Orangutan

As I embark on a journey to adulthood, I often find myself referring back to my résumé’s roadmap to define where I was, where I am, and where I will be. I find that it has been decorated with formality and intriguing action verbs like orchestrated, designed, and executed, throughout the years, yet the simplest sentence on the page makes me most proud. “I am a chicago public school graduate” and that simple statement defines who I am more than any other statement. Of course my parents instilled…

Stranded, lost between your soul and the earth, stuck with two monsters, a four hundred- fifty pound Bengal Tiger and your mind. Pi Patel was an innocent sixteen year old indian boy, caught in a spiral of unfortunate events. Pi was first devastated when his parents said the family was selling the zoo and moving to Canada. Then, the ship (Tsimtsum) sunk in the Mariana’s Trench don’t think it sank here. He luckily survived, even after being trapped with Richard Parker (the Bengal Tiger) for two…

Tropical peat land forests are home to thousand plant and several endangered species such as Sumatran Tiger and Orangutan. As yet, million of people in Sumatera and Kalimantan are also relying on peat lands. For people, peat land is source of life for local inhabitants. People use peat lands to improve local economic situation by fishing and agricultural. The other…

Animal Rights has been a controversial topic for thousands of years. They date back to the Romans and Greeks in the sixth century BC. The belief for the inalienable rights of animals has been both fought for and fought against by many around the world. Some groups of people are very strong in these beliefs and take major actions to get the attention of society. Regardless of beliefs, animal testing and animal rights are important issues that should be recognized as such. One of the first…

Humans fall into the category of primate along with species such as the ape, gorilla, orangutan, tarsier and many others. Some defining characteristics of primates are a versatile skeletal structure, opposable thumbs, forward facing vision, larger brains, nails instead of claws, and behaviors such as raising young, grooming, and forming a hierarchy…

transportation agents as to the events that transpired. By then goes on to recount a great fable, in which the passengers aboard the lifeboat are actually animals. The injured sailor becomes an injured zebra; the cook becomes a hyena; his mother an orangutan; and Pi is accompanied by a bengal tiger on his journey across the ocean. This version of the story is what is recounted to the reader throughout the novel. Logically, the agents question the accuracy of this story, so Pi recounts the more…

monera; humans are animals. Believing ourselves to be the pinnacle of creation, the smartest and most capable of all that populate this planet, we face a conundrum that we fall in the same classification with earthworms, flounder, bulldogs, and orangutans. Clifford Geertz, an anthropologist, explained this by asserting “Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun” (Clifford 5). Those “webs of significance” are culture. So when we strike down the sticky mess of…

Brian Wallis begins his paper by discussing the issues that come along with multiculturalism, ethnicity, identity, and race. He states the methodology of critics discussing cultural differences have shifted “away from essentialist of biological versions of race.” (39) Race as a category is very difficult to understand and has been subjected to many different ‘gazes’; however, Wallis points out it “cannot be separated from other formative components of identity.” (39) It is a part of who people…

Life of Pi is a fictional novel written by Yann Martel. The main character of this book is Piscine Molitor Patel, known to all as Pi Patel. He’s a sixteen year old gentle vegetarian who holds religion very dear to his heart. Overall he was stranded in the Pacific ocean for 227 days with a tiger named Richard Parker. The book is divided into 3 parts, Toronto and Pondicherry, The Pacific Ocean, and Benito Juarez Infirmary, Tomatlan, Mexico. Firstly, in part one we learn that Pi lives in…

Picture an officer approaching a car for a traffic stop not knowing what might unfold in this altercation. The officer must be ready and quick to make a decision. He reaches the car window to find an African American male in the driver seat. The officer and the driver speak to each other and the officer gets the mans identification. When returning to the cruiser the young African American man exits his car and begins to advance toward the officer. The officer orders the man to stop and…