Cinderella’s mother dies from an illness and her father remarries to a woman who has two daughters who treat her poorly. Originally named Ella, she slept near the cinders which lead her to be called Cinderella. One day her father leaves and ask for request from the three daughters. Cinderella wanted a twig. When he comes back he gives her a hazel twig. She plants it next to her mother’s grave. The twig grows into a tree where it produces birds that grant her wishes. When it's time to go the ball, the stepmother tells Cinderella in order to attend the ball she has to pick lentils from a pile of ashes. The birds help her with the task, when Cinderella is finished she goes to her stepmother and she rejects what Cinderella has done. She makes a wish to the tree and the birds give her a dress so she can attend the ball. When Cinderella is at the ball she dances with the prince the whole night. At the end of the night, Cinderella runs away from the prince. The next day she wishes for another dress and does the same thing she did the night before. The third day she wishes for another dress. When the night is coming to an end Cinderella runs away and her shoe gets stuck on one of the stairs because the prince put tar on them so she can not flee. The prince looks for the girl who owns the shoe One of the stepsisters cut off her toe to try to fit in the shoe. The next…
There was a guy, who's name was Daedalus. He was a very talented sculptor and architect. He was well known for his work. One day Daedalus's nephew arrives, his name is Talus. He's also very talented and one day while on the beach with Daedalus, he invents the saw as well as the compass. Daedalus begins to get very jealous of his nephew Talus. Daedalus gets so jealous that he pushes Talus off a cliff. He didn't mean to do it, he just got so jealous and mad. He raced down to the bottom to save his nephew but it was too late, Talus had died. Days after, Daedalus wanders around and he comes to a place called Crete. The king,known as King Minos hires Daedalus to make a place for the Minotaur, a monster that he created. The place Daedalus builds…
There once was a boy named Jerks, he was a normal boy who did normal things normally. One day his mother momma Jerks wanted him to go to the market to buy a cow but when he got to town there were no cows to be seen anywhere. So Jerks being the smart young lad he was decided to trade the money for a “magic shovel” Jerks was obviously very happy with his trade because after all who wouldn't want a magic shovel? When Jerks got home he proudly held up the shovel to show his mother what he had gotten, however his mother was not as pleased as the boy was with the purchase, so logically she decided to make the boy go dig his own grave in the back yard. As Jerks dug he grew tired and went inside to get a drink of water. When Jerk…
"Liam, please hurry they went off in that direction!" Liam said pointing west, Perceval jumped up and started walking in the direction, his hand resting itself onto his sword on his waist. Suddenly Perceval came apon a large willow tree in an opening, he slowly approached the willow examining its beauty. Perceval took one last step torward the tree, when suddenly his foot was pulled out from under him, flipping him upside down and dangling him from above. Suddenly the beautiful willow opened, a group of small people unfamiliar to Perceval appeared circling him.…
One day, Davey begged and begged for someone to play kingdom. He loved to be a knight that rode his nice pet dragon, who saved the princess stuck in the castle. His sister promised that she would play with him if he played Hide and Seek with her. So, Davey played game after game with Nancey. After every game, Davey would ask if it was her turn to play with him and every time she would say, “One more game”. Davey soon got tired of playing with Nancey, so after Nancey went and…
One day, David and Sophie visit a pond together. The blacksmiths son, Allan, is wandering around when he spots them. Sophie runs away into the forest because she doesn't want Allan to find out about her secret. Allan follows her footprints but David picks a fight with him. The fight is soon stopped when Sophie returns with a big…
There was an ancient chief in theSkyland. His young wife was expecting a child, and one night she dreamed that she saw the Great Tree uprooted. The next morning she told her husband the story.…
One day King Minos was a very powerful man. This one town called Athens and every year he would go to war with them. So they made a deal with the king that if he stopped the war with them they would 7 kids every year to his maze where he had his monster very hungry for humans. So the King liked the deal and went on with it and said yes. That was a very sad day for the Athens and cried every year when they had to send 7 kids who tried to kill this monster but never came back. So one says the Kings son had asked him that why do they send young people every year to the maze and never come back? The King had to explain why to him and also because the monster would start something with them and kill them all. So the king's son wanted to stop…
Today there are only a few orders of "knights." These include the Knights of Columbus and Knights of Malta and they represent the ideals and values that knights were supposed to uphold. The idea of a armored knight are closely descended from the equites class of Rome. Knights were closely tied to the various fiefdoms and to the church. They were expected to follow a code of Knightly Virtues. These included: being beautiful in spirit, charity, good cheer, chivalry, courage, courtesy, determination, selflessness, endurance, faithfulness, forgiveness, friendliness, happiness, helpfulness, honor, hopefulness, humility, justice, kindness, loyalty, mercy, morality, nobility, obedience, patience, perseverance, prudence sincerity, sympathy, tenderness, truthfulness, wisdom. Many knights were of course not perfect but in the Song Of Roland Roland, Oliver, Thierry are perfect examples what knights should be.…
In the beginning the world was not as we know it today, up in the sky there was another world called The Sky World where human type beings lived. In this Sky World there was a great tree which bore corn that fed the village. Well it so happened, that the chiefs daughter was very sick but there seems to be no cure in sight. One night, a friend of the Chief had a dream that if the girl was placed by the tree and the tree dug up, her sickness would be cured. The girl was placed by the tree, and the tree was dug up. Along came a man who was upset that the tree…
Due to the rising population of Mexican Americans and data from the 2000 census shows that, “The Hispanic population has grown faster than the overall U.S. population since 1990 and is projected to become the largest U.S. minority group by 2005,” Comprising 12.6% of the U.S. population. (Buck, 23) Therefore, I will be focusing my Culture project on Mexican American Folktales. Another reason for choosing this culture is the city of San Antonio in which I live that has a heavy influence on Mexican culture. The San Antonio Hispanic population makes up 59% of our city's population with Mexicans leading that percentage with 41%.…
This story is about trust in relationships. This a story about a girl in 8th grade she is new and has no friends yet. It was very hard for her to make friends even though she spoke perfectly good English and blended in well she was still ignored because she wasn’t known. She finally made her first friend who introduced her to other people who are his friends. They eventually became very close friends throughout the year she made great friends she went into high school with. During the summer both teens still had contacts. He had feelings for her but she had no idea he was trying so hard to get her but she was just clueless. As school started she saw him as a best friend and he saw her as more that that….way more than that. He asked her out and she said she had to think about it. She was very young but not an idiot she made it clear to him she doesn’t want these silly high school relationships that only last a month and that she wants years and if he is willing to do that, he was so into her he agreed to anything. They were the cutest happiest couple at their school.…
This is the story of a family that up until one horrific day seemed like an ordinary family. There was a mother, a father, an older sister, one younger brother, and a very loyal German shepherd. But before getting into that day, you need to know about the family more first.…
Online education is often held out as a way to increase access to higher education, especially for those -- adult students, the academically underprepared, members of some minority groups -- who have historically been underrepresented in college. But that access is meaningful only if it leads somewhere, and if the education students get helps them reach their goals.…
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