https://padlet.com/natalieshelton105/kxn91hkqlxpoo6wb Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2020-11-11 02:05:42 UTC 2020-11-11 15:00:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4d6.png natalieshelton105 https://padlet.com/natalieshelton105/kxn91hkqlxpoo6wb/wish/912765050 Theodore Seuss Geisel graduated from Dartmouth College and began working for Life and Vanity Fair as an illustrator and humorist. He was very successful at advertising. ]]> 2020-11-11 13:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/natalieshelton105/kxn91hkqlxpoo6wb/wish/912765050 natalieshelton105 https://padlet.com/natalieshelton105/kxn91hkqlxpoo6wb/wish/912786783 Between 1941 and 1943, Seuss created more than 400 political cartoons for the left-wing daily New York Newspaper PM. He attacked the America First policies espoused by Lindbergh and others, who wanted to prevent the US entering World War Two. He also criticized Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini, and he pleaded for racial tolerance.]]> 2020-11-11 13:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/natalieshelton105/kxn91hkqlxpoo6wb/wish/912786783 natalieshelton105 https://padlet.com/natalieshelton105/kxn91hkqlxpoo6wb/wish/912801140 Published "Horton Hears a Who!" Which conveyed important life lessons and discussed minority rights and the value of all individuals by Horton repeating "A person, a person, no matter how small..." In this book, Horton saves Whoville, which is a tiny planet located on a speck of dust, from evil animals. ]]> 2020-11-11 14:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/natalieshelton105/kxn91hkqlxpoo6wb/wish/912801140 natalieshelton105 https://padlet.com/natalieshelton105/kxn91hkqlxpoo6wb/wish/912818832 Expressed concern for the environment when publishing "The Lorax," which is about a business man destroying all the Truffula trees in the forrest. The Lorax begins protesting and states "the trees have no tongues," so they cannot defend themselves. The forrest is left a desolate landscape and the aftermath is explained. ]]> 2020-11-11 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/natalieshelton105/kxn91hkqlxpoo6wb/wish/912818832 natalieshelton105 https://padlet.com/natalieshelton105/kxn91hkqlxpoo6wb/wish/912961769 One of Seuss' political cartoons criticizing Hitler. The head of the cow has a swastika, while the body has France, Poland, Norway, etc. This shows that Germany was receiving all the benefits of their power, while the others were simply suffering and being controlled. ]]> 2020-11-11 14:42:00 UTC https://padlet.com/natalieshelton105/kxn91hkqlxpoo6wb/wish/912961769 natalieshelton105 https://padlet.com/natalieshelton105/kxn91hkqlxpoo6wb/wish/913015928 Seuss wanted to enter the political arena, so he began drawing posters for the Treasury Department and the War Production Board during World War Two. By 1943, he joined the U.S. Army and was put in command of the animation department of the 1st Motion Picture Unit. He wrote pamphlets and films.]]> 2020-11-11 14:54:23 UTC https://padlet.com/natalieshelton105/kxn91hkqlxpoo6wb/wish/913015928