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How the elephant got its trunk
Long ago, Baby Elephant keeps asking what Crocodile eats for dinner until he goes to the source and gets a big surprise. Includes a puzzle, \"Notes for adults,\" and reading tips.
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Stelae, Elephants, and Irony: The Battle of Raphia and Its Import as Historical Context for 3 Maccabees
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The opening verses of 3 Maccabees set the story in the aftermath of the Battle of Raphia (217 bce); the significance of this historical setting has been overlooked. The Battle of Raphia is intimately related to the narrative at large in at least three ways. First, 3 Maccabees advocates for a counter-tradition to a stele tradition that arises out of Ptolemy's victory at Raphia. Second, the story reworks the famous incident of Ptolemy's elephant retreat at Raphia into a tale of praise for the God of the Jews. And finally, the book is invested with the irony already present in the historical realities of Ptolemy's short-lived victory.
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Babar the king
After making peace with the rhinoceros, King Babar and Queen Celeste plan a model city and live happily with their friends and subjects in the country of elephants.
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The Elephant’s Eye and the Maji-Maji War: A Non-Anthropocentric Reading of David’s African Story in The Garden of Eden
This paper attempts to deconstruct the patriarchal anthropocentric masculinity represented by the adult elephant hunters in the metafictional African story within The Garden of Eden through the lens of animal sentience and the environmental history of East Africa during the time of the Maji-Maji war. Furthermore, by linking these two aspects to the process of the (re)writing of the story, the author argues that David's effort to give a \"voice\" to both the nonhuman elephant and the environment of Africa mirrors another form of masculinity that is in contrast to his father's patriarchal anthropocentric masculinity.
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Horton hears a Who!
A city of Whos on a speck of dust are threatened with destruction until the smallest Who of all helps convince Horton's friends that Whos really exist.
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Woodrow at sea
\"In this wordless picture book, Woodrow the elephant rows off to find adventure and discovers a mouse king marooned at sea. As the two go through many adventures and rescue each other from dangers, they discover that the best thing to find on a journey is a true friend.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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“The Earth Seemed Unearthly”: Capital, World-Ecology, and Enchanted Nature in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
This essay reads Heart of Darkness as a world-ecological text, examining themes of socioecological violence, waste, and exhaustion as theorized by the world-ecology paradigm. Specifically, it argues that the novella’s “unearthly” landscape speaks to the transformative interactions of capital and nature at the commodity frontier, linking the novella’s language of enchantment to the subjective, irrational, and racialized devaluations necessary to world-ecological accumulation. Offering a historical reading of the gothic and antirealist elements of the text’s landscape descriptions, the essay finds theoretical relevance in its refusal to separate nature from the historical categories of colonialism, capital, and the commodity form.
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Falfoul's trunk
Tells the story of a young elephant who discovers that everyone is important and how something that seems to have no purpose for someone, can in fact be essential to others.
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Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera; or, Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving Pictures
The Tom Swiftbooks were published by a huge fiction-production company, the Stratemeyer Publishing Syndicate, which brought out other successful cycles of juvenile fiction, including the Nancy Drewand the Hardy Boys series. The elephant hunters at last succeeded in closing the gate, blocking the chance of any more animals to escape.
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