If I Ran the Zoo

retrieving her old photo album from 2005. Every page, every memory, made her wish that she could have been 6 for one more year. Although, the last page was really the one that made her want to go back. It had a picture of her, her mom, and her dad at the zoo on her birthday. They were all standing huddled together in front of the fence where you could pet and feed baby goats. Jessica was surprised that she really didn’t look that much different from her 6 year old self. She was, and still is, a…

idea: “I will hold [the fish] up high/As I stand on a ball/With a book on one hand! /And a cup on my hat! /But that is not ALL I can do!” /said the cat” (14). Notice how the poet describes not any regular cat, but a cat that can do all sorts of silly things that is physically impossible for a normal cat to do. In addition to this, Donnarae MacCann calls Dr. Seuss’s work “the beginning of a relatively new genre” because of his “new eccentrics”. The critic uses this quote from the poem If I Ran…

I am living a life where there is something that will always haunt me. It leaves me horrified every time I look down a road or if I see people on bikes. It’s a day that is so real to me, leaving me terrified. It’s a day that took my soul away, leaving me with no light to spare, looking for a way to get out. Nine years ago was a day that changed my life completely. It happened on an evening in June, just as the sun was setting, outside on top of the hill just right down the road from my house. I…

witnesses, whereas the show loops through time. As usually as I've seen “Citizen Kane,” I've ne'er been able to firmly fix the order of the scenes in my mind. I check up on a scene and tease myself with what's going to come back next. however…

After reading this story, many children could imagine what life would be like if someone like a [hyper] cat came into their life, the story stimulated imagination. I conducted several interviews with fellow Dr. Seuss readers-- when this writer interviewed with fellow Dr. Seuss readers she stated that, “without reading Dr. Seuss as a child, I probably wouldn’t even have an imagination” (E. Falk, personal communication, April 23, 2015). This demonstrates the impact Dr. Seuss has had on us all…

--wait... Is that a color person?! It is!. One of the colored students in the School of Media is the melata girl Samantha White, who hosts the radio talk show on campus called “Dear White People”, which she uses to combat the racism seen around campus. I consider Sam a prime example of a person that suffers from what Johnson called “Stereotype threat”. Throughout the movie Sam took on the role as the leader of a group that resembles Malcolm X’s Black Panthers, the Black Student Union, and in…

Here is its story. I am the snake. I was very hungry one day, so i was looking for a snack. I saw a cute little baby girl with ten pretty pink bows in his hair. Then that little girl fell into a giant hole and i was trying to get out. Then she fell into my mouth and I accidentally chewed her up. I am the girl. One day I was walking around picking dandelions because they make me get whasho’s. I saw a hole with a big snake in it. I wanted to pet it so I jumped into the hole. I accidentally…

Miles Halter was a young student on a new journey with the start of his new school. Of a social outcast and wishes he could be anywhere then where he is. Miles was just starting to attend the culver creek boarding school. Plunging into the milieu of a boarding school where he intends to make good grades and good friends. Amazingly, he accomplishes both, as well as learning about life. The subject is an introverted young man and a lot of the story is taken up with his feelings and those of is new…

“He’ll be here soon. It will be great, just like the time he took you to the zoo. Hey maybe we could ask him to take you there again. Wouldn’t that be fun?” “No Gretchen, I don’t want to go. I need to stay with Mommy. She needs my help when she’s sick.” “But your dad was so excited to come get you. He said he missed you and he would be here soon.” “That was a long time ago. I’m staying here. Mommy needs me to keep her safe.” Gretchen thought about the night before and how she barely heard the…

tigerdillo habitat! Lee looked for his parents while Su and I stopped him from going in, the poor boy was so disappointed. Besides that nothing happened. We need more feed for the animals, the zoo's running…