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    it; just like they didn’t need soldiers because she explains that “the joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy… it is fearful and it is trivial” (3). They could surely celebrate courage without soldiers. There is music and dancing and laughter. There is no guilt in Omelas. Although‚ they weren’t actually aloud to feel guilt in Omelas. In order to be happy and for them to not feel guilt‚ someone must suffer; there were terms to follow in order to have happiness. It actually

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    effective‚ making important points about the distortion of role models and body image in modern day society. When she describes the princesses‚ she uses metaphors and similes to draw attention to her body image. She says she thinking of a fairy tale where the princess is not “wasp-waisted” (6). This phrase is a hyperbole to describe the stereotypical Disney’s princesses’ figure of a slim waist and large bosom. She also says she’s thinking of a fairy tale where the beauty has “fingers as plump as sausage”

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    October 18‚ 2012 Music Perspective Two We know that dancing has been around just about as long that music has. There is no factual evidence of what types of particular dances there were in early ancient times‚ but only a guess. Dancing and music go hand and hand. Music is a crucial part of dance and always will be. Having taking dance lessons for twelve plus years‚ I have learned a lot about how music and dance affect each other. With dancing‚ you have to do more than just move your body into different

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    Pocahontas‚ Mulan‚ Tiana‚ Rapunzel‚ and Merida. While a single caucasian girl’s dream is blossoming‚ dreaming about the multiple princesses she could grow up to be‚ an african american girl’s is falling to pieces‚ with only a single idealized role model to chose from. While a child yearns for a prince to sweep

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    look up to her and want to copy whatever she does. When she is doing all the age-inappropriate things; they do not see what Miley is doing‚ instead they see what Hannah Montana is doing. Miley is not setting good examples. I THINK HER RAUNCHY DANCING‚ PROVOCATIVE CLOTHING AND PROMOTION OF BOY-GIRL RALATIONSHIPS IS HIGHLY INAPPROPRITE FOR HER TARGETED AUDIENCE. Miley Ray Cyrus is an American actress and pop singer. She became famous through her dual roles as Hannah Montana/Miley Stewart on Disney

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    SWAN LAKE ‘Swan Lake’ was re-choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov in1895‚ after initially being choreographed by Julius Reisinger in 1877. The musical score was composed by Pytor Tchaikovsky. ‘Swan Lake’ was created towards the end of the romantic period‚ so the culture and style of romanticism was prominent‚ with glimpses of the beginning of the classical era. Because of this‚ it contains elements of both eras. Some of the romantic characteristics include the pursuit of the unattainable

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    1. Having your daughter obsess over a disney princess is not a problem because it gives her someone to idolize. Princesses are seen as beautiful‚ compassionate‚ and intelligent. They represent idealistic qualities for little girls to have. For example‚ Princess Jasmine is an excellent role model for girls because she is independent and not afraid to voice her opinion. She repeatedly states how she does not need a man to to make her happy because she is capable of enjoying life and ruling her kingdom

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    magazine and author of “The Princess Paradox‚” James Poniewozik discusses how the idea of princesses can be powerful or harmful to the adolescent women of today. He emphasizes Hollywood’s version of Cinderella in real life portrayals and suggests that there are quite a few princesses in existence who are strong and self-determined and not weak and helpless. Like Poniewozik‚ Peggy Orenstein examines roles of princesses; however‚ she does so in a different light. Self-proclaimed feminist and author of

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    Johnson pg.1 Jekeithia K. Johnson Professor Capers College Comp II February 8‚ 2012 Snow White Gender Roles The story of Snow White begins as all other fairy tales. The lovely queen bares a beautiful little girl but doesn’t get the chance to see her grow up. Snow Whites father remarried a beautiful woman and she just knew she was the most beautiful woman ever. Snow White became older and her beauty began to show more and more as the days went by‚ more beauty then the

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    impressionable and the toys they play with and movies they watch as adolescents determine their ideas of their gender roles in society for the rest of their lives (Bispo and Schmid). Consequently‚ young women who model their lives from the Disney Princesses they played with when they were young could suffer from harmful effects. Bispo and Schmid state: “Because many Disney Princess films portray various stereotypical images‚ they can be detrimental to a young girl’s development of a positive self-image

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