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The LadyBug and The Bully Frog
The Song of Solomon The Snail
Animal Characters in Children's Literature
by Guest Writer | Sep 24, 2020 | Guest Article | 2 comments
Children's literature comprises various bodies of work made especially for children. This consists of picture books and easy-to-read stories for the entertainment and development of children. Children love books not only because of the wonderful story but also the characters portrayed. Characters in children's books can be quirky-looking human beings, talking objects, and human-like animals. Children predominantly love the idea of talking and human-like animals. Animals commonly presented in children's literature includes pets like dogs, cats, and rabbits; and wild animals, like wolves, bears, and lions. Young readers love how these animals embody attitudes similar to a child like cheekiness and playfulness.
The use of animal characters in children's books has become a staple. Animal stories have been widely used since the 18th century. During that time, the books focused on teaching children about nature. There were no other lessons taught. But as time progressed, authors expanded and discovered new ways to tell stories. There are many reasons why animal characters are largely utilized in children's literature.
Animal Characters are More Appealing to Children
An astounding number of books have been published with animals as main characters. Author Caroleann Rice has written books like The Song Of Solomon The Snail and The Ladybug and The Bully Frog which have animals for characters. Many children enjoy reading books as such due to how the authors present normal animals in fantastical and unrealistic ways. Young readers find animals with human-like behavior as more relatable. The process of making animals appear more human-like is called anthropomorphism. Anthropomorphism is the act of giving human traits, emotions, and behavior to objects or animals. Compared to human characters in children's literature, it would seem boring observing the characters doing what normal people do. Animals, however, are quite appealing. Considering that there are a lot of animals in the animal kingdom. The diversity of animals makes it appealing to children. Humans can't have the fangs and horns the animals have. If you think about it, seeing animals doing things they do not plainly do in real life is quite appealing and interesting. Also, seeing how animals wear clothes, stand on their two feet, and engaging in human activities will surely gain the attention of children.
Animal Characters Sparks Imagination
There are plenty of reasons why animal characters are predominantly used in children's literature. One of the reasons is that the idea sparks the child's imagination. Although sparking imagination is what typical children books do. The use of animal characters sparks another type of imagination. Children are curious and have a lot of "what if's". Through anthropomorphizing animals sparks wonder and provoke emotions from a child. Animals are portrayed as riding a bike, driving a car, cooking food, flying kites, and other human activities. This notion allows and encourages the child's imagination to soar and run wild. Animal characters tend to be fun and quirky. This removes the child from reality and into the fantasy world. This make-believe enables young readers to make sense of the world. Furthermore, imagination encourages creativity to a child.
Animals Characters Provides Plenty of Lessons
Animal characters are not made solely for entertainment but also to impart significant moral lessons. Observe how in animal stories, various animals are featured as well. That alone shares plenty of life lessons like being different is okay and accepting others no matter how different they are. Life lessons taught by animal characters in books are compassion, live in the present, we are all connected, and animals are not different from animals. Another lesson taught with the use of animal characters is that animals are also beings that need to be protected and understood. Children will be able to recognize and empathize with the animals. These animals are also children, mothers, and fathers similar to a human being. These animal characters in children's books allow children to experience things that are not in their daily lives.
Animal Characters Allows Exploration
Animal characters in stories allow young readers to experience otherworldly and exciting explorations. Explorations like living in a shell and flying in the sky. However, the presentation of animals in children's books allows another type of exploration. The exploration of sensitive topics in a safe and less frightening manner. Animal characters can forge settings that are strange and safe. This allows a child to learn the hardest lessons of all. However, this is imparted through an amazing story line. Animal stories provide an emotional distance to young readers on a story message that can be powerful, personal, and painful. Animal characters can effectively express concepts and conversations on issues including life. Animal characters can address topics like racism due to looking different from other animals. Also, inequality is addressed as there are certain things such as other animals capabilities of doing a task.
Rollin Roberts	on December 17, 2020 at 5:48 pm
Thank You for your insights. I have never written a children's story or published a children's book but now that I am retired I thought it might be fun to try to write one.
Janet Councilman	on December 18, 2020 at 3:32 am
This post is really inspiring! Thanks for sharing.
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The Secrets to Writing a Great Children's Book
Janet Councilman on Animal Characters in Children's Literature
Rollin Roberts on Animal Characters in Children's Literature
Dr. Len Bergantino on Tips in Developing Book Characters That Kids Will Love
Steve Ross on Tips in Developing Book Characters That Kids Will Love
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How we can create Primary Key and Foreign Key In MVC using Code First Approach ?
In my previous article I explained what Code First Approach in MVC with Entity Framework is. Now in this article I am going to show how we can create Primary Key and Foreign Key using code first approach in mvc with entity framework.
Here I am going to create 2 tables Students and Course. Both tables will have primary key and Student table will reference course table with CourseID as foreign key.
Now open Visual Studio 2012 -> New Project.
Now Right Click On Project Solution Explorer -> Click On Manage NuGet Packages.
Now here in this Project I am going to create 2 Tables One is Student table and second one is Course Table. Both Table Will have Primary Key and Student and Course table will have a foreign key CourseID.
So Here I am going to create 2 classes in Model Folder.
Here CourseName will not be a field because I set it as [NotMapped].
Here In this StudentDBContext.cs you can see I am using OnModelCreating. Here I define what will be primary key and what will be foreign Key.
If you want to run this application in your machine then just change connection string in web.config file.


