First observation of tool use in wild Gorillas This article is about an observation of tool use in wild Gorillas (gorilla gorilla). The study took place in northern Congo where they found two adult female gorillas use branch and trunk to cross a swamp created by elephants during food processing. First observation was an adult female gorilla named Leah‚ used branch as walking stick to test out the water deepness to move forward in the swamp to get to her crying baby. At her first encounter with the
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Humanmetrics Jung Typology Test™ Your Type INTJ Introvert(11%) iNtuitive(62%) Thinking(62%) Judging(33%) You have slight preference of Introversion over Extraversion (11%) You have distinct preference of Intuition over Sensing (62%) You have distinct preference of Thinking over Feeling (62%) You have moderate preference of Judging over Perceiving (33%) INTJ Description by Marina Margaret Heiss To outsiders‚ INTJs may appear to project an aura of "definiteness"‚ of self-confidence. This
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I believe Chris McCandless enjoyed the idea of transcendentalism. This is a philosophy that says; thought/spiritual things are more real than human experiences. This is shown throughout the book‚ Into the Wild‚ based off of his wanting to be away from society. Throughout the book Chris shows his mild hatred for the current society and life he was living "...he arranged all his paper currency in a pile on the sand - a pathetic little stack of ones and fives and twenties - and put a match to it."
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Johnny Wong ENG 214-67 Nancy Sours Fall 2012 Irate Truth In his nonfiction book Into the Wild‚ Jon Krakauer starts out the story with the death of young Chris McCandless and his two-year adventure ending at Alaska in April 1992. The discovery of Chris McCandless’s body influences Krakauer to write a brief article of his death for the Outside magazine. Readers of the magazine had different point of views for Chris’s death. Some admired him for his “courage and noble ideals” (Author’s note)‚ while
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Call of the Wild‚ by Jack London‚ begins in 1897‚ at the start of the Klondike gold rush. The discovery of gold in the Klondike region motivated thousands of men to head for the far north‚ all of them in need of dogs to pull sleds across the frigid arctic trails. Buck is an incredibly large dog‚ half Shepherd and half St. Bernard‚ who has enjoyed a leisurely life on a California ranch. He is stolen and shipped to the Yukon by his family gardener‚ Manuel. Buck learns to survive in this harsh environment
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Gary Cooper was the first star to wear denim on screen in High Noon‚ and then more famously Marlon Brando in the 1953 film The Wild One‚ before James Dean appeared denim clad in the film Rebel Without a Cause in 1955. Dean and Brando both represented a bohemian counterculture that pre-empted the movements of the 1960s: they played young GIs who returned from war‚ not to move into
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Running Wild James Graham Ballard James Graham Ballard’s Running Wild takes us to the Pangbourne Village estate just outside Reading 30 miles from London. The once wealthy solitary Pangbourne Village estate has been reduced to nothing more than a mere ghost town. Thirty-two people have been brutally and systematically murdered. We follow the forensic maverick Doctor Richard Greville and his sidekick Sergeant Payne as they unravel the fate of the unfortunate Pangbourne victim’s. A mystery
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Cited: Into_the_Wild_(book). (n.d.). Retrieved January 27‚ 2012‚ from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_%28book%29 (1996). In J. Krakauer‚ Into The Wild.
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Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” focuses on the beauty of life as well as surviving its everyday challenges and difficulties. It is a perfect mix of both the underlying and the obvious meanings. The poem is in free-verse so punctuations are used sparingly throughout the poem but enough commas are distributed on areas where there should be a slight “pause”; significantly chosen words are placed individually per line. The 1st line “You do not have to be good” (Oliver 1) marks the obvious soulful
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Obligation to Family The book "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer is a story about a man by the name of Chris McCandless. He is a man who grew up in a DC suburb‚ graduated college and decides to change the ways of his life. He journeys across the country‚ and finds his way to Alaska. His means are to leave the material lifestyle and become at one with nature. During Chris’s adventure he seems to neglect all communication with his family and over look the fact that they care about his health and future
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