Discovery in the Jungle
As the sun rose from its bed, most of the boys were awake apart from
Piggy. As the older boys discussed what they were going to do that
day, the littleuns were looking for fruit in the forest. Luke was
about 7 years old and had black hair. He was one of the older
littleuns and he was not scared to go further in the jungle. His eyes
were a light blue. He was popular around his group and most littleuns
liked him.
The littleuns were walking around in groups like a group of excited
monkeys, jumping around, playing but also they were looking for
fruits. As they were walking through the jungle, Luke spotted
something. While the group went towards fruit trees Luke went in the
opposite direction, he has seen a metallic object lying beneath a
small pile of leaves, it seemed to be hidden, he slowly reach for the
pile and slowly, unsurely began to remove the leaves one by one. At
that point Luke seemed like he had found a toy. His face was bright
and he was smiling. He seemed amazed about what he had found.
" Johnny, come here look what I have found," shouted Luke with
excitement. While he had called for Johnny the entire group of
Littleuns came to see what was going on.
" It's a gun," said Percival bewildered. Luke started to run for the
beech to show all the older boys what he had found. His little feet
made very small footprints in sand as he ran up to Ralph. At first
Ralph ignored him until he saw what was in Luke's hands
" Wow, it's a gun," Ralph said in disbelief. His childish side came
about as he began to jump around excitedly. "It's a real gun" he said
again. As he began to recover after the moment of excitement, he
slowly began to realise about where this was all going to end up.
"There must be someone else on the Island as none of the boys could
No matter who you are, you are afraid of something. On the other hand, you also have things that you love and are even awestruck by its presence. Goodall describes her encounter with the bushbuck as an amazing sight while her encounter with the leopard was full of fear.
Good evening! I am coming to you from inside a tiny submarine that is only 8 microns long! Now you’re probably wondering why I am inside a tiny submarine that has been shrunk down so small, let me explain. My assistants and I have been alerted that this healthy 27 year-old female has some form of bacteria invading the lower lobe of her right lung. I am going to pilot my sub into her lung in order to have a better look. My assistant will inject me into her femoral vein, that is located in her leg, and I will go north, through the heart into the lungs. My submarine also has been coated with a special substance so that the white blood cells do not think that I am a foreign object. I’m ready and the patient is ready, LET’S DO THIS!
The 1920’s, also known as the “Roaring Twenties”, was a period of peace and prosperity that overshadowed the losses of the Great War. There were flappers, Prohibition; and widespread popularity of Jazz music. Apart from this culture, the Scopes Monkey Trial would become a widespread controversy between traditionalism and modernity. Traditionalists would have a more conservative view, while the Modernists would have a more liberal behavior.
I think the Scopes trial brought together a great cast of characters: three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan; America's best defense attorney, Clarence Darrow: and its most popular journalist, H. L. Mencken.
April 3, 1934 a leader was born. A leader by the name of Jane Goodall, an extremely well rounded, primatologist of our time. Although this may seemed distant to many, it was actually her calling. At the age of one, Goodall received a stuffed chimpanzee that her father Herbert Goodall gave to her. She named the chimpanzee Jubilee, which she still keeps with her in her home in England. That was the beginning of her curious mind. She opened many eyes on the situation with chimpanzees being harmed in the jungles and discovered that they are just like “us” humans.
Primate (Latin: "prime, first rank"), which includes prosimians and simians ( Goodman, Tagle, Fitch, Bailey, Czelusniak ,and Koop ,1990). Primates are descendent that emerge from their predecessor that lived in the trees of tropical forests; A lot of primate features shows how they adapt to survive in this demanding habitat.Majority of the primate species are pertain to trees.
