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The Fictitious Story Of The Lorax By Dr. Seuss

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USING APPLICABLE SMALL BUSINESS TERMS, STATUTES, AND LAWS TO THE FICTITIOUS STORY OF THE LORAX
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Institution Using Applicable Small Business Terms, Statutes, and Laws to the Fictitious Story of the Lorax
The story of the Lorax is a famous children’s literature written by Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel), who argued that his inspiration to write the book was as a result of the fret he had as a result of having read a lot of dull things on conversations that had a lot of preaching and statistics. The Lorax became a standard text read especially on Earth Day Ceremonies. It was published in 1971, and was immediately met with a lot of attention. The Lorax raises a lot of important questions, however, it also offers a lot of answers that, …show more content…

According to the Once-ler, it all started when the land was clean and wild; when Bears, birds, and fish paled freely. When beautiful trees, the Truffula gracefully grew and bore colorful tufts. The Once-ler drove into this land, once considered as paradise in an horse –drawn carriage and immediately went to cut down a Truffula Tree, which its tufts he carefully knit into a thneed. The Lorax accosted the Once-ler after he had completed the knitting of the first thneed; the Lorax was an old, short, man-thing mossy. The Lorax claimed that it spoke for the environment, the trees; it demanded to know what the Once-ler ha careful knit out of …show more content…

According to Richard Stroup, a free-market advocate, there is need to reform the Endangered Species Act to ensure that endangered species are our friends and not foes. Private ownership is the number one problem for the Endangered Species Act(Nelson, 2006). Of all the endangered species, especially in the US, are dependent on habitats that are privately owned. In order to avert the problem of loss of diversity, then, the focus should be on developing strategies that effectively work on privately owned land. Both the mainstream environmentalists and free-market advocates argue that the current status results in persistent incentives that produce objectionable results
In summary, the Lorax story is a precautionary story that attempts to raise and inform readers of certain important issues. However, it does not successfully characterize and effectively criticize how renewable resources are treated by a free market. Its main theme that as humans we must not act as the Once-ler, is correct. The conclusion of this story is somewhat weak; resource depletion is consistent with the implicit premise of free markets. This is contrary to the principles of free market whose virtues of the free market are focusing on the future(Miller & Cross,

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