...The Importance of Fantasy in The Cat In The Hat By Sabrina Lee Xin Ru (21257819) The Cat in The Hat was a children’s book written and creatively illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Suess. It was first published in 1957 and has since made a deep impression in the hearts of children and adults alike. The story centers around an eccentric anthropomorphic cat that comes in to the house of two children while the adults are away, attempting to entertain them while they are stuck at home on a rainy day. The element of fantasy that was implemented throughout the story, which includes a talking pet goldfish and a talking cat that performs all sorts of tricks, became an immediate success and was praised as an exciting alternative compared to the ineffective traditional primers such as those featuring Dick and Jane. This essay will discuss on the importance of fantasy in popular children’s literature such as The Cat in The Hat. Firstly, fantasy is vital for the human mind. Fantasy in children’s literature such as in The Cat in The Hat is important as it is a slow and mediated way for children to come to terms with the reality of life as they grow up. It begins as the psychological process by which a child learns to fill the gaps between knowledge, reality and experience, and becomes a vital coping mechanism. For example, when a young child is frightened by the unknown, like the spooky creaks of a floorboard in the middle of the night. For them, the only way...
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...behave in reaction to the character? What does the character do? How does the character behave? What does the character look like? How does the character dress? Actions Looks TIP #1: TIP #2: Use the mnemonic device of STEAL to remember the five types of indirect characterization Use indirect characterization to analyze visual media: Film: Look at how the character dresses and moves. Note the facial expressions when the director moves in for a close-up shot. Drama: Pay attention to the way that the characters reveal their thoughts during a soliloquy. Examples of Indirect Characterization from The Cat in the Hat Type of Indirect Characterization Examples Many of the words spoken by the cat at the beginning of the story have an upbeat connotative meaning. For instance, the cat says to the children, “But we can have / Lots of fun that is funny!” (7). So all we could do was to Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! And we...
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...becoming heroes are The Cat in the Hat and Monsters Inc. At first, these monsters come about as scary looking but that’s not how these selctions end up; finishing with a twist in the end with monsters showing a care for human children. While written 40 years apart, Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat and Pete Docter’s film Monsters Inc. demonstrate responsible behavior in interactions with children and show the flawed characters who though their journey have monster heroes who interact with human children and then accept responsibility for the messes they have created. The Cat in the Hat and Monsters Inc. portray a child’s adventure as a result of showing up unexpectedly. The Cat enters out of the blue introducing himself to the two children and begins creating chaos around the house because he’s being a careless cat. The Cat unlocks a crate and frees the two identical creatures with blue hair who rally round the Cat...
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...recognized even though his work is well known throughout the world. He has won three Academy Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for his work but people only recognize him by his pseudonym, Dr. Seuss. The Cat in the Hat is a book is about a Cat that moves in on two unsuspecting Children on a rainy day. He creates a whirlwind of misbehavior that the kids are at first powerless to stop. After the cat invites his friends into the house, they trash the place and try to get the kids to join in with all the mischief. After the boy asserts himself and orders the fun-loving cat to hit the road; that is where the story ends. This book was Theodor’s third book, the first of the six that the Cat appears in. The Cat in the Hat was perhaps the defining book of his career. The book only has 236 “new-reader” words in its vocabulary. When Ted’s first wife died in 1967, he married his old friend which only influenced the production of his later books. Theodore wrote the book because he felt that there should be more entertaining and fun material for beginning readers. The entertaining tale with the tiny vocabulary shows that he had a great skill in writing. The Cat in the Hat is what I believe to be the start of the new genre. The book was a hit in 1957, and since then has sold more than 11 million copies and has been translated into more than 12 different languages. The books fun antics have become one of...
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...heodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Doctor Seuss was born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield Massachusetts into the loving household of father Theodore Robert Wiesel, a successful brewmaster, and Henrietta Seuss Geisel, an affectionate stay at home mother. The two passionate parents worked hard to manage their three children. Seuss had two admirable sisters named Marine, who was two years older, and Henrietta, who was three and a half years younger. At the young age of five, his younger sister Henrietta passed away of pneumonia since there were no cures at the time. This was a traumatic point for the Seuss family, as they had lost someone they loved. Seuss’s mother Henrietta would often chant soothing nursery rhymes remembered from her childhood...
