Essay On Jane Goodall

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Jane Goodall is not only a famous anthropologist, she is also known for her work as a primatologist, actor, screenwriter, and researcher, but she took a huge interest with animals, especially chimpanzees. Ever since childhood Goodall has shown an interest in animals. By the age of 26 in the year 1960, Goodall traveled to Gombe where she first started her study of chimpanzees.To get to where she is today she worked very hard not just to get to Africa but also to pay for college. “When Goodall graduated from high school, she couldn’t afford college tuition. Instead, she worked for years as a secretary, a waitress, and a filmmaker’s assistant.” (Source E). She was so determined to further study with chimps she worked for years to pay for college. …show more content…
Goodall was determined to get to Africa, even now she is still determined to keep researching chimps. “She worked as a secretary, as an assistant editor in a film studio, and as a waitress”(Source A). She had a hard time paying for college but did that stop her? No, it didn't it just made her want to work harder and get the money to pay for college. According to Source B, “In her spare time, she worked at a London-based documentary film company to finance a long-anticipated trip to Africa.” Even after she worked so much to get money to pay for college she worked even harder to get money to pay for her trip to Africa. After she got her college degree she went right into working toward her trip so she could start her career she worked so hard to go to college for. Andrea Koczela the author of source E claims, “Goodall first traveled to Africa when she was 23 years old to visit a friend in Kenya. There, she met famous anthropologist Dr. Louis S. B. Leakey who hired Goodall as his assistant. He later sent her to Tanzania to observe chimpanzees.” Although she loved animals, her first trip to Africa was to visit a friend. There she met another anthropologist who hired her to be his assistant. Even though all of these obstacles got in her way she kept working harder toward her

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