There is nothing more frustrating than trying to reason with someone who has made up their mind and is also convinced of their own moral superiority. Nonetheless, I will try to present a few facts and logic.
In the Jan. 17 issue of City Weekly, a so-called parody by D.P. Sorensen ["Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?"] makes fun of the last two groups of people we are allowed to mock (i.e., white men and those who have a weight problem). No other group could be criticized the way Mr. Sorensen does them. Now, let's get on with some information.
Professor R.J. Rummel documents that more than 200 million civilians were murdered by agents of their own government during the 20th century. The only common denominator was that they had all been disarmed by their government. Of course, these people didn't believe that their government would murder them—just as most German Jews could not imagine that the same country that had produced the likes of Beethoven would kill 12 million people.
More than 20 scholarly studies have been produced that say that firearms prevent approximately 2.6 million violent crimes a year when firearm owners indicate to would-be perpetrators that they are armed. This is a far greater number than the estimated half-million violent crimes committed with the same weapons.
Criminologist Gary Kleck, in his seminal book Armed, makes some powerful arguments that banning law-abiding citizens from firearms ownership would actually lead to a rise in violent crime for the reason mentioned above. Economist John Lott, in his book More Guns, Less Crime, has demonstrated through statistical methods that concealed-carry laws lower the violent-crime rate significantly (and is the only proven factor). He also shows that far more children die in bathtubs, from 5-gallon plastic pails filled with water, and bicycles than from guns.
No one seriously thinks we should ban bathtubs, because they see the utility, but few understand the utility of responsible citizens owning firearms—mainly because the media rarely print stories about the use of guns to save lives. There are several examples of this, but space prevents me from listing them here.


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Q: vba workbooks before close skipping over open command I have three workbooks, a parent book, a library book and a log book.
The parent book opens a library, and then closes the library.  Coincidentally the library has a provision in the workbooks on open and before close events to write to a log book whenever it is opened or closed.
My issue is that when the library is opened programmatically from the parent book, the code to open the log book before close is skipped over.  I get no errors, it just simply evaluates the line and produces no result.
CODE:
From my parent book I run this line:
...
Workbooks(parts_library_name).Close savechanges:=True
...

