Morals
The lesson that story teaches about how to behave in the world.
What are Morals?
The message woven throughout it, often about important topics such as human nature, life, or society.
What is a Theme?
This story moral highlights the importance of working hard and planning ahead and not taking shortcuts after the wolf in this tale fails to blow down a brick house.
What is the Three Little Pigs?
In Alabama, it is illegal to chain this reptile, considered the relative of dinosaurs, to a fire hydrant.
What is an Alligator?
In 1993, residents of this borough voted to secede from the city, but the state legislature blocked the move.
What is Staten Island?
A collection of moral stories or fables written by this Greek storyteller believed to have lived between 620 and 560 BCE.
Who is Aesop?
The final girl is represents one half of this theme that is often found in horror stories.
What is Good vs. Evil?
This story's moral, in which a prince has been turned into an amphibian, teaches that appearances can be misleading and that judging someone based on superficial traits can lead to missed opportunities.
What is The Frog Prince or The Princess and the Frog?
Every man in Brainerd, Minnesota is required by law to grow one of these on his face.
What is a beard?
With 92 branches serving patrons across three boroughs, this system ranks as the second most extensive public book lending and education network in the United States.
What is The New York Public Library?
Using humor and exaggeration to criticize social norms or political systems, indirectly conveying a moral message.
What is Satire?
A loss of innocence for a character is an element found in this theme.
What is Coming of Age?
This story's moral of don't be greedy is illustrated by how a troll's greed for the biggest, tastiest goat leads to his downfall.
What is The Three Billy Goats Gruff?
In Nebraska, it is illegal for a mother to give her daughter this hair style without a state license.
What is a perm?
Nestled beneath Manhattan’s streets, this bank safeguards the globe’s largest concentration of gold reserves, accounting for approximately one-fourth of all refined gold bars worldwide.
What is the Federal Reserve Bank?
Stories that explore the consequences of actions and choices, often showcasing how good deeds lead to positive outcomes and bad deeds lead to negative ones.
What are Morality Tales?
The film, Twisters, where storm chasers track down and often have to flee from tornadoes, is an example of this theme.
What is Man vs. Nature?
Be cautious and not blindly believe everything you hear, especially when it comes to potentially alarming news and verifying information before acting on it is the moral of this tale about a chicken who thinks the sky is falling.
What is Chicken Little?
In North Dakota, it is illegal to lie down and fall asleep with these on.
What are shoes?
This vibrant linguistic community now forms the second-largest language group in the metropolis, 2.7 million residents, following English speakers.
Who are the Hispanic community?
Presenting characters with difficult choices that force them to confront ethical issues and their own values, often creating tension and suspense.
What are Moral Dilemmas?
This involves a character's journey to atone for past mistakes, wrongs, or flaws, ultimately achieving a positive change and a return to moral legitimacy.
What is Redemption?
Dishonesty and greed can have dangerous consequences are the moral of this story about a deceptive and manipulative figure who offers to spin straw into gold for a miller's daughter in exchange for her firstborn child.
What is Rumpelstiltskin?
There was once a law in Salem Virginia that made it illegal to leave home without knowing this.
What is Where you are going?
Spanning 2.2 million square feet along Manhattan’s Museum Mile, this museums encyclopedic collections epitomize cultural stewardship as America’s most expansive museum institution.
What is the Metropolitan Museum of Art?