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    a Chinese story and was written by Ai-Ling Louie‚ it was originally published in 1982‚ and is over 1000 years before the first European Cinderella story appeared. The third story is about ‘’A Young Girl Named Oochigeaskw ‘’. It’s a Native American tale and was written by Rafe Martin‚ and was

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    (2011‚ January 21). The Fairy Tale Struggles to Live Happily Ever After. Retrieved October 1‚ 2013‚ from National Public Radio: http://www.npr.org/2011/01/21/132705579/the-fairy-tale-struggles-to-live-happily-ever-after Hearne‚ B. (1997). Disney Revisited‚ or Jiminy Cricket‚ It’s musty down here! . Horn Book. Friedmeyer‚ W. (2003‚ May 19). The Disneyfication

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    the flowers by their names and the birds by their singing? How easy it is to make friends with them and with everything in nature‚ if you go to them affectionately and with friendship. You must have read many fairy tales and stories of long ago. But the world itself is the greatest fairy tale and story of adventure that was ever written. Only we must have eyes to see and ears to hear and a mind that opens out to the life and beauty of the world.   Grown-ups have a

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    James Poniewozik concentrates on how the classic fairytale of Cinderella has been reinvented multiple times to correspond with the viewpoints of feminist authors. Poniewozik claims in his article "The Princess Paradox" that "girls choosing the fairy-tale ending is not such a bad thing" (667). However Peggy Orenstein‚ a contributing writer for The New York Times‚ would completely disagree with that statement. Orenstein stresses in her article Cinderella and Princess Culture that the "princess craze"

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    Ofelia about what her mother once told her‚ fauns cannot be trusted. Ofelia‚ and her pregnant mother Carmen‚ are traveling to the mill to greet Captain Vidal; he is Carmen’s second husband. Ofelia carries multiple books with her about faeries and fairy-tales. During the drive‚ Carmen suddenly feels very sick from

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    Fairytales are probably the most popular mean of entertainment not only for children but also for grown ups no matter which form they may take on: a story read or told by the parents‚ a play or an animated film. People rarely consider that while enjoying tales they contribute to the preservation of folklore‚ which also ‘includes all the traditional forms of expression that circulate without the aid of books – the art‚ speech‚ and literature created through personal interaction rather that through the printed

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    kids‚ Stokes can relate to boys and girls alike. He has a way of seeing what is best for his son and daughter. Would he want his son watching movies about men bashing on women? Would he want his daughter to think being pampered by a man is the only fairy tale life style? Even though Poniewozik as only raised a girl‚ she is an expert in the female gender. She has seen first-hand how her daughter can be treated girly/princess-y by all her peers. This gives the idea that kids of different genders can be

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    Classic “Cupid and Psyche" and "Beauty and the Beast" are stories about two beautiful girls with their animal lovers. There are similar motifs that show a close comparison between the two. "Cupid and Psyche" is an old Greek love tale‚ while "Beauty and the Beast" is a Disney tale with a moral story. The female hero in both stories is Psyche and Beauty. They suffer the wrath by no fault but their own. In Cupid and Psyche‚ the goddess Venus is jealous of the mortal Psyche’s beauty‚ and essentially dooms

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    more interesting. The movie Sydney White (2007) is a modern take on Snow White about how a girl survives in a strange world called college. There are similarities and many differences when it comes to the beginning‚ middle‚ and end of these two fairy tales. In the beginning of Snow White‚ a mother wants to bare a daughter to complete her life with a face as white as snow and hair as dark as ebony‚ but when she got her wish she died suddenly after giving birth. Her husband was then forced to marry

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    Christian Erazo Scandinavian R5B Prompt 1 Final Draft In Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth‚ nature has the power of determining the course of the movie’s storyline by actively participating in the action. During the scene where Captain Vidal’s forces encounter the rebels in the forest‚ there is a face off which results in a big blood bath for the Spanish Maquis. The irony in this situation rises from the rebels believing that the forest where they hide will be a secure place to hide from

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