I choose the cartoon Backyardigans, because it was my favorite TV show growing up and I watched it all the time. The Backyardigansis a Canadian-American animated children TV show, created by Janice Burgess. This series started October 11, 2004 and sadly came to an end on May 31, 2010. The series was based on a live-action pilot titled “Me and My Friends,” produced at Nickelodeon Studious in September 1988. The pilot was rejected by Nickelodeon, and the topic was redone into an animated short in 2002. And the characters were designed by Children’s authors and illustrated by Dan Yaccarino. Now let me tell you more about the main characters. Uniqua is a unique creature known as a Uniqua, and is the main protagonist of the series. She loves to have fun, tell jokes, and enjoys laughing with her friends. Uniqua is …show more content…
He is best friends with Pablo, and their different personalities make them perfect complements to each other. While Pablo is a quick thinker, Tyrone likes to take his time. Tyrone can get nervous or frightened on occasion, but he is not insecure about his fears. At the end of every episode he appears in, Tyrone recites the sarcastic line, “That was an excellent adventure, don’t you think?” Tyrone’s skin is orange. He has red fringe between his antlers, which are light yellow. His eyes are white with black pupils. His face and head are shaped similarly to Tasha’s. And his standard stripe shirt is red-orange and blue. Tyrone is also the tritagonist of The Backyardigans. Tyrone’s speaking voice was initially provided by Reginald Davis, with Jordan Coleman assuming the role during the second season. Chris Grant voiced the character for the final season. Tyrone’s singing voice was first provided by Corwin Tuggle, Leon Thomas provided it in the second season and some of the third, with Damani Roberts taking over for several episodes and Tyrel Williams finishing the role for the remainder of the third and fourth
He mixes a lightness of text, sometimes with alliterative tongue-twisters and sophisticated language made up of stylized illustrations full of hilarity and details that challenge readers' point of view. The book, Animalia contains over 1,500 objects including things such as food, musical instruments, and characters as well as the featured animal for each letter. Base also includes an image of himself when he was young as an extra for the watchful eye on every page.
Im his essay In Search of Marvin Gardens, John McPhee examines Atlantic City, New Jersey, the city upon which the board game of Monopoly was based. In his writing, he touches upon both the board game and the physical city equally which begs the reader to ponder the purpose of McPhee’s essay. Did he write his essay to provide for the reader the physical basis for the game of Monopoly? Or did McPhee wish to expose the once glamorous AtlanticCity as a city in its present near-squalor state? As nothing is withoutpurpose, so to must this essay strive to convey something to its readers. It is the purpose of this critique to analyze McPhee’s In Search of MarvinGardens in order to uncover the true purpose behind his writing.Through narrative analysis processes, the true meaning of McPhee’s will be uncovered.
Nurturing and guiding the next generation, immediately from the beginning of this arduous journey, becomes a battle of ideology and principles among its participants. In her article titled “The Overprotected Kid,” journalist Hanna Rosin advocates that children should be free to experience the environment around them, a “‘free and permissive atmosphere’ with as little adult supervision as possible,” while lawyer and author Amy Chua seemingly argues, “it is crucial to override their preferences,” in the Wall Street Journal’s article, “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,” an excerpt from Chua’s book, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.” Solely between these two extremes of exploratory freedom versus strict seclusion, in this age of technological dependence,
Feeling fearful and homesick is always uncomfortable, but family always seems to make everything so much more soothing. The notorious “Snapping Beans”, written by Lisa Parker in 1998, is a free verse poem. The speaker is enrolled in a northern college, but is home and visiting her Grandmother for the weekend. She sits on the porch with her and snaps peas almost as if to relieve her stress. The speaker is most definitely a complex individual who worries about what her family may think of her college experiences.
Discoveries are driving forces to our views of the world. The process requires us to think over and reconsider our ideas of the world and may be unexpected, or intentionally provoked. Ang Lee’s film, “Life of Pi”, and Isobelle Carmody’s short story, “The Pumpkin-Eater”, provides insight to the audience of renewed perspective of the world through the discoveries seen through the protagonists, self-discoveries that challenge the world they know through tragedies of loss, and reconsidering what they believe about the world. Through narration, foreshadowing and the use of metaphors and symbolism, we learn the of the nature within discovery, and change that may take place.
My parents have always stressed the importance of reading. Throughout my whole life, they have motivated me to read and they have encouraged me to find books that I find interesting to read. Because of their encouragement, I am an avid reader today. When I was a child, just starting to enjoy reading I liked to read books that were fiction. Some of my favorite books to read as a child are series that I still love today and I think I still have every book in each series stored in my attic. They are The Boxcar Children, Junie B. Jones, and The Magic Tree House.
He is skinny and has red hair. He is also wearing a black cap. He has freckles, a crumpled up face and his eyes are light blue. Jack does not seem pleasant, but like Ralph he seems to have the role of a leader. From the start Ralph and Jack get on very well.
