The Lorax

Abroad: Musings from the British Isles The Things I Do For Quality Children's Entertainment I love The Lorax. Humbly, I will assert that it is the best Dr. Seuss book to grace God's green earth. I mean, humming fish! Barbaloots! Total ruin of the environment at the hands of capitalist overlords! What's not to like? Obviously, I jumped at the opportunity to see a live production of The Lorax at the Old Vic Theater in London this past week. So what if it was a children's production? I would show…

The TED Talk, The Lorax, Kaffir Boy, and my opinion of bullying are all connected through new advancements in technology and bullying. Some of these things aren’t directly related, but they are intertwined because everything is connected if you look hard enough. The Ted Talk seemed to be just about lifecode. Lifecode is defined as how we program life. The TED Talk focused mainly on advances in science like in vitro fertilization and taking out the unsatisfactory parts of genes and putting…

Magic Pebble, and The Lorax. Harriet the Spy was banned because it portrayed an eleven year old that spied on people and wrote down her opinions on what they did and what kind of people they were which can be a bad influence on young children. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble was banned because one of the characters finds a pebble and wishes for the impossible, the book also portrays the police as pigs which can brainwash children making them believe police are bad people. The Lorax was banned…

Seuss, 1990, p. 2). If you were a reader of Dr. Seuss then you at least had a sense that the sky is the limit, and life is full of adventures. Many people have grown up reading Dr. Seuss books as a child, especially books like Cat in the Hat, The Lorax, and Oh, the Places You’ll Go, and many more. His books have made a lasting impact on society and throughout the world. Many parents would read their children a night-time story by Dr. Seuss, and his works were part of those household traditions…

solved. The final step in Smith and Ragan’s task analysis requires the instructor to construct learning objectives for the learning goal. The learning goal for this instructional unit is for the students to be able to summarize the narrative, “The Lorax”, including the main characters, setting, problem, and solution in sequence. However, before retelling a narrative to second graders, the learners must be able to identify the problem and solution in the story. As a result, the objective for…

Turtle. But none were as controversial as The Lorax and The Butter Battle Book. “Most people who read The Lorax see it as a wonderful and important tale. Some, however, do not appreciate its message” (Levine 77). Since this book is focused on environmental conservation, many members of the logging and paper mill industry felt that this book attacked their jobs. One father was especially upset when his second grader came home from school after reading The Lorax and asked him “why he was…

dioxide in the air, it promotes the development of drought, it contributes to the extinction of wildlife, and too many wildlife habitats are being destroyed. If you’ve ever seen the movie “The Lorax”, you know that it taught us that we can’t expect people in power to make eco-conscious decisions. Like the Lorax said, we have to speak for the trees because they can’t stand up for…

Compare and Contrast Paper Guilt and Regret are powerful forces that can make people act. This shown by characters doing something not good, being scared of what they have done, and changing their behavior in Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe and the Lorax by Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda. The first comparisons that I’m going to talk about of these to stories are a character destroying something not good shows guilt and regret. In the Poe story the character kills a man by dragging a man to the…

Authors can influence their readers to do something useful for the environment with several different types of writing. There are three main types of influencing ways a author can write. One would be a way of protesting to change something. Another way would be showing how people what other people are doing to inspire them to do the same. The last way would be to right a fictional piece and represent what is going on in the environment. Every way to influence a reader is very effectual. Many…

because you did not spend a dollar. Unless it is a fairly unknown song, it is already getting a ton of money. Not to mention, when you listen to it for a while, you begin to fall in love with it and decide to buy it legally. One example is the movie the Lorax came out and it was uploaded to some movie website for free. It was watched about six times by one person, and then when it came out on DVD it was bought legally. It is helpful to watch or listen to something before you buy it. How do these…