...ENDANGERED SPECIES: THE LORAX The Introduction The Lorax is a story about a man who abused the environment and about what he learned. The story begins in the most run-down part of a dull, gray town. A small boy asks the Once-ler to share the secret of the Lorax and how he was taken away. Thus, the story is told as a "flashback" as the Once-ler talks about the Lorax and past events. The Characters: The Once-ler, a businessman The Lorax, a leader of the plants and animals The Once-ler’s Story: The Beginning The Once-ler moved across the land in his wagon. He came upon a new land with an important natural resource. (A natural resource is a plant, animal or mineral that can be used by people.) 1. What was this natural resource the Once-ler found? Setting Up Shop The Once-ler used the land's natural resource to start a business which made and sold a product. The Lorax appeared at this point and asked the Once-ler some angry questions. 2. What was the product? 3. How was it used by buyers? 4. What did the Lorax want to know of the Once-ler? 5. How did the Once-ler answer? Using Technology Businessmen like the Once-ler sometimes try to make more money by increasing the number of products they can sel1. Often new machines and other systems are invented to do this. . Other people use machines to make work faster, easier, and more accurate. For example, students, engineers, and others use calculators. Robots are sometimes used to...
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...Easter’s End and The Lorax In Easter Island there use to be approximately more than several thousands of people living there but throughout time went extinct. The people that lived there were able to wipe out all their resources such as trees and were able to use them for things they needed. Due to these actions more and more trees were being cut down in order to be used as something else and this led to deforestation just like in the movie The Lorax. In the movie the Once-ler also is shown to be taking advantage of the trees but he was able to make profit out of this. Both the Once-ler and the people living in Easter Islands did not realize all the damage that they were causing to the world around them. In the article “Easter’s End” by Jared Diamond, he is able to go more indepth of how and why it was led to extinction of the people, animals and plants....
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...SPECIES: THE LORAX The Introduction The Lorax is a story about a man who abused the environment and about what he learned. The story begins in the most run-down part of a dull, gray town. A small boy asks the Once-ler to share the secret of the Lorax and how he was taken away. Thus, the story is told as a “flashback” as the Once-ler talks about the Lorax and past events. The Characters: A. The Once-ler, a businessman B. The Lorax, a leader of the plants and animals The Once-ler’s Story: The Beginning The Once-ler moved across the land to his wagon. He came upon a new land with an important natural resource. (A natural resource is a plant, animal or mineral that can be used by people.) What was this natural resource the Once-ler found? truffula trees Setting up Shop The Once-ler used the land’s natural resource to start a business which made and sold a product. The Lorax appeared at this point and asked the Once-ler some angry questions. What was the product? thneed How was it used by buyers? The Thneed is used as a shirt, a sock, a glove, a hat, carpets, pillows, sheets, curtains, and covers for bicycle seats. What did the Lorax want to know of the Once-ler? Why he is cutting the tree down (Stewardship, speaking for the trees). How did the Once-ler answer? He only cutted down one tree, everybody needed a thneed. He thinks that if he didn’t exploit he environment someone else would Using Technology Businessmen like the Once-ler sometimes...
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...Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax (1971) is argued as one of the most important pieces of environmental children’s literature, with educators expressing the work, “as a powerful story for teaching and learning, as a story that can promote transformational ideas in educational practice,” (Henderson, 2004). This high praise begs the question: why is The Lorax so successful at reaching out to the child reader? This essay will indentify the use of certain literary characteristics that Seuss incorporated in The Lorax, which stemmed from successful environmental children’s literature from the late seventeenth century to the twentieth century. It will establish the success of each work due to the theme or agenda it had that reflected the social and environmental issues of its time, and will then establish to what extent Seuss’s The Lorax stands as a strong example for ecocritics and educators alike, of an environmental children’s story and its impact on the child reader. To further understand the position of this paper, it is important to identify the nature of ecocentricism and the development of the interdisciplinary field. Ecocentricism is an ethical practice that “decenters humanity’s importance in nonhuman nature and nature writing and instead explores the complex interrelationships between the human and the nonhuman,” (Buell, 2011). The practice, in the last twenty years, has become a field of inquiry in response to “growing academic concern about the response of literature and literary theory...
