ELA‚ we read three of the 900 Cinderella stories and one poem. I liked “Ashenputtel” because it had some cool features of the story such as the background of the story‚ but what was surprising is that it had blood and gore in it. “Yeh-Shen” was not my favorite‚ but I did think her step-mom and sister deserved punishment because of how they treated her. Apparently they didn`t know the phrase “treat others the way you want to be treated”. In the “Algonquin Cinderella” the step-sisters should have been
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Cinderella – Sketchbook & Final Piece Evaluation For my theme‚ I decided to move away from the culture and journey aspect as I had just finished a topic on Africa‚ which I didn’t enjoy much. I decided to embark on fairytales. To start with I researched Aladdin‚ where I found images and drew Princess Jasmine‚ I then developed her hair barrel piece into a repeat pattern. I then thought that I couldn’t reach my full potential with this particular fairytale‚ so I moved onto Cinderella‚ as I found
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Correchet‚ Camille Prof. Fonts ENC 1102-3 15 February 2012 Conventional In the real world‚ problems and complications come up and happily ever after’s don’t exist. Sexton takes the classic story of “Cinderella”‚ reworks it‚ and makes it into her own twisted version of a fairytale. She starts the audience off with a few little “rags-to-riches” accounts comparing modern culture’s unrealistic dreams to what life really is like. Then she goes into telling the readers the famously known fairytale
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Symbolism in Toni Morrison’s Beloved Toni Morrison’s Beloved is one of the most powerful works of literature that chronicles the episodes of slavery that happened in American history from the point of view of a black narrator. It tells the story of a slave named Sethe who escaped from her master’s plantation and found refuge in Cincinnati. She reunites with her daughter Denver and finds new love in the person of Paul D. Just as when she thought that she would finally live a brighter future‚ Beloved
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Toni Morrison’s Beloved is set in post slavery America‚ and tells the tale of slaves living in Cincinnati with new found freedom. Although they may be free from slavery physically‚ they haven’t been freed mentally from the horrors they faced in the past. We see each characters struggle with the past in different ways‚ each person facing their own demons. We see this all throughout the novel‚ as Toni Morrison’s shows us each character’s struggles. Morrison’s purpose in writing the novel was to show
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"What’s Wrong With Cinderella?" In the article “What’s Wrong With Cinderella” written by Peggy Orenstein a feminist mother and writer for the New York Times amongst other newspapers. Several issues and concerns are raised regarding the physical and mental impact that the younger generation might have from the excessiveness of the princess theme toys‚ clothing and animation. The writer belief that young girls are being influence to think that beauty is determined by their physical appearance. Many
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philosophers‚ poets‚ writers‚ and artists have had trouble capturing for millenia. However‚ the description of love only becomes more complicated when one adds the horrifying realities of slavery‚ and the fissures it creates within broken families. Toni Morrison explores just how convoluted the definition of love can become in her book Beloved. In the book‚ we see that Sethe’s choice to either kill her daughter‚ or have her become a slave on the plantation as arguably the biggest‚ and most important
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Throughout Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved‚ there are many obvious themes and symbols. The story deals with slavery and the effects that the horrifying treatment of the slaves has on a community. Another major theme‚ apparent throughout the story‚ is the supernatural. The notion of haunting is very evident since the characters are not only haunted by Beloved at 124‚ but are also haunted by their past. The story of Beloved is not only about freeing oneself of a ghost‚ but also about releasing one’s
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Have you read any Cinderella stories rather than the one everyone knows? If not there are many other Cinderella story’s to read but the one everyone knows is the original one which is much alike to the France one. There are other versions like Mexico‚ German‚ Chinese‚ and Africa and many others more. Two that have some similarities and differences are the French and Chinese. In the France and Chinese Cinderella story a beautiful young girl suffers a lot and is very badly mistreated but at the end
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He throws punch after punch‚ striving to not only win the championship title but to obtain a better life for him and his family and hope for his people. The story of James J. Braddock and all he went through during the times of the Great Depression is inspiring and influential. At the start of his boxing career everything was going perfect. He had a beautiful and loving wife‚ nice home‚ fans‚ and he was winning his matches. Turning his life upside down‚ the stock market crashed and the Great Depression
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