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    Cinderella Myths

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    Can you recall hearing or reading about your first fairy tale? I know that I remember from a young age being read stories of whimsical characters‚ and how the princess lived happily ever after. Looking back I wonder why was I read these types of short stories‚ and what was their importance? From as far back as the Middle Ages accounts of fairy tales began circulating the World. Authors have continued to preserve the existence of even the oldest of all fairy tales by publication‚ and eventually

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    Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is a well-known allegory read by many scholars over the years and it continues to be taught today for its many symbols‚ theories and the categories is touches base on relating to human society. The prisoners reminds me of jail in a sense that thats what you are when your are in custody and what you can do is very limited‚ and the real world is completely cut off. Although my experiences in life do not contain on that relates to jail but this is what i first thought of

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    myth of media

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    Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences (PJSS) Vol. 32‚ No. 1 (2012)‚ pp.171-183 Women Empowerment in Pakistan with Special Reference to Islamic Viewpoint: An Empirical Study Imran Sharif Chaudhry Professor & Chairman‚ Department of Economics Bahauddin Zakariya University‚ Multan‚ Pakistan E-mail: imran@bzu.edu.pk Farhana Nosheen PhD Scholar‚ Department of Economics‚ Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan‚ Pakistan E-mail: researcher_f@yahoo.com Muhammad Idrees Lodhi Assistant Professor

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    Let’s compete not Talk! “Who is more pretty‚ Vulcan?” asked Venus. “Obviously you my darling” Vulcan said to Venus. “Sure he says that because he is your husband” protested Diana to Venus. “Or we can change Vulcan’s mind if we tell him your little secret‚ huh Venus?” suggested Diana. “What do you mean Diana?” asked Vulcan. “Nothing she is just……making stuff…up!” Venus replied really quickly. The truth was that Venus had a crush on Mars (god of war) still being married with Vulcan (god of

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    I chose William Wordsworth’s "I wandered lonely as a cloud" (476)     Formalism is the technical analysis of a particular medium of art. The basis is to focus on the facts evident with no implication of emotional value as determined by the reader. Details used to conclude the true meaning of a particular work may include (but are not limited to) emphasis on structure‚ tone‚ word usage‚ figurative language‚ and imagery. This approach can identify more or less to a scientific view of the work to

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    Original Myth

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    The Sun‚ the Moon‚ and the Great Spirit Long ago‚ before there was life‚ before there was even a planet Earth‚ there were celestial entities that existed in the universe back when it was a light blue. These spirits appear to humans as large masses in space‚ such as the other planets and the stars. Since the beginning‚ there were two powerful apparitions that would become rivals until the end of time‚ the Sun Spirit and the Moon Spirit. The Sun was favored by the other astral entities to the isolated

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    Dinosaur When he was very young he waved his arms gneshed the teeth of his massive jaws and tromped around the house so that the dishes trembled in the china cabinet.” Oh for goodness sake”. his mother said. ”You are not a dinosaur. You are a human being.” Since he was not a dinosaur‚ he thought for a time that he might be a pirate. Seriously his father said at some point‚ what do you want to be?” A fireman then or a soldier. Some kind of hero. But in high school they gave him test and told

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    What Did Ellison's Cave

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    Early 20th century‚ Ellison’s Cave is named after the individual who owned the cave and the surrounding land atop Pigeon Mountain in the early 1900’s. He and his family would use the cave for cold storage‚ however‚ no significant exploration of the cave was undertaken for several decades‚ and the cave became "lost." Beginning in 1968‚ in an effort to map and document all of Georgia’s karst features‚ cavers "rediscovered" the cave. At that point‚ realizing that the cave entrance laid atop a thick‚ faulted

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    Plato’s essay Allegory of the Cave emphasizes the misconception behind acquiring knowledge through senses versus obtaining knowledge through an intellectual journey. While talking to Glaucon‚ Plato illustrates a cave full of chained prisoners‚ who are unable to move and just allowed to watch the wall of shadows in front of them‚ “the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images” (pg 304). These prisoners believe what they are perceiving and believe that this is the true knowledge

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    Allegory of the Cave” by Plato represents an extended metaphor that is to contrast the way in which we perceive and believe in what is reality. The thesis behind Plato’s allegory is the basic opinion that all we perceive are imperfect “reflections” of the ultimate forms‚ which subsequently represent truth and reality. The complex meanings that can be perceived from the “cave” can be seen in the beginning with the presence of the prisoners who are chained in the darkness of the cave. The prisoners

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