In Jane Goodall’s “In the Forests of Gombe,” she travels to the beautiful forests of Gombe to explore chimpanzee. She watches over the chimpanzees that she has been observing for over twenty years. She also travels to Gombe to get away from the sad associations that reminded her about the death of her husband, Derek. During her trip, she experiences an epiphany when she is stuck under a tree in the forest. The epiphany confirmed her view on whether religion and science can coexist. There are two concepts of “windows in Jane Goodall’s “In the Forests of Gombe.” One of which is the scientific window. The scientific window views the world in a very logical and natural way. The other window is the religious window. The religious window views the
The Corps of Discovery achieved many great things during their expedition. They formed values on cooperation, befriended the Indians, and mapped the west. To completely understand the gravity of how important the explorer’s greatest achievement, mapping the west, truly is, then greatness needs to be defined. The dictionary defines greatness as “the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence.” This being said, mapping the west was the Corps of Discovery’s most important and great achievement.
After graduating in 1897, he enrolled at Columbia University to continue his studies and, using a pseudonym, wrote dime novels to support himself.
The monkeys of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book are a very unique group of characters. They are viewed by the other animals of the jungle, or the Jungle People as they call themselves, as outcasts and outlaws. The most prominent chapter they occur in, “Kaa’s Hunting”, shows their lawless, shiftless, and uncivilized way of life. This image in itself does not give off any racist undertone. However, Disney’s adaption of The Jungle Book carries this view of the monkeys, while also giving them strong attributes that are commonly associated with African-Americans.
Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle is a political statement piece that was written to show the conditions of immigrants workers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Sinclair, through weeks of extensive research, gathered enough information to form a story based on the evidence he had gathered. Although The Jungle is a work of fiction, Sinclair’s novel is still said to be a primary source due the the fact that it was based on research he was doing personally, it was written near the time it was set, and it contains many historical accuracies.
Around five to seven million years ago in Africa, a man/ape primate ventured about in the wooded areas. (Morgan, 1982) “My thesis is that a branch of this primitive ape-stock was forced by competition from life in the trees to feed on the sea-shores and to hunt for food, shellfish, sea-urchins etc.”, quoted from Alister Hardy. For the need of food, shelter, space, and resources, the hominid relocated from its traditional environment of the tree, toward water. As evident today, many species of monkeys and apes seek these resources in trees. According to Elaine Morgan, the man/ape primates that stayed and continued to survive in the wooded environment millions of years ago, are the direct ancestors of today’s monkey and ape primates, while the ones that chose to move to the water are the direct ancestors of today’s humans. As proposed by AAT, this is the point along the evolutionary line in which humans and ape primates split.
The gorillas live mainly in coastal West Africa in the Congo, Zaire, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon. Gorillas live in the rain forest. They usually live on the ground but build nest in trees to sleep in. Gorilla troops keep a 15-20 square mile range which often overlaps the range of other troops. There are three different kinds of gorillas. The eastern lowland gorilla the western lowland and the mountain gorilla. They are herbivores and eat only wild celery, roots, tree bark pulp, fruit, stems of many plants and bamboo shoots. They spend nearly half their day eating.
When a paleontologist makes a discovery about Dinosaurs it is usually a celebrated event and will appear on all sorts of covers of magazines and even newspapers, with good reason. These discoveries are often quite exciting for a few reasons. The whole experience of finding a fossil that is hundreds of millions of years old is quite an adrenaline rush, but the fact that each discovery has the ability to answer questions in relation to evolution is quite amazing. Each finding of Dinosaur remains can help answer questions of how that certain species evolved from another. If our species can fully understand how Dinosaurs evolved, maybe in the future we can learn something about our evolution. Without discoveries from the past how is our society supposed to persevere and learn from mistakes that may lead to our own extinction, and who to learn better from than perhaps the dinosaurs that have gone through many stages of evolution and have faced extinction.
It was one of those days where you’re glad to be awake early in the morning, before the afternoon gets scorching hot. The feeling of the cool breeze gently caressing your arms and legs is always something to look forward to, and many people would be swayed into taking a nice walk outside under the trees.