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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…

OP80577 The ultimate Survival Hacks for staying warm and dry from head to feet Introduction Going camping is one thing that a lot of people only dream about. The outdoors, creeping sounds at night and the freezing cold temperatures. Camping is fun, if you know how to keep warm. Staying warm at night may be the only thing that matters on your camping trip or if you happen to get stuck outdoors. Freezing cold temperatures can completely change the trajectory of your day from a good one, to the…

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.…

as stated by Linda Hutcheon in her A Theory of Adaptation, the final product (the adaptation) is an entirely autonomous derivation, and its aim is to either keep a story alive, or tell the story in a different way (2006: 9). As most fairy tales, Sleeping Beauty is a straightforward example of reinterpreting a story in order for it to never die. This classic tale has been the source of inspiration for several adaptations, the compilation of the Grimm brothers, or film director Robert Stromberg’s…

In the book “Victorian Transformations: Fairy Tales, Adolescence and the novel of female development” several critics have seen Jane Eyre as a rewriting story of the Cinderella and the beginning of the book especially supports this view. To begin with, Robert K. Martin believes that the Cinderella’s theme is especially apparent in the first chapters of the novel, "as Jane Eyre emphasizes her own position as abandoned child, with evil aunt and two [sic] evil cousins, whose parentage is…

In both “The Princess Paradox” by James Poniewozik and “Cinderella and Princess Culture” by Peggy Orenstein, the princess culture is agreed upon; however, the authors vary their opinions of how the fairytail dream of pink dresses and sparkly crowns came to be. Poniewozik opens up his article by addressing the “kick-ass culture,” while Orenstein focuses on how princesses have diminished the feeling of confidence and independence that young girls should experience. While some may believe that…

Cinderella is perhaps one of the most famous childhood fairy tale stories of all time. Over the years, numerous versions of the story have been recreated and have been told to children all over the world. The original story of Cinderella follows the life of a young girl who is mistreated by her step mother and stepsisters. With the help of her fairy godmother, Cinderella is transformed into a beautiful princess and goes to the ball to meet her prince. However, she has to leave the ball at…

Argument Both Charles Perrault’s short story ‘Little Red Riding Hood` and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “The little Red Cap” are fairly tales about a wolf and a young girl. They seem to be one but have continuously changed over a period of time. This can be attributed to the modern adaptations of circumstances and readings. The story was published first by Charles Perrault. The story is of a little girl called Little Red Riding hood. The name originated from the red hooded cloak that she wore.…

Disney Princesses are some of the most influential characters in the average girl’s lifetime. These princesses are supposed to be people these girls can relate to, admire, and look to for guidance, all which has been going on for over 80 years. Are these actually characters worth looking up to? Henry Giroux does not think so. In The Mouse That Roared, Giroux claims that female characters in Disney movies “are ultimately subordinate to males and define their sense of power and desire almost…

The Disney Effect Disney has earned itself somewhat of a reputation for sugar coating things and warping every story into a happy, trite one. This claim does have some validity, yet it should not necessarily be looked upon negatively. The driving force behind their efforts to soften certain stories, is to make the movies appropriate for the children who watch their movies. This allows Disney to tell many influential classics, such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame to The Adventures of Huckleberry…