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    There are many different versions of the Cinderella tale‚ but in all of them‚ there is a prince who takes the Cinderella away with him‚ and they live happily forever. “Aschenputtel” is a German folktale written by the Grimm brothers‚ and “Yeh-Shen” is the Chinese version written by Ai-Ling Louie. They are both stories about two young beautiful maidens who are treated badly by their stepmother and stepsisters. The story’s message is to teach people that goodness is always rewarded in the end. In

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    Cultural Appropriation

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    Have you ever heard of cultural appropriation? The bottom line is it’s a modern euphemism for theft of different elements from one culture into another. I appreciate that cultural appropriation can be a very challenging and confusing issue for some to understand but one simple illustration is the adoption of rap music into white culture in the late 1900’s. Rap music initially emerged as a result of the civil rights movement in America essentially as a way to bring attention to important social issues

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    Cinderella Equals Sarcasm In the poem “Cinderella‚” Anne Sexton uses sarcasm to say that nobody ever ends up being happy and never has that fairy tale ending that they all want. Sexton wants to show how society is under an illusion that all this is real. She is also saying people cannot just become happy despite their good fortune. Sexton uses sarcasm as a way to entertain and portray her points that she is trying to make. At the beginning of the poem she gives examples of many success stories

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    CINDERELLA

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    surface Conte is about Cinderella showing readers a glimpse of her life after her childhood tale ends. Beneath the surface the poem addresses the central question; “the poem turns out to be a letter‚ to who do you think it was written?” The poem Conte is written for readers who are basically in the same situation and the ways to overcome it. This question can also be answered in setting‚ tone‚ and characters. The setting of Conte is in 1881 at a palace possibly. Cinderella feels trapped in her distress;

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    had one either and she changed my whole damn life around. So let me start from the beginning‚ not the very beginning though because I have got other goddam things to do in my day besides tell a story. Once upon a time‚ there once was a girl named Cinderella and at least that’s what they called me. I had the blondest goddam hair you have ever seen and I lived with two stepsisters and my stepmother. I was their goddam maid all of the time and waited upon their every need and ate the crappiest food scraps

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    work‚ and said the them‚ "Since I am about making a journey‚ what do you want me to bring you when I return?" One asked for a handsome dress; the other‚ a fine hat and a beautiful shawl. He said to the youngest‚ "And you‚ Cinderella‚ what do you want?" They called her Cinderella because she always sat in the chimney corner. "You must buy me a little bird Verdeliò." "The simpleton! She does not know what to do with the bird! Instead of ordering a handsome dress‚ a fine shawl‚ she takes a bird. Who

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    Cultural appropriation is a toxin to ethnic communities around and throughout the world. Cultural appropriation has come to the forefront of modern consciousness in recent years‚ mostly because of the age we live in where we are all connected to what’s happening at all times. What is cultural appropriation? Cultural appropriation is the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of another culture‚ this subsequently robs a cultural group of it’s cultural identity and pride and mocks it

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    Art Appropriation Essay

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    Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts . In the visual arts‚ to appropriate means to properly adopt‚ borrow‚ recycle or sample aspects of human-made visual culture. Notable in this respect are the Readymades of Marcel Duchamp. Inherent in our understanding of appropriation is the concept that the new work recontextualizes whatever it borrows

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    Amandla Stenberg‚ one of TIME’s most influential teen said “Appropriation occurs when a style leads to racist generalizations or stereotypes where it originated‚ but is deemed as high fashion‚ cool‚ or funny when the privilege take it for themselves”. Some people may confuse it with culture appreciation and say appropriating another culture is not a social issue‚ but it is a social issue. Culture appropriation is an issue because it strips culture of their identity‚ some celebrities have been appropriating

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    an appropriation encourage readers to re-examine the original text. This is evident in the novel Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf‚ and the appropriation The Hours by Michael Cunningham. When someone reads The Hours they recognise the universality of the themes explored in the novel‚ which persuades them to return to the original work in order to discover how the same themes have been examined in a different context. Likewise‚ a desire to better understand the use of symbols in the appropriation provokes

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