Question

Standard Oil Nursery Rhyme Help? medal and fan

Answer 1

Standard Oil has been characterized as a menacing octopus that devours small oil businesses. Look at the cartoon below. Bill Sikes is a fictional criminal from Charles wingspanens’ novel Oliver Twist. How does the nursery rhyme characterize Standard Oil? Write your own Nursery Rhyme to characterize one of the industrialists.

So I have the first part down, but I don't get what I am supposed to do for the second part of writing my own nursery rhyme. because I don't even know how to write one to begin with or anything!

Answer 2

What is the cartoon?

Answer 3

@TheSmartOne

Answer 4

@dancing_stars23 can you help me

Answer 5

@TwiztTiez

Answer 6

hold on

Answer 7

@AsiaJenell okay :)

Answer 8

someone asked this question before look here maybe this will help http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/4f85bee8e4b0505bf085ca07

Answer 9

@OPK thanks for trying but I have already looked at it, and it doesn't help me what I need help on.

Answer 10

i should know this because i did it a couple weeks ago...

Answer 11

@Hyundai-06 do you do keystone?

I have this so far, but Idk how to write my own Nursery Rhyme -.-

Standard Oil is seen as the monster stepping on a common man all the while saying he has no rights , and there is a policeman is yawning in the background either not paying attention or choosing to ignore it. Smaller oil companies are falling as they become victims to standard oil.

Answer 12

Plato. but i also did this in class

Answer 13

oh okay, do you think you can help me? I have been at this for awhile now, and I am trying to finish my classes

Answer 14

yes, i will try to help you :)

Answer 15

A wise old owl lived in an oak
The more he saw the less he spoke
The less he spoke the more he heard.
Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?[1]

here is an example. does it need to exactly rhyme? how many lines?

Answer 16

@Hyundai-06
I am not quite sure, up above are the only directions that I got so it does not have to be long. Thanks for helping!!!!

Answer 17

Then what you have is perfect! its better than what i would have came up with. let me know what you get on it :)

Answer 18

@Hyundai-06 do you think this is good?

Bill Gates paid a price

And gave his mother forty mice.

When he saw what he had done

He gave his father forty-one.

Answer 19

try to relate it with oil as much as you can. the first one you had was great

Answer 20

okay

Answer 21

Standard Oil is seen as the monster stepping on a common man all the while saying he has no rights , and there is a policeman is yawning in the background either not paying attention or choosing to ignore it. Smaller oil companies are falling as they become victims to standard oil.

take this, shorten it and make it rhyme

Answer 22

@Hyundai-06 like this ?

Standard Oil is a monster
Who steps on a commoner
Police yawning in silence
Victims to standard oil becoming silenced