children continue to learn‚ through reading fairy tales such as the sleeping beauty‚ Cinderella‚ and etc that prettiness often leads to success. These stories illustrate the theme of beauty as the key to happiness. Although the paper bag Princess portrays the princess as a stronger character‚ the issue of beauty is still a focus towards the end. It’s so refreshing to find a book that puts the female character not only as the hero‚ but who can stand on her own. There are several "messages" at work in
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Often written for children‚ traditional fairytales are fictitious works with magical qualities. However‚ “The Bloody Chamber” by Angela Carter and The Princess Bride by William Goldman‚ are no traditional fairytales. Although both poses the fictitious qualities and traits of traditional fairytales‚ neither work can be considered as being written for children. The use of violence in sex‚ pornographic imagery‚ and the objectification of women show that the stories are intended for mature readers.
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Diana Gant‚ a Drexel University sleep expert‚ reported that most people need nine to 10 hours of sleep in order to avoid public and personal safety hazards‚ on Tuesday. Gant‚ who has been a member of the psychology department for 17 years‚ began studying sleep as a graduate student. Through her studies‚ she found a correlation between lack of sleep and accidents. “Going without enough sleep is as much of a public and personal safety hazard as going to work drunk‚” said Gant. “It can make people clumsy
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Queen Pastries had a beautiful daughter named Princess Sweet. Princess Sweet possesses a beauty without equal. Many princes of the different lands truly admire her. In fact‚ Princess Sweet’s suitors are as many as her pearls and jewels. However‚ many people are wondering why Princess Sweet is unhappy even if she already has all the wealth of the Earth to add to her incomparable beauty. No one among the Kingdom has ever seen her laughing or smiling. Princess Sweet barely speaks to people except for
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books‚ costumes‚ and the toys on the shelves in almost every store have been consumed by the Disney Princess. For most little girls‚ princesses ranging from Cinderella to Elsa have become their biggest role models. Important lessons like learning to stand up for yourself‚ never giving up‚ following your heart‚ and finding the beauty in nature are just a few of the teachings throughout the Disney Princess movies. What parent in their right mind wouldn’t want these things for their daughter? Author Stephanie
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experiment that test how far individuals would go in obeying orders‚ even if carrying out those orders caused serious harm to others. This experiment caused a lot of controversy and one woman in particular believed that this experiment was immoral. Diana Baumrind’s "Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience" says that Milgram "entrapped" (329) his subjects and potentionally harmed his subjects mentally. Both authors are obviously concerned with ethics and validity but both see them in a
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if not both parents are dead in most Disney princess movies. Along with the fact that their lives aren’t the picturesque fantasy a royal is believed to have. Which makes why I find them so comforting odd to a lot people. The reality of this is what comforts me. A child of adoption fanaticizes over the life that they can have or should have had. The dream of a perfect family is euphoric to them. They have the thoughts of‚ “what if I was a long lost princess.” These thoughts are what drove me to be stable
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forest spirit’s head. Princess Mononoke and Ashitaka manage to return the spirit’s head and the spirit heals the land and the prince’s curse. The princess goes back to the forest and the forest starts to grow back after the whole ordeal. Spirits are the main focus in both Princess Mononoke and Kojiki. Both stories are based around these “spirits” and are seen as the guiding force of their worlds. An example of this can be seen when the spirits fight back against the humans in Princess Mononoke. Similarly
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Disney’s Pocahontas has a storyline‚ which disregards many elements from the actual history. Disney is also known to apply its own values‚ morals and themes to existing materials. This tendency can be further analyzed when we look deep into what exactly has been “Disneyficated” in the story of Pocahontas. Pochahontas’ Americanized image‚ “sanitizing” of Pochahontas’ age-controversial relationship with John Smith and the exceptional display of non-submissive female traits. Native Americans have
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In the novel‚ “The Wolf Princess” by Cathryn Constable‚ the main character Sophie calls England home and Sophie doesn’t have nice clothes. Sophie usually wears the same sweater that has holes in it and gets in trouble at her school for not wearing good enough cloths. Sophies parents died when Sophie was young and a lady named Rosemary took her in and Rosemary doesn’t like Sophie. Rosemary hired au pairs to take care of her until she was old enough to go to boarding school. At Sophie’s boarding
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