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Elephants now join an elite club of social cooperators: chimpanzees, hyenas, rooks, and humans. In the video Elephants show cooperation, the article Elephants can lend a helping trunk, and the passage Elephants know when they need a helping trunk in a cooperative task, The authors demonstrate the intelligence of elephants. They conduct an experiment which shows how elephants work together to achieve a goal. All three sources illustrate the cognitive ability of these sagacious creatures. In the video

This biography of Gustave Flaubert focuses on Orientalism throughout Flaubert's life and literature. However, instead of showing how Flaubert's life influenced his writing, Gavin Murray-Millar gave insight to how Flaubert's writing influenced his life. The essay is organized into different books Flaubert wrote, which causes events in Flaubert's life to be out of order, but most are marked with dates. He uses many secondary sources and a few primary sources, making the biography a reliable source

Feminine Monstrosities: The Portrayal of Women in Macbeth and Its Lasting Consequences Fastforward a few hundred years and imagine this: Shakespeare’s Macbeth set in 2015, where everyone has an iPhone and guns are murder weapons instead of daggers or swords. Macbeth has the luxury of texting and making phone calls and King Duncan arrives to the Macbeth residence in a stretch limousine escorted by the NYPD. Lady Macbeth has more rights than she could have ever dreamed of in medieval Scotland— but

With efforts to resolve the problem of the lack of a clear-cut definition of ritual, anthropologist Rook (1985) attempted to break down the ritual into four components: ritual artifacts, ritual script, ritual roles, and a ritual audience. Ritual artifacts are items that are in some way symbolic to a message that reflects the ritual experience, including

Rules of Knucklebones 1. You're only allowed to use one hand to jockey*, pick up and catch the jacks and do sweeps. 2. After you complete one step, move on to the next and keep going until you drop a jack or make a mistake. 3. When you jockey, some of the jacks will fall to the ground. Don’t move them. You have to pick them up from where they fall, unless the step you're doing allows you to pick them up. 4. The more jacks you catch when jockeying, the better. If you don¹t catch any, it's the next

Beauty has become a major topic in our society for quite some time. This has led it to become regarded as important and an ongoing issue. Beauty is depicted based on how it is perceived by a certain class, race, and gender. Eventually changing the definition of how beauty is viewed. Beauty however, has become more important to women as majority research focuses on gender difference and the experience of physical attractiveness (Poran 2002). Since the early centuries, there have been numerous attempts

Rooks references a study which found that the achievement test score gap between the rich and poor has grown by 60% since the 1960s. So the tests have failed their job, but why? Evidence targets 3 keynote reason of failure, in which first is Professor Plunker’s

Synthesis Essay on Standardized Testing Standardized testing in the United States started in the mid- 1800’s (Standardized Tests - ProCon.org). This kind of testing was originally created to measure students’ performance and progress in school (Standardized Tests - ProCon.org). In recent years, the public school system has relied heavily on the information this test provides, in doing so creating controversy. Other than being a student myself, and participating in multiple standardized exams such

pessimistic. Crooks is always being disrespected for his and he can't say anything about it to stand up for himself because he could easily get killed. When rooks gets a little out of place arguing with curley's wife she then says “ i could get you strung up on a tree so quick it ain't even funny” (pg 81). After curley's wife said that to Crooks, rooks just wanted everyone to leave him alone. Crooks is often alone and has no one to talk to. HIm being alone all the me could cause a great deal of depression

In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Shakespeare often uses a motif of birds in order to foreshadow future events and relationships. Shakespeare achieves this by likening two influential characters, Macbeth and Macduff, to an owl and a crow, respectively, as well as using references to other types of birds in order to set a tone. The first major mention of birds occurs when Duncan and his entourage arrive at Dunsinane, about which Banquo remarks that “The temple-haunting martlet… Hath made his pendant