Aurora

An aurora is an electromagnetic phenomenon, which results in a luminous colour display seen in the night sky. These light shows can be viewed in winter months of the polar regions of the northern hemisphere, referred to as Photographer: Larry Gerbrandt aurora borealis, as well as the southern hemisphere, referred to as aurora australis (46 Lerner and Lerner). They appear many different shapes, such as patches of light, rays, arcs, or streamers across the sky. Most commonly, they take the form of curtains of bright colours, such as red, green, blue, and violet (The Columbia Encyclopedia). In Latin, aurora translates to mean ‘dawn’, like the Greek goddess of the same name. Borealis translates to mean ‘north’ or ‘northern wind’, while australis…

across the night sky – an unexplained phenomenon at the time (Fara 1996). This was the first time English astronomer Edmund Halley witnessed this display. This experience led him to publish the first detailed description of what is now commonly known as the “aurora” (P. Brekke and Broms 2013; Bone 2007) (include pic of his drawings). The theories that he proposed led to the birth of modern science and to a certain extent shaped our current understanding of the nature of aurorae, how they form,…

Over time, it has been evident that Disney has promoted a different message within their princess movies, which is a shift in rhetoric. At first, the princess movies displayed unrealistic goals for young girls and now, there is a paradigm of different princesses that set an example for those who have goals and wish to achieve them. From a classical princess such as Aurora to a modern one such as Elsa, the messages are displayed in the princesses goals and obstacles. Prior to Frozen and other…

Sleeping Beauty is an old tale of good and evil in which an evil, ugly witch called Maleficent curses a beautiful princess into a deep sleep and she can only be awoken by true love’s kiss. This story is from Maleficent’s perspective and challenges the idea that everything is “black and white” (good and evil). It shows that individuals make mistakes and perspective plays a large part on interpretation. The film also challenges what true love is when Aurora wakes from Maleficent’s kiss and not…

Aurora’s coronation has begun, and Knotgrass, Flittle, and Thistlewit proceed to bestow magical gifts on the newly crowned princess Aurora. Suddenly, a dark green, enchanted mist appears sweeping and devouring any civilian in its path. Striking out the green shadow, maleficent makes a grand entrance, and advances to give Aurora a magical gift as well. As Maleficent begins reciting her spell, she glances over at King Stephan with disgust and hatred. This provokes Maleficent to take away…

being sold I came to the conclusion that the performance of The Sleeping Beauty was huge. Therefore, I expected the performance to be enthusiastic, entertaining and worth-watching. Sleeping Beauty is about a Princess named Aurora. During Princess Aurora’s christening, she is cursed by an evil fairy named Carabosse. The day of Princess Aurora’s sixteenth birthday, she pricked her finger with a corsage that was given to her by Carabosse. For the next 100 years, Aurora and her kingdom would fall…

When the northern lights come out, it sometimes appears as if the sky is on fire. There is an eerie connection between the Sun and our planet’s atmosphere that can sometimes cause the sky to unexpectedly glow with shades of red, yellow, purple and green; an atmospheric phenomenon called the northern lights or Aurora Borealis. The Sun is constantly spraying the solar system with millions of tons of charged particles each minute. The stream of charged particles from the Sun, or solar wind,…

When Maleficent cursed Baby Aurora, she permitted an escape, not a big one, but, an escape. She said that only true love’s first kiss can break the spell. And it does. In the film, after Aurora has pricked her finger on the spindle and gone into a “death-like sleep,” Maleficent gives Aurora a kiss, the first one ever, and she awakes from her sleep. All of the other fairies tried smothering her with kisses. one’s from themselves, her father, her supposed lover; however, nothing works.…

undermine her father’s authority by informing her father, “I’m 16 years old. I’m not a child anymore.” (Parenthetical) This statement alludes children to believe that they no longer need to listen to their parents when they are of the age of sixteen and that going into a treacherous situation is alright. Another princess that illustrates this flaw is Cinderella. The Disney princess is told to do house chores, but, rather, decides to go to a ball that she is forbidden to go to. Even though…

Feminism during the Victorian Era was something many poets had begun to write about. In several poems during this time, this idea of feminism was greatly expressed. Essentially, “Aurora Leigh” written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning tell us a young lady’s feelings on the idea of love and how art accommodates the idea as she tries to understand her own circumstances. In regards to love and art, she feels that the two is strongly connected. It was understood that the Aurora felt that women posses a…