Mouse is the main character in the story, he is a guy that likes to play basketball, listen to music, and hang out with all of his friends. Styx is Mouse's best friend and he is a guy that also likes to play basketball, listen to music, and hang out with all of his friends just like Mouse. That's why they get along. Then there is Omega. He is another friend of Mouse.
The Peanuts appeared in seven newspapers when it was first printed on October 2, 1950 (Friedman, Megan). World War II had just ended, and Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang provided a fun and uplifting escape from the devastation of war. Over the following years, the comic became a booming sensation. In 1965, only fifteen years after its first publication, the Peanuts gang was featured on the cover of Time. Even NASA thought that Schulz’s comic was out of this world; Charlie Brown and Snoopy travelled to the moon when the Apollo X crew named their command and lunar modules after them in 1969 (Friedman, Megan). The Peanuts made the Guinness World Records in 1984 for appearing in its 2000th newspaper. The easily recognizable characters have been spotted as balloons at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade annually since 2002. The last Peanuts comic was published on January 3, 2000--but that wouldn’t be the last America would see of them.
MollyOckett Day. What is it? Is it just a day we have every year to earn money for the town? No. Is it a day that people who have booths, sell items to earn money for themselves? No. So, what exactly is MollyOckett Day? In this essay I am going to take you on a journey and tell you exactly who MollyOckett is, her background, what this day is for, and why this day is still around for people to celebrate.
He's a lanky fellow, dark-haired and self-effacing. He uses sarcastic humor to hide his insecurity (no one's told him it doesn't work). Even when he's being chased by a 100 feet serpent, he still manages to find the humor in the situation. He's been in a complicated love triangle and lives to tell about it. A friend, lover and slayerette......He's Xander Harris.
“A Song in the Front Yard”, by Gwendolyn Brooks, illustrates the desire people develop to experience new things and live life according to their own rules. In the first stanza, Brooks uses diction of propriety and unfamiliarity to emphasize the author’s desire to change her life. In the first line, the author establishes that she is only familiar with one way of life since she has “stayed in the front yard all [her] life.” The author “stayed” in the front yard suggesting that she was able to leave the yard and experience new things, but she just was not ready. She was raised in the “front yard,” highlighting the idea that the “front” is the proper way for her to live her life. In the second line, the author realizes there is much more to experience in life and she “[wants] a peek at the back.” At this point in her life, she is not ready to abandon the only life she knows, but she wants to look at the other side of things and all of the different experiences she can have. In the third line, the back yard is described as being, “rough and untended and hungry weed grows,” again representing how Brooks is only used to one place. In the front yard, everything is neat, properly tended, and no weeds grow. After seeing this, she realizes that life is not always as perfect as she was raised to believe, so she wants a taste of something new. In the fourth line, the author says, “a girl gets sick of a rose,” showing how Brooks has had enough of the front yard life and needs to experience new things. The “rose” is used to represent life in the front yard. A “rose” is usually associated with perfection and beauty, reflecting the author’s life in the “front yard.”
The Monkey Garden by Sandra Cisneros tells the story of a young girl’s loss of childhood innocence. The story is narrated by a mature woman remembering her initiation into adolescence through the images and events that occurred in an unused neighborhood lot. She is not ready to mature into adolescence and uses her imagination to transform the lot into a fantasy garden--a place where she can hide from the adult world.
Time is one of the basic components of life that one does not often stop to dwell upon. Each second marks a transition in an individual’s life, but it is rare for someone to consider the true magic of this small measure of history. In Tom’s Midnight Garden, Philippa Pearce examines the concept of time in a truly unique manner as she tells the story of a child who comes to terms with time in an extraordinary manner. As Pearce crafts this beautiful yet simply written novel, she intertwines both a moving plot and universal ideas in order to reveal more than meets the eye in terms of the power of time. The novel revolves around a young boy by the name of Tom Long who, in an adverse situation is shipped away from his home to live with his childless Uncle and Aunt for the summer. While Tom is disgruntled by the notion, he comes to adjust his views when he discovers a magical garden that opens his eyes to new experiences and feelings. With the discovery of this mysterious world in the garden, Tom is forced to decipher the power of time, companionship, and imagination and through this journey, he evolves from the childish, inconsiderate young boy he once was into one with a more mature and sensitive outlook on his own life and the world as a whole.
After the period of colonization of Canada, the colonized group, the Indigenous people encountered extreme racism and hatred from the oppressor. In the short story, “The Loons” by Margaret Laurence talks about a young Metis girl, Piquette who tries to adapt to radical change but fails to do so as she grows up under a civilization that suppresses the Metis group. Using post-colonial lens, it helps us empathize for those who undergo similar or identical occurrence. It helps the readers to recognize the issues how the colonizer has affected the colonized people, those who are subordinates. She faces extreme prejudice from the whites, the colonizer and poverty as she is not given the opportunity or the chance to be financially stable When European settlers colonized Canada, the Indigenous people were oppressed and were faced with utmost discrimination, and prejudice that affected the life of Indigenous people in a negative way.