By Dr. Seuss
If I Ran the Circus is a children's publication through Dr. Seuss, released in 1956 by way of Random House.
Like The Cat within the Hat, or the extra political Yertle the Turtle, If I Ran the Circus develops a topic of cumulative myth resulting in extra. The overt social statement present in the Sneetches and the Zax demonstrates that Dr. Seuss was once serious about the blunders and excesses to which people are providers, and If I Ran the Circus additionally examines this curiosity, notwithstanding extra subtly and comically, given its past genesis.
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Behind Mr. Sneelock's ramshackle shop, there's an empty lot. Little Morris McGurk is confident that if he may perhaps simply filter out the rusty cans, the lifeless tree, and the outdated vehicles, not anything might hinder him from utilizing the lot for the fantastic, world-beating, Circus McGurkus. The extra complicated Morris' desires in regards to the circus develop into, the extra they depend upon the sleepy-looking and blameless Sneelock, who stands outdoors his ramshackle shop sucking on a pipe, oblivious to the destiny that awaits him within the depths of Morris's mind's eye. He doesn't but recognize that he'll need to dispense 500 gallons of lemonade, be lassoed by way of a Wily Walloo, strive against a Grizzly-Ghastly, and ski down a slope dotted with huge cacti. but when his functionality is as much as McGurkian expectancies, then "Why, women and gents, little ones and fogeys, your heads will particularly most likely spin correct off your shouldsters!"
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The word “technology” is generally defined as the application of tools and methods, particularly the study, development, and application of devices, machines, and techniques for manufacturing and productive processes. On a deeper level, however, technology is the disclosure and manipulation of the essence of things (Heidegger, 1993). Technologies extract the essences out of human abilities by instrumentalizing them and by depriving them of their original lived context. An example is the invention of the automobile: The essential ability of human movement is extracted and intensified through the technology of the car, which, in turn, reduces the lived and embodied context of human motility.
Ong (1988) points out that in the oral world the word is essentially a call or a cry to the other, and that speech is not a reification of concepts or information, “but an event, an action” between people (p. 267). Every night we—and the other parents and children who have loved this book—enacted and performed the same story-event because it made our child feel safe, comfortable, and protected. Synesthesia Reading restructures the perceptual experience of human beings. We saw that the alphabet requires the translation of the language field into phonemes, which then are represented by symbols on the page.
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