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...The Lorax and “Easter’s End” are both examples of how societal decisions and structures can destroy the environment. In The Lorax, Dr. Seuss creates a world in which the decisions made by an entrepreneur sends the environment past the point of reparability, meanwhile in “Easter’s End”, a scientist examines the possible cause of Easter Island's decline in population due to lack of food and resources caused by the over-farming of the land. The Lorax and “Easter’s End”, while both dealing with the destruction of the environment, differ in three major ways: the method of destroying the environment, the ways in which the destruction could have been avoided, and the motivation behind causing the destruction. The Lorax mainly focuses on industrialization's...
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...JEZZIE KAYE P. RUIZ III-TAE ANIMATED FILM MOVIE: DR.SEUSS’ THE LORAX ACTORS * the Lorax, a grumpy yet charming orange creature with a large moustache. * the Once-ler, a man who recounts how his discovery of the Truffula Forest as a young man led to its depletion. * Ted Wiggins, an idealistic 12-year-old boy. * Audrey, an older girl and Ted's love interest * Aloysius O'Hare, the mayor of Thneedville and head of the "O'Hare Air" company that supplies fresh air to Thneedville residents. * Grammy Norma, Ted's grandmother * Mrs. Wiggins, Ted's mother * the Once-ler's mother. * Uncle Ubb, the Once-ler's uncle. * Aunt Grizelda, the Once-ler's aunt. * Brett and Chet, the Once-ler's brothers. SUMMARY Ted Wiggins is an idealistic 12-year-old boy, who lives in "Thneedville," a walled city in which everything is artificial and made of plastic, metal, or synthetics. Ted has a crush on local environmentalist Audrey and decides to find a real tree in order to impress her. His energetic Grammy Norma secretly tells Ted the legend of the Once-ler, who will tell anyone about trees if brought fifteen cents, a nail, and a shell of a great-great-great grandfather snail. When Ted leaves Thneedville in search of the Once-ler, he discovers that the outside world is a contaminated, empty wasteland. The Once-ler agrees to tell Ted about the trees if he will listen to the story over the course of multiple visits. Ted agrees despite a confrontation...
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...In this easy I will be comparing the Lorax By Dr Seuss and the Giving tree by Shel Silverstein. The Lorax is about an intelligent young man named Ted, who lives in a place virtually devoid of nature. Ted fell in love with a girl named Audery. Ted wanted to win the heart of the Audery but to do so he must find something she really cherishes which is a truffle tree. To get the Trufflula tree Ted delves in to the story of the Lorax. The Lorax once was the conservator of the Lorax and the Once-ler is a guy who cut down all the trees in the forest because of Greediness for money and lost all his respect for nature. Now that I have described what The Lorax is about I am going to describe about The Last Tree. Once there was a tree that loved a boy. The boy would come to play with the tree and collect the tree leaves and eat the tree's Apple. The boy also loved the tree with all his...
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...THE LORAX AND EASTER’S END According to an article by Sam Martin, “Nearly 4 billion tress or 35 percent of the total trees cut around the world are used in paper industries on every continent.” Take a moment to absorb that statistic. Trees are one of the most beneficial natural resource that plays a vital role in our everyday life. As of right now, humans around the world are using so much resource from the Earth and we do not even realize it. If we do not learn to conserve and not take our natural resources for granted, then one day our planet Earth will end up in a disastrous outcome like how the “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss and “Easter’s End” by Jared Diamond did. The two stories share the same theme, which is people taking nature for granted and ended up destroying the environment for personal uses. Although the general theme may be similar, there were several differences between the two stories, other than the fact that one story was fiction and one was historical. In both stories, several key environmental issues were shown to exemplify the consequence of abusing the environment. In “The Lorax”, the truffula trees were the main natural resource that were chopped down and stripped of their leaves in order to make thneeds, which was everything the humans would need. Similarly in “Easter’s End,” the Polynesian natives, who sculpted statues to express their culture, used a plentiful amount of trees to place the statues on and transport them to the locations of where they would...
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...different and almost anything could happen. In his book The Lorax, Dr. Seuss introduces a desolate wasteland with dark skies, dead vegetation and wind that, “smells slow-and-sour when it blows” (1). The archetype for a wasteland is often used for a sense for it to be cleansed. The reader can assume that at one time the area flourished, having bloomed with life, and might be returned to that...
