same goes for St. John’s marble like appearance. As the reader can see Mr. Rochester is utterly the opposite of St. John. He isn’t handsome like he is‚ he doesn’t have a charming appeal to him as St. John does and he is not based on a tight religion

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    JANE EYRE EXAM

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    CRITIQUES OF JANE EYRE (a) Matthew Arnold – “The writer’s mind is full of nothing but hunger‚ rebellion and rage.” 1847 (b) Postmodernist critics would say that Jane Eyre is an expression of the writer Charlotte Bronte. (c) Marxist Approach to the novel – socioeconomical conditions of the time the book was written? (d) Lord David Cecil – “a sophisticated Cinderella story” (e) Gilbert and Gubar -“Women in Victorian novels are often presented with some type of anger or madness‚ which doesn’t accurately

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