Planet Of The Apes Book Review

Congo is a science fiction novel, written by Michael Crichton in 1980. He was an American science fiction writer, born in 1942 and died in 2008. He was well known for his book, Jurassic Park. Congo is set around an expedition taking place in the congo, whose goal is to find diamonds and study the behaviour of a young gorilla, called Amy, who has been taught sign language.

“With gorilla gone will there be hope for man?” Our civilization is destroying our planet, More importantly how we see our planet is destroying its inhabitants and diversity. The book Ishmael talks about how our society came to be and more importantly how our culture came to be. “With gorilla gone will there be hope for man?” as said in Ishmael asks a serious question.

The Ted talk presented by Susan Savage-Rumbaugh brings up an entire new world of understanding when it comes to apes and humans. Savage-Rumbaugh was able to bring up several instances of our correlation, such as tools, social interaction, and intelligence. Her presentation was one that is respectable, but not all of her statements have support. Bonobos are apes that do in fact have a striking resemblance to humans, but how far does this similarity go? Bonobos and chimps are the closest organisms to man and because of this we share some skills, such as tool building (Choi 2012).

For instance, bears have evolved from scary animals that humans feared, to cuddly “teddy bears”. Some may ask how or why this is the case and there are certainly piles of evidence to support this statement. To begin, the bear itself was turned into a “teddy bear” named after Teddy Roosevelt because he could not shoot a bear. In this book, a man named Kelsey Eliasson was “turned off by the way he saw activists like Polar Bears International “Disney-fying” the bear”.

However, these nations did not always treat races they deemed lower than their class with respect or humility. Often throughout history dominance is shown through enslavement and death of the lower class of races in a civilization. Common labor form in early history involved slavery which dominated the races that were deemed inferior. Races without a sense of civilization were judged as uncivilized and savages.

One issue in The War of the Worlds that is reappearing is how human beings tend to be arrogant and place themselves superior to all living things. For example, the narrator, who is a journalist, took a friend that is an astronomer to see a meteorite falling. They soon found a strange cylinder falling that would soon be containing the “Martians”. The public authorities assumed nothing of it, and did nothing to keep the area enclosed and off limits to the public.

(Need a hook or something before this but don’t know what) In the novel “The Martian” by Andy Weir the main character Mark Watney’s education and preparation is put to the test. Mark Watney is an astronaut who was sent to Mars on a mission named Ares 3 with five other crew members. After years of preparation they take off for mars and everything goes perfectly until a few sols after landing a huge sandstorm blows through while they were outside of the Hab. During this storm they need to evacuate Mars because their shuttle that is bringing them back to Earth is tilting and if it falls over they will all be stuck on Mars.

A person’s arrogance can be the complete downfall of a society. Arrogance is in everyone around us including the people who run countries and the world. Throughout the novel the main person who runs one of the most dangerous places in the world is completely driven by his arrogance and greed. Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton, shows how arrogance and greed are not good trades to have in people that make big, impactful decisions. The novel Jurassic Park is based on one man who has access to the most dangerous animals in the world and because of his arrogance and greed he refuses to think anything can go wrong.

The universal theme that all humans are different and everyone is judged or used at a point in life is evident in: Shooting an Elephant, No Witchcraft for sale, and B. Wordsworth. First of all, Shooting an Elephant is a work about a man who works for his town as a policeman basically. He is supposed to keep his community safe and please the people. When an elephant gets into the town, it goes on a rant and

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? (79)”, this quote is from the book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

The first section of the novel follows the life of Moon-Watcher, a primitive man-ape living in a food deprived ancient Africa. Moon-Watcher is used as an example to describe

The lecturer’s main argument is, species change over time and one of the main causes is natural selection. Evolution is,” the transformation of animals, plants, and other living organisms into different forms by the accumulation of changes over successive generations.” (Martin) A very important aspect is that it is hard for us humans to believe that one things has evolved into another over the generations because we cannot see the process, in order to understand it. An example from the lecture is fossils.

Beast Quest Claw The Giant Monkey This book is about two kids Tom and Elenna and they run into a beast in the Golden Armour. The beast is found in the Dark Jungle. The beast is called the “Claw the Giant Monkey”.

"Anthropocentrism regards humans as separate from and superior to nature and holds that human life has intrinsic value while other entities (including animals, plants, mineral resources, and so on) are resources that may justifiably be exploited for the benefit of humankind".(Sarah E. Boslaugh, 2016). In Asimov 's short story, “That Thou Art Mindful of Him” shows the reader how the two Georges plan to remove human from their position of supremacy. (Asimov, 1995,” That Thou Mindful of Him”). Therefore one can conclude that the texts degrade the claims of the values of anthropocentrism. It also allows us to reconsider our views towards anthropocentrism and human identity.

The Cage that is Society Red Peter struggles to fit into human society, but is too much of a human to simply become an ape again, a struggle that defines him. He makes a report to the “Honored Members of the Academy” by giving them a history of his journey from ape to man: It is now nearly five years since I was an ape, a short space of time, perhaps, according to the calendar, but an infinitely long time to gallop through at full speed, as I have done. (250)