Giambattista della Porta

Whoosh! It's snowing outside! Don't you just love snow! But, did you know that there is more to these little specks of white. Although, snowflakes are very mysterious things. They don't come very often. Snowflakes are very unique because they are all different shapes and sizes, they are mistaken to be built with more than six sides, and there are many myths about them. First of all, snowflakes can be very wondrous. According to " Snow Day!" no two snowflakes are alike. Each one has its…

Set in 1870, the novel is about the lives of the southern Blackfeet people. The main character, White Man's Dog, joins his friend Fast Horse in a night-time raid against the Crow. White Man's Dog is portrayed as weak and powerless. Because of that, he visits the medicine man. Yellow Kidney appoints White Man's Dog to lead the young warriors in stealing a herd of horses. White Man's Dog is first wary, but he sings his warrior songs to gain courage. As they drive the horses away from the village,…

Cinderella As children and young adults, we read stories that fascinated us for the pleasure of entertainment. Many of these stories or short tales have been converted into different versions throughout the world to accommodate a variety of cultures. Cinderella is an example of a story that has been altered into different versions yet consists of similar plots. In the different versions of Cinderella, the characters stay with the same personalities and the same concept of trying a slipper on to…

Cinderella There may be hundreds of Cinderella stories but these three are my favorite Algonquin, Ascghenputtle, and Yeh-Shen. All these stories are very similar like all have a Cinderella characters and magic, they are also very old like Yeh-Shen is over 1,000 years old. Cinderella was treated very poorly because she had to stay home and clean up the other people’s mess. But of course Cinderella always gets the prince and they live happily ever after. All these stories have a different view…

The Grimm Brother’s fairy tales are one of the few pieces of craftful literature that continues to prevail from the time they were written to today, with the utmost popularity. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm have written the majority of fairy tales and princess stories that every generation since the 1800s have embedded in our childhoods, from Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Cinderella, and even Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. The modern Disney classic Snow White was originally written by the Grimm…

It is now a known fact that throughout time women have been represented in a sort of negative light. Much of the literature of the past has given women a minimal role. It was not until around the turn of the twentieth century that the role of women has evolved. This is when women characters started becoming more powerful as they were now being seen as the hero. The literary images of women have changed dramatically over centuries to reach where they currently are. One story that can provide a…

“Cinderella” and “Rapunzel” are two of the most popular fairy tales that are being told to children even today. Disney has made their own movie version of Rapunzel called Tangled, which is what I will be using for this paper. In this paper, I will be analyzing the lessons of feminism that are taught by these two fairy tales but are overlooked when we hear them as children. To be feminist is to support the idea “that women are and should be treated as potential intellectual equals and social…

Two of the easiest poems in this collection to find the feminist message in are “Cinderella” and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Sexton takes these two timeless tales and picks out the ways in which they cause readers to condescend women. She does this deftly and magically in these poems and provokes deep thoughts on the ways women are portrayed in the original tales. Sexton does her best to take the focus of her poem “Cinderella” off of how ugly the step-sisters and move it to how black…

Fairy tales are a work of fiction and children are fully aware of that. Taking the fairy tales away from the pre-school and kindergarten students would be wrong because it takes away their chance of developing creative minds and becoming creative thinkers. Children have grown up on these stories for age and should continue to grow up on them because the stories teach children life lessons. (Orde) Fairytales can teach children lessons like manors, helping people, and being courageous in a fun and…

Cinderella” Comparison: The Grimm’s Brothers vs Walt Disney “Cinderella” is a fairy tale from the Grimm brothers with a different twist that of the Disney version. Although there are many different versions in every culture, the Grimm brothers Germany version has some horrific events that occur. The Grimm’s fairytales are from many years ago that were meant to entertain adults, and they all have hidden messages that are not evident. In the Disney version “Cinderella” is a rags to riches fairy…