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    being the women figure‚ Princess Leia is seen the temptress‚ she is beautiful and both Luke and Han Solo are attracted to her. Also within the hunting group‚ Princess Leia is the damsel in distress. She is the whole mission. The one whom Luke‚ Han‚ Obi Wan Kenobi‚ and Chewbacca are trying to save. Her damsel in distress moment would be when she makes the video that R2-D2

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    " What appears to be submissive to the ’male gaze’‚ in this scene however they put on a chow in exchange to negotiate their presence and have their voices heard in a dominantly male world. When the females are seated they appear to be two damsels in distress‚ however the movement of standing up represents liberty and the space

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    The Horse Dealer’s Daughter is a story of a young woman who is deeply troubled in the beginning of the story. She cares and loves no one‚ except her mother who died when she was fourteen. She feels alone and her brothers do nothing to help that‚ since they exude an aura of her worthlessness‚ and the love she once felt for her father was replaced with "hardness" when he remarried. She was depressed and suicidal at the beginning of this story. Her only solace would come when she went to her mother’s

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    Anita Sarkeesian argues: video games represent females in a negative connotation; women are displayed as dainty‚ ‘damsel[s] in distress’ who need men to save them from their woe or conflict. Sarkeesian‚ who may not be a ‘heavy gamer’ (as Christina Hoff Sommers describes in her “Factual Feminist” videos) recognizes how women are portrayed with ‘demonizing’ characteristics within

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    deception and power as Ursula does not actually want Ariel to achieve her task. Ursula’s original plan is to take Ariel in order to get to King Triton 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2p1ee211C0 (23:00-32:30) .In this scene‚ we have ‘The Damsel in Distress’‚ Snow White‚ where she was aggressively taken away from her prince and now she goes on ‘The Quest’ to find him. We have the ‘Friendly Beasts’ who guided Snow White to seek help from Mother Nature and then we have ‘The Earth Mother’‚ Mother

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    pressure from the leader he was abusive towards her. She played one of the damsels in distress in the book as a result of her misfortunate situations. First she who abused her and almost shot her‚ but he did not load the gun. We can see that he injured her in panel 6‚ page 65 where there was a red spot on her clothes since he slapped her and hit her for asking for them to be intimate. After that Rosemary turned into the widow in distress because V killed her husband and which caused her to be distraught

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    Wesley‚ Buttercup‚ Prince Humperdink‚ and Fezzik fall into the archetypes category of: The Hero‚ Damsel In Distress‚ The Evil Adversary‚ and The Friendly Beast; each of these characters effect/influence Wesley’s journey. Buttercup is a huge influence during Wesley’s journey because she has to be rescued by him throughout the time of his journey. Buttercup represents the archetype as “Damsel In Distress” because she is being fought over partly just due to the fact that she is beautiful. Before Wesley’s

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    It is not acceptable that women are portrayed in the media as dominantly dependent on men. The television and movie industry have only recently started to portray women as strong‚ and independent and only in a select number of roles. Only a hand-full of the media depicts women as independent. A few that come to mind are Gilmore Girls‚ Revenge‚ Frozen‚ and Brave. It is unethical that this has just started changing and that there are only limited amounts of media portraying positive depictions of women

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    Classical and modern-day heroes are both two very different things. A classical hero is somebody who slays something to benefit just themselves or others. A modern day hero is somebody that does something to benefit others just because they are kind. They are very different. A classical hero is somebody who slayed something to benefit themselves and others. Most classical heroes fit the hero’s journey. That is the journey that a classical hero takes. They start off in the ordinary world and then

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    -Jorge Aguilera Mrs. Widener English II Honors 27 April 2012 Archetypes on Much Ado about Nothing Archetypes are defined as universally understood symbols‚ terms‚ or behaviors. They are often used in stories to define characters and influence the reader. In David Lindenfeld’s article‚ “Jungian Archetypes and the Discourse of History‚” Carl Jung is accredited with saying that archetypes are like plastic sets of dispositions whose specific manifestations are shaped by culture and situation (217)

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