On a rainy day in May 1988, a lowland gorilla named Willie B. stepped outdoors for the first time in twenty-seven years, into a new landscape immersion exhibit. Born in Africa, Willie B. had been captured by an animal collector and sold to a zoo. During the decades he spent in a cage, zoos stopped collecting animals from the wild and Americans changed the ways they wished to view animals in the zoo. Zoos developed new displays to simulate landscapes like the Amazon River basin and African forests. Exhibits similar to animals' natural habitats began to replace old-fashioned animal...
On a rainy day in May 1988, a lowland gorilla named Willie B. stepped outdoors for the first time in twenty-seven years, into a new landscape immer...
When Hamlet complains that Guildenstern "would pluck out the heart of my mystery," he imagines an encounter that recurs insistently in the discourses of early modern England: the struggle by one man to discover the secrets in another's heart. Elizabeth Hanson examines the records of state torture, plays by Shakespeare and Jonson, "cony-catching" pamphlets and Francis Bacon's philosophical writing to demonstrate a reconceptualizing of the "subject" in both the political and philosophical sense of the term.
When Hamlet complains that Guildenstern "would pluck out the heart of my mystery," he imagines an encounter that recurs insistently in the discourses ...
Shoreline College's English La Students Elizabeth Hanson Kawthar Alfilfel
Shoreline Community College English Language students wrote this book. It contains stories about their first experiences in the U.S., problems they have solved in their lives, life lessons learned, poetry, and much more. We call these students the "Shoreline Scribes." This book is fun to read as each story is really the human story. How fun it is to read a story written by a Saudi or a Chinese and say, "I can relate " This book will be a welcome addition to any ELL language learning course. It provides great models for writing and will encourage English language learners to take risks and...
Shoreline Community College English Language students wrote this book. It contains stories about their first experiences in the U.S., problems they ha...
