Charles G. Koch

Altruism in Elephants: Empathy and Higher Cognitive Ability It is generally thought that altruism is a behavior only displayed by simplistic creatures, such as ants or honeybees, which do not possess the cognitive ability to evaluate short or long-term reciprocal benefits. Very few mammal species have been observed to display truly altruistic behaviors. Dolphins and elephants, as well as the great apes, are examples of the few mammalian species which commonly display altruistic behavior,…

Chapter 1 One, two, three, four, Grand jeté. I focus on my steps which echo on the stage in unison with the calm beat of the music. This is it, the moment I have been preparing for non-stop for months. I am dancing Swan Lake. My name is Odette. Alright, so my name isn’t actually Odette, it’s Annie. The boring, brunette, ballerina who likes to escape into fantasy lands such as the land of the Nutcracker, Swan Lake, or Cinderella. However, the only way I can do this is through my dancing. This is…

In The Canterbury Tales the Pardoner is a unique character that travels the land with ill intentions. The narrator describes his appearance as “This Pardoner had hair as yellow as wax…he had bulging eyeballs... His chin no beard had harbored, nor would harbor,Smoother than ever chin was left by barber.” This character appearance is quite normal, but what really sets his character apart from the others making his unique is his mental state and his occupation. The Pardoner job is to travel the…

One of the main reasons you would go to a mortuary, is if you have died or a member of the funeral. Simple. Although, that’s not so much the case at the Regent Street Mortuary anymore. Now, anyone is free to go and explore, and in this article, you can find out the history behind this beautiful structure. Located in Regent St, Chippendale, near Central, and the mortuary is constructed mainly of sandstone. It backs onto the railway, and is surrounded by gardens. The gardens consist of neatly…

The movie “The Little Prince”, is about a little girl who lives a very grown-up life with her mom. In the movie, her mother tries to prepare her for adulthood. They move into a house next to a nutty older man named the Aviator. The Aviator introduces the girl to an extraordinary world where anything is possible, which is the world of the little prince. The older man in this film is an exaggerated stereotype because he's like the crazy older man who lives on the block. All the neighbors try to…

Once there was a girl whose name was Robin, but everyone called her Red Riding Hood because of the red hood and cape she wore when she visited Grandmother. It was a raggedy clothing, but the nicest clothing she had left. Granny, a sorceress, had no real grandkids, as far as anyone knew. She liked to project a kind image, at least to outsiders anyways. Everyone was in debt to Grammy. She took tribute of the best of every harvest, the first pressings of the grapes, the dressmaker's finest fabrics,…

Even thirty years after junior high school you can still find adults playing the game of wanting to be socially accepted, filling pressured to fulfil certain social criteria to be considered a respectable individual. One's respectability is typically based upon their occupations, whom they associated themselves with how they look. Variables such as Occupation, Prestige, and Income can determine one’s outlook in life and social mobility throughout society. Society has this tendency to flock to…

Foreshadowing is the warning or indication of a future event in a book. Great Expectations is a classic American novel written by the famous Charles Dickens. Pip, the main character that we watch grow up, meets a convict and is forced to help him by getting him a file and food. This experience with his convict stays with him throughout his life, because it was such a strange and dangerous memory. He also meets an old lady named Miss Havisham who influences many of his decisions, because he…

F. Scott Fitzgerald has a very critical view of the world and he illustrates that in the short story “Winter Dreams”. The main character Dexter, lives a life full of want and contempt, longing for Judy. This story is six sections long which infold the unlikely lives of Dexter and Judy. F. Scott Fitzgerald loads his story with lots of symbolism, starting with the title of this short story. Fitzgerald uses the seasons throughout his story to create a depressing mood to help develop Dexter. The…

Over the course of Hinton’s novel ‘The Outsiders’, the ‘Greaser gang’ who live on the east side of town, were commonly standardised as juvenile delinquents, who struggled to make a living as a result of being and impecunious and underprivileged, yet persevered to value companionship over accessories. The Greaser gang have it rough. Living amongst the Socs in a society where they were characterised as being “poorer than the Socs and the middle class ” (page 3), Hinton makes it clear to the reader…