Bronx Zoo

Understanding the contextual factors at your schhol and within your classroom can include a variety of things such as culture, economics, demographics and even academic history. As teachers you need to remain flexible and understand the different collective and individual learning needs of all your students. The issues you may face as a teacher may connect to the local community and may need to be taken into account when instructing students in your classroom. It is important as a teacher to…

A single human’s appearance varies from other humans because of the genetic composition that is unique to every human. Genetics accounts for unique physical attributes that separate one race of people from another race. But unfortunately this has brought out racism in the world and this could be a cause of certain races trying to prove their superiority from other races. Racism has been part of society for a long time and sadly it is not showing any signs of going away anytime soon. Racism has…

snakebite treatment center at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where cops took the critter, determined it was a non-venomous California king snake. But how did it end up in Teddy's bed? A little sleuthing determined that the serpent had escaped two weeks ago from…

This was a time of immense social, economic and racial oppression for those living in areas such as the Bronx, Bedford Stuyvesant and Harlem. Hip-hop culture began as a response to these city policies and was an outlet for people, especially the youth, to express their anger at the prejudiced city government. Hip-hop was characterized by rap (the spoken word)…

He was locked in a monkey cage in the Bronx zoo. He was a small black man who who was captured from Congo and was brought to the Unites States in 1904 by Samuel Verner an explorer. He looked nothing like the people around him due to his height and dark black features and therefore was considered…

Doggie was Jennings companion and provided him with the closest thing he knew to a friend. When he couldn’t stand to spend another night at home with fighting or ran away from one of the many orphanages he experienced, Jennings found refuge in the Bronx Zoo. He spent many nights here with Doggie, and felt most himself. The people were nice and he got actual meals, unlike any of the other places he’d ever lived or bleak soup received at the homes. His childhood shaped him into who he is as a man…

peculiarities to an ape were a direct result of the evolutionary bridge between ape and man. Ota Benga, a human, with equal autonomy, emotions, and thoughts to that of any human, was placed into an iron cage like an animal and sold for exhibition to the Bronx Zoo after first appearing at an anthropology exhibit. He was an object of observation and humiliation and was forced to endure the horrendous stenches that ejected out of his neighboring monkey’s bodies. All this for what anthropologists…

she was her whole world. Luna also mentions that it is just her father, little brother, and her now. Luna then talks about her one and only crushe Oliver he is 16 and plays the cello. Luna then mentions that her family has a tradition to go to the Bronx zoo and how after her mother died the first time going was very odd. Luna then decides to go to her mother 's studio and finds her mother 's phone with 7 messages. She decides that she will check the messages but only one at a time. The first…

In this paper I will explore the ways in which humans identify moral agency and how it affects their treatment of other beings. I will make the argument that the treatment of others based on one’s interpretation of their moral agency is arbitrary and wrong. To begin I will start with a discussion of what characteristics moral agency are comprised of and what it means to humans, followed by an analysis of how these attributes are manifested in different beings and how it affects their treatment…

The idea of evolution was once taboo for its new ideas at the time, it was seen as wrong because it challenged ideas already established about the world, especially how life came to be. Evolution is a relatively new idea discovered by Charles Darwin. This discovery came to be when Darwin was traveling along the Galapagos islands where he studied finches and discovered that these finches had all originated from one species of finch and eventually became differentiated leading the species to split…