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    cheese.Once upon a time‚ there lived two German brothers‚ Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. They wrote folklore which was published‚ titled “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”. Many of their tales were deemed too gruesome and grim for children‚ but in recent times‚ modern storytellers have adapted their tales to something perceived as more worthy and suitable for children. While there are some advantageous aspects to these modern takes on the Grimm Brothers’ Tales‚ they (like the initial tales) can be regarded as gruesome

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    How often is the expression‚ "That’s ironic" used throughout the course of history? It rarely is mentioned when prince charming rescues the damsel in distress and spends happily ever after protecting her from advancing princes. Seldom is this phrase exclaimed when the loafing dog discovers an unattended bologna sandwich and helps itself. No‚ irony comes into play when the outcome of the story is mind blowing‚ horrific and earth shattering. When the prince charming swoops in with his "Shakespeare"

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    will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”  Our culture‚ and many others‚ takes on a serious amount of fairy tales to entertain children. We all know of the seven dwarves and the long golden hairs of Rapunzel. We all feel like the damsel in distress will be saved by the knight in shining armor‚ and that the dragon will always be slain. But we also know that if you ask a funny looking guy for the power to make gold out of straw you’ll end up with no first born son. Fairy tales have been

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    narrow…white teeth glistened‚” Hammett creates this character of which is clearly beautiful and desirable by any man thus the clearly perfect character for a femme fatale who would be able to use her sexuality to manipulate men. Acting as an innocent damsel in distress she is able to deceive Sam Spade to an extent as he is incapable of looking past her beauty or her generous offers of ridiculous amounts of

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    The Snow Child – Coursework The subtexts of fairy tales present the view that women are either helpless damsels or wicked vixens‚ created from the fantasies of male desires. How and to what extent does Angela Carter’s Snow Child challenge or reinforce this view? Angela Carter’s The Snow Child is a feminist revision of the Grimm Brothers classic fairy tale Snow White. Whilst reading the story‚ it is clear that Carter challenges the “repeated familiar cultural stereotypes” which is a common theme in

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    Upon meeting the damsel and hearing the story of the Fisher King‚ the young man learns that he has made a brutal mistake in not asking about the bleeding lance or the grail and as a result the Fisher King was not able to regain his health and govern his land. Then‚ when the damsel asks him for his name‚ the young man intuitively answers that he is Perceval the Welshman. The damsel‚ who claims to be Perceval’s cousin‚ continues on to inform him of his mother’s death and tells him that her death was

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    Annabeth contemplated on whether or not to knock on Percy’s door again‚ as it was dinner time‚ and she certainly didn’t want her guest to be hungry‚ and starving in the palace - that wouldn’t be socially acceptable for a human‚ nonetheless a princess. So‚ for once‚ she ignored the rule of having only a boy and girl in the same room at the same time‚ when they’re not married to one another‚ and just shoved the door open and walked through it all high and mighty. She tried to stifle her giggles once

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    In the movie “Life is Beautiful”‚ Guido‚ the Jewish- Italian‚ is the protagonist of the film. The whole movie spirals around him at all times. In the second part of the movie‚ Guido and his son were obliged to board the death train that packed likes sardines towards the concentration camp. Guido clearly knew that once they had disembarked from the train‚ there will be hardly any chance for them to return to where they belonged. Since Guido and his son‚ Giosue‚ stepped onto the train‚ not only they

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    Analyzing the Classroom From the time we are about 5 years old and for some of us into our late 20’s and 30’s we are in a coeducational environment called the classroom. Ever wonder which gender has the leg up? The bias towards? The one most likely to succeed? My prediction is that boys from kindergarten through the collegiate level more often than not will have an advantage capturing the teacher’s attention and dominating classroom activities over women. From the way students are bred into the

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    Pulp Fiction was originally magazines with tales about bigger than life characters solving crimes or rescuing a damsel in distress. The stories were written on “pulp” which was the cheapest paper available in the 1930’s and 40’s. The low price and exotic new stories drew in readers like moths to a flame. The stories were filled with violence‚ risqué scenes with women‚ and drug use all too off the wall to be published by the major outlets of the time. But some authors like H. P. Lovecraft and Ray

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