We’ve all heard the stories; the ones we were told as children. Epic adventures with mystical beings and dragon guarded castles. Fairy tales. My personal favorite is Rapunzel. I was completely engrossed with the story of a girl stranded in a tower‚ only to be saved by her true love. Saved by the strength of his sword against her fearsome dragon‚ or by his comatose-healing lips. Then she and her prince charming would live happily ever after. As it turns out‚ the story of my literary experience begins
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The story The Nutcracker has many different versions of the story. There are books‚ movies‚ and ballets. The original book was made in 1816 by ETA Hoffmann‚ and was called The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. There are many different rewrites of the book. The book is during Christmas‚ and Clara got a nutcracker‚ and it was magical Christmas. In brief‚ there are many different adaptations of the story The Nutcracker. Despite the various version of the story the plot stay the same. The plot has the
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Have you ever wished to be able to one day put everything in your crazy life to the side and become a princess? Well if you said yes‚ like pretty much every other girl‚ The Selection would be the book for you! The Selection was published in April 24‚ 2012 by Kiera Cass and is 327 pages long. The Selection‚ Kiera Cass‚ realistic fiction provides amazing and vivid imagery that really makes you be able to relate to the book and keeps you reading. America Singer‚ is one of the main characters in The
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perfect Barbie doll would come to life‚ as our 6 year old daughters while competing in a beauty pageant. They ware the latest lipstick and matching eyeliner‚ some have fake hair and even fake teeth‚ they prance around in sequence gowns‚ and sophisticated costumes‚ times have changed‚ and the sexualization and commercialism of children have increased. Pageants promote such a narrowly defined standard of beauty. If you look‚ really look at this little girls they don’t even look like little girls
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Cinderella As children most of our life lessons were acquired through the simplicity of fair tales. Subliminal messages taught us to always believe in true love and that good wins out over evil. Young and naïve‚ as children‚ all we desired was a good story and a nap‚ but the lessons we learned lasted a lifetime. Growing up my beloved fairy tale was Cinderella‚ not only does true love win but good wins over evil and eventually the world is set right. Once upon a time in a kingdom far away‚
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Disney Movies Giving False representations of relationships Disney movies have been around for decades. Almost all of Disney’s movies have a moral or a special meaning to them. Some are to learn what is right and what is wrong‚ and some are to get through tough situations. The most well-known Disney movies are the princess movies. All of the princess movies have a common theme‚ a girl who is not that high up ends up getting the man of her dreams‚ which is usually a prince. Every Disney princess
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The articles “Just a Little Princess” by Peggy Orenstein and “Return of the Brainless Hussies” by Rebecca Traister are about as “bra-burning” as they get. Both women are feminist and aren’t afraid to show it. While Orenstein discusses the “princess” fad that is consuming the younger girls of America and why the fad an abomination‚ Traister explains the phenomena of stupidity that has swept America’s Pop Icons such as Paris Hilton‚ Lindsay Lohan‚ and Jessica Simpson. “Brainless Hussies” is more convincing
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How does Angela Carter subvert the traditional form of a fairy-tale in her short story ‘The Snow Child’? Why does she do this? Carter as a feminist was interested in fairy-tales because of hoe gender roles are presented in them. For example‚ women. Women are normally the lead characters of a fairy-tale. However‚ there are several different types of women that exist in fairy-tales and the reader is often able to figure out a characters role in a fairy-tale based on their physical appearance. If
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The story of the greatest king of all time has been developed over centuries. The Arthurian legend has no known author’s that can claim the original Arthurian legend however it is stated that three authors helped shaped the Arthurian legend‚ such as Geoffrey of Monmouth‚ Chretien de Troyes and Sir Thomas Malory. These author’s work‚ specifically Sir Thomas Malory’s‚ have been the main sources for many authors that translate the legend from Middle English to modern English in the late nineteenth century
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There is nothing Cinderella wants more than the prince. A picture beside her bed that she touches herself too at night‚ there is nothing her father or her step-mother and step-sister could give her‚ that would satisfy her besides the palace life. One of her step-sister‚ Ivy is already married‚ and it is her step-mother duty to get her other daughter Rose‚ a wealthy man that would bring the back to the court lifestyle. When the prince declares to hold two balls‚ in which from then he would find a
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