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    The importance of symbolism creates the many representations of ideas and stories. Symbolism portrayed throughout Dr. Seuss’s poems include The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Green Eggs and Ham. Dr. Seuss writes youthful poems with the ability to capture deeper meanings as a reader advances. In the Cat In The hat poem there are two very distinctive roles that change meaning with the age of the reader. The Cat influences the kids in the

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    Literary Analysis of Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, is perhaps one of the most beloved children’s authors of the twentieth century. Although he is most famous as an author of children’s books, Geisel was also a political cartoonist, advertisement designer, and film director (Kaplan). He used the power of imagination to produce unforgettable children’s books and helped solve the problem of illiteracy among America’s children. By using his experiences in life as a

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    Green Eggs and Ham By Dr. Seuss Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss is about a little creature that calls himself “Sam I am.” This creature throughout the books holds a platter of green eggs and ham in a platter trying to convince this man who does not like him very much to try these green eggs and ham. The narrator (who is not given a name in the book) continuously attempts to avoid him throughout his journey of this world they live in, however, it did not stop Sam from following him with the platter

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    Seuss covered a large amount of political topics because he had the format to do it on. He wanted to be able use some of these topics in order to encourage the younger generation to challenge bullies and all the injustices in the world. Many people today might not credit Dr. Seuss as someone who helped shape their political views, but in actuality, he was able to play a role in sensitizing them to the abuses of power. This was something Dr. Seuss actually aimed to do. He wanted the books to have

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    In elementary school, we would read Dr. Seuss books for fun, but back then we never realised that his story’s had a meaning. In Mrs. Hannon’s English class we have read multiple stories to show that Dr. Seuss is more than nonsense words and rhyming. The Dr. Seuss books that I am going to talk about are Horton Hatches Egg, The Sneetches, and Yertle the Turtle. The characters of Horton Hatches the Egg are Horton the Elephant, Mazie, the egg, hunters, and circus crowds. This story has multiple settings

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    Theodore Seuss Geisel (Dr.Seuss). The children's books guy. What else? When people think of Dr.Seuss, they think that he just writes poetry and that is it but he was much more than "that book guy." He "served with U.S. Army making training movies"(catinthehat.org) because he was too old to be drafted. That says a lot about a person. Because they would not draft him, he joined the army himself, And there's a lot more about this guy. I am just getting started. Dr.Seuss was born in 1904 on Howard Street

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    find his antics hilarious. However, along the way the book teaches that there is a good reason that the adult is telling the boy “no” and even young kids can pick up on the logic behind the reprimand. 2. Seuss, Dr. The Cat in the Hat. New York: Random House, Inc., 1985. Print. As always, Dr. Seuss’ ingenious rhyming scheme is creative as well as humorous. Kids will enjoy the absurdity of the characters while learning about rhymes. The book also teaches that inviting strangers into one’s house is a

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    Dr. Seuss is a well known writer who wrote many children 's books which had many double meanings that intrigued adults as well. Many of Dr. Seuss works could be looked at as controversial and might be seen as him pushing his own agenda onto his readers; none did this more than his story, The Lorax. Looking specifically at The Lorax, which was turned in a movie, we can see there is real world issues behind the artists writing for the children. A capitalist economy creates the greedy and self indulging

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    We chose to do our counter story project over Dr. Seuss’s children’s book titled, The Sneetches. This book demonstrates discrimination on different types of creatures called sneetches. This children’s book could be used in our future classrooms to talk about the effects of discrimination on multiple races. In the book, the sneetches without stars were treated differently than the sneetches that had them. This book can be used in classrooms to talk about the differences among people, not only by race

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    TERMS, STATUTES, AND LAWS TO THE FICTITIOUS STORY OF THE LORAX Name 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

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