Famous Anthropologist with Prosopagnosia
Jane Goodall has prosopagnosia
Also called face blindness
She is unable to recognize faces
she acts like she recognizes everyone
In case she met you before
Interesting affliction for a world-famous anthropologist
Who studied chimpanzees and reported back
That they express facial expressions of emotions
Sadness, anger, frustration.
Is it only human faces she does not recognize?
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Categories:
anthropologist, tribute,
Form: Free verse
So Many Ologists What To Choose
Carol Ellen’s love of granite will turn her into a fulfilled geologist.
Tim’s fascination with stem cells will help him be a fantastic biologist.
Me, myself, I want to a tri-scientist. Maybe paleontologist.
If not that, there is my secretive dream of being a micro-biologist.
My neighbor’s cousin is a boring, bored, cardiologist.
His former dream was to be an
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Categories:
anthropologist, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Anthropologist
The anthropologist
came a great
distance to
observe and
study the
recently discovered
subjects.
Nothing was
know about them
Nothing at all.
The anthropologist
was anxious to
get to
work to
set up the
study. The
work would
be intense and
arduous.
Nothing like
these subjects
had ever been
seen before.
In fact finding
them was kismet
being discovered
by exploring a new
region.
Once discovered
the study
was organize
and set in
motion.
The anthropologist
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Categories:
anthropologist, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Clumsy Anthropologist
'Tis twilight, the shadow of lake
turning light- peachy and pink.
And all the forest around wake
in the light- life too groggy to think.
When all the light cast God's love
of the sun, bursting brightly,
it shines on something- a hidden trove,
and I take the hiker's first step, lightly,
and I see in front of me old things!
I
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Categories:
anthropologist, humorous, nature, science,
Form: Rhyme
Anthropologist From Manitoba
burn the eyeglass for a remedy.
knowing now that the leaves have died before.
A northern winds swollen eyelids cast little doubt.......
that there will once again be a skeleton diagram.
that there will once again be a linear vertebrae.
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Categories:
anthropologist, allegory, change,
Form: Ballad