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    PAPER ON SNOW WHITE Snow White has been a classic fairytale told throughout the decades since it was written. The tale has many interpretations‚ one of them is the adaptation by Disney‚ that converts the fairytale into a children’s movie. The original Snow White tale‚ falls under the category “Other Tales of the Supernatural” in Tales of Magic in the Aarne–Thompson and Uther tale type index (ATU). This is because Snow White revolves around how a talking magical mirror influence its possessor (the

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    Folklore

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    What is folklore? What is folklore? Folklore (or lore) consists of legends‚ music‚ oral history‚ proverbs‚ jokes‚ popular beliefs‚ fairy tales‚ stories‚ tall tales‚ and customs that are the traditions of a culture‚ subculture‚ or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called folkloristic‚ and people who study folklore are sometimes referred to as "folklorists". Folklore can

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    Particularly‚ fairy tales are usually the most common story told to young children‚ and it exposes them to our society’s values. The story Goldilocks and the Three Bears‚ we learn not use other people materialistic objects that does not belong to us. What we don’t know that most of the stories we heard came back from many generations before we were born. That usually every century has their new version of that fairy tale. Cinderella is clearly the most popular‚ and the old fairy tale that hasn’t been

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    to it at some points or when confronted with things we frequently decide to ignore in the world: the evil some human beings are capable of possessing. Chopin introduces the story with pleasant images and events; she enchants the reader with fairy tales. A woman who cannot have children is blessed with the most "beautiful and gentle‚ affectionate and sincere" (31) of all girls‚ whom she believes "had been sent to her by a beneficent Providence to be the child of her affection" (31). A real Cinderella

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    Form 2 Test Paper

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    M. A. Vassalli Junior Lyceum Half-Yearly Examination 2006/2007 Form 2 English Language Time: 2 hours Name: __________________________________ Class: __________ Mark: A. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the Present Simple or the Present Continuous: Example: Steve always rides (to ride) his bike in the afternoon. 1. Andy sometimes ______________ (to read) a comic. 2. I ________________ (to phone) my friend at the moment. 3. Listen! Sandy _________________ (to sing) in the bathroom

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    Pan's Labyrinth Analysis

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    The Reality of Fantasy in the World of Ofelia In the movie Pan’s Labyrinth a little girl named Ofelia lives through a war but it’s not just a war to her because she’s experiencing things that other people might consider to be a complete fantasy. She talks to a monster like creature that just seems to be taking advantage of her throughout the whole movie and claims to be helping her. This creature gives Ofelia tasks and if she completes them she would become a princess elsewhere. In the end it

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    My Reading Narrative

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    course ware ‚ but my friend choose to write his experience how good a movie was in many pages and he good the highest mark for the topic. Even though my treated the course material just for exam purpose‚ but I do had fascination in reading comic and fairy tale stories‚ some of them were in English but many of the books were in my native language in Tamil. When I moved from college and moved to my career most of the books were technical related computer language books‚ most of the time I would just look

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    The fairy tale text of the Three Little Pigs is adapted to an animated version of the Three Little Pigs. The main plot difference between the source text and the adaptation is the interaction between the pigs and the wolf. In the text version‚ the wolf ate up the first and second pigs. For the third pig‚ wolf makes three suggestions and makes a promise with the third pig to meet at the location he picks. However‚ in the animated version‚ the wolf does not eat up the first and second pigs. First and

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    consisted of brushing his teeth big green teeth with slug juice‚ and eating human eyeballs as a snack. The swamp was his home and he wanted no one to bother him so he kept signs saying ‘keep out’ which indicated that he liked to be alone. One day many fairy tale creatures invade his swamp because of Lord Farquaad. Shrek is forced to visit Lord Farquaad along with a donkey to ask for his swamp back‚ instead of Lord Farquaad simply giving the property back a quest was given to Shrek. The quest was for Shrek

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    Snow White Gender Analysis

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    Once again‚ it is up to her fairy godmother and the prince to rescue her from a life of cruelty. Marriage is her ultimate goal‚ as it is seemingly her only chance at escape. The movie revolves around beauty and impressing others. Cinderella could have easily gone to the ball in her

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