The Jungle Book - Trailer 1 And My Association With This Story

Damn this looks good. My favorite book as a child. Loves me some Bagheera (who I want to hear Baloo call 'baggy eyes') and of course the great Baloo and SHERE KNAN, the evil SHERE KHAN!!

Ka the snake and all those freakin monkeys? Why do there always have to be problems with the freakin'  monkeys? And of course the kind Akela, the She Wolf who raised the baby Mogli is one of my favorites. We pledge ourselves to Akela and promise to do our best in Cub Scouts, the Canadian baby version of Boy Scouts. The novel is a strong influence on the Cub Scout movement



I was a Cub Scout. Akela was the name given to the leader of our troop. It was a great and honored position. We also named leaders Baloo and Bageera. I was schooled at a very young age on this tale of friendship and survival. I hope their isn't musical numbers but I like the talking snake very much. I will like her more after she dies. And I cringed watching my beloved panther get swiped by Shere Khan - everyone's LEAST favorite TIGER. He gives a bad name to Tigers everywhere.

The Scouting program has used themes from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling since 1916.

In 1914 Robert Baden-Powell announced a Junior Section for Scouting. In 1916, he published his own outlines for such a scheme, to be called Wolf Cubbing. Baden-Powell may have had a number of reasons to call this section Wolf Cubs: "Wolf" was one of the ranks some Native American tribes gave to their best scouts; Wolf was the name of the cannon made in the railway workshops at Mafeking. By analogy, a young boy not old enough to be a wolf or true Scout could be a baby wolf or Wolf Cub.

 

Can you guess which one is me? I refuse to post any of this until I can find my sash with all my badges on it so I can show you a picture of my accomplishments. I loved all the survival and camping stuff. I learned so much that I took into Air Cadets. So believe that I got MAD skills for an introvert who only enjoys the sleeping and the pooping in the woods. I start to miss TV after only a few days.

 

 

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Baden-Powell asked his friend Rudyard Kipling for the use of his Jungle Book history and universe as a motivational frame in cub scouting. Baden-Powell wrote a new book, The Wolf Cub's Handbook for junior members. In 1917, junior members became known as Wolf Cubs.

 

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In the 1960s and later, the Wolf Cub section departed in many organizations from the jungle theme. Some changed their name to Cub Scout or something similar but retained the Jungle Stories and Cub ceremony as tradition—such as the use of Jungle Books names (as described below); and the Grand Howl which signals the start and end of the Cub Scout Meetings. Other organizations kept the name but changed the theme totally.