Jane Goodall blog 1

1. Whom (3 people from different areas/nations) would I consider to be a great human being? Why?

 There are many people on this planet which have done incerdible things and have made a great impact on our societies and maybe the world. The first person i thought of was Jane Goodall. This is because she was very significant and is well known because of her work with animals, unlike the usually people have made an impact on us humans. Even though i knew from the very start even before we started this project i was going to do my research paper on Jane Goodall, I decided to search for some other people.  First of all I came across Rosa Parks. One of the great things she did was when her action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Second of all I thought of researching Coco channel. However then I realised that most of her work has something to do with clothing and I didn't feel like she did something so significant worth me writing about her in my 5 page research report. Lastly I thought of researching, however then I realised that she dindt make that many great and smart choices in her life so she was off the list. There were many other ones I thought off however didn't choose because someone else did it or I just wanted someone who didn't only help us humans, so I settled for Jane Goodall. 

2. Are there commonalities in the ways in which great human beings have lived and the choices they have made?

All great human beings which are still known today and will be studied forever have a couple things in common, they all made the right choices. Im sure maybe once or more times in there life they made small mistakes, however the good parts of what they accomplish throws the bad decisions over. They were all loyal, honest, filled with integrity and pride. They all didn't care as much if they die, as long as they died with their dignity. 

3. What are 3 things (aside from what he/she is known for) that would make my top Living History pick a strong entry into the museum?

I picked Jane Goodall for several reasons. First of all she is still alive. Also obviously she is a well known person who will be known in many years from now as well. She has not only accomplished things with humans, however unlike the other historic figures, she has also helped animals especially chimpanzees. This is one reason I picked her, because she is different and didnt only help us however also animals.

Title: My life with the chimpanzees

Author: Jane Goodall 

Number of pages: 160

Summary: Jane was in love with chimps and animals and wanted to learn about them. When she grew up she became an ethologist, someone who studies animal behaviour ; she followed the creator of the field, an Austrian named Konrad Lorenz, who started his work in 1935 and was still living when the book was written. Goodall explains how ethologists run experiments in animals' homes. Goodall started studying chimpanzees in 1960, living in Tanzania. It took a long time before she could get close to the chimps. Goodall was born in London on April 3rd, 1934. When she was five, her family moved to France but after a few months Hitler invaded so they went back to stay in a manor house in the English countryside next to a big farm with scary ruins. Her father's mother lived with them, who Goodall called Danny Nutt. She loved geese. Goodall often saw horses and cattle nearby her home. When Goodall's father went to fight in World War II, Goodall, her mother and her young sister Judy, went to live with her grandmother in the Birchers. That is where she grew up. While they lived in a nice area, there was little food in England during the war. Everything went to defense. Though all in all, Goodall was not much affected by the war. When she graduated, Goodall's mother encouraged her to go to Germany to learn German and to learn that not all Germans were bad people, despite Hitler. However, Goodall's didn't learn the language. Instead, she spent her time with animals and in fields. When she returned to London, she went to secretarial school and got her diploma. Just after that she worked as a secretary at a medical clinic where she encountered lots of sick people and learned many things. After six months, Goodall got a job at Oxford and spent time with students there. She learned to canoe and punt. She started to socialize with people in the area, going to May balls at Oxford.

Goodall's first trip to Africa occurred when she was twenty-three. She loved the trip but when she stopped in South Africa, she found apartheid appalling. Goodall took a train to Nairobi and met with Clo. They spent three wonderful weeks together. Goodall loved it so much that she got a temporary job in Nairobi. As she started her new job, she met Louis Leakey, an anthropologist interested in animals and Early Man. He offered her a job immediately because Goodall knew a lot about African animals. Leakey taught her about local animals and the Kikiyu tribe that he grew up with in the area.

Leakey took Goodall on an expedition in 1957. When they arrived at Olduvai Gorge, she described herself as the happiest she had ever been, despite the hard work of digging fossils.