Endurance riding

sound, look, and even act different from one another. These “same” boys, both end up telling a different story. Here and there, and very seldom in life, I know I’ve read different versions of Little Red Riding Hood. We were acquaintances, and it always seemed like the same story being told. Red Riding Hood walked through the forest to grandma’s house, and got eaten by the…

Traditionally, the three little pig is a folk tale story that has many different sides too it. This story takes a serious turn too it that no one expected. Instead of your normal tall tale, the pig in this version, eats the wolf for dinner. Many sides of this story can conclude an overall theme that the third pig was the smartest. The third pig is the most admirable for several main reasons. He makes his house out of bricks, he does his daily tasks independently without running into the wolf,…

The purpose of this experiment was to determine the most effective position and mass of a wolf tone eliminator for effectively suppressing the wolf so that it was undetectable to the human ear and, hopefully, completely suppressed. All correctly-proportioned and good quality violoncellos create an unusual phenomenon called a wolf tone when a certain pitch on the instrument is played, and the pitch at which the wolf occurs differs between instruments. On a well-crafted violoncello, this tone…

cautionary tale about the dangers of making quick assumptions. Both, the film and the tale, have characters that are making judgment without proof. However, they also have many differences. First, they serve a different audience and purpose. “Little Red Riding Hood” by Charles Perrault published in 1697 is a cautionary tale about the dangers of the unknown. The main character is a young country girl who is presented with innocence and naivety. She is being seduced by the wolf, which presents…

In Primary school, when my class read Cinderella together, for the subsequent lunchtimes my friends and I would act out the story and tell others how we imaged our own romantic adventures to play out. Each adding in specifics to make ours unique, we liked to thing we were special in our so diverse stories, but really, our fantasies were all the same. All had the captivating Byronic hero, the obstacle, the proposal, the ball, and of course the happily ever after. These are the conventions of…

I remember being in school and reading fairy tales, not thinking anything about them. I also, remember watching the more kid-friendly versions of fairy tales in Disney movies and again not thinking anything of it. Repeating these actions as an adult though has changed my perspective drastically. Why are children reading and/or watching these tales? Fairy tales are often seen as instruction manuals for children, especially when referring to the old school fairy tales, for an example any Grimm…

The lesson Little Red Riding Hood learned was to never trust a wolf because they are sly and clever. She let herself get tricked once and that resulted in getting herself and her grandma eaten by the cunning wolf. When the second time the wolf tried to trick her, she knew the tricks because of her previous experience and therefore did not let herself go astray. The first time Little Red Riding Hood was going to visit her grandmother she lets herself get tricked by the sly wolf. The wolf turns…

“The Celery Stalks at Midnight” This adventure tells about three animals and Bunnicula, the infamous vampire bunny. Included is the family the animals live with whom they are trying to protect. With the vanishing of Bunnicula, the search begins, they want to find him before he runs out of vegetables and turns his fangs on the family. The adventure leads them to the dump and a truck ride where they find white veggies indicating Bunnicula has attacked and stab them with toothpicks, however when…

Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki, or Wolf Children in english, is a Japanese animation film created by Studio Chizu and Madhouse. Mamoru Hosoda directed this film, coming from a major success and widely beloved movie that was The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Wolf Children presents the viewer a heart warming tale of a single mother and her journey to raise her children. Meant for a family and general audience, Wolf Children definitely delivers a film for the average movie watcher: an accessible…

The red dress in the short story “A Red Dress-1946” by Alice Munro, symbolizes the narrator’s liminal space amidst adulthood and childhood. Her longing to transition forth adulthood is conveyed by the description of the tight red dress’s ability to accentuate her breasts, thus maturing her image. Munro writes, “The red velvet dress…[was] very tight in the midriff. I saw how my breasts, in their new brassiere, jutted out surprisingly, with mature authority.” The narrator’s new dress represents a…