Sleeping bag

Plastic bags drifting through the wind have many references in popular culture. From Katy Perry’s song fireworks to a random episode of Family Guy, somehow a mindless act of a piece of plastic being tossed around in the blowing wind has made an impression on today’s culture. Plastic bags, however, have been up for debate as to whether or not they should be used or banned. Some say they use up resources that we can not get back; release toxins into the air, water, and ground; kill animals that do…

The purpose for employing pallet trucks is to facilitate movement of pallets from one location to another. Not only do pallet trucks make pallet transportation simpler, but it also eases the burden of loading and unloading heavy pallets in a safe manner in addition to considerably minimizing transportation times. Due to the heaviness of many pallets, pallet trucks must be both strong and functional. Pallet trucks are typically used in industries, such as warehouses, chemical and…

Our goal is to eliminate the use of plastic bags in grocery stores and promote the use of reusable bags, which will help the environment. We are students from Penn State Brandywine, located in Media, and are doing a school project for the campus read Garbology by Edward Humes. This project is for “us,” the students, to help spread the word that plastic bags are harming the environment. We have become addicted to the convenience of plastic, and it is time for serious change. After watching…

England, Dawn, Lara Descartes, and Melissa Collier-Meek. "Gender Role Portrayal and the Disney Princesses." Sex Roles 64.7/8 (2011): 555-567. Print. Disney’s classic depiction of females as princesses, also infers their submissiveness, inferiority, and fragility in comparison to men’s portrayals as socially, physically, and intellectually dominant. While these roles may change as social proximity to time and space does, these characterizations, split by binaries and marginalized by strict…

In this classic version of Sleeping Beauty, the prince risks his life passing through the thorn hedge to save the woman he is in love with. Unlike Basile’s tale, the prince “… bent over and gave [the princess] a kiss,” waking her with an act of true love (Grimm). The pattern of Sleeping Beauty‟s parents—from only Lord, to King and Queen, to only Queen—shows a swing from the patriarchal to the matriarchal…

Who are Brothers Grimm? Brothers Grimm were two brothers who were known for writing fairy tales in Germany in the 1800’s. These brothers created long lasting fairy tales that are even told today in ways such as movie versions for kids as well as books. The Grimm brothers have written hundreds of fairy tales, which include two specific ones that will be discussed in this paper: Little Red Cap and Cinderella. Little Red Cap is a story of a little girl who has to deliver goods to her grandmother…

appearance and gave a slightly more positive outlook on women unlike the children-eating ogre in Basile story. He showed this by giving the women fairies good powers to lessen the evil of the malicious fairy and or queen. There is another version of Sleeping Beauty and it is the most modern of the written ones. Little Brier-Rose by the Grimm brothers is well-liked because the improved erotic elements of the tale. Fairy tales intended for the modern century, modify and attempt to correctly…

usually only lasted a day, giving girls unrealistic ideas about love as seen in Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, and many more. Female leads are weak and are typically reduced to damsels in distress in the climax like in The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White. Portrayal of other cultures are inaccurate at best and problematic at worst such as Native Americans in Pocahontas and Romani in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. And you may think this paper is leading up to an…

Anna Anderson: The Eerily Similar Imposter of Anastasia On a chilly fall day in 1997, people crowded the ticket booths in order to purchase their seat for the new animated film, Anastasia. The award-winning Warner Bros. film Anastasia was released November 21, 1997, featuring actress, Meg Ryan as the voice of the famous Grand Duchess Anastasia. The movie told the fascinating story of the Russian siege of 1918 and how a former friend of the Romanov family, Grigori Rasputin cursed the whole line…

Additionally, it also demonstrated the different gender messages portrayed in the society over time using the seven Disney princess films as example. Before 1980s, the three classic Disney princess films were: Snow White (1937), Cinderella (1950), and Sleeping Beauty (1959). These films demonstrated both female and male perform traditional gender roles. Female were expected to do domestic work and be subservient to males. Male is portrayed superior than female in the storyline of these films.…