Berenstain Bears Essays

  • Personal Narrative: The Lorax

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    As a kid I always have loved to write; from short stories about mythical beasts and strange lands, to research papers about my favorite animal. My love for reading and writing came from my Dad, who has so many books we have a library room in the house. From the earliest I can remember, my Dad read to me every night, and it all started with Goodnight Moon by Margret Brown. In the story, the character says “Goodnight..” to everything was introduced earlier, and when I was little, I would walk around

  • The Berenstain Bears, The Big Honey Hunt

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    from the store. I could immediately trace the origin point of this thought to the previous night's bedtime story. I had read one of my childhood favorites, “The Berenstain Bears, The Big Honey Hunt” by Stan and Jan Berenstain. The book's plot is simply summed up by the following. After running out of honey Father bear and Little bear set out

  • Mighty Cat Masked Niyandarn Analysis

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    Mighty Cat Masked Niyandarn(ニャンダーかめん) is a kid show that aired on February 6, 2000, to September 30, 2001. The original creator is the late Anpanman creator Takashi Yanase. The show is about the anthropomorphic cat superhero Niyandar Kamen in Cat Town. In this revival, three characters will get killed by the superhero: Jabu-jabu, the cleaner, Sarakichi, the kappa, and Demonga, the flying squirrel ninja. Jabu-jabu gets a nightmare where the superhero beats the crap out of him with an oar (Ren and

  • The Mandela Effect: Is Betty White Dead?

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    believed that Nelson Mandela died in prison, but in fact he died just recently in 2013. This is where the Mandela Effect got its name. Another major debate is about the show, Berenstain Bears. People who grew up watching the show everyday remember it being spelled the Berestein Bears, but it has always been Berenstain Bears. The Mandela effect has even been changing things recently. One user states, “I can remember an event less than five years ago.” The effect ranges from restaurants to major news

  • California Reading Standards

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    activity: The books, “Jobs Around Town” by The Berenstain Bears, “Helpers in my Community” by Bobbie Kalman, “A Day with Police Officers” by Jan Kottke, “A Day with Firefighters” by Jan Kottke, “The Jolly Postman” by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, “Froggy Goes to the Doctor” by Jonathan London, “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel” by Virginia Lee Burton, “Nurse Clementine” by Simon James, “Let’s Meet a Construction Worker” by Bridget Heos, “The Berenstain Bears Visit the Dentist”, “Whose Tools Are These”

  • Species Survival Plan

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    Kaitlyn Bogacz Cori Brown Emily Dunlap Species Survival Plan: Giant Pangolin (Smutsia gigantea) Current Position The giant pangolin or giant ground pangolin (Smutsia gigantea) is a terrestrial mammal and is the largest member of the pangolins, sometimes referred to as scaly anteaters. The giant pangolin was previously categorized as near threatened with The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2008, and it was updated to vulnerable in 2014. The total census population is believed to

  • Issues In Touching Spirit Bear

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    because there was no instance where he or she needed to leave his or her comfort zone or figure out life. Often times, situations like these can happen to people because they spent their entire lives avoiding scenario after scenario. In Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen, one of the central topics addressed in the novel is finding solutions to problems in life. The protagonist, Cole, overcomes serious problems he has and, in turn, makes his life more agreeable. Not only does Cole tackle tough situations

  • Black Bears Essay

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    The adaptations of bears have changed drastically due to hunting or habitat loss and sometimes captured for performances because of aggressive behavior and destruction of personal crops. The adaptions alter the way these eight species of bears grow and prosper. The development of their physical, dietary, and population has opposed how bears should really advance as group. Like all animals, black bears exhibit specific adaptations that help them survive in their habitats. Black bears are scientifically

  • Mountain Man Myths

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    America was a newly formed country with a rugged, untamed landscape that only the adventurous spirits of the often fabled, but very real mountain men matched. Jim Bridger, Jeremiah Smith, Kit Carson, and a man who history cannot agree, whether it is his birth year or actual events from his life, Jeremiah Liver-Eating Johnson, are notable mountain men that existed and live on in facts, legendary tales, and the imaginations of historians an adventurers alike. Well, what is a mountain man? The University

  • Characteristics Of A Moose In 'Hunters' By Bill Bryson

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    A moose, or an elk, as it is referred to in Europe. A sweet, innocent, and quite a harmless animal, or at least that is how most would describe the characteristics of a moose. How could something with such harmless features and unhostile behavior, be able to provoke the author to have such aggressive impressions and feelings towards the wild creature. Ironic right? In the short essay,”Hunters” from Bill Bryson 's essay collection,” Notes from a Big Country”(1998), the author explains and argues his

