Therapeutic horseback riding

The lesson Little Red Riding Hood learned was to never trust a wolf because they are sly and clever. She let herself get tricked once and that resulted in getting herself and her grandma eaten by the cunning wolf. When the second time the wolf tried to trick her, she knew the tricks because of her previous experience and therefore did not let herself go astray. The first time Little Red Riding Hood was going to visit her grandmother she lets herself get tricked by the sly wolf. The wolf turns…

“The Celery Stalks at Midnight” This adventure tells about three animals and Bunnicula, the infamous vampire bunny. Included is the family the animals live with whom they are trying to protect. With the vanishing of Bunnicula, the search begins, they want to find him before he runs out of vegetables and turns his fangs on the family. The adventure leads them to the dump and a truck ride where they find white veggies indicating Bunnicula has attacked and stab them with toothpicks, however when…

Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki, or Wolf Children in english, is a Japanese animation film created by Studio Chizu and Madhouse. Mamoru Hosoda directed this film, coming from a major success and widely beloved movie that was The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Wolf Children presents the viewer a heart warming tale of a single mother and her journey to raise her children. Meant for a family and general audience, Wolf Children definitely delivers a film for the average movie watcher: an accessible…

The red dress in the short story “A Red Dress-1946” by Alice Munro, symbolizes the narrator’s liminal space amidst adulthood and childhood. Her longing to transition forth adulthood is conveyed by the description of the tight red dress’s ability to accentuate her breasts, thus maturing her image. Munro writes, “The red velvet dress…[was] very tight in the midriff. I saw how my breasts, in their new brassiere, jutted out surprisingly, with mature authority.” The narrator’s new dress represents a…

The Winter Soldier’s horse shies away from the wind, sharp with a chill and damp that Bucky can no longer feel. The clouds gather hard upon the peaks of Sokovia, reeking of rain and worse to the vampire’s supernatural nose. A few stubborn leaves dangle from bare branches like decayed flesh clings to bone. Bucky sighs. “You coddle him,” his companion says. Bucky turns in his saddle. “That’s not what I was thinking.” Natasha snorts, a strange sound from a fellow blood drinker but that’s…

Today I will be teaching you about “Never Cry Wolf” by Farley Mowat. I chose this short story because I liked the setting as well as the wolves. SLIDE – POINT OF VIEW: The narrative is a first-person account from the perspective of a person. SLIDE – CHARACTERS: Indirect characterization is used in this story but the majority of information is held back from the reader. The reader can assume the first-person perspective is coming from a human because on page 2, the person narrates about their…

The truth of who you really are became a fallacy to the ears of many young minds, including mine. Implanted since I was a young child, you were always portrayed as the “Big Bad Wolf” who treated the three little pigs as delicious prey rather than a friendly neighbor who wanted to be more than an acquaintance. I question the reasons why you would let the media tarnish your name in such an evil manner. From Walt Disney creating a cartoon short called “Disney’s Silly Symphony: The Three Little…

n answer to the tentacled creatures' questions, Calvin explains that he is a young man from a planet engaged in fighting off the Dark Thing. The beasts seem surprised that Calvin and the Murrys are not used to meeting beings from other planets. They tell their guests that they must entrust Meg to their care because she is extremely vulnerable and weak. Meg leans against the soft, furry chest of one of the beasts and feels warm and secure. The beasts rub something warm over her body, clothe…

Men and woman today do not always follow their “designated” gender roles as they have in the past and this causes skepticism in the way society views them. This is represented In the story where there is change surrounding the innate nature of men to showcase violence, and unclothed women to stray from innocence. The first example is in this quote when Carter displays the man’s attempt to remain inconspicuous, “The sticks twitched in the grate, the clock ticked and the young man sat patiently,…

An English author and illustrator of children’s picture books, Emily Gravett, brings a fresh outlook to the children’s books where she won Kate Greenway Medal and the Nestle Children’s Book Prize Bronze Award for Wolves and Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears, Book Trust (2015). Again! is another brilliant of Gravett. A little green dragon wants his mother to read a bedtime story of a bright angry red dragon name Cedric who causes havoc every night, repeatedly that it sends her to fall asleep…