Puppet

Looks, Money, Fame Don't Bring Happiness

...re is what some of the students told him: "The whole process of being so on the treadmill to wealth, fame and image leaves me feeling like a pawn or a puppet in life." Those who focused on intrinsic goals such as personal growth, enduring relationships and helping in the community "showed substantial inc...

It's A Wrap: 'Get Screened' Video Contest Winners Announced

... shine a spotlight on the importance of colorectal-cancer screening. The five winning videos - featuring a stirring survivorship story, a probing puppet and a sinister character named "Colon Polyp," among other compelling characters - were selected from a pool of more than 60 submissions from contestan...

Stars to 'Tell It Like It Is' at MTV's European Music Awards

...ndoms LONDON and NEW YORK, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- MTV'S Staying Alive Foundation and SpinVox have teamed up with Lapeno, Mervin and Ed the notorious puppet from MTV's Fur TV show to promote sexual health amongst young people. The Telling It Like It Is campaign is a groundbreaking initiative that encoura...

Pedophiles Thrive on Parental Trust

...s a study guide to help parents discuss the issues raised in the videos with their children. Once, after viewing one of Mitchell's films featuring two puppet frogs named What and Tadoo, a four-year-old girl who'd blown the whistle on her abuser was questioned by a district attorney and asked how she knew wh...

Babies Can Tell Friend From Foe

...ferred social individuals ("helpers") or anti-social individuals ("hinderers"). In one experiment, the infant watched a "climber" (basically a wood puppet with large eyes glued on to it) repeatedly try to climb a hill. On the third try, the climber was either given help or was pushed back down by a puppe...

ADA Challenges Marylanders to 'Step Out to Fight Diabetes' Epidemic

...former Baltimore Oriole Scott McGregor, appearances by the Orioles' and Ravens' mascots, music by TalentKey DJ Johnny, face painting, the Black Cherry puppet Theater, The Home Depot's "Project Kids," as well as the Health and Fitness Fesitval presented by Erickson Retirement Communities. WHEN: Saturda...

School-based Sexual Abuse Prevention Programs

... and who to tell if abuse occurs. The studies employed a variety of teaching strategies to educate the children, from films and lectures to puppet shows and role-playing. One study found that children who participated in an education program were less likely to go with a simulated a...

Puppet Show, Music Gives Message - 'say No to Drugs'

... A colourful puppet show, narration of real life experiences of the fight against drug addictio...the packed auditorium. If Sampad's story touched one, so did the puppet show put up by children of the Salam Balak Trust, an NGO for street childre...

Puppets Spread Health Awareness in Rural Rajasthan

...he rural poor on the state's medical, health and family welfare schemes via puppet shows and cultural programmes. The month-long 'Swasthaya Chetna Yatra...chariots. The raths provide details of health-related schemes through puppet shows, films and cultural programmes, Digambar Singh, Rajasthan's medical a...

Women and Children Issues Should Get Priority in India

...Chowdhury, Minister of State for Women and Child Development visits the mela every evening. Several programmes for children such as magic shows, puppet shows, on the spot competitions, bioscope, clowns and joyrides have also been arranged at Mela. Everyday more than 500 school children from disadvanta...