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    Running head: ANALYZING A PICTURE BOOK 1 Analyzing a Picture Book to Determine if it Exposes Multicultural Ideas to Children Claudia M. Torres University of South Florida APA Style Claudia M. Torres ANALYZING

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    Rusalka And Gui-Sin Essay

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    Even though both Rusalka and Cho-Nue Gui-Sin might help people‚ they have mainly negative images on them. Many regions conducted some forms of actions to avoid harms from those spirits. Although Rusalka was believed to live near the water because they cannot be survived without having a wet hair‚ people believed that in a certain period of time‚ which were varying from regions to regions‚ they were believed to come to visit their villages. While Rusalka might provide moistures to their land and crops

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    Anonymous Disneyfied Fairy Tales Everybody knows how Cinderella found her glass slipper after dancing at the ball. Snow White and Sleeping Beauty were awoken by true loves kiss and lived happily ever after. The Little Mermaid longed to live on shore to be with that one special person. The thing that people don’t know is that the tales are wrong. Grimm Fairy tales are the original fairy tales dating back to early Germany. Disney took the fairy tales and put their own spin on them to be more appealing

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    9000 ( Number of people buying shirts from Lucinder). The important factor is choice of criteria for decision making under uncertainty . The five criteria used are namely Laplace‚ pessimism‚ optimism‚ Hurwicz criterion and Savage criterion. The Laplace criterion cannot be applied to this case as probabilities associated with each state of nature is different . As evident from the case facts‚ Lucinder is neither completely optimistic nor

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    Fantasy novels are often set in worlds much different from our own and usually include magic‚ sorcery and mythical creature. The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling A folktale is a story that has been passed down‚ usually orally‚ within a culture. It may be based on superstition and feature supernatural characters. Folktales include fairy tales‚ tall tales‚ trickster tales and

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    Tara Sarmento 4/12/12 Dr. Caton 347 Cross Cultural Contemporary Literature Optimism in ‘The Cattle Shed’ Imagine this: you are confined in a small room as a prisoner‚ forced to be a laborer because of the political preference Communism‚ and the love of your life is locked up in his own ‘cattle shed’. How is a person supposed to stay optimistic in these horrible living conditions? In Ding Ling’s “Sketches from the ‘Cattle Shed’”‚ the narrator who is placed in solitary confinement due to

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    convicted of raping a white woman. Before the trial both Jem and Scout were quite naïve. After the trial they realized a lot about the people of Maycomb. They learned about racial equality and the inequalities of reality. The trial made Jem grow up shown when he talks to his father about the justice system and rape. These are conversations that aren’t discussed with kids. The trial really hardened them because after it they no longer feared Boo Radley’s house. Jem made a statement saying that Boo won’t

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    maintaining positivity‚ the effects of conflict are not felt in such severity as they would with a negative outlook on the situation. Negativity narrows one’s thoughts and does not allow all resolutions to be considered (Huffington). Maintaining optimism allows one to be more effective in resolving conflicts. For example‚ by remaining positive‚ Anne Frank was able to overcome the difficulty of being forced to move away from her home‚ “Up now to our bedroom‚ with its blank walls‚ was very bare. Thanks

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    How the World Began (Bukidnon Folktale) TIME LINE   There was no world yet and there were gods living in a great brightness in a circular space Magbabaya‚ Dadanyahan and Makabughaw were the three gods who first lived in order and balance Makabughaw created the first wind. Magbabaya created the earth from the soil coming from Dadanyahan’s mouth but it was dry and colorless. Dadanyahan sprinkled his saliva and blessed by Magbabaya and it was the first rain. When water washed over the earth

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    aspirations of the ancient Filipino people. In this tradition‚ literary works were usually orally passed to the next generations. Ancient people used these literary works for recreation and ritual purposes. These works are fables‚ legends‚ myths‚ folktales‚ folksongs‚ riddles and proverbs‚ with subjects involving the common daily experiences of ancient Filipino people. One of these literary works is the epic. Epics are narrative explanations of heroic deeds or events of hero under supernatural

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