Chimping Again: A Short Story

Change is unavoidable. It occurs in everyone’s life, no matter their circumstances. These changes can vary from being minor to being very significant. Although these changes can affect an individual in its aftermath, there is a lot of fear and anxiety that many people have prior to the change occurring. For example, a young child may worry about starting school due to the new environment and people. This essay will highlight the major changes in the story, “The Giraffe”, and changes in my life that shaped my thinking today. Furthermore, I will explore the similarities and differences between the events that occur in the story and in real life. This essay will highlight that you should embrace change, accept new experiences and face reality

W. W. Jacobs wrote the short story “The Monkey’s Paw” in 1902. A great number of adaptations of the story have since been created using different forms of media. The two which are being compared here are the play adaptation The Monkey’s Paw dramatized by Mara Rockliff and the 2011 film version The Monkey’s Paw by Ricky Lewis Jr. Both the play and film feature the White family receiving a monkey’s paw by which three wishes may be granted. The paw had a spell put on it by a holy man who wanted to show that fate rules people’s lives and that if people try to interfere, they will be sorry. The main differences between the play and the film are that film gives more background information about how and why the paw was obtained, uses more

Primates are one of the most interesting mammals on earth, not only because of their complex social structures, but because they hold so many similar characteristics to humans. Primates are often cited as our closest living relatives and on two separate occasions I observed four separate species of primates at the San Diego Zoo that can justify their use of their physical characteristics and behaviors that may be similar as well as different to the other primates and ours.

David Kherdian’s novel Monkey: A Journey to the West, begins with the creation story of Monkey. On the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, a magic stone is fertilized by the seeds of Heaven and Earth and is impregnated by divine inspiration. Following the embryonic stages of development, a stone egg is revealed. The stone egg instantly undergoes a physical transformation. “Once the egg was exposed to the elements, the wind soon transformed it into a stone monkey, complete in every way in all aspects of its being”(Kherdian 1). The stone monkey soon comes to life, explores his surroundings, and makes friends with other monkeys and other mammals. Monkey and his friends fool around in the forest and spot a curtain of water flowing from a waterfall.

How does a girl with such a broken past go on with her life? How can she go on knowing the only person she ever loved died, because of her? That’s Reign’s life. She bounced in and out of foster home, because even her own parents weren’t good enough to take care of her. Once she gotten older taking care of herself, having her own life, she still don’t know how to live on. Even with the help of her friend Andi, she still wasn’t the person she should be…Until she meets Lynxs. Lynx was a great guy that had PTSD, that helped her through her pain and turmoil. He help her open herself up and facing her problem head on. With Lynxs she finally started to see the purpose of her life. With Lynxs she had a purpose and love of another person. He is the man she never though she ever needed or deserved, but he is the man that became her everything.

A small body emerges from the green ground. Sure, it’s not very small but a body smaller than most bears. Moirai’s colorful eyes peered back and forth on the green terrain. A little ear flicks as she listens to the nothingness. “Where am I now?” She thought to herself. Most of the time she wasn’t quite sure how she got where she was and sometimes she remembered that part of her wished to go. Of course, It had never been specific where she wanted to go and even then sometimes the places were not what she thought she wanted. Somehow though, she had gotten accustomed to it. Moirai knew the drill now by heart; Step 1: Find out where you are. The bear put her nose to the ground now in taking the smell of grass and light moisture. This confirmed

Imagine a child, at first startled, but soon curious. He catches a critter that once frightened him. He pokes and prods this creature with interest, and not long after realizes the investigation might be better if the frog were tied down. He takes it home, finds some old string in the garage, and ties the frog down to some sticks. Once he is no longer content with just poking, his unsatisfied curiosity takes over again leaving him wondering what the insides look like. Since he is not allowed near the knives, he improvises with an old tin can. Quickly, his curiosity snowballs and soon his mother is scolding him while he stands motionless with a magnifier in his hand, the sun at his back, and a burning pile green slush at his feet. At

“Ned, come! Let’s go in the car,” called Jan. Ned already know how to come when he was called because Jan was teaching him a lot. Puppies like Ned had to learn a lot to be helping dogs. Jan helped him learn many things, like how to come, sit, and stay. Someday Ned would get to go away to a class, like Uncle Utile. His Uncle Utile had left a few weeks ago. He lived at the dog school now. Jan will take Ned to visit his Uncle. They will see the class. They will see the dogs learning to help people.

A guy walks across a hot coal pit at a company synergy meeting. A guru-like figure sitting nearby cross-legged begins giving a speech about believing in yourself, then stops cold. The guy has stopped in the middle of the pit. The guru guy just goes “uhhhhh…” and the guy’s like, “oh, sorry, sorry”, and sits down cross-legged as well, remaining expressionless the whole time as his butt sizzles.

In considering her rodent-esque, he certainly didn’t know how close to the truth he was. All her life, she had struggled with whether she was subhuman, or superhuman, but the fact remained that she was nothing more than a lab rat—a test subject with no choice in the matter. Prior to some… devastating events, her outlook on life was bleak—she was to remain in the facility, moving from her “private” quarters to various rooms for testing on the daily, getting fed nutrient-rich mush five times a day, exercising whenever they put her in the fitness room, et cetera. Her life was laid out for her, even down to most of her bathroom breaks. And though they told her that her room, with a small, twin-sized bed she sometimes rolled out of, in her sleep, in the middle of the night, with an incredibly small adjoined bathroom facility with what seemed like a two-foot-by-two-foot shower stall, a cold, harsh stainless steel toilet and sink, was private, but this was not true. There were cameras, hidden well, but still detectable, that could view her at any angle the scientists pleased. Degrading.

After almost spending the whole afternoon trying to find someone, Crayen and Paw took a break at the water fountain to get a drink. Taking a gulp of the water, Crayen started to feel a little funny. Soon a dust of smoke appeared and Hestia became visible. Hestia asked the travelers “Why are you searching for Mount Olympus?”

It was a hot brilliant day as the houses in Los Angeles were awoken with the signal of the red, flaming sun. I was eager with full, enjoyable spirit to wake up quickly as I dressed with a dash to my closet which was filled with dozens of clothes that were stacked up like mountain piles.

de Waal, F. (1982) Chimpanzee politics: power and sex among apes. New York: Harper and Row.

Once the sale was called, I picked up my wrap and nearly stumbled from the platform, my euphoria over the bidding war battling despair at the thought of my new master. I was fighting back tears when the boy who'd prepared me tugged me aside excitedly. "That was the King!"

What will you do if two of your brothers got eaten and the other one got kidnapped?Steven is an ordinary pig living a boring life,”Should I go save him?” He asked himself, “If I do, the same thing will happen to me…..(looking down at my oversized stomach)”But I just can’t let it be, I have to train myself crazy hard and save my brother, then, chop the wolf in half!”(Mmmm...I smell vanilla cake!)My training will begin after I finish this desert….So, the story started like this….One day, when Steven went out the door, he saw a mail from the door and opened it, it was from his third brother Bill, saying that both George and William got eaten by the bad wolf! Steven is filled with anger, so as soon as possible, he went to the wolf’s house, and when he is asleep, Steven got a torch and burned the wooden house, the wolf died in the flames. After his revenge, Steven and Bill celebrated of his success, and Steven ate one cake to another, he soon got fatter than all his brothers adding together!The next day, the wolf’s brother, Troy, heard that his brother Owen, got killed in the fire by Steven, so for revenge, he kidnapped Bill, and left Steven because he is to heavy to carry.And when Steven woke up this morning, and talking to himself. That’s what everything happened.