Addie Febres The Mysterious Boy Once a baby boy just got born‚ the mother was happily rocking the baby in her arms. The dad said‚ “ What should we name the boy‚ Virginia?” Then she said‚ “I don’t know‚ David‚ I don’t know. ” But then that night a pixie warned the parents that danger has come‚ the pixie had bright pink eyes‚ dark blue hair‚ and wore a neon green dress. So the pixie agreed that she would bring
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Caravansary | Inn; hotel | The first part of the word looks like caravan which is like a mini-mobile hotel. | Magnanimous | Benevolent; generous | The first of the word comes from the Latin word magnus‚ which means great‚ and generous people are great people. | Expostulation | Criticism; complaint | The first part of the word looks like expose‚ and when you criticize‚ you expose your complaints. | Truculent | Aggressive; rude | This word was used to describe how Tom was aggressively holding
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Exotica‚ a trans‚ about many things‚ like acceptance‚ and sexuality. There’s a similar relationship in the Bluest Eye when Morrison talks about Pecola and the prostitutes and it can also be linked The House of Mango Street when Cisneros talks about Rapunzel. The prostitutes and Exotica have in common the fact that they are someone the kid can ask to about stuff they don’t know. In the chapter You Lovely Faggot You a keyword can be fungus‚ just like fungi‚ homosexuality is thought to be bad and to spread
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male characters (Ernst). Furthermore‚ these unbalanced and exaggerated gender role stereotypes can easily be seen in mainstream children’s literature. Such examples include: Beauty and the Beast‚ Little Red Riding Hood‚ The Berenstain Bears‚ and Rapunzel. Children’s literature frequently portrays female characters as being acted upon rather than being active (Fox). In the classic story‚ Little Red Riding Hood‚ a male character‚ the wood cutter‚ protects Little Red Riding Hood from the Big-Bad Wolf
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Barbie®: Mattel Corporation ‘I’m a blonde bimbo girl‚ in a fantasy world.....Life in plastic. It’s fantastic.’ (Aqua) Barbie was born in 1959 but she has never aged because she is a doll. To date over 1 billion Barbies have been sold by the US company that own her - Mattel Corporation. Ruth Handler‚ who founded the company along with her husband‚ Elliot‚ modelled the doll on an 11½ inch plastic German toy called Lilli sold to adult men. She named the adapted doll after her daughter‚ Barbara
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Woods had an amazing run of reproductions beginning in 1987‚ and continuing through 2002 (Broadway Musical Home). In this production James Lapine incorporated characters from many of the fairytales we know and love. Fairytales like Cinderella‚ Rapunzel‚ Jack and the Beanstalk‚ and Little Red Riding Hood are all entwined into Lapine’s newly created story. Lapine’s newly created tale includes a couple that cannot conceive because a witch has placed a spell on their home. Inevitably‚ all the characters
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In Bernard Mac Laverty’s novel Cal‚ the author sheds light on the conflict in Northern Ireland through a nineteen year old Catholic named Cal. This ideological war has devastating and detrimental effects on all involved especially Cal. Cal is a victim of this war as he is thrown into it and expected to react. As this violent war is surrounding Cal‚ he is also facing another type of conflict: an internal one. This internal conflict is a result of Cal’s psychological well being and results in self
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story collection Children’s and Household Tales and published the first of its seven editions in Germany in 1812. The table of contents reads like an A-list of fairy-tale celebrities: Cinderella‚ Sleeping Beauty‚ Snow White‚ Little Red Riding Hood‚ Rapunzel‚ Rumpelstiltskin‚ Hansel and Gretel‚ the Frog King. Dozens of other characters—a carousel of witches‚ servant girls‚ soldiers‚ stepmothers‚ dwarfs‚ giants‚ wolves‚ devils—spin through the pages. Drawn mostly from oral narratives‚ the 210 stories
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intrigues the reader as they desire to know what happens. An example of this is when Odysseus decides to return to his love‚ Penelope‚ and embarks into an unknown adventure awaiting him (Odyssey 22; bk. 1‚ 22-25). Likewise‚ from the movie Tangled‚ Rapunzel deeply desired to find out what the floating lights that came every year on her birthday meant‚ so she ventured out of her comfort zone to find out this mystery (Tangled). The last example of the element of mystery is tone. Tone tells the reader
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Disney has made a name for itself in the entertainment industry; some may even argue that Disney helped lay the foundation of what is our current entertainment industry. For many young children Disney movies are ingrained into their memory and represent a part of their childhood. It is with in these memories that many grow up with an idea of what a villain looks like. Disney has made their villains appearance to have the worst stereotyped aspects of each gender. Male villains are made to have more
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