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Chimps Smoking?

April 30, 2012 · Filed under E.L.A, Half Brother · Tagged , ,

We are finally done the book “Half Brother!” I thought overall the book was alright it was kind of dragged near the beginning and the end, in the middle it was much more interesting! Now that we are done the book we get to watch a movie about a project that the book was based on called “Project Nim.”

As you might know, the book “Half Brother” is based on “Project Nim.” Now that we have finished reading Half Brother we watched a movie call “Project Nim.” There is many differences and similarities between the two.

Half Brother is a lot about the project and not so much Zan. The book describes Zan more a human than he is chimp. It says a lot about Zan being a nice chimp and not that harmful. But, that is not how the actual Project Nim went. Project Nim was the total opposite, Nim was not a nice chimp, he bit people a lot! The family he got sent to at first in real life, was a family with many children. In the book there was only one son. He was way more chimp than human, he was nowhere near a human except the fact he could communicate using sign language and dressed like a human! I think it is kind of cute how chimps wear human clothes though! I guess there is a little similarities between humans and some chimps.

The movie and book or the same in a ways. In the book and movie  Zan/Nim both went to a facility near the end and got the help they needed. They were both male and dressed like a human. Zan/Nim also learned many signs! I could not imagine how much effort that would have been!! I think that would be so cool if I got to do that someday!

In the movie I couldn’t believe we were allowed to watch it in school because there was a lot of gross content, and swear words. The funniest part about the movie that wasn’t in the book was Nim drank alcohol and smoked joints! I thought that, that was a hilarious! I think seeing a chimp high would be the funniest thing ever!! They never showed Nim with the side effects though. What do you think about chimps drinking and smoking?

The most interesting part about the movie would be when right after Nim would bite someone he would try to apologize and say sorry. The most interesting part in the book would be when someone found out that Ben had an information journal about her. I would be totally creep-ed out if anybody had a journal about me!

Over all I think that it was an alright book. It wasn’t the best book I ever read but it was alright. I hope we get to read another book over Skype next year in grade 9!




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My Thoughts On Animal Cruelty

February 27, 2012 · Filed under Half Brother · Tagged , , , , ,

Honestly I never thought of animal cruelty until we started reading a book called, “Half Brother.” Half Brother is about communicating with a chimp, and to see if the chimp is able to learn sign language. I think at the end of the book, the project will turn out perfect but have a few problems through out. As bad as this sounds, I do not care about animal cruelty.

Animal cruelty can be a very bad at times. Scientists kill many animals a day testing out cosmetics, and experiments. For each product they test it in maybe three animals. Those three animals are saving thousands of others. Scientists pick chimps to test things on because they are the closest specie to a human. Animal cruelty can also be very good. When scientists test on animals they test things to make sure that humans do not get rashes or even die. It can also be very good because some scientists do not harm them. For example some try to test animal communication skills. Communicating with animals usually never harms an animal. Just like Zan from Half Brother. I do not think they are harming him, they are inly trying to teach him sign language and they treat him just like a human. I do not think animal cruelty is that bad, but it sure can be at times. That is just my thought but everyone has their own opinions. Some people do not eat meat and some people do.

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Doesn’t this steak look tasty?

Some people are vegetarians and they probably absolutely hate animal cruelty. If you are like me I can eat meat like there is no tomorrow, and not really care about animal cruelty. I do not get why people are vegetarians they must feel bad or something. Sometimes I even hunt my own food like chicken, or catch my own like fish! I do not get how people could not eat meat! But instead have tofu! Tofu is so disgusting!! But whatever floats your boat I guess. I could not imagine how people do that. I also do not get how some people never go hunting or fishing!

                

Animal cruelty in Canada is nowhere near as bad as it is in the states. In Canada animal cruelty is mostly done by “dog sledding“, says CBC news. This is because they whip and push the dogs to their maximum. In the states more than 80 million mice and rats alone are killed to do testing. Now that is a lot! But it is rats and mice they do no good anyways besides make a mess! I could not imagine having to experiment on rats! That is probably really stinky and gross!

After you are done reading leave a comment on what your opinion is. I like to here others people’s opinions. Also if you have time check out some other blogs on animal cruelty on ideahive.org.


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Working on Half Brother.

December 15, 2011 · Filed under E.L.A, School Stuff, Wingham · Tagged , ,

       For the past few months we have been working on a project about chimps, with Wingham. We had to make a presentation on animal communication. I have learned a lot of interesting things they do with animals during the process of experimenting with chimps. It is not that hard of a hard process for scientists but at some points it is mind-blowing!

   

       Since I have started working on animal communication at the beginning of the year I have learned a lot! Here are some of the things I have learned about a lot of animals. When animals are sad the will whine, when they are happy their tail is up and wagging if their tails are down and in-between their legs they are sad. When animals are bored they will usually start following people around because they want attention. When they jump up they are usually super excited, if they start growling or barking that means they are mad!

  Communicating with animals is difficult, but once you learn the facts up above you will find it a little easier! Since the beginning of the year I have learned that sometimes they teach chimps sign language I thought that was pretty cool! I think we are going to learn a lot about chimps in the book Half Brother.

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