My Quote to Live by

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." - Mother Teresa

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

An Adventure To the Past

The question "If you could travel through time and talk with a prominent figure in art, politics, religion, or science, whom would you choose? Describe the person and explain two or three reasons why you would choose to talk with him or her."

There are so many people that I would love to meet and speak with. So many eras are so appealing, from the Elizabethan period to the psychedelic seventies. So many prominent figures existed. I would truly love to speak with Jane Goodall. Since I was a child I've had a fascination with her life. From her childhood with divorced parents, and going to college to be a secretary.

She was a strong willed women, who went out and did what she wanted to do. Just going to Africa to visit a friend she was able to spend time out in the jungle observing the habits of her long favored animals, chimpanzees. She was the one who realized that chimps and monkeys use tools just as humans do, and eventually earned the trust of these sweet creatures. She went through her life and made it from being a casual observer to getting a degree in zoology and primotology.

I would be overjoyed to speak with her because she went for her dreams. I would talk to her about the first few months she spent in Africa, and ask her what it was like to be able to do something she'd always dreamed of. I would want to speak with her about all the discoveries she made and how she came to be such a strong women in a male dominant career.

After all the years I made so many different slide shows, wrote so many papers, and even in my free time researched her and her wonderful life. Of all the people Ms. Goodall has caught my fascination and I would love to sometime meet her and ask her all the questions that have been building up in my mind.