of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project in Kenya‚ has studied the same population of elephants for 44 years. She has born in 1940 in Ossining‚ New York‚ U.S.A. In 1972‚ she started the famous Amboseli Elephant Research Project at Amboseli National Park in Kenya. Since then she and her research associates have identified and recorded more than 1‚400 elephants belonging to 50 families at an immense of 400 square miles. For 14 years Cynthia Moss traced the histories of 25 elephants living in four related
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and critics. In a particular community the Ogun figure might be mistaken for something else in a neighbouring town. For example‚ the nature of Nigerian politics after independence influenced Wole Soyinka’s representation of Ogun. In A Dance of the Forest (1963)‚ Soyinka represents Ogun (Demoke) as an arrogant and obstinate god who anchors conflicts and riots. Thus‚ Ogun‚ the misinterpreted and arrogant god contrasts Sunnie Ododo’s presentation of Ogun as the god of justice in Hard Choice (2011). Ogun’s
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projected continuation. It has affected many parts of our world‚ most known and some unknown. One area of Earth that has been affected in particular is the rainforests. Although the effects of global warming can seem immeasurable‚ because humans and forests alike have been blamed for current conditions‚ global warming is causing plants and vegetation to grow at alarming rates‚ animals in the rainforest to go extinct‚ and ultimately it will cause changes in human life. “There is no doubt that the tropical
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On Eating Elephants When I was younger‚ I compared my grandfather to that of an elephant‚ 13 feet tall‚ 15‚400 pounds‚ and a heart weighing up to 46 pounds. A big‚ broad‚ vulnerable creature‚ towering over the rest of the family. Ten months of hairy cell leukemia‚ a rare strand of the already rare strand of chronic lymphotic leukemia claiming his body made him so small‚ just skin and bones. My best friend sat 205 miles away over Skype and asked: “How do you get rid of an elephant in a room?” I imagined
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The novel‚ Elephant Run by Roland Smith is mainly about a boy named Nick Freestone. He can be best described as a brave person. There are several reasons why Nick exhibits this trait. First of all‚ Nick’s mother sends him to live in Burma with his father‚ to keep him in a safer place. “Nick held his breath. After a long pause she said‚ ‘I agree with him. I’m sending you to Burma’” (Smith 4). This shows that Nick is brave because‚ to some‚ leaving people in your family can sometimes be tense and scary
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A. Elephant Everybody knows how it feels to be stricken with a case of writer’s blockage and be unable to move on as you are in the middle of an assignment. But when the situation is the same way in your life and you are permanently stuck with a writer’s blockage in your way of living you get in a state of disillusion where all your thoughts are passing. This state of disillusion is exactly what Polly Clark accentuates in the main character in the short story “Elephant”. The short story starts
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When the Elephants Dance Major Presentation There will be 3 groups per class. There will be 5-6 students per group at SL (12 F will have 2 groups of 6 and one group of 5 – we have 17 students and in 12 E there will be 2 groups of 5 and one groups of 6 – we have 16 students). Decide who will answer what aspect of the character/imagery/folklore associated or from that character. I would prefer you to create powerpoints or google docs so they can later be accessed by all your classmates. This will
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------------------------------------------------- Cudia‚ Jane Victoria A. February 23‚ 2011 2007-15891 Soc Sci 180 Role of Women in Forest Management Increasingly‚ the role of indigenous peoples in forest management and conservation had been recognized on the international level. Even if forest management and conservation had been an indigenous practice since time immemorial‚ recognition of indigenous peoples roles started only three or four decades ago. However‚ indigenous peoples
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Ecological Restoration of Forests and Fires One of the most predominate ecosystems is the forest community. Covering about one-fourth of the land area on Earth‚ forests consist mainly of trees and other woody vegetation‚ growing closely together. The trees can be large and densely packed‚ as they are in the coastal forests of the Pacific Northwest‚ or they can be relatively small and sparsely scattered‚ as they are in the dry tropical forests of sub-Saharan Africa. Forests are complex ecosystems
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George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” 1. On page 517 of The Norton Reader‚ Shorter Edition‚ the first question asks‚ “Why did Orwell shoot the elephant? Account for the motives that led him to shoot. Then categorize them as personal motives‚ circumstantial motives‚ social motives‚ or political motives. Is it easy to assign his motives to categories? Why or why not * Orwell did shoot the elephant because he felt the pressure that came from thousands of native people behind him when he
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