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    and with an "eloquent‚ defiant‚ and in some passages a despairing defense of continental independence..." He also uses dramatic language‚ with rich imagery and metaphors‚ to personify the enemy‚ and provoke hopefulness in the revolution. "That wicked stepmother is the source of all our suffering". That’s a reference to Spain. “The chains have been broken‚ we’ve been liberated‚ and now our enemies want to make us slaves"(Bolivar). "The hatred we feel for the Peninsula is greater than the sea separating

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    Archetype In Literature

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    the floor as if dead— but they quickly noticed that she was laced up too tight and cut the lace... The disguised wicked queen stuck the poisoned comb into the girl’s lovely black hair and again Snow White fell to the floor as if dead—the dwarfs found the poisonous comb‚ pulled it out and saved the girl...”(Buchholtz) The seven dwarfs saved Snow White’s life not once but twice. The wicked Queen tries to kill Snow White with a poisoned comb and laced up‚ but the dwarfs noticed the laced and the poisoned

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    The image of the wicked Queen (initially conceived as a raven-haired glamour girl‚ and the epitome of late-1930’s sophistication) who drinks an aging potion and then shrivels‚ sprouting warts and claws‚ turning before our eyes from a sexy‚ voluptuous creature into a frightening

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    To Kill a Mockingbird

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    Jada Bolden March 25‚ 2013 3a-English9 To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is more than just killing a mockingbird. “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is a story about the struggle of one man’s effort to combat racism in the South during the Jim Crow Era. This book is also about Scout’s maturation. Scout is a tomboy who represents efforts to alter her behavior in order to make her more socially accepted. An archetype is an original pattern or model from which all things of the same

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    to a brothel‚ Sayuri goes to train as a geisha. As an adult‚ she is refined‚ educated‚ and beautiful. She becomes‚ in the context of her world‚ a sort of princess after overcoming her humble beginnings. Sayuri’s fairy tale is complete with a wicked stepmother (Granny)‚ a conniving nemesis (Hatsumomo)‚ a Prince Charming to rescue her at the end (the Chairman)‚ and a castle (the Waldorf Towers in New York

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    Summary of Snow White

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    plays in the background‚ a beautifully decorated storybook opens (the traditional opening for this kind of film) to a prologue of the tale: (The First Page:) Once upon a time there lived a lovely little Princess named Snow White. Her vain and wicked Stepmother the Queen feared that some day‚ Snow White’s beauty would surpass her own. So she dressed the little Princess in rags and forced her to work as a Scullery Maid. Each day the vain Queen consulted her Magic Mirror‚ ’Magic Mirror on the Wall

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    vigorously protested‚ “then we will go to our work and they will never find their way home again. Gretel wept bitterly when she had heard what her stepmother was about to do. Hansel said gently trying to comfort his sister‚ “It is not all over with us. Do be quiet Gretel‚ and do not fret. I will manage something.” When

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    INNER BEAUTY SPEECH

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    possess beauty so divine that can melt the hearts of charming princes and gruff miners alike. To be able to tame temperamental beasts‚ attract timid forest creatures with your melodious voice and to know that‚ in the end-despite the fact that your wicked stepmother mistreats you and an evil queen is seeking you heart‚ someday your prince will come. What about this image of the ideal woman that has been presented to the world through the eyes of Disney? Is it mere animation‚ or does it ill prepares females

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    does not love. He did not agree with the prevailing attitude of the time that a husband had the right to his wife’s body. Irene was only twenty-two at her marriage‚ the daughter of a poor widowed professor‚ and she was quite incompatible with her stepmother. She did not love Soames‚ but yielded to his persistent blandishments partly out of a need for security. Now Soames is sexually frustrated by his wife’s coldness. He finds he cannot fully “possess” her. As if to place her like a jewel in a superbly

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    Jack And The Bull Theme

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    variations on the initial circumstances which can indicate the origin or the story. In some versions‚ Jack is hired help on a rich man’s farm. In other accounts he is working on his father’s farm. In all of the stories‚ his adversary is the wife or his stepmother who despises him. She gives him meager amounts of food until Jack is wasting away and realizes he will soon starve. While sitting in the pasture crying about his state in life‚ and his imminent starvation‚ a bull comes over and inquiries about

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