...The Impact of Dr. Seuss on American Culture “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing (Dr. Seuss).” When Theodor Seuss Geisel was born, life was not as easy as it is today. From war to civil rights movements, Seuss endured many influential american “battles”. Theodor Seuss Geisel grew up in a large German community where his family lived and worked. When Dr. Seuss was thirteen years old, The United States went to war with Germany which brought fear and anxiety to the Geisel’s hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts. During the war, art became a popular method used to depict war and more often to escape the hardships that americans both on and off the battlefield faced. Theodor Seuss Geisel gained inspiration...
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...going to talk about Dr Seuss. His real name is Theodor Seuss Geisel and he writes children books. Dr Seuss is an influence to little children to become an author. A lot of children 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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...books, Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known to the public as Dr. Seuss, has become more than a renowned author throughout his lifetime. He has become an icon and still continues his legacy thereafter with a very well known name around the house. Using his creative imagination and his own personal life experiences in his stories, Dr. Seuss made it very attainable for both children and adults alike to become interested in his writings. Along with his love for writing to a children’s audience, Geisel was known for his political cartoons and advertising designs, as well as directing films. With his keen knack for reaching out to a wide array of viewers and readers, Dr. Seuss will forever remain a legend in the minds of both children and adults. Geisel had a talent, a talent unlike many, he had the ability to incorporate numerous intriguing ideas, rhymes and lessons into his stories and he knew how to precisely use this talent to catch the attention of his spectators. He once said, “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do. And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” (Best Sayings from Theodore Seuss Geisel) Children have always been mesmerized at his stories because of how unreal they seem. The idea of places existing where there are unknown types of creatures like Nooks, Wumps and Yinks in someone’s back yard or crazy cats trying to...
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