Brad Bird

Title: The Iron Giant Film Origin The Iron Giant originated from the 1968 novel The Iron Man, which was a children’s novel. After going through development stages of becoming a rock album and a musical, Warner Bros. acquired the project to eventually becoming director Brad Bird’s introduction into the animation world. Summary of the film The Iron Giant is a story about a metal machine, The Iron Giant, that crashes off of a shore near the coast of Maine. A young boy, named Hogarth, finds The Iron Giant and becomes friends with him, teaching him values and emotions. A government agent, Kent, thinks The Iron Giant is out for evil, when really the giant continually grows to become friendly after learning its human emotions. Kent attempts to…

A female can weigh up to twice what her mate weighs. Harpy eagles mate for life and the males will help with incubation although most of the sitting is done by the female. Young harpy eagles will fledge at four and-a-half to six months old and reach sexual maturity at 4-5 years old. They prey on tree-dwelling mammals like sloths, various kinds of monkeys, and opossums, and occasionally on other birds like macaws and reptiles like iguanas. (peregrinefund.org; pbs.org) The Toco toucan is one of…

Throughout “Sympathy”, a river is symbolic of freedom. “And the river flows like a stream of glass” (“Sympathy” 4). Rivers are free flowing, as they flow in one direction and it cannot be restricted. This symbol shows that the character desperately wants to be free. Slaves are restricted, having no will of their own because their oppressor forces them into what to do. Moreover. the bird represents a slave, as it is shut in its cage. Hence, in this case, a free flowing river is precisely what the…

grandma’s sister because she left her outside when it was below freezing. My grandma’s sister also didn’t feed her so she ate whatever she could find like clothing that was in the garage. Izzie is the German Shepard we rescued from under a truck. I’ve always wanted to be a veterinarian because I connect with animals by rescuing and helping them. When I cry, my pit bull is the shoulder that I cry on. Animals know when you’re happy, sad, or even mad. Another story I have that goes with this goal…

Book Review Imagine a world where you can talk to an animal, and that animal will then talk back to you. That world is real, and the animal is an African Grey Parrot. Irene Pepperberg wrote a memoir called, Alex & Me. This book is about Pepperberg’s experiences and hardships studying birds, in particular a bird’s ability to talk and understand words, and her growing relationship with one bird. This bird was named Alex, and he was an African Grey who died at a young age of thirty-one years old.…

the acers that I was given to transform into a park I have decided to make it into a place where people can come and relax, enjoy the sounds of birds and if they want can…

This semester I had the opportunity to participate in a third grade classroom over at York Country Day School. The lessons I observed were based off of the new FOSS Module that my teacher was piloting. It was a unique learning experience because it was her first time teaching the material. I felt that we were able to learn and grow from one another as we reflected on components of the lessons. The activities were hands-on and put students in charge of their own learning which is the heart of…

During this week I saw an episode of The life of the Birds presented by David Attenborough in which he showed the way which some birds have for catching the attention of a possible couple. Amongst all of them, he showed the lyrebird which seems to have more than 300 different sounds for that, and amongst those sounds there was one that sounded like the alarm of a car and other that sounded like a pneumatic drill, those which are utilized to break streets, all that while deployed the feathers of…

Introduction to Horse Flies (Tabanidae) Horse flies can be found in most areas of the United States with more than 160 species. They can grow up to 1 ¼ inches long and are generally black and gray in color. Female horse flies have blade-like mouthparts used for blood feeding which slash tissues and blood vessels in order for blood to flow to wounds. After which, they use their sponge-like mouthparts for sucking up blood. Male horse flies have weaker mouthparts compared to females and only feed…

cloud home from school, a piercing cat screech swept through my ear. I whirled around to encounter a water reflection of a withering Eucalyptus tree where a disconsolate small bird perched. Profoundly buried/abysmal/concealed in the small birds forlorn eyes were traumatic scars of the earnest loss of abandonment, she had a salient need to find her friends, she had not experienced tenderness care in a long period of time. She was as filthy as a tarnished seal. Instantaneously, my blood turned…