Three wise monkeys

He was never raised to see the differences the people around him, but as he grew older he began to see many of the injustices against his friends because they were different. Wise made a film titled “White Like Me” and says that “The answer is to be color conscious, not color blind.” This statement does not exclusively apply to racial issues. It can be interpreted for any situation, because we will never come in contact with…

Does being wealthy necessarily mean you’re rich? “One selfless act can positively impact the lives of many.”(Unknown) Today in our world selfless acts are becoming more and more scarce. People in our world are becoming really selfish. In the story The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, the characters Della and Jim do some really selfless acts to buy each other gifts they really wanted. In the story The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers, Lemon teaches Greg that treasure isn’t always worth…

Film Adaptations: Romeo and Juliet (1968) and West Side Story (1961) Many films have been created based on novels and play scripts. Plays have transitioned from performances on stage to the big cinema screens. Since many legendary play scripts were created before our century, American film directors had to ask themselves, “How can an older piece of work interest the audience of today?”. Directors found it challenging to express an original piece of work while attempting to interest the minds…

film” (Bernstein, 184). He furthers contradicts himself once again by emphasizing the authorial work of producers such as Wanger, Disney, and Selznick, notably Wanger and his relationship with director Robert Wise. These two collaborated together on multiple films, i.e. I Want To Live (Wise, 1958), in…

have a little secret about their size if you keep on reading you’ll learn all about them. Pygmy Marmoset is the type of monkey i'll be writing about it's also known as a Pocket Monkey, Little Lion, and the Dwarf Monkey. They are the smallest monkeys known. They weigh less than 5 oz when fully grown. There are two subspecies that are known to exist. You can find this species of Monkey living in many areas such as Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and even parts of Bolivia. They live most of their live…

completely rational, as well as human. A study conducted by Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University showed that primates exhibit precisely this behavior. The experiment involved two brown capuchin monkeys. I will refer to them as subject and partner. The work each subject must do determines what food they will receive.One subject completes a task for a low value reward(cucumber), and accepts the offer. The subject then observes the…

In northeast Brazil, the capuchins have a food source limited to hard shelled fruits and seeds. As a survival adaptation they learned how to make use of the available sources by the use of stone tools. Interestingly enough, they don’t just use any old rock that they can find. The capuchins make sure that their “hammers” are the perfect size to swing with but are also made out of a hard enough material- such as quartzite. Sandstone is usually used as an anvil. The perfect tools don’t just go to…

The Monkey and the Crocodile A monkey named Raktamukha lived on a Jamun tree in the dense forests of India. The monkey was happy in his life spending most of the time jumping around on trees. This Jamun tree was on banks of a river which was home to a crocodile named Karalamukha. Karalmukha used to come on the banks and gradually he and the monkey became very good friends. Few days past, and their friendship grew stronger. Raktmukha used to pluck fruits from the tree and used to give it to…

ignis Common Name: Fire Crescent Monkey Geographic Distribution: Crescens ignis are native to regions in the heart of the Amazon’s tropical rainforests. They live in highly arboreal where there are seasonal changes in rainfall and temperatures. According to Fragaszy (1950), with such a highly arboreal area these monkeys are able to “use all levels from the canopy to the understory, going to the ground to drink, forage or travel” (p. 1). These “New World Monkeys” are part of the Creschini…

In Lord of the Flies, William Golding claims that two impulses exist in all human beings. The desire to live by the rules, and follow their everyday morals and the urge to become savages and hunt to survive. When the children first landed on the island, most of them agreed that order was needed. They all complied at the beginning and established their leader and their rules. Their conch at the island brought order and power to the individual holding it and it became a symbol of authority at the…