Fred Rogers

Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative political activist and a devout Catholic, who was involved in mobilizing women against the Equal Rights Amendment, passed away at the age of 92 at her home in St. Louis, Missouri. She was a vocal anti-feminist, who famously told Newsweek in 1979 that feminism "has caused a lot of women to have low self-esteem, to convince themselves [that they] are repressed." Her political activism helped steer the Republican Party to broadly adopt many of the conservative…

Music is playing, blasting from the stereo, while a group of six and seven-year-olds walk and dance in unison around the long row of opposite-facing chairs, laughing and trying to focus. There is a sudden silence which causes all of them to scramble to take a seat. All but one little boy is able to grab a seat. He pouts and walks to the side of the room where he sits with folded arms, upset that he lost. The game continues in the same manner until there is a winner who receives a prize. Soon…

19 plays and 6 romantic novels under the name of an exceptionally well-known character of Mary Westmacott. Moreover, many of her books have been translated into 103 different foreign languages. She has written many great novels like ‘The murder of Roger Ackroyd’, ‘The mysterious affairs at styles’, ‘Endless night’ and ‘And then there were none’, these novels are regarded as the masterpiece of Agatha Christie. Not only her novels were a piece of a paper book but they also turned into famous and…

combination of slow and rapid beat danced to big band swing-style music with tempo around 120 to 136 beats per minute. The dance was named after Harry Fox, a famous broadway dancer, and it is also often correlated with dancing styles of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.…

Should Dogs Be Euthanized? Have you ever thought about euthanizing? Sometimes it’s what is best for the animal. Dogs might bite on impulse because they are nervous. When little kids think a dog is cute and run up to it, it might scare the dog and make them bite. Even though they don’t mean to. Dogs get nervous, just because they are wagging their tail does not mean they are happy. If a dog has wide eyes, a wagging tail that is more focused; straight up, not so lazy and laid back then the…

department store as a sales clerk to pay for it. Ralph and his brother decided to change their last name to Lauren after being made fun of at school. Ralph Lauren had many inspirations two of his top inspirational people are Fred Astaire and Cary Grant. Fred Astaire is an American dancer…

Musicals Let’s change gears here into something a little different, and a lot of fun! Musicals. Who doesn’t like a good musical? And before you roll your eyes and think we’re only going to talk about Disney, there’s a lot more to musicals then animated characters singing to woodland creatures. Musicals have been around since the dawn of theatre - and like many of our genres, started on the stage. But what actually makes a musical? In this genre, we define a musical as a film where the songs are…

A musical film is a genre of film that consists of songs as well as dialogue. This type of film became popular in the 1930’s and is around today. Musical films started being created when the technology of sound became advanced enough to put music in a film. Musicals that would normally be performed on a stage in a theater could then be made into a film. Musical films allowed the musicals to improve because of the variety of set and the ability to shoot a scene more than once if someone…

personal opinions were evident in some poems and not as much in others. Levi briefly covered some of her own personal thoughts on current events of her time. Interestingly, Levi also dedicated part of his book to Dickinson’s keepsakes. Lundin, Roger. Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Pub., 1998.…

Technology is being introduced into the classroom earlier and earlier. Today some schools are introducing technology as early as head start and pre-k. The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) in collaboration with the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media have developed…