Sister

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…

A simile used to describe in figurative language that Mamá took carefully guarded her girls from lustful men who wanted to take advantage of them as a protective mother. The quote illustrates a biblical symbolism and Patria compares herself to Jesus’s resuscitation with her recovery and realization of the harsh circumstances she had suffered from seeing both her son and husband being taken away to prison. A passage that illustrates society and that time. Most Dominican families accustomed to…

Bewitched: Sisters at Heart Once upon a time there was a typical American girl, who happened to bump into a typical American boy. She kept bumping into him until one day they decide they had better sit down and talk this over before one of them had an accident. They became good friends and found they had a lot in common. The boy found the girl hard to resist so, he did what any red-blooded American boy would do. He asked her to marry him. They had a typical wedding, they went on a typical…

1980s the seven sisters (shell,exxon mobil and all) were set aside and new seven sister replaced those companies. What was the raeson behind this shift? Old seven sisters: 1. Anglo persian oil company (United Kingdom) 2. Gulf Oil (United states). 3. Royal dutch shell (Netherlands/United kingdom). 4. Standard oil of California (United states). 5. Standard oil of New Jersey (United states) 6. Standard oil company of New York (United states) 7. Texaco (United states). New seven sisters: 1. Saudi…

There are four mirabal sisters Patria, Dede, Minerva and maria teresa. They were born in the dominican republic. They have become symbols of courage, love, and sacrifice. It is a very interesting story on how they became these symbols. Minerva was a very rebellious, persistent, and brave person she really stood up for what she believed in she wanted to go to law school but her father refused to let her go but soon after his death she attended law school. Patria was different, she was a little…

There has been quite a shift as time progresses in the land of fairytales. What started as women being oppressed, as stated above, they are slowly obtaining more powerful and dominate roles. Tales mirror society, so as society changes so does the tales. An example of this is Sleeping Beauty, and the rendition of it called “Maleficent” created by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by Robert Stromberg. In the older version of Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault, the princess Aurora is cursed by a…

Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers (2011): a satirical deviation from the cowboy western genre “The Wild West has always enticed the readers’ imagination” (Vanja 128). This research paper explores the context of Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers (2011). DeWitt’s use of a “stylized abstraction of western speech” (Vernon 1) offers its readers a respite from everyday life. Although it follows the traditional scheme of a cowboy western genre, the novel has certain innovations of its own…

In Barbara Neely’s and Julia Alvarez’s short story narratives of Spilled Salt and Reading to Mr. Torres, they are comparatively filled with similar themes that connect the stories in very reflective and uncanny ways. Both of these stories contain the theme of forgiveness, a theme that’s apparent in both main characters in how they deal with it. These narratives are also heavily immersed in themes of trying to deal with the past in different ways. They both deal with atrocious crimes committed by…

The Fire of Revolution A desire for change gives fire to the spirit of revolution, yet few dare to chase it. One such person is Martin Luther King, Jr. who fought for racial equality. The fire that burned inside him was, in his childhood, just a flicker lit by watching his father protest segregation. Then, it was fanned by his own treatment in the South and he started the bus boycott. As a result, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested and his house bombed; however, each incident simply motivated…

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…