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    that are striking. For example, both are obsessed with beauty and are narcissists, and yet they express themselves quite differently and have a distinct impact on society. The fairy tale character and the modern celebrity are both obsessed with beauty and the concept of being beautiful. The Grimm brothers wrote this tale…

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    Disney's Stereotypes

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    Even though I did realize Disney tends to be sexist, and portrays females as being seductive, and males as being strong, the first video allows me to go deeper into this topic. Disney caricatures the norms, and values of the society it lives in, and is slowly changing while selling them to children. The latter is usually seen as a vulnerable, and an easily influenced target, who seems easier to manipulate for marketing purposes. Conforming to Dr. Justin Lewis, what makes this corporation so…

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    One controversial issue that takes place near the end of the story, one I did not want to mention in the summary, so I would not give too much of the book away. But obviously that isn't going to happen, so I will tell you anyways. When they first travel to the end of the rainbow to capture the fairy, the bring them back to a hidden cave so they can take shelter until L.E.P.R.U comes after Artemis and Butler. One the other side Holy Shorts the female fairy leader of the L.E.P.R.U gets a small…

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    After the premiere of Alexander Hall’s latest film Little Miss Marker on Friday, June 1st, people across the nation are lining up their local theaters to see the rising young star, Shirley Temple. The movie is currently the Paramount’s biggest movie. Hall brilliantly represents Damon Runyon’s story, which is filled with comedy, action, and romance. The film tells the story of “Marky”(Shirley Temple) and Sorrowful Jones. (Adolphe Menjou) Marky is originally left in the care of Sorrowful as…

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    "Riley, I swear on everything holy in this god damn world, if we don't leave this party in thirty minutes, I will cut the face off of beary the bear bear!" Maya rants, frustrated that her overly sociable friend dragged her to Charlie Gardner’s Halloween party, which Riley described as, “what will be the most amazing wingding since Charlie Gardner’s Christmas shindig,” which of course made Maya give Riley a stern talk about her avoidance of the word party while instead using it’s many synonyms.…

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    Richard Dawkins is trying to argue that reality can be proven by scientific evidence and magic is used when we do not know why something happen the way they do. We classify something as real when proven by our five senses. However, “we are able to develop new technology and extend the reach of our senses. For example, a microscope to prove that bacteria does exist”. Although, we cannot see microbes with our naked eyes we can use an instrument to see it. Dawkins only believes in poetic magic,…

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    Little red cap is the original story and hoodwinked is the fractured story. What make hoodwinked a fairy tale is that it is linked with little red cap and is not the same but the main features are changed for example granny in hoodwinked is active and all about living life and in the little red cap she is sick in bed. Some of the massive differences is that the recipes are being stolen, that red is a bit mouthy, no one dies in hoodwinked. Some of the things that are similar is that there is a…

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    In the graphic memoir Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi uses various literary and graphic elements to convey the dream-like qualities of the panel on page seventy seven. The panel shows the Satrapi family longing for happiness, the author shows this by using different embodies such as a contrast between black and white throughout the picture and diction. On the panel, the people and the places they're going, Spain and Rome, are white. In this case, the white symbolizes their feelings of safety and…

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    Women have been oppressed from their emotional and sexual freedom since the beginnings of time. Margaret Atwood was able to write a novel where she is showing to her audience the oppressive and rigid hierarchy of Gilead which is full of Orthodox traditions, making it a symbolism from the reality where we have been living forever. In Gilead there’s only one power, the power of repression and women have no hope that there is an opponent power that can save them from misery. Even though nowadays…

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    When examining "Snow White" from an Archetypal perspective, it becomes clear that this fairytale symbolizes curiosity, death, and freedom. These main topics are specifically shown through the use of animals. When analyzing the symbols, many come into affect. The three animals that visited Snow White’s coffin could represent many different things. The order that the animals arrived in is the base of the pattern for this fairytale. When the owl visits, it could symbolize the need for knowledge…

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