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    ABC Fairy Tale: Tarzan As the baby cried‚ the lonely gorilla‚ Kala‚ came to the rescue. Behind the covers‚ a baby boy was discovered. Cradled in Kala’s arms‚ the baby fussed as the jaguar Sabor appeared. Desperate to get away‚ she jumped in the boat for safety; and‚ took her new discovery to her family. Even though Kerchak didn’t want Kala to keep the baby‚ she raised Tarzan as her own. For years‚ Tarzan tried to get Kerchak’s approval. “GRRRR”‚ growled Sabor as he came out of nowhere; Tarzan

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    are actually nice‚ but seem mean due to rumors other people have made up. We don’t ever think about what happens “behind the scenes” owing to the fact that society has already given us an image of what happens. Even Samara Green‚ the author of “Fairy Tales and Gender Stereotypes”‚ said “Maybe it’s because of the books and movies we grow up learning from and the characters we idolize.” There are numerous movies out there that show the dumb jock and mean girl stereotype such as “Mean Girls” and “Clueless

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    Kind actions to others can be rewarded‚ but selfish and unkind actions to others may be punished. People’s actions may come back at them in the future. The fairy tales used are “The Golden Goose” and “Cinderella”. All of the actions people perform to society and others have consequences. People’s actions describe how someone is as a person. Cinderella’s father married another woman who brought with 2 step daughters with her. “So they took off her fine clothes‚ and put upon her an od grey cloak

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    evolutionary psychologists will tell you that‚ statistically‚ step-parents are far more dangerous than birth moms and dads. It’s called the Cinderella effect — a nod to the unsavoury acknowledgment that the evil step-parent is not just a character in fairy tales. Step-parents beat children under five to death at per capita rates more than 120 times higher than do genetic parents‚ according to an analysis of Canadian homicide data from 1974 to 1990. And overall‚ step-parents abuse and kill kids at

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    Lene and Hans‚ who battles at the war’s front‚ and the decline of the marriage during the post-war period. Symbolically the fairy tale‚ called the "mad monstrosity in the middle of the film‚" by Sanders Brahms (Kaes‚ 149)‚ offers a diagetic forum for with which to deal with the crimes of Nazi Germany‚ as well a internally fictional parallel of Lene’s marriage. The fairy tale begins with a miller betrothing his daughter to the first suitable man who comes along. The man chosen happens to live deep

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    talking‚ fairy tales‚ according to Wikipedia‚ “…a fictional story that usually features folkloric characters (such as fairies‚ goblins‚ elves‚ trolls‚ witches‚ giants and talking animals) and enchantments‚ often involving a far-fetched sequence of events… ”‚ are common encountered joys for children in life and the target of fairy tales is mostly young children‚ but when these fairy tales are told to them‚ are the influences of these questioned? There are researches on the effects of fairy tales and there

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    Have you ever wondered why your parents read you fairy tales to you as a child? Fairy tales are most certainly suitable for children. My main reasons to support this argument are‚ they let a child’s imagination run free‚ they teach children life lessons in an entertaining way and they require the child to see beyond the story to the true meaning of the fairy tale. My first argument is that fairy tales let a child’s imagination run free. This is true‚ as young children need to be able to project

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    Many children grow up with fairy tales at their fingertips‚ and these fairy tales aid the development of the child. The lessons that children take away from these fairy tales consciously and subconsciously change the way that children view certain circumstances. In “Fairy Tales and a Dose of Reality‚” Catherine Orenstein states that the presence of fairy tales has resulted in an indistinct view of reality. Orenstein considers the television shows and movies that portray love at first sight and what

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    Fairy Tale Stereotypes in Anne Sexton’s “Cinderella”: Raggedly Ever After Anne Sexton’s “Cinderella” illuminates the unrealistic and prejudiced stereotypes in age-old fairy tales‚ stereotypes inadvertently etched on the minds of millions of children. Sexton uses a conversational tone that remains oblivious to the initial hardships of the “rags to riches” maiden to highlight the insignificance and passiveness of women and the influential and dominant character of men. She conveys to the world’s

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    functional grammar ; transitivity ; stylistics ; narrative ; gender +. Introduction This article explores the relationship between linguistic structures and socially constructed meaning in a narrative text. By employing Halliday’s transitivity framework‚ the article attempts to reveal the ideology and power relations that underpin a literary text from a semantico-grammatical point of view. This study seeks common ground where systemic grammar and narrative‚ which have long been considered separate

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