Saturday morning cartoon

the last of our bags and stuff them into the trunk, making sure to slam it for good measure. When I step back inside Charlotte is watching cartoons, just like she should be on any normal morning. Her sweet hazel eyes are still filled with sleep. “Turn off the TV please, baby and get in the car.” “But Momma, I’m hungry.” “Okay, how about we get pancakes this morning?” “PANCAKES!?” She runs to the car as fast as her little bare feet will carry her and begins buckling herself into her booster seat…

and watch a movie, we see that he isn’t always the serious hitman type. Leon watches Gene Kelly singing and dancing in the movie Singin’ in the Rain. Ironically, he watches the movie with facial expressions similar to a young kid watching Saturday morning cartoons. This scene reveals the soft side of…

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them (Walt Disney).” You need to do something beyond what you hoped for when it comes to making dreams come true. Believe in yourself and don’t listen to what others think. Walt Disney believed in himself when it came to making Disney movies. He said the quote above because he struggled to make his dreams come true, but he still had courage to make it into something. Although he had to overcome many obstacles, Walt Disney used his…

Growing up, some kids may have heard the phrases ‘This is your last chance! I mean it!’ from frustrated parents threatening to turn the car around because the siblings are fighting over a toy or to the teenagers for sneaking into the house just a little past curfew, principals from pranks. But in the book Last chance in Texas, by John Hubner, a book written about violent juvenile delinquents attempting to turn their life before it plummets and they head to the Adult Jail. In this case, those…

their parents do., they won’t have any problem understand me when I talk to them. I wanted to be accepted by my peers. I ask my mom to only talk to me in English. I watch Sesame Street PBS in the morning before I go to school. After school, I would watch cartoons, and I would practice what I hear. On Saturday I would ask my mom to take me to my cousin’s house so that she could teach me English. As my English got better; I started talking more to my new friends, without feeling a shame of my…

Childhood obesity: It's not the amount of TV, it's the number of junk food commercials Her article reads: “By the time they are 5 years old, children have seen an average of more than 4,000 television commercials for food annually. During Saturday morning cartoons, children see an average of one food ad every five minutes. The vast majority of these ads — up to 95 percent — are for foods with poor nutritional value, the researchers say.” If kids are introduced to this many food commercials,…

Effects of media violence on children There is a controversy that has been going on for a couple of decades that Media affects children. Whether the child plays violent games or watch violence on T.V this can affect the child to learn aggressive behavior. Most parents see their child showing violent behavior at a very young age such as preschool and are concerned but just say that the child will grow out of that their child will grow out of it. This controversy has made many researchers…

What are some specific events in your life that you consider to be a turning point? Summer of 2014 was the most eventful summer I have ever had. Three life changing events happened. At the beginning of summer, before school was over, I obtained my driver 's license. My older sister was pregnant with my first niece and I became an aunt in July. Lastly, my father and I had a disagreement that led to us not communicating with each other. May 27th, I got my driver 's license. This was one of the…

It was just before 10:00 AM on Saturday, May 31st, 2014, in the small town of Waukesha, Wisconsin. A bicyclist out for a morning ride came across Payton “Bella” Leutner, a 12 year old girl, covered in blood and lying in a ditch at the side of the road. She had just escaped death. Leutner was able to crawl out of the nearby woods after being left for dead by her attackers, who had stabbed her 19 times with a kitchen knife. She was stabbed in her torso, legs, and arms, and had suffered major…

ages of 2 and 18 spend an average of three hours each day watching television. A three-year National Television Study, reported by the AAP, found that children’s shows had the most violence of all television programming. Statistics read that some cartoons average twenty acts of violence in one hour, and that by the age of 18 children will have seen 16,000 simulated murders and 200,000 acts of violence on television. Young people are especially in jeopardy of the negative effects of television…