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...Biodiversity is a marvelous thing. It's the number of different organisms in an area. Although you may not be able to see all the types of different biodiversity, that doesn't mean it isn't there. Biodiversity is everywhere, especially in the movie The Lorax. Biodiversity is very important, it helps keep an ecosystem stable and helps animals interact with one another. For instance symbiosis. All organisms rely on biodiversity. Everyone depends on biodiversity, no matter how big or small. Biodiversity helps animals interact with one another. For instance, a lot of organisms endure the same food source. Some organisms need the same resources (biodiversity) to be supplied with food. Organisms can interact in a mutual way, where one of the organisms benefit and the other one is nor harmed nor hurt. Also they can...
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...Have you ever gone outside on a nice, windy day, and smelled the scent of freshly cut grass or the aroma of blooming flowers in your garden and thought it was wonderful. Now think about if you had gone outside just like the first time, as in weather, but all you could smell was an environmentally devastating chemical that you had sprayed on your flower bed and your grass and the air was filled with the scent of chemicals that will eventually kill us. Ecocriticism is the study of literature and the environment, its importance is that it helps to inform people of the environment and how it is being affected by the things we use on our plants. Many people have tackled this type of writing for several decades through persuasive pieces about the...
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...the charcoal this time!” Dean opened one eye. Seven in the morning was a bit early to leave for the boat races thirty minutes away when they started at nine. But, such was Junior’s excitement that Dean forced himself out of his bed earlier than he planned on. “Ok, son. Let’s check Renee’s packing and we’ll see about weather and conditions. Does Mom have her work finished yet?” Anne appeared framed in the bedroom door. “Yeah. I have some more reading to do, but I can do it at the site. The races are not my favorite thing, but you’ll need my help if the kids want to get wet. However, there is something I need to talk to you about. Junior, honey, please go make sure you have a cooler full of water and juice for us today.” Off like a shot, Junior dashed out of the room and Anne went in, closing the door behind her and lifting Dean’s laptop to the bed. “Dean, I think the forest is gone. Check this out.” Dean read the headlines and cutlines of the pictures and articles that Anne showed him. He shook his head as one by one they all told a devastating story. “Proud Chief Stands Alone” talked about a cliff over the river where there was an Indian statue that overlooked the area. The picture showed a complete lack of hundred-year old trees that were there only last year. “Closed Park Sold to Highest Bidder” explained how yet another of the closed state parks was sold off to cover the state’s debt. “State Treasure Slashed” depicted a...
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...Flies” is a text that is showing an argument and making a statement through the theme that a society without laws and law enforcement will inevitably fail. This is shown through the society the boys on the island create, initially they have their innocence and live in harmony but without rules their society soon falls and the children's innocence turns to evil. Another book with an underlying argument is “Animal Farm”. This book is giving a warning about the fallacy of the idea of communism and that an uninformed working class will always easily fall into manipulation. Lastly another example is a children's text and now movie “The Lorax”. This text shows that without regard for our environment and without taking care of it, we will end up living in a dump. This is shown through the Lorax’s warning to The Onceler to not cut down the trees, and once he does the environment around them is...
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... (2008) stated, “In contrast to textbooks, nonfiction trade books can support instruction in nearly every subject…which allows a teacher to front-load experiences with a concept” (p. 132). The following table lists trade books that can be used to enhance and supplement instruction in Math, Science, Social Studies, and Reading within a fourth-grade classroom. Book Title | Content Area | Summary | Appropriateness | Standards | Millions, Billions & Trillions by David A. Adler & Edward Miller (2013) | Math | In this book, Adler helps students to connect large numbers to other things they already know. There are also hands-on activities that can be done, such as using one-fourth cup of sugar to illustrate what a million might look like. This book also tells students how long it would take to count to a million, billion, and trillion (Adler & Miller, 2013). | In the fourth-grade, students are expected to read and write whole numbers to one million. Often, they do not understand the quantity of one million. | 4.NBT.1 | Working With Fractions by David A. Adler & Edward Miller (2007) | Math | The setting of this book is at a birthday party. While at the birthday party, there are examples of a pizza, a cake, balloons, and children...
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