Which runs this code in the library book:
Private Sub Workbook_BeforeClose(Cancel As Boolean)
Set libwkb = ThisWorkbook
'last call to backup usage sheet
backup_exit_size
'exit
End Sub

Sub backup_exit_size()
Dim bypass_close_usage_library As Boolean

Application.DisplayAlerts = False
file_size_at_close = FileLen(ThisWorkbook.Path & "\" & ThisWorkbook.Name)
For Each Workbook In Workbooks
    If Workbook.Name = "usage_library.xlsx" Then bypass_close_usage_library = True
Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
If bypass_close_usage_library = False Then
    Workbooks.Open "somepath\usage_library.xlsx"
End If
Workbooks("usage_library.xlsx").Worksheets("usage").Cells(next_row_usage_library, 3) = file_size_at_close
Workbooks("usage_library.xlsx").Close savechanges:=True
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

The problem is that when it gets to this line:
    Workbooks.Open "somepath\usage_library.xlsx"

the compiler simply skips over the command.
That is only the case however if I get to the beforeClose event that originated from another Book.  If I close the book from itself, the macro runs fine and opens the log book fine.
I have tried a with statement from the parent book, like
With library.xlsx
 .RunAutoMacros xlAutoClose
 .Close
End With

but have the same results, it evaluates the line and then skips over it.
Thoughts?

A: I'm seeing the same behavior. I even tried using WithEvents.
As a workaround, you can open the new workbook in a new instance of Excel:
Private Sub Workbook_BeforeClose(Cancel As Boolean)

    Dim xlapp As New Excel.Application
    Dim wb As Workbook
    Set wb = xlapp.Workbooks.Open("\\...\test.xlsb")
    xlapp.Visible = True 'This line just proves that it works and can be removed'
    'do stuff
    xlapp.Quit
    Set wb = Nothing
    Set xlapp = Nothing

End Sub

A: Here is my solution as of right now:
...
Application.Run (parts_library_name & "!backup_exit_size")
Workbooks(parts_library_name).Close savechanges:=True
...

this works but may not be ideal.

A: I've identified the issue to be inherent with application.screenupdating = false. It works just fine if you turn this off right before your workbook open command.

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Animal control officer finally approved
By Michael Stromley
Following two failed attempts in July, the Greenwood City Council passed a resolution Monday to hire an animal control/code enforcement officer. The vote was initially 3-2 in favor allowing Mayor Del Gabbard's vote in favor to pass the resolution.
"He'll be working in the Planning Department, so he'll answer to [Planning Director Sonny Bell], but to me overall," Mayor Del Gabbard said.
Lance Terry and Tim Terry voted against the issue, voicing concerns about where the funding was coming from.
"This is just a warm body," Lance Terry stated. "I would like to know how much this is going to cost [the city]. We'll see this again for training and equipment." Lance Terry further raised concerns that more and more resolutions are pulling money from the "Cash in Bank" account.
In early July, efforts to reinstate an animal control officer failed with another 3-2 vote in favor. Gabbard did not know his vote would pass the issue. The following day, he called a special meeting to take another vote. Councilmen Craig Hamilton and Jimmy Gossett were the only Council members attending. Without a quorum, no vote could be taken.
The city's Planning Department took over animal control and environmental code enforcement earlier this year after the Police Department's animal control officer left.
The city works with its veterinarian clinics for mandatory registration of pets and other needs. Annual registration fees are $5 for altered animals and $15 for intact animals. Fees are waived for fixed pets that are microchipped for identification within 90 days of a rabies vaccination.
Competitive bids were opened for two separate projects for the Greenwood Fire Department. A generator for Fire Station #1 had only one bidder at $46,870. Only $30,000 was budgeted for this project. There were three bidders for the new sign for Fire Station #1. The lowest bidder came in at $20,300 which was only $300 over budget. Resolutions were passed increasing the budget to allow for both purchases. Mayor Del Gabbard stated he was against the generator project, voicing a need for a larger generator to cover the entire City complex (Street, Fire, Police, City Hall).
The first readings of an ordinance asking for a 1/4% sales tax to fund a new police station and an election for the people to vote on the issue were passed unanimously. Chief Will Dawson has been discussing the possibility of the Greenwood School Board donating land between Westwood Elementary and Walmart for the new station. If passed, the election will take place in December.

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