  • The Dene People Analysis

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    den this man decided to rest for the night.The bear who the den belonged to eventually returned from foraging. According to the way this story is told, bears and humans could talk and understand each other; although it was on a higher level than plain speech. So this bear took pity on the lost man and cared for him. The bear told him that he would need to live off the bear in the future and then proceeded to teach him all about bear nature. The bear also reassured the man that he would never go hungry

  • The Spirit Bear Analysis

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    Cole’s Life Conflict What if the Cole was the Spirit Bear? What if he was really fighting with himself the whole time? It would make sense, whenever the Spirit Bear was around Cole, it is feeling the same way that Cole was. Cole Matthews was a sarcastic and a dishonest fifteen-year-old that was always angry and looking for trouble. He had a problem with blaming people for his troubles, when really that main problem was himself. Cole had parents that didn’t even care about him, his father always

  • What Is Cole's Failure In His Life

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    Each time he messed up, he learned from it, you make a mistake, and you make a success out of it. When he was instigating the fight with the Spirit Bear that he couldn’t win. He ignored the thistles as the bear sank its teeth into his thigh, lifting him like a rag doll. Cole’s stomach churned as he swung his knife wildly. Each time he stabbed the bear, its powerful jaws clamped harder. Cole felt his pelvis crack, his body went weak and the knife slipped from his hand. When Cole was lying on the ground

  • Touching Spirit Bear By Ben Mikealson

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    Touching Spirit Bear, by Ben Mikealson, teaches you that Justice should heal not punish. Cole Mathews is a troubled kid who beats up a kid named Peter Driscal. He gets in trouble and gets an opportunity to go to Circle Justice. Cole is banished to a remote Alaskan island where he gets mauled by a bear. This helps Cole realize that he has been taking the wrong path of life. Cole is already a very troubled kid with a lot of anger issues, attitude, and jail sentences, which, therefore, led him to beating

  • Cole's Changing Personality

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    Cole seems to be changing personality wise quite fast. Edwin mentions that people either change slowly under peer pressure or all at once after a traumatic event. Cole’s personality seems to have shifted all of a sudden after Spirit Bear’s attack. Before the attack Cole was furious and thought everyone hated him so he burned all his supplies. Cole had always felt superior about himself, but after the attack his anger somewhat faded and he began to himself as a much smaller item than the rest of the

  • Analysis Of Touching Spirit Bear By Ben Mikaelsen

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    Tradition justice or Circle Justice? The answer to this problem determines Cole’s fate. In the realistic fiction novel,Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen, Cole is a troubled teenager who has the option to heal himself and the people he has harmed by going through Circle Justice. Cole is also recently attacked by a Spirit Bear. Before falling unconscious once again, Cole is rescued by Garvey and Edwin. The question is, is Cole eligible to continue through Circle Justice or should he be tried through

  • An Indian Father's Plea By Robert Lake, Wind-Wolf

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    In “An Indian Father’s Plea” by Robert Lake, Wind-Wolf’s father, Medicine Grizzly Bear, explains why his child isn’t a slow learner, and that he is just different from the other children in an educational way. He say’s this because his son has been taught differently than the other children- because of his Indian culture. Your childhood can affect your view of the world tremendously. Since Medicine Grizzly Bear grew up with an Indian culture, and his son is in the process of growing up with the

  • Character Analysis: Touching Spirit Bear

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    Coles's troubled life proceeds him as he is now facing jail time for nearly beating a kid to death. In the book Touching Spirit Bear, Cole is the main character of this book and goes through many challenges throughout the book, good and bad. Everyone has a different lifestyle but everyone goes through the Circle of Life. People in Cole’s life affect him positively for the better by helping him control his anger and helping his life back on track for success. Cole’s dad negatively impacted Cole’s

  • Personal Narrative: I Love You Bailey: A Sequence Of Events

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    6 I love you Bailey: A Sequence of Events Bailey named her white bear Dan and her gray bear Randy and put them on a shelf above her bed, where they sat throughout her childhood. Honestly, she didn't give them much thought. They had become fixtures of her room, the same way the old lamp and dresser were. Every now and again, she would come home from school to find one of her parents standing beside her bed, looking up at the bears or giving them a little squeeze. Even as time passed, they still recited

  • Touching Spirit Bear Sparknotes

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    Essay on Touching Spirit Bear By Lauren Lee-Chung Changing is a process that many find trouble with pursuing. It is especially dependent on one’s experiences, for negative factors such as trauma, mental illness, or lack of motivation can truly make the process difficult. A similar procedure is portrayed in Touching Spirit Bear, a realistic fiction novel by Ben Mikaelsen. Cole Matthews is a distressed fifteen-year-old teenager who gets banished to an isolated Alaskan Island due to a recent crime