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...HISTORY OF SONGKHLA Songkhla is the provincial capital of Songkhla Province. The city itself is surrounded by beaches such as Samila & Son Awn and also known as "the great city on two seas". With the beaches, some historical centres and nice green parks, this place is definitely a good battery recharge point before heading to livelier Hat Yai. Songkhla or Singgora in Malay, was a city of an old Malay Kingdom of Langkasuka with heavy Srivijayan influence. It has been under Thai suzerainty since the 18th century. Previously a port and a coastal trading post where Indian, Persian and Arab merchants came to exchange their products, this place was initially named "Sing Lha" after the 2 lion-shape islands at the mouth of the city's lake. Currently, these 2 islands are known to us as Ko Nu (Rat Island) and Ko Maeo (Cat Island). THE STATUES At Songkhla beach, the most interesting part is about the statues. One of that is dragon that was placed separately by it head, body and tail. The This Dragon Head or " Nag : as stated on the inscription plaque was constructed in 2007 and is a new attraction for Songkhla Lake . The area is part of Songkhla Municipal Song Thale Park. The dragon head is situated at the estuary entrance to Songkhla Lake. The dragon sculpture is divide to 3, one is head at the lake, the body is at the park and the tail is stretching along the side way. It symbolizes wisdom and intelligence. The Great Serpent Nag in Songkhla which located in southern Thailand...
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...Personal Identity in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor The unnamed grandmother in the short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Conner, considers herself to be a lady because of her heritage in the Old South, and believes that she is superior to those around her. In this work, the grandmother puts her family into dangerous situations because of her personal identity, eventually leading them to their death. As the story progresses, she leads her family down a dirt road, off of their intended route. She startles her cat as they continue down the dirt road, which jumps up and frightens her son, Bailey, causing them to go off the road. This series of events leads to their conflict with the Misfit, and eventually their murder. She maintains her personal identity throughout the story regardless of the consequences of these actions. Even at the brink of death, she continues to uphold her belief that she is superior, going as far as to call herself a lady when the Misfit is going to kill her. The grandmother considers herself superior to Bailey and his family because she deems herself to be a lady. She does not want to go to Florida and attempts to convince her son to go east Tennessee instead, by showing him a news article about the Misfit. She says that she would much rather bring her grandchildren to the Old South where “they would see different parts of the world and be broad” (372). She uses the children to convince her son and shows false affection...
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...Mercury Poisoning 'In that direction,' the Cat said, 'lives a hatter: and in That direction, lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.' (Lewis Carroll, 1865) With those lines the Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland introduces us to a victim of mercury poisoning. The term mad as a hatter was very common in Carroll’s day because of the use of mercury in the making of hats. Once it was understood that mercury was highly toxic, it was no longer used in the making of hats. The damage had already been done. Hatters would suffer from “hatter’s shakes”, a form of nerve damage with symptoms not unlike Parkinson’s disease. Even today it is still called “Mad Hatters Syndrome”. (Martin, 2012) Hats are now formed and blocked using hot water and steam. (Rand's Custom Hats, 2012) Mercury contamination is still a real threat even though hatters no longer use the metal. The first recorded account of mercury poisoning was in 50 B.C. Today, scientist recognize mercury to be a neurotoxin and that high levels of exposure can lead to serious illness and even death. Since the 1950’s and 60’s, scientific evidence has pointed to mercury or anthropogenic emissions as having widespread impacts on the environment and human health. For instance, in 1956 methylmercury poisoning was officially discovered in a Japanese community near a polyvinyl chloride plastics plant that has been dumping untreated liquid waste containing methyl...
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...learn rhyming, numbers and many other things from reading his books . His movies have a lot of impact on people too. Dr Seuss was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2 1904. He graduated from school in 1921 and that was when he was thinking about being an author. So he started his career. Then he graduated college in 1925 and in 1927 he started his career. His first book was created in 1950 and that book was “If I Ran The Zoo”. Geisel left the city of Oxford without earning a degree of an author .Then he moved back to the united states to countinue his passion.He went to the colloge of where he started his first book and his first skit was published in 6 months at the collage...
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...Red Hat Linux Virtualization for Desktops By: Dorein Pfeil Instructor: Mike Mostafavi School: University of Phoenix Class: POS/355 One popular protocol for Linux Virtual desktop is SPICE it allows client and server to interact with virtual management tools and other standalone client applications. RHEV now allows management applications to run on Microsoft Windows server R2. V2V tools convert from ESX, RHEL Xen, and RHEL KVM to RHEV, the underling technology involved for V2V is called libguestfs, which is a library that binds programming languages to access Virtual Management disk images and interact with them in a variety of ways. VM’s can also work while the system is powered down. The draw-backs to using this system is that you must first obtain a license to use this feature, and it must be purchased before it can be used. Virtualization is becoming a key feature in the technology race for technology in the Linux system vendors, this technology provides a great advantage by letting the user aquire the ability to run powerful key features such as like image/storage management, clustering, system schedulars, power saver, ETC. By understanding what VR technology is capable of many companies are becoming more enthralled with what this technology can actually do, mainly in the world of medical science this technology was first discovered in its infancy as a way to seen through into the human tissue and muscle right to the bones of a person, this...
