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    How does Anne Sexton presents herself in ‘The Black Art’ and ‘Her Kind’? Anne Sexton’s poem ‘The Black Art’ is often seen a metaphor for her poetry‚ this poem shows how she presents herself to society and how she perceives herself as an individual. This poem is often called highly confessional‚ however Sexton argues against the label of ‘confessional poet’‚ it also suggests her own feelings towards the stereotyping of people‚ and women in particular. ‘As if cycles and children and islands

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    Cinderella is a primary example of the Graves/Jung stages of characterization. Rather than exclusively focusing on one interpretation of Cinderella‚ it is best to focus on two different interpretations. As we learned throughout the semester‚ the idea or goal behind the fairytales and folklores vary tremendously based on timeframe. For instance‚ the Grimm version ofCinderella would vary from the Walt Disney version of Cinderella. The differing goals of fairytales from past to present are emphasized

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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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    “Walt Disney’s Cinderella” adapted by Campbell Grant is the retelling of a familiar fairytale. In the fairytale‚ Cinderella is a plain servant for her stepmother and two stepsisters. With the help of a fairy godmother and some mice‚ she transforms into a beautiful princess who captures the heart of a young handsome prince. Then when the clock turns midnight‚ she has to return home and she loses her glass slipper. After the ball‚ the prince then goes to find the owner of the slipper‚ which belongs

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    Discussion Board #3- Question 2 Cinderella is one of the most popular fairy tales from around the world and there are hundreds of different versions of the tale. “Cinderella: or The Glass Slipper‚” by Charles Perrault was first published in 1697 ‚also known as the Victorian Time‚ “Aschenputtel‚” by the brothers Grimm was published in the 19th century. Both versions of the tale have the same theme of “happily ever after”‚ but the two authors use different methods to portrait that theme. Disney’s

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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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    Savannah Hotaling #0268904 LIB.112.X Expository Writing II Mikal Gaines 29 April 2015 Is Cinderella a real happy ever after? In May of 1949‚ poet Olga Broumas was born in Ermoupoli‚ Greece and went on to becoming an honors and award winning poet and professor. After immigrating to the United States in 1967‚ Broumas received a Fullbright fellowship to study and earn her Bachelors from the University of Pennsylvania in architecture. Broumas later went on to earn her Master’s degree in creative writing

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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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    Team 1 1. ‘full of foreboding’ Alliterated phrase emphasizes Yen Mah’s sense of anticipation thus arousing melancholy as we’ve already been informed of her terrible life but sympathise with her for what’s about to happen. 2. ‘my heart was full of dread’ Repeated metaphor (there are three figures of speech about her ’heart’) adds tension and makes us see Yen Mah as genuine; ’full of dread’ and ’gave a giant lurch’ implies how intimidating the father is. Learning of this estrangement‚ we feel

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    From generation to generation stories are always changing. Fairy tales like Cinderella go from mean step sisters to nice sisters‚ fairy god mother to a tree. After reading 5 different versions of Cinderella I had to choose which I would decide to read‚ above the others to my favorite child. After difficult thinking I have chosen the Walt Disney’s version of Cinderella for many great reasons. I have chosen the Walt Disney’s version because I feel it is the most fitting for children over all the others

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