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    Thrashing her commands like paper airplanes and snatching the wand from the fairy godmother to wish the worst for Cinderella, the evil stepmother has the attitude of your stereotypical teenager, but holds the power to control like a mother. Her selfish desires to want her real daughter to marry into the throne and make certain Cinderella’s dreams to find her true love are shattered, ruled over her to make her one of Disney’s most egotistical characters ever created. Likewise, the pig Squealer…

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    Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl named Cinderella who lived with her wicked stepmother and two cruel stepsisters. Jealous of Cinderella’s beauty, they forced her to dress in rags and put her in charge of all the housework. She suffers silently until one night her fairy godmother helps her get to the royal ball. When at the ball, the prince falls in love with her and she has the opportunity to live “happily ever after.” At least that’s the version most young girls have been told.…

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    Disney’s version made Cinderella’s principal crisis as making it to the ball. An additional difference between the two films is that the original version by Grimm’s ending included the step sisters going blind due to the birds pecking out their eyes. Disney’s very popular version displayed the step sisters as ugly. The third difference is the…

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    and saint hood. Mother Teresa wanted to be a Missionary and help the poor. She discovered her calling at the age of 12. Mother Teresa took her vows and becomes a nun back in May 24, 1931 in Dublin Ireland. Mother Teresa left to India as a Loreto Sister teaching young girls in the convent. Mother Teresa observed the reality of the neglected people in the streets. The violence from that time caused many to be out in the streets without food and shelter. Mother Teresa noticed a family just outside…

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    For the first seven years of my character 's life, he was raised by his mother above the dry cleaners where she was employed. For entertainment, they would play Find the Truth. In Find the Truth, you would have to interrogate the customer to find out what happened to the item that needs to be cleaned or repaired. That 's when he learned that most people fear living with the fallout of their actions more than anything else. When he was seven, his mother married a widowed parole office. His new…

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    The fact that the sisters enforce a strict degree of routine makes it so that they are able to encourage normalization amongst the girls. The sisters in the film act as the “technicians of behaviour; engineers of conduct, orthopaedists of individuality” (Foucault, 1977, p. 294). What this means is that they have the influence over what actions are normalized amongst the girls. We see this with the amount of surveillance that takes place on the part of the sisters. By being around the girls at…

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    Other Sister, my eyes were opened even more about living with children who have special needs. Lorenzo’s Oil is based on a true story of Michalla and Augosto Odone and their son Lorenzo. When Lorenzo is just five years old he is diagnosed with a…

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    The title of the book that I have read for the book report is Cinderella Cleaners: Change of a Dress. The author of the book is Maya Gold. There are two settings for this story which is in New York and Cinderella Cleaners but most of the action took placed in Cinderella Cleaners. The author chose this settings because it is where Diana found out the ticket and where she went. Diana Donato is the main character of the story. She studies at the Weehawken Middle School and great at acting but…

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    Sadly, the mother dies but the father quickly remarries a horrible woman with two daughters. The father is not in the story very much and the sisters and stepmother treat Cinderella as a second-class citizen, making her work all day, wear raggedy clothes, and be the sisters’ stylist. Cinderella mourns her mother and tends to her grave throughout the story. Instead of the fairy godmother in most other Cinderella stories, this version uses the mother’s grave…

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    I have fallen in love with my favorite poem. “Cinderella's Diary” by Ron Koertge. I have learned so much about poetry through this special collection of words and phrases. While the the title of the poem seems unimaginative the content of the poem speaks in a personal way. I just really love this poem “Cinderella’s Diary”. Cinderella's Diary has taught me that poetry can be created out of any content, the author just needs to be a little creative with word choice and the have a poem! The…

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