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... B: Oh what a coincident! Unit 2 Situations: 1- A: Good morning. B: Good morning A: Did you watch the football match took place between MU & Arsenal last night? B: Yes, I did. My friends and me went to a café to watch. Everyone was so crazy. 2- A: You’re so beautiful in a new dress. What a nice color! B: Oh, thank you Speaking topic: 1- A: Hey, How are you today? B: Yeah, I’m fine. And you? A: Me too. I changed to new room last month. It’s very nice. I love it. B: Oh really? How’s it? A: It’s small but nice decoration with pink wallpapers. I try to arrange things orderly. B: Would you mind if I visit your room? A: You’re welcome. Are you free this weekend? B: Yes, I am. I’d love to. Unit 3 Topic 2: A: Last weekend, I took part in holding a birthday party for my close friend. Linh. She’s so happy about that. B: What present did you give her? A: I gave her a watch because I remembered that her watch broken down last month. B: Oh, she must have liked it. Writing: Everyone has their own little story of a 3 important-stage process, namely, childhood, youth and adulthood time and I’m not an exception. I was born in a...
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...Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin • MA Museumsmanagement und -kommunikation • M12 Fallstudien zum Marketing und Finanzierung von Museen und kulturellen Projekten • Dozent: Peter Legemann • SoSe 2014 - 2015 Protokoll der Exkursion in das Tanzhaus Eden***** Datum, Zeit: 02.06.2015, 14:00 – 16:25 Uhr Adresse: Breite Straße 43, 13187 Berlin Pankow Exkursionsleitung: Kirsten Seeligmüller, Mitgründerin und Geschäftsführerin DOCK 11 GmbH; Peter Legemann, Dozent Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin TeilnehmerInnen: Annalena Knorrs, Svenja Kutscher, Laura Maturana Jahn, Timothy Schmidt, Mark Stefan, Melanie Weigel, Irene Gröger, Astrid Hackel, Andrea Kramper, Mareike Poppinga, Nina Krasemann, Beatrice Fidelibus, Matthias Kirchner, Monique Riedl Protokollantinnen: Beatrice Fidelibus, Nina Krasemann Inhalt Einleitung (B.F.).................................................................................................................... 2 1. Station: der Garten............................................................................................................ 3 …- Entstehungsgeschichte (N.K.).......................................................................................... 3 - Grundhaltung und Politik (N.K.)......................................................................................... 4 - Zielgruppen & Marketing (N.K.).........................................................................................6 - Projekte:...
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...follow a trait, Yes, Daisy is a brainy snail. I Feel the heat, breathe, reach your peak, win the meet. Please take heed. Being weak at the knees near a ravine is serious. Don't be a geek. Pieces of meat get stuck in his teeth when he eats veal steamed with sesame seeds. [o:] as in MORE core – more – bore – before – shore – sore – store – tore – explore – ignore; cord – lord – order – form – normal – fork – pork – port – sport – short – horn – torn – born – corn – corner; U A Tudor who tooted a flute Tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to their tutor, "Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?" Short Vowel Sounds a | /æ/ | cat | e | /ɛ/ | bed | i | /ɪ/ | sit | o | /ɑ/ | top | u | /ʌ/ | sun | Sentences: /æ/ - cat Cade handed her the cat and cuffed her playfully. /ɛ/ - bed I'm going to bed early. /ɪ/ - sit Sit down and have breakfast with us. /ɑ/ - top She shrugged as...
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...The American is holding a whip in his right hand that is known as a cat-o-nine whip, which was used to beat African Americans during the US slave trade. Moreover, he is ready to hit the Chinese man with all of his strength, seeing as how he raises his leg to balance himself. The Chinese man is trying to run away, but the American bully is grabbing him by his hair very painfully. The hair style that the Chinese man has is called a queue. I believe this represents the American’s fascination with the hair, as well as his viciousness towards the Chinese man. There is also the Chinese man’s hat on the floor. The reason being that the American is harming the Chinese man is because the Chinese race are very good at working. Therefore, they took over...
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...Chucho Ramirez a Mexican, who all he wants is to better himself and have a better future than the one expected of him. As Ramirez looks up to the president because the president was a clear example of what America was like. Since the president was also poor as him, but through the hard work and dedication the president was able to become the president of the United States. That's why Ramirez is a strong believer that America is the land of the opportunity, if he works hard maybe he could also become president. One Night when Ramirez was in a bar he meet a blonde girl named Nancy. Spontaneous he felt attracted to her and found an opportunity to talk to her when she didn't had money to pay for the drinks she ordered. Nancy tried to avoid him at first because he was Mexican, and she thought that he was a "Latin Lover" because he was always so "suave" with her and she also found him "sexy". Also the hat that Ramirez was very important to represent Chucho as a Latin Lover because Nancy at the end said "be careful with the hat not the hat" as showing that that the hat made him look good. Nancy realized that she started to fall in love with Ramirez and that made her scared since she didn't want to fall in love with him. But she realized how in love she was with him when he was arrested and put in jail, because the farmer who Ramirez works for accused Ramirez with false charges....
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