BEAUTY PAGEANTS..!!! Do beauty contests really serve a purpose of today’s society??? Today‚ there are large numbers of beauty contests bouncing from all possible corners of the society‚ for both men as well as women covering all age groups. The concept of beauty contests or so called “Beauty Pageants” is no more the same as it used to be earlier. “Beauty with Brains” was the golden and the most important rule of earlier time’s beauty pageants. Earlier the beauty pageants didn’t only meant to have
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Reaction paper on Gender Studies Gender and happily ever after Ever since I was little‚ I have been observing cartoon and fairytale‚ as it is soothing and full of joy. Mother would read me a bedtime story about Everland‚ the giant‚ the witches‚ and the princess. I have grown along all this beautiful dream within me‚ yet‚ being reminded regularly when I watched movies emphasizing how important love is to the existence of human beings. The worse thing is‚ I do not let this stay as childhood
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“2.5 million girls participate in beauty pageants‚ and 6% of these girls suffer from depression”(Demographic Partitions). This is just one of the many problems that come with young girls participating in beauty pageants. A few more are sexualization‚ mental health problems along with self-esteem issues. This along with many other reasons should make people alarmed and not want to enter young girls into beauty pageants. The sexualization of girls is one of the many problems that young girls face
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The original story of the beautiful girl with fair skin and a wicked stepmother originated in Grimms’ fairy tales in 1812 as a morbid tale of the beauty and vanity that fit with the culture of the time. However‚ modern adaptations have evolved to reflect the state of the audience. Disney’s more recent adaptation in 1937 was meant for a much softer generation of children than those raised in the 19th century‚ while Universal Pictures adaptation moves back to dark origins to appease an adult audience
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Grimm Brothers’ Tales Assignment The Grimm Brothers’ fairytales: Love as the engine of the story Grimm Brothers’ Fairytales are one of the most famous and popular fairytales all around the world. These tales deal with an enormous range of‚ not only characters‚ such kings‚ queens‚ peasants‚ animals‚ or servants for instances‚ but also themes‚ like gender‚ love‚ or family among others. In this work we are going to focus our discussion on the different use of love the Grimm Brothers made on
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Postmortem Beauty I’ve found that there are two ultimate sources of beauty: truth and timelessness. Every beauty can be derived from these two roots. The beauty of true love is drawn from the comfort of a truly trustworthy person and the intense passion that can resonate in love stories for millennia. People who find beauty in their work find truth in it‚ especially with artists: their work is so beautiful because they create what they interpret to be truth‚ and their work is forever. What is not
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Professor Rania Said Re-visioning Fairy Tales 26 June 2015 Reimagining Violence in Modern Fairy Tales Often times in literature we see modern adaptations created by authors in order to display mild to significant changes on the original piece of work. These modern adaptations reimage themes displayed in traditional versions of the fairy tales. For example‚ violence is often tamed in modern adaptations but exaggerated in original versions such as “Snow White”‚ “Hansel & Gretel”‚ “Little
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eyes from a sexy‚ voluptuous creature into a frightening old crone‚ must leave as powerful an impression on the audience as Snow White’s chirpy femininity. (Indeed‚ there’s a grown-up version of this nightmare‚ with Jack Nicholson embracing a young beauty who turns ugly and ancient as he holds her‚ in ’’The Shining.’’) As ’’Snow White’’ returns to help shape a new generation of eager little viewers‚ only those of us already under its influence will fully appreciate the range and depth of the impression
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The very popular children’s movie “Beauty and the Beast” was originally a fairy tale written by Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont. While the movie holds true to many of the themes displayed in the fairy tale‚ it falls short in other aspects. In the original fairy tale‚ the deal between the merchant and Beast is that one of the merchants daughter die in place of the merchant. However in the Disney movie the deal that takes place between Belle and Beast is only that Belle stays in the castle as his
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Alice in Wonderland is a tale so rare that it not only provided our culture with an inexhaustible mine of artistic inspiration‚ but it continues to do so through every generation since the story was released in 1865. Despite the different takes on the tale throughout time‚ there has always been a fundamental elegance and innocence in the fashion that offset the underlying dark themes of the story. While examining the original tale of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol‚ there was immediate captivation
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