The Magdalene Sisters

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a novel based off Cinderella. The story departs from the original in many ways and follows the stepsisters, Iris and Ruth for a majority of the book, later introducing Clara van den Meer or Cinderella and her family. The characters and narrator are constantly bringing up beauty as a curse. The author also shows a lot of changes in the form of Clara and the household in general. Possibly the biggest difference from the classic Cinderella story and…

“Cinderelly Cinderelly” call Jaq and Gus mocking Cinderella’s stepsisters. All the mice and birds Cinderella has saved are angry at Lady Tremaine, Cinderella’s stepmother, for not letting Cinderella design a gown ball. Jaq loves Cinderella because she waived him from being eaten by Lucifer, the cat. She loves him like family even those he's a little mouse. Cinderella did not obtain the trait of loving things from her stepfamily; however, she got it from her animal family. Cinderella’s most…

The Mirabal Sisters are seen as huge icons in the novel in real life. They showed that regular people can end a difficult empowerment to save a nation. It had all started with one sister, and her name is Minerva Mirabal. Minerva was the kind of girl who wanted to do good for others, in the novel and the history books. She encouraged people to join the underground to end the regime that transpired in the Dominican Republic. In the novel, she finds out that Trujillo is an atrocious man from her…

On a train to Darjeeling, as one looks to the scenery, they hear a voice telling them to go into the slums and serve the poor while living with them as one. Then they realize that very voice is the voice of God. This is exactly what happened to Mother Teresa, as she describes it to be the “Call” that set her on her world famous journey. Some could say that charity is one of the best ways to demonstrate a selfless attitude and true heroism. Yet, how many people are there in the world that truly…

hurt me, but I don’t feel lonely, it is like she is still with me. Hopefully father returns soon... My father has finally returned, and he has brought back a woman with him, she is soft in the face and she has two daughters. I have always wanted sisters, and now I have two. They are beautiful, and posed. My new stepmother seems to love him from the way she is acting, but I cannot see much from the upstairs window. After meeting her, I wish my father had never picked a new wife. She is cruel and…

Success is best described as the act as a group or as an individual to achieve a set of goals, target or purpose. Success comes when legal hard work has been made known in a career. The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah, a book about the daughter of a big drug lord growing up in a very materialistic, proud, and troubled lifestyle. Materialism, beauty and pride led Winter Santiaga sticking with the wrong set of people. The amount of wealth her father had made their family’s name stay at the…

he can find a wife. All eligible maidens to attend. That’s sexist because it’s targeting one type and that’s single ladies who are of marrying age. Internalized privilege because the step family believe that they are amazing and that one of those sisters will “woo” the price and fall madly in love and inherit a kingdom. Lastly, I wanted to add Patriarchal because the king wants to arrange a marriage for his son, and wants so badly for grand children? Keeping the bloodline strong is keeping the…

the gap. Introduction: One surprising moment on a bride's wedding day left the audience completely stunned. Most brides wait their whole live for the father-daughter dance at their wedding. In an amazing moment, Michaela gave up her dance to her sister. The selfless act for her dying father left everyone in tears, but this was not the only secret in the works. A few weeks before the wedding, the daughters found out that their father, George, had only three…

Most people have read or heard of the stories of Cinderella or saw a movie of the traditional princess story which always seems to have the same cliché “happily ever after ending.” In the poem “Cinderella,” written by Anne Sexton, she switches up the old-fashioned mythical story by adding in a touch of mockery and telling the story with her sense of reality. Sexton’s sarcastic tone being used in the poem causes the readers to identify and get a sense of the message the version of her story gives…

The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov is a play that takes place in a 19th century rural town in Russia. The Prosorov siblings, Olga, Masha, Irina and Andrey are unsatisfied with their life in this provincial town, so they dream that one day they will return to Moscow. Moscow symbolises hope for the Prosorovs. They identify Moscow with their happiness in which they feel they can fulfil their dreams. But their constant fantasizing of Moscow makes them neglect their present. There are references to…