Prospect Park Zoo

During this trip, the students was exposed to nature all around them. They saw a lot of colorful leaves, trails and animals. I saw that the children were happy to be in the zoo because they were picking up leaves and asking questions about it. They also kept asking questions about the animals. Their curiosity led to them asking questions and this helped them learn. A simple question such as 'what does the seal eat for lunch ' would help them understand what a seal type of food the seal eats. The students were very excited to see every animal. I didn 't see any child left behind because every child enjoyed their time in the zoo. This made me realize how important nature is for a…

Park Slope is neighborhood in Brooklyn that has become know as “highly desirable.” Park Slope is known for its historic buildings, shops that line Fifth and Seventh Avenues, bars and its proximity to Prospect Park. Around the 60’s and 70’s many of Park Slopes historic brownstones were cleaned up along with the rest of the neighborhood but before this Park Slope was a rough working-class neighborhood. Many neighborhoods, including Park Slope, are going through the process of gentrification. While…

“The caged eagle became a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.” An eagle is a symbol of freedom and here we are caging it up and locking it away. Animal captivity should not be allowed because it is cruel and unfair to the animals. Just because people want to see the animal up close there are other ways you can view and learn about animals without keeping them trapped in a cage. For starters, zoos can not provide enough sufficient space for the…

Environmental cues in this situation drive internal cognitions through the limbic system and overwhelm proper discounting promoted by the medial prefrontal cortex. Adolescences then would be equally if not more susceptible to environmental cues and peer influence, because they lack mature executive function to overcome these pressures. This sentiment is echoed in a paper Ahern et al. (2014), who proved that risk aversion is systematically shaped and influenced by a person’s peers. In both of…

Overall, going into this simulation, I came up with three general strategies I was going to follow. The first and most obvious was trying to maximize New Heritage Doll firm’s value by selecting some of the most attractive projects based off NPV, IRR, and PI. However, I also aimed to make appropriate selections based on diversifying among the three departments (retailing, licensing, and production) along with diversifying among riskiness for each year. For each year, I was given $8 million…

Kahneman successfully integrated psychology and economics making it easier to discern the motive behind consumer behavior. One of Kahneman’s most famous theories that essentially won him the Nobel prize in economics is prospect theory and that of loss aversion. Kahneman, along with Amos Tversky developed this theory when studying how people react to gambles. To Econs the expected utility theory and rational choice guided the outcomes of the decision process regarding a gamble. Expected utility…

There is this theory that describes how we tend to make our decisions: Prospect Theory! Kahneman and Tversky developed this in order to describe the way that people choose between “probabilistic alternatives that involve risk, where possibilities are known.” This means that people tend to make decisions based on the pros and cons rather than the final outcome, and that people weigh these pros and cons using heuristics. ("Prospect Theory." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2015.)…

human race. Over a time span of one hundred years, zoos have been a popular source of entertainment for interested human beings who are curious to learn about the various kinds of animals that the world holds. A certain question has been floating in the air for many years. “Are zoos cruel to wild animals?” The general public leans more on the cons then the pros for this particular subject, to the media, the zoo’s reoccurring mistakes that were the zoo’s fault, and past time stories of disastrous…

According to the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, there are over 10,000 zoos worldwide. It is amazing that there are so many organizations out there that are completely dedicated to the well-being of these incredible animals. Zoos are well loved by children and adults all over the world because of their exotic wildlife, but, in reality, zoos do much more than just take care of animals. There is a lot of behind-the-scenes work that goes into these organizations, and they have become a…

The study on the Lincoln’s Children Zoo is not the only study that shows the extreme economic impact zoos and aquaria have. There are many other people that have researched, and show how zoos are economic generators for the communities. Based on the information interpreted by Thomas (2011), “Looking just at Texas, a study determines that AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums generate $884.2 million in economic activity annually for the Lone Star State. They also employ 8,998 people and provide…