Mirabal sisters

The Star of Kazan is a historical mystery book written by Eva Ibbotson. Taking place in Vienna from 1900 to the 1920, a girl was abandoned at birth in a church and found by a cook, named Ellie. Feeling sorry for the little baby, Ellie took the bundle home with her to her to the three professor's house (Emile, Gertitude and Julius), where she worked. Growing up with a cook and a maid (Sigrid), Annika was bound to be good with her hands. Annika had 2 best friends, Pauline, the granddaughter of a…

better than them, she was human unlike the others who were two faced. While the other two sisters got to go out and have fun Cinderella was left at home scrubbing floors and tending to laundry. Cinderellas fairy god mother showed up after several accounts of neglect, and boy oh boy are her sisters in for a surprise. Days came and went and nothing had quite changed yet. Until the day the two sisters went shopping for ballgowns for the princes…

gotta spice it up a little bit, right? First off there were 2 step sisters, their names were Gertrude and Edna, (I know, what horrible names) they had large noses, and they were a little bit on the chubbier side, and they both had hateful personalities. These sisters were so terribly mean and were also ugly that is was disgusting to even look at them. They made babies cry, and everybody was scared of them, but they also had their sister who was always somewhere around. She was beautiful, she…

In the movie Ever After: A Cinderella Story, Danielle, the main character, had the similar background as Cinderella. She was a kind, stubborn and brave girl. Her mother died after she was born and she was raised by her father. When Danielle was eight-years-old, her father remarried a widowed baroness who had two daughters. Danielle became the servant in her house after her father died. Danielle met Prince Henry in her manor because Prince Henry stole a horse. Henry got attracted from the…

came off as these perfect, magical, things that were iconic in the Disney version, but in the Original version, they were the exact opposite. The dress was torn, the prince was a phony, and the glass slipper was simply destroyed by the ugly step sisters, that would soon have a date with death. 'Off with her head!'The Prince roared back./ They chopped it off with one big whack./ This pleased the Prince. He smiled and said,/ 'She's prettier without her head' (Dahl). This excerpt from the poem…

“Never let anyone define who you are or decide who you should become” (Mbiaka). This quote by Edmond Mbiaka implies that no one can change a person for the better. It is who that person chooses to be, makes them unique. In our daily life, people put titles on others by the way they walk, dress, and communicate. This can be taught in a positive and negative way. As children grow older, they learn judgment through their parents. Even though parents explain to their children the importance of…

Subsequently after Cinderella’s story begin the first thing the story mentions was the death of Cinderella 's mother. After Cinderella 's mother died, her dad gets married to an evil stepmother, that has two daughters that are very spoiled by their mother. To emphasize on how evil and wicked they were the stepmother and stepsisters prevented any possibilities for Cinderella to live a happy life. Under those circumstance Cinderella goes through a lot of mental abuse that have no justification.…

My parents got divorced when I was 5 years old so the world of growing up with two Christmas’ and having to always let me friends know which house I was at when they were invited over, was normal to me. I had two blood sisters, three step sisters, a step brother, and a half-sister, and I was never ashamed to tell people that. My life felt normal to me. But what never felt “normal,” was my home. My two decently sized houses with lots of property. My two well decorated and well kept up homes. My…

Chapter 1: In the beginning of the chapter the managers of the Opera house are hosting their last performance before their retirement. After the performance, a group of young ballet dancers run into La Sorelli’s dressing room in fear that they had seen the Opera ghost. After some time a mother of one of the dancers told them that Joseph Buquet was found hanging by a rope underneath the stage. The managers blamed the missing body on the dancers, however Gaston Leroux suggests that this was done…

She is stubborn, prideful, and opinionated. She has been educated to read and write and is knowledgeable in the ways of society. What makes Elizabeth different from other women of that time and different from her own sisters is her enthusiastic wit and superb rationality. Because of this, she is her mother’s least favorite child and her father’s favorite child. Her sarcastic aphorisms also furthers Mr. Darcy’s admiration of Elizabeth as well as Lady Catherine’s disapproval…