plans a trip for seven weeks to Africa where she will study gorillas and meet scientists Louis and Mary Leakey. Fossey goes with the Leakey’s to look at a giraffe fossil at an excavation site. She ends up falling into the ditch where the fossil was‚ breaking her ankle and throwing up all over the fossil. After two weeks of recovering‚ Fossey goes to study gorillas with Alan Root‚ a photographer‚ and his wife‚ Joan. After watching the gorillas‚ Fossey returns to her hometown‚ Louisville‚ Kentucky. Dr
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the process of collecting data and information in order to obtain knowledge about the research topic. With these definitions we can say‚ without a doubt‚ that Dian Fossey was a researcher. But why was she a “good” researcher? By reading the book ‘Gorillas in the Mist’ we can better identify why we can consider Dian a “good” researcher. She illustrates four important traits needed in order to accomplish comprehensive research. These traits are determination‚ consistency‚ knowledge‚ and having passion
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In the passage of The Case for the Personhood of Gorillas‚ the authors‚ Francine Patterson and Wendy Gordon make exceptionally compelling arguments as to why animals like gorillas should be considered to be more than just animals. In this passage‚ they inform the reader about a certain gorilla named Koko‚ as well as her eighteen year old son named Michael. Both of these Gorillas have expressed certain elements and features that were once upon a time thought to be exclusive to humans and humans alone
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a very tough‚ hostile exterior and not at all happy about having to be taught anything by Mrs. Moore. For instance‚ she states "we kinda hated her too‚ hated the way we did the winos who cluttered up our parks and pissed on our hand ball walls" (Bambara 121). On this hot summer day‚ Mrs. Moore felt that there was a lesson to learn at FAO Schwartz‚ a very expensive‚ upper class toy store in downtown Manhattan. After stepping out of the cab and peering into the window‚ Sylvia knows that this is not
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Economic inequality is something that has been a problem in the United States for years and has not gotten much better. The author‚ Toni Cade Bambara‚ wrote a short story called “The Lesson” which is focused on economic inequality during the sixties. Bambara especially focused on the economic inequality in African American communities. She‚ also‚ focused on social equality of women and African Americans (Champion 119). Most of her short stories expose social inequalities and try to encourage people
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the margins: "The Lesson" of Toni Cade Bambara by Katy M. Wright "What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain’t in on it? Where we are is who we are‚ Miss Moore always pointin out. But it don’t necessarily have to be that way‚ she always adds then waits for somebody to say that poor people have to wake up and demand their share of the pie and don’t none of us know what kind of pie she talking about in the first damn place." --Toni Cade Bambara‚ "The Lesson" African American
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which only complicates the family situation. The family is not affluent enough to provide for another life‚ so Ruth prepares to abort her child. B. Transition + another main point that supports your argument in your thesis: In The Lessons‚ Bambara reflects the racial injustice and socio-economic inequalities life of African American. 1. Children in The Lessons are black and poor a. The story is a lesson and a window for the reader into Bambara’s reality‚ as much as it is a lesson and a window
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A) Gorillas in the Mist is the non-fiction story of a Kentucky woman’s experience living among the wild gorillas of the Virungas Mountains. The conservation parks that she worked in are located in areas that cover parts of the three African countries of Rwanda‚ Uganda‚ and Zaire. Dian Fossey was inspired to devote her life to these primates by the famous anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey‚ who funded her research. Through her stay in the wild terrain Dian soon thinks of as home‚ she educates us on
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While both sides are arguing over the issue of the language understanding‚ some believe that Koko‚ the gorilla who is learning sign language‚ is intelligent enough for communicating‚ some believe that she is just randomly using the signs‚ and a trained monkey could do better. These arguments will not be solved unless there is a clear‚ agreeable definition for both sides. Some people think that Koko isn’t at a toddler level‚ much less at kindergarten level. However‚ Koko does understand some common
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