The Lorax

children’s book to write a journal entry. I vaguely remember the story of the Lorax, how and why am I supposed to write a 300 hundred word response to a story designed for children? I walked away from my computer, frustrated at this assignment. I returned to my desk an hour later and thought, “Ed and Karen know what they are doing, there has to be something I can take away from this story”. Subsequently reading The Lorax for the first time in well over a decade, it took me by surprise. I…

the environmental movement comes from its portrayal in the media. In James Cameron’s cutting-edge movie Avatar, Pixar’s animated story WALL-E, Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, and Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder,” three of the primary goals of the modern environmental movement: the education of children about environmentalism,…

as weird versions of the animals in Springfield Zoo where his father worked. He would go to the zoo after school with some paper (Krull 18). Some of his most famous characters are the Cat in the Hat, Mad Mary, Sam-I-Am, Horton, the Grinch, and the Lorax. He was able to write and illustrate 43 childrens books. In addition, his father recalled, “Ted always had a pencil…

speech for communication, plants do not have this ability. Have you ever watched The Lorax by Dr. Seuss? This a movie about how the Oncler cuts down trees to make thneeds, a clothing material that has a variety of different uses. He ends up making truffula trees go extinct, so people have no choice but to buy air to survive. In the beginning when the oncler cuts down the first tree, he gets summoned by the Lorax who is guardian of the forest. He quotes, “I speak for the trees, for the trees have…

tree and seen a Lorax? These are just some of the things seen in the 2 wonderful stories by Dr. Seuss and Lewis Carroll, in some poems very alike each other. In fact, these two childhood stories are so similar you could write a whole essay on them, like I’m about to do. Although the Jabberwock and the Once-ler are very different, there are some key similarities between them. Both of them come trodding into the forest, and are seen as evil through the rest of the environment. The Lorax wants the…

“Post [Hurricane] Sandy (which hurt the economy to the tune of $100 billion) and the drought ($150 billion), 74 percent of Americans have decided they’re very concerned about climate change and want something to happen” (McKibben 669). “A Moral Atmosphere” by Bill McKibben, argues that Americans are blaming climate change on big industries, while they could be part of the movement on climate change. McKibben goes on to show how Americans will use excuse after excuse to explain why the weakening…

children’s books of all time and all of the books were translated into more than 20 different languages. Although Dr. Seuss was best known for his children’s books, he also made many popular movies. His movies include How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Lorax, The Cat in the Hat, and Horton Hears a Who. Three years after How the Grinch Stole Christmas was made they made The Cat in the Hat to show what else they could do and bring in new stories. Five years after The Cat in the Hat was made,…

Today was quite an eventful day in my field experience classroom. I got to witness teacher collaboration on lesson planning, and a way to foster growth mindset. I learned some more awesome qualities today. However, I know you don’t want me to types tons of pages for one day otherwise I would. When I arrived at school my CT told me that today was going to be a short day. She informed me that the other Kindergarten teachers would be meeting in her room during lunch to discuss next week’s events.…

lessons learned the hard way of losing valuable friends. He does this in The Lorax in The Sneetches.The Lorax is about an inventor that chops down a tree and goes money hungry and eventual chops an entire forest down.The Sneetches is about two types of Sneetches ones with no star on their bellies and ones with and they get swindled by a salesman and have no more money.The theme with both of the stories is greed, in The Lorax the once-lers invention made him money hungry and ended up making him…

associated with development for people in Naples is empty stores, empty buildings, empty houses, and empty pockets. By taking a closer look at what overdevelopment is, how it presents itself in Naples, and what may happen to Naples in relation to the Lorax, one may see that there are few ways to prevent overdevelopment, but action needs to be taken to save the city and prevent and economic downfall. Overdevelopment is an…