I chose to view the movie Shrek which was produced in 2001. Having two small children‚ it is important for me to understand the value of what my husband and I allow them to view. To many‚ Shrek is simply a cartoon about a green ogre and a donkey‚ but Shrek has so much value. This movie can teach us important life lessons if we can open our eyes and see them. The film begins with a narrator explaining that a princess has been placed under a spell and locked away in a tower waiting for her
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Jamaicans and their Funny Culture Jamaica is one of the most beautiful Islands in the world. This place is filled with joy love and music. A Jamaican culture is the most beautiful thing anyone could ever think of. Jamaicans have so much joy and spirit with them‚ they also makes you laugh whenever you’re feeling down. However‚ everyone has their own ethnicity‚ culture and personal backgrounds‚ these cultural backgrounds defines who you are as a person. This can also define why people do what they
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Egypt : The People Approximately 32‚500‚000 people live in Egypt. Peasant farmers called fellahin make up over 60 percent of the population. But less than 4 percent of Egypt’s land is suitable for farming. Before the leaders of the 1952 revolution introduced land reform‚ less than 2 percent of the landowners owned half of the land available for farming. Most of the fellahin were tenants or owned very tiny farms. A man who owned 3 to 5 acres was considered well-off. Now no one is
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characters. Our usual knight in armor is a smelly‚ heartless ogre. The damsel in distress is not much of a mannered lady and changes her pretty human shape at nights. The partner‚ the knight’s companion‚ is in denotation and connotation of an ass‚ both a donkey and an imbecile. The feared villain turns out to be a weak midget who cannot do anything for himself. The movie Shrek is not a standard fairytale as the director uses the rhetorical device of logos to archetypes of the damsel in distress‚ the knight
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a roughly 30-year-old ogre. His parents sent him away from home at age seven‚ as per ogre tradition. He lives alone in a swamp in the middle of the forest. His swamp was remodeled to mimic a human home‚ complete with outhouse. He has two friends‚ Donkey and Princess Fiona. He also has a variety of acquaintances from numerous fairytales‚ such as Pinocchio‚ Big Bad Wolf‚ and the Gingerbread Man. He is sent on a mission to rescue Princess Fiona in order that she may marry Lord Farquaad‚ and along the
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other side. But a Samaritan‚ as he traveled‚ came where the man was; and when he saw him‚ he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds‚ pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey‚ took him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. ’Look after him‚’ he said‚ ’and when I return‚ I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’ "Which of these three do you Zeng 2 think was a neighbor to
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beings to live in the woods‚ Shrek loses his peaceful life in the swamp. He sets out with his new friend Donkey to find Lord Farquaad and convince him to remove all the fairy-tale beings back where there belong. Lord Farquaad accepts under one condition. Shrek must draw out to find the beautiful princess Fiona‚ who will become Farquaad’s bride‚ so he can be a king. Shrek begins his quest with Donkey. Fiona is in a castle which is guarded by a dragon. They rescued Fiona. Once they head back Shrek started
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Is Shrek a conventional fairytale? Analyse how the makers of Shrek use the conventions of a fairytale and comment on the ways the film both typifies and subverts the genreWhat are fairytales? Fairytales are stories with a moral which have been passed down from generation to generation mainly orally. When we consider fairytales we think of; Prince charming‚ damsel in distress‚ evil witch and a happy ending. These so called “fairytales” started off as very gruesome and brutal stories about how children
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may seems like an impediment‚ the author speed up the tempo: “The girls use such terms as ‘hurry now‚’ ‘just today‚’ ‘today‚’ ‘now‚’ and ‘at this right moment your can find him.’” Within this section‚ Samuel and his servant encounter women from the nearby city. They inquire as to where the seer could be found. The women inform them that they will find the seer. Verse 14 is the execution of the proposal the women make‚ Saul and his servant head up to the city. Verse 15 functions as the outcome of
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A view from somebody’s point of view that may not be necessary be true. The battle of the Somme occurred on the 1th of July 1916‚ with the English and French army fighting against the German. English’s army’s leader‚ Haig‚ was considered to be a donkey‚ meaning to be a bad general. The historian John Laffin claims that Haig was an awful leader; he says that “Haig really thought he was doing what the people wanted him to do” which makes us think that he was being a good general. These facts may not
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