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    Through a Window: My Thirty Years With The Chimpanzees of Gombe by Jane Goodall is Jane Goodall’s documentation of the time she spent studying chimpanzees in Africa. Although it mostly talks about the animals‚ of course‚ it also talks about her working with the people in Africa and her family. She went to Africa to study the chimpanzees and see how they are alike‚ and different‚ from humans. She first began her work in Gombe in 1964 with two research assistants‚ at what eventually became The Gombe

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    How Houses Can Reflect More Than Social Status Typically‚ a house is the reflection of one’s wealth and societal status. In her novel‚ Pride and Prejudice‚ Jane Austen creates the almost immediate judgment of social class by the estates of Rosings Park and Pemberley in order to develop her characters. However‚ Austen uses the estates to form a different idea of what social status symbolizes. While both Rosings Park and Pemberley are estates of similar class‚ Austen provides a different insight

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    Cassandra Land Essay Question: Evaluate the effectiveness of Jane Yolen’s use of fairytale conventions and themes to explore issues associated with the Holocaust in Briar Rose? Jane Yolen uses fairytale conventions as an allegory to portray her version to the Holocaust. Fairytales original purpose was to teach people about morals and lessons regarding powerful emotions like: greed‚ hate‚ envy‚ and jealousy. The story of Briar Rose idolizes three characters Becca‚ Gemma‚ and Josef Potocki. The Briar

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    The Plea for the Chimpanzees In the story “The Plea for the Chimpanzees” by Jane Goodall‚ Jane writes of a personal experience on her visit to a testing center where they use various primates to test products‚ one being chimpanzees. She was very upset with what she had seen during her visit. Chimpanzees were being treated horribly during and after being tested. Their living conditions were not what she would have thought them to be. They were quite worse. They had very little a social life with

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    “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself...” This was true in FDR’s time‚ but not when you are one of the many people the devil has put in his arithmetic. In the book The Devil’s Arithmetic‚ Jane Yolen‚ has made a made a wonderfully unbelievable book showing what it was like when if you were in the concentration camps. Although you may not want to recommend this book to a second grader‚ this is a historical fiction that is almost on the spot with its historical facts. The fact still remains

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    Winda Rosita Dewi 10211144022 Jane Eyre’s Struggle for Gender Equality in the novel Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte Equal is being the same in quantity‚ size‚ degree‚ value or status (Oxford Dictionary). From that definition‚ it can be said that equality is something that usually some people looking for‚ to show that their status are also same with the others. The inequalities are usually felt by women‚ because of their gender is related with something that weak‚ slow‚ home‚ and so on. Society

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    Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin Key facts: full title: Northanger Abbey author: Jane Austen type of work: Novel genre: ’Bildungsroman’(novel of education or moral development); parody of Gothic novels language: English (British‚ late 1700s/early 1800s) time and place written: 1798–1799 in Austen’s home in Steventon‚ Hampshire. It was sold to a publisher in 1803 but not published. Later‚ after Austen’s success with other novels‚ she bought back the manuscript and revised it slightly

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    Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Persuasion by Jane Austen 2 by Jane Austen (1818) Chapter 1 3 Chapter 1 Sir Walter Elliot‚ of Kellynch Hall‚ in Somersetshire‚ was a man who‚ for his own amusement‚ never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour‚ and consolation

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    In the year 1960‚ Jane Goodall‚ a young‚ naive and optimistic secretarial school graduate‚ was sent to Gombe Stream Research Center located in East Africa in the country of Tanzania off of Kungwe Bay by fossil-hunter Louis Leakey where she would spend the next thirty years observing pan troglodytes‚ or chimpanzees‚ in their natural habitat and to study their social life‚ including topics such as friendship‚ loyalty‚ and social power. During this time‚ Goodall made several crucial discoveries that

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    actions might have an impact on you. In Jane Eyre written by Charolotte Bronte‚ there is a female who is highly disliked by her aunt. There could be many reasons for that‚ one being jealously. Throughout this story we‚ the readers‚ see the many people that Jane comes in contact with‚ for instance‚ Mrs. Reed‚ Helen‚ and